About this episode
Craig Hockenberry returns to the show. Topics include Apple’s new hardware this week — M3 iPad Airs, A16 regular iPads, M4 MacBook Airs, and the M4 Max and surprising M3 Ultra Mac Studios. And we go deep on The Iconfactory’s years-in-the-making new app, Tapestry — a universal timeline for the Internet.
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Daring Fireball posts of note:
“Apple Updates iPad Air (M2→M3) and Regular iPad (A14→A16), and Revamps Magic Keyboard for iPad Air”.
“Apple Announces, With Little Surprise, M4 MacBook Airs”.
“Apple Announces, With Much Surprise, Mac Studios With M4 Max and M3 Ultra (!) Chips”.
From January: “Openvibe, a Multi-Social-Network App for Bluesky, Mastodon, Threads (Supposedly), and Nostr”.
Tapestry: “Weaving your favorite blogs, social media, and more into a unified and chronological timeline.”
Craig, on the Iconfactory blog: “Enter Tapestry”.
Cheryl Cicha, also on the Iconfactory blog: “Tapestry: Past, Present, and Future”.
Tapestry Connectors — an open, easy (documented!) extensions API.
Fefes Blog — you’ll have to listen to the show to understand how this is a Tapestry-related link. But trust me, it’s a good story. It starts with this thread on Mastodon, which begins like a great novel: “It’s becoming clear that XML in RSS is the preferred tool of sociopaths.”
Molly White: “POSSE” (“Publish [on your] Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere”).
Technology Connections on YouTube: “Algorithms Are Breaking How We Think”.
The Iconfactory:
Linea Sketch — “a lightweight digital sketc
