This is a wild thing to write after you did the following actions: - Demanding that WP Engine and/or Silver Lake pay 8% of their revenues back to the project as part of WordPress’ “Five for the Future” initiative, a request that many viewed as extortionate. - Prohibiting WP Engine employees […]

Maybe I’m dumb but I’m surprised people hate this car that much. I actually think it looks so much nicer than Ferraris typically do. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwy22rddy5no

As an atheist who is anti-monarchy I am unsure what to do with the reality that the Pope and the King of England are the two people that seem to be making the most sense. https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/en/encyclicals/documents/20260515-magnifica-humanitas.html

It is very strange to both assert that Americans are lucky to be living in such a booming economy and that their pessimism is unwarranted and also that people cannot afford houses and to have children. Seems relatively straightforward to draw a line between economic conditions and the […]

RE: https://mastodon.online/@mwichary/116569234918517528 Having worked at PayPal for years none of this is surprising to me, unfortunately.

What a weird and sad end to the journey of Bungie and Destiny 2. Never has a franchise had more promise and made so many baffling decisions that users hated. https://kotaku.com/destiny-2-final-update-bungie-layoffs-sony-marathon-2000698425

Called it. https://blog.google/products/ads-commerce/google-marketing-live-search-ads/ https://matduggan.com/what-does-a-post-google-internet-look-like/

RE: https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/116565662607962457 This is such a wild miss by Microsoft. I’m having trouble processing how a mistake of this magnitude happens with their most important product.

I’d trade all the boutique bakeries in Copenhagen for a Greggs and a Pret A Manger.

RE: https://fedi.simonwillison.net/@simon/116558728595329034 As someone who has done the “individual contributor is also a manager” thing, blaming this on AI is complete corporate misdirection. Companies are preparing for an economic downturn and are pulling the trigger now. Having […]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@macrumors/116558224292069762 OpenAIs version of “we have food at home”.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@404mediaco/116556789106156811 Man 404 writes such great stuff.

I’m surprised in this era of “smartphones are required for everything” how crappy the transfer process is. My new iPhone keeps failing in the phone to phone transfer process despite both of them being plugged in physically next to a WiFi router. Like “left sitting for 4 hours no progress made” […]

Finally finish Butter. Boy I tried to like this book, but good god it’s slow. I try to give books like this space to breathe but 452 pages is a big commitment and I need to move the story along at a decent clip. https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/82cda351-2e3f-48d3-8308-b2cd3ffdd855

There is no sleep like accidentally falling asleep when putting a child to bed while you have company over. It’s beyond REM. When your eyes open it’s like you died and came back to life. You emerge rubbing your eyes like a cartoon.

RE: https://social.lansky.name/@hn50/116546450694576976 Like Oracle, I’ve never met someone who works at Meta that seems to love it. Best case they seem to like the paycheck.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@sethmlarson/116534405807214892 This is a super good point I had never considered.

Someone posts something I wrote to Hacker News. It reaches the front page. And I feel that pull. That specific, stupid hunger to open the comments. I don’t. Because I’ve been around long enough to know exactly what’s in there. But it’s like standing outside a door while people talk shit about […]

RE: https://social.lansky.name/@hn50/116536443386384572 Replace “nonprofit hospitals” with “every business ever” and you’ll have a good summary of how I feel about consultants.

Downside of working at LEGO is you end up just giving your salary back to them when you visit the store. These are gonna be my weekend project.

RE: https://retro.pizza/@outofprintarchive/116538067127652139 Absolutely amazing even if you don't read any Japanese. I loved looking at all the ads.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@DreamStationcc/116535054931424991 Dislike is not a strong enough word for the emotion this frog evokes in me. I am unnerved by it.

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@ChrisShort/116533644389477677 To say I’m excited about this is the understatement of the year.

The Intolerable Hypocrisy of Cyberlibertarianism https://matduggan.com/the-intolerable-hypocrisy-of-cyberlibertarianism/

RE: https://social.lansky.name/@hn50/116508584045446133

My old manager at Apple sent me this video from David Pogue about screenshots on the iPhone and I have a bit more background on it to share 1/8

RE: https://social.lansky.name/@hn50/116507306078640762 Pedometer++ is such a crazy good app for iOS and watchOS. It’s one of those apps where the thing you want to see is somehow magically always there.

