Here are some of my favourite things I've encountered recently.
Despite its many flaws, iOS 26 does introduce some actually quite good features when it comes to customisation. I've been super enojoying the new clear look for the home screen (it does a surprisingly good job at interpreting even un-updated app icons and widgets) and the long clock on the lock screen.
When it saw it at WWDC, I thought that the clear look was almost completely unreadable and ugly, but as soon as I actually got it in my hand, I found it to be really nice.
By the way, I'm on Beta 3 at time of posting, and I didn't grab Beta 1 or 2.
I've actually been having a lot of fun playing Mario Kart. I didn't really expect to get very into this game, and I'm not like super into it, but I've learned a shortcut or two, and even joined a Discord server to be able to play the "3-lap tracks".1
The game is really nice, and even though the open-world is fairly empty, I still like that the tracks have some physical presence in a world, even if I rarely visit that world. It's just nice to have them not be trapped in a menu.
I got this video from Christian Selig in my YouTube recommended a few times before clicking on it, and as I was watching, it just struck me that this was a just straight up a really good video, in all the ways.
This website is runing off of my old gaming laptop, and it's the best experience I've had trying to put stuff on the internet, ever.
With a domain, ethernet cable, DHCP configuration, some port forwarding and an ssh daemon set up, you can really do anything (with some help from GPT).
Give it a shot!