Godspeed is a task manager built with two priorities in mind: speed and 100% keyboard orientation.
Every action in Godspeed can be done from your keyboard and will respond instantly. It’s like Superhuman for your to-do list.
Godspeed comes with all the features you need from your task manager, and a few you wouldn’t expect: full offline support, attachments, shared lists, end-to-end encryption, task creation via email, calendar integration, mobile and web apps, custom macros, and more.
The other day, my buddy Joe Rossignol wrote this on Threads:
Looks like I surpassed 8,000 blog posts at MacRumors recently.
My typed word count has probably well exceeded 2 million.
Sheesh.
That got me wondering about my own output, so here are some random stats:
Tom Warren has the details:
The Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) has held strong in Windows for nearly 40 years, but that’s about to change. Microsoft revealed earlier this year that it was overhauling its BSOD error message in Windows 11, and the company has now confirmed that it will soon be known as the Black Screen of Death. The new design drops the traditional blue color, frowning face, and QR code in favor of a simplified black screen.
This week on the podcast: Federico has been experimenting with KVMs, I have been fixing macOS between dreams, and Myke finally experienced iOS 26. After those conversations, we turned to a list of questions from listeners about WWDC, Apple’s app strategy, and more.
On Connected Pro, we had Federico judge some American “pizza” and then discussed Apple’s sending of promotional notifications. Connected Pro is the longer, ad-free version of the show for just $7/month.
After months of reporting and community concern, the city of Memphis has released its findings of air quality testing that took place near xAI’s two data centers. The PDF of those results can be seen here, and for more, we turn to Samuel Hardiman:
The city tested at Macedonia Missionary Baptist in Boxtown, which is near xAI’s first Memphis data center; The Links at Whitehaven, located near xAI’s second Memphis data center, and City Hall. Both xAI facilities as well as the nearby locations tested are also close to the Tennessee Valley Authority’s natural gas plants, which also emit pollutants.
John Gruber, responding to my article celebrating Tahoe Beta 2’s new Finder icon:
I’m going to strongly disagree here. The Tahoe beta 2 Finder icon is slightly better, but seeing it this way makes it obvious that the problem with the Tahoe Finder icon isn’t whether it’s dark/light or light/dark from left to right. It’s that with this Tahoe design it’s not 50/50. It’s the appliqué — the right side (the face in profile) looks like something stuck on top of a blue face tile. That’s not the Finder logo.
In the wake of Apple’s Liquid Glass announcements at WWDC, I took some time and rewatched the Macworld San Francisco Keynote from 2000, when Steve Jobs introduced the world to the Aqua user interface:
Here’s how Apple PR wrote about it at the time:
“Mac OS X will delight consumers with its simplicity and amaze professionals with its power,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s iCEO. “Apple’s innovation is leading the way in personal computer operating systems once again.”
Wendover Productions’ video on the subject is really interesting:
This is really, really cool:
I was recently poking around inside the original Power Macintosh G3’s ROM and accidentally discovered an easter egg that nobody has documented until now.
This story starts with me on a lazy Sunday using Hex Fiend in conjunction with Eric Harmon’s Mac ROM template (ROM Fiend) to look through the resources stored in the Power Mac G3’s ROM. This ROM was used in the beige desktop, minitower, and all-in-one G3 models from 1997 through 1999.
If you missed my previous post on the topic, the first version of Tahoe had the dark blue on the right side of the Finder icon, which was criminal.
Our 14-day national nightmare is over. As of Developer Beta 2, the Finder icon in macOS Tahoe has been updated to reflect 30 years of tradition:
Now, the background material is blue, with the face on the right side of the icon using a white glassy material. I think this looks pretty good:
Roshan Abraham, writing at 404 Media about Meta’s AI datacenter in Louisiana:
A January report from NOLA.com said that the the state had rewritten zoning laws, promised to change a law so that it no longer had to put state property up for public bidding, and rewrote what was supposed to be a tax incentive for broadband internet meant to bridge the digital divide so that it was only an incentive for data centers, all with the goal of luring in Meta.
I wish my 3D printer was big enough to pull this off: