Blog – This Is My Last

14 Oct, 2026 Snoopy Missing On iPhones
14 Oct, 2026 Just Finished Reading: Hollywood, Ending
13 Oct, 2026 Siri in a Speaker with a Screen
13 Oct, 2026 “It’s Boring as Hell.”
13 Oct, 2026 What Permissions do macOS Apps Need
12 Oct, 2026 Castro, the Podcast Player App, Changes Ownership
12 Oct, 2026 Waiting, Hope, Patience
11 Oct, 2026 "Baklava, to a Dyslexic"
11 Oct, 2026 Writing in Geological Time, Living With a Cosmic Event, And More Links for Oct 11, 2026
10 Oct, 2026 Just Finished Reading: Time Travel for Beginners
10 Oct, 2026 Being Human in the Age of AI
10 Oct, 2026 Everybody Does Know Your Name
09 Oct, 2026 Siri In Your Home
08 Oct, 2026 “Software Engineering”
07 Oct, 2026 On the Afterlife of a Book, Publishing Book Reviews, and Other Links for Oct 8, 2026
07 Oct, 2026 Platforms and Their Chilling Effects
07 Oct, 2026 Just Finished Reading: Exit Party
07 Oct, 2026 "Lost That Battle Decades Ago"
05 Oct, 2026 Expressing Taste Through Lists
05 Oct, 2026 "Cooking Potatoes Is a Labor of Love"
04 Oct, 2026 We All Love Plain Text File Formats
04 Oct, 2026 Use Less Memory, Save Our Wallets
04 Oct, 2026 "Leaving the Skin Behind"
04 Oct, 2026 No More Humans On FM Radio, Soon
03 Oct, 2026 Olive Garden Compass
03 Oct, 2026 "Drained of All Their Symbolic Heft"
03 Oct, 2026 Full Disk Access Really Does Mean Full Disk Access
02 Oct, 2026 Apple Podcasts Going Algorithmic
02 Oct, 2026 Infinite Monkey Cage Returning With New (Guest) Hosts
02 Oct, 2026 "Carry the Weight"
01 Oct, 2026 "Pull This Product From Sale"
30 Sep, 2026 Links for Oct 1, 2026
30 Sep, 2026 Just Finished Reading: Eileen
30 Sep, 2026 Closer (Really Closer) Look At iPhone 18 Pro
30 Sep, 2026 How Long Will Your iPhone Battery Last In A Day?
30 Sep, 2026 Remember to Include Your Children In Planning Your Digital Life
30 Sep, 2026 My Cup Of Coffee Versus Your Subscription Cost
28 Sep, 2026 Links for Sep 29, 2026
28 Sep, 2026 When Servers Go Away…
28 Sep, 2026 "Nothing Was Expected"
28 Sep, 2026 On Splash Screens and Surprises
27 Sep, 2026 There May Be Misery Ahead, But There Is No Happiness Staying Put
27 Sep, 2026 Just Finished Reading: This Way Up: When Maps Go Wrong (And Why It Matters)
26 Sep, 2026 "The Work Itself"
26 Sep, 2026 Built for Steve Jobs
26 Sep, 2026 Started Watching Podcasts Again
25 Sep, 2026 To Use Stock UI, Or Not?
25 Sep, 2026 Beautiful Flowers… Beautiful Raindrops…
25 Sep, 2026 Blind Walking
24 Sep, 2026 Links for Sep 24, 2026
23 Sep, 2026 AR On An iPad
22 Sep, 2026 Automatic Advertisement Removal
22 Sep, 2026 Links for Sep 22, 2026
21 Sep, 2026 Old Stuff Still Running Fine
21 Sep, 2026 Of Adopting New Names
21 Sep, 2026 How to Live Longer, Healthier
21 Sep, 2026 Reviews for New Mac Mini and Mac Studio Are Out
21 Sep, 2026 Standing on the Porch
20 Sep, 2026 Links for Sep 21, 2026
