Author: Ethan Caldwell
Ethan Caldwell is GeekBlog's resident Apple specialist, covering the entire Apple ecosystem: iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, AirPods and the software that ties them together. A longtime iOS user and gadget collector, Ethan tracks Cupertino's every move, breaking down Apple keynotes, A- and M-series chip benchmarks, iOS feature updates and the rumor mill into clear, practical takes that help readers decide whether the latest Apple hardware is worth the upgrade.
Daily Brief has left the Gemini paywall and is rolling out to free users in the US. Switching it on means connecting Gmail, Calendar and Gemini’s memory, which is a different kind of price than $20 a month.
The iPhone 18 Pro’s main camera has a real variable aperture with six moving blades, running from f/1.48 to f/4. It also has Apple’s first 2nm chip and a $100 price rise. Pre-orders open September 12.
Apple’s iPhone Duo opens to a 7.6 inch inner display, starts at $1,999 and climbs to $3,199. Here is the full spec sheet, the hinge engineering, and the two things Apple had to leave out to make it fit.
Apple confirmed Siri AI enters public beta this month in English, with the EU and China left out. The feature drawing the most attention listens to the room.
A curated list of the best front end development books covering HTML, CSS, JavaScript, React, design and accessibility, with who each is for and which are free online.
A step by step guide to installing WordPress on XAMPP locally, including htdocs paths, port 80 fixes, permalinks and moving the site to live hosting.
Learn how to compare floats in Jinja2 and Ansible templates, from casting strings with the float filter to tolerance based equality and rounding.
Four working ways to wrap a block in Jinja2, from super() in inherited templates to call blocks, filter blocks and conditional wrappers with block set, plus troubleshooting for the usual errors.
A practical guide to padding numbers with leading zeros in C and C++ using printf, snprintf, iostream manipulators and std::format.
A practical walkthrough of Facebook login integration covering the Meta app dashboard, the JavaScript SDK, server side token validation, App Review, iOS Limited Login and the data deletion callback.