Ben Brooks

Haha. Oh no.

For sure. And while I’m not a Musk fan, the progress they’ve made on grok is seriously staggering.

Reasonable explanation but doesn’t do anything to build any level of trust in grok such that I’d want to use it over the other models. Top of the benchmarks or not. Which is likely going to be a big problem when they need to sort out making money.

Will be telling about so much when the next board next hires Yaccarino.

After media reports & experts warned for months that drastic & sudden cuts at the Nat Weather Service by Trump could impair their forecasting ability & endanger lives during the storm season, TX officials blame an inaccurate forecast by NWS for the deadly results of the flood.

Live updates: Search and rescue underway after 24 killed and at least 20 girls missing in Texas flooding The flooding in Kerr County, Texas, killed at least two dozen, while Camp Mystic on the banks of the Guadalupe River had several girls unaccounted for.

Flooding in Central Texas has killed at least 24 people and at least 20 girls attending a summer camp are missing, officials said.

I am sorry to tell you folks…

I got angry enough to write about why you should never let the sales team run the app strategy.

I used to be fluent in Japanese and was using it to brush up and thought it was not good.

I heard this went out of stock and I think the brand might be on a well deserved vacation. But, I stand by the fact that you can’t spend any amount of money to get something better than this for the office. And some would say I’ve *tested* way too many backpacks.

Why CEOs are using AI to scare workers CEOs warn the new technology could make many workers obsolete, while urging them to start using it right away.

Chief executives are giving employees an AI fright — warning them the new technology could make many workers obsolete.

Apple Proved Nothing at WWDC, And That’s Interesting af Apple is looking like the Blackberry of AI.

Apple Proved Nothing at WWDC, And That’s Interesting af

Apple is looking like the Blackberry of AI.

Installed macOS 26 and iOS 26. Current rating is YIKES out of five stars for the design. Hoping this changes quite a bit before September, because otherwise this is not going to be fun times.

And, yes, I know. Feedback. Beta. Etc. But I fear at this stage, it’ll be tweaks, not an overhaul.

I too am running the new shiny on my iPad, and I feel like I am losing my damned mind each time I read that there’s someone who thinks this looks good. This looks terrible.

iPad multi-tasking upgrades are nice though.

On a 750k I paid 20k/yr in property taxes and 5600/yr in insurance. And more carriers (like in CA) or leaving. You can’t compare home prices alone is all I’m saying.

Certainly. But the housing cost metric you used leaves out a lot of things. As someone who lived in Texas for five years I can tell you the property tax rates is absurd and the insurance rates also absurd. It’s not all just housing prices. And Texas has aggressive stances against unhoused.

Comes at a high cost

UPDATE: Police arrested Mohamed Sabry Soliman, 45, at the scene. He shouted “free Palestine!” as he used a “makeshift flamethrower” and hurled an incendiary device at the demonstrators, said Mark D. Michalek, special agent in charge of the FBI in Denver.

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There was a point in time when it would be silly not to have the Shop mobile app. Grey little utility and all that.

Fast forward to today and you can’t even check on orders without a splash screen taking over to tell you about shop week.

App deleted.

I hate LinkedIn and its ugly design and its endless privacy violations and its grifter energy so much.

I love this jacket, and it happens to be on sale today.

Morning web designers and developers. Reminder that date pickers are terrible choices when asking for a birthdate. That’s all.

Gear Report — 5/14/25 Sometime’s it’s better to trust others on what to buy.

Gear Report — 5/14/25

Sometime’s it’s better to trust others on what to buy.

The $400 million jet from Qatar would be worth 100 times more than every other presidential gift from a foreign nation combined since 2001

If you say that an LLM is not a search engine, all that shows is that you have not used one recently. Seriously

tl:dr: Cook should resign.

MacDailyNews’ Sexist Response to Yesterday’s Epic Games Ruling Following yesterday’s ruling finding Apple has disregarded a U.S. court’s instructions to permit links to external purchases from within iOS apps under reasonable terms, the publisher of MacDailyNews responded with the site’s take. In case you are not already familiar, MacDailyNews has a consistently right-libertarian editorial slant. It is not one I agree with, but […]

MacDailyNews’ Sexist Response to Yesterday’s Epic Games Ruling https://pxlnv.com/blog/macdailynews-sexist-gonzalez-rogers/

tl;dr: fantastically nice and unmatched, stupidly overpriced. Probably buy a MacBook Air instead.

I know the Android app ecosystem is a mess but there are very talented iOS developers out there who should be thinking really hard about what this says about what Apple thinks of them