2026-03-30 10:51:00
A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, often not.
1️⃣ iWeb lives! Sort of. If you have an old Mac. But Corbin Davenport made an iWeb website just a few months ago and, honestly, it looks pretty awesome. [🔗 iweb.corbin.io]
2️⃣ Manton Reece shared a letter that his mother wrote to her mother many years ago while she (and Manton) lived in Greece. A lovely snapshot in time. [🔗 manton.org]
3️⃣ Alpinesavvy shared a story about drinking water that has me thinking about the counterproductive choices I make. [🔗 alpinesavvy.com]
4️⃣ The first use of “Wendy” as a first name was in Peter Pan. We still don’t know what it was short for! [🔗 wikipedia.org]
5️⃣ Rands did the work and made incredible data tables with all the good charging/charger brick information for modern Apple devices. [🔗 randsinrepose.com]
6️⃣ Todd Vaziri shows why having only two dots instead of three to represent outs in a baseball score graphic is just wrong. Looking at you, Netflix. [🦣 mastodon.social]
7️⃣ The Midleton Mule was a featured drink at our St. Patrick’s Day meal and I can’t stop thinking about it. It was so fresh and delightful. Gonna have to make it at home! [🔗 gelsons.com]
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2026-03-29 04:14:00
Apple published this video to their Support channel on YouTube yesterday, and it motivated me to get this off my chest:
Uninstalling apps on macOS is not as easy as it should be.
Yes, I know, I know that you can just drag an app to the trash and technically it’s gone. That’s what Apple recommends doing in its video. But then why do are apps like Raycast, CleanMyMac, and AppCleaner able to find leftover files scattered around your system by the deleted app? Maybe it’s just the completionist in me, but I don’t want those files left behind!
One thing — the only thing? — I liked about Launchpad was that it made it super obvious how to uninstall (Mac App Store) apps.1 Just like on your iPad/iPhone, you could click and hold on the app’s icon to send it into “jiggle mode” and then click the ‘X’ would remove it. I could be confident that all the app’s associated bits and bobs would be removed from my system.
But that changed with Tahoe. While Spotlight got a huge boost in capability as a whole with clipboard history and actions, it also subsumed Launchpad’s role as the main, well, launcher for apps. But there are no affordances in Spotlight for removing apps like Launchpad had.
AppCleaner was my go-to tool back in the day, but now I use Raycast to get the job done with confidence. Raycast’s implementation could offer some inspiration for Apple. After searching for an app within Raycast, a simple ⌘K shortcut reveals a host of actions that can be taken on the app. You can open an app, reveal it in the Finder, quit it, and, yes, uninstall it — among other things.
Apple could follow this model and provide an ‘Uninstall App’ action to take within Spotlight.
Spotlight’s interface, seeing as it replaced Launchpad, should offer the same capability for removing apps. And it should be as thorough as on an iPhone or iPad.
P.S. I also occasionally use Raycast to quit apps that stubbornly have no icon in the Dock or menu bar and therefore make it tricky quit completely.
Apps installed outside of the Mac App Store would not display the ‘X’ to remove it. You had to do it the “old fashioned” way of dragging the app to the trash and then hunt down its system files.↩︎
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2026-03-27 12:36:00
The Mac Pro is no longer a product in Apple’s lineup.
For a computer that has caused so much consternation over the years, its story can be told very succinctly. Stephen Hackett captured it all in six sentences:
The Mac Pro was introduced way back in 2006 as a replacement for the outgoing Power Mac G5. It had a good few years, then languished until the 2013 model was announced.
That machine was a dud, and it languished until the 2019 model was announced.
It came out in December 2019, which was less than a year before Apple silicon was announced and the M1 shipped.
The Mac Pro got one last update in June 2023, when Apple dropped the Intel version for one with an M2 Ultra inside. It’s been languishing again ever since.
(Or, for the long version, read this retrospective by Joe Rossignol on MacRumors.)
Definitely sad to see the Mac Pro, and its amazingly-still-modern-looking-even-seven-years-later chassis head to the farm upstate. I’d held out hope for a new screamer of a machine with an ‘Extreme’ M-series chip, but alas.
It seems that Apple was waiting for permission from John Siracusa, the world’s preeminent Mac Pro believer, to kill the product. Here he is in the latest episode of the Accidental Tech Podcast, recorded just last night:
@marcoarment @siracusa if you sell it, I will buy it and wear it to WWDC
@marcoarment @siracusa The Mac Pro dies twice: first, when Apple discontinues it, second, when its name is spoken by John for the last time.
Exciting that both “Believe” shirts were resolved this month.
✅ Upgrade AirPods Max Believe
☠️ ATP Mac Pro Believe
There’s something poetic about the Mac Pro being discontinued as the MacBook Neo takes off like a rocket.
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2026-03-25 21:39:00
Just finished up a project that I’ve been meaning to get to for a year: bringing ADK Climb Club to the open web.
