I've never been an espresso guy, and I was actually craving drip coffee in Italy, tbh. But having a €1.20 cappuccino every single morning in Rome changed my mind. I miss it so much that I'm finally buying an espresso machine this Black Friday.

David, not the racist one. Just kidding. This one might have been, too. 😜

I’m in Italy. The Americans are typically loud and annoying. I knew it, but still.

As a Japanese who whines about tiny kanji shape differences between Japanese and Chinese, I should never complain about '١' vs. '۱', right? 🤯

A Dem lawmaker and her husband were killed by a guy for their political views and it’s already out of the news.

When software engineers are vibe coding more these days, why do people even bother programming on Shortcut? Apple is totally out of touch.

Did Fedeligi pick Round and Round? He must replace Tim Apple right away.

My wife's friend in Japan sent her a package with gifts worth ¥33,270. UPS charged me $331 and only took a check. That's over 100% in goddamn tariffs, which seems way off. Could they have mixed up JPY and USD?

Our experiences over the past 3 years suggest it may be valuable to understand these attacks on science as extensions of the Big Lie (of election fraud), Covid denialism, & Jim Crow 2.0 — part of a collective effort to bend reality, science & values to align with the central fantasies of Trumpism.

What DOGE actually revealed, with its utter failure to find any significant instances of waste, fraud, or inefficiency is that--notwithstanding Musk and Trump's lies to the contrary-- the Social Security system and other programs they attacked are remarkably efficient in allocating public goods.

Trying out this Elixir thingy. I’ve heard it’s quite the thing. Let’s see how it goes.

Last Friday, I joined a podcast #rebuildfm on my personal laptop in the bedroom. Yesterday (Tuesday), I hosted a zoom meeting on my work laptop in the living room. Today (Wednesday), the Tuesday's zoom meeting emailed me a summary of the Friday's podcast. How the heck is this even possible?

Finally. www.theverge.com/news/661719/... #rebuildfm

Chase.app worked fine for years, then suddenly demanded my driver's license to log in. I refused & deleted the app. Tried chase.com, they asked me to call. So, I called, and they said I must install the app or visit a branch. I can still login on my laptop, but no longer on my iPhone. How stupid.

Steve Kerr wore a Harvard basketball shirt after the Warriors’ win tonight: “Yes, this is me supporting Harvard. Way to go. Way to stand up to the bully.”

"This country has gone insane. I'm returning home before I get arrested for nothing", my colleague said before quitting his job today. 😭

"Fixed: SWIFT_ENABLE_OPAQUE_TYPE_ERASURE is now off by default for all debug builds. ... Previews now enables this selectively and recompiles the edited file with this setting only when running a preview. (140442875)" developer.apple.com/documentatio... #Xcode #swift #swiftui

Just finished the yearly "Data Security Compliance Training". I always thought it would be boring and useless, but now I'm very confident that I won't accidentally invite a journalist to my secret group chat.

I miss winter already.

A dozen donuts for $92.

If you are visiting the United States, having a negative view of Trump is enough to get you denied entry. If this was coming out of Russia or China, we would deplore such an authoritarian attack on freedom of expression.

TIL there was such a limitation. "Maximum combined number of photos and videos from all contributors in any one shared album: 5000" support.apple.com/en-us/108916

I wish Forstall would lead and introduce skeuomorphism v2 😝 macdailynews.com/2025/03/10/a...

As a shareholder, I'm glad about the result. #rebuildfm

Anyone know where I can try Mopane worms in the US? South Africa isn't on my list to visit, but I want to try them! 🐛

Letter from 21 legacy US Digital Service staff who resigned, saying they can no longer work for DOGE. "We will not use use our skills as technologists to compromise core government systems, jeopardize American's sensitive data, or dismantle critical public services."

I'm happy to say #swiftlang will be posting news to Mastodon and Bluesky starting soon. forums.swift.org/t/social-med...

#SwiftUI has been broken and unusable for over a year. Apple knows about the bug but hasn't fixed it. WTF? developer.apple.com/forums/threa...

Had a conversation with a Latino roofer who supports the current administration. "Bad people should be deported, amigo" It seemed it never occurred to him that he might be part of their target. Sigh.

The CFPB is one of the American people’s best defenses against waste, fraud, and abuse. Demolishing it will, of course, lead to more waste, fraud, and abuse.

Musk has no technical skills whatsoever, but he wants to appear smart. So he takes bits of information like this, told to him by junior engineers, and regurgitates it to appear smart. Musk did this with the Twitter stack and Twitter's senior architects called him out publicly, then he fired them.

You can ignore climate change. The political system can ignore climate change. But the insurance industry cannot ignore climate change.

A funny birthday card from my teammate is nothing new, but the last one was truly unique and over the top. It was written in their native languages: Arabic, Tagalog, Afrikaans, Marathi, Hindi, Mandarin, Polish, and even binary code. I love DEI.

Just bought two litter boxes, and they were delivered today... only to realize they are a bit too small. "Hi, I'd like to return them." "Sure, refund process initiated. No need to return. Please donate them to a shelter." Darn. Now I'm feeling really bad about it.

I wonder why Musk is focused on the federal civilian workforce (4% of the budget) and not federal contractors, which account for 3x more annual spending and are more prone to waste, fraud, and abuse?

Wow, the Apple Invites app doesn’t support iPad. It’s not even half baked!

Okay, I just tried Apple’s new Invites app, and my first impression is… it’s a piece of garbage for my use case, where everyone attending needs to be able to openly communicate about what they’re bringing and what they want others to bring. So disappointed 😔

"Your Apple Account, ***@***.***, was just used to download Apple Invites on a computer or device that has not previously been used. You may also be receiving this email if you reset your password since your last purchase." WTF? I've been using that account since forever, tho.

Whatever could go wrong?

So many people are going to die needlessly

I never touched the Phone app or the Contacts app, swear to go, but I just found an unknown contact in the Favorites tab of the Phone app. WTF? The phone number is almost the same as my wife's, except for one digit. What kind of bug might cause this? Data corruption? Seriously?!

Did @mcuban.bsky.social say something about the #Mavs giving up Dončić to the #Lakers? #NBA

Among the many avenues Democrats need to be pushing *now* is: Trump, Musk, and their Republican enablers just compromised the personal and financial info of every American. This isn't hyperbole; it already happened. They broke all the cybersecurity protocols and are concealing what they're doing.

Should I grab a bunch of maple syrup while it’s available?

And schools are just one example. Want to end resistance from blue states who won’t facilitate sending immigrants to Guantanamo? We’re turning off Social Security payments to your residents until your police start to comply with ICE. 9/x

This is what the government did with 120K+ Japanese Americans in 1942. I know. I was there in those camps.

This is not just a random coincidence.

"Hello, good morning. Nail key, this is Aaron Henson calling with..." I like that. It's actually very close to how I pronounce my name in English.

DEI public favorability continues to be +19. Pundits are wrong that: 1) DEI is unpopular. It's popular. 2) This recent support is thermostatic. This is NOT thermostatic. DEI favorability has been high throughout its existence (second pic).

難関大学を卒業して志望していた仕事に就けて家族みんなで大喜びしていたのも束の間、たった数年で性被害が原因で辞めざるを得なくなった娘の気持ちを考える父親の気持ちを考えると、ほんと、胸がえぐられる思いですよ。