Poorly aged things. www.apple.com/compliance/

lmao

AirPods Pro 3 really need an EQ tweak. This song is unbearable to listen to with them. music.apple.com/us/album/eart...

I wrote about OpenAI's Dev Day and how OpenAI forgetting about the open internet is a bad thing for society. Apps might not be the future of AI. eshumarneedi.com/2025/10/07/a...

Former Apple bosses slam decision to take down ICEBlock

After many hours of writing, my iPhone 17 Pro review is finally here. The iPhone has not changed significantly this year, but that’s intentional, and the strategy works. The new design, while a downgrade in many ways, is popular. But overall, it’s just a great phone, and I wrote about why.

At this point, I'm convinced OpenAI's purpose is to make as much money by commercializing AI and frying the brains of every last soul in the world before inevitably falling to Google because it hasn't built anything remotely innovative since the one chatbot from 2022.

As you can probably tell from my relatively thin volume of link posts over the past month or so, I’ve been pretty busy with some work outside of writing. Therefore, this review had to be written over one weekend, a pretty short timeframe. Despite that, I think it turned out pretty well. Enjoy!

After many hours of writing, my iPhone 17 Pro review is finally here. The iPhone has not changed significantly this year, but that’s intentional, and the strategy works. The new design, while a downgrade in many ways, is popular. But overall, it’s just a great phone, and I wrote about why.

"The Life of a Showgirl" gets a 6/10. As a non-Swiftie, I actually think it's not too bad. And I'm really, really glad Jack Antonoff didn't produce it. It *sounds* new. You can really tell the variety of styles in songs like "Elizabeth Taylor." It's not the same-y shit she's been making since 2020.

connoreatspants introducing Gavin Newsom to asmongold is like peak 2025

I wrote about Apple's unsurprising removal of ICEBlock and what it might mean for the future of Apple platform security under authoritarian governments. To know what's coming to the US, look no further than China and Britain. eshumarneedi.com/2025/10/03/a...

Kidnapping colored people (vulnerably)

I like to think of myself as quite a methodical planner. Splitting things up into bite-sized tasks, delegating, etc. But sometimes, I find stuff like this in my task manager. Review coming this weekend. I think?

why is everyone mad at Jay from Bluesky

My comprehensive review of Taylor Swift's new album — my flagship piece of writing every year readers have come to expect — will be delayed by a few hours due to some other (less important yet equally compulsory) work I am obligated to complete. Please excuse my tardiness.

man Claude Code is the GOAT, GPT-5 really was the best model for the next six weeks

Everyone knew this would happen. I knew this would happen. eshumarneedi.com/2025/08/06/t...

Hot take: I think I really like the Netflix redesign. I liked it on iOS a few years ago and it looks nice on the TV.

I was really expecting the AirPods Pro 3 to struggle to hit the intro notes in "Such Great Heights" by The Postal Service, but it actually does a pretty good job. Not as bright and sibilant as I expected. They really struggle with Chvrches, though.

No further commentary here other than “good.”

Leave it to Meta to make a great product and botch the rollout. Apple Vision Pro's rollout was a lot better. Just use a smartphone app for sizing!

I wrote about the Sora slop app from OpenAI and why tools like these are the next edition of something I call internet soot: low-quality, brainless content that contributes nothing of value to society. Forget the implications on creativity — this is an ethical disaster. eshumarneedi.com/2025/09/30/o

That red must be one of the most gorgeous things I’ve seen in a while.

Too real. We’re going to try to fix this. Social media doesn’t have to be this way.

Wrote the entire sound quality portion of my AirPods Pro 3 review tonight. I have no idea when it'll come out, since I care about getting the new iPhone review out the door, so here's the synopsis: Really good, AirPods Max-esque, wider soundstage, but too bright at high volumes in the treble.

Probably the best test of AirPods Pro 3 is About You by The 1975. The low-end is quite muddy on AirPods Pro 2, contributing to a less expansive soundstage. AirPods Pro 3 improve the low-end significantly — they sound wider — but at the expense of the high-end, which sounds too bright.

Seriously.

Asking an LLM to explain something: - Claude: Oh, this is a pretty good answer! A bit robotic, but it's good. - Gemini: Wow, I understand this a lot better. Great answer. - ChatGPT 5 Thinking: what language is this thing speaking to me in

scrolling the Sora feed like it's TikTok and man we all really did die in 2020 and this is hell

on the piggy slop website. sora dot whatever the hell. you know what my username is. follow for epic slop videos

not people trying to sell Sora invite codes on Twitter for $10 apiece 😭

while OpenAI is churning out pig slop disguised as copyright infringement, Claude is coding for 30 hours straight altman and company are cooked

This high-end (AirPods Pro 3) is really throwing me for a loop. Way too bright and sibilant. It's just not balanced.

Belated, but still here. First impressions: - The form ear tips are much firmer. I like them! - Noise Cancellation is obviously good, but Transparency mode got way better. - They're more bassy and too muted in the high end. They need some EQ tweaking.

New version of Claude is pretty great. Much less sycophantic and a great personality. Haven't tried it for coding yet, but it has a much greater depth of understanding.

FedEx is obviously still the worst mail carrier but I would like to — with great delight — confirm to the audience that they've fixed the FedEx Express pickup phone line. Instead of going "Sorry, I couldn't schedule the pickup," it actually schedules it automatically. This is a big deal.

Magic Links ("sign in by entering this link sent to your email") are the poorest experience on the web. Just use passkeys, please. These are the 2020s.

Gorgeous.

Did Bluesky change how it scrapes Open Graph images? They don’t load for my site anymore, but they work on every other social media platform.

I wrote about ChatGPT Pulse, those AI pendants, Anthropic's "Keep Thinking" ad campaign, and why I'm feeling drab about the state of Silicon Valley in 2025. eshumarneedi.com/2025/09/27/c...

I'm convinced the orange iPhone 17 Pro is the showiest iPhone they've ever made. So many people have asked me about this thing. It's unbelievable. Terrible for introverts.

there’s a project that bridges Bluesky with the Twitter API v1 so you can just point an old Twitter app at the proxy and boom it’s 2011 again babyyyyy

I wrote about Trump's laughable TikTok deal and why it's yet another fascist attempt to control the way Americans think, communicate, and exchange ideas on the internet. X is already an echo chamber. TikTok is about to become one, too. eshumarneedi.com/2025/09/26/t...

Fast(er) charging on the iPhone 17 Pro is pretty legit, even without the new "60W Max" Apple charger. I used a 67-watt normal Apple wall charger and the phone went from 4-48 percent in about 20 minutes. (It's advertised as doing 0-50 in 20 minutes.)

It has been 138 days, a new record, since I last wrote about the European Union's Digital Markets Act. That changes today. I wrote about Apple's press release bashing the DMA, and what the true purpose of the law may be. eshumarneedi.com/2025/09/25/a...

Probably for the best.

I was actually really excited about The Savant. If this is a political decision, to hell with them.

The slides about "6G" coming in 2028 from the Qualcomm summit sounded like nonsense to me until I did the math. The iPhone 5s was the first iPhone with 4G, released in 2013. The iPhone 12 was the first with 5G, released in 2020. That's 7 years. We're closer to 6G than we are to 5G's introduction.