Apple announces that John Ternus, senior VP of Hardware Engineering, will become Apple's next CEO on September 1; Tim Cook will become executive chairman (Business Wire)

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Comic. [Person and person with white hat facing two boxes stacked with $80 price tag and sale tag on each box.] PERSON 1: They want $80 for this? I could make one myself for $10 in parts, an hour of work, a trip to the hardware store, another $30 in parts, another few hours of work, two more trips to the store for $20 more in parts, another hour of work to redo the first hour of work because I messed up, and $80 to buy this when the one I made breaks.

Make It Myself

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Comic. One... two... THREE! [text in red] X Deprecated [line break] One... two... three... GO! [text in red] Deprecated [red curly bracket around top two lines] Too easy to mix up [line break] Three... two... one... GO! [text in green] [check mark] ISO Standard [caption] If I were in charge of ISO, the first thing I’d do would be to standardize the way people count out loud before doing something in sync.

Countdown Standard

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A bounce house with razor sharp teeth and tentacle wings flying off the ground. A family runs away in terror. The father shouts, "it's taking flight! The son shouts to the family dog, "Sparky! Wait for us!" Sparky shouts back in perfect human language, "Nope!" The text reads: Never use a bounce house if it's windy. Wind speed should be no more than 15 to 25 miles per hour. Make sure your bounce house is properly staked and anchored on a flat, even surface.

It's Bounce House season.

Comic. [Sign above four people. A person sits at a desk working on a laptop. A person with ponytail is talking to person with white hat. A person with short hair walks away.] SIGN: It has been [-0.00000000000000044] days since our last floating point error

Day Counter

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truly the best times on Octopus Agile at the moment. Getting paid to use electricity in the UK thanks to investments in wind 💨 and solar ☀️

EFF is Leaving X After almost twenty years on the platform, EFF is logging off of X. This isn’t a decision we made lightly, but it might be overdue.

After almost twenty years on the platform, EFF is logging off of X.

This isn’t a decision we made lightly, but it might be overdue. 🧵 (1/5)
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Internal memo: Julia Liuson, head of Microsoft's developer division, will resign after 34 years and move to an "advisory role" at the end of June (Tom Warren/The Verge)

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Made a mistake of booking an Airbnb around there for MVP Summit one year, steep is an understatement.

The fact that none of the humans in the loop twigged that this was extremely odd is hilarious to me.

Fedora has always felt much more streamlined to me but I could never put my finger on why

To be fair, I always found it strange that U.S. airports had government-controlled security anyway coming from the UK where it’s on the airport to provide their own security that comply with regulations.

The desire for Xbox exclusives is a bit elusive. Never would I have thought that “please eliminate choice and make me buy a specific box for this game rather than what’s cheapest/best at the time” would be a prevailing sentiment.

ImageSharp is your next 2D game engine!

Comic. [Person 1 talking to a person with shoulder-length hair and a person with a white hat.] PERSON 1: I would never get an electric vehicle. Sure, they sound great, but what do you do if the battery runs out of charge? [caption] I felt pretty silly when someone finally explained tome that EVs are rechargeable.

Electric Vehicles

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FWIW I started Silk .NET because I needed a bindings library for my game engine. As I released the bindings (and people used it) before I even wrote a line of code for the engine I made it for, needless to say that engine never got worked on.

A tale as old as time in the world of building in public

Sad, Redmond’s quite a way away from the ol’ rainy rock that is the UK.

VLANs are institutional discrimination

JetBrains GoLand IDE showing sqlite3 bindings written in Go.

I'm still writing code the hard way. I'm slow. I like to think critically about every line of code and fiddle with variable names until everything looks right. I treat code as a liability and try to ship only what's necessary.

It's hard to imagine writing code any other way.

Section on "LLM shaming" added to RFD 576 ("Using LLMs at Oxide")

Added an "LLM shaming" section to RFD 576
rfd.shared.oxide.computer/rfd/0576#_ll...

Where can I cancel my two weeks free trial of 2026 before the deadline?

It’s always “when I read the script I was blown away I knew it was a project I had to be involved in” and never “my agent sent me this and said it would pay X dollars and that sounded pretty good”

Man it’s really a shame Sonic Mania didn’t have more original zones because they were all sooo goood.

Isn’t it open source?

Haha fair enough. My next pet project after I’m done with my current OSS work is to build a compiler, I’ve probably learnt enough to be dangerous in preparation but maaaaan does it get complex quickly!

Nice! I guess next up is the fun of register allocation? Looking pretty spilly there!

Excellent choice! Can’t say I’ve ever watched any programming streams, must try it at some point.