# Twtxt is an open, distributed microblogging platform that # uses human-readable text files, common transport protocols, # and free software. # # Learn more about twtxt at https://github.com/buckket/twtxt # # This is an automated Yarn.social feed running feeds v0.1.0@72e53a9 # Learn more about Yarn.social at https://yarn.social # # nick = daring-fireball # url = https://feeds.twtxt.net/daring-fireball/twtxt.txt # type = rss # source = https://daringfireball.net/feeds/main # avatar = # description = # updated_at = 2024-12-08T22:02:05Z # 2024-10-31T04:22:30Z **‘Dodgers Capture World Series by Storming Back in Game 5 to Upend Yankees’** ⌘ [Read more](https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5886965/2024/10/30/dodgers-yankees-world-series-game-5-takeaways/) 2024-10-31T22:08:20Z **Apple Q3 FY2024 Results** ⌘ [Read more](https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2024/10/apple-reports-fourth-quarter-results/) 2024-10-31T23:51:11Z **The Exception That Proves the Rule: the Walmart M1 MacBook Air Still Has Just 8 GB RAM** ⌘ [Read more](https://pxlnv.com/linklog/16-gb-ram-mac/) 2024-11-01T01:33:55Z **Anthropic’s Claude AI Chatbot Now Has a Mac App, But It’s an Electron Turd** ⌘ [Read more](https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/31/24284742/claude-ai-macos-windows-desktop-app) 2024-11-01T02:06:31Z **The Talk Show: ‘His Most Pro Shirt’** ⌘ [Read more](https://daringfireball.net/thetalkshow/2024/10/31/ep-412) 2024-11-01T15:26:27Z **Tucker Carlson Claims He Was Mauled by a Demon** ⌘ [Read more](https://www.mediaite.com/news/tucker-carlson-says-he-woke-up-bleeding-in-his-bed-after-demon-attack-that-left-claw-mark-scars/?_bhlid=1c9cf6cdae66eaf473202b47a957a61ef87af2cf) 2024-11-01T16:16:28Z **Pixelmator Acquired by Apple; Future of Their Apps Uncertain** ⌘ [Read more](https://www.pixelmator.com/blog/2024/11/01/a-new-home-for-pixelmator/) 2024-11-01T23:02:11Z **Fantastical for Windows — A Glass of Ice Water for Calendar Users in Hell** ⌘ [Read more](https://flexibits.com/blog/2024/10/fantastical-for-windows-is-finally-here/) 2024-11-03T00:25:34Z **Nomorobo** ⌘ [Read more](https://go.nomorobo.com/daringfireball) 2024-11-03T17:00:00Z **Nomorobo** ⌘ [Read more](https://go.nomorobo.com/daringfireball) 2024-11-03T23:58:39Z **No Minced Words From Senator John Fetterman** ⌘ [Read more](https://x.com/PoliticusSarah/status/1853081045962194977) 2024-11-04T00:17:52Z **Trump, His Remaining Shreds of Both Dignity and Sanity Slipping Away in the Face of Impending Loss, Tells Rally He ‘Shouldn’t Have Left’ White House in 2020** ⌘ [Read more](https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/03/us/politics/trump-pa-rally-election.html?smid=url-share) 2024-11-04T01:37:00Z **Nomorobo** ⌘ [Read more](https://go.nomorobo.com/daringfireball) 2024-11-04T01:36:35Z **Iowa Poll From ‘Best Pollster In Politics’: Kamala Harris Ahead 47-44** ⌘ [Read more](https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/politics/iowa-poll/2024/11/02/iowa-poll-kamala-harris-leads-donald-trump-2024-presidential-race/75354033007/) 2024-11-05T00:59:58Z **Harrison Ford Endorses Kamala Harris** ⌘ [Read more](https://www.threads.net/@kamalahq/post/DB4aHh4uP8l) 2024-11-05T01:11:27Z **The Message That Works: the Republicans Who Know Trump Best Refuse to Endorse Him** ⌘ [Read more](https://www.thebulwark.com/p/reich-track-wrong-track) 2024-11-05T01:18:49Z **‘Vote to End the Trump Era’ — The New York Times’s One-Paragraph Hypertext Endorsement** ⌘ [Read