Part 1 of 2. This part covers the Videx VideoTerm’s hardware architecture, the MC6845 CRTC, and why slot 3 is architecturally special. Part 2 covers the rendering pipeline, C8 ownership, and the Pascal boot hang. In 1977, the Apple II … Read more
Apple has raised prices across the board for many of its products today. MacBook Neo now starts at $699 (up from $599), while MacBook Air now starts at $1299 (up from $1099). Other impacted products include MacBook Pro, iPad, iPad … Read more
Apple’s plan to change a privacy feature that lets paying customers hide their real email addresses when creating online accounts could make it easier for apps and websites to block anonymous sign-ups. Apple’s Hide My Email is an iCloud+ feature … Read more
Yesterday, June 15, 2026, a small and unimportant announcement appeared in Apple developer news: New domain for Sign in with Apple and iCloud+ Hide My Email. Long story short: now both Sign in with Apple and Hide My Email aliases … Read more
CLI, SDKs, and libraries/Libraries and integrations Use Claude on Apple platforms through the Foundation Models framework with the Claude for Foundation Models Swift package. Claude for Foundation Models is a Swift package that makes Claude available as a server-side language … Read more
The sample app at this year’s Platform State of the Union was a place to relax. An origami app. A place, as Maribeth from the Foundation Models team put it, “to unwind and get creative with paper.” The demo involved … Read more
Apple today announced a major overhaul of its Apple Intelligence platform, revealing a new architecture built on foundation models developed in collaboration with Google using the technologies behind the Gemini family. The new architecture centers on Apple Foundation Models co-developed … Read more
Configuration Since v1.1 you can configure Music Decoy to launch another app when the ▷ Play button is pressed. To do that, run the following command in the Terminal (example for Spotify): defaults write com.lowtechguys.MusicDecoy mediaAppPath /Applications/Spotify.app To reset the … Read more
I built WhisperPad because I needed it. In the fall of 2024 the joints in my fingers started to hurt when I typed. Maybe the bill came due for spending most of my life on a keyboard: a childhood of … Read more
I wrote recently about what Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, and Apple are doing to your email: how four providers stopped being transport layers and turned into active intermediaries between brands and their customers, parsing, ranking, summarising, and increasingly answering on the … Read more