Really struggling to find anything to talk about on my blog.

@theletterf.bsky.social There you are! I stopped seeing your posts on Mastodon and wondered whether something had happened to you. 🙂

I’ve seen the ad for this tool on YouTube numerous times. And quite predictably, it’s a scam. www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6HE...

I was just reminded of something I said to a friend, at the uni, 30 years ago: “If you’re waiting for something to happen, you’re not happening.” Now it’s I who needs to hear those words, past-me!

Announcing a new era in digital photography, with a new series of revolutionary cameras that are inaccurate and produce foggy, blurry photos by design, harking back to the good old analogue days. We’re calling them ‘Moreorless cameras’.

I love how the majority of watch YouTube hasn't ‘got’ the latest collaboration between Swatch and Audemars Piguet. “A fiasco”, “The beginning of AP's downfall”, “Cute but useless”... (the latter is especially rich coming from watch snobs, as the same can be said for their favourite luxury products).

The recipe is, if a company shoves ‘AI’ in your face, in any capacity, reject it and look elsewhere. These greedy motherfuckers who think ‘AI’ is the shortcut to making even more money while enshittifying stuff for everybody else, have to be starved. Be the pin that pops the ‘AI’ bubble for good.

The worst of a search engine with the worst of ‘AI’. Don’t use this crap. Switch to Kagi, or even DuckDuckGo if you don't want subscriptions. DuckDuckGo isn't perfect, but I’ve been using it as primary search engine for the past 7 years, and it has been good enough. blog.google/intl/en-mena...

Was it *really* JP Montgomery? 🧐 www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgXk...

A recent toot on my Mastodon timeline made me want to check how long ago I removed Google Chrome for good from my computers. It was December 2017. But it’s never too late to remove this malware from your systems.

“AI will replace us”, they say. While I’m laughing at this automatic word counter tool that counts “keyword1,keyword2,keyword3,no data” as 2 words. 😄

If you loved the early SimCity games and the original RollerCoaster Tycoon, you should keep an eye on the development of this city building game, Metropolis 1998, now in Alpha (and it already looks good). #indiegames #citybuilder www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpJB...

Current mood (yes, I’m Pacino in this scene): clip.cafe/glengarry-gl...

New, on Morrick.​me — Tim Cook steps down as CEO of Apple. Several observations on his tenure from a long-term Apple customer and observer: morrick.me/archives/10306 Make yourself comfortable, it’s a long ride. Hopefully not a boring one.

Writing a sort of retrospective of Cook’s tenure as Apple CEO. It’s getting long (currently 3,800 words) and certainly not pretty. I’ll hopefully publish it later tonight.

I haven't been feeling great lately. Imagine having a bad cold+cough on top of your usual allergies. Hence the radio silence.

I’ll write here the exact comment I left on the video (a comment probably no one will see because there were already 4,630 comments when I added it): Either Mr Green is a gullible fool, or he's getting paid by Anthropic. Don't waste 50 minutes of your life watching this. #FuckAI

He (dosdude) is the best. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIeE...

I know it’s not ideal for an iOS/Mac developer to support iOS/Mac OS versions prior to 26. It’s also not ideal for me to have to update my device to iOS/Mac OS 26 just to try your app out. So… I wish you well, I guess.

Current mood: I don’t even know what the fuck to talk about.

Has anyone thought about making a Pokémon-themed CAPTCHA and calling it PICAPTCHA? 😁

① Yes, let’s celebrate 50 years of Apple just when they announce the end of the Mac Pro. Not that I had any illusion about seeing another one. As soon as I looked at the 2013 CIAMA model (CIAMA=Can’t Innovate Anymore My Ass), I knew Apple was taking the wrong turn in the Mac Pro evolution roadmap.

YouTube algorithm: here are some videos about older cars and car restorations, and also some videos about BeamNG Drive car mods and customisation. Me: I can’t say which is which at first glance. 🤣

This is how I’ve been listening to music on the go for a year now. Which is how I’ve always listened to music on the go before streaming services got popular. One of my several iPods (today it was a 4th-gen iPod touch), a good pair of WIRED headphones, and off I merrily go.

