‘After careful evaluation, Apple determined that Google's Al technology provides the most capable foundation for Apple Foundation Models’ blog.google/company-news...

New record $GOOGL eod price today: 331.86

iOS 26.3 beta 2... developer.apple.com/news/release...

good job everyone

New record $GOOGL eod price today: 328.57

wow acquiremag.com/tech/samsung...

cursed

New record $GOOGL eod price today: 325.44

The AI-generated podcast stuff truly confounds me. I guess there are people who enjoy asking Alexa or Siri things and expand that into: What if my robot friend could tell me a story about the news? These people have wrinkle-free brains.

podcasting at its best imo, a sort of polar opposite to linked-in culture grateful that @adamwathan.com is letting others know what real life looks like adams-morning-walk.transistor.fm/episodes/we-...

👀 corefeed.app

‘a self-guided, albeit unauthorized tour’

‘linked-inny folks’

‘Next up is my absolute favorite feature, which is the ability to bring your YouTube style chapters and turn them into real chapters in an instant’ birchtree.me/blog/intro-c...

i mean you're not _wrong_... (just another day in atproto paradise)

‘On the upside: it’s not that hard anymore to design better than Apple! Let’s drink to that’ tonsky.me/blog/tahoe-i...

#atproto does anyone know how many records (or repo_blocks) a single pds actor store can hold before listRecords performance falls off a cliff? (vanilla self-hosted pds from github, fast nvme disk)

‘For the first time, TypeScript overtook both Python and JavaScript in August 2025 to become the most used language on GitHub. This marks the most significant language shift in more than a decade’ github.blog/news-insight...

‘life is a big deal’

SUBCLADE K

New data: Top CDNs used by the 1.9 million new podcast episodes found in December 2025 livewire.io/podcast-cdns...

New data! updated my ranking of the top 3rd-party podcast analytics services, based on the share of the 1.9 million new episodes published in December 2025 livewire.io/podcast-trac...

New data! My ranking of top podcast hosting companies based on the 1.9 million new episodes published in December 2025 livewire.io/podcast-host...

here's a gem: generated podcast so stuffed with ads its hard to find the short-amount of non-ad audio yes it's in the Apple Podcasts directory podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o...

Just updated my graphs of @transistor.fm's monthly reported stats to include the newly-finished month of December 2025. livewire.io/transistor-s...

Buzzsprout just published their public stats for December 2025, so I just updated my post tracking them over time - another year in the can livewire.io/buzzsprout-s...

2026 is even harder to type

‘Closed networks are a big company thing, not a cloud thing’ www.pfrazee.com/blog/atmosph...

‘I guess ‘theater of the mind’ is no match for straight-up TV’ www.semafor.com/article/12/2...

‘"I don't have time for this." That might be the name of a podcast. I just ended one with that exact phrase, and it totally fits the way I feel about these rambling diatribes by the time I'm about to sign off.’ daveverse.org/2025/12/28/5...

well I'll be - it seems to work in Brave too and ⌘-w closes the right-view, if focused mikecaulfield.substack.com/p/using-open...

‘Podcasting today is a global, unauthenticated supply chain - not broken, just security-blind’ kfir-g.dev/blog/blogs/2...

This is why the ad tech companies will always win. People fundamentally do not value their time

sorry @esb.lol normally I don't ping, but I bet someone on the team could do this in like two seconds. I'm not caught up on the best way to pass through config else I'd try a PR myself github.com/bluesky-soci...

hehe what a flex

‘When I hear people say the future of audio is essentially television, it makes me feel they never knew what was exciting about sound in the first place’ www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

‘strive for excellence, ignore success’

Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software. Just fuck you. Fuck you all. I can't remember the last time I was this angry.

‘I'm trying to provide the subtleist unwavering form of movement’ www.cbc.ca/player/play/...

‘At 11 a.m., YouTube had an average audience of 6.3 million viewers in October. Netflix’s audience is less than half of that (2.8 million). Amazon has about a million viewers at that hour, and HBO Max, Paramount+ and Peacock, draw fewer than 600,000.’ (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/b...

‘“One impact is that the Boulder Internet Time Services no longer have an accurate time reference,” Sherman added. As a result, the U.S. official time slowed by around 4.8 microseconds’ gizmodo.com/colorado-win...

I realise this is probably extremely niche, but in the event you wanted to download podcasts to your Windows 11 computer, FluentCast seems like a pretty good free option. luandersonn.com/fluentcast/

ikea final boss

this morning's soundtrack music.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

‘Making them equal parts assistant and friend may be toxic for some people, but, so far, appears to be a successful business strategy.’ (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/t...

‘podcasts are the place to break news and update your fans’

@bnewbold.net looking into hosting my own relay following your directions at whtwnd.com/bnewbold.net... is this line still needed in winter 2025?

while you were not paying attention, Safari ka-chunked its way to the top (!) of the web platform Interop 2025 Dashboard wpt.fyi/interop-2025...

I have to say, Gemini 3 Flash (now the default) does a better job of explaining op3.dev than I do. Nailed it.

‘canary in the coalmind’