20 Sep, 2026 Making Food Out Of Ingredients
20 Sep, 2026 How to Limit Your Siri
20 Sep, 2026 Spending Time Just Watching Screens
19 Sep, 2026 Big iPhone Battery
19 Sep, 2026 "Peeking Through"
18 Sep, 2026 Infinite Scrolls of 'Content'
18 Sep, 2026 iPhone 18 Pro Reviews
17 Sep, 2026 Links for Sep 18, 2026
17 Sep, 2026 Not So Delightful When Things Go Wrong
17 Sep, 2026 Glasses Made With Liquid
16 Sep, 2026 "Responsible Stewards of the Future of the Human Race"
16 Sep, 2026 Waiting For Beta Software
15 Sep, 2026 “Disenlightenment”
15 Sep, 2026 All the OS 27s Are Out
14 Sep, 2026 Links for Sep 15, 2026
14 Sep, 2026 Just Finished Reading: Vicious, by V. E. Schwab
14 Sep, 2026 My Box Of Cables for My Stuff Still In Use
13 Sep, 2026 The Decision-Making Machine
12 Sep, 2026 Roman à clef
11 Sep, 2026 Recapped In Someone Else's Life
11 Sep, 2026 Are We Still Unifying User Interfaces Across the OSes?
11 Sep, 2026 "Impact Real People"
10 Sep, 2026 Here's Another BBC Podcast You Might Want to Listen
10 Sep, 2026 Links for Sep 11, 2026
10 Sep, 2026 iPhone Duo? Or, Perhaps, iPhone + iPad?
09 Sep, 2026 Watching the iPhone Event
08 Sep, 2026 Motivation for Murder
08 Sep, 2026 On Streaks, Or Why You May Want to Ignore Them
08 Sep, 2026 How to Switch to Apple Passwords
07 Sep, 2026 Just Finished Reading: The Universe Speaks in Numbers
07 Sep, 2026 Links for Sep 7, 2026
06 Sep, 2026 "A More Relational World"
06 Sep, 2026 Inedible Food That Looks Good, Versus Inedible Food That Is Not Real
05 Sep, 2026 My New Follows in Tech Podcast Land
05 Sep, 2026 First Make People Laugh, Then Make Them Think: Ig Nobel 2026
04 Sep, 2026 Is Time Real?
04 Sep, 2026 Apple Pay Express Is Here In Singapore
04 Sep, 2026 This Is How You Play Pinball
04 Sep, 2026 The Best Kind of Meetings
02 Sep, 2026 What to Show In Maps
01 Sep, 2026 Links for Sep 1, 2026
01 Sep, 2026 New CEO, Same Apple (For Now)
31 Aug, 2026 All the Sunsets
30 Aug, 2026 "A Violonchelista de Fene"
30 Aug, 2026 Did I Mention We Have AI In This New Release?
30 Aug, 2026 Sharing Ups and Downs
29 Aug, 2026 "Strong for Everyone"
29 Aug, 2026 "Lost Access to All The Good Accessibility Tools"
28 Aug, 2026 Living a Life
28 Aug, 2026 Links for Aug 28, 2026
28 Aug, 2026 “Strict Etiquette Could Perhaps Be Forsaken”
27 Aug, 2026 Unfolding a New Chapter
27 Aug, 2026 New Features Are Coming to NetNewsWire
27 Aug, 2026 “Moment of Zen and a Source of Joy”
26 Aug, 2026 Just Finished Reading: The Ending Writes Itself
26 Aug, 2026 "Small but Significant Crisis"
25 Aug, 2026 "Crippling Fear of Failure"
25 Aug, 2026 New Mac mini (M5 Pro and M6), Mac Studio (M5 Max and M5 Ultra)
25 Aug, 2026 Links for Aug 25, 2026
25 Aug, 2026 Apple Reverses Decision on Hide My Email Changes
25 Aug, 2026 Earthrise
25 Aug, 2026 Watching Movies in Cinemas Seems Complicated (And Expensive)
