Read issue #1 of Daily Digest, by Mailbrew Team.
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Friday July, 2025
Almost Fired for Color Picker Poetry
Michael TsaiJul 10
John Calhoun: It was frankly a thing I liked about working for Apple in those days. The engineers were the one’s driving the ship. As I said, I wrote an HSV picker because it was, I thought, a more intuitive color space for artists. I wrote the HTML color picker …
Mac Automation With a Tiny Game Controller
Michael TsaiJul 10
John Voorhees: I never expected my game controller obsession to pay automation dividends, but it did last week in the form of the tiny 16-button 8BitDo Micro. For the past week, I’ve used the Micro to dictate on my Mac, interact with AI chatbots, and record and edit podcasts. While …
Nvidia’s Market Cap
Michael TsaiJul 10
Samantha Subin and Kif Leswing (via Hacker News): Nvidia stock rose on Wednesday lifting the company’s market cap briefly past $4 trillion for the first time as investors scooped up shares of the tech giant that’s building the bulk of the hardware for the generative artificial intelligence boom.[…]Nvidia is the …
How to Use Google Gemini in Xcode 26 Beta
Michael TsaiJul 10
Carlo Zottmann: Google offers an OpenAI-compatible API for Gemini, and while working, it is not what Xcode expects in terms of URL layout. In Xcode’s LLM provider config, the custom “URL” parameter is the API’s base URL up to but not including the v1/ path segment, e.g. https://api.openai.com/ instead of …
Archaeology 1.3
Michael TsaiJul 9
Mothers Ruin Software: macOS uses many different binary file formats.Some — like binary property lists — have broad tool support and are relatively easy to inspect…Some — like X.509 certificates, configuration and provisioning profiles or App Store receipts — use standard formats, but lack macOS-native inspection tools, or only have …
Jeff Williams Retiring as Apple’s COO
Michael TsaiJul 9
Apple (MacRumors, 2, Hacker News): Jeff Williams will transition his role as chief operating officer later this month to Sabih Khan, Apple’s senior vice president of Operations, as part of a long-planned succession. Williams will continue reporting to Apple CEO Tim Cook and overseeing Apple’s world-class design team and Apple …
Downloading Xcode With a Passkey
Michael TsaiJul 9
When I went to download the new Xcode beta, I again ran into an annoying Safari behavior, which seems to be specific to Apple’s sites. It pops up an Apple Account sheet offering to sign me in. But it can only sign in with my personal Apple ID, not my …
Xcode 26 Beta 3
Michael TsaiJul 9
Apple: Removed support for creating new Style Transfer projects. This is the only change that’s noted as being in beta 3. Why can’t Apple write release notes that tell us what’s actually new in this build? Ryan Ashcraft: The Beta 3 SDK adds support for Glass.clear, which looks like the …
Vienna RSS at 20
Michael TsaiJul 8
Barijaona Ramaholimihaso: After some minor fiddling, I got the initial version of Vienna running on VirtualBox on my retro hack.[…]Founding father of Vienna, Steve contributed mostly from 2004 to 2008, made a short comeback in 2010, and is definitely at the root of Vienna’s ethics: making a clean, spartan, and …
Hearing Aids vs. AirPods Pro
Michael TsaiJul 8
Steve Hayman: Apple has spent a ton of money getting AirPods Pro approved by the FDA and other regulators to work as over-the-counter hearing aids, including providing a hearing test app on the iPhone that tweaks the audio profile on the headphones. This feature is available in a whole lot …
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