🤯! https://mastodon.social/@kottke/115652517019846116

Email from one of my 13yos at school today. 😂 #whamageddon

@siracusa Did you know? (Chances are good you did!). Definitely an interesting quirk. https://benjojo.co.uk/u/benjojo/h/h4N78m1PjXYsYfzkGV

We’ll keep resisting! It works (ie has been working, will continue to work, and will eventually be victorious!). Great article. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/nov/09/trump-resistance-is-everywhere

And then that 6 year old (mentally speaking) was elected president!

Riding so high right now. After struggling with a particularly perculiar website bug at work. Customer impacting. For many days now. Long hours. 9am to after midnight a couple days in a row. Finally found the issue this afternoon, got an emergency change raised, went all the way up the chain […]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@tess/115613452377202318 Fascinating article. Take 15 mins to read. Eye opening!

Ah, the ritual of a Dad of a highschool senior who hasn't made up his mind about where he wants to go to school: get unsolicited promotional mail from College XYZ (that I've never heard of). Google it. Look at its acceptance rates. At its automatic admission criteria. At the programs it offers […]

@ivory Can I bribe you to build a boosting-rate-limit feature into Ivory? One where people get X boosts per Y period (both configurable), and any further boosts during that period are automatically muted. (I know I can disable boosts from specific people, but that's a bit too binary...)

@siracusa Fastmail was feeling left out, so they joined the party! 😂

@LexFreagles Eagles vs my Clownboys. What a shitshow (on the Dallas side, of course). To be fair, going about exactly as I expected it to go.

Coke marketing dept: Let’s make a fully gen-AI ad! Internet: hold our 🍻! 😂👏🎉 https://www.threads.com/@aifieldnotes/post/DRUaYcxiFuN?xmt=AQF0A5s8-CZ0jrDuqz9CXEbORSlnOii8tDwozhfEQ3K80HbcqLoZXVsdMXOBmuDwc8oM6Vs&slof=1

After saving a spreadsheet in macOS Numbers today, I got prompted for a star review "Do you enjoy Numbers?" Fuck — and I can't stress this highly enough — off Apple! I'm working on a fucking spreadsheet, not playing a game.

@atpfm The globe 🌐 icon on my extended Apple keyboard also launches the emoji picker (as per Settings, see attached img), but I keep forgetting about it, because I have muscle-memory for ^⌘Space.

Wow, I’ve just had to turn my AC on again. In mid *November*! It’s been highs of mid 80s here and is forecast to remain so for a week. Got unpleasantly warm in the house with only windows open (mostly due to humidity). Hopefully the cooler temps arrive soon […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

@theregister nails it. https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/14/opinion_musk_tesla_payout/

#plur1bus (#pluribus). 2 episodes in and I can already tell I'm going to enjoy this a lot! Excellent so far.

Much has been said about Musk's appalling social media posts. Joyce Carol Oates takes a moment to notice what he *doesn't* post.

@rebound @jamesthomson You hit on one of my goto dad jokes. About the cemetery. But you only covered the start of my sequence, though. Because this is how it goes when we drive past one: "People are dying to get in there."<eyeroll from kids> "It's the dead center of town."<mild groan from kids> […]

Let’s go! This isn’t a blue wave, it’s a tsunami! Virginia. Jersey. NYC! “We the people” are fucking fed up! #uspol #elections

I wonder how many free trial sign-ups #fubotv, #hulu+LiveTV, #slingtv, etc, are getting during this very public negotiations spat between #youtubetv and #disney (which covers #abc, #ESPN, etc channels)? I went with FuboTV (5 days free) in order to catch tonight's Cowboys game, and then I'll […]

C’mon @lexfri, “plaice” was begging to be used, instead of “place”! 😂

Safari's AI summarizer has a pretty big scoop in there! LOL 🤦‍♂️ (https://www.macrumors.com/2025/10/28/samsung-tri-fold-smartphone-debut/)

@marcoarment Several times in the last few weeks, @overcastfm forgot its place (I’ve only seen this in CarPlay). It’ll open on the car’s screen, and for a split second the play position (progress bar) will be where I left off, and then it resets to the beginning of the episode. Then I have to […]

My city (Frisco, TX) welcomed Major League Volleyball to the city. Specifically, the Dallas Pulse, the region's first women's pro volleyball team. Nice! Nice image, too, with the announcement. Captioned with the women's team name "Dallas Pulse Volleyball". A […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

#mlb #uspol The province of Ontario just ran anti-tarrif commercial ,in the U.S., consisting entirely of U.S. president Reagan speaking against protectionism.

