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October 2026

  1. Sponsorship Openings for Daring Fireball (Including The Talk Show)
  2. ★ MacBook Pro Pricing and Configurations for M6, M5 Pro, and M5 Max
  3. The Only Good Easter Eggs Are Whole-Assed Easter Eggs
  4. GM to Pay $220 Million After Betraying Their Own Drivers’ Privacy
  5. Patrick Stewart Dies at 86
  6. Apple Drops App Store Commission by a Whopping 4 Percentage Points in Taiwan
  7. A Health Update From Craig Hockenberry
  8. Rolfe Winkler at The WSJ: ‘The Beleaguered Chip Sellers Getting Their Revenge on Apple’
  9. The Space Shuttle Discovery’s Starboard Side ‘s’ Is Upside Down
  10. Steven Levy on the New MacBook Pro, With, Yes, a Touchscreen
  11. Guessing the Name: MacBook Studio?
  12. Siri AI Expands to More Languages in OS 27.2
  13. Apple Creator Studio Updated With a Slew of AI Features, Along With a New Open JSON File Format for Keynote
  14. ★ Prestructured WYSIWYG
  15. What’s Left for ‘Pro and Tell’ Week: Touch-Enabled OLED MacBooks
  16. Apple Also Announces iMac With M6
  17. [Sponsor] WorkOS: Let Agents Sign Up for Your App Without a Browser
  18. Apple Introduces New Base MacBook Pro With M6, 14-Inch-Only
  19. The NYT Seemingly Does Marissa Mayer Dirty
  20. Apple Issues Statement on iPhone Duo’s Crack Problem
  21. Glenn Fleishman on Apple Notes and Markdown
  22. ★ Apple Announces New A20 Pro iPad Mini
  23. A Simple Two-Step Shortcuts Shortcut Lets You Lock the iPhone Duo When You Close It
  24. Tiny Computers for iPhone Duo
  25. Duo Users Are Registering the Base of Their Index Finger as a Touch ID Coping Strategy
  26. The Talk Show: ‘Lubricate the Inside of the Hinge’
  27. iPhone Portrait Mode, 10 Years In
  28. Nicole Nguyen’s Duo Review for the WSJ
  29. Reuters and the WSJ on the Duo Launch
  30. Marion Barry Meets the iPhone Duo
  31. MKBHD’s Duo Review
  32. Tim Pan’s iPhone Duo Review
  33. Apple Built a Photo-Realistic Functional Original iPod for Apple Music’s 404 Page
  34. Chan Karunamuni on the Duo’s Open/Close Translucent Transition
  35. The Verge’s Duo Review: ‘Apple’s Folding Phone Is a Messy, Expensive Good Time’
  36. Joanna Stern Reviews the Duo: ‘The Good, the Bad, and the Buggy’
  37. Apple Highlights 50+ iPhone Apps That Have Already Been Optimized for the Duo
  38. ★ The iPhone Duo
  39. Barack Obama on the Trump Administration’s Intimidation Campaign Against Congresswoman Ilhan Omar
  40. From the DF Archive: Should a CEO Be a Nerd About Their Company’s Products?
  41. Apple Event, in Los Angeles, Next Week: ‘Pro and Tell’
  42. ★ Estimated Arrival Dates for DF Readers’ Pre-Ordered iPhone Duos
  43. Netflix Shitcanned Film Chief Dan Lin Too
  44. Ex-Apple Employee Fred Potter on HomeView
  45. Netflix Lays Off 6 Percent of Staff
  46. Time Magazine Profiles John Ternus
  47. But Donald Trump turned the Republican Party into one that celebrates stupidity and ignorance
  48. Obama omar
  49. Ternus cook product nerds
  50. Apple event pro and tell
  51. Netflix dan line
  52. Potter homeview
  53. Netflix layoffs
  54. Time magazine profiles john ternus
  55. Tom the Dancing Bug’s Inner Hive, and Harvey Richards, the Greatest Lawyer in the History of Fiction
  56. WorkOS AuthKit
  57. Verizon Is Going to Charge $10/Month for iPhone Handoff
  58. Gurman on HomeView: ‘Finished Units Have Been Sitting Boxed Up in Warehouses for the Better Part of a Year’
  59. Claim Chowder: The Information on HomeView Having a ‘Robotic Swiveling Base’
  60. Apple Issues Statement on Duo Demand Far Outstripping Supply
  61. Manton Reece’s Spitball Theory on Why the Wall-Mounted HomeView Costs the Same as the Version With the Subwoofer Base
  62. Michigan Democratic Senate Candidate Abdul El-Sayed on His Allegiances
  63. Whatever You Say Bounces Off Me and Sticks to You
  64. Apple duo shortage statement
  65. the world renowned lawyer for children
  66. Workos authkit
  67. Verizon handoff
  68. Gurman homeview better part of a year
  69. Claim chowder the information on homeview
  70. Reece homeview
  71. El sayed tommy
  72. ★ HomeView Thoughts and Observations
  73. Apple TV Price History, Charted
  74. The Late Charlie Munger on Elon Musk and Tesla
  75. Apple: ‘Strengthening App Review Guidelines Against Nonconsensual Intimate Imagery and Bait-And-Switch Apps’
  76. Apple TV Started at $69 in 2015
  77. Whatever you say bounces off me and sticks to you
  78. when Mark Gurman is wrong
  79. Strange Times Make for Strange Bedfellows
  80. How They Got Duo Support in NetNewsWire
  81. ★ Real Artists Ship, Tesla Edition
  82. Shyam Sankar, CTO of Palantir, Says AI Researchers Have Started Smoking Because They’re Convinced AI (Claude, Probably) Is Going to Cure Cancer
  83. iPhone Duo Pre-Orders Launched, and Three Hours Later It’s Sold Out Through the End of January
  84. ★ Initial Thoughts on This Week’s New Apple TV 4K (4th Generation) and HomePod Mini 2
  85. Munger on musk
  86. App store guidelines nudification
  87. Apple tv 69
  88. Strange times make for strange bedfellows
  89. How they got duo support in netnewswire
  90. Sankar ai researchers smoking
  91. Duo preorders sellout
  92. Secret Documents Reveal Donors Behind $330 Million for Trump’s Ballroom — Apple and Nvidia Top the List at $25 Million Each
  93. that T-Mobile is charging $5/month
  94. Trump ballroom donor list
  95. The FBI Arrested a Saudi National OpenAI Employee for Planting a Recording Device in the Company’s Executive Conference Room
  96. Fbi saudi arrested openai
  97. Apple HomeView
  98. Apple tv price history charted
  99. Homeview
  100. Mark Stephens, a.k.a. Robert X. Cringely, Died at 73
  101. Cringely rip
  102. ★ X Once Again Marks the Spot
  103. Apple Only Started Suggesting iOS 26 Users Upgrade to 27 Three Days Ago
  104. a decades-long fan of Lunatic Fringe
  105. Apple only started suggesting ios 26 users upgrade to 27 three days ago
  106. Sunnny
  107. ‘Proof-of-Human’
  108. no longer touch the bottom
  109. Sunnny
  110. Proof of human
  111. Let’s Check In on Trump’s Blog
  112. Apple Is Slow-Rolling iOS 27 Adoption, So Far
  113. Joz Announces ‘Welcome Home’ Keynote Coming Tuesday, 13 October
  114. awarded to Humane’s AI Pin in 2023
  115. Apple is slow rolling ios 27 adoption so far
  116. Lets check in on trumps blog
  117. Joz welcome home
  118. Jaguar Type 01
  119. Gurman Strikes Again: ‘Apple’s Smart Home Push Includes Doorbell, Lock, Thermostat Codeveloped With LG’
  120. Netflix Has Peaked
  121. Jaguar type 01
  122. Gurman apple lg smart home
  123. Unofficial Command-Line Tool Removes Apple Intelligence From MacOS 27
  124. Steve Jobs, Walking Through a Mockup for Apple Park in 2010
  125. Cli tool removes apple intelligence from macos 27
  126. OpenAI Announces Their Text Watermarking Plans
  127. Ternus and Cook Tweet Brief Remembrances on the 15th Anniversary of Steve Jobs’s Death
  128. Ternus cook jobs 15th anniversary
  129. Jobs walking through mockup
  130. Openai announces their text watermarking plans
  131. ★ Apple Is Going to Further Tighten the Screws on Full Disk Access on MacOS, in Response to Agentic AI Apps Running Amok