more](https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/11/02/opinion/vote-harris-2024-election.html) 2024-11-05T22:08:04Z **[Sponsor] 1Password: The Infinite Loop of Security** ⌘ [Read more](https://1password.com/daringfireball) 2024-11-05T23:18:23Z **Apple News Offers an Election Day Live Activity** ⌘ [Read more](https://techcrunch.com/2024/11/05/apples-new-widget-puts-election-day-updates-on-your-lock-screen-and-home-screen/) 2024-11-05T23:51:37Z **★ Kottke on the Art and Power of Hypertextual Writing**
Italic and bold emphasis are information-density additives. But as Kottke observes, used deftly, hypertext links are an information-density \*multiplier\*. ⌘ [Read more](https://daringfireball.net/2024/11/kottke_on_the_art_and_power_of_hypertextual_writing) 2024-11-06T06:05:42Z **Overnight Status Check** ⌘ [Read more](https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/status-check-before-midnight) 2024-11-06T21:35:52Z **‘Trump Has Won, but Democracy Is Not Over’** ⌘ [Read more](https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2024/11/trump-victory-democracy/680549/) 2024-11-06T21:44:54Z **‘In Defeat: Defiance’** ⌘ [Read more](https://www.thebulwark.com/p/what-will-trumps-win-mean) 2024-11-07T03:50:37Z **The Brutal Clarity of This Result** ⌘ [Read more](https://politicalwire.com/2024/11/06/the-election-provided-some-clarity/) 2024-11-07T17:20:26Z **★ I Wonder**
Singsong congratulations from the leaders of America’s biggest companies. ⌘ [Read more](https://daringfireball.net/2024/11/i_wonder) 2024-11-08T21:34:28Z **★ It Doesn’t End**
Progress hasn’t stopped, but it’s never easy, and never without backlash. ⌘ [Read more](https://daringfireball.net/2024/11/it_doesnt_end) 2024-11-09T04:55:05Z **★ How It Went**
Election day, 2024. ⌘ [Read more](https://daringfireball.net/2024/11/how_it_went) 2024-11-10T20:25:02Z **The Talk Show: ‘Holiday Party 2024’ With Special Guest Merlin Mann** ⌘ [Read more](https://daringfireball.net/thetalkshow/2024/11/09/ep-413) 2024-11-10T21:53:32Z **1Password: The Infinite Loop of Security** ⌘ [Read more](https://1password.com/daringfireball) 2024-11-12T01:26:25Z **Testing the New Ultrawide Mac Virtual Display Option in VisionOS 2.2** ⌘ [Read more](https://www.macrumors.com/2024/11/05/vision-pro-ultrawide-display/) 2024-11-12T02:08:04Z **John Geleynse Retires From Apple** ⌘ [Read more](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jgeleynse_senior-director-evangelism-careers-at-activity-7260815983588593664-HQRq/) 2024-11-12T16:37:44Z **iOS 18.2 Beta 3 Adds New ‘Require Screen On’ Toggle for Camera Control** ⌘ [Read more](https://9to5mac.com/2024/11/11/ios-18-2-beta-3-camera-control-toggle/) 2024-11-12T16:46:15Z **Also Now In Public Beta: Find My Enables Sharing Location of Lost Items With Third Parties, Including Airlines** ⌘ [Read more](https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2024/11/apples-find-my-enables-sharing-location-of-lost-items-with-third-parties/) 2024-11-12T23:12:07Z **★ Disambiguating iPhone Model Names That Have the ‘S’ Suffix**
