Federico Viticci’s iOS 27 review is out, with a very good chapter on Siri AI. That is the perspective I’ve been most interested in reading about.

This quote from Craig Federighi fits the discussion Daniel Jalkut and I had on last week’s Core Int about the Duo replacing the need for both iPhone and iPad. Just makes sense unless you need a big iPad or shared iPad for the whole family.

Just discovered this IndieWeb starter pack on Bluesky and followed a few more people from it. It includes some accounts bridged to Mastodon too, so you can follow everyone in one place on Bluesky or Micro.blog.

I’m not sure I agree with all the implications in the closing of today’s Stratechery update, but like all good essays it is forcing me to really think about my own view:

… it’s worth noting that the very idea of a national or — worse! — global regulatory regime on intelligence is so deeply off-putting that I’d rather roll the dice and bet on humans figuring it out. Surviving isn’t everything; living freely counts for an awful lot as well.

Congrats to Lex Friedman on the release of a new version of Strategery, taking over development after the game was going to stop working. So cool to give an old app new life.

John Gruber blogged about XCancel shutting down yet again, adding this in a parenthetical:

…let’s admit it at this point, there’s not just a lot posted on X, it’s resurgent in popularity

It’s true. Just telling folks what we’re against has not been enough to rebalance the web to open platforms.

Finished reading: Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky. Fascinating and at times brilliant. I never quite got over being creeped out by the spiders, though. 📚

Congrats to the USA women’s team at FIBA! Forgot the game was a little early, now watching the highlights. 🏀

Added a new page in Micro.blog on the web today to highlight The New York Times best sellers. We usually avoid popularity contests, but this one feels right, like a shelf you’d see in a bookstore. I want to add more collections later, like nominees for the Booker Prize, Hugo Awards, and others.

Since enabling Threads cross-posting for my own blog yesterday, I’ve already found and fixed two bugs in Micro.blog’s Threads support. Little things that maybe a user would overlook and not bother to report. Just a reminder of the value of dogfooding.