“The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle.”

The Apple@Pixar team just released an open-source tool, `xolo`, that helps administer JAMF MDM package deployment and patch management at scale: github.com/PixarAnimati...

I sat down to work on a project that uses a Raspberry Pi, powered it up, went to plug in a USB cable, and accidentally dropped the cable's metal USB connector onto the Pi's power management circuitry and shorted something — killing this brand new Pi. Real smooth. 🤦‍♂️

Do you have a dead retro device motherboard you want to donate to science? I am taking requests and board donations for my board scan wiki. wiki.nataliethenerd.com

Dialup AOL is being discontinued next month. The end of an era. I met my high school sweetheart and future wife on AOL, and we maintained a long distance relationship over IMs for years. We celebrated our 17th anniversary a few days ago. You never know what technology will change your life.

I published a new video showing some lesser-known techniques for styling SF Symbols in SwiftUI, including scaling symbols relative to text, coloring them with gradients and multiple colors, and applying variants like fill or circle programmatically: youtu.be/ytUWzccgD_w #SwiftUI #iOSDev #SwiftLang

"I asked chatgpt" "I asked grok" well I asked Achenar from the best-selling point&click adventure game Myst and he told me to bring him the blue pages and NOT to touch the red ones

This week I’m taking my oldest to EAA AirVenture for the first time. The number of planes landing on Flightradar24 is staggering! Having never been before, I have no idea what to expect, but he’s very into aviation, so this seems like going to airplane Disneyland.

N64brew user Buu342 has released a multiplayer networking stack for the Nintendo 64, allowing you to play homebrew online using a flashcart's USB port. They also made a video that shows how to use the tools, and explains all the technical details. www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9aV...

Planning a few-day-long summer trip to San Diego. Any recommendations for family fun with 10 & 13 year old kids?

Amid the other horror from all this, it's a damn shame about the Perfect Dark reboot being cancelled. It looked like it had promise and I was looking forward to it. :( P. S. There's a work-in-progress decompiled pc port of the N64 original that breathes fresh life into it and is very playable.

The annual tradition is approaching!

Delete Apple Account > Throw away iPhone > Sell house > Live in woods > Find bottle in nearby stream > Has note inside > F1® The Movie tickets available now!!1

on type safety

My kids have discovered that some online games are vulnerable to turning off Wi-Fi briefly, and now I'm sharing the story of flag stealing in Halo 2 using the cable modem "standby" button. Artificial lag — a tale as old as time.

You have your ducks in a ROW? Just one row? I have my ducks in a bunch of rows and columns. A whole excel spreadsheet of ducks. Grow up. Get it together.

Just fixed a bug I introduced almost exactly a decade ago. Work some place/on something long enough and you start to have to really deal with the results of your past decisions 😆

Apple's transcriber APIs are coming along, but if you need accurate transcription right now, I've been happily using Speechmatics' API for several years and recommend it. It returns accurate text transcripts and even detailed word-by-word timing in JSON format. It's not free, but it's very good.

My city streets are absolutely lined with protesters! I’ve never seen this many people come out for any event ever. Outstanding.

When landing on the Moon, the astronauts watched an instrument called the FDAI that showed the spacecraft's orientation. The ball inside the Flight Director/Attitude Indicator rotated in three axes as the Lunar Module rotated. Let's look inside and see how it works. 1/N

It doesn‘t make any sense structurally that sidebars in Liquid Glass are in a layer above the selected content. It makes them seem more important than the content which they never are.

I know lots of things are very bad right now, but it's nice to have awesome stuff still happen. And Rick Moranis returning is very awesome.

Still looking forward to an LLM-based Siri and future Apple Intelligence advances. Apple is in such a good position to provide useful features: powerful silicon, careful privacy consideration, and having ready access to email/messages/calendar/etc. It’s the perfect confluence of dependencies.

Regarding Tahoe’s flipped Finder icon, I might be in the minority, but I think Apple should in fact rename Finder to Files and use the Files iOS app icon or something like it. We manage files with Finder; It should be called Files. Blasphemy, I know.

