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Archive - April 2026

THE WORST KEPT SECRET IN SILICON VALLEY NOW HAS AN EFFECTIVE DATE: Tim Cook to become Apple Executive Chairman; John Ternus to become Apple CEO as of September 1.

Tim Cook separately posted a Community Letter on the announcement.


ENDORSED: Daring Fireball: How to Format 10-Digit Phone Numbers

Apple’s Contacts app … will go so far as to reformat numbers entered in 123-555-1234 format as (123) 555-1234. Apple should update the formatting to go the other way, and turn phone numbers with the area code in parentheses into the 123-555-1234 format. Area codes are no longer optional, which is why they used to be put in parentheses.


THE “HOW” IS WAY OVER MY HEAD, BUT THE “WHY” AND THE RESULT ARE REALLY COOL: Porting Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii


LEARNING FROM THE BEST IN THE FIELD: RIT alumni train Artemis II astronauts in photography.

As an alumnus (though not of the photograhy programs), I might be a little biased.


THIS MAKES MORE SENSE THAN ANYTHING I’VE SEEN BEFORE, BUT I STILL WOULDN’T RULE OUT ALIENS: A Scientist May Have Just Solved the Mystery of the Great Pyramid.


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