Apple’s S suffix for certain iPhone models — 3GS, 4S, 5S, 6S, XS — has always been problematic in this regard. ⌘ [Read more](https://daringfireball.net/2024/11/disambiguating_iphone_model_names_that_have_the_s_suffix) 2024-11-13T00:29:57Z **The Verge’s Compilation of Tech Leaders Congratulating Donald Trump** ⌘ [Read more](https://www.theverge.com/2024/11/6/24289649/big-tech-leaders-donald-trump-presidential-election) 2024-11-14T00:15:54Z **Bill Atkinson Has Pancreatic Cancer** ⌘ [Read more](https://www.facebook.com/bill.atkinson.9862/posts/pfbid02qwih6yMYUTsx3VmVXM8zbE1Ss6hoGsJkqowAdmeUqupBDG6RRXBndJyrJfyLSRSJl) 2024-11-14T17:23:25Z **The Onion Buys Alex Jones’s Infowars in Bankruptcy Auction** ⌘ [Read more](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/onion-wins-alex-jones-infowars-bankruptcy-auction-rcna179936) 2024-11-15T04:02:23Z **Mike Tyson Slaps Jake Paul in Face During Weigh-In** ⌘ [Read more](https://www.espn.com/boxing/story/_/id/42397251/mike-tyson-slaps-jake-paul-face-final-staredown) 2024-11-15T16:51:26Z **‘Here’s Why I Decided to Buy “InfoWars”’** ⌘ [Read more](https://theonion.com/heres-why-i-decided-to-buy-infowars/) 2024-11-17T21:49:01Z **Netflix Claims 60 Million Households Streamed Mike Tyson vs. Jake Paul Fight Friday Night, Straining Quality to Breaking Point for Many** ⌘ [Read more](https://deadline.com/2024/11/tyson-paul-fight-glitches-netflix-1236178632/) 2024-11-17T22:02:07Z **[Sponsor] Upgraded** ⌘ [Read more](https://getupgraded.com/home-vp1/?utm_source=daringfireball) 2024-11-19T00:03:16Z **DOJ Will Ask Judge to Force Google to Sell Chrome and De-Google Android** ⌘ [Read more](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-11-18/doj-will-push-google-to-sell-off-chrome-to-break-search-monopoly) 2024-11-19T00:42:32Z **Upgraded** ⌘ [Read more](https://getupgraded.com/home-vp1/?utm_source=daringfireball) 2024-11-19T02:20:34Z **The Talk Show: ‘Annoying Friendliness’** ⌘ [Read more](https://daringfireball.net/thetalkshow/2024/11/18/ep-414) 2024-11-19T02:45:18Z **[Sponsor] WorkOS** ⌘ [Read more](https://workos.com/?utm_source=daringfireball&utm_medium=display&utm_campaign=q12024) 2024-11-19T16:00:51Z **Apple Devices May Learn to Ignore ‘Hey Siri’ Command From TV Ads** ⌘ [Read more](https://9to5mac.com/2024/11/07/apple-tv-ads-hey-siri/) 2024-11-19T16:20:53Z **Inside ISIS’s Graphic Design Team** ⌘ [Read more](https://www.404media.co/graphic-design-for-isis-is-his-passion-fbi-alleges-in-filing/) 2024-11-19T18:17:23Z **Android Authority: ‘Google Is Transforming ChromeOS Into Android’** ⌘ [Read more](https://www.androidauthority.com/chrome-os-becoming-android-3500661/) 2024-11-19T18:41:26Z **Airport — A Typeface Revival** ⌘ [Read more](https://airport.revolvertype.com/) 2024-11-19T19:56:59Z **Texas Education Board to Vote on Bible-Infused Lessons in Public Schools** ⌘ [Read more](https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/18/us/texas-bible-school-curriculum.html?unlocked_article_code=1.bE4.E1EE.8ytVLHLcHcjP&smid=url-share) 2024-11-20T00:54:51Z **★ Dr. Oz**
I met Dr. Oz ten years ago. ⌘ [Read more](https://daringfireball.net/2024/11/dr_oz) 2024-11-20T01:35:14Z **‘Inside the Rather Bizarre Relaunch of Jaguar’** ⌘ [Read more](https://cardealermagazine.co.uk/publish/hallucinogenic-sci-fi-movie-inside-the-rather-bizarre-relaunch-of-jaguar/310077) 2024-11-20T04:35:18Z **‘Can You Take a Photo of Us?’** ⌘ [Read more](https://youtu.be/SOKSqLOKaEU) 2024-11-20T18:54:01Z **Bob Iger Inadvertently Reveals Percentage of Disney+ Subscribers on Ad-Supported Tier** ⌘ [Read more](https://deadline.com/2024/11/bob-iger-hot-mic-disney-earnings-streaming-1236176581/) 2024-11-20T18:58:54Z **Apple Is Selling Apple News Ads Directly for the First Time** ⌘ [Read more](https://www.axios.com/2024/11/19/apple-news-ads-direct-sales-publishers) 2024-11-21T03:33:13Z **★ Regarding — and, Well, Against — Substack**
