512 Pixels [Unofficial]

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Connected 607: You’re on Speaker Phone with Connected

3d ago·1 min read·35 words

A Look at the Lisa’s Menu System

4d ago·1 min read·84 words

WWDC26: A Look at the Future

5d ago·1 min read·60 words

‘The Space Shuttle at Work’

5d ago·1 min read·13 words

Memphis Officials ‘Pretty Positive’ that SpaceX Will Complete Promised Water Treatment Plant

6d ago·1 min read·86 words

WWDC26: A Look at macOS Golden Gate’s App Icons

6d ago·1 min read·115 words

WWDC26: macOS 27 Golden Gate's Default Wallpaper

Jun 8·1 min read·46 words

WWDC26: Apple Watch Ultra 1 and SE 2 Dropped from watchOS 27

Jun 8·1 min read·19 words

WWDC26: Tim Cook's Closing Reflections

Jun 8·1 min read·10 words

WWDC26: A New Kind of Keynote

Jun 8·1 min read·79 words

WWDC26: As Foretold, macOS 27 Golden Gate Drops Intel Support

Jun 8·1 min read·15 words

Anthropic Calls for Pausing Frontier AI Development as It Files for IPO

Jun 5·1 min read·122 words

Google Joins Anthropic in Leasing Compute from SpaceX/xAI

Jun 5·1 min read·141 words

Save the Date

Jun 5·1 min read·18 words

The Fitbit Air's Sleep Tracking is Trying to Keep Me Up at Night

Jun 5·1 min read·18 words

Connected 606: The Rickies (June 2026) - I Quit the Show That Helps

Jun 4·1 min read·47 words

Ah Yes, Engagement

Jun 4·1 min read·5 words

Microsoft Killing Office 2019 for Mac

Jun 2·1 min read·116 words

It's Not Just About the Price

Jun 2·1 min read·89 words

Extensive Damage at LC-36

Jun 2·1 min read·91 words

Designed in California

Jun 1·1 min read·9 words

The Talk Show: Twins Named John

Jun 1·1 min read·64 words

Blue Origin’s New Glenn Explodes on Pad During a Static Fire Test

May 29·1 min read·17 words

Connected 605: Being Completely Awesome

May 28·1 min read·24 words

The MacBook Ultra’s Naming Dilemma

May 26·1 min read·10 words

The Ferrari Luce

May 25·1 min read·10 words

Please Disregard

May 23·1 min read·4 words

Connected #604: The Floor of the Street

May 21·1 min read·45 words

Connected #604: The Floor of the Street

May 21·1 min read·12 words

SpaceX to File for IPO

May 20·1 min read·6 words

The BOOK II

May 20·1 min read·10 words

Upgrade 616: Outmoded But Not Vintage

May 19·1 min read·57 words

Connected 603: Ungraded for Style

May 14·1 min read·30 words

‘Grok is the RC Cola’ of the AI World

May 14·1 min read·67 words

Surprise! xAI is Running a Bunch of Unpermitted Turbines in North Mississippi

May 13·1 min read·12 words

Indigo

May 12·1 min read·1 words

Building Artemis II’s Fault-Tolerant Computer

May 12·1 min read·5 words

Clarus Can Walk

May 11·1 min read·3 words

Connected 602: Computer Too Good

May 7·1 min read·5 words

Google Fitbit Air

May 7·1 min read·3 words

Anthropic Taking Over All Capacity of xAl’s First Memphis Data Center

May 6·1 min read·11 words

Connected #601: I Love Wrists — A Tier List of Tim Cook Quotes

Apr 30·1 min read·13 words

The Wonderful World of Artemis II Photos

Apr 30·1 min read·7 words

AI Psychosis Reaches the Executive Suite

Apr 30·1 min read·6 words

Sam Altman Apologizes to British Columbia Community, Wonders Who Could Have Stopped Such Violence

Apr 29·1 min read·14 words

Pedometer++ 8.0

Apr 28·1 min read·2 words

CHATBOT Act Introduced in Senate

Apr 28·1 min read·5 words

‘Debating New iPhone Colors for a Living’

Apr 27·1 min read·7 words

The Problem With AI: ‘Software Brain’

Apr 25·1 min read·6 words

Control Center is Homeless

Apr 24·1 min read·4 words

Connected 600: Tommy Siri

Apr 23·1 min read·4 words

The Framework Laptop 13 Pro

Apr 22·1 min read·5 words

A Presidential Proclamation Marking Tim Cook’s Retirement

Apr 21·1 min read·7 words

Cook Out

Apr 20·1 min read·2 words

The Future of the Artemis Program

Apr 12·1 min read·6 words

iPhones in Spaaaaaaaace

Apr 12·1 min read·3 words

The Artemis II Crew is Home

Apr 11·1 min read·6 words

Bruce the Yak was Final Cut Pro’s Dogcow

Apr 10·1 min read·8 words

Connected 598: 8TB of Space in a Trash Can

Apr 9·1 min read·9 words

xAI Says Memphis Water Plant Still Happening

Apr 9·1 min read·7 words

xAI’s Memphis Water Treatment Plant ‘on an Indefinite Pause’

Apr 8·1 min read·9 words

‘Ultra’

