I watched youtu.be/NIGbQ9NHFEg?... earlier and decided that the place where you find people to hire for your breakins should be called SlinkedIn.

I’m sure they’re different in some way, but it’s funny to me that in the context of chocolate and chocolate-flavoured things, the approximate US translation of the Austrian ‘Mozart’ is ‘Dubai’.

Just noticed after six months that I neglected to turn on the code folding ribbon in Xcode at work. I thought I used that feature all the time, but I guess not! 😮

One thing that technology has made less intuitive over the years is using public toilets. You need to flush, get water, get soap, and dry your hands, and for each of these steps you have to work out whether you need to touch something, or wave a body part in front of or under something.

In order to feel like an astronaut in my everyday life, I’m rebranding tidying up as ‘stowage activities’.

Just an iPhone video of the Earth setting behind the Moon 🥹 (I hope this link works; instagram links seem to be very finicky. Probably best to open it in a browser rather than the app) www.instagram.com/reel/DXVMcEq...

"irreversible side effects of HRT" all of life is irreversible. i cannot go back a single second in time

It's the last day of #deepDishSwift, and thanks to tips, encouragement, and having some downtime where this was the logical thing to work on, I've released an update to Seddit which doesn't crash on launch (it's a low bar 😆) and I think the iCloud synching works now. apps.apple.com/us/app/seddi...

🤔 If I had an idea for a talk, I could theme it for #deepDishSwift by mentioning the common practice of putting canned spaghetti on homemade pizzas in NZ, and relating it to spaghetti code. And the pizza theming is the most important thing about a Deep Dish talk, so I’m 80% of the way there…

NASA astronaut Christina Koch hugs the Orion spacecraft in the well deck of USS John P. Murtha. Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls flic.kr/p/2s7aCi3 #Artemis 🧪🔭

It's today!! Today is Day 1 of Deep Dish Swift 2026 🎉 We wish all of you could be here with us in person but if you can't... You can tune in LIVE on our YouTube channel 👇 And if you can't tune in LIVE, you can watch the live recording at anytime www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hzb...

Just saw Hoppers, and I don’t think it’s much of a spoiler to say that I particularly enjoyed seeing ‘For the Birds’-style birds in some crowd scenes, hearing the kid behind us say, ‘yay! The fire goed away!’ and seeing Production Kits in the credits instead of Production Babies.

Ok now those Artemis II astronauts are really over the Moon!

Wow. Live video from the far side of The Moon, as The Earth sets. Orion capsule, The Moon, Earth. All in one view. #Artemis

People have gone farther from Earth than they’d ever been before, and they took their iPhones with them. I can see this being a plus both for people who like iPhones and for people who really dislike them and want them as far away as possible. 😄 Once again, spaceflight brings us together.

#ShotoniPhone 🌍

I wonder how rare Te Reo Māori is in having a common word that literally translates to ‘water of life’ that actually means water and not some form of alcohol.

Just saw Project Hail Mary, and I don’t think it’s a spoiler to say I wasn’t expecting to hear Pō Atarau.

Bio I read in a dream while looking for someone to repair my leather jacket: [name] is a failed therapist and good human who “necessarily got into the business of doing things with lunches” (Quotation marks theirs; the whole thing is a quote from the bio) I don’t know why I find this charming.

A Golden Apple Anniversary I lost my gold Apple pendant after 25 years, then found it again after 49 days in a parking lot.

HERE WE GO!

CERN levels up with new superconducting karts 🏎️ The race is on to test new vehicles in the underground Large Hadron Collider tunnel, ahead of major works starting this summer. Find out more about the new superconducting karts: home.cern/news/news/en...

Looks like there is some weather (showers and such) but NASA commentator Derrol Nail is saying it should clear as we approach the launch window

Today is Apple’s 50th anniversary, but it’s also April Fools Day, so I’m wearing a T-shirt that commemorates the 50th anniversary of CERN. I mention this here because I doubt anyone will notice in real life. 😄

I just got four credit card offers in the mail, all from the same company but addressed to two different versions of my name. I’ll have to check whether this means I have a credit score now. 😃

I have a spare ticket to The Arrogant Worms in Mission, BC this evening if anyone’s interested!

