April 28, 2026 · AI

ANANYA BHATTACHARYA writing for Rest of World:

The biometric ID project has been halted and investigated in multiple countries, but it recently partnered with Tinder, Zoom, and Docusign to verify users.

Even the fact that the company that launched the "World" project is named "Tools for Humanity" is gross, when what they are doing is building a database of peoples eyeballs. The "World" project was previously named "Worldcoin" and involves a cryptocurrency, with participants receive approximately $50 worth of the Worldcoin token for allowing their eyeballs to be scanned.

There's a good timeline of this attempt to build "A Biometric Database from the Bodies of the Poor" here.

There's also allegations of predatory tokenomics and insiders dumping their tokens on retail. This from Komando.com

The crypto token you get paid in? WLD launched near $1. It hit $12 at its peak. Today, it’s trading around 27 cents, and in March 2026, the World Foundation sold 239 million of its own tokens while the price crashed to a record low of 24 cents.

Companies partnering with World need to be boycotted [in my opinion] to stop this.

April 24, 2026 · Code

My website is now a view over a repo I control on the open network, and the blog is just one of the things that view can show.

Very cool. I've just integrated my blog with Bluesky but I'm using my own database as the source of truth and synchronising everywhere else. Using atproto as the decentralised store of data is really interesting.

April 23, 2026 · Apple

The challenge for Apple is still software, an increasingly cluttered interface across multiple hardware devices and platforms, and a distinct lack of clarity about what role AI will (or will not) play in its future. Ternus’s other task will be to repair an incredibly fragile relationship with developers, who have been vocal about their dissatisfaction with Cupertino.

There have been a lot of good posts over the last couple of days highlighting Tim Cooks achievements during his time as CEO.

None managed to so succinctly sum up the challenge facing John Ternus as Om.

April 19, 2026 · Movies Reviews

I need to start by saying that I enjoyed the The Super Mario Bros. Movie. I don’t remember it all that well but I do remember that it exceeded my expectations and was enjoyable.

So going into this movie I was expecting more of the same. Unfortunately SMG (I can’t type the full name every time) is a bad movie. There is zero story here. SMB I remember as a fun story involving the Mario Bros with lots of fun reference. SMG on the other hand was more like taking the gameplay and putting it on-screen. Which was terrible.

The kids did enjoy it though. Which if it weren’t proceeded by Mario Bros I wonder if they would have.

1/5 stars

April 17, 2026 · Code

The original vision for the world wide web was a read/write medium. A few years ago I thought, “what if an HTML file could update itself?”

A very cool and superbly executed experiment. Call it nostalgia, or mindfulness, but hand crafted HTML is very enjoyable.

April 16, 2026 · Projects

I’ve been enjoying working on improving some of the finer details on Electric Sheep. The most recent improvement was made to the post toolbar.

This is the before:

And this is the after:

It’s much cleaner and compact and I also think it’s also much clearer which items are clickable and which are informational now.

April 16, 2026 · Apple

The MacBook Neo is apparently a big hit. So big that Apple is reportedly ramping up production. Now the bad news: Since the MacBook Neo is powered by the A18 Pro chip from 2024’s iPhone 16 Pro, a product that’s been discontinued, there is likely a finite number of chips available for MacBook Neo production.

Jason goes on to posit that the most likely solution is for Apple to release an updated Macbook Neo in the next 6 to 9 months that uses the A19 Pro chip. I would like this to be true because I’d love to buy a Neo with the 12GB of RAM that the A19 Pro SoC has. But if they moved to using the bined A19 Pro chips there’s only going to be a finite number of those too. If demand outpaces supply of bined chips there needs to be a sustainable plan.

If you look at iPad pricing you can get an iPad Air with an M4 chip for $599 and the iPad Mini with the A17 Pro is $499. So while using the bined A18 Pro is great for Apple’s bottom line, and is also great for reducing waste, I also think they could produce an A series chip specifically for the Neo and keep prices the same.

Since using bined chips means maximum profit I’d tend to agree that they may move to the A19 Pro and exhaust that supply before producing dedicated Neo chips though.

April 16, 2026 · Apple

In a statement to 9to5Mac, Apple said it has zero tolerance for fraudulent or malicious apps, pointing to its App Review Guidelines, which prohibit apps that try to scam users, include hidden or undocumented features, or rely on bait-and-switch tactics. The company confirmed that, in addition to removing the Ledger Live app from the App Store, the developer account associated with it was terminated.

In the case of the Ledger Live app it has been reported by Coindesk that over $9.5 million has been stolen from dozens of people.

The Mac App Store has never reached the popularity of the iOS App Store. Primarily because another method of getting your software exists and for the most part people are happy with it. The promise remains the same though, software downloaded from the App Store is vetted and goes through Apple’s approval process. Therefore you can expect it to be a safer option. In this case it certainly wasn’t and people have lost a lot of money.

April 10, 2026 · Projects

I created a new RSS feed reader. It's called Electric Sheep and you can try it at electricsheep.news

No algorithms.
No recommendations.
No ads.
No tracking.

There's a few different tools to add feeds. You can add them from a URL, Import OPML, use the bookmarklet, or browse and choose from a curated list to get started.

If you give it a try and have any feedback you can email me at richard@richfish.net

April 10, 2026 · Art

Title taken from the article.

Both investigations are technically impressive. Both raised the same question I keep turning over: what exactly was accomplished here, and for whom?

The journalist gets a career-defining scoop. The subject loses something they can never recover. Anonymity, once broken, doesn’t come back. There’s no correction that restores it.

I enjoyed reading the Bansky investigation but I also agree with Om. There's no public interest being served, and there's the very real possibility of serious damage being done.

For what it's worth, the Satoshi article wasn't as conclusive as the Banksy one. Adam Back has always been a likely Satoshi candidate but he's also always denied it. The article didn't provide any new evidence or a smoking gun. With that in mind it probably shouldn't have been published.

April 10, 2026 · AI

I used AI. It worked. I hated it.: Taggart Tech

There’s a fundamental problem with these tools beyond the capacity of any deployment strategy to solve: the tool requires expertise to validate, but its use diminishes expertise and stunts its growth. How does one become an expert? There are no shortcuts; there is only continuous hard work and dedication. I was once told of writing, great writers learn how to break the rules in new and ingenious ways by first learning the rules.

This is the same problem that I've been thinking about. Current software developers are able to verify and review the AI's work because they're experts. But what happens when people stop learning and acquiring the expertise?

March 27, 2026 · AI

Last year I started using Copilot. Copilot's inline completions were often wrong (they didn't have full app context) but autocompleting and refactoring is faster than writing everything yourself. Chat was useful for writing small methods or basically saving you the time it would take to go and scan Google or Stack Overflow. All-in-all good efficiency gains.

This year I started using opencode with Claude (Sonnet 4.5 and 4.6) and yeah, Claude can code. Claude is good enough to write features on his own.

I want user registration that verifies the users email, make the link valid for 7 days, add forgot password, and enforce password complexity.

Claude can do this in a couple of minutes.

My experience so far is that you want to keep features reasonably small, review, provide feedback, ask for changes. Treat Clause like a less experienced developer on your team. And don't get carried away and let Claude write too much without stopping to properly review and understand everything.

But Claude is getting good and development is changing.