> they sometimes veer off into unrelated Apple news...

Gruber has always done that. Years ago I made a Chrome extension to filter out all of his detours into baseball, James Bond, politics, and I can't remember if I let the Kubrick stuff stay in or not.

Ultimately I just stopped using Macs, so the blog was no longer relevant to me. Mark Gurman seems to have taken over the role of Apple whisperer anyway.