v54 - Hot Sleeper

The summer heat ended up thawing out my podcast, so I had no choice but to go buy a new microphone and grumble into it for a couple hours. Just how that works. Please enjoy.

I am actively soliciting mailbag participation. As always, the address is [email protected], and I'd be really curious to hear how America is doing because it seems like everything is going great.

For the first time I let Claude write these links for me, because it never occurred to me I didn't have to format the markdown manually:

• PicoRuby Kaigi 2025
• FleaFlicker, my first iOS game!
• Aaron's puns, ranked
• Claude Fable 5 gets another bump: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
• Who's Afraid of Chinese Models?
• Apple vs OpenAI
• Apple's Chip Plans: M6, M7 Pro, M7 Max, M7 Ultra, M8 Details; Touch MacBook Pro (archive)
• Public betas for iOS 27, macOS 27 and more Apple platforms are now available
• Apple's fm CLI
• Nvidia's Jensen Huang reunites with Sega exec who saved the company with $5M investment
• New survey claims 100% of Japanese online game developers use generative AI tools
• PlayStation announces the end of disc games, starting in January 2028
• Super Mario Bros. 2: The Lost Levels and Japan's HARD OFF stores
• Xbox confirms plans to cut 5 studios and thousands of jobs
• Obsidian is reportedly making a new Avowed Fallout game
• Id Software dev claims it's been 'relegated to support studio size'
• Rebooting (a.k.a. Brush Up Life)
• Straight to Hell
• You Can't Expense This!
• Forza Horizon 6
• Cook, Serve, Delicious!
• The Odyssey