7 Things This Week [#164]
A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet. Sometimes themed, often not.
Happy New Year’s Eve! 🎊
1️⃣ Stephen Hackett gave us an in-depth retrospective on the last PowerPC Macs before they swapped to Intel. It’s so funny to hear how Intel was providing the best “power per watt” back in the day. Now it’s Apple’s own chips that fill that slot as Intel makes fumble after fumble. [🔗 512pixels.net]
2️⃣ This McSweeney’s post about Apple News+ hit a little too close to home. 😅 [🔗 mcsweeneys.net]
3️⃣ I’m pretty happy with using my Action Button to dictate notes or take actions in specific apps, but Ben Brooks put together a compelling “Attention Mode” that he enables with his. [🔗 brooksreview.net]
4️⃣ Speaking of Ben Brooks, he wrote a pretty good guide for getting the most out of LLMs by querying them for information rather than having them generate all your text. [🔗 brooksreview.net]
5️⃣ Annie Mueller’s description of Christmas rings true, in a good way. [🔗 anniemueller.com]
6️⃣ I’m fascinated by design breakdowns, like this one for a personal, artistic homepage by Anh. [🔗 anhvn.com]
7️⃣ John Siracusa doesn’t post to his blog often, but his hit rate is very high for when he does. This post (from January) about generative AI and how it affects ownership and creationship is well-worth reflecting upon. [🔗 hypercritical.co]
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