Abstractions

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].

Professional Laserologist

Claude Code leaks its source code, GitHub uptime woes continue, people may become dependent on LLMs, and local LLMs are getting faster. ---------------------------------------- 🔗 Links * Idiocracy Proximity Index [https://idiocracy.wtf] * Claude Code Unpacked [https://ccunpacked.dev] * The Missing GitHub Status Page [https://mrshu.github.io/github-statuses/] * GitHub’s Historic Uptime [https://damrnelson.github.io/github-historical-uptime/] * Gemma 4 LLM — Unsloth [https://unsloth.ai/docs/models/gemma-4] * Gemma 4 on iPhone: Google AI Edge Gallery [https://apps.apple.com/us/app/google-ai-edge-gallery/id6749645337] * LlamaBarn [https://github.com/ggml-org/LlamaBarn] 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].

Modern Tech Cockroach

CoPilot puts Microsoft ads in GitHub pull requests, Apple discontinues the Mac Pro, and Anthropic stands by its values and forgoes a government contract. ---------------------------------------- 🔗 Links * CBonsai [https://github.com/jakobrees/cbonsai] * Meow.camera [https://meow.camera] * Purrrr cat feeder [https://www.hipurrrr.com] * Purrrr iPhone app [https://apps.apple.com/us/app/purrrr-feed-rescue-stray-cats/id6475722361] * Neko House cat desk [https://soranews24.com/2026/03/27/japan-now-has-a-special-desk-for-people-who-work-at-home-with-a-pet-catphotos/] * Custom Cat Aquarium [https://customcataquarium.com] * Copilot Edited an Ad Into My PR [https://notes.zachmanson.com/copilot-edited-an-ad-into-my-pr/] * GitHub kills Copilot PR ads after backlash [https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/30/github_copilot_ads_pull_requests/] * CoPilot training opt-out settings [https://github.com/settings/copilot/features] * LinkedIn feed view settings [https://www.linkedin.com/mypreferences/d/settings/preferred-view] * Apple discontinues the Mac Pro [https://9to5mac.com/2026/03/26/apple-discontinues-the-mac-pro/] * Wired headphone sales on the rise [https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260310-wired-headphones-are-better-than-bluetooth] 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].