DC’s super hero movies tend to be pretty hit-or-miss, but I’ll be damned if this one doesn’t look great. The Batman villain Clayface done as a body-horror film? Sign me up.
Physicists Discover The Most Complex Forms of Ice Yet
Some fun physics on a Lazy Sunday. Did you know Ice has many different physical solid states? We even recently found more!
The Window Chrome of Our Discontent from Pixel Envy
I know I’ve previously let it be known that I generally like macOS 26, but boy is it hard to ignore how some of Apple’s own apps have degraded over the years. Look at Pages on OSX Lion. Its usable!
Saosin – Starting Over Again
Saosin are back with Cove in the band. This new song rips – its great. I know this is a bit of a hot take, but the self-titled they did with Cove is the best thing this band has done. Looking forward to some new material
New Found Glory – Listen Up!
I wish I had more to say about this album. Its fun, but its just not great. Its been a while since there was a really great New Found Glory record. This band really could use some rejuvination from some co-writers, much like what A Day To Remember did on Big Ole Album vol. 1, or Blink-182 did with California. “Frankenstein’s Monster” is a good track, but perhaps a little too on-the-nose.
Thoughts on last quarters’ Apple Experience and the MacBook Neo
I’ve had a busy few months, so I haven’t had the time to get a few thoughts off my chest regarding Apple’s event in April announcing the MacBook Neo.
1) The name “Neo” is bad. They should have just called this “MacBook”. Lets hope this doesn’t propagate to other product lines.
2) This laptop really highlights how badly Intel missed mobile. Here we are, almost 20 years after the iPhone was released, and the technology in that device has now enveloped the Mac. Its a great time to be a Mac user, but Intel missing mobile was just catastrophic.
3) I can’t believe they didn’t include Force Touch. I suppose the iPad track pads haven’t been Force Touch, but its been a long time since they sold a Mac with a physically moving touch pad.
4) Apple embracing the modular nature of modern SoC packaging in the 2.5D architecture in the M5 Pro and Max is great. Hopefully we’ll start to see some new innovation in how the company designs their next generation of Apple Silicon.
5) I am sad that there wasn’t a new Apple TV. Come on Apple, please.
6) iPhone 17e is genuinely pretty good.
MKBHD did offer some suggestions for who this device is for in his video reviewing the product. I mostly agree with him, but I have to say a refurbished or on-sale MacBook Air continue to be a great deal too. He mentioned the Neo may be good for Grandparents, but the 15” Air is great for seniors with vision troubles, and the Force Touch pad isn’t just a nice-to-have – it also removes another physical moving part.
The (Mac)world cries out for LaunchPad
I few months ago I posted a lamentation on the end of LaunchPad on the Mac. I regret to say that 9 months later, the app launcher in Spotlight, which replaced LaunchPad in macOS 26, is still not anywhere as good as LaunchPad was, and its nice to see the kind folks at Macworld agree with me.
Joy Next Door – The Maine
The Maine released their 10th record, Joy Next Door, a few weeks ago. Its another great record in their discography. “3:31″, and “It’s Not Over Yet” are two particular highlights for me. My one complaint about the record is that I don’t think its mixed well. This one would be a great candidate for a remastered version in 10 years.
Lastly, in the time since the album was released, the band added “Parking Garage Song #5” to the track list at number 8, subsequently pushing all the songs after it down the track listing. I really dislike it when bands do this. That is: change or edit the track listing after the album was released. This is distinct from releasing a “deluxe” version of the album with a few extra songs. Just off the top of my head, I know Blink–182 did this with ONE MORE TIME…, The 1975 just fully removed “Human Too” from Being Funny in a Foreign Language, and Every Time I Die and Chiodos have included “Bonus Tracks” embedded within the original track listing. This is all bad. Once its out, its out; pencils down! Bands, please stop doing this and just release a single or and EP or something.
tvOS thoughts in anticipation of WWDC 2026
Apple and its surrounding enthusiast community are gearing up for WWDC in a little over a week, and I’d like to stake my claim as The Only Person On The Internet That Cares About tvOS.
Firstly, I’ll take a being-right-point from my previous post about what they should do with custom video players on the platform, as John Gruber at Daring Fireball recently posted about how terrible some of the custom video players are on tvOS.
Secondly, essentially everything I wrote about remains true, with the exception that evidently there is already a way to connect Apple TV profiles to profiles within apps. Its just that no apps use this feature. I’m not sure whether or not its onerous, or there just isn’t demand for it. In any case, Apple should make it easier for developers to use, and then enforce it!
The one new thing to add to my list came across my radar as I’ve been looking at some indoor smart-bikes for services like Rouvy and Zwift. Evidently Apple TVs only support 2 bluetooth connections at time, so this industry has found a market in what are essentially bluetooth relays that can package data from multiple sensors on the bike (cadence, power, heart rate, etc), and feed it to the Apple TV in a single bluetooth connection. Apple should fix this. What an embarrassment for a $129 device.
Every iPhone Ever Made
Heres a fun link for a lazy Sunday: Every iPhone Ever Made
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