2026-06-29 07:48:05
2026-06-27 11:45:46
Mat Piscatella: Hardware - PlayStation hardware unit sales fell to…
PlayStation hardware unit sales fell to their lowest May total since May 2000, while Xbox hardware unit sales were the lowest ever recorded for a May month.
The data goes back to 1995, and May was the worst month for hardware unit sales for Sony in 26 years, and Microsoft ever.
Meanwhile, Nintendo had a solid month, closing out selling 6 million Switch 2 consoles in its first year on the market. Thats that most for any home console ever, or second most if you consider it a handheld (falling behind the GBA’s 6.5 million back in 2001).
It’s a good thing Grand Theft Auto 6 is coming out this November to juice PS5 and Xbox Series sales, otherwise these consoles would be positively cooked.
2026-06-27 05:45:21
We’re winding down the Notion Mail inbox across web, desktop, and iOS on September 22.
It's a bit of a bummer, but truth be told, this didn't quite hit the mark. It was kind of like "Superhuman, but for cheap" when it launched, but once they started charging for the AI features, it just became "as expensive as Superhuman, but not quite as good". Once the price advantage went away, I reverted to Mimestream, myself.
If they wind down Notion Calendar, someone better hold me back, though.
2026-06-25 23:06:33
Stephen Nellis and Aditya Soni quoting a statement they got from Apple: Apple raises prices of MacBooks, iPads as memory costs skyrocket
"We have never seen a component price increase this much, this quickly," Apple said in a statement. "We have shielded our customers from these increases so far, but we have now reached a point where we need to begin raising prices on a number of products, including today's increases for iPad and Mac."
9to5Mac has a good summery of the price changes, and they’re not pretty. The notables to me are:
I also can’t help but see that “we need to begin raising prices on a number of products, including today's increases for iPad and Mac,” statement as implying more increases are coming. The iPhone price increase seems inevitable, and my money is on it starting with the new models in September. We’ll see what they manage there, but if prices go up $200 or so on those models, I’d expect this past year’s boom cycle in iPhone sales will come to an end.
2026-06-25 05:00:52
User cantrip in a comment on The Verge:
The Steam Machine is both fairly-priced and too expensive. It's priced at cost, it's just that not many people are going to be willing to pay it.
This is such a simple way to put it, and it's true. Looking back on my post from a couple days ago when the Steam Machine was released, my tone is pretty negative.
But it wasn't negative because I thought the product was bad. I think I was reacting to how I felt knowing that even though the product looks really good, it's priced so high that the people I think would really enjoy this won't be able to get it. And it's not because Valve is being greedy here, it's because the nature of component pricing makes it so that the only way they can make this product is to make it enormously expensive.
The harsh truth is that the free market has decided that the components that go into consumer tech are so valuable, that making those consumer tech products is way too expensive for consumers. I'm hoping we get a correction in the market soon, because in a way I've never really felt in my adult life, it feels like we are doing the paperclip optimizer thing, where everything else be damned, we're optimizing for one thing and one thing only, and everything else must suffer for it.
I write this as someone who thinks that AI is a very useful tool for a good number of things, but that it is not the be-all, end-all of everything.
2026-06-25 04:04:20
Earlier today, I released Tangerine Neue, my fork of the beloved Tangerine UI Mastodon theme originally created by Niléane. I initially put it together just for myself, but I figured I might as well share it with the world in case anyone else wanted to use this version. To say the response has been overwhelming would be an understatement. It is already getting a ton of traction on Mastodon, hitting the trending tab on mastodon.social, and so many people seem genuinely happy that someone plans to maintain a version of it, at least for a while.
If I'm being completely honest, it is actually a bit of a strange feeling. All of the other projects I have released so far have been built from scratch, but this is different. This is me taking over, to some extent, a brilliant, well known project created by someone else. I have done comparatively very little work on it so far, yet I have received an incredible outpouring of appreciation and excitement.
In a way, this situation is simply the nature of open source software, and it happens all the time. Most of these projects are completely unfunded, and they require a massive amount of effort to maintain. In most cases, they do not offer much of a financial return for your time, so it is common for another developer to eventually pick up a project and keep working on it when the original creator no longer has the time or interest to keep at it. A great example of this is the app Thaw, which is a fork of the app Ice. It was a very similar situation where the original creator made something incredibly cool, stopped maintaining it, and someone else stepped in to create their own version to keep it alive. Side note, I use Thaw on my Mac to tame my menu bar and it's great.
Still, it is hard to shake a certain sense of imposter syndrome. I don't feel like I deserve any credit here. I am effectively serving up what is mostly the same beautiful theme that Niléane made, just under my own name. That is something I am going to have to work through, and I want to be incredibly clear from the start that this is not my baby, I'm just doing what I can with it.
At the same time, there is a clear hunger among people using Tangerine UI today to have a reliable place they can go to keep getting the same great experience they have enjoyed for years. With that in mind, I want to clarify one thing from my announcement earlier today, and it's based on the feedback I've received so far. I intend to maintain this fork of the project for a good amount of time, and I want it to be a stable, trustworthy place for people who want to use it on their own instances. I was worried about looking like I was stepping on toes or taking something that wasn't mine and presenting it as my own. That does not seem to have been the response, which is a relief. The response has actually been, "please keep doing this."
I plan to keep the documentation very clear about its origins because Niléane deserves all the credit here. However, I will also begin updating some of the documentation and branding to make it clear that this is an active, reliable project that people can trust (the current README, for example, is almost apologetic for existing 😅).
That is what I will be working toward next. If you have any suggestions or run into any bugs, please feel free to let me know on Mastodon. Since this is open source, you are also more than welcome to submit a pull request. I will happily review it and add it to the official project.
Oh, and Younis wins the day on reactions to this:
> New Granite theme
Babe wake up, they made Tangerine UI for men