Daring Fireball
John Gruber — Writer, creator of Markdown
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daringfireball.netThe gold standard for opinionated tech commentary. John Gruber has been writing about Apple, design, and the tech industry since 2002, with a voice that's instantly recognizable — wry, exacting, and unafraid to call out bad decisions even from companies he admires. Daring Fireball reads like the tech column the major outlets wish they had: no filler, no SEO padding, just sharp thinking about how software should work.
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Tim Cook: ‘50 Years of Thinking Different’
Tim Cook: At Apple, we’re more focused on building tomorrow than remembering yesterday. But we couldn’t let this milestone pass without thanking the millions of people who make Apple what it is today — our incredible teams around the world, our developer community, and every customer who has joined us on this journey. Your ideas inspire our work. Your trust drives us to do better. Your stories remind us of all we can accomplish when we think different. If you’ve taught us anything, it’s tha...
NYT: ‘Meta Delays Rollout of New AI Model After Performance Concerns’
Eli Tan, reporting for The New York Times: Meta’s new foundational A.I. model, which the company has been working on for months, has fallen short of the performance of leading A.I. models from rivals like Google, OpenAI and Anthropic on internal tests for reasoning, coding and writing, said the people, who were not authorized to speak publicly about confidential matters. The model, code-named Avocado, outperformed Meta’s previous A.I. model and did better than Google’s Gemini 2.5 model from...
Sports Programming Accounts for Almost 30 Percent of All Ad-Supported TV Viewing
Dade Hayes, reporting for Deadline: While the rise of sports programming in recent years has been well-documented, new figures from Nielsen illustrate the extent of its dominance. The measurement firm said sports accounted for 29.2% of all advertising-supported TV viewing by people 25 to 54 years old during the fourth quarter. The stat, spanning broadcast, cable and streaming, was part of a report on viewership trends in the fourth quarter of 2025, released Thursday in the runup to upfronts....
Claim Chowder: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on the Percentage of Code Being Generated by AI Today
Business Insider, one year ago: Dario Amodei, the CEO of the AI startup Anthropic, said on Monday that AI, and not software developers, could be writing all of the code in our software in a year. “I think we will be there in three to six months, where AI is writing 90% of the code. And then, in 12 months, we may be in a world where AI is writing essentially all of the code,” Amodei said at a Council of Foreign Relations event on Monday. I’d marked this one on my claim chowder calendar a y...
‘Software Bonkers’
Craig Mod, on creating his own custom accounting software with Claude Code: Simply put: It’s a big mess, and no off-the-shelf accounting software does what I need. So after years of pain, I finally sat down last week and started to build my own. It took me about five days. I am now using the best piece of accounting software I’ve ever used. It’s blazing fast. Entirely local. Handles multiple currencies and pulls daily (historical) conversion rates. It’s able to ingest any CSV I throw at it a...
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