679: An Adversarial Relationship With Myself atp.fm/679 Solar and batteries vs. generators, news about Perl (?!), hiding apps as a self-improvement tool, and the age-old debate of "Save As…" vs. "Duplicate.”

What a great photo of Brazilian alpine skier Lucas Pinheiro Braathen, the first South American to ever win a medal at the Winter Olympic Games.

280: How Dangerous I Can Be relay.fm/rd/280

Hey, my book's on sale. Go grab a copy for cheap.

over a year ago, i gave a talk at the xoxo conference about a mural, a mcdonald’s, and a man. (but it was also secretly about life, and legacy, and meaning.) finally, i’m blogging the full story, with behind-the-scenes details, and a video of the talk. enjoy. cabel.com/wes-cook-and...

Brawndo’s got what plants crave.

*young me, developing a strong sense of justice* This is gonna be great, what an asset, this will never drive me insane

🚨 New member special! 🚨 ATP Insider: After Apple atp.fm/atp-insider-... What would have happened if Apple never existed? What if they stop existing? Which platforms and products would we use? Join now to listen! atp.fm/join

677: I Accept the Battery Cost atp.fm/677 If you really don’t like AI, we have some bad news for you.

This feels personal. 😠

I gave the coding agent in Xcode 26.3 a shot at the only problem I care about in Xcode right now. I got a predictable but unfortunate result. FB19437407

“If the person is a U.S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter.” Justice Brett Kavanaugh www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

4 federal agents pull over an elderly US citizen for the suspected crime of being brown, break her car window, throw her to the ground, then drive off after they find her US Passport in her purse. The Salem Police, when called, say there’s nothing they can do. www.salemreporter.com/2026/01/31/u...

To all my fellow Gen-X-ers, a reminder that this video still exists and that we are all slowly losing our memories of the more obscure things from our childhood that it references. www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiDsLR…

279: I Promised Myself I Wasn't Going to Be Excited relay.fm/rd/279

676: A Sternly Worded Instruction atp.fm/676 TCL and Sony TVs, Apple and Google's AI infrastructure, new AirTags, John Ternus overseeing design, and more adventures with Claude Code.

Since July, I've tracked at least 2,300 cases in which federal judges have ruled ICE has illegally detained people without bond or due process. This is one that stands out: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Does anyone have any idea how we break the echo chambers? No Trump voter in my family will ever know what actually happened to Alex Pretti or Renee Good. They will believe the officers were justified. They will watch Fox News and that will be the end of it.

675: Open, Retrieve, Expand, Load atp.fm/675 Thoughts on Tahoe.

Well, all things come to an end, and so, just shy of 11 years, I am no longer employed by Tom's Guide. If you're looking for a guy who can mash sentences together real good, feel free to give me a jingle.

🚗 New member special! 🚗 ATP Tier List: Automotive Logos atp.fm/atp-tier-lis... Somehow, we didn't want to murder each other this time. Join now to listen! atp.fm/join

674: A Reliable, Boring Partner atp.fm/674 Apple Creator Studio, the Gemini deal, the NBA on Vision Pro, and how @liss.bsky.social should spoil himself for his 50th birthday.

278: You’re a Dingleberry relay.fm/rd/278

On the one hand, I fully understand why Apple is finally going Adobe and doing a subscription for the creative apps. On the other hand, I don't know if I can see this as having enough value for me to want to pay $130 a year when I use these apps almost entirely on the Mac.

if you put this in a script even erin brockovitch would be like “too on the nose, dial it back”

The Internet Archive has more about the legacy of Stewart Cheifet and the digitization of his shows. Rest in peace. Glad to see such a long-running effort to archive his work.

Mac users were the first people to learn to use the mouse and the keyboard at the same time while playing games. The classic Mac game from 1986 that this remaster is based on is one reason why: store.steampowered.com/app/4054940/...

I'm a bit behind with ATP but @siracusa.social saying that the wild experimentation he did at college was the crazy settings he configured for his X11 window manager might have been peak Siracusa.

Abolish ICE Before They Kill Again, Impeach Trump & Noem Before They Incite More Murder Renee Nicole Good was a 37-year-old award-winning poet, a mother of a six-year-old, and a wife who had recently moved to Minneapolis. That all ended yesterday when a masked ICE agent murdered her in broad…

This is useful. open.substack.com/pub/cardcata...

673: Six Impossible Things atp.fm/673 What we're most excited for in 2026.

The destruction doesn't make for a photo-op like tearing down the East Wing of the White House or bulldozing the Rose Garden, but it's every bit as bad. Generations of American children learned to spell and count, learned the Preamble to the Constitution, from watching shows produced by the CPB.

277: A Comma for Christmas relay.fm/rd/277

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO HORSES! IT IS HORSE BIRTHDAY! HORSE!!!!!

672: Wi Hyphen Fi atp.fm/672 The truth about Wi-Fi 7, the DRAM shortage, the state of Thread and Matter, and two of the worst (or best?) proposals to improve macOS window management.

Before the Internet, I got a lot of my computer news from this man. RIP 🫡 obits.goldsteinsfuneral.com/stewart-chei...

I think the bots are getting better at organizing!

Sometimes the game just has it out for you…

Found lurking on my YouTube home page /cc @cabel.panic.com

It’s 1986 and you’re driving through the night to make it home for the holidays #nostalgia #80s #synthwave

Since Trump returned to office, the Education Department’s civil rights office has not resolved a single racial harassment investigation. It sends a message that “people impacted by racial discrimination ... don’t matter,” one attorney said.

671: Even Apple Can’t Beat the Sun atp.fm/671 Celebrating the holidays with a festive deep dive on iPhone 18 and XX rumors!

Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.

276: Fact Bobby relay.fm/rd/276

670: Institutionally Inescapable atp.fm/670 We all just wish our families would be more impressed by our TVs.

Meanwhile…

Here’s my skill tree for season one. I was pretty happy with it.

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