BBEdit 15.5

Bare Bones Software: Introducing “workspaces”, a way to switch between arrangements of open documents and windows. A workspace includes the same application state that is saved and restored across quit and relaunch, but can be activated at any time …

Kaleidoscope 6

Florian Albrecht (tweet): Kaleidoscope can now hide equal blocks of text by collapsing them into a single expandable line. This significantly shortens text comparisons when most of the text in A and B is identical. Collapsing unchanged lines lets yo…

The Resistance Is Working Better Than You Think

Walking around the music: the Mahler Chamber Orchestra app for Vision Pro

One of the best things to experience on the Apple Vision Pro is an immersive video, such as the impressive collection of videos created by Apple. You sit in a single spot, you look around, and thanks to the 180º video and the spatial sound, you feel…

[Sponsor] Ooni Halo Pro Spiral Mixer

‘The Future Is Colourful and Dimensional’

On the Engineering Talent at IO

On the Engineering Talent at IO

Apple’s Satellite Networking Ambitions

Scott Forstall Has Been Advising The Browser Company

Tim Cook Declined Middle East Trip With Trump’s Sycophant Entourage

‘Puzzmo Is Not a Good iOS App’

External Payments From the HEY App

David Heinemeier Hansson: Well, we risked everything, but also secured a four-year truce, and now near-total victory is at hand: HEY is finally for sale on the iPhone in the US!Credit for this amazing turn of events goes to Epic Games founders Tim S…

Google I/O 2025

Kyle Wiggers and Karyne Levy: Gemini Ultra (only in the U.S. for now) delivers the “highest level of access” to Google’s AI-powered apps and services, according to Google. It’s priced at $249.99 per month and includes Google’s Veo 3 video generator,…

Claude 4

Anthropic (Hacker News, MacRumors): Claude Opus 4 is the world’s best coding model, with sustained performance on complex, long-running tasks and agent workflows. Claude Sonnet 4 is a significant upgrade to Claude Sonnet 3.7, delivering superior cod…

OpenAI Codex

OpenAI (via John Gruber): Today we’re launching a research preview of Codex: a cloud-based software engineering agent that can work on many tasks in parallel. Codex can perform tasks for you such as writing features, answering questions about your c…

[Sponsor] A day in the life with SaneBox

Thank you to SaneBox for sponsoring iPhone J.D. this month. I’ve explained in the past what the service does, so this month, I thought I would talk about a typical day of using the service for one of my inboxes. For the same reason that the service …

The Talk Show: ‘A Monkey on a Rock’

How to Make Money on Trump’s Memecoin (Short It)

‘Sony: Because Caucasians Are Just Too Damn Tall’

The New York Times Digs in on the ‘Young Chinese Women Have Small Fingers’ Claim