PHP Monitor 25.06 is now available with a few fresh visual touches and some minor bug fixes. Read more below for details.
While I remain on sick leave for likely the rest of the summer, I am doing better than before (I’m finally starting to get better, after getting surgery to fix serious breathing issues) and recently decided to see if I could get a little update for PHP Monitor out.
I took a look at the latest announcements Apple made at WWDC, and I made a few changes to PHP Monitor to prepare it for this fall’s update to macOS 26. Apple seems to be doing a large visual refresh across their OSes with Liquid Glass, so it’s definitely going to be an interesting release.
Read blog postYou know Apple is in hot water when John Siracusa, one of the hosts of the Accidental Tech Podcast, writes in a new post brilliantly called Apple Turnover:
It’s time for new leadership at Apple. The road we’re on now does not lead anywhere good for Apple or its customers. It’s springtime, and I’m choosing to believe in new life. I swear it’s not too late.
I agree that modern Apple is no longer what it used to be.
Read blog postIn anticipation of the release of the Switch 2, Nintendo has just rolled out their new virtual game card system as part of a software update. When this was announced last month, some people were scratching their heads trying to understand why they’d roll out this new system.
To me, it seemed abundantly clear, however. With the release of the Switch 2, many millions of people will now likely own more than one Switch per household, both of which can play Switch 1 titles. This would also require those people to understand the existing licencing system, which I’d describe as… pretty confusing.
This now presented an opportunity for Nintendo to improve the existing “software on multiple consoles” system they introduced when the Switch Lite was initially released, and make it easier to understand.
Read blog postThe latest craziness in the world of coding that I’ve been exposed to via social media lately is the idea of vibe coding.
The idea is very simple: instead of primarily writing code yourself, you rely on an LLM to do the coding for you, and you refine the generated code as needed, or you let the LLM refine the code for you.
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