Existential Horror of Existence

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. ---------------------------------------- 🔗 Links * The Virtual OS Museum [https://virtualosmuseum.org] * Is AI Profitable? [https://isaiprofitable.com] * Google kills its search product after 25 years * On Google declaring war on the Web [https://tante.cc/2026/05/20/on-google-declaring-war-on-the-web/] * Ad Infinitum [https://matthiasott.com/notes/ad-infinitum] * Search alternatives: * Kagi [https://kagi.com] * DuckDuckGo [https://duckduckgo.com] * Ecosia [https://www.ecosia.org] * Startpage [https://www.startpage.com] * Googlebook [https://googlebook.google] * Official Reddit announcement post [https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/1tb8xls/introducing_googlebook_a_new_category_of_laptops/] * Dropover: wiggle cursor to open a “shelf” (MacOS) [https://dropoverapp.com] * Plex lifetime pass to jump from $250 to $750 [https://boingboing.net/2026/05/20/plex-lifetime-pass-is-jumping-from-250-to-750-in-july.html] * Jellyfin [https://jellyfin.org] * Jellify music app for Jellyfin [https://github.com/Jellify-Music/App] * Awesome Jellyfin [https://github.com/awesome-jellyfin/awesome-jellyfin] You can find Justin Mayer on the web at justinmayer.com [https://justinmayer.com] and on the Fediverse at justin.ramble.space [https://ramble.space/@justin]. Dan Jacobson’s homestead on the web is at danj.ca [https://danj.ca].

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. ---------------------------------------- 🔗 Links * Since You Arrived [https://sinceyouarrived.world] * Friends Don’t Let Friends Use Ollama [https://sleepingrobots.com/dreams/stop-using-ollama/] * Local AI needs to be the norm [https://unix.foo/posts/local-ai-needs-to-be-norm/] * Local-first software: You own your data, in spite of the cloud [https://www.inkandswitch.com/essay/local-first/] * Local-first Software Directory [https://lofi.so] * Sinceerly [https://sinceerly.com] * Your AI Use Is Breaking My Brain [https://archive.ph/rPLjp] * original 404 Media link [https://www.404media.co/your-ai-use-is-breaking-my-brain/] (paywalled) You can find Justin Mayer on the web at justinmayer.com [https://justinmayer.com] and on the Fediverse at justin.ramble.space [https://ramble.space/@justin]. Dan Jacobson’s homestead on the web is at danj.ca [https://danj.ca].

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. ---------------------------------------- 🔗 Links * Pelican 4.12 released [https://getpelican.com/blog/pelican-4.12-released/] * Bubbles.town [https://bubbles.town] * Window proxy icons in Mac OS 8.5 Human Interface Guidelines (1998) [https://web.archive.org/web/20160207001836/http://mirror.informatimago.com/next/developer.apple.com/documentation/macos8/HumanInterfaceToolbox/WindowManager/ProgWMacOS8.5WindowMgr/WindowMgr.5.html] * Window proxy icons in Neovide [https://github.com/neovide/neovide/issues/3488] * Claude 4.7 increased token usage [https://simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/20/claude-token-counts/] You can find Justin Mayer on the web at justinmayer.com [https://justinmayer.com] and on the Fediverse at justin.ramble.space [https://ramble.space/@justin]. Dan Jacobson’s homestead on the web is at danj.ca [https://danj.ca].

Delusional Fever Dream

We discuss a tool for comparing coding fonts, GitHub announces support for stacked pull requests, and Facebook kills its “metaverse”. ---------------------------------------- 🔗 Links * Abstractions episode title truncated [https://social.joshthomas.dev/@josh/116375655040921467] * CodingFont.com [https://www.codingfont.com] * GitHub stacked PRs [https://github.github.com/gh-stack/] * Native instant space switching on MacOS [https://arhan.sh/blog/native-instant-space-switching-on-macos/] * AeroSpace tiling window manager for MacOS [https://github.com/nikitabobko/AeroSpace] * Open-source design stack [https://piccalil.li/blog/the-open-source-design-stack/] * Facebook kills its metaverse [https://archive.ph/ExgYy] You can find Justin Mayer on the web at justinmayer.com [https://justinmayer.com] and on the Fediverse at justin.ramble.space [https://ramble.space/@justin]. Dan Jacobson’s homestead on the web is at danj.ca [https://danj.ca].

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. ---------------------------------------- 🔗 Links * MacOS scroll-to-zoom [https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/04/13/macos-zoom-gesture] * Little Snitch for Linux [https://obdev.at/products/littlesnitch-linux/index.html] * Little Snitch for Linux — Because Nothing Else Came Close [https://www.obdev.at/blog/little-snitch-for-linux/] * OpenAI buys TBPN [https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/04/02/openai-tbpn] * Om Malik and Ben Thompson’s take [https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/04/07/om-malik-on-openai-buying-tbpn] * Sometimes powerful people just do dumb s–t [https://www.joanwestenberg.com/sometimes-powerful-people-just-do-dumb-shit/] * A new spam policy for “back button hijacking” [https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2026/04/back-button-hijacking] * StopTheMadness browser plugin [https://underpassapp.com/StopTheMadness/] * Someone Bought 30 WordPress Plugins and Planted a Backdoor in All of Them [https://anchor.host/someone-bought-30-wordpress-plugins-and-planted-a-backdoor-in-all-of-them/] You can find Justin Mayer on the web at justinmayer.com [https://justinmayer.com] and on the Fediverse at justin.ramble.space [https://ramble.space/@justin]. Dan Jacobson’s homestead on the web is at danj.ca [https://danj.ca].