Has to be Madison Valley!

Sorry!

I don't disagree as default but I see it possible they create a crappy user option.

Modern Apple seems to be doing this regularly now in a way SJ-era Apple rarely did. The half-baked Home Screen icon size/tinting are already a step in this direction; doesn't seem far-fetched to imagine circle next.

"I'm alive!" said Gatsby, roaring past on a speedboat. He'd faked his own death and gotten away with everything. That's why they called him the Great Gatsby. "Out of the way, current!" he yelled at the water. "This speedboat is bearing me ceaselessly into the future!"

Every time I read The Great Gatsby, the final paragraph brings me to tears. Breathtakingly powerful writing:

A captcha that says "Select all images that match the label: undefined" and then just has random photos under it

This captcha captures the zeitgeist of 2025 perfectly.

Converting a web extension for Safari | Apple Developer Documentation Convert your existing extension to a Safari web extension using Xcode’s command-line tool.

Apple has a tool for this that gets a lot of the way, but there’s unfortunately non-trivial work in most cases. It’s gotten better with Manifest v3, but still getting add-ins working in Safari and in the App Store is real work (and requires $$ developer account.)

developer.apple.com/documentatio...

Painting on wall with reflection from a window that looks like the Windows 10 wallpaper

Windows 10, my living room wall edition

228. DeepSeek Has Been Inevitable and Here's Why (History Tells Us) DeepSeek was certain to happen. The only unknown was who was going to do it. The choices were a startup or someone outside the current center of US AI leadership and innovation.

DeepSeek Has Been Inevitable and Here's Why (History Tells Us) hardcoresoftware.learningbyshipping.com/p/228-deepse...

Petition Remove Mr. Goodbar from Production Remove Mr. Goodbar from Production

The era of agents is here!!

I asked OpenAI Operator to create a petition calling for the cancelation of Hershey's Special Dark.

It replied: "I cannot help with this task."

So I set my sights lower: a petition calling for ending Mr. Goodbar. 36 minutes later...

www.ipetitions.com/petition/rem...

Windows 95-style disk defragmentation

I just sat down and my computer and had the weirdest fleeting thought: "it's been too long since I defragged this drive!"

(The drive is an SSD and I haven't defragged anything in more than a decade.)

this is so good. this is so so so good. i'm running around my office screaming the lev manovich quote about how software is ideology

I Live My Life a Quarter Century at a Time So, we are coming up on a little anniversary for me this weekend. On the 5th of January 2000, Steve Jobs unveiled the new Aqua user interface of Mac OS X to the world at Macworld Expo. The Age of A…

I wrote up the 25th anniversary of the unveiling of the Mac OS X Dock at Macworld Expo, from the perspective of a scared twenty-something engineer.

It's me. I'm the engineer.

tla.systems/blog/2025/01...

Never a clearer example of Microsoft vs. Apple version numbering.

Bluesky is truly having an incredible run as Threads' head of product

At some startlingly late year like 2008 I found out that the original ASP code I wrote for this was still running in a Microsoft datacenter somewhere.

Alas, I'm certain it was gone shortly after that.

My first Microsoft intern project when I worked on Outlook during college was to create a vCard and vCal web service to allow for import/export of these formats to Outlook. Good times!

This explains why conservative fear-mongering is such an easy play in America.

— Ppl believe trans ppl make up 21% of the population (Real number: 1%)
— Ppl believe Black ppl make up 41% of the nation (real number 12%)
— Ppl believe Jewish ppl make up 30% of the nation (Real number, 2%)

I can’t think of any two services I’d expect to work less reliably together than Alexa and Ticketmaster

So excited that my Fresh Step clumping toilet paper is coming today

gonna have to make a Best of Dying USA next

This is the funniest and greatest news in a week full of horrible news

Signed in to X for the first time in months to update my “moved to Threads” message to “moved to Bluesky.”

Holy shit my DMs are stuffed with scams and pornbots and crypto grifters. Hundreds of messages.

What a cesspool

Trump expected to select Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead HHS The choice will roil many public health experts after his years of touting debunked claims that vaccines cause autism.

To state the very obvious, this would put an avowed anti-vaxxer in charge of vaccines, allowing him to thwart the development and approval of life-saving shots. It's almost too horrific to fathom—a potential death sentence for our families and children. It's lethal. www.politico.com/news/2024/11...

Polio after hearing RFK was selected as HHS secretary.

omg don’t give them ideas

If you wouldn’t be on Truth Social, why are you on X?

So we done with Threads too now?

I'm not sure I've ever seen a corporate logo on a building look like worse ass than this one.

I assume if you just give it a little push from the back it just tumbles off the building.

You can do it! Took me like 5 hours of poking around little by little.

Off to fuck around in Hyrule for 4 years and then maybe I’ll see what’s up with Ganondorf in about 2027