September 2026

  1. Spitballing Predictions for Apple’s October
  2. I’ll Wait
  3. The Talk Show
  4. AppZapper 3000
  5. The iPhone 4 ‘Antennagate’ Press Conference Q&A — Finally
  6. The iPhones 18 Pro
  7. Thoughts and Observations on Apple’s ‘Surprise and Shine’ Event; the Announcements of the iPhones 18 Pro, AirPods 5, Apple Watches Series 12 and Ultra 4, and the iPhone Duo; and the Dawn of the Ternus, John Ternus Era at Apple
  8. SuperDuper 4
  9. The iPhone Air and iPhone 17 Pro
  10. And It’s True That I Stole Your Lighter, and It’s Also True That I Lost the Map
  11. almost no one has bought those things
  12. Writing With Unnatural Constraints

August 2026

  1. Thoughts and Observations on Apple’s First Immersive MLB Broadcast, a Yankees 1-0 Win Over the Red Sox
  2. Memory and Storage Configurations and Pricing for the New Mac Minis (M6/M5 Pro) and Mac Studios (M5 Max/M5 Ultra)
  3. What Is the Point of the DMA?
  4. When New DF Posts Drop in a Forest and No One Is There to Read Them
  5. without arguments
  6. Apple and European Commission Reach Agreement on App Payment Terms Under DMA, With Apple Conceding Very Little
  7. Apple Screwed Up the TestFlight App’s Sort Order a Month Ago, and It’s Still Screwed Up, but the More I Think About It, the More Clear It Is They Started Screwing This Up 15 Years Ago

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