One of the perks of working at LEGO is sometimes you take a break to just make a flower.

This morning I was asked “what does magnesium do to you” and I realized I have no idea. So I googled it. Somehow between the AI overview and another snippet overview the page has become completely unresponsive. I can’t scroll or tap anything on this view. So the design […] [Original post on c.im]

The forge I would like to make if I was Very Wealthy. If I Could Make My Own GitHub https://matduggan.com/if-i-could-make-my-own-github/

This is a Very Good website. https://gitperf.com/

I watch true crime to relax, which is its own problem. But nothing pulls me out of the moment like a detective gravely announcing that the evidence has been “coowaborated.” Sir. There’s a wabbit. Regardless of where the crime takes place, the detective will gravely announce a murder and then […]

There’s a new younger woman in our #Warhammer40k group. She has now smoked all of us middle aged dads. Bullgryns were was better at holding objectives than I thought. She ran the board effectively the entire game. Still a great matchup. Super excited for 11th edition.

At some point all my Macs stopped being able to receive iMessages. They could just send. I tried signing out, nothing. I tried signing out and restarting, nothing. They continued to work on iOS devices, just not the Mac. Then I removed the email addresses from iMessage […] [Original post on c.im]

Someone called John new-CEO-of-Apple “John Apple” and I was like oh no I have immediately forgotten his actual last name. So congratulations to John Apple which is how my brain will forever remember him.

This is the funniest thing I have ever read. https://theonion.com/at-long-last-infowars-is-ours/ Imagine a roaring arena packed to the rafters with pathological liars. High above you in the nosebleeds are podcasters, screaming that you'll die if you don't buy their skincare products. Below, on […]

Dear podcast hosts. I have been a loyal #Podcast listener since the iPod was a rectangle with a click wheel and ambitions. I sit through the ads. I use the promo codes. I have purchased mattresses and downloaded VPNs. I am doing my part. So when I say this, know it comes from love. Ad revenue […]

I like how short the AI coding revolution was. 3 months ago: “Everyone! Claude Code is great and can do anything you need for $200 a month!” A week ago: “Looks like they massively increased how many tokens you use. The $200 a month plan is now completely useless and your sessions will get […]

Echo put herself in jail because I made her leave the dog park. Please note how the gate is not fully closed.

Thanks for reminding me I've been working on this for too long Google.

You can absolutely have an RSS dependent website in 2026 https://matduggan.com/you-can-absolutely-have-an-rss-dependent-website-in-2026/

The code isn’t working, which has raised a broader question I wasn’t prepared to examine today: have I ever actually been good at anything, or have I simply been moving the confusion around?

Firefox added split tab views and absolutely killed it. I didn't even know I needed this feature and now I cannot live without it. Awesome work. Right click on a tab and select "Add Split View" to try it out. #mozilla #firefox

Every time I see my Apple Vision Pro I purchased used I feel insanely guilty. “Next week I’ll figure out a use for you. I promise. You definitely weren’t a giant waste of money.” #AVP

RE: https://mastodon.social/@macrumors/116314882547486594 Buy this book. It’s an absolute gem. Really well written.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@404mediaco/116313265332639169 The absolute failure of the entire concept of the Metaverse is such a perfect encapsulation of why Meta is a bad company. The CEO had a terrible idea and none of his sycophants could say no. So $80 billion was wasted for no reason […]

The first rule of German game shows is zero smiling.

RE: https://c.im/@arsfeedbot/116297832879364927 Bold move considering how bad their shows are. Just a supporting character turning to camera every 5 minutes being like “because we don’t think you were paying attention, here’s another summary of the plot thus far”. Like Emily in Paris is a […]

Got absolutely smoked at #Warhammer40k today. Tyranids need a lot of movement control to "make them work" as an army and I couldn't get ahead of the Imperial Guard I was playing again. I am excited for 11th because the terrain rules in 10th kinda suck. Also I'm tired of these circle objective […]

#Marathon is a wild swing for a game. What if Bungie made a very hardcore short TTK game where loot is (mostly) meaningless for their audience of older gamers who enjoyed their loot-based shooter with long TTK? What if, on top of that, they explained nothing to the new player? Just a real 1997 […]