Happy Thanksgiving

"The U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify the swastika — an emblem of fascism...linked to the murder of millions of Jews and the deaths of more than 400,000 U.S. troops...as a hate symbol...Instead, the Coast Guard will classify the Nazi-era insignia as “potentially divisive”" archive.is/qUT7j

One day you’ll open an app you use once a week and get a prompt to do the most incomprehensible thing ever.

To this day, no code editor has come close to looking as good as Espresso did.

🔥 A big update for Cicolator! My iOS, iPadOS, and macOS calorie tracking app is even better. 🎨 New design 🤳 Barcode scanning 🪄 Use AI to estimate calories ❤️ Create favorites Read about the update! aaronmbushnell.com/cicolator-2

I *love* the way DHH is promoting Omarchy on omarchy.org. A 35+ minute tour of the best aspects. No over-produced sizzle reel. Just a single person walking you through why they love it and why he thinks you'll also love it. Feels like the Jobs-led WWDC days.

I think it’s finally time to mute the Bears talking heads. I’m just going to watch football instead of listening to people talk about it. You know it’s bad when I’d rather suffer through Bears football.

"Every mobile app attempts to expand until it includes chat." www.lukew.com/ff/entry.asp...

🌶️ I don't think Livewire should be a separate package any longer. I think it should just be part of Laravel/Blade 🫣

take me there

I can’t get the stupid AI generated “Don’t Tap the Glass” song out of my head.

Initial reaction to iOS 26 and macOS 26 designs now that I'm running them: - iOS: Mostly positive, some gripes - macOS: 😬

New favorite AI agent task: This NPM package is abandoned. Uninstall it, and convert my usage of it to [new library that will likely be abandoned in 6 months].

New Tyler?!

If I had to guess the most profitable, but bug-ridden game franchise, it would easily be Madden. Every menu option you select feels like a network request to the ends of the earth and back. You get an error every time you put your PlayStation to sleep and wake it up in any menu tree.

This is why there is massive distrust of home automation devices. The company you bought them from can simply and irrevocably decide to stop supporting the entire "automation" part. Unless you have an exception you'll soon have tiny tech "bricklets" doing...nothing. www.belkin.com/support-arti...

What’s with everyone using fringe, fly-by-night technology for real-time databases in web apps? One liner, any DB provider

“The more my system grew, the more I deferred the work of thought to some future self who would sort, tag, distill, and extract the gold. That self never arrived.” www.joanwestenberg.com/p/i-deleted-...

Wow, look at that. Microsoft is *still* just a bunch of turds! www.theverge.com/news/698468/...

Amazon: "DO YOU NEED THESE BATTERIES BY 4 AM? WE CAN ABSOLUTELY GET THEM TO YOU BY 4 AM OR 5 AM AT THE LATEST."

YES! The Bloober team did such a good job with Silent Hill 2. I’m really excited about this one. www.theverge.com/news/686112/...

not a cell phone in sight. just people living in the moment

Every airport has a door that will let out a high pitched tone for 20 minutes with no one reacting at all to it

Apple today: “These developers are LEECHES and it’s insulting they can bypass the App Store payment system!” Apple during WWDC: “Good morning! We love all you wonderful developers!” www.macstories.net/news/apple-d...

Is this a threat

📝 Development is Communication: Exactly how much of being a programmer is writing code? aaronmbushnell.com/development-...

The season finale of The Rehearsal stressed me out so badly.

If Apple really is deprioritizing Siri for iOS 19 *after* missing on Apple Intelligence this is hugely disappointing. The more people get comfortable having conversations with LLMs the more embarrassing Siri looks. Especially for a company with infinite money. www.macrumors.com/2025/05/19/s...

Wild to pull this move weeks before WWDC, the entire purpose if which is wooing developers www.theverge.com/news/667484/...

I don’t play Fortnite, but Apple is being incredibly petulant dragging their heels in App Store review. Similar to not being able to buy Kindle books in the Kindle iOS app this makes the iOS platform *worse* and not better IMO. www.macrumors.com/2025/05/14/e...

The writing has been on the wall for years now. Instead of doing it on their own terms, Apple now has a government mandate to modify their core App Store guidelines that have existed since its inception. Long time coming and great to see.

As a Bears fan, it’s honestly hilarious to see reporters and fans praising Ben Johnson for months, convincing themselves we’d get Jeanty, and then completely crashing out about getting a mid-round TE.

Finally watching the first season of The Rehearsal and I think “The Fielder Method” is one of the most unbelievable episodes of television I’ve seen. Holy cow.

Legendary character arc

@drgfunk.bsky.social !!!

Get me to God’s country

The Minecraft Movie was so genuinely funny and extremely fun! Go see it and don’t take yourself so seriously for an evening.

🥰 Media queries

📝 "The Ship of Theseus" aaronmbushnell.com/the-ship-of-...

📝 "Low-maintenance by design" aaronmbushnell.com/low-maintena...

Jesus Christ. daringfireball.net/linked/2025/...

Every post now: "I vibe coded this in 1 hour using OpenFart v2. Looking forward to trying this out in Buttski Alpha 0"

We're in the "full self-driving cars is only X away!" phase of AI

🐦‍🔥 tapbots.com/phoenix/

🧩 Silly weekend project: numberguess! The number-based version of the popular alphaguess.com. A new number to guess every day! numberguess.featherhour.com

@simonhamp.me Been watching NativePHP for a bit now (congrats on 1.0!) I want to take my Laravel app with many users and create an iOS wrapper around it—like Hotwire Native native.hotwired.dev Does NativePHP support this setup? Or is it more about shipping an *individual Laravel app per user*?

🗓️ Introducing Pickaday! The easiest way for you, your family, friends, fantasy football league, D&D group, neighborhood, or whoever to vote on event dates together! 🚫 No sign-up or registration ✋ No ads 💵 Free! Built on #Laravel pickadayapp.com

We also did an interview with Aaron that you can watch or listen to here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sfB...

Is there any shot Apple Intelligence will be used to make macOS spell check not be completely and utterly useless?