Here’s a bunch of links that I’ve been enjoying lately but don’t really warrant much commentary from yours truly. These automatically get piped in from Instapaper, with the most recent showing up in this list. Enjoy!

• The iPhone 17e

• Product Design in 2026

• Define the Theme Color for Safari 26

• Helium Browser: A Privacy Shield or Monopoly Fuel?

• In Praise of “Normal” Engineers

• AI Can Write Your Code. It Can’t Do Your Job. – Terrible Software

• Is Helium the Browser Brave Was Meant to Be?

• 21 Lessons From 14 Years at Google

• What MAGA Sees in the Minnesota Mirror

• Backseat Software – Mike Swanson's Blog

• Loopwerk: Tim Cook sold Apple's soul

• TextEdit and the Relief of Simple Software

• We Are Witnessing the Self-Immolation of a Superpower

• Thoughts and Observations Regarding Apple Creator Studio

• Tata Martino says Miguel Almiron and Alexey Miranchuk "perfectly complementary"

• The Wrong Way to Motivate Your Kid

• MacStories Selects 2025: Recognizing the Best Apps of the Year

• Bad Dye Job

• And Stay Out

• The Wanderer

• "Good engineering management" is a fad

• Socialism or Abundance?

• I researched every attempt to stop fascism in history. The success rate is 0%.

• Albums 7.0: The Mac App, a Glassy UI Refresh, and a boatload of polish!

• No, Republicans Aren’t Better at Managing the Economy Than Democrats

• How Apple’s walled garden protects ICE

• Inside the Rise of Zohran Mamdani

• Zohran Mamdani’s 5 Lessons for the Democrats

• The Staff+ Performance Cliff

• America Needs a Mass Movement—Now

• As America Steps Back, Others Step In

• The Anti-Trump Strategy That’s Actually Working

• Way past its prime: how did Amazon get so rubbish?

• How not to lose your job to AI

• The Product-Minded Software Engineer

• macOS 26 Tahoe: The Ars Technica Review

• Ricky Mondello » Magic Links Have Rough Edges, but Passkeys Can Smooth Them Over

• The Left Can Beat Trumpism With an Ambitious Economic Vision

• Charlie Kirk’s Murder Is a Tragedy and a Disaster

• I’ve Got Better Things To Do Than This, and Yet

• Proportional Representation Is the Solution to Gerrymandering

• A Responsibility to the Industry

• Liquid Glass. Why? • furbo.org

• How Liverpool play: Relentless full-backs, a reshaped midfield and a set-piece reboot

• The Road Map to Restoring American Democracy

• How a Show About Truly Terrible People Became the Defining American Sitcom

• We Need a Strategy to Win Zohran’s Agenda. Call It Plan Z.

• Thoughts on iPadOS 26: Hello, It’s Good to Be Back

• Curse Not the King

• In case of emergency, break glass