John Wilander

The audiobook version of my hacker thriller "Submerged" is finally out! Just in time for the holidays. Audible: www.amazon.com/dp/B0G7M5ZZWH/ Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/3TEIdTl... Kobo: www.kobo.com/us/en/audiob... Apple Books: books.apple.com/us/audiobook... #booksky

The conservative in the Texas Senate race is James Talarico, an eighth-generation Texan, a Christian pastor who defends the Constitution and fights government overreaches that limit citizens’ freedoms.

Incredible

Read about the latest update to Safari's anti tracking: Blocking Identity Resolution Infrastructure. We will continue to prevent covert and cross-site tracking by default, while maintaining the ability for websites to provide first-party personalization to their users. webkit.org/blog/18438/b...

This is Tommy. Tommy had a question about my allegiances. Listen to the end to hear about his.

Kevin Mitnick's "Ghost in the Wires" from 2011 is on sale at $2, Kindle edition: www.amazon.com/dp/B0047Y0F0K

New blog post: Review of Neuromancer, the novel (1984) hackerfiction.net/blog/2026/au... #booksky

Chocolate Pecan Torte: 2 recipes dyingforchocolate.blogspot.com/2026/08/choc...

This week only KILL DECISION on sale for $1.99 Fifteen years ago this novel anticipated how low-cost kamikaze drones would radically transform military conflict. But ...

Happy 4th, and 250th birthday, fellow Americans! Here's to the Republic, to a democratic future, and to the rejuvenation of Congress! 🇺🇸🥂

Introducing the Safari MCP server in Safari Technology Preview. A Model Context Protocol server that makes your web development and debugging workflow faster and more powerful. webkit.org/blog/18136/i...

Morning Joe put together a supercut of Sen. Blumenthal asking Trump's judicial nominees who won the 2020 election, and each of them refusing to acknowledge that Trump lost

Much of the cardboard and paper goods strewn about our homes are sold by a single private company, with its name, Uline, stamped on the bottom. Many may not know that a multibillion-dollar fortune made on those ubiquitous products fuels far-right candidates across the country. (Published 2022)

Yeah. If it weren’t for people…

BREAKING: “I made a mistake, and I am sincerely sorry,” Philz Coffee CEO said after having ordered Pride flags removed. I say again, the power is with the people! www.advocate.com/news/philz-c...

This review of my latest novel "Submerged" came in a couple of days ago. 😍 You can find it on Amazon, Kobo, Apple Books, and Spotify. And it's available as ebook, print, or audio.

The pandemic had all sorts of effects. I doubled my reading in 2020, with for instance two of George R. R. Martin's thick novels in the Game of Thrones series. During the work from home years I got an incredible boost in cardio fitness because I did a lot of running. #booksky

Safari 26.4 is here! webkit.org/blog/17862/w... Grid Lanes. WebTransport. Keyboard Lock API. And _tons_ of fixes & improvements. Please read the introduction to our article to learn what we’ve been up to…

My next newsletter issue will feature photos and impressions from my trip to Hong Kong, a.k.a. Cyberpunk Ground Zero. I went to the grounds of Kowloon Walled City, the Monster Building, and the skyline+water from the diving scene in Ghost in the Shell. Subscribe here: hackerfiction.net/subscribe/

I'm hiring to the WebKit Privacy & Adtech team! Help us prevent online tracking/fingerprinting, and design+implement privacy-preserving alternatives for use in advertising. · Systems programming in C++ & Swift · Location: Cupertino · Work that feels good and important jobs.apple.com/en-us/detail...

Massie goes full beast mode today. Gets on the house floor, shreds the DOJ and starts naming names from the Epstein files.

Former ICE lawyer Ryan Schwank: “I received secretive orders to teach new cadets to violate the Constitution.”

'The social media company likewise tracked when adolescent girls deleted selfies, “so it can serve a beauty ad to them at that moment,” according to Wynn-Williams.' futurism.com/facebook-bea...

