I hit “Download All” to prepare for my flight, and Disney+ helpfully prioritized them in the most logical and obvious download order: 3, 2, 1, 4.

*Perfect number* to make H1Bs a tool that is out of reach for startups but still meaningful for large entrenched corporations. Nailed it. Maybe they can even waive the fee if you give the US government 10% of your company.

I was vaguely aware that there was a nihilism epidemic in Gen Z but this is ridiculous.

For everyone who was thinking to themselves “The world is too stable these days. Too predictable. Boring." Apple just dropped a little gift for you in the form of macOS/iOS 26.

I do like that LLMs are making em dashes go out of style. Never liked them or their spacing rules. Looks wrong to have it touch both words around it, and probably breaks a bunch of word-splitting code. Imagine if the correct use of colons was no spaces:like this. Do you like that? Of course not.

It sort of feels like Apple is taking the same approach to macOS as Trump is taking with the US. Trump is bizarrely jealous of 3rd world countries and is lighting everything on fire to unlock “sweatshop mode.” Apple seems jealous of Windows and is lighting everything on fire to unlock “Vista mode.”

Here is an attempt at making my LLM thread screenshot more legible (previous paragraph of each portion is included in each successive image to hopefully ease context). Original bsky thread below, and I'll also just quote second in the next post. Wish I could just edit... bsky.app/profile/did:...

Some thoughts on "contributing” code to open source projects using LLMs.

The MagSafe battery is so silly. It takes battery that *should be in the phone* and puts it in a *heavier* and *less efficient* (Qi) package. Look at how much of this *isn’t* battery: Qi coils, a *motherboard*, etc. Why? Just put the battery in the phone! And hey it’ll never accidentally fall off.

The Trump statue was bad enough, did they really have to *also* offer the iPhone in Trump Orange? #AppleEvent

Look at this bizarre design. Imagine if instead of *3 distinct & asymmetric levels of thickness* the back just came out to the lenses. It'd look better, not tip on a table, be easier to hold, & probably 2x the battery. But then they couldn't talk about how thin the uh... "thin" part is. #AppleEvent

Having more or less exhausted the marketability of “cool,” Apple is now aiming to the corner the market on “doofus”. Step aside fanny pack! #AppleEvent

The way they keep shitting on the physical SIM you half expect them to say that getting rid of it is what allowed them to put a chip in there at all. #AppleEvent

“The glass isn’t even glass” #AppleEvent

LOL. That Altman Ive match up must have really stung! They really got a female Jony Ive voice over. Complete with “Al-you-minium” and everything. Incredible. #AppleEvent

Ah, the always descriptive “all-day battery life”. #AppleEvent

It’s actually pronounced “C1 Ten” #AppleEvent

I was just saying the other day that my *one* gripe with the iPhone was that it didn’t have as many confusing and overlapping models as the iPad. #AppleEvent

They should just streamline *all* versions around the year. The all new iPhone 26: unleashing the powerful A26 chip and protected by Ceramic Shield 26, available in 26 barely distinguishable pastel colors. #AppleEvent

I love that these events serve as mini photography lessons, subtly teaching you tips that are usually reserved for the pros, like “the 2x zoom allows you to get closer to the subject.” #AppleEvent

An even *smaller* border on the already “edge-to-edge” display????? #AppleEvent

“iPhone, now in like green or something.” #AppleEvent

“And don’t worry, if you ever find yourself unable to sleep, we’ve added “Streak Freeze” boosts you can in-app purchase right on your Apple Watch so it doesn’t affect your Sleep Score!” #AppleEvent

The background music for this 100th iteration of these “Apple Watch saves lives” video sounds like an AI generated soundtrack where the prompt was “emotional mumbo jumbo”. #AppleEvent

“Design isn’t just looks, it’s how it works. Take this statue for example, it may not *look* like much, but it *worked* at getting us exempted from tariffs.” #AppleEvent

Startup idea: Printing as a service. Since no one has printers anymore, you upload a file and we print it out and overnight it to you. Disclaimer: We print it in China so there's an extra $100 you'll pay in tariffs. In fact, we're just not shipping printouts to the US until this gets sorted out.

Your computer feels less like "your house,” and more like being a high school senior a tense environment with your parents. Being forced to keep your bedroom door open feels degrading. It's exhausting because there's nowhere else to go, but you're still expected to be productive in this environment.

I think one reason Liquid Glass is causing such a profoundly negative reaction is that it is making a lot of people realize that the idea that they own their computer was actually an illusion. The inevitability of this coming disaster highlights just how little agency you have over "your computer.”

