Wesley Hilliard

@hilli.tech

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Writer and podcaster at @appleinsider.com. HilliTech blog. 10 year US Navy veteran. He/Him

A small cat stands on its hind legs on a kitchen table with its front paws battle ready at its sides
Chiitan liked a post about Roblox and Fortnite being terrible for the game industry.
The AppleInsider website showing an article about OpenAI's upcoming smart speaker, a header "we don't talk about homepod" above an image of the Nintendo Talking Flower"
woman in the film Idiocracy moving her hands in a circle while repeating the slogan "It's got electrolytes" as an explanation of the slogan's meaning.
A black cat captured in black and white with sun shining from the corner, the background blacked out thanks to it being a black felt chair.
A comic strip on a sticker by Sam Antics showing Garfield and Jon in an old style, the last frame is ruined
An abstract and colorful wallpaper filled with odd shapes and curves. The outer edge has a sketched background where AI artificially extended the borders.
A screenshot of the new Siri AI app showing various chats about video games and Apple products.
A reply to a post on Kagi by the CEO on use of Yandex: search results, period. Kagi excels at this precisely because we remain unimpressed by world politics. The moment 'politics' becomes a factor in search results is the moment I stop working on a search engine. Yandex represents about 2% of our total costs and is only one of dozens of sources we use. To put this in perspective: removing any single source would degrade search quality for all users while having minimal economic impact on any particular region.
A spatial workstation viewed through Apple Vision Pro overlaid on an L-shaped desk, the Jupiter environment dialed in slightly, widgets on the wall featuring the clock, weather, music, ad photos, and apps open to a text document, Safari, and RSS feed. The room is dimmed and objects like a keyboard, notepad, and more are visible.
A drawing of a black cat in a red collar in an alley surrounded by flowers as an animated 3D lockscreen on an iPhone.
An iMac G3 toy figure with a face, arms, and legs, in bondi blue, on a desk with normal exposure
An invoice showing a table with a description and quantity field above editorial, general, and subtotal for editorial.
Apple Journal Insights page showing a 600 day streak, 131 weekly streak, 115 entries this year, 1.9k days journaled, 165 restaurant visits, and 216k word written.
Marble is a brown and black patterned cat with a pink nose and green/yellow eyes. She's reaching out with her paw, claws extended, in a big stretch from behind a fern. It makes her look like a jungle cat on the prowl.
A video of a dog breaking an obstacle course shown above a link preview from Bluesky embedded in an iMessage thread. The text below says "oh hey look, native video playback in Messages. Nice one Bluesky.
Kyle Ren in Star Wars standing in his awkward high rise pants with no shirt.
A certificate for the "Am I a Tech Bro?" quiz that says "Not a tech bro" in large green letters. Other data shown includes that the respondent didn't match with any tech bro ideas.
The Apple Journal Insights page showing a 555 day streak, 124 week streak, 70 days journaled in 2026, 1.9k days total journaled, restaurant visits 156 times, and 212k words written.
An AI generated image of Apple CEO Tim Cook in a racecar but he's the wrong proportions and makes it look more like a toy where his legs wouldn't have space.
A large white and gray cat sits at the end of a blue recliner, sun beaming through a window with a parted red curtain, which shows many holes from cats climbing the curtain, and a black cat sitting and looking out of the window in the background.
In Apple Vision Pro, a VR headset, an immersive environment of the beach at Bora Bora, a blue water Pokemon Sobble that has a yellow fin and curling tail, sitting in front of an old-fashioned TV on the beach watching the opening theme of Pokemon. All VR objects placed into the space.
A stock market graph for Apple, AAPL, showing a sudden drop at the end of the trading day.
Harvie the cat with half orange and half gray hair looks intimidating on a kitchen table
Apple Music top albums for January 2026 for Wesley Hilliard: Incubus Monuments and Melodies, Death Cab for Cutie Plans, Linkin Park From Zero, Chance The Rapper The Big Day, Claire Rosinkranz Just Because, Avenged Sevenfold City of Evil, natalie jinju Last September, Kendrick Lamar good kid, m.A.A.d city, Logic Under Pressure, Tomoo Dear Mysteries.
A stitched together set of screenshots showing the search results for "Fuck ICE" in Apple Music. It's a long list.
A claymation scene from animal crossing showing KL Slider the white dog looking up with his guitar standing among trees as a lock screen with a 3D effect on an iPhone.
Album art for Remi Wolf "Juno" (A woman squatting with dogs patterned on the background), Alabama Shakes "Boys & Girls" (White album cover with circle patterns under the album and artist name), Linkin Park "From Zero" (a metallic triangle symbol in pink and blue ink), Sarah Kang "How I Remember" (A sketched woman sitting in grass), Laufy "Bewitched" (A woman laying down in a dress with a shiny piece of headgear and star earrings), Tomoo "Dear Mysteries" (A wreath on a shelf with smoke and various items and books), Linkin Park "Hybrid Theory" (A man in a hoodie with graffiti fairy wings holding a pennant flag), Panic! At the Disco "A Fever You Can't Sweat Out" (Magazine style clippings of various artist party goers at a bar seat), and natalie jinju "Last September" (woman walking through a library)
