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Notes from the build
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Most Chord Apps Show You Shapes No Hand Can Play
Search the App Store for a guitar chord dictionary and you will find apps advertising thousands of voicings per chord. It sounds generous. It is closer to the opposite.
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Building an iOS App with Claude in Xcode: An Honest Account
A note on what building an iOS app alongside an agentic coding assistant is actually like, minus the marketing.
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Voice Leading Is a Shortest-Path Problem
Ask a guitarist to play Cmaj7 to Am7 to Dm7 to G7 and most will jump between memorised shapes, often travelling half the neck between chords. It works, but it sounds like four separate events rather...
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Anthropic Opens a Preview of the Model Hardware Standard
Anthropic has opened a research preview of the Model Hardware Standard, described as a shared specification for AI agents to safely operate physical devices. It is going out initially to scientific...
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Claude Gets Text Watermarking
Anthropic has detailed its watermarking approach for Claude's text output, covering how the mechanism works and what it does — and does not do — to the text itself.
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Mac mini Picks Up the M6 and M5 Pro
Apple has refreshed the Mac mini with two new chips. The M6 model starts at $899, and the M5 Pro at $1,699. Pre-orders opened August 25, with units shipping September 22.
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Apple Sets September 9 Event: Surprise and Shine
Apple has confirmed its autumn event for Wednesday, September 9 at 10:00 a.m. Pacific, held at Apple Park in Cupertino. The invitation carries the tagline "Surprise and Shine" — which, going by the...
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Anthropic Funds Research Into AI and Wellbeing
Anthropic has launched a grant programme aimed at improving how the effect of AI systems on human wellbeing is measured.