Spider.

Sleep tight.

Not without a major breakthrough in knowledge representation.

LLMs aren’t it.

Running it on a current generation iPad Mini. Runs OK. I would wait to see if the on-device AI support will work on base level machines or not. IMO, that’s the killer feature worth upgrading for. If not, probably not worth upgrading yet.

Liquid Glass is meh. Those of us old enough to remember ‘lickable’ Aqua have seen these UI fads come and go.

I’m running it on a latest-gen iPad Mini. It broke screen updates on a whole lot of third-party apps. Turned out the only way to get them to refresh was turning on multi-tasking and resizing the window. After a couple of them updated and fixed the problem, I turned off and went back to normal non-windowed mode.

On a big size iPad Pro I might be tempted to turn it on, but the only reason to do it is if I was copy/pasting from one app to another, and I can already do that by toggling between apps.

If I needed to jump between a lot of windows, I’d stick with a Mac. My regular Macbook sits docked with two large monitors on each side of the regular screen. I can get a lot done fairly quickly between them. Not sure what advantage the iPad offers.

Speaking of iPadOS-26: on 18.5 Safari, I had a LOT of tabs open (1500+) in different groups. These were iCloud shared with MacOS. After the iPadOS-26 upgrade, Safari has become unusable. Down to a crawl with 30-60 sec refresh times per tab. Reported it. Switched over to Firefox for now, but I hope they fix it.

For serious dev work, I need a Mac running Docker, Parallels (Windows/Linux), and USB ports. Apple knows this too. Doubt they’ll add background server support to the iPad since it can drain the battery and they wouldn’t want to cannibalize Mac sales.

BTW, I HIGHLY recommend everyone watch the WWDC25 developer videos on local Foundation Models, especially the advanced one. This is a mind-bogglingly awesome feature, coming soon.

On the Mac, you can use an iPhone as a remote camera. Just tried it with iPadOS-26. It didn’t let me pick a different camera.

However, it can live transcribe / close-caption what is being said during a Facetime call and translate it into a few other languages (tried French). It’s not perfect, but then again, it’s being done on-device.

Here’s the California Avenue train station mentioned in that article: https://maps.app.goo.gl/2eMQc3EPPJiGzaMR8

Look at the Street View, and there is nothing but sparse, two-story buildings right near the station. If they let 5-story buildings be built, that station and the shops nearby would get a lot more use.

Fine, we get it. We’re old. Way to rub it in.

Whippersnappers today.

When approaching a light or stop sign, smoothly press down the clutch and break pedal together. If it’s a red light where you might be for a while, pop the gear into neutral and let go of the clutch.

I was taught (rightfully or not) that holding down the clutch too long can damage it.

Invite a judgemental friend or relative over for dinner. Best way to force you to clean and declutter your space.

Amazing voice and arrangement. Also, thanks for pointing out the show. Never heard of it. Lots of great music there.

“CSU Announces Landmark Initiative to Become Nation’s First and Largest AI-Empowered University System”

https://www.calstate.edu/csu-system/news/Pages/CSU-AI-Powered-Initiative.aspx

Hey, what can go wrong?

8 / 10.

But it wasn’t fair. I actually met Guido at a PyCon conference.

On iPad with multitasking and windowed apps turned on. There’s a lot of screen noise. Stuff overlapping and flying all over the place. Lots of excess, laggy animation.

I’m giving it a few more days before turning it off.

I’ve had good luck with Jekyll, saving the source on github, and setting it up so pushing to main auto-deploys to a Cloudflare site. Using Markdown and for larger media, uploading to S3.

Much easier to set up and maintain than github pages. Since it’s static output, pretty snappy. Also includes RSS feeds and permanent URLs.

Have also set up several Wordpress sites. Slower, but if you want wysiwyg editing, user comments, or there are several contributors, would work better.

Have also heard good things about ghost, but haven’t actually deployed one yet.

Once you toggle and request an update to 26, it takes a while for it to download and do the actual install. During that period, you can stop the install with no damage using what I described. I did that on an iPhone.

I went ahead and did the update to 26 on an iPad and about half my daily driver apps are borked, especially when it comes to resizable windows under multitasking.

Once installed, the only way back is to to hard reset and restore from iCloud backups. Big pain. Here’s a guide on how to revert: https://www.redmondpie.com/how-to-downgrade-ios-26-beta-1-to-ios-18.5-guide/amp/

Protip: if you requested the 26 beta and are regretting that rash decision… Reboot, then hop back into update settings and change it back to off. Thankfully, it resets and now you can wait out the far more sensible 0.2 beta, where they’ve ironed out the crazy kinks.

Second the pickling idea. Read a similar story that a food bank had a lot of excess fresh material. Thry had set up production through a commercial food processing site, had put labels on them, and were selling them online and at farmer’s markets. The proceeds were going back to the food bank. Zero wastage. They were also making things like sauerkraut, kimchee, and kombucha. Watermelon can also be juiced and the rinds pickled.

I imagine for food safety and liability reasons, you wouldn’t want to do it in someone’s kitchen. Plus, licensing fees. But you have a great story to tell (good health, zero waste, help food bank).

Quick search since you mentioned NM: https://www.newmexicofma.org/food_processing_permits.php

Cloudflare does use AI to generate tarpit content, but it’s too expensive to run for every request. IIRC, they periodically change and cache the output to throw off the tarpit detectors.

One thing most DON’T do is change up the format for the page, so the placement and number of links randomize.

Likely DRM content. Can’t help you there.