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John Spurlock @johnspurlock.com · 15h

I prefer "asdf" myself

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John Spurlock @johnspurlock.com · 15h

curious "ssss" episode in the libsyn "The Feed" podcast feed

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John Spurlock @johnspurlock.com · 26/09/2026

‘legitimately interesting’

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/09/2026

Does my Speak-n-Spell feel pain when I type O-U-C-H? The jury is out. Philosophers and neuroscientists say that's fucking stupid, but I called a guy from the Center for Pretending that Household Electronics Are Sentient and he said there's no way to know for sure.

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John Spurlock @johnspurlock.com · 26/09/2026

your good buddies over at google hq bsky.app/profile/john...

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John Spurlock @johnspurlock.com · 24/09/2026

‘That is a staggering 3.6% of gross domestic product a year, on average. Never before has the U.S. economy been so dependent on the build-out of a single industry.’ The AI Build-Out Is Becoming the Biggest Economic Bet in U.S. History (gift) www.wsj.com/economy/the-...

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John Spurlock @johnspurlock.com · 24/09/2026

‘I did a little digging. Muse does sync your messages from the local Messages database and uploads that information as a data source. On my device, it had been activated and synced to row 187,462 of my Messages database.’ www.inc.com/jason-aten/m...

inc.com

Meta’s New Muse AI Agent Read My Private Messages. I Never Asked It To

Permission isn't the same and what a user actually expects your AI product will do with their personal information.

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John Spurlock @johnspurlock.com · 23/09/2026

‘So far, it has captured more than 10 million TikToks, a quarter-million podcast episodes and thousands of Instagram videos and cable segments.’ MAGA Podcasters Are Tuning Out Trump. We Tracked What They Are Talking About Now. (gift) www.wsj.com/politics/ele...

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John Spurlock @johnspurlock.com · 23/09/2026

‘the circuses are bad, and the bread is expensive’

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Justin Jackson @justinjackson.ca · 22/09/2026

Wow. @jackrhysider.bsky.social (Darknet Diaries) just released a new podcast. Looks very good: thisislow.com 👆 Interesting: he links to @johnspurlock.com's OP3 open stats on the homepage.

thisislow.com

LOW — A Podcast

LOW is a podcast about the weight of being and the wreckage of waking up

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John Spurlock @johnspurlock.com · 22/09/2026

‘producing something that looks like the output of doing something is not the same thing as doing it’

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Sascha Diercks 🇪🇺 @saschadiercks.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

TIL @pocketcasts.com has an AppleTV app now. Nice 🙂

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John Spurlock @johnspurlock.com · 16/09/2026

also the artwork color bleed now extends down into the episode listing

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John Spurlock @johnspurlock.com · 16/09/2026

"Continue Playing" is now right under the renamed "New Episodes" kind of like every tv app

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John Spurlock @johnspurlock.com · 16/09/2026

changes to the Apple Podcasts app in 27.2 beta 1:

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John Spurlock @johnspurlock.com · 16/09/2026

- UIKit: lots of duo stuff, too many to list

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John Spurlock @johnspurlock.com · 16/09/2026

- SwiftUI: many more duo APIs, like this fun one: onHingeChange developer.apple.com/documentatio...

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John Spurlock @johnspurlock.com · 16/09/2026

- SwiftUI: new CameraCaptureAccessory: "A scene accessory that presents content during camera capture." whoa developer.apple.com/documentatio...

developer.apple.com

CameraCaptureAccessory | Apple Developer Documentation

A scene accessory that presents content during camera capture.

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John Spurlock @johnspurlock.com · 16/09/2026

- SwiftUI: new toolbar item axisBehavior modifier duo api alert developer.apple.com/documentatio...

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John Spurlock @johnspurlock.com · 16/09/2026

- StoreKit: new ExternalPurchaseCustomLink.ExternalPurchaseType enum in or out of app developer.apple.com/documentatio...

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John Spurlock @johnspurlock.com · 16/09/2026

- NetworkExtension: deprecated pirServerURL in favor of info plist Private Information Retrieval server sounds peachy developer.apple.com/documentatio...

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John Spurlock @johnspurlock.com · 16/09/2026

- LiveCommunicationKit: new LiveAssistanceExtension thing developer.apple.com/documentatio...

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John Spurlock @johnspurlock.com · 16/09/2026

- HomeKit: HMError.Code.nfcReaderTooHot

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John Spurlock @johnspurlock.com · 16/09/2026

- new FoundationModelsCore.framework wonder what's sharing that

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John Spurlock @johnspurlock.com · 16/09/2026

- Foundation: wonder if the new siri caught these 😈

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John Spurlock @johnspurlock.com · 16/09/2026

- CryptoKit: fancy swift _read vs get property access anyone know what this does?

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John Spurlock @johnspurlock.com · 16/09/2026

- CallKit: "call notes - Whether notes are currently being gathered for this call." is this a new user-facing feature in the beta?

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John Spurlock @johnspurlock.com · 16/09/2026

- AVKit: new AVCaptureDeviceDirectionCoordinator abstraction: "A monitor that describes the direction a capture device faces in relation to a view." developer.apple.com/documentatio...

developer.apple.com

AVCaptureDeviceDirectionCoordinator | Apple Developer Documentation

An object that tracks the direction each camera faces in relation to a view.

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John Spurlock @johnspurlock.com · 16/09/2026

- AVFoundation: AVRouteDetector.detectsCustomRoutes deprecation developer.apple.com/documentatio...

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John Spurlock @johnspurlock.com · 16/09/2026

- AVFoundation: ah, we're gonna get the 27.1 duo goodies in here as well e.g. new inner vs outer uw camera devices developer.apple.com/documentatio... developer.apple.com/documentatio...

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John Spurlock @johnspurlock.com · 16/09/2026

- AutomaticAssessmentConfiguration: enhanced docs not sure why this couldn't have been in 27.0 - looks like they handed it in late

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John Spurlock @johnspurlock.com · 16/09/2026

- AppTrackingTransparency: cool new markdown-enabled usage description string for you ATT-ers in the EU developer.apple.com/documentatio...

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John Spurlock @johnspurlock.com · 16/09/2026

- AppManagedFeatures (secret framework that disables features when you don't pay your bill) now available on visionOS

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John Spurlock @johnspurlock.com · 16/09/2026

let's see what's changed between 27.0 rc and 27.2 beta 1: #wwdc - AppIntents: lots of churn (this framework must be auto-generated) but this is a 27.2-only item: CaseDisplayRepresentable.caseDisplayRepresentations Beta developer.apple.com/documentatio...

developer.apple.com

caseDisplayRepresentations | Apple Developer Documentation

A dictionary that maps each value to the visual elements that represent it.

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John Spurlock @johnspurlock.com · 13/09/2026

clod, on the aws console agi achieved

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John Spurlock @johnspurlock.com · 12/09/2026

‘The future may not be a few huge apps running on a few huge platforms, generating tons of revenue; it could instead be tons of little ones, purpose-built for the church, mutual aid group, company department or softball league.’ www.nytimes.com/2026/09/12/o...

nytimes.com

Opinion | A.I. Was Supposed to Give Us New Killer Apps. What Happened? (Gift Article)

Just because A.I. is revolutionizing coding, doesn’t mean it will automatically revolutionize our apps.

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