The reaction to the release of GPT-5 shows that the reflexively repeated mantra that “this is the worst these technologies will ever be” might not be as straight-forwardly true as it first appeared to be.

If they’re going to raise Apple TV+ prices, they could at least have the decency of renaming it Apple TV+ One Premium Family.

Apple design today is quite literally indistinguishable from Google design, both in concept and execution. Remember the big Gmail redesign that was just "hey just plaster a random fucking landscape photo across the entire app so we can be freed from ever having to think about design again?"

Liquid Glass shows one legacy of flat design is designers are terrified of choosing a new "inherent" window texture. All these blurs & whatnot let you avoid ever choosing an real “UI material”. When glass absolutely won't work, Apple seems to prefer going full WhatsApp saying "fuck it, use a photo”:

It's kind of weird that basically all the guardrails for democracy pretty much immediately collapsed (Congress, Supreme Court, the press, academia, corporations that stand to lose a lot in the current regime, every gun owner, etc), except… Gavin Newsom and South Park.

Well, technically it still is, right? Since we prevented it from becoming the present of work.

The worst part about software updates is the inevitable .1 update that follows. These take *so long* and there's zero exciting about them anymore. They are such a chore.

By being reasonable and understanding the difficulty of Tim’s choice, *we* ironically move the Overton window over. Gruber’s right: It’s not Tim. It’s not Trump. They just test the waters. *We* end up defining what’s acceptable. Which is precisely why you shouldn’t let Tim off the hook for this.

“It’s us” But how, concretely? Tim did this assuming the benefits outweigh any PR drawbacks. But that’s actually up to us. It is exactly our “understanding” that creates a permission structure to do this. That’s *how* it’s on us: by *accepting* this, we create the world where it’s the smart choice

I just barely managed to gain the upper hand in this cerebral chess match against GPT-5's PhD-level reasoning.

Apple can best be understood as a Private Equity firm eating itself. We hear “Tim's job wasn't to innovate, it was to scale," but don't realize this is a euphemism for moving from "investment" to "extraction.” Your unhappiness is the same as that felt by patients of PE-owned nursing homes. (thread)

This is such a weird product. It’s essentially just a dark pattern addictive mobile game like any other… except sold under the pretense of learning a language. Complete with a variety of complicated purchasable streak boosts. Everyone is answering French questions and no one is learning French.

All the people emailing Tim Cook about how disappointed they are with him is honestly pretty naive and silly. The idea that Tim Cook knows how to operate email is frankly delusional.

Elon then explained that AI doesn't need GPUs. That you can do everything GPT-5 can do using only cameras. Don't believe him? You can think without GPUs, but you have eyes! See, common sense. He's given the order to xAI to trash all their GPUs and start moving Grok to a "camera-based architecture".

So is Apple going to release an updated version of this book with the AirPower and Trump Trophy or what?

Covering an issue from atp.fm: "What is Cook supposed to do other than kiss the ring, let Apple lose?" How about... be creative!  seems to be *super* creative when it comes to evading the EU. But there's "no options" other than publicly supporting a lame duck president that is polling horribly? 1/🧵

Tim Cook was quoted as reiterating one of Apple’s core company values, stating “we’ve never been concerned with being first to cowardly acquiesce to a would-be-dictator, we’re instead laser-focused on the goal of being the *best* at crumbling entirely to his whims.” www.theverge.com/news/737757/...

Exciting news! Google has apparently made a major enshittification breakthrough! They've managed to enshittify *confirmation dialogs*! The key insight was to replace “Allow”/“Disallow" buttons with "Allow”/"See ad". Almost feels silly that we were wasting that monetization opportunity in the past.

“Developers thought they were 20% faster with Al tools, but were actually 19% slower when they had access to Al.” I am convinced that we can make a tool that makes developers feel like they're going 50% faster while actually going 50% slower. The sky's the limit. metr.org/blog/2025-07...

So, how do we describe the thing people *mean* when they say JS (and the thing all the runtimes have coalesced around), vs. needing them to say "JavaScript with browser-compliant modules and WebWorker additions...". How about... "WebScript"? AKA, ECMAScript with the Web Platform Additions.

The more I think about it the more I like WebScript as a replacement name. WebAssembly, WebGPU, WebRTC. And it seems like there's no active trademark for it too (although I admittedly didn't do a super exhaustive search). The “Java” prefix still confuses new users. Let's just call it WebScript.

New, on Morrick.​me — More stray observations – on Liquid Glass, on Apple’s lack of direction, then zooming out, on technological progress: morrick.me/archives/10078