I’m not having much luck identifying the lyrics for ‘Supernova’ by the Avener and Axelino.

Weeknotes #317

How about I todon’t, LinkedIn?

I have become an uninterruptible power supply person.

Is there a reason why the @nytimes.com’s Crossplay app is not available in the Japan App Store?

Oh, God. It's 1.40 am and now I'm watching the U.S. play India.

This is getting closer to something I can use.

Weeknotes #316

The release candidate for Xcode 26.3 is the first time since its release that I've been tempted to install macOS 26.

Apple just being like 'lol' with respect to XCUITest working with SwiftUI-based Mac apps is extremely frustrating.

I was talking to a friend about my use of LLMs and we hit upon the metaphor of tailoring. I want to be a software tailor.

I'm listening to this interview (paywalled) with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour and I don't see the reason we should want prediction markets. Markets transmit information but the information transmission isn't an end in itself. The end is resource allocation. What's being allocated here?

Weeknotes #315

I have spent too much of my life thinking about how Disney's studio ident reveals that the castle is rotated 90 degrees relative to the main gate.

You've used up 90% of your weekend. You will get more weekend in [5] days.

Weeknotes #314

Duh, Moana's are, too.

Was iOS always this aggressive about trying to trick you into upgrading?

London backgrounds from 101 Dalmatians, 1961

Is Mirabel the first Disney princess whose parents are still alive at the end of the movie?

Weeknotes #313

It's mid-January and I'm still working my way through a backlog of 'today's headlines' newsletters from the end of 2025.

I was working on a little tool for @plinky.app, and realized I could turn it into something useful for other people. Introducing Skylink. 🎁 Search any Bluesky feed to find links matching any term, domain, or URL. The default feed is the Gift Links feed — so maybe find yourself a good read? 😇

This is a blistering take by Ben Thompson about the Vision Pro in light of the live NBA broadcast last week.

It should not be as hard as it is to print A5 documents on my Brother HL-L3240CDW.

The GIF in this of Norbert Heger trying to grab a plate outside its ‘corner radius’ made me laugh (via @buzzyrobin.bsky.social).

I readily admit it's pathetic that the thing I enjoy the most about playing Xbox Cloud Gaming games on the Steam Deck is having the frame rate overlay on the whole time.

Perhaps this reflects poorly on me but the thing that interested me most in this video is who the people were who Alan Kay (sarcastically) asked to stop chatting.

With any luck, this will be my first Bluesky post that’s automatically added to my self-hosted microblog by Blueshift.

I'm wondering if the PlayStation Portal is the better device for me than the Steam Deck.

Weeknotes #312

Weeknotes #311

I'm a bit behind with ATP but @siracusa.social saying that the wild experimentation he did at college was the crazy settings he configured for his X11 window manager might have been peak Siracusa.

I am depressed this is even a thing.

Weeknotes #310

Ask a stupid question, get an amazing and really fascinating answer

Weeknotes #309

Buying tickets to a screening of Zootopia 2 that's being held at 9 in the morning seemed like a much better idea yesterday than it does this evening.

@liss.bsky.social clip.cafe/quantum-of-s...

Great! I think I have a little utility I can run that will cross-post my Bluesky updates to my self-hosted microblog. (Yes, this post is kind of a test.)

It's a bit odd that Alan Dye doesn't have a Wikipedia page, isn't it?

Weeknotes #308

So far so good with Sled, my command-line utility for Advent of Code.

My new favourite website is downdetectorsdowndetectorsdowndetectorsdowndetector.com

I'm seeing problems with some Cloudflare sites (but not all).

Weeknotes #307

So it’s 30 November and I’ve started working on a command-line utility for Advent of Code.

"oh, don't forget to highlight, in bright red, the two-letter word in the tagline! the two letter word that's kind of the whole point of this clever ad campaign! the two letter word that links this show to the horror movie of the same name!" "no problem boss. i'm on it"

1. 'Smells Like Teen Spirit', Nevermind 2. 'Help!', Help! 3. 'Everything in its Right Place', Kid A 4. 'One More Time', Discovery 5. 'Jacqueline', Franz Ferdinand