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My painter guy just called it “chat”, not ChatGPT. Is this a thing? Imagine how many companies would kill to have people talk about their product that way.

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George Black @george.black · 29/09/2026

what does jony ive think about dots

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George Black @george.black · 28/09/2026

Run your PDS on Cirrus, and your blog on EmDash. Great work @mk.gg, congrats on the launch!

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George Black @george.black · 26/09/2026

Google’s not even in the conversation when people talk about what models they’re using for coding. They have all the resources, how did they fumble this hard?

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Jake Gold @jacob.gold · 23/09/2026

@toni.bsky.team probably time to declare a "code red" and get Bluesky Communities launched ASAP. I'm as blue-pilled and optimistic as it gets, and I deeply respect *everyone* I worked with on the team, but even I'm getting worried about how many chances remain. Feels too slow to win at this pace 🙁

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Matt Kane @mk.gg · 24/09/2026

I'm going to be launching something pretty big next week, which just happens to include a new atproto AppView, labeler, blob proxy, lexicons. It will have tens of thousands of users, most of whom won't even know they're using atproto, or have even heard of it.

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George Black @george.black · 23/09/2026

This is gonna absolutely cook the Contacts app

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George Black @george.black · 22/09/2026

Super cool. And I don’t think we’ve seen Apple Sillicon optimized for AI yet.

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George Black @george.black · 22/09/2026

Am I crazy or is there a big opportunity to use Jev for custom Bluesky feeds?

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George Black @george.black · 20/09/2026

Love reading about these details. This account is a good follow for anyone else into Apple / software design!

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George Black @george.black · 14/09/2026

Someone just left a Mac Pro on the curb for garbage collection… are you kidding me?? Time to rescue this fella!

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George Black @george.black · 12/09/2026

@gruber.foo perhaps wishful thinking, but I imagine the design of the Air will make its way into the standard lineup after the Air 2 has run its course. The Air and Duo feel like siblings in a new design which will work its way down. daringfireball.net/linked/2026/...

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Philip Schiller @pschiller.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Remembering 9/11 On this solemn morning 25 years ago a team of us had arrived on a redeye flight in NYC for a Mac press tour. After the horrific attack we stood on the streets and cheered the first responders, paid our respects at the site (as close as allowed), and spent a week together in shock 😢

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George Black @george.black · 11/09/2026

I need to know, did @joannastern.bsky.social really sit through the entire iPhone presentation with a raw hot dog in fanny pack?

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Brian Stucki @brianstucki.com · 10/09/2026

I’m thinking a companion iPizza, complete with the box opening experience.

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George Black @george.black · 10/09/2026

First ride. The Cybercab feels like it was stolen from a future, more advanced civilization. My legs got pretty twitchy sitting in the driver’s seat with no pedals to react to traffic! Didn’t expect that!

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George Black @george.black · 10/09/2026

With the original iPhone came the innovation of iBeer. The iPhone Duo is going to have its iBeer moment, we just don’t know what it is yet.

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George Black @george.black · 06/09/2026

The future should look like the future

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George Black @george.black · 03/09/2026

Corrected headline: "Waymo Saves Toddler's Life" I really hope Tesla's rolls out their robotaxis slowly and cautiously like Waymo. They will inevitably face these situations. One bad mistake could sink the entire AV industry. They are such a net good for society, we can’t jeopardize that.

sfist.com

Father Says Waymo Car Nearly Hit Toddler Who Fell In Noe Valley Crosswalk

A father in Noe Valley says a Waymo robotaxi stopped within 13 feet of his two-year-old daughter when she fell in the crosswalk, nearly running her over, but Waymo claims the car wouldn’t have hit her...

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George Black @george.black · 01/09/2026

Tim Cook listening in on Ternus’ first team meeting this morning

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George Black @george.black · 01/09/2026

CEO Tim: Friendly, respects your privacy, would love to scale your company. Board Tim: Political operator, works in the shadows, will steal your girl.

Screenshot of Tim Cook on Apple’s leadership page as CEO

Screenshot of Tim Cook on Apple’s leadership page as board member

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Grace @gracekind.net · 01/09/2026

X is still better than Bluesky at combating misinformation

Chamath Palihapitiya Replying to @kevinroose

they misconfigured a sandbox. The fact you can't understand that speaks more to your technical illiteracy than anything else.

