The Ephemeral Scrapbook — 2026.06.07

👤 Personal {#life}

1️⃣ After some personal life challenges, I'm mostly back to normal. Nothing too serious. Coupled with a very busy work schedule, my energy was diverted in recent weeks. My next vacation can't come soon enough. 😅

🗺️ Discoveries {#ipad, #competition, #github}

1️⃣ The iPad is the king of all tablets. But, once in a while, a company comes along and dares to challenge it and try something really different, yet familiar. There's Daylight, a new distraction-free tablet. → I'm very curious about this device. It's not cheap, but I like its apparent simplicity. → Daylight | A More Caring Computer 2️⃣ On a completely different topic, ReleaseBar is a utility for tracking what is hot on GitHub. Really well-done dashboard. I have more than 28 starred repos that I want to keep track of with this and what is trending on GitHub → ReleaseBar

👨🏻‍💻 Writing {#iphone18, #techreview}

1️⃣ You can read my blog posts digest for May 2026 right here (a more compact version is available on my Digests website). 2️⃣ Started thinking about what could be my biggest writing project for 2026: the review of the upcoming iPhone 18 Pro Max.

🌄 Photography {#inspiration, #apps}

1️⃣ Great image from my Glass timeline. I tried to make something similar when I was visiting the Egyptian Museum recently, as seen below. 2️⃣ This image, shot using a Nikon Nikkor Z 24-120mm ƒ/4 S, made me want to get mine. I’ve been thinking about it for a while. I have two weeks left to make a decision before my next vacation. 3️⃣ Halide Mark III overhauls the popular iPhone camera app with curated "Looks" developed with a Hollywood colorist, a streamlined Photo Lab for RAW editing, and a redesigned interface. All features and future looks are included in one honest price. It's really a design masterpiece. Is it enough for me to re-subscribe? Not yet. I'll wait for my new iPhone, this fall. → Halide Mark III

🍎 Apple & Tech {#siri,#appleintelligence, #vibecoding,#iphone18}

1️⃣ Apple's biggest AI opportunity isn't building a better Siri or LLM — it's building the best "harness": deep platform integration that lets AI actually accomplish things for users. Apple's hardware, OS control, and customer focus make it uniquely positioned to do this. Will they deliver this week? Your guess is as good as mine. → Apple is best positioned to lead in AI with the best harness for users | Yep - things I write on the internet 2️⃣ AI coding tools are enabling non-programmers to build native Mac apps by translating vision into working software, sparking a renaissance in indie Mac development. But Apple's developer tools, especially Xcode, remain a steep barrier that Apple must urgently address as the definition of "developer" evolves. → Road to WWDC 2026: What’s a developer? 3️⃣ First Look at iPhone 18 Pro Color Options Revealed by Dummy Models 🤔😳😍 Black is back!

How much of Liquid Glass will change under iOS 27? → Where Apple’s Liquid Glass Crashes the User Experience

📱 Apps & Services {#apps,#history, #github}

1️⃣ Mactracker 1.0 was introduced on May 14, 2001. Over the past 25 years, it has grown to become an indispensable tool for resellers, consultants, service providers, collectors, enthusiasts, and IT professionals. When I started learning to write iPhone apps, I contacted the Mactracker developer to build the iPhone version, but it didn't work. → Hello 25! 2️⃣ Homebrew is the standard package manager on macOS. Brew-browser gives it a real native GUI. Really cool. I wish Apple built that into macOS. It's a little weird → GitHub - msitarzewski/brew-browser: Homebrew is the standard package manager on macOS. brew-browser gives it a real native GUI. 3️⃣ The built-in MCP server in Iris Photos might be useful for some AI-based automation and workflows... like me. → Iris Photos — A native macOS photo library 4️⃣ RemCTL is a free, open-source CLI that unlocks Apple Reminders' full feature set—including private APIs for tags, subtasks, smart lists, and grocery categories—for use with desktop AI agents like Claude Code and Codex. It bridges native Reminders with agentic workflows that existing third-party tools couldn't support. It’s funny; he built a command-line tool for Reminders as I built a web replacement for Things 3. → Introducing RemCTL: The Power-User Reminders CLI for macOS and AI Agents 5️⃣ SAP made a strategic investment in n8n, my platform of choice for automating all my workflows. My only hope is that n8n stays open-source and that doesn't mean the start of an enshittification process. Read the press release here: Announcing SAP’s strategic investment in n8n.

Title: Announcing SAP’s strategic investment in n8n – n8n Blog

SAP has made a strategic investment in n8n, valuing the company at $5.2 billion while integrating its workflow orchestration technology into SAP's Joule Studio. This partnership aims to provide enterprises with a secure, compliant platform for building both deterministic logic and AI agent workflows.

🚧 Special projects {#ai, #llms, #vibecoding}

1️⃣ It seems this could be a great replacement for OpenClaw. I plan to spend some time investigating this on my M4 Mac mini. → AnythingLLM Lets You Take Your AI Assistant On The Go With No Complex Setup 2️⃣ I recently transitioned from Things 3 to a custom-built web app that I'm really proud of. You can read more details here. There is one more project that I'd like to tackle before my next vacation in France. More about that soon.

📺 YouTube {#llm, #tech}

1️⃣ I liked the Touch Bar. But it was a dud. 💻 2️⃣ AnythingLLM + Telegram: chatting with LLM running on my Mac from Telegram. Cool. 🤖 3️⃣ Imagining iOS 27. This won't age well. 🔮 4️⃣ This is sketchy. 😎

🔮 Looking forward {#ai,#techinsights, #techtrends}

1️⃣ Technology hype cycles follow a predictable pattern: capability becomes infrastructure, then disappears from conversation entirely. AI isn't plateauing like PCs or smartphones — it's becoming invisible like fibre optics, silently powering everything while nobody notices. Foundation model makers may not capture the value they're enabling. → AI models are having their iPhone moment. What’s Next?

🌟 Miscellaneous {#webdesign}

1️⃣ Gruber coins "dickover" for the modal pop-ups that hijack your screen before letting you read anything. The term is deliberately unpleasant because the design pattern deserves contempt — and a shared vocabulary helps us name and shame it. → What Is a Dickover? 2️⃣ Aave built a cross-browser liquid glass UI effect for the web that works in Chrome, Safari, and Firefox — something existing approaches couldn't achieve. It uses SVG displacement maps and WebGL fallbacks to bend live DOM content, enabling reusable interactive components like switches, sliders, and video players. → Building Glass for the Web

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