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Teenage Beta

I just found out both my teenage kids are running iOS 26 Developer Beta on their phones. I tried explaining the pros and cons and what a developer beta is for, but it’s in one ear out the other. “My friends are doing it, dad. Why can’t I?”

The Talk Show 2025

I attended The Talk Show Live From WWDC 2025 in San Jose last week. It was the first time I ever attended a taping, and it happened to coincide with the first time in the last 10 years where there wasn’t an Apple executive on the panel. It was still a good show, slightly over 2 hours long, covering Apple’s announcements the day prior. I took this photo using the iPhone 16 Pro Max, about 10 rows back, stage right.

Not bad, right?

The full video is on YouTube.

Nilay Patel, Joanna Stern, and John Gruber at The Talk Show Live

Goodbye Mr. Spock

I always felt great knowing I shared a birthday with Mr. Spock. As has been said on the interwebs today, he did live long and prosper.

A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory.  LLAP