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How depressing this is. These are filtered Google News results with the keyword “ChatGPT”. Look at some headlines… Now, consider this quote.
“AI will not replace humans, but those who use AI will replace those who don’t.” – Ginni Rometty
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Bye Bye Grammarly?
I received a reminder this morning about my upcoming Grammarly renewal. After reviewing past invoices, I decided to cancel my subscription on a whim. It’s an expensive service. As I’m planning some changes on other areas of my digital presence, I’ll reallocate the money to that instead.
For the next new weeks, my subscription ends on August 14th, I’ll be turning off Grammarly and see how things goes. I might use AI service from Raycast, ChatGPT or even Apple Intelligence Writing Tools to compensate. I do use the free version of LanguageTool, too. I’ll report my conclusions in due time.
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What happened to @maique@social.lol ? I no longer see him on my MB timeline as “@maique” … 🙁👀
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Just pushed out an update to my ever-growing “Who Is Numeric Citizen?” website. More photos. More intricate details. Corrected many typos and tweaked the layout, too. Tell me what you think!
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The upcoming CMS feature in Realmac Software Elements is sooooo cool, flexible and powerful. Even RSS feeds are supported! You can see that in action in their latest Dev Diary video.
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One simple thing that is missing from iPadOS 26: CMD-Q to quit an application. Other things that need work: the CMD-TAB switcher is not glassified and lacks contrats with the background view. Same comment goes for the Spotlight search field which can be really hard to see. Oh and here’s the thing: if you happen to work both on the Mac and an iPad: you kind expect that both platforms behave the same way. As an example, I want Spotlight on iPad to be the same as on the Mac by offering the four search modes.
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On iPadOS 26, you can resize the Settings windows as you like. I wish we could do the same on the Mac!
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Well, using iPadOS 26 beta3, it seems that I can’t use my iPad in «clamshell» mode while hooked to an external display… really?
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Currently starting my week-end long experiment with an 2024 M4 iPad Pro running iPadOS 26 with an external display. This feels so different and yet familiar to the… Mac? The iPad? I’m not sure, just yet. Expect more posts in the coming days.
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I often repeat this thought in my head when I’m in challenging times: “everything around me has been done by people not smarter than me.”. It’s inspired by Steve Jobs’ words from an interview he did in the early 1990s, where he was reflecting on how empowering it is to realize that the world is built by people just like us — and that we can reshape it too.
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Here’s a thought: I would like to ask people of all ages, specifically those between 16 and 70, how they feel about Apple Liquid Glass. Do younger individuals prefer the original version, while older ones favor the toned-down version? I suspect this might be the case.
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Next weekend when going to the chalet, I’ll bring my iPad, Magic Keyboard and my LG UltraFine 4K monitor so that I can experiment with iPadOS 26 with an external monitor. The last time I tried this was with iPadOS 18 with Stage Manager. It didn’t work well. Can’t wait to see the difference.
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I see encouraging signs with today’s releases of “whateverOS beta3”1. But there is still much work to be done as shown in exhibit #9.
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iOS 26 beta3, iPadOS 26 beta3, macOS Tahoe beta 3. ↩︎
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Maybe Apple could provide a Low, Medium and High settings for Liquid Glass and most people would probably be happy with it.
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It’s one of those Monday that will take a hard time to get started. 😅 I had such a great weekend. Let’s get this done.
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With the addition of the traffic lights buttons on iPadOS 26, it’s now easier to spot which window is active because inactive windows has their traffic light buttons grayed with three little dots as seen on this screenshot.
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Cloudflare Is Blocking AI Crawlers by Default
Last year, internet infrastructure firm Cloudflare launched tools enabling its customers to block AI scrapers. Today the company has taken its fight against permissionless scraping several steps further. It has switched to blocking AI crawlers by default for its customers and is moving forward with a Pay Per Crawl program that lets customers charge AI companies to scrape their websites.
I paid a visit to my Cloudflare dashboard and I saw the option to turn on the blocking of AI bots. I’m just not sure that I want to silence myself from LLM training. What if everyone does the same?
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Do you think that a few years from now, Liquid Glass will age well? Was this even a consideration by Apple’s designers when they put that up together?
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I want to like Apple’s vision of their newest OS incarnations, but I find it hard at this point. I’m hoping that beta3 will change and help improve some of my feelings.
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I wonder what’s going on with Daniel Eran Dilger. It’s been close to five years without posting on his blog: Roughly Drafted. His Twitter account is now private. Nothing to see on LinkedIn either. 🧐
