/
Navigation
C
Chronicles
Browse all articles
C
E
Explore
Semantic exploration
E
R
Research
Entity momentum
R
N
Nexus
Correlations & relationships
N
~
Story Arc
Topic evolution
S
Drift Map
Semantic trajectory animation
D
P
Posts
Analysis & commentary
P
Browse
@
Entities
Companies, people, products, technologies
Domains
Browse by publication source
Handles
Browse by social media handle
Detection
?
Concept Search
Semantic similarity search
!
High Impact Stories
Top coverage by position
+
Sentiment Analysis
Positive/negative coverage
*
Anomaly Detection
Unusual coverage patterns
Analysis
vs
Rivalry Report
Compare two entities head-to-head
/\
Semantic Pivots
Narrative discontinuities
!!
Crisis Response
Event recovery patterns
Connected
Nav: C E R N
Search: /
Command: ⌘K
Embeddings: large
VOICE ARCHIVE

John Spurlock

@johnspurlock.com
14 posts
2026-03-04
so those 90hz rumors were wrong and wrong, but I guess nailed the average?  —  60hz for the new studio display, and 120hz for the studio display xdr  —  www.apple.com/newsroom/202...
2026-03-04 View on X
Apple

Apple updates the $1,599+ Studio Display and unveils a $3,299+ 27" 5K Studio Display XDR, with a 120Hz refresh rate, a mini-LED backlight, and up to 2,000 nits

prices start at Rs 1,89,900 in IndiaTaras Buria /Neowin:Apple announces new Studio Display and $3,299 Studio Display XDRAdam Engst /TidBITS:Apple Introduces Studio Display XDR and ...

so those 90hz rumors were wrong and wrong, but I guess nailed the average?  —  60hz for the new studio display, and 120hz for the studio display xdr  —  www.apple.com/newsroom/202...
2026-03-04 View on X
Apple

Apple refreshes the 14" and 16" MacBook Pro with M5 Pro and M5 Max: up to 4x faster LLM prompt processing, up to 2x faster SSD speeds, and 1TB of base storage

The world's best pro laptop raises the bar again with blazing-fast CPU and GPU performance, plus up to 2x faster SSD speeds and 1TB of starting storage

so those 90hz rumors were wrong and wrong, but I guess nailed the average?  —  60hz for the new studio display, and 120hz for the studio display xdr  —  www.apple.com/newsroom/202...
2026-03-04 View on X
9to5Mac

Apple unveils the M5 MacBook Air in 13" and 15" sizes, boosting its starting price by $100 to $1,099 and doubling base storage to 512GB, shipping from March 11

You now get more storage and better performance …Forums:r/macgaming:Macbook Air M5 base storage doubled to 512GBr/technology:Apple introduces the new MacBook Air with M5r/hardware:...

2026-03-03
so those 90hz rumors were wrong and wrong, but I guess nailed the average?  —  60hz for the new studio display, and 120hz for the studio display xdr  —  www.apple.com/newsroom/202...
2026-03-03 View on X
Apple

Apple refreshes the 14" and 16" MacBook Pro with M5 Pro and M5 Max: up to 4x faster LLM prompt processing, up to 2x faster SSD speeds, and 1TB of base storage

The world's best pro laptop raises the bar again with blazing-fast CPU and GPU performance, plus up to 2x faster SSD speeds and 1TB of starting storage

so those 90hz rumors were wrong and wrong, but I guess nailed the average?  —  60hz for the new studio display, and 120hz for the studio display xdr  —  www.apple.com/newsroom/202...
2026-03-03 View on X
Apple

Apple updates the $1,599+ Studio Display and unveils a $3,299+ 27" 5K Studio Display XDR, with a 120Hz refresh rate, a mini-LED backlight, and up to 2,000 nits

Studio Display XDR is the world's best pro display, featuring a 27-inch 5K Retina XDR display with a mini-LED backlight …

2026-02-22
'For Vinogradov, the result is a familiar situation for open source projects: a lot of work to do, and not enough good engineers to do it.  —  “AI does not increase the number of active, skilled maintainers,” he remarked.  “It empowers the good ones, but all the fundamental problems just remain.”
2026-02-22 View on X
TechCrunch

Open source projects like VLC and Blender are seeing a decline in the average quality of contributions, likely as AI coding tools lower barriers to entry

A world that runs on increasingly powerful AI coding tools is one where software creation is cheap — or so the thinking goes …

2026-02-21
'This last issue is the big problem that indicates CCC won't be able to generalize well beyond its test-suite, which appears to be confirmed by its bug tracker.' - Chris Lattner  —  www.modular.com/blog/the-cla...
2026-02-21 View on X
Modular Blog

Claude's C Compiler shows AI elevates the role of human judgment and vision; it's a milestone, but closely mirrors LLVM/GCC, and hard codes things to pass tests

2026-02-20
'This last issue is the big problem that indicates CCC won't be able to generalize well beyond its test-suite, which appears to be confirmed by its bug tracker.' - Chris Lattner  —  www.modular.com/blog/the-cla...
2026-02-20 View on X
Modular Blog

Claude's C Compiler shows AI elevates the role of human judgment and vision; it's a milestone, but closely mirrors LLVM/GCC, and hard codes things to pass tests

Compilers occupy a special place in computer science.  They're a canonical course in computer science education.  Building one is a rite of passage.

2026-02-08
‘So now you see how the magic starts and ends.  During Golden Ages, there is more work than people.  And when they crash, it is because there are more people than work.’  —  steve-yegge.medium.com/the-anthropi...
2026-02-08 View on X
Steve Yegge

After talking with ~40 people at Anthropic, a look at its “Yes, and...” culture where every idea is welcomed and judged based on vibes, like a hive mind

As you've probably noticed, something is happening over at Anthropic.  They are a spaceship that is beginning to take off.

‘So now you see how the magic starts and ends.  During Golden Ages, there is more work than people.  And when they crash, it is because there are more people than work.’  —  steve-yegge.medium.com/the-anthropi...
2026-02-08 View on X
Simon Willison's Weblog

Anthropic rolls out a fast mode for Claude Opus 4.6 in research preview, saying it offers the same model quality 2.5 times faster but costs six times more

Opus is usually $5/million input and $25/million output.  The new fast mode is $30/million input and $150/million output!

2026-01-06
'On the upside: it's not that hard anymore to design better than Apple!  Let's drink to that'  —  tonsky.me/blog/tahoe-i...
2026-01-06 View on X
tonsky.me

Apple's macOS Tahoe adds icons to every menu item, resulting in menus that are hard to use and go against the long-standing Macintosh Human Interface Guidelines

accompanied by explanation:  —  Fast forward to 2025.  Apple releases macOS Tahoe.  Main attraction?

2025-07-06
'The most exciting thing about this entire journey for me is not the app I built, but that I am now able to scratch my coding itch and ship polished side projects again.  It's like I found an extra 5 hours every day, and all it cost me was $200 a month.'  —  www.indragie.com/blog/i-shipp...
2025-07-06 View on X
My Portfolio

A developer details how he shipped Context, a native macOS app that was almost 100% built using Claude Code

I recently shipped Context, a native macOS app for debugging MCP servers.  The goal was to build a useful developer tool that feels at home on the platform, powered by Apple's Swif...

2025-03-21
'Today, we're excited to announce AI Labyrinth, a new mitigation approach that uses AI-generated content to slow down, confuse, and waste the resources of AI Crawlers and other bots that don't respect “no crawl” directives'  —  blog.cloudflare.com/ai-labyrinth/
2025-03-21 View on X
The Cloudflare Blog

Cloudflare announces AI Labyrinth, which uses AI-generated content to confuse and waste the resources of AI Crawlers and bots that ignore “no crawl” directives

Today, we're excited to announce AI Labyrinth, a new mitigation approach that uses AI-generated content to slow down …

2025-03-20
'It's a big problem that this is late, but it's an equally big problem that Apple thought it was almost ready.'  —  www.ben-evans.com/benedictevan...
2025-03-20 View on X
Benedict Evans

Apple stumbling with the Vision Pro and then falling flat on its face with AI suggest that it is slipping into a Vista-like drift of systemically poor execution

It matters that Apple's new Siri will be late, and it matters more that Apple didn't realise.  Is it more than that?