This week’s pieces may not help repair his relationship with senior leadership, but @gruber has shown why he is still respected (and well-sourced) within Apple Park. daringfireball.net/2025/12

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A new addition to my daily affirmations:

"You are an incredibly sensitive man, who inspires joy-joy feelings in all those around you." daringfireball.net/linked/202...

I write a lot in Markdown, both technical and not, so I created a *new* user stylesheet for rendered Markdown documents and previews.

If you like [how Markdown looks][example] on GitHub‍‍.com, this is for you.

[example]: github.com/andesco/gith...

@gluebyte.bsky.social Have you though about linking a subdomain to this account? I follow someone through their alt. language account which has something like this as the username:

en.glurbyte.xyz

@gluebyte.bsky.social Is there a public repo for Remote Sign? Would love to spin up my own Cloudflare Worker.

Appreciate your shortcuts. Very help helpful to be able to manage shortcut source code! github.com/andesco/ladd...

“In a time of misinformation, in a time of suppression, having this place where people can come and bring knowledge and share knowledge, that is a statement.”

How Wikipedia survives while the rest of the internet breaks: www.theverge.com/cs/features/... by @joshdzieza.bsky.social

I wrote about how Wikipedia became the factual foundation of the web and why it's under attack

Claude needs temporary chats. ⌘ ⇧ N

I pay $100 for Max and yet I still use ChatGPT all. the. time. for mundane

Apple’s new Speech framework and on-device model outpace Whisper transcriptions:

Apple, on-device: 0:45
OpenAI Whisper, large v3 turbo: 1:41
OpenAI Whisper, large v2: 3:55

www.macstories.net/stories/hand...

“Louis St. Laurent’s new advisor wants Canada to balloon to 37 million people by 2025. Another reason Liberals do not deserve a fourth term.”

I’m sure Conservatives would have won in 1949 on that issue, if only George Drew had a Jenni Byrne guiding his campaign.

“Rebel is a conspiratorial partisan outlet that spreads misinformation… This isn’t journalism and it’s obscene that the Debate Commission let them on — and even more wild that it allowed so many of their faux-journalists to hijack these press conferences.” www.thestar.com/politics/fed...

Google will begin redirecting traffic to google‍.com stating that country-code top-level domains are “no longer necessary” for search.

A hit to the .CA brand, sure, but Canada’s domain name has never been more relevant.

@cira.ca Thanks for the nudge to join here in the latest member email. More Canadians need to know that they can easily use their .CA domain name as their Bluesky handle!

I would have joined Bluesky months ago had I known a handle can be set to a domain name.