Stephen Hackett

2 days ago | 512pixels.net | Stephen Hackett

This week on the podcast: Federico has been experimenting with KVMs, I have been fixing macOS between dreams, and Myke finally experienced iOS 26. After those conversations, we turned to a list of questions from listeners about WWDC, Apple’s app strategy, and more. On Connected Pro, we had Federico judge some American “pizza” and then discussed Apple’s sending of promotional notifications. Connected Pro is the longer, ad-free version of the show for just $7/month.

3 days ago | 512pixels.net | Stephen Hackett

After months of reporting and community concern, the city of Memphis has released its findings of air quality testing that took place near xAI’s two data centers. The PDF of those results can be seen here, and for more, we turn to Samuel Hardiman: The city tested at Macedonia Missionary Baptist in Boxtown, which is near xAI’s first Memphis data center; The Links at Whitehaven, located near xAI’s second Memphis data center, and City Hall.

3 days ago | 512pixels.net | Stephen Hackett

John Gruber, responding to my article celebrating Tahoe Beta 2’s new Finder icon: I’m going to strongly disagree here. The Tahoe beta 2 Finder icon is slightly better, but seeing it this way makes it obvious that the problem with the Tahoe Finder icon isn’t whether it’s dark/light or light/dark from left to right. It’s that with this Tahoe design it’s not 50/50. It’s the appliqué — the right side (the face in profile) looks like something stuck on top of a blue face tile.

4 days ago | 512pixels.net | Stephen Hackett

Wendover Productions’ video on the subject is really interesting:VIDEO

4 days ago | 512pixels.net | Stephen Hackett

This is really, really cool: I was recently poking around inside the original Power Macintosh G3’s ROM and accidentally discovered an easter egg that nobody has documented until now. This story starts with me on a lazy Sunday using Hex Fiend in conjunction with Eric Harmon’s Mac ROM template (ROM Fiend) to look through the resources stored in the Power Mac G3’s ROM. This ROM was used in the beige desktop, minitower, and all-in-one G3 models from 1997 through 1999.