Apple at 50: Five Decades of Thinking Different YouTube video by Computer History Museum

Amazing presentation by David Pogue on Apple's 50-year history last night at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View. I highly recommend it!
m.youtube.com/watch?v=w8wt...

“Doctor, no matter how many times I try, I can only ever satisfy my wife once when we make love. I think I might be… idempotent.”

this has the ring of truth but we can just day "uses bazel" and the rest is implied

Who knew that Mr. Peanutbutter named the ISS?

Literally made of silk in some cases!

The Reno NGB appears to be in Las Vegas.

Anti-Lad FTW!

Book cover for Danny Dunn and the Homework Machine by Jay Williams and Raymond Abrashkin. The cover illustration has a 1950s or 1960s computer console with buttons and flashing lights. In the foreground there are three children: a girl in a green sailor outfit, a light-haired guy in a red turtleneck smiling and pointing at the machine over his should with his thumb, and a darker-haired guy in a blue turtleneck looking at the machine while holding his chin and looking slightly concerned.

It remains to be seen if Danny Dunn's homework machine also enslaves a small child.

The first time I saw this, I missed the child trapped inside the machine who appears to be the one writing the answers. (lower right)

“Now that I’m 18 YEARS OF AGE OR OLDER, I’m really looking forward to being your intern.”

Cleveland Amory wrote about it in his famous book “The Rat Who Came for Christmas”.

I just realized that if AI really made me 10x productive, I could work half time and hold down 5 jobs simultaneously.

Sounds awesome!

A concept page of my character Brioche, a baker dough-mancer girl who controls dough and summons (bakes) bread creatures to fight for her

Brioche the Doughmancer 🫓

The Apple Games app in the visionOS App Store. The legend "Not compatible with this device. See full list of compatible devices." appears above the entry.

Huh. The new Apple Games app isn’t available on VisionOS.

Burning man. It’s the art car version of rule 34x

It's been great watching this game come together. Plants who keep humans in little pots.

I just created the Apple Game Dev discord. It's for discussion of game development on all Apple platforms and frameworks, as well as gamel engines that target Apple platforms.
discord.gg/HWGqyhdG

If this is anything like the one I attended last spring, it is well worth watching.

I was thinking John Skull-y

Also explains that executive order forbidding the government from doing business with the ACME Corporation

Certainly explains one of the possible nominees for head of ICE

Anyone here remember Fluke (later Floops) the VRML animated series from SGI?

A sarcastic comment from a slack channel speaking in the voice of GPT-5, saying, "You're absolutely right! 52.8 is a smaller number than 69.1, let me change that graph for you right now. It was incredibly smart of you to catch that, thank you!"

A cropped screenshot from this morning's OpenAI live streamed GPT-5 announcement. A bar graph of SWE-bench results shows the bar for GPT-5's score "without thinking" of 52.8% as being about 30% higher than the bar for OpenAI o3's score of 69.1%. In an inset image in the lower left, a person is talking.

Everything you need to know about #GPT-5 in one simple graph.

my mom taught me there's two kinds of businesses: hot dog stands and art galleries

- hot dog stands protect territory and keep competition off their turf
- art galleries benefit from more adjacent art galleries, cluster together to amplify reach/support

youre an art gallery, not a hot dog stand

Every day some senior game dev posts their "I've been in the industry for 20 years, here's how you do it" guide, and step 1 is "be in the industry 20 years ago"

The child catcher from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, driving his wagon with frightened children screaming behind a barred window in the wagon.

Also, the frog in slowly heating water thing turns out not to be true. At some point, the frog gets uncomfortable and hops out.

That is a fascinating result, given how many people die in hot tubs every year (couldn't find a statistic, but it's likely around 100 or more, based on the numbers I found

(Gave up and switched to Xcode, that is.)

I really wish that Apple and JetBrains could have reached a meeting of minds so that AppCode could have kept up with Xcode.
Do you remember the time we were trying to pair program in AppCode, and gave up after about half an hour?