The March 15 Connections puzzle is a fun thing to read when you’ve just been listening to Cat Cat Frog Frog. https://mikephirman.bandcamp.com/track/cat-cat-frog-frog

FUCKING HELL GET IN www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

At work I have a laptop with a fingerprint reader on the top right of the keyboard, and an external keyboard with a lock button on the top right of the keyboard. So I lock or unlock my computer by touching the top right of one keyboard or the other. I find that pleasing. 🙂

I want all of my trans family to outlive these fucks. Please don't let them take away your beautiful voices from this world. Sometimes spite is the motivation that works best, stay here, every single one of us living and breathing is spitting in a fascist's eye.

🍕 You know what's fun? Setting crazy goals So, I'm hustling to sell 50 more @deepdishswift.com tickets this weekend 🤷‍♂️ But I need YOUR help 👀 - Bring a friend - Tell a coworker - Convince your boss to send the team Repost. Share in Slack. Anything 🙏 More people = More fun 🫶 deepdishswift.com

Yes the world's gone to hell in a handbasket but there're also people who camp out near kākāpō nests doing nightly checks on tiny little chicks. Timestamp: 21:22 www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfGL...

Exciting times on Anchor Island as we check #kakapo nests for hatching. We’re letting eggs hatch in nests to reduce management intensity. Last night I found these two newly-hatched chicks in Konini’s nest, along with a fertile egg I carried back under a lunar eclipse. #kakapo2026 #conservation

Don’t know if this still works, but when I used to get confused about news stories, I’d check Newsround.

The Swift Performance team isn’t *my* team, but they’re in my hallway. Or in London if you’d prefer. They’re looking for an engineer who’s not afraid of optimizers. jobs.apple.com/en-us/detail...

WE ONLY NEED TO SELL 3 MORE COPIES of the 2026 MarsCon Comedy Music Track Fund Raiser album to hit our Stretch Goal with 8 DAYS LEFT until the event! It's nearly 4 hours of live concert excerpts from MarsCon 2025, for only $30! Track list & purchase link: marsconcomedy.wordpress.com/shop/

TFW you notice your tweets have been linked a few times in the work Slack before you worked there, mostly in joke/pun channels 🥰🤩🥹

The other day I moved my ~2TB Final Cut Pro library to an external SSD, and now that I have some space for it, I’m moving my [the app formerly known as] iTunes music library onto my Mac’s internal drive for the first time in probably more than 20 years.

Here’s a picture I took of the Space Needle a few months ago when it had some holiday lights. I think the lights glowing in the fog makes it look like an Olympic torch.

Milky Way as seen from our back yard last night. Dark skies are a treasure and worth protecting.

Every so often my Apple Watch tells me I have low or very low walking steadiness. But I walk around a fair bit and don’t feel like I’m in imminent danger of falling — at least not on smooth ground. It doesn’t feel like a risk to get up.

I was just reading about the period known as Romantik in German and for about a page I wasn’t sure if it was the Romantic period or Ancient Rome (Rome antique.) It was the former, but in French those two terms are really close.

Please enjoy this short and hastily-created song incorporating Vogon poetry my dad wrote inspired by something I said in response to something Joey said about our tax declaration. youtu.be/YgGt8FkLxxw?...

NZ shorebird and seabird thread. I'm going to go ahead and post some shots before carefully editing and sorting; I'm already falling hopelessly behind. Let's start with a variable oystercatcher chick and parent. 🪶

Occupational hazard of #kakapo fieldwork: try not to get knocked off the rocks by fur seals during boat drop offs! #kakapo2026 #conservation #birds

I get nervous every time someone kicks an oven door closed, and it’s all @maryrobinettekowal.com’s fault.

Well, we’ve been invited to watch the Superb Owl with a friend on Sunday. I don’t think I’ve ever seen more than a few seconds of American football, so I may as well start big. I wonder if there’ll be any good ads.

I don't often celebrate an extinction event but the Worm can't drop dead fast enough. Perhaps single digit numbers this year 🤩