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A developer has released Hologram, a local-first photo culling app built with Tauri, aimed squarely at photographers who shoot in both JPEG and RAW. The idea is simple but genuinely useful — review your JPEGs quickly, reject what you don't want, and the corresponding RAW files go with them. It's a workflow tool born from personal frustration, and that tends to produce software worth watching.
Shifting gears, a piece circulating today suggests that by two thousand twenty-eight, Apple could release the most expensive consumer product it has ever made. Details are thin, but speculation points toward an advanced spatial computing device pushed far beyond current Vision Pro territory. Whether that's a bold vision or a very expensive gamble depends entirely on where the market lands in three years.
And perhaps the most quietly important story of the day — a developer has written honestly about hitting a wall with AI-assisted coding. Not a technical wall, but a cognitive one. The argument is that moving at AI speed compresses decision-making in ways that quietly drain judgment and focus. It's a trade-off the industry hasn't fully reckoned with yet, and probably should.
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