Magic Monday - July 20, 2026

This Magic Monday is more deep in the weeds than average, but that doesn't make it less relevant. If anything, I hope it gets the wheels turning so as to not fall victim to the constant march of technological progress (for better or worse). Without further ado... If We Can't Turn Back Time (Machine) Apple recently published a support article regarding the end of support for encrypted Mac OS Ext...

Siri AI and The Lost Engagement Ring Last year, not long after getting married, our youngest decided to play with and hide my wife’s engagement ring. Last week, your humble pontificator was finally approved for the Siri AI beta waitlist. What the heck is going on that I can link these things together?! Subscribe to keep reading this post newsletter-post-show-join-tokens#openJoin...

This week might be interesting in terms of what it signals for the future. If you find this newsletter interesting and useful, please forward it to friends and pester them to subscribe. The $10,000 MacBook Pro After revealing publicly that price increases were coming due in large part to the skyrocketing cost of DRAM and NAND, those increases are now live. And it's certainly an eye opener. ...