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Feature requests: * YAML support So many of my markdown files have YAML front matter, it would be nice for Scriptum to render it properly. * Definition lists MultiMarkdown[1] and K…

> That would be a very Apple thing to do. That's something Steve Jobs would have done.

He left in 2019 and formed his own company, that did design work for Apple until 2022. He "took" several Apple employees with him when he left and there's been a steady stream of A…

Definitely not slow.

> I mean, the point stands. The models are beyond expert level in many areas at this point. It's not that the models aren't smart or whatever; we know they're extremely capable. Th…

> Is this the reason OpenAI decided to steal Apple hardware secrets? Of course not.

Pretty sure this isn’t the secret Jonny Ive project.

> Every country and group has practiced slavery. The colonies and, later, the United States didn’t just practice slavery; they industrialized it by transporting by force 12.5 milli…

> I suspect they're subsidizing a lot less than people think. Agreed.

> Looks like all the reporting about Anthropic trying their earnest to turn a profit this quarter is true. That's not how any of this works. Anthropic is playing the long game; the…

We know an exception doesn’t necessarily prove the rule. macOS has always had superior text rendering support since the NeXT days. SwiftUI is immature but getting better. There hav…

> If the purported benefits of agentic-coding systems are real, it should have been trivial for Anthropic to implement a native macOS application, and sell it as a benefit, no? Abs…

> I don’t understand how Gruber can think the ChatGPT app is that good. It’s also…fine, It's not that ChatGPT is so good; it follows macOS design principles and functionality that …

> I tried using RDFa and liked the property that it was theoretically less redundant, but switched to JSON-LD because it JSON-LD is just easier to get working. For me, it depends o…

They don't conflict; they were designed to work together. You can have schema.org (in JSON-LD, RDFa, or micro data) on the same page as Dublin Core, etc. For example, there's no ex…

Check out “Bring an LLM provider to the Foundation Models framework” - https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2026/339

> Homebrew is the first thing I install on a new Mac. Absolutely!

Just a FYI: Bundler now supports cooldown [1]. [1]: "Cool down before you install: give new gems a few days to be vetted" - https://blog.rubygems.org/2026/06/03/cooldown-let-new-ge…

> Nothing new about it. Besides starting at $599 (the Air has mostly been a $999 product; occasionally selling at $799 at Costco), coming in 4 bright colors with matching keyboards…

The MacBook Neo is a new idea. It’s also a device most Apple skeptics didn’t think was possible.