Linked List: July 23, 2026

Thursday, 23 July 2026

Bond Movie Filming Locations Map 

“From a Bond fan to Bond fans worldwide.” Nice work.

John Dvorak on Computer Chronicles in 1987 to Discuss the Then-New IBM PS/2 

Dvorak is best known for all the takes he was jacktastically wrong about, but what gave his schtick staying power is that he was technically savvy. His take here on the PS/2 was actually spot-on: that it was technically impressive in many ways, especially the way it was assembled without any cables, but that it was doomed in the market against ugly mess-of-cables commodity PCs.

“Computer Chronicles” was the real show from the 1980s that Adam Lisagor so lovingly and spectacularly spoofed with “Computer Show” a decade ago.

John Dvorak Drops Dead at 80 

William Gallagher, AppleInsider:

Legendary technology columnist, pundit, author and podcast host John C. Dvorak has died, age 80. He is survived by his wife Mimi Dvorak.

Today Dvorak is best known for co-hosting the “No Agenda” podcast with Adam Curry, where he would critique mainstream news media. His death was first announced by the podcast on X, although note that Dvorak’s age is mistakenly given as 74.

From the No Agenda News newsletter yesterday:

For a man who spent decades famously predicting the catastrophic demise of almost every major technological innovation, it is with the heaviest of hearts we must announce that John’s own hardware finally gave out on Monday morning, July 20th, 2026, at the age of 80. He went peacefully, albeit suddenly, with Mimi at his side, critiquing the acting and story line of NCIS.

His death truly seems quite sudden — the most recent episode of No Agenda dropped on Sunday, the day before he died.

Flighty New Connection Assistant Feature 

Chance Miller, 9to5Mac:

Flighty’s new Connection Assistant feature includes step-by-step information for your specific connection. This includes things like terminal changes, security checkpoints, passport control, and more. Connection Assistant also gives you estimates of how long each step of making a connection usually takes.

“The new Connection Assistant combines Flighty’s best-in-class flight tracking data with airport-specific procedures and statistical modeling of millions of prior flights, and then turns it all into guidance for your exact trip,” the Flighty team explained in a press release today.

I don’t know what the equivalent term to “Mac-assed” should be for iPhone apps, but whatever it is, Flighty epitomizes it. Incredibly useful for what it does, exemplary for how it looks and feels and is visually organized. It is as iOS-assed as an app can be.