RE: https://mastodon.social/@danielpunkass/116224167543556282

Average radar response time right there 🙃

This is a real unprompted system popup I just got from Microsoft Edge on Windows 11, trying to convince me to download its phone counterpart.

@adamrice @Peetz0r you can't remotely compare a Geekbench 2 result to Geekbench 6, but just for fun I can convert it. The most recent Geekbench 2 result I have is an iPhone 6, which I have benchmarked on GB5. And I can bench the MacBook Neo on GB5 too.

Neo: 2394
iPhone 6: 327

For a 7.32x multiplier.

So the MacBook Neo would be 17,868 in GB2 numbers, or 22.6X the performance of the eeePC, per core

(Naturally, you can't directly convert between GB results, but fun experiment)

iOS Dev Weekly – Issue 745 is out! Happy Friday, everyone! 😬

https://iosdevweekly.com/issues/745/#start

#swiftlang #iosdev

@taylorhadden start more projects you say? OK!

@stroughtonsmith 2009 I had the Dell Mini 9! https://flickr.com/photos/tehdik/3469558956/in/photolist-6hAp11

Before the 12" MacBook, before the 11" MacBook Air, there was the 9" ASUS Eee PC hackintosh, and there were a number of new-to-macOS developers in our community who learned how to develop for iPhone on this very setup, and started their careers from it.

The Eee PC 901 netbook was priced at, you guessed it, the same $599 as the brand-new incredibly-powerful MacBook Neo

@stroughtonsmith even if the app is on the Mac App Store you still might not find it: https://blog.thinktapwork.com/post/807186791227588608/mac-app-store-search-is-rotten

‘Grief and the AI Split’
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/03/13/grief-and-the-ai-split

@vito you're right, the description is behind. Another thing for my todo list

@kocienda docs, tickets, roadmaps are all as important as source code to the compiler now! Would be interesting to see an IDE represent that progressive disclosure — where classes and methods could start out as bullet points and fill in the implementation underneath at build time, until you really need to swap them out with dedicated code 😄

@vito that's Scarlet

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/scarlet/id1532669250

@2ndNatureDev not outright broken, but it sometimes takes a few reboots of the iPad sim to get external displays to work, and changing the mode will kill SpringBoard

Do I have too many projects on the go at the same time?

Perhaps.

⭐️ New blog post: A Month With OpenAI's Codex

https://highcaffeinecontent.com/blog/20260301-A-Month-With-OpenAIs-Codex

It's been literal *years* since I last posted anything, so you know this is a big deal for me 😜

✈️ I didn't mention it earlier, but my Apple-Pencil-only notebook app, still just a concept validation test, has been updated for iPadOS 26 and is available through TestFlight. As it's an unreleased app and I don't want to get stuck developing two versions of the UI, I've also bumped the minimum requirements

https://testflight.apple.com/join/3X47Abyd

@chriswelch it'll reduce the brightness if the device is getting too warm, like when using the camera or something intensive?

✈️ I'm getting used to TestFlighting things that might be a little earlier than usual lately, and I have a lot of projects on my back burner that need some love.

With that in mind, I'm opening up the current build of @graceapp for iOS and Mac. It's been sitting on my shelf for four years now and I need the motivation to just get it done.

"Grace is an evidence-based picture exchange app designed to encourage and reward independent communication through the use of images"

https://testflight.apple.com/join/BSP3f3j3

@amyworrall @rosyna I think there are proper Skills you can integrate to enable safe xcodeproj editing, or using it in Xcode itself should do some of that

Reviews keep saying the MacBook Neo puts other laptops 'in its price range' to shame, but it very clearly puts PC laptops four times its price to shame. And that's before accounting for the RAMpocalypse which is going to clip the PC market's wings this year. There's a potential future where Apple becomes the largest consumer PC manufacturer by market share, effectively overnight, depending on how this plays out. A perfectly-timed kill shot for an industry in turmoil