New way to launch and manage containers on macOS, and yeap, it’s oss and entirely written in Swift! github.com/apple/contai... #swiftlang developer.apple.com/videos/play/...

The WWDC announcements I'm most excited about are the new Foundation Models framework for accessing Apple's local LLMs and the Containerization framework for running Docker-style containers without hosting them all in a Linux VM - docs for both of those: simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/9/a...

Excited about the containerization improvements coming to macOS: github.com/apple/contai... github.com/apple/contai... podman remains my go-to local container tool for now, but perhaps these changes will simplify its underpinnings or obviate it altogether.

Mine is: I mistakenly deleted a DNS record for a load balancer that handles traffic for all of our internal apps, including the app that’s used to manage DNS records. Caused about 15 minutes of downtime for nearly every app until the record could be manually fixed by someone with additional access 🤦‍♂️

I’m only part way through it, but “Apple in China” is *such* a good read! I can’t put this book down.

This makes my night. Some of the best (and most ridiculous) work I ever did is in that repo and now it’s not lost to time.

Glad to see Sketch is still being maintained, as it’s one of the few vector apps whose approach matches my mental model 😍

kids these days... www.tomshardware.com/pc-component...

In the year two thousand…

big internet and little internet are different don't at me

My fiber ISP offers fantastic speeds, but has occasional outages that last many hours. I just added a cheap, lower-speed backup to a local WISP. They use Ubiquiti gear to talk to antennas on a nearby ridge, with (another ISP's) fiber backhaul. My Ubiquiti CGM now does dual WAN with auto failover 🤩

I did not do this on purpose.

Today, we’re announcing the preview release of ty, an extremely fast type checker and language server for Python, written in Rust. In early testing, it's 10x, 50x, even 100x faster than existing type checkers. (We've seen >600x speed-ups over Mypy in some real-world projects.)

Spooky Илюха has put their HDR code to good use to bring us the Dreamcast game Driving Strikers for the N64! The release includes 8 different languages, stereo CD quality music and voices in 16MB, 480i at 30FPS without the Expansion Pak, and Rumble support. github.com/SpookyIluha/...

Delighted with Nuxt UI Pro and the speed with which I can build out front end UIs with it. And its customization and theming affordances are just right. I hope effort continues to be invested in this library 😍

Another successful North Bay Python! I always leave with new ideas, technologies, approaches, and friends. I might have to propose a talk one of these years… 🤔 #nbpy

Say hello to Pete Tiger, our fearsome protector here at Reis Ranch 😻 #NBPy

It is both a blessing and curse when I think I've found a bug in a library, create a minimal repro to open an issue, and then... the bug doesn't happen there. The good news is that this is now likely a problem in my code and not the library, but the bad news is that I have to find and fix it 😅

Amid all the gloom right now, perhaps you need an event that celebrates the joy of programming, and making the world a better place for people who write code every day AND the people affected by that code? We're that event. It's next week, close to most of the Bay Area. Details: northbaypython.org

In the last several years, school districts have been on a mission to “incorporate technology”, but it has only made homework super chaotic. Work is split between paper and PDFs, there’s 17 different systems, multiple logins, and the assignments get less scrutiny than ever. It all feels so slapdash.

I feel like not enough people that use HLS to deliver pre-recorded video are aware that you don’t *have* to segment the video into many chunks. Any webserver that offers Range headers can serve a single .ts file, seeking as needed. It’s been supported since like iOS 5 and greatly simplifies things.

There’s a new making-of documentary on Disney+ about “A Goofy Movie” called “Not Just A Goof”, and it is just fantastic 🤩

I broke the rule of thumb when working on stuff and changed too many variables at once on this Xbox: recapped the motherboard and PSU, installed XboxHD+, and Project Stellar. Now it won’t boot. LED ring stays green, but it puts out no A/V. Time to debug, with some spare components and mod chips 😅

Spotted this little addition on a refrigerator at work

Maybe the tariffs will pass 255 and wrap around to 0

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