My advice to any writer looking to start a new site based on the newsletter model would be to consider Substack \*last\*, not first. ⌘ [Read more](https://daringfireball.net/2024/11/regarding_and_well_against_substack) 2024-11-21T17:16:49Z **‘The Blurred Line Between X and the Trump Administration’** ⌘ [Read more](https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/trump-musk-partnership-x-twitter-files-rcna180427) 2024-11-22T17:31:24Z **Android Authority Reports Google Has Cancelled the Pixel Tablet 2** ⌘ [Read more](https://www.androidauthority.com/pixel-tablet-2-canceled-3502094/) 2024-11-22T22:21:58Z **Shazam Hits 100 Billion Song Recognitions** ⌘ [Read more](https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2024/11/shazam-hits-100-billion-song-recognitions/) 2024-11-24T19:32:00Z **★ Apple Tends to Do Right by Apps It Acquires**
Pondering the future of Pixelmator by looking at the history of Apple’s app acquisitions. ⌘ [Read more](https://daringfireball.net/2024/11/apple_tends_to_do_right_by_apps_it_acquires) 2024-11-25T19:18:18Z **Perhaps Acquiring Pixelmator Is Not About Competing With Photoshop and Lightroom, Per Se, but the Adobe Creative Cloud Bundle** ⌘ [Read more](https://9to5mac.com/2023/05/09/final-cut-pro-logic-ipad-subscription-price/) 2024-11-26T01:19:02Z **Apple TV’s Hardware Situation Is Fine** ⌘ [Read more](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2024-11-24/apple-should-build-fire-tv-chromecast-rival-llm-siri-plans-oura-glucose-push-m3vnimbg) 2024-11-26T01:28:12Z **[Sponsor] Streaks and Little Streaks** ⌘ [Read more](https://streaks.app/) 2024-11-26T18:30:55Z **OpenAI Might Be Making a Web Browser** ⌘ [Read more](https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-considers-taking-on-google-with-browser) 2024-11-26T22:49:17Z **‘It Is Journalism’s Sacred Duty to Endanger the Lives of as Many Trans People as Possible’** ⌘ [Read more](https://theonion.com/it-is-journalism-s-sacred-duty-to-endanger-the-lives-of-1850126997/) 2024-11-27T03:10:34Z **The End of the Line for Delicious Library** ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@wjs/113539330521476328) 2024-11-27T19:14:21Z **John Siracusa’s Review of Delicious Library 1.0** ⌘ [Read more](https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2004/11/delicious-library/) 2024-11-27T20:00:08Z **AirPods Pro 2 for Just $154 at Amazon** ⌘ [Read more](https://amzn.to/4fRPvJR) 2024-11-28T18:17:50Z **The UX of Lego Interface Panels** ⌘ [Read more](https://interactionmagic.com/UX-LEGO-Interfaces/) 2024-11-29T17:04:29Z **Space/Time: Black Friday Mac Apps Collection 2024** ⌘ [Read more](https://unclutterapp.com/bundle/) 2024-11-29T20:50:40Z **Nathan Edwards Reviews the iMac M4 for The Verge** ⌘ [Read more](https://www.theverge.com/24303351/apple-imac-m4-review-expensive-beautiful-niche) 2024-11-29T21:26:07Z **Welcome to Aperture 3** ⌘ [Read more](https://www.apple.com/welcomescreen/aperture3/#gettingstarted) 2024-11-29T23:28:03Z **‘Building LLMs Is Probably Not Going Be a Brilliant Business’** ⌘ [Read more](https://calpaterson.com/porter.html) 2024-11-30T23:47:42Z **Streaks and Little Streaks** ⌘ [Read more](https://streaks.app/) 2024-12-02T17:16:35Z **Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger Forced Out by Board** ⌘ [Read more](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-12-02/intel-ceo-pat-gelsinger-retires-amid-chipmaker-s-turnaround-plan) 2024-12-02T18:03:19Z **Steep Discounts on M3 MacBook Air Models at Amazon** ⌘ [Read more](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DLHQGGN5?tag=df-amzn-20) 2024-12-02T19:59:24Z **The Talk Show: ‘A Good Duck Butt’** ⌘ [Read more](https://daringfireball.net/thetalkshow/2024/12/02/ep-415) 2024-12-02T23:13:17Z **Google Search Is Already in Decline** ⌘ [Read more](https://www.wsj.com/tech/googling-is-for-old-people-thats-a-problem-for-google-5188a6ed) 2024-12-03T21:32:13Z **The Verge Launches a Subscription** ⌘ [Read more](https://www.theverge.com/2024/12/3/24306571/verge-subscription-launch-fewer-ads-unlimited-access-full-text-rss) 2024-12-04T00:02:25Z **★ Andy Grove Was Right**
