About a month ago I went to Mexico City for the first time and it was a blast 🇲🇽 also… I’m blogging again!

User privacy & safety is a temporary luxury, granted to Apple during peacetime by the governments in the regions in which it operates. There's a whole lot that Apple says it stands for, that its marketing desperately wants us to believe, that won't hold up when push really comes to shove (as […]

Dual power https://mastodon.jakewharton.com/@jw/113986253566175563

@mattiem I've been loving the lil mini Swift libraries you've been publishing lately. Something so nice about a very focused and purpose-driven library.

At this point I’m convinced Swift is on a never ending quest to just become Rust https://forums.swift.org/t/pitch-last-expression-as-return-value/76958/364

Turns out a lot of the thought leaders in the AT Protocol (Bluesky’s protocol) space are some weird brand of Libertarian, always posting about Ayn Rand and how California is a policy failure because of big government or some shit 🥴

Say it with me: we can make the user experience of analog products better without making them digital. https://mastodon.social/@jimniels/113807894636712364

It would be amazing to keep my iPhone hardware while being able to run Linux on it after Apple stops shipping iOS updates to it to prevent it from being e-waste https://mstdn.social/@justsoup/113777939788541001

Threads is a true dumpster fire https://hachyderm.io/@samhenrigold/113720379337773364

btw i posted this on threads and the replies are a shitshow. i’m getting absolutely ratio’d by people who are insistent on winning this nothing argument. it’s a christmas miracle. https://www.threads.net/@samhenrigold/post/DEBn2IhNekN

Every time I see it, I’m reminded of how much I like the Xbox UI https://www.threads.net/@tomwarrenuk/post/DDdIQw4vJFc

Can’t break the norms to do something important like expand the courts or eliminate the filibuster, but doesn’t bat an eye to break norms to protect his family https://apnews.com/article/biden-son-hunter-charges-pardon-pledge-24f3007c2d2f467fa48e21bbc7262525

Bluesky really is the macOS to Mastodon’s Ubuntu. Which I think this makes Threads Windows with WSL? Lol

Anyone know of any benchmarks of HTTP routing frameworks across languages?

👀 https://github.com/JonPulfer/swiftodon

@cwebber in a *very* detailed technical analysis of Bluesky, says that it isn't currently decentralized or federated. Instead, "...this should actually be the way Bluesky brands itself, which I believe would be more honest: an open architecture (that's fair to say!) with the possibility of […]

Great blog post from @cwebber on ActivityPub, AT Protocol, what they should steal from each, and the ideal versions of each https://dustycloud.org/blog/how-decentralized-is-bluesky

The Democratic Party is dead. By committing to being a right-wing party that is worse at doing so than the Republicans, they've hit a dead end. There is no room for a center-right party in the US except in the eyes of donors and the grifters who squeeze money out of those donors. They'll be […]

The other app is down so I’m back here. What did I miss?

I’ll tell ya what: despite its lack of new and meaningful features over the past ~1+ year, I do miss the general build quality of Ivory now that I’m not using it consistently anymore

Glad to see the conservatives are getting along again https://mastodon.world/@wonofone/113472546805174738

Finally migrated my followers over to this account lol

Spending some time tonight updating my spreadsheet comparing various non-US cities. Apropos of absolutely nothing at all.

Where are the ActivityPub folks on Mastodon? I wanna learn more about how ActivityPub works at the technical level. I've really enjoyed learning about the AT Protocol over on Bluesky over the past week and I'd like to know more about ActivityPub too!

How come I can tell Fastmail to use my malstrom.me domain name and pick any username I want so I can use [email protected] as my email address but I can't do the same thing on Mastodon?

Wow! This app is very well crafted. Beautiful visual design and animations. The interactions feel crisp and intentional. Very native feel, while not being stock and boring. I love it. https://mastodon.social/@travelappco/113425134484721100

Bluesky’s React Native app gets a threaded post composer before Ivory 😭 https://bsky.app/profile/danabra.mov/post/3l7ubufn6vw2e