I was lucky that I could get a fig tree from someone in town. Just moved it with the cargo bike.
Sun is baking Antwerp, Belgium
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but some like it more than others.
Legibility improvements on Mac OS 27
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Read more: Legibility improvements on Mac OS 27I find the
new icon rendering in Mac OS 27 (Golden Gate) much easier on the eyes.
Image from https://basicappleguy.com/basicappleblog/macos-golden-gate-icon-comparisonThe old ones triggered the autofocus sound in my brain, like a camera lens struggling to focus.
Good for us who suffer from astigmatism
Found out what AI couldn’t : knopper gall wasp galls
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Read more: Found out what AI couldn’t : knopper gall wasp gallsWent back to
the park today and found more of these strange seed pods (I now know they aren’t seed pods). I examined all the trees around, but nothing came up that I could link to these things. Only Oaks, Beeches, Tilia, Cypresses, Cherry Laurel, …They’re galls from a wasp named
Andricus quercuscalicis which is known to create Knopper Galls.I posted about my attempts to identify these with AI before, but Gemini, ChatGPT, Claude and even
ObsIdentify failed. After cutting one open, looking closely, sitting back to think, I researched galls on quercus and these came up. Happy to know.Mac Mini FOMO
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with delivery estimates running up to months. Yesterday, price increases were announced.I have been tinkering in Xcode and plan to ship a stupid niche app soon. But I did not test it on Tahoe or Golden Gate yet. I wonder if that would pass app review.
I still have some Intel Macs lying around, but they
wont run the new Mac OS Golden Gate beta. So maybe I should just get a Mac Mini while I can 😬.Update 2026.06.25:
It happened. Grabbed a Mini before they applied the update.The Public Suffix List
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Read more: The Public Suffix ListWhile researching security and how it’s done on github.io as an example, I ran into the
Public Suffix List today. It’s actually fascinating to skim through the list itself.It’s wild that such a low-tech approach is the solution to a security feature in browsers. Even more so when you realize that it takes some time to update the PSL in your browser. For example,
chatgpt.site was added to the list on June 9th but is not yet in the list for Google Chrome (blob: 5eabc92d51226369bf800473de55787951809886) . And cookies are still set for the top-level domain in my version (148.0.7778.181):
Firefox also accepts these cookies, even though their version of
the list is more recent and they should have an auto update mechanism in place.Daniel Stenberg, creator of curl, describes the PSL as follows:
If you ask me, this is one of the ugliest parts of cookie functionality.
Daniel Stenberg, creator of curlI am inclined to agree with that.
Fable’s one-shots
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Read more: Fable’s one-shotsPretty impressive one-shots generated by Anthropic’s new Fable model for Claude:
- https://riemann.adilmoujahid.com/
- https://azimi.me/axial-flux-motor-explainer/
- https://banagale.com/the-way-the-motor-works/
Putting forward good questions is becoming the new skill, rather than researching a good answer.
Visiting de Quaye Werelt
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We visited
de Quaye Werelt , a medieval festival in Antwerps largest park. (Check the arrow coming down on the soldiers.)