Every now & then my brain just randomly yells (for example): "DUDE, you just remote started your car from your Inspector Gadget wrist watch!! Do you even realize how fucking awesome that is [and the amount of innovation/invention that had to happen for that to be possible]?!" We sometimes […]

So cool! https://mastodon.social/@kottke/115381260928698463

It's going to be 86-90ºF (30-32ºC) this week here (in north TX). Which is absolutely perfect Fall/Autumn weather. I really love these cooler days -- for dog walks, sitting outside, etc. Long may it last.

Dayjob: <part of team that handles protecting our site against bot scrapes> SUCK ON THAT, LOSER BOTS! Me, at home: <script that scrapes favorite comic and posts it into my Mastodon timeline fails, now blocked by new bot protection the comic site added> BASTARDS! 😂😂

me: badger badger badger badger mushroom mushroom my husband: what me: badger badger badger badger mushroom mushroom my husband: what?? me: snaaake, snaaake, ohhh it’s a snaaake my husband, who is several years younger than me: okay maybe I do need to go to the ER for that concussion after […]

@atpfm Given your conversation (on the most recent ep 659) about being spotted in ATP merch, I had my 1st such experience recently, too. On iPhone release weekend this year. The (very crowded) Apple Store employee collected me and another person from the line and took us to a desk to help us […]

Alien Earth: Excellent. Really enjoyed it. Great story, fantastic visuals. #alienearth

@atpfm member specials are soooo worth it. For the surprise rage factor, if nothing else. E.g. I expected to be VERY angry at their pizza toppings rankings, but wasn’t (at all) and did NOT expect to be so triggered by their vacation opinions. 😂😂 It’s that unpredictability that makes it so […]

I've been seeing a subtle, but noticeable, change in the "AI bubble/crash" talk here on the 'Don. Seems a growing number of folks are starting to accept that the "AI bubble popping" won't result in the end of AI/LLMs. Or even in a meaningful reduction in the integration & use of AI/LLMs into […]

When none of the Ultra watch face complications give you *exactly* what you want, it simply has to be @_Davidsmith's Watchsmith to the rescue! Use 2 complication spots, each containing their own Watchsmith complication, and get the date exactly how you want it!

It me! https://mastodon.sdf.org/@Aphelion/115257161537764400

#jimmykimmel was really, really good tonight. Raw emotion and a brutally honest conversation about where we find ourselves as a nation. Bravo to him, his writers, and his entire staff.

Channeling my inner @caseyliss, I’m going caseless with my 17 Pro for the first time ever. Casey, I’m gonna admit, it feels weird AF, and I’m nervous AF each time I handle it. 🫠🫣

Ooooh, a rare violation of Betteridge’s Law of Headlines! (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headlines)

Why use a URL shortener when you can use a phishy URL extender? https://phishyurl.com/ Keep your security people alert and awake, generate phishing-looking redirecting link #infosec

@drdrang What's your take on shell on macOS? Did you move over to zsh when they switched, or did you stay with bash (or another?)? (I considered asking @siracusa, but I'm worried he'll tell me he's still rocking ksh! 😂) (reason is I just got my 1st new Mac since 2017, so it has now switched […]

Love #ios26's new #carplay look. Looks nice & fresh, while staying familiar.

Sorry (ok maybe not really 😂) @caseyliss — but regardless, what a game! Go #cowboys!!

#macos “Universal Control” really confused me for a while today. Setting up my new Mac (same iCloud account as old Mac). On another desk but in the same room as my old Mac. Every so often, the mouse on my new Mac would stop working. Would take a lot of moving it or jiggling or clicking to get […]

OH. MY. GOD. On a release call at work. I'm deploying a small change, but it relates directly to customer logins. Hence it's critical. I deploy. Logins start failing. I roll back. Logins keep failing. 30 minutes later... Other devs find the issue with their deployment code, completely […]

I used to be an annual upgrader. But I'm glad I waited a few years since last doing a tech upgrade round. It means it feels really special again, and the changes between my 3 year old (and older) devices and the newly announced ones are actually meaningful. And I was genuinely impressed with all […]

Re-posting due to current events. The secret language of coders, part N of many. Today: "npm"

Remember this fun URL from three years ago? https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2022/09/08/http-http-http-http-http-http-http/

Dexter:Resurrection Loved it. Excellent TV! #dexter #dexterresurrection