Apr 7·1 min read·1 words

Artemis II Photos

Apr 7·1 min read·3 words

The Late Apollo 13 Commander Jim Lovell Recorded Message for Artemis II Crew

Apr 7·1 min read·13 words

I Have Done a Vibe Code

Apr 6·1 min read·6 words

Artemis II Crew Shares Easter Messages

Apr 6·1 min read·6 words

A Good Mac Studio is Hard to Find

Apr 3·1 min read·8 words

Musk Pushing Grok Subscriptions on Banks and Firms Working on SpaceX IPO

Apr 3·1 min read·12 words

Artemis II’s View of Earth

Apr 3·1 min read·5 words

Connected 591: S-Tier: Jason Snell

Apr 2·1 min read·5 words

Lil Finder is a Star

Apr 2·1 min read·5 words

Artemis II Crew on Way to Moon

Apr 2·1 min read·7 words

Fifty

Apr 1·1 min read·1 words

Apple at 50: Ron Wayne’s Other 90 Years

Apr 1·1 min read·8 words

Artemis II Launch Being Captured in Apple’s Immersive Video Format

Mar 31·1 min read·10 words

Apple at 50: The Importance of the MacBook Air

Mar 31·1 min read·9 words

Apple at 50: How Apple Became Apple

Mar 30·1 min read·7 words

Apple at 50: Apple II Forever

Mar 30·1 min read·6 words

FireWire via a Raspberry Pi

Mar 28·1 min read·5 words

How Apple Could Have (Maybe) Saved the Mac Pro

Mar 27·1 min read·9 words

‘Can’t Innovate Anymore, My Ass’

Mar 27·1 min read·5 words

The Mac Pro is Dead

Mar 26·1 min read·5 words

Connected 596: Something You Might Want to Do on a Sunday

Mar 26·1 min read·11 words

MacBreak Weekly: We Found a Google, and Put It In

Mar 25·1 min read·10 words

OpenAI Shuttering Sora

Mar 24·1 min read·3 words

AgentBridge

Mar 24·1 min read·1 words

Mac OS X Shipped 25 Years Ago

Mar 24·1 min read·7 words

WWDC26: June 8-12

Mar 23·1 min read·3 words

Hide macOS Tahoe’s Menu Icons With This One Simple Trick

Mar 21·1 min read·10 words

The Case for an Ultralight Mac

Mar 21·1 min read·6 words

‘Twenty Years of Me’

Mar 20·1 min read·4 words

It’s Been a Big Week for the Mac

Mar 20·1 min read·8 words

Connected 595: Federico Says “He Will Gone”

Mar 19·1 min read·7 words

NASA Reportedly Starting the Process to Move Away From the SLS

Mar 19·1 min read·11 words

Tennessee Teenagers Suing xAI After Grok Used Their Images to Make CSAM

Mar 18·1 min read·12 words

The Missing iMac Special Edition

Mar 17·1 min read·5 words

Inside the MacBook Neo

Mar 17·1 min read·4 words

A Collection of Lil Finder 5K Wallpapers

Mar 16·1 min read·7 words

3D Print Your Own Lil Finder

Mar 16·1 min read·6 words

Mac Pro Wheels on Sale

Mar 13·1 min read·5 words

Connected 594: Vibing at 50 / Warranted But Not Sexy / The Relay Account Has Signed In

Mar 12·1 min read·17 words

Unlock Mac-Specific Accent Colors

Mar 12·1 min read·4 words

Tim Cook, on 50 Years of Apple

Mar 12·1 min read·7 words

Mississippi Approves 41 Natural Gas Turbines for Southaven Site

Mar 11·1 min read·9 words

HyperCard Changed Everything

Mar 10·1 min read·3 words

More on Lil Finder Guy

Mar 8·1 min read·5 words

What’s in a (Super) Name

Mar 7·1 min read·5 words

Apple is on TikTok, Posting Unhinged Videos About the MacBook Neo

Mar 6·1 min read·11 words

Connected #593: John Ternus Was Deployed Tactically

Mar 5·1 min read·7 words

At $599, Is the MacBook Neo the One?

Mar 4·1 min read·8 words

The Technical Differences Between the MacBook Neo and MacBook Air

Mar 4·1 min read·10 words

Apple Announces an Updated Studio Display… Family?!

Mar 3·1 min read·7 words

Apple Updates the MacBook Air and MacBook Pro

Mar 3·1 min read·8 words

Apple Unveils iPad Air with M4, iPhone 17e with A19 and MagSafe

Mar 2·1 min read·12 words

xAI’s $7 Million ‘Temu Sound Wall’ Does Little in Southaven

Mar 2·1 min read·10 words

Connected 592: The Rickies (March 2026)

Feb 26·1 min read·6 words

My Full Responses for the 2025 Six Colors Report Card

Feb 24·1 min read·10 words

Apple Highlights Its American Manufacturing Efforts

Feb 24·1 min read·6 words

The 2025 Six Colors Report Card

Feb 23·1 min read·6 words

Artemis II Headed Inside for Repairs

Feb 23·1 min read·6 words

Connected 591: Find Your Lost Stephen

Feb 19·1 min read·6 words

NAACP Against xAI’s Southaven Turbines

Feb 18·1 min read·5 words

xAI Ramps Up Turbine Usage in Southaven, Repeating Its Actions in Memphis

Feb 17·1 min read·12 words

Someone Tell John Ternus This Would Be a Terrible Crime

Feb 16·1 min read·10 words

Apple Announces Press ‘Experience’ for March 4

Feb 16·1 min read·7 words

Connected 590: Nooooo (Marked as Resolved)

Feb 12·1 min read·6 words

Jony Ive Designed a Car Interior

Feb 11·1 min read·6 words

Mac Power Users 835: Farewell, Stephen

Feb 10·1 min read·6 words

I am Living Inside an XKCD

Feb 6·1 min read·6 words

Connected 589: We Are Men of Each Other… Or Am I Alone in This Silence? 🦞

Feb 5·1 min read·16 words

iPhones in Spaaaaaace

Feb 5·1 min read·3 words