Safari 26.2 is here with 65 features + 165 bug fixes — including field-sizing, Navigation API, Largest Contentful Paint, command & commandfor, CHIPS opt-in partitioned cookies, scrollend event, random(), WebGPU in WebXR, scrollbar-color, hidden=until-found and much more! webkit.org/blog/17640/w...

Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷

Starting the weekend Dec 6-7, my newsletter will feature a read-along of William Gibson's Neuromancer. We read it together, starting easy – just 30 pages “Chiba City Blues,” chapters 1-4. I'll review it as we go. Sign up here: hackerfiction.net/subscribe/

I just donated to three charities: · Razom for Ukraine · Wikimedia Foundation · Electronic Frontier Foundation If you have the means, consider donating too. ❤️

This claim is getting legs so I checked. Indeed, Google Trends in the US is currently very close to the February 2009 peak for "help with mortgage." 😔 trends.google.com/trends/explo...

Amazing new security. "Memory Integrity Enforcement (MIE) is the culmination of an unprecedented design and engineering effort, spanning half a decade, that combines the unique strengths of Apple silicon hardware with our advanced operating system security …" security.apple.com/blog/memory-...

"The Berlin Commissioner for Data Protection has formally requested Google and Apple to remove the DeepSeek AI application from the application stores due to GDPR violations." www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/securit...

Walmart. Aug 10: John, thanks for your order Aug 12: Your order is delayed Aug 13: Your order is delayed Aug 14: Your order is delayed Aug 15: Your order is delayed Aug 15: Canceled Tell me again how they are going to catch up to Amazon.

"Several sections of Article 1 of the U.S. Constitution appear to have been removed from the official U.S. government website (…) The removal includes sections relating to habeas corpus, the powers that protect citizens from unlawful detention." techcrunch.com/2025/08/06/k...

The first rating of my new novel is up on Amazon. And it's ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️! www.amazon.com/SUBMERGED-ha... #booksky

Oh man.

"CSS animations have come a long way since Apple first introduced them to the web in 2007. (…) Now we can make those animations scroll-driven with nothing more than a few lines of CSS." webkit.org/blog/17101/a...

Do people really read 99k words in 7-8 hours? There are fast readers for sure, but this kind of metadata always puts me off. It kind of tells me I'm not a good (enough) reader. #Booksky

Create and run Linux containers as lightweight virtual machines on your Mac with Container. Open source, written in Swift, and optimized for Apple silicon. No Docker or similar needed. · GitHub repo: github.com/apple/contai... · Intro presentation: developer.apple.com/videos/play/...

Looking forward to watching "From the World of John Wick: Ballerina" with Lance Reddick in his final screen appearance. Not to mention the amazing Ana de Armas from "Knives Out" and "Blade Runner 2049" in the lead role. ballerinamovie2025.com

Victoria's Secret: "Valued customer, we identified and are taking steps to address a security incident. We have taken down our website and some in store services as a precaution." www.victoriassecret.com

Have you ever wished you could write simple CSS to declare a color, and then have the browser figure out whether black or white should be paired with that color? Well, now you can, with contrast-color(). Here’s how it works. webkit.org/blog/16929/c...

Bluesky uses a Google Docs form to collect personally identifiable information to get accounts verified. The form requires a Google login. They present the link to the form with "Trust is everything." @bsky.app, please change this and don't send people's data to Google. Thank you!

A sign of success, I guess.

Some new Kobo eReaders and all refurbished ones are sold out in their US store. Either people are reading a lot or there's some tariff thing going on. New: us.kobobooks.com/collections/... Refurbished: us.kobobooks.com/collections/... #Booksky

What happens when a hacker receives a message that his lost love may still be alive? Find out in SUBMERGED, the latest #hardscifi release from John Wilander. #scifi #novel #bookrelease #BookSky https://oxlk.io/VT8c