Music:

Listening to 2026 Week 24 Music Sampler –
57 tracks –
about 4 hours of music
https://tidal.com/playlist/b0239f47-29a8-4ecc-ad19-7ebaee3ed2b8

collected a real hodge-podge of genres to listen to and check out this week

I haven’t set this up yet BUT if you want to record music info to Last.fm AND something else (like teal.fm) https://docs.multi-scrobbler.app/

Pic of the week – dug through the tech closet:

Subscribed to:

The daily email newsletters: I don’t read that many email newsletter and prefer RSS most o the time but these are the newsletters I do read:

• WTF Just Happened Today? https://whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com/
• Daily Skimm https://www.theskimm.com/
• Global News (Canadian newspaper) https://globalnews.ca/pages/email-alerts/
• The Logoff by Vox https://www.vox.com/logoff-newsletter-trump-administration-updates
• Wired Daily Newsletter: https://www.wired.com/newsletter

WWDC26 – Things I found interesting:

1. Apple Rebuilds Search Infrastructure Across Platforms: https://www.macrumors.com/2026/06/08/apple-rebuilds-search-infrastructure
   
2. Security and AI: https://www.macrumors.com/2026/06/08/apple-reveals-new-ai-architecture
   Heavy use of AI will require an upgrade: https://www.macrumors.com/2026/06/09/icloud-subscribers-get-higher-apple-intelligence-usage-limits/
   And … PCC (Private Cloud Compute) will use some of Google Servers:
   • https://www.macrumors.com/2026/06/08/apple-private-cloud-compute-google/
   • https://arstechnica.com/apple/2026/06/apple-says-its-ai-is-still-private-even-when-its-running-on-googles-servers
     
3. Share a phone number between two phones (good for small biz or families) but appears to require carrier support and it’s not clear which carriers will provide this: https://www.macrumors.com/2026/06/08/ios-27-tidbits
   
4. Custom EQ for airpods: https://www.macrumors.com/2026/06/08/apple-to-bring-custom-eq-to-airpods
   
5. Advanced dictation turned off by default in ios27 – how to turn it on https://9to5mac.com/2026/06/12/ai-advanced-dictation-preview-ios-27-beta/
   
6. You can now describe an Apple shortcut in natural language, instead of needing to build it step by step (how well it does it is yet to be seen)
   
7. Spatial Reframing and some of the other photography stuff is … concerning? But also feels like they’re competing with Adobe and Canva.

More detail & moresummaries:

• https://www.wired.com/story/everything-apple-announced-at-wwdc-2026
• https://www.macrumors.com/2026/06/08/wwdc-2026-live-coverage/

Links:

Total Solar Eclipse (4min):

Peppers ghost … with your phone to create a hologram:

Do you need 365 words for drunk? https://sesquiotic.com/2011/12/18/365-words-for-drunk/

Need a Recipe Tracker? I also found this chart interesting from a developer standpoint: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/10114dPxep4pq7ExcYykX7BARnnxjHygirQY8XrL-K8k/edit

European Digital Sovereignty shifts by country: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1yF0yznwPWuEqI2rJi54KFTIWu0yYYVkhVDRtmuy3D2w/edit?gid=0#gid=0
Related article: https://www.wired.com/story/all-the-ways-europe-is-ditching-american-technology
And good to know that Euro-office is using a proprietary file type: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/06/08/an-open-letter/

Researchers at the University of Washington have embedded rice-grain-sized cameras into a pair of off-the-shelf Sony WF-1000XM3 wireless earbuds: https://fstoppers.com/originals/there-are-now-cameras-earbuds-photographers-should-be-thinking-about-what-means-902598

Watch Duty adds Flood alerts: https://www.wired.com/story/watch-duty-is-adding-flood-alerts-to-its-wildfire-app
While Watch Duty doesn’t actually cover the entire United States, it’s an important app doing a lot of heavy lifting for the areas that it does cover.

Interesting short write-up comparing Drupal to EmDash CMS: https://www.thedroptimes.com/70133/drupal-emdash-cms-architecture-comparison