★ Meta Replaced the Native WhatsApp for Windows 11 With a Shitty Web App

The question is, did Meta scrap its native Windows app because they don’t care that much about Windows in particular? Or because they don’t care that much about native desktop apps, period — and a crude web app wrapper is coming to Mac next?

★ OpenAI Releases GPT-5.1, Along With Renamed and New Personalities

With the other personalities, you’re choosing between flavors of bullshit. With Efficient, you’re choosing no bullshit.

The Information: Second-Gen iPhone Air Postponed Until Spring 2027, but Might Gain Second Camera

Roadmap for Improving the Swift Type Checker

Slava Pestov (Hacker News): This is all, of course, about the dreaded the compiler is unable to type-check this expression in reasonable time error. This error can appear with both valid and invalid code, and the various workarounds are unsatisfacto…

iPad Pro at 10

David Pierce (Slashdot): When the iPad Pro came along five years later — it went on sale 10 years ago today — nothing much had changed. The Pro ran all the same apps, did all the same things, had pretty much the same things in pretty much the same p…

Unmasking Archive.today

Jason Koebler (Slashdot): The FBI is attempting to unmask the owner behind archive.today, a popular archiving site that is also regularly used to bypass paywalls on the internet and to avoid sending traffic to the original publishers of web content,…

NotificationQueue and Custom Dispatch Source Coalescing

I have some old code that uses NSNotificationQueue to coalesce notifications. I think this is an underappreciated class. (Even in the old days, I saw a lot more talk about +cancelPreviousPerformRequestsWithTarget:selector:object:.) My newer code use…

iPhone Pockets Sold Out Within Hours

WSJ Report on the iPhone Air Pegs It as a ‘Flop’

Joy-Joy Feelings

Tesla Is Working on CarPlay Support

Mini Apps Partner Program

Apple (MacRumors, MacStories, Hacker News): Today, we’re introducing the Mini Apps Partner Program, which expands on the App Store’s ongoing support for apps that offer mini apps. Mini apps are self-contained experiences that are built using web tec…

Apple Developer Release Notes Tracked by Git

I’ve frequently noted my frustration with Apple’s Xcode release notes, how lately they simply don’t tell you what’s changed in a given release. Changes from multiple releases are merged together, and Apple deletes and renames old pages so that you c…

Messages.app Violates Tracking Number Privacy

Jeff Johnson: Today I received a shipment notification via text message to my phone number from a company unrelated to Apple. The shipped product was not ordered with my iPhone, and in fact the product manufacturer doesn’t even know that I own any A…

Joy-Joy Feelings

iPod Socks vs. iPhone Pocket

★ OpenAI Releases GPT-5.1, Along With Renamed and New Personalities

With the other personalities, you’re choosing between flavors of bullshit. With Efficient, you’re choosing no bullshit.

Apple Digital ID

Apple (MacRumors, Hacker News, The Verge): Apple today announced the launch of Digital ID, a new way for users to create an ID in Apple Wallet using information from their U.S. passport, and present it with the security and privacy of iPhone or Appl…

Apple-Funded Study on EU Alternative App Store Business Terms

The Analysis Group (MacRumors, Slashdot, Hacker News): Despite commission rates typically falling by about 10 percentage points, current evidence shows that developers kept the prices of what they sold through the App Store the same or increased the…

iPhone Pocket

Apple (Hacker News, Slashdot): ISSEY MIYAKE and Apple today unveiled iPhone Pocket. Inspired by the concept of “a piece of cloth,” its singular 3D-knitted construction is designed to fit any iPhone as well as all pocketable items.[…]“The design of i…

Nice Web Design Work From ‘In Common With’