Grove’s words don’t read merely as advice — they read today as a postmortem for what happed to Intel over the last 20 years. ⌘ [Read more](https://daringfireball.net/2024/12/andy_grove_was_right) 2024-12-04T01:33:47Z **[Sponsor] 1Password: You Want to Charge How Much for SSO?** ⌘ [Read more](https://1password.com/daringfireball) 2024-12-04T02:31:28Z **Andy Grove in 2006: ‘What I’ve Learned’** ⌘ [Read more](https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/interviews/a1449/learned-andy-grove-0500/) 2024-12-04T19:57:31Z **U.S. Officials Urge Americans to Use Encrypted Apps, for Texting and Calls, in Wake of Chinese Infiltration of Our Unencryped Telecom Network** ⌘ [Read more](https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/us-officials-urge-americans-use-encrypted-apps-cyberattack-rcna182694) 2024-12-04T23:31:32Z **Shame on Google for Their Description of Google Messages’s Encryption Support** ⌘ [Read more](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.apps.messaging) 2024-12-05T01:44:01Z **Jeff Bezos on Trump’s Second Term: ‘I’m Actually Very Optimistic This Time Around’** ⌘ [Read more](https://www.theverge.com/2024/12/4/24313549/bezos-trump-optimistic-dealbook-summit-doge) 2024-12-05T02:27:12Z **From the Department of Bringing Receipts to the Interview** ⌘ [Read more](https://stanfordreview.org/levin-interview/amp/) 2024-12-05T21:28:30Z **What’s Good for the Goose, AI Training Edition** ⌘ [Read more](https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openais-latest-rivals-are-getting-help-from-openai) 2024-12-05T23:41:49Z **Festivitas — Holiday Lights for Your Mac Menu Bar and Dock** ⌘ [Read more](https://festivitas.app/) 2024-12-06T01:24:01Z **Owner Patrick Soon-Shiong Is Tanking the LA Times’s Credibility** ⌘ [Read more](https://www.status.news/p/los-angeles-times-patrick-soon-shiong) 2024-12-06T02:54:00Z **Festivitas — Holiday Lights for Your Mac Menu Bar and Dock** ⌘ [Read more](https://festivitas.app/) 2024-12-06T02:52:45Z **‘Appeasement in the New Age of Trump’, MSNBC Edition** ⌘ [Read more](https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/12/appeasement-new-age-trump/680871/?gift=f35zZN0v_gDFE8xNwlQAHaR_aG-uEILvzAygwDvOvHo) 2024-12-06T18:13:11Z **★ Don’t Throw the Baby Out With the Generative AI Bullshit Bathwater**
If I had wanted to write a column about presidential pardons, I’d find ChatGPT’s assistance a far better starting point than I’d have gotten through any general web search. But to quote Reagan: “Trust, but verify.” ⌘ [Read more](https://daringfireball.net/2024/12/dont_throw_the_baby_out_with_the_generative_ai_bullshit_bathwater) 2024-12-06T23:41:31Z **Times New Dumbass** ⌘ [Read more](https://timesnewdumbass.co/) 2024-12-06T23:36:26Z **Dithering** ⌘ [Read more](https://dithering.fm/) 2024-12-08T21:46:56Z **Gurman: Apple and Sony Are Working to Bring PlayStation VR Hand Controller Support to Vision Pro** ⌘ [Read more](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2024-12-08/apple-sony-talk-playstation-vr-ps-vr2-hand-controller-support-for-vision-pro) 2024-12-08T21:55:23Z **1Password and Charging for SSO** ⌘ [Read more](https://1password.com/daringfireball)