The MacBook Neo(daringfireball.net)

603 points by etothet 7 months ago | 947 comments

John Gruber's Daring Fireball piece on Apple's MacBook Neo, tracing how iPhone A-series chip performance foreshadowed it.

Coming to Grips with Apple's Seemingly Unshakable Sense of Entitlement(daringfireball.net)

91 points by chmaynard 2 years ago | 80 comments

Markdown is meant to be shown (2021)(daringfireball.net)

162 points by SoKamil 2 years ago | 134 comments

AI is a technology not a product(daringfireball.net)

385 points by ch_sm 5 months ago | 170 comments

John Gruber's Daring Fireball essay arguing that AI is an enabling technology rather than a product, responding to Steven Levy's Wired piece on Apple's next CEO.

What Is a Dickover?(daringfireball.net)

379 points by tambourine_man 4 months ago | 148 comments

John Gruber's Daring Fireball post coining "dickover" for modal popovers that obscure web content to force unwanted interactions like cookie consent or newsletter signups.

'AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making'(daringfireball.net)

22 points by robenkleene 3 months ago | 3 comments

Don't fire your illustrator(sambleckley.com)

346 points by todsacerdoti 3 years ago | 269 comments

Essay by Sam Bleckley, a fine artist and software engineer, on understanding and art-directing AI image generators and why illustrators remain valuable.

Anthropic's ‘watermark’ text adulteration in Claude is a perversion of writing(daringfireball.net)

736 points by ropbear 2 months ago | 641 comments

John Gruber's Daring Fireball post criticizing Anthropic's plan to watermark Claude-generated text via word-choice steganography to comply with EU regulation.

The force-feeding of AI features on an unwilling public(honest-broker.com)

330 points by imartin2k 1 year ago | 279 comments

Ted Gioia essay on The Honest Broker arguing tech companies are forcing unwanted AI features on users, calling it tyranny rather than innovation.

The pro-Israel information war(jackpoulson.substack.com)

658 points by anigbrowl 2 years ago | 1067 comments

A Substack investigation by Jack Poulson and Lee Fang into Israeli government-led efforts to shape online discourse and silence pro-Palestinian voices, citing Zoom calls and WhatsApp logs.

Why I use Firefox(xn--ime-zza.eu)

320 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 186 comments

A personal blog post explaining the author's reasons for using Firefox, starting with the configurability offered by the about:config page.

The Future Is Niri(ersei.net)

388 points by mattjhall 1 year ago | 202 comments

A personal blog post giving the author's opinion on the Niri scrollable tiling Wayland compositor after years of using Sway and i3.