We’ve had a landing page on Micro.blog for a while, but all the info about our meetups was going out via Instagram and WhatsApp. But not everyone wants to use those apps, and I heard from them! So, I buckled down and imported all the old posts, and hooked up my auto-crossposter.
Now, everything that we post to Instagram shows up on our website as a native, web-friendly blog posts. And I enabled email subscriptions (free, thanks to Micro.blog!), so folks can get an email each time that we share information about a meetup.
Although Instagram is still our “primary” platform — that’s where our biggest audience is and where we pick up new members — I feel much better about the club being more accessible on the open web, and that people can stay in the loop with posts pushed out to them without having to sign up for a Meta app.
If you’re a climber (or are climbing curious) and near Lake Placid, NY on a Wednesday night, you should come check us out!
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2026-03-23 11:19:00
A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, often not.
1️⃣ That screamy sound you hear when peeling tape? It’s a ‘sonic whisper’ from tearing at twice the speed of sound! [🔗 sciencealert.com]
2️⃣ Craig Mod built the accounting software of his dreams, fitting his exact international needs, and which can be adapted with Claude Code as needed. Sounds amazing. [🔗 craigmod.com]
3️⃣ Chris Coyer argues that web forms should always automatically email you a copy of your submission. I agree, though I wouldn’t be opposed to it being optional, as long as the default is for the copy to be sent. [🔗 email-is-good.com]
4️⃣ Terry Godier’s essay about how all the objects in our our lives have steadily stolen more of our attention, and made us feel guilty about it is excellent As is it’s web design. You gotta read this one in its original form. [🔗 terrygodier.com]
5️⃣ Stephen Hackett (via James Thomson) shared some incredible 5K wallpapers featuring Lil Finder Guy. I love how the Lil Guy’s taken the Mac community by storm. [🔗 512pixels.net]
6️⃣ I thought tweet from Caleb Sexton was a joke about Kagi having ‘LinkedIn Speak’ as a language that you could translate into. It’s not a joke. It’s real. [🦣 mastodon.social]
7️⃣ D. Griffin Jones did the thing and put an episode of the Connected podcast onto a floppy disk. Incredible commitment to the bit! [🦣 tech.lgbt]
Thanks for reading 7 Things. If you enjoyed these links or have something neat to share, please let me know. And remember that you can get more links to internet nuggets that I’m finding every day by following me @jarrod on the social web.
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2026-03-12 09:13:00
The Verge’s headline sums up Mark Gurman’s latest report on Apple’s folding phone quite succinctly: ‘iPhone Fold rumor: iPad-like multitasking, but no iPad apps and no Face ID’
Though the updated layout could make multitasking easier, Gurman reports that the folding iPhone won’t run existing iPad apps. Still, Apple is reportedly trying to take advantage of the phone’s larger screen real estate by updating its “core” apps with a sidebar on the left side of the screen. It will also give developers the ability to make the iPhone versions of their apps more iPad-like, according to Gurman.
Hmph. There’s more.
Instead of using Face ID, Apple’s foldable could integrate Touch ID into the device’s side button, as the “front panel is too thin to accommodate the Face ID sensor array,” Gurman reports. That means in place of the pill-shaped housing for the front-facing camera and Face ID, Apple will reportedly add a small-hole punch camera instead. Gurman has previously reported that the foldable could look like two iPhone Airs stuck together.
A few things are running through my mind reading this report.
First, I’m putting my money behind it being called ‘iPhone Duo’. It would really tickle me for Apple to put out a ‘Duo’ and a ‘Neo’ — two Surface product names that Microsoft used and which flopped and was never released, respectively.
Second, this lack of Face ID business really puts a wrench in my plans. I’ve been pretty psyched about replacing my iPhone and my iPad mini with an iPhone Duo. As much as I love my 17 Pro, it’s too big and I think the double-duty device would really work for me. But I don’t think I want to go without Face ID. My iPad mini only has Touch ID in the power button and I’ve never enjoyed that unlocking method. Honestly, it was better in the Home Button.
Third, I haven’t really kept up with the folding iPhone’s rumored specs. I presume each half is going to be thinner than the both iPhone Air and the iPad Pro (Apple’s record-holding thinnest device) since both of those feature Face ID.
Fourth, leave it to Apple to not do the obvious thing and just let the thing run iPad apps. Why make developers go through designing another layout for their iOS apps if the iPadOS versions are right there? We’ll see how the software situation shakes out.
I’ll be pretty disappointed if this thing doesn’t come with Face ID. It’s probably a deal-breaker, even though I’d want to purchase it to show Apple the foldable is a form factor worth pursuing. There’s always the chance they’ll cancel the whole thing if the first one doesn’t sell well. On the other hand, they did just fix the iPhone 16e’s most glaring omission — MagSafe — year-over-year with the 17e. There’s hope.
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