“My first PC Build!” YouTube video. 2019 reaction: Oh, that’s very cool! Love the case design! 2026 reaction: You filthy rich bastard, get fucked!

Malapropism of the day, again thanks to a comment on YouTube. “I was on defense about picking the leather strap vs the steel bracelet” (In case you’re confused, what they meant to write is “I was ON THE FENCE about…”)

Earlier today, I spent a couple of hours doing stuff on my Power Mac G4 Cube running Mac OS X Tiger and on my 17-inch PowerBook G4 running Leopard. I almost had tears in my eyes for how just utterly NICE the user experience was. I really wish I could do more with these machines today.

@getwired.com I'm reading your latest, "AI is Sea Monkeys", and I think it's a phenomenal essay!

New, on Morrick.​me — A few notes about the MacBook Neo: morrick.me/archives/10286

Sorry, the last decade really doesn’t count.

The sheer amount of common-sense grenades Dr Collier throws around is exhilarating! I was actually cheering as the video progressed.

I love the new Nothing (4a) and (4a) Pro phones. Nothing is rekindling something inside me that used to happen only in the good Apple days: making me want to upgrade even if my current Nothing Phone (2a) is absolutely fine for my needs and still works just as great as the first day I got it.

Your mileage will certainly vary, but for me, in the history of iPhones and iOS versions I’ve used, two peak experiences have been iOS 10 on the iPhone 5 (left) and iOS 12 on the iPhone 5s (right).

Food for thought. (Note: the title & thumbnail are a bit misleading. The video doesn't actually say that the Epstein Files are all a fabrication. It argues that they're a tool in propaganda tactics.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvPw...

Current internal monologue, using only YouTube video thumbnails, in three parts.

Handpicked, on Morrick.​me — → A toolbar that is rudely stamp’d: morrick.me/archives/10271

People refuse to acknowledge how an LLM actually works, and insist on assigning meaning and understanding to its output. There is no meaning, and the system understands neither the user’s question nor its own “response.”

Hell. Hell is where you go.

Your stupid ‘AI’ chatbot is not sentient. LLMs are not sentient. You know who’s sentient and deserves your attention and respect? Trans people, for instance. Stop treating them as if they were abominations or ‘fake people’ or ‘crossdressers with a secret agenda’. (1/2)

Maybe this is entirely subjective, but I’d advise against creating titles with this kind of word layout. At first glance, my eyes moved on the words in such a way that I read: “Living during on a a lighthouse storm” and I thought I was having a stroke or something.

For all those who miss a launcher like Quicksilver on the Mac: www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkm-... tunaformac.com (Requires Mac OS 15 Sequoia)

Handpicked, on Morrick.​me — → On software quality (and reliability, and frugality): morrick.me/archives/10267

Hilarious malapropism of the day: “I went down a rabid hole” (from a YouTube comment)

Sorry, budget is tight, subscription fatigue is at an all-time high. (Original work by System32Comics - I've just changed the text.)

There, I fixed the thumbnail.

This does a good job at summarising the problem with Apple’s Liquid Glass and how we got here from skeuomorphism through flat design. If you want to raise awareness among laypeople, this can be used to introduce them to the subject in a plain, comprehensible way. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejPq...

New, on Morrick.​me — People and resources added to my reading list in 2025:​ morrick.me/archives/10263

Someone (they didn’t use their real name, so I’ll refer to them as ‘Anonymous Coward’) dared write me to school me about the kind of posts I should post here. “With everything that’s going on in the world, you seem to live in your little bubble”, they wrote.

I haven’t watched this video, so I don’t know where this is going, but a friend of mine once bought on eBay a ‘4K’ camera (no brand specified) for €4, and it turned out to be an 8-megapixel digicam from 2006. 4K resolution is, in fact, about 8.3 million pixels.