Needy Programs https://tonsky.me/blog/needy-programs/

“You are not worse than the kernel hacker, the compiler engineer, or the game engine programmer. You, too, can build whatever you want to build. All software is just software. It's time we treated it that way.” https://jimmyhmiller.com/overly-humble-programmer

This is a very good show. Very entertaining

Always nice to have options

You know how FedEx logo has a hidden arrow formed by negative space? Why stop at one arrow when you can have four?

“The side buttons do nothing, but the second wheel has a function - each click up or down is equivalent to two clicks of the other wheel.” Now you’ve seen it too

“All the doors in this spaceship have a cheerful and sunny disposition. It is their pleasure to open for you, and their satisfaction to close again with the knowledge of a job well done.” As the door closed behind them it became apparent that it did indeed […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

They rebuilt doors in React or what?

I wanted to exit script with error code but forgot to import sys so it threw and... exited with error code? Task failed sucessfully?

Ugh. One more toggle to disable https://9to5google.com/2025/10/29/youtube-adds-ai-upscaled-super-resolution-for-low-quality-videos/

I wonder what kind of unexpected things one can taste on a bus?

Caution! Portals!

Get a rest. Go to Valhalla

That feeling when you know you’ll have a “great” time turning on the TV

Очень люблю первое, практически Avenge me pilot; в значительной мере утерянная в современности культура общения с машиной, подразумевающая что по обе стороны дисплея находятся уважающие друг друга профессионалы

lol no you don't #privacy #cookies

All AI in the world is not enough to see that I already selected Haiku 4.5 and don’t need to be reminded about it

If you read Russian, this is pretty sad experience report on how it feels to work in a huge IT corporation https://nekrolm.github.io/blog.html

This bag is not a toy. (It’s also not a bag)

tired: choose a language based on its performance or other measurable qualities wired: choose a language based on culture around it For me, Clojure has the most practical, down to earth culture I’ve seen. I didn’t choose it because I like lisps or emacs (I’ve never touched one). It’s because […]

I’m so over rounded corners

RE: https://mastodon.online/@nikitonsky/113243815831547805 Didn’t quite guessed where the pills would go but at least guessed it would be pills

YouTube rolled out their redesign using Liquid-Glass-style floating pill elements instead of toolbars, so now, naturally, you can't fling your mouse into the corner of the fullscreen window to hit the un-fullscreen button anymore. Don't you just love how Apple design drives the wider industry? 😛

Business idea: re-implement all the built-in Mac OS X apps in 10.9 Maverics design. My theory is, with the trajectory of modern macOS, people will soon start craving for well-designed, good looking apps. And we already know how to make them! It’s been done before

About syntax highlighting https://tonsky.me/blog/syntax-highlighting/

it’s literally two families

I wonder what the ellipsis here implies...

And that’s the problem

hey wanna see something kinda interesting? this was the entire fix to the iPhone Antennagate in 2010. 20 bytes. (this is going to be a very long thread 🧵)

on vacation, don’t @ me

green electricity

Startups are hard

If you don’t know, thing on the right might look newer: - ~50% more compact - Less, smaller holes - Round edges, easier to hold - Fits in a hand

TIL reader conditionals in Clojure are order-dependent for no obvious reason

macOS Tahoe version number—26—is the year when it will first become usable (Just kidding, we all know it won’t)

JWT should’ve been called JSONWT. Acronyms should not be compressed

I just clicked “Remember me” and “Trust this browser” 6 times total over the course of 5 minutes. Loggin in into the same website on the same browser Who are they kidding?

Have you ever seen a drunk interface? Windows 10 stock Calculator at 125% display scaling

Quick! Which dot is purple?

Modern computers: can play multiple 8k videos, render millions of triangles every millisecond, transcribe and translate voice real-time, think. IntelliJ Idea: we draw a line at 5 temporary buffers

This is art

Imagine 18 mm thick sheet of paper

Freaking Tahoe is making my own life worse even without me installing it :(

New haircut announcement

Noooooooo! Mastodon added quotes in the worst possible way, copying Twitter: in a dropdown menu on a button. Come on, be better! Just add one more icon. Clicking on retweet and instantly retweeting was one of the better parts of Mastodon experience

So I looked at Tahoe release (in VM). Some highlights: - Window toolbar changing color from white to black for no reason

There was a golden period of OS X roughly between 10.5 and 10.9. Up to 10.4, windows were too textured: stripes, brushed metal. In 10.5 till 10.9 we got to enjoy the beauty of Aqua paired with calm, tasteful gray window frames and controls that had visible […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

Coward

Benjamin Button Reviews macOS https://rakhim.exotext.com/benjamin-button-reviews-macos

Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Every smart appliance expands until it can show ads https://www.androidauthority.com/samsung-confirms-smart-refrigerator-ads-are-coming-3598848/