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I mostly use my web stats service because I get a lizard-brain kick from watching numbers go up, but it also provides some fun insights. For example, it's how I found out about bubbles.town.

I've been using Photoshop since the mid-90s. First at school, with Photoshop 3, then through work. I bought my first boxed copy of CS2 in 2005, then upgraded to CS5 in 2010. I subscribed to Photoshop Creative Cloud on day one. Today, I uninstalled it. I h

This year's WWDC keynote was an odd one. It was relatively short at around 76 minutes, for one thing. It also eschewed the usual OS-by-OS structure, but I think that's for the best. The biggest change was that there was really only one major thing Apple w

I've been following Apple news and rumours since the year 2000, and I can't remember being less excited for rumoured WWDC announcements. Apple's software story is in rough shape, and I worry that this year's event won't do much to help. Perhaps it'll be t

Yesterday, I wrote about the massive increase in security issues being identified by AI. Daniel Stenberg, the author of curl, was a key part of that story. At first he was being overwhelmed by a torrent of "AI slop" reports. In the last few months, the re

No matter how you feel about AI, it's changing the world of software. The "T" in ChatGPT was invented to improve language translation, and large language models (LLMs) are very good at this. Interestingly, translating between French and Japanese is effect

I've been noticing a lot of service outages lately. Some with few enough nines that you'd think they were going for a low score. My guess: this is probably going to get worse before it gets better. But maybe not for the reasons you'd think.

Nilay Patel put out an excellent Decoder episode today. In it, he dove into the idea of "software brain", which is something he's been workshopping during the past several Vergecast episodes. It's his attempt to explain why so many Silicon Valley folks ar

The people do not yearn for automation.

Yesterday, Claude Code disappeared from the $20/month subscription tier on Anthropic's website. Well, for some people. Then it came back. As Simon Willison put it, it's all very confusing.