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- Sulfuric Acid Shark Tank
Video game summer sales commence, we remember Om Malik, Apple raises prices, Apple Silicon servers could power Apple Intelligence, and Facebook and Amazon foist generative software onto their employees.
đź”— Links
- Free The Icons: Apple should end their prohibition on shapes in MacOS app icons
- Remembering Om Malik
- Om Malik, 1966-2026 – On my Om
- Matt Mullenweg: All Roads Lead to Om
- Daring Fireball: Om
- Glass: Remembering Om
- More Om Links
- Apple raises prices of MacBooks, iPads as memory costs skyrocket
- Apple Reportedly Building M2 Ultra and M4-Powered AI Servers
- Apple M5 Max vs. Nvidia DGX SPARK: Can Apple Dethrone CUDA?
- Facebook Embrace of A.I. Is Making Its Employees Miserable
- Facebook to pause internal mouse-tracking tech while examining data security issues
- Amazon workers pressured to up AI use, making up extraneous tasks
You can find Justin Mayer on the web at justinmayer.com and on the Fediverse at justin.ramble.space.
Dan Jacobson’s homestead on the web is at danj.ca.
48 min - Martian Human Vats
SpaceX stock price plummets, Llama.cpp and LlamaBarn are now “Llama”, and Microsoft hopes to make people addicted to its software.
đź”— Links
- Are you in the weights?
- Steam Machine launches
- Llama
- Microsoft Wants to “Make People Addicted” to its New AI Assistant
- Original paywalled article
You can find Justin Mayer on the web at justinmayer.com and on the Fediverse at justin.ramble.space.
Dan Jacobson’s homestead on the web is at danj.ca.
45 min - Operating System Boomer
Apple II retro-gaming, small wins in Apple OS 27, Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5 & Mythos 5, and the SpaceX IPO.
You can find Justin Mayer on the web at justinmayer.com and on the Fediverse at justin.ramble.space.
Dan Jacobson’s homestead on the web is at danj.ca.
1 hr 2 min - Tickets to a Cat Museum
At its annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), Apple announces Siri AI and other improvements to its upcoming OS 27 line of operating system software.
đź”— Links
- WWDC26 highlights: Apple Intelligence, Siri AI, and more
- Apple introduces Siri AI
You can find Justin Mayer on the web at justinmayer.com and on the Fediverse at justin.ramble.space.
Dan Jacobson’s homestead on the web is at danj.ca.
45 min - Existential Horror of Existence
Google kills its search product after 25 years and announces its Gemini-LLM-centric “Googlebook” notebook, while Plex triples its lifetime pass price to $750.
đź”— Links
- The Virtual OS Museum
- Is AI Profitable?
- Google kills its search product after 25 years
- On Google declaring war on the Web
- Ad Infinitum
- Search alternatives:
- Kagi
- DuckDuckGo
- Ecosia
- Startpage
- Googlebook
- Official Reddit announcement post
- Dropover: wiggle cursor to open a “shelf” (MacOS)
- Plex lifetime pass to jump from $250 to $750
- Jellyfin
- Jellify music app for Jellyfin
- Awesome Jellyfin
You can find Justin Mayer on the web at justinmayer.com and on the Fediverse at justin.ramble.space.
Dan Jacobson’s homestead on the web is at danj.ca.
48 min - Boy Oh Boy Does It Show
Friends don’t let friends use Ollama, local software needs to be the norm, and why it’s not fun to read what LLMs write.
đź”— Links
- Since You Arrived
- Friends Don’t Let Friends Use Ollama
- Local AI needs to be the norm
- Local-first software: You own your data, in spite of the cloud
- Local-first Software Directory
- Sinceerly
- Your AI Use Is Breaking My Brain
- original 404 Media link (paywalled)
You can find Justin Mayer on the web at justinmayer.com and on the Fediverse at justin.ramble.space.
Dan Jacobson’s homestead on the web is at danj.ca.
39 min - Chaotic Flowers Bloom
Apple has a new CEO, Mac windows still have proxy icons, and Anthropic finds a clever way to increase the price for Claude without increasing prices.
đź”— Links
- Pelican 4.12 released
- Bubbles.town
- Window proxy icons in Mac OS 8.5 Human Interface Guidelines (1998)
- Window proxy icons in Neovide
- Claude 4.7 increased token usage
You can find Justin Mayer on the web at justinmayer.com and on the Fediverse at justin.ramble.space.
Dan Jacobson’s homestead on the web is at danj.ca.
48 min - Delusional Fever Dream
We discuss a tool for comparing coding fonts, GitHub announces support for stacked pull requests, and Facebook kills its “metaverse”.
đź”— Links
- Abstractions episode title truncated
- CodingFont.com
- GitHub stacked PRs
- Native instant space switching on MacOS
- AeroSpace tiling window manager for MacOS
- Open-source design stack
- Facebook kills its metaverse
You can find Justin Mayer on the web at justinmayer.com and on the Fediverse at justin.ramble.space.
Dan Jacobson’s homestead on the web is at danj.ca.
43 min - Rather Accurate Quip
Little Snitch is now available for Linux, OpenAI buys a podcast, web sites hijack the browser back button, and a bundle of 30 WordPress plugins were hacked.
đź”— Links
- MacOS scroll-to-zoom
- Little Snitch for Linux
- Little Snitch for Linux — Because Nothing Else Came Close
- OpenAI buys TBPN
- Om Malik and Ben Thompson’s take
- Sometimes powerful people just do dumb s–t
- A new spam policy for “back button hijacking”
- StopTheMadness browser plugin
- Someone Bought 30 WordPress Plugins and Planted a Backdoor in All of Them
You can find Justin Mayer on the web at justinmayer.com and on the Fediverse at justin.ramble.space.
Dan Jacobson’s homestead on the web is at danj.ca.
50 min - Professional Laserologist
Claude Code leaks its source code, GitHub uptime woes continue, people may become dependent on LLMs, and local LLMs are getting faster.
đź”— Links
- Idiocracy Proximity Index
- Claude Code Unpacked
- The Missing GitHub Status Page
- GitHub’s Historic Uptime
- Gemma 4 LLM — Unsloth
- Gemma 4 on iPhone: Google AI Edge Gallery
- LlamaBarn
You can find Justin Mayer on the web at justinmayer.com and on the Fediverse at justin.ramble.space.
Dan Jacobson’s homestead on the web is at danj.ca.
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About Abstractions
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Abstractions is a podcast about technology, software, hardware, and the Internet, and the way the ever-increasing layers of these technologies permeate every aspect of our everyday lives.