John Gruber @gruber.foo · 27/09/2026I've never seen Trump using his phone to snap a photo before. 3531
John Gruber @gruber.foo · 16/09/2026I've now seen more ads for the iPhone Duo (1), five weeks ahead of launch, than I have for the iPhone Air (0), an entire year after launch. 8871
John Gruber @gruber.foo · 06/09/2026Have you considered that this is just a name-calling rant that doesn’t bring any actual receipts? And in fact omits the ones he alludes to? Actual link to the referenced Verge story, and actual quoted text: www.theverge.com/tech/988536/1passw… 220
John Gruber @gruber.foo · 03/09/2026Snapshot in time. Federighi and Schiller (scrolling down) seem due for new photos. 0330
John Gruber @gruber.foo · 28/08/2026Via Craig Calcaterra's great Cup of Coffee newsletter, where he quips: "Dolly's rider specified that only mustachioed Yankees could appear on her show, but Mattingly was late that day so they had to settle for Righetti. At least that's my head canon of the whole deal." 1241
John Gruber @gruber.foo · 19/08/2026If you look at the examples in Google’s Nature paper, their examples boosts the 4th choice, “durian”, to the same likelihood as the 2nd the 3rd choices, “lychee” and “papaya”, even though the rankings from the LLM probability distribution (PLM) were: mango 0.50 lychee 0.30 papaya .015 durian 0.05 020
John Gruber @gruber.foo · 05/08/2026Apple News ads have been going down the toilet for years, but it didn't used to be literal. 131006
John Gruber @gruber.foo · 08/07/2026I don’t think it’s a great mandate on iOS either, but iOS never offered anything but. 110
John Gruber @gruber.foo · 06/06/2026Here’s a quick chart I had ChatGPT make. Looks right to me. I think the inflection point of acceptance at retailers was more like 7-8 years ago. But in the last few years what I’ve seen anecdotally is more people using it, not more retailers accepting it. 240
John Gruber @gruber.foo · 14/05/2026I tweaked my CSS long ago. Not a lot, but in a few ways that made it less distracting to me. I think Kagi’s default layout now looks closer to my tweaked version than it did when I made it. My custom CSS first, then default CSS: 120
John Gruber @gruber.foo · 08/05/2026In the decades to come, when the Trump era is behind us, it'll be hard to explain to young people that headlines like these made sense in the moment. 6804
John Gruber @gruber.foo · 16/04/2026"Joel Embiid attending the game" is a low-key sick burn from The Inquirer. 1210
John Gruber @gruber.foo · 16/01/2026I suspect the folks at FarmArt didn't think about how their logo would look with the van doors open. 129714
John Gruber @gruber.foo · 22/12/2025Anyone else think Apple's icons for Journal and Shortcuts are way too similar? Shortcuts's icon makes more sense to me: it's a nice stylized "S". I don't even get what the Journal icon represents. Sheets of paper? 15533
John Gruber @gruber.foo · 09/12/2025The New York Times is consistently running photos of Trump where he looks half-asleep, half-confused. 9372
John Gruber @gruber.foo · 06/11/2025Just one day after Election Day and I'm already getting next-cycle spam from Democrats again. My name is not "Michael", for what it's worth, and I've had the same phone number for like 30 years. Infuriating. 10532
John Gruber @gruber.foo · 30/10/2025Search the web for “bifold wallets”. The terms “x-fold” don’t count creases. 140
John Gruber @gruber.foo · 12/08/2025"I've got an exclusive for you. We're offering Google $34.5 billion to buy Chrome." "You're not talking to anyone else?" "Nope, exclusive for the Journal. I definitely do not have a colleague sitting next to me on the phone with Bloomberg as we speak." 6914
John Gruber @gruber.foo · 01/07/2025I love Drexel and I hope this guy is a great president and he's there for a few decades of growth and success. But damn if he isn't a dead ringer for Merkin Muffley. 1331
John Gruber @gruber.foo · 26/06/2025Nobody included those marks. Here are IMDb and TMDB’s pages for that movie: 110
John Gruber @gruber.foo · 04/06/2025I pay $300/year to subscribe to The Information and every time I visit — I swear, seemingly every time — they block the page with a popover trying to get me to upgrade to a $500/year subscription. Why would anyone pay *more* to a publication that treats already-paying subscribers like this? 2627719
John Gruber @gruber.foo · 17/05/2025I think this is one of those urban myths and when people sleep through an alarm they search for it and find hits only to other people talking about the urban myth. My guess is that it’s from iOS’s confusing audio volume settings, which even I don’t fully understand. 350
John Gruber @gruber.foo · 27/03/2025Well here’s a shocking coincidence. One, and only one, of my recent articles has been “flagged” at Hacker News. 5591
John Gruber @gruber.foo · 07/03/2025Years ago my wife got me a t-shirt with this delightful sequence from "Curious George Takes a Job". I wore that t-shirt out. 992216136
John Gruber @gruber.foo · 14/02/2025Same dictionary, and a from a better dictionary (Merriam Webster): 000
John Gruber @gruber.foo · 12/02/2025"Oprah? Uma. Uma? Oprah. I feel much better. Have you kids met Keanu?" 182827
John Gruber @gruber.foo · 11/02/2025Had to look it up. This is, indeed, a very good baseball scorebug: 130
John Gruber @gruber.foo · 10/02/2025New Fox chyron is excellent. Team names: huge. Score: huge. Logos: none. Colors say enough. Needless chrome: none. Timeouts remaining: prominent but not distracting. Down and yards to go indicator: conveys which team has the ball. Typography: classic, legible, bold, timeless. Outstanding design. 4233979170
John Gruber @gruber.foo · 05/02/2025No question about it, I have a tab-hoarding problem, but it really is a testament to Apple Silicon, MacOS, and Safari that I'm running like this — with 706 open tabs across 50 windows — and nothing is noticeably slow. 158154352
John Gruber @gruber.foo · 02/02/2025I, for one, am starting to think maybe this Luka → Lakers trade wasn’t so good for the Mavs. 5266226
John Gruber @gruber.foo · 30/01/2025Turns out you can force Siri to go through ChatGPT by treating it like a command line. The ungrammatical query “ChatGPT When does Apple next report quarterly results?" gives an accurate answer. I'd grade the answer A-, losing points for not saying "today” (which ChatGPT.app did). 2221
John Gruber @gruber.foo · 30/01/2025"When does Apple next report quarterly results?" ChatGPT vs. Siri with ChatGPT on MacOS 15.3. 251556
John Gruber @gruber.foo · 24/01/2025Every time I visit the Washington Post they ask me to re-subscribe. I don't think I've ever seen a subscription offer where the annual rate is *more* expensive than the monthly one. How dumb are they? (Also: fuck 'em, I wouldn't resubscribe for $1/year until Bezos sells.) 1211990108