24 Aug, 2026 New in Read It Later Land
24 Aug, 2026 “Our Choices Evolve, and So Does Our Identity.”
23 Aug, 2026 Happy Pod Sad Pod
23 Aug, 2026 Sports on Apple TV
22 Aug, 2026 Saturday Reads for Aug 22, 2026
21 Aug, 2026 "Doorway into Your Attention"
21 Aug, 2026 "Materially Generated Using AI"
20 Aug, 2026 How to Explain to Your Readers
20 Aug, 2026 Do You Want CarPlay With Your Car, Or Do You Prefer Not Use Your Phone When Driving?
20 Aug, 2026 Eggs Eggs Eggs
20 Aug, 2026 Keeping Up with the DMA
19 Aug, 2026 Reads for Aug 20, 2026
19 Aug, 2026 Apps in the EU
19 Aug, 2026 Reading by the Candlelights
18 Aug, 2026 Walk More, Eat Less
18 Aug, 2026 Links for Aug 18, 2026
18 Aug, 2026 Update Your OSes Because, Hackers
18 Aug, 2026 Cameras on AirPods
17 Aug, 2026 Ad-Skipping Button for Other People’s Ads
17 Aug, 2026 Newbies at Being Adults
17 Aug, 2026 Supermarketing Around the World
17 Aug, 2026 Mastering All the Stuff
16 Aug, 2026 Humans and Their Words
15 Aug, 2026 Links for Aug 15, 2026
15 Aug, 2026 The Soft SKills Of Coding
14 Aug, 2026 Just Finished Reading: Everything Was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt
14 Aug, 2026 No More YouTube Algorithm
14 Aug, 2026 Lonely and Poor
14 Aug, 2026 Siri In China
12 Aug, 2026 As Good As It Could Possibly Be
12 Aug, 2026 Apple Notes Is Disappointing Me (Or Perhaps It's iCloud?)
11 Aug, 2026 Links for Aug 12, 2026
11 Aug, 2026 When We All Die
11 Aug, 2026 The Age of Sky High Memory Prices
11 Aug, 2026 On Short Stories
10 Aug, 2026 From Command Line To iPhone Widgets
10 Aug, 2026 Wall of iMacs
09 Aug, 2026 Do You Crack Your Knuckles?
09 Aug, 2026 The Biggest Book of the Year
09 Aug, 2026 Previous Post on Apple's App Store Has Been Updated
09 Aug, 2026 Links for Aug 9, 2026
08 Aug, 2026 Apple Is Not Doing Enough For Its App Stores
08 Aug, 2026 Don't Rely On Apple To Protect Your Anonymity
07 Aug, 2026 Keeping What We Write
06 Aug, 2026 Still Glassholes
06 Aug, 2026 iPhone Alarm Clock
06 Aug, 2026 Thumbs Up If You Like It
06 Aug, 2026 Links for Aug 6, 2026
05 Aug, 2026 Don't Suffer for the Unknown
05 Aug, 2026 Links for Aug 5, 2026
04 Aug, 2026 Drag Me To Your Applications Folder
04 Aug, 2026 Taking Care of Your Mac
03 Aug, 2026 Should I Cut Down On Coffee?
03 Aug, 2026 Not Getting Your Hands On a MacBook Air
03 Aug, 2026 Screen Rules
02 Aug, 2026 Links For Aug 3, 2026
02 Aug, 2026 Please Don't Make Spreadsheets Pretty
01 Aug, 2026 Movie Recommendations
01 Aug, 2026 Walking the Mileage
31 Jul, 2026 Hello World, Again
30 Jul, 2026 22 Minutes of Laughs
24 Jul, 2026 Things To Do When I Wake Up In The Middle Of The Night And Cannot Get Back To Sleep
22 Jul, 2026 Fixing Bug-Fixing
17 Jul, 2026 Maybe I Should Be Happy
15 Jul, 2026 Good Food? Good People
15 Jul, 2026 The Better Apple Intelligence
12 Jul, 2026 Hello World