* Readers added context

Unlike other incidents, the models in question did not escape their sandbox via misconfiguration but rather through cyber exploits, chaining multiple zero- day exploits to gain internet access. openai.com/index/hugging-...

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George Black @george.black · 30/08/2026

Every time my main feed breaks, I’m reminded that it’s running on @spacecowboy17.bsky.social’s living room PC, and I’m impressed

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George Black @george.black · 29/08/2026

Toddler, meet lasers and EDM

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George Black @george.black · 28/08/2026

Spotted a Cybercab on I-35 in Austin, one of the most miserable roads I’ve ever driven. This one had a steering wheel and an operator.

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George Black @george.black · 28/08/2026

Love that Waymo is taking the gloves off in this blog post! waymo.com/blog/2026/08...

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George Black @george.black · 26/08/2026

Dolly Parton lived just long enough to see the M6 Mac Mini 🥲

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George Black @george.black · 25/08/2026

i don't need a mac mini for agents i don't need a mac mini for agents i don't need a mac mini for agents i think i need a mac mini for agents

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George Black @george.black · 24/08/2026

I feel like we need a new "code gardener" role on the team. Someone whose full time job is to: - Understand the system - Understand the code - Understand ongoing projects - Review PRs quickly - Prevent rot from creeping in - Enforce opinions Then let the builders run wild with AI.

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Basic Apple Guy @basicappleguy.com · 24/08/2026

On this day 15 years ago, Tim Cook became CEO of Apple.

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Matt Kane @mk.gg · 22/08/2026

Meet ☁️ Cumulus: an atproto blob proxy on Cloudflare Workers Cache. Supports Bluesky-compatible image resizing, mimetype filtering, CID verification. Run a lexicon-scoped instance just for your app. Subscribes to labelers to purge account and record !takedowns.

github.com

GitHub - ascorbic/cumulus: ATProto blob proxy on Cloudflare Workers Cache

ATProto blob proxy on Cloudflare Workers Cache. Contribute to ascorbic/cumulus development by creating an account on GitHub.

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George Black @george.black · 14/08/2026

The Access team at Cloudflare kicks ass. My coworkers worked really hard on this one!

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George Black @george.black · 11/08/2026

@gruber.foo I’m no expert, but I imagine Claude’s watermark will be similar to SynthID, which Google is already using with Gemini? I don’t think invisible characters are involved. See Google’s example: deepmind.google/models/synth...

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George Black @george.black · 01/08/2026

You ever just see a barge full o’ johns?

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George Black @george.black · 01/08/2026

I know this is a niche thing, but I think I found the depot for Avride (robotaxi startup) here in Austin. Drove past it yesterday. maps.apple/p/Y_ZFIN-rxs...

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George Black @george.black · 31/07/2026

Okay my turn If Apple doesn’t fix the sidebar open/close animation on the Mac, I’m gonna put everyone in a rear naked choke hold

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Matthew Skiles @matthewskiles.com · 02/06/2026

CorridorKey by LateNite App Icon: corridorkeybylatenite.fcp.cafe

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George Black @george.black · 29/07/2026

First ride in Tesla’s Robotaxi *without* an operator in the passenger seat! Not gonna lie, I was skeptical they’d make it this far on vision alone.

Model Y with no driver in the front seat

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George Black @george.black · 29/07/2026

I’m late to the party, but it’s time for me to enter squircle discourse! (Please note that my opinions are not to be taken seriously 😂)

george.black

Go to Squircle Jail! | George Black

George is a software engineer working in Austin, with a small home on the internet.

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dax @thdxr.com · 24/07/2026

cloudflare access has been very useful for this era of small vibecoded tools we often have something that needs to be public facing but then we configure /admin/* to need google login it's part of our IaC setup so the agent can both create this ui and protect it

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George Black @george.black · 24/07/2026

The Odyssey was fantastic, but I had a hard time emotionally attaching myself to specific moments because of the pacing. Some scenes felt more like montages, and could’ve used a little more breathing room.

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