A post from slothroosmap saying they blocked someone for asking why they use Instagram.
Apple Watch goal rings closed with the Move metric shown as 1431/400 calories.
The Apple Journal app Insights page showing a 487 day streak, 114 week streak, one entry for the year, 1.8k days journaled, 145 visits to restaurants, and 204k words written.
A clip of the mime enemy fight in Expedition 33
The "this is fine" dog but he's wearing an Apple Vision Pro with the house burning down.
A happy Mac as an ugly Christmas sweater as an iPhone background for a lock screen
A transparent purple modern version of the Nintendo 64 console with the word "grape" in the background. The curved unit has four ports in the front for controllers.
A black cat with big yellow eyes standing in front of a Christmas tree, slightly haloed by light
The Apple Journal Insights tab, it shows: - 458 day current streak (which is the longest streak) - 110 weeks longest weekly streak - 367 entries this year - 1.8k days journaled (all time) - visited (shrimp glyph representing restaurant visits) 138 times - written 200,826 words all time, 161 in December (it's the 3rd day of the month) and 40k words written this year
An ad for Sbarro pizza showing a pizza box made to hold a single slice of pizza
A bearded man in a suit and a woman with blue hair in a wedding dress smiling at the camera.
Screenshot of text that says: "In the meantime, Apple plans to release a set of smart glasses. They're expected to be revealed in 2026 and sold by early 2027. If work on a thinner and lighter Apple Vision Pro has gone as far as it can in the short term, then there's no reason to leave team members focused there. I have little doubt that both Apple Vision Pro and smart glasses can and will exist in parallel."
A half moon shot on iPhone
Agatha is our indoor black cat. He's in a box with red light shining on him, staring at me.
A 40x shot on an iPhone 17 Pro Max of street signs that remain legible showing stop and pedestrian crossing.
Two iPhones connected by a cable, one shows a timer with 2 hours remaining. The other has a fan connected to the back via MagSafe, powered by a battery it is connected to.
Blue iPhone 17 Pro Max, Black Apple Watch Ultra, AirPods Pro 3 on their packaging on a desk
A photo of a black cat with detail in the fur in spite of the dim environment. A pumpkin pillow is next to him.
A small bird is perched on a wooden swing
A small bird with brown feathers sits on a trailer roof
Marble the 1 year old Maine Coon mix photographed from under her chin with a wide eyed expression. She has brown and black fur.
A groundhog shot through a window and screen via iPhone. Using the 5x lens punching into 16.5x via crop.
A Gameboy-like console called Analogue Pocket sitting in a stand featuring five games on display with Final Fantasy Tactics Advanced and Zelda Link's Awakening visible.
Text that reads: More than 60 companies pledged to work collaboratively to deliver results for the American people in the first quarter of 2026. Twenty-one networks pledged to meet the CMS Interoperability Framework criteria to become CMS Aligned Networks. Eleven health systems or providers committed to participate and support patient use, and seven EHRs committed to facilitate data exchange and help “kill the clipboard.”
Test reading: More than 60 companies pledged to work collaboratively to deliver results for the American people in the first quarter of 2026. Twenty-one networks pledged to meet the CMS Interoperability Framework criteria to become CMS Aligned Networks. Eleven health systems or providers committed to participate and support patient use, and seven EHRs committed to facilitate data exchange and help “kill the clipboard.”
A listing for Black Label Hormel maple bacon, nearly a pound of bacon for $6.47. This was posted to compare to Musk's diner that sells four slices of bacon for $12.
Wesley is bearded wearing black jeans, glasses, and a black shirt with tiny classic Mac icons patterned across it. He's sitting next to his now fiancé Natalie, who has purple hair and is sporting a jacket she stole from Wesley.
X post from AppleInsider: No one has ever heard of Jack Fields. But everyone that knows Apple knows that @rmondello is on the Passwords team and worked hard to get the Messages and email 2FA codes, the Passwords app, and more on your Apple devices with their team. Don't believe some random account. Quote tweeting: Jack Fields @OrdinaryInds • Jul 9 1 am the reason your phone can autofill 2FA codes from your messages and emails. Messages, the intelligence teams, and SEAR collectively hated the idea, shooting it down unanimously. I fought for 2 years until
A Maine coon kitten laying on a table looking at the camera. Red curtains are visible in the background.
Screenshot of the photos app showing a grid of wallpapers.
A screenshot of the Apple Wallet Deliveries section showing a PlayStation Store purchase.