For today’s Apple’s 50th anniversary, I didn’t write a special blog post. Maybe I should have. I kind of forgot about it, even though I wrote about it a few days ago. Anyway, a few years ago, I wrote about the root of my passion for Apple. I’m not sure this article aged well, though. Nonetheless, Apple and Steve Jobs played a major role in defining who I am today, that’s for sure.
A tall, modern skyscraper disappears into a misty sky, with its geometric lines accentuating the cloudy atmosphere.
9to5Mac’s article “Vibe coding could mark the end of the App Store review process as we know it”:
The rise of AI-powered “agentic coding” has overwhelmed Apple’s App Store review process, with developers reporting review times of 3+ days to a week instead of the traditional under-24-hour turnaround. The influx of fully AI-generated apps from new developers has created a bottleneck for human reviewers, making it unfair for established developers whose update submissions are delayed. To address this, the author suggests Apple could implement separate review queues for established developers or automate updates while maintaining human review only for new submissions, though it may ultimately become necessary to reduce or eliminate full human review.
I don’t see the current review process at Apple as sustainable. I imagine parts of the workflow are already automated (like finding tentative of private API usage). But, just for vibe coding, reviewing app submissions should be supervised, and human gated.
I didn’t visit this city, it’s coming from Unsplash.
Just finished compiling the list of Micro.blog plugins that my blog is using: 31 in total. Then Claude AI analyzed all GitHub repos to see if there were any potential conflicts. Here’s the complete impact report for all 31 plugins, organized by risk level:
micro-blog-cards-theme — This is a full replacement theme, not a plugin. Installing it would completely override your custom theme. Skip it entirely.
plugin-collections — Injects its own lightbox targeting .e-content img. This directly conflicts with the custom lightbox you built in v0.9.12 (theme.js). Both would fight over the same images. Don’t install unless you remove your lightbox first.
plugin-opengraph-basics — Your theme already has full Open Graph meta tags (added in v0.5.9 in head.html). Installing this would generate duplicate OG tags in the <head>.
plugin-archive-months — Overrides list.archivehtml.html, which would take over the archive page display with its own year/month grouped layout and inline JS. Replaces the theme’s existing compact archive view.
plugin-photos-months — Overrides list.photoshtml.html. Conflicts with your already-installed plugin-all-photos, which also provides that template. Last one installed wins.
plugin-screenshots — Also overrides list.photoshtml.html. Same conflict with plugin-all-photos.
kottkrig/microdotblog-photos-page — Also overrides list.photoshtml.html. Same three-way conflict. Pick only one photos page plugin.
stoot — Its CSS expects CSS custom properties (--gray-*, --white, --black, --link, --text-base) that your theme doesn’t define. Mastodon embeds will render with broken/missing styles. Fixable by adding those variables to style.css.
plugin-post-stats — No dark mode support in its CSS. The stats page cards and Chart.js charts will look visually inconsistent in dark mode. Fixable with CSS overrides.
plugin-bigfoot — Already analyzed. jQuery 1.12.4 (~90KB) loaded on every page, and footnote popover CSS won’t respect dark mode. Set post_separator = "article.h-entry" when installing.
plugin-conversation-on-mb — Adds a “View conversation on Micro.blog” link, but requires manually calling {{ partial "conversation-link.html" . }} in your theme’s single post templates. Your theme already loads Micro.blog’s conversation.js via microhook-after-post.html, which renders the full conversation box. This plugin adds a different thing (a link vs. a box), so they don’t conflict — but it needs a manual theme edit to integrate.
plugin-reply-by-email — Same situation: requires {{ partial "reply-by-email.html" . }} manually added to your single post template. Your theme already has reply.js for native Micro.blog replies. These serve different purposes (email vs. Micro.blog) and can coexist, but need a theme edit.
plugin-reply-on-mastodon — Repository returns 404. No longer exists.
plugin-search-space — Creates a /search-space/ page (different URL from your installed /search/ page). Having two search pages could confuse visitors. Pick one.
Bottom line: The most important things to avoid are plugin-collections (lightbox conflict) and plugin-opengraph-basics (duplicate OG tags). For the photos page, pick only one of: plugin-all-photos, plugin-photos-months, plugin-screenshots, or kottkrig/microdotblog-photos-page.
I’m not sure everything has been analyzed correctly, especially when it comes to photo-related plugins.
Asymco, on the Mac market share in The biggest surprise of the MacBook Neo
“The big change in computing has not been a growing Mac versus declining PC, but rather a huge surge in mobile device use versus a decline in PC use overall.” — Asymco
Who knew.
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Welcome to your test blog! You can create new posts here to test theme and design changes.