Xcode melted my biscuits

Time for Clippy to come back. “It looks like you’re going insane. Would you like some help?” 📎 👀

Person 1: “Whoa who just rolled that massive stone up that massive hill?” Person 2: “Sisyphus” Sisyphus (offended): “what did you just call me?”

I don’t know who needs to know this, but about 15 years ago my friend taught me a cure for hiccups and it actually works, instantly, with a 100% success rate over perhaps 20 attempts with various people. It should be in accepted medical literature.

My kid lives the Cars soundtrack, which has got some Brad Paisley songs on it. Now Apple Music thinks I like country music. With LLMs literally everywhere in everything, I really want a box to type in "I don't like country music"

UI is my passion

The little bugger

absolutely insane situation evoling with a Play Store submission @developers.google.com App was incorrectly rejected I appeal Google accepts the appeal and asks me to resubmit for review I resubmit as requested Get an immediate rejection "for not resolving the previously communicated policy issue"

As much as people might complain about Liquid Glass and iPad not running macOS, you have to admire Apple’s strategy of gradual convergence of their operating systems over the last 10 years. Each form factor continuing to play to its strengths and matching hardware and consumer capabilities, etc.

i've learned that i can smell tailwind

Google Play just rejected an app update, saying that the app shouldn't use some image library permission, linking me to documentation that explicitly explains that apps like this one **can** use that image library permission 🤦🤦🤦

New in bad UI spotting: the "see more" button that takes up more space than the content it covers up.

Liam Lawson: “I could have killed them” … if you’d just turned the wheel a bit more towards them?

Trying tanstack router from @tannerlinsley.com for a new work thing and it’s really, really nice. Hard to explain exactly why but it just kinda does things how you want them to be done. Only issue was file based routing seems to hang webpack so had to use manual route tree. But still great.

graphql.tada is amazing. I faffed around with various codegen settings and different vscode plugins and they couldn’t seem to agree on what constitutes a query. But graphql.tada just works, with no watchers, no scripts, no language server.

Moustaches are getting bigger

wondering if I can put my tax bill into ffmpeg

“Is AWS down?” “How to cheer up an AWS region”

Qui ha robat el Louvre? Només respostes correctes.

TIL Steve Buschemi uses CloudKit

New hobby. Truncating headlines for comic effect

Dark chocolate

Maintaining software is essentially an exercise in complexity management. What is necessary complexity? What is incidental complexity Where and how should we hide complexity? It’s actually not very much about “the code” but about structures and systems.

This looks good. I genuinely can’t wait for all the “we don’t need types” to change to how useful types are and how many fewer tests you need and how much mental overhead it saves.

I dunno probably like Boeing or whatever

let me guess, 4 things you're gonna try to sell me?

The reason “you’re absolutely right” has become a meme is that LLMs are so often wrong

She was absolutely right

we call it border-radius despite there being no border. why isn't it corner-radius?

I love immigration. My wife was an immigrant, and now I am an immigrant. And if it wasn’t for immigration and a massive ton of luck my son wouldn’t be alive today.

meanwhile over on Twitter... what the fuck is this? "Stick to the facts" while claiming something demonstrably, clearly untrue. Where are the adults? Can we have the adults back please?

In Guy Ritchie-es que accent: Fucking sky is looking alright too

would you like to continue with your password that requires no further keypresses, or would you like to use a passcode where you need to go buy a new phone to take a photo of the QR code on this phone or set up a complex system of mirrors so you can take a photo of the front of this phone?

My current response to a load of midjourney images in my feed… Like, it looks kinda nice but so what?

“When I’m with you I feel like I can be my entire ass”

TomThought: showing a toast to a user for an error is a means to an end. What we're really doing is communicating the status to the user, and it just happens to be via a bouncy rectangle. why not this: reportError(error, friendlyMessage, fault: "system", notify: ["user", "system"])

ui is my passion

just added mipmapping support to text rendering in Felt. Saves more than 99% texture memory for drawing text on a map. i'm sure there's a saying like if you make something 10% better you did a good job, but if you make it 99% better it's because you fucked up.

My mum sent me two printed out AI generated stories for my kids with ai generated pictures of them in the story. I don’t like it.

Software that is reliable and simple to use requires a reliable and simple internal model. If you struggle to describe your internal state simply and reliably, that will leak out to your users, no matter how hard you try. If you can’t explain it to yourself, how can you explain it to your users?

hats off to the geniuses over on twitter.

Something that almost always causes unnecessary complexity in iterating designs (whether UX, UI, database, front-end architecture, etc.) is not getting the deeper understanding of WHY a thing is like it is now. Is it like this because it has to be? Or just happens to be? Is this THE one, or A one?

Having moved from England to Catalunya, it’s amazing to see the normalisation/glorification of alcoholism and binge drinking the point it’s a “funny” headline on the sport website. The UK as a whole has a drinking problem.

"no clear answers"

Good to see the BBC doing something to stamp out predatory once and for all

Accessibility is my passion

Ever wondered how a professional digital illustrator constructs their sketches? Watch this video of a pro doing their thing for our “wrapped” prompt! #artchallenge #digitalart

React Native app update submitted to App Store. Now to see what it looks like on Android 😬😬😬

purchasable what now?

they should replace "Do not ask again" with "Do not ask again unless the interaction to do this was like 3ms and an obvious accident". Also, what does "Do not ask me again" do if I select Cancel? Never let me move a file??