Kinda can’t help but wonder where ChatGPT will steal its programming answers for the next five years from, now that it has strip-mined its best source. https://developers.slashdot.org/story/26/01/05/1431212/stack-overflow-went-from-200000-monthly-questions-to-nearly-zero

Second straight year where at least half of my work was regulatory compliance. Good thing I’m not a strident libertarian anymore, or it would’ve driven me up a wall.

I don’t know what the fuck this thing is (it was here when we moved in), but I’m pretty sure it’s been operating as a rogue DHCP server for the last two months and making my life miserable.

When I was writing the Learning Core Audio book back in the day, AI wouldn’t have helped me because there was no Core Audio sample code out in the wild outside of two or three things from Apple in WWDC sessions or the docs. I wrote much of the […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

My kid was one frame away from bowling a 300 in Nintendo Switch Sports last night.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@mjtsai/115685991840823247 End of a little-heralded era. Applets were never as popular as Flash, and both were swept aside by browser-native technologies. But still, it’s kind of what got me back into programming, during Apple’s mid-90s nadir, and with the promise of […]

Karma’s a bitch.

Just Facetime’d my kid through jump-starting their car in Minnesota. AMA.

I spent a little over an hour this morning filing my claim for Anthropic ripping off the books I've authored or co-authored for their AI training. https://www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/claim-form

I left Twitter exactly three years ago today. I miss what it was, but that’s true of a lot of things we’ve lost, like constitutional democracy, the Pac-12, Pixar movies being good, and the illusion that 50% of our fellow citizens aren’t complete dogshit […]

Lost most of the day to a networking problem caused by a DHCP server sending two incompatible sets of addresses. And there's no way to know if it's the eero sending both, or if I have some rogue device offering up useless addresses in the 192.168.82.x range. Whee.

Not sure if this is ironic or just incongruous.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@daringfireball/115532401357679509 One thing I don't notice people talking about is how nice it is for CarPlay to be consistent across auto brands. We have a Ford and a Toyota, and our kid has a Honda. It really helps when maps, messages, music, podcasts, and […]

Has anyone considered teaching Nate Silver a new skill? Y’know, get the guy an O’Reilly or Prags book on Python or something? Maybe swap out his face and voice for an anime girl avatar and start VTubing? Something more viable than whatever he thinks he’s doing currently.

Wife and I threw a couple hundred bucks at local food banks to help get them through the Republicans’ SNAP tantrum. Yay, employer match.

Last RT: I stand by my prediction that Switch 2 will catch up with the XBox Series install base (likely in the 30 millions) within its first year.

wake up babe new $20 bill just dropped #meme #memes #eastwing #whitehouse #uspol #uspolitics #trump

What a gift to Ford shareholders. https://www.theverge.com/transportation/804562/gm-apple-carplay-android-auto-gas-cars-mary-barra

My Slack status for today:

Seeing @Gte and @bigzaphod reminiscing about BeOS… I briefly had a BeOS preview installed on one of my Performa 6400 partitions back in the 90s but couldn’t really do anything with it because my only semi-competent programming skills were in Java and it didn’t have a JVM. After getting my C mojo […]

“One of the most attractive elements of Trek is well represented here: the competence porn of seeing professional, intelligent people doing jobs they enjoy, and well.” Goddamn, I could go for some competence porn right about now […]

I’ve been having a couple days where literally nothing can go right. So I’m basically hiding and listening to old KFOG 10@10 shows. https://www.mixcloud.com/KFOGforever/

Since updating my home Mac to Tahoe 26.0, unformatted incoming email defaults to Helvetica Narrow, and it's driving me crazy. Anyone know where I can set the default font for incoming mail?

Attention Gen Xers and boomers with registered domain names 🚨 If you, like me, put a fictitious organization in your domain name registration 25 years ago because NetSol or ICANN did not allow you to leave that field blank, recent policy changes will make that organization name the *legal […]

One nice thing about iPadOS 26 and Liquid Glass is that the folders on my home screen don’t black out background Mitsuki-chan’s eyes anymore.

Was just reminded that the single fastest optimization for iOS development is to just run your stuff on the damn device instead of the simulator. I mean, it’s like you’ve got a whole second CPU/GPU just sitting there in your pocket. Why not put it to use?

What percentage of people do you suppose use spreadsheets like Excel, Sheets, or Numbers and have no idea how to enter a formula or that they even exist?

Well, that was certainly a git clusterfuck that kept me at work until 9. Nobody tell @leeg.

*Tim Cook comes back to the stage* It wouldn’t be an Apple event without… one more thing. In deep partnership with Sega — today on 9/9 — we’ll be announcing… the 26th anniversary Dreamcast.

👏👏👏 "I Am An AI Hater" - Anthony Moser "... I became a hater by doing precisely those things AI cannot do: reading and understanding human language; thinking and reasoning about ideas; considering the meaning of my words and their context; loving people, making […] [Original post on cosocial.ca]

I don’t expect to see much if anything from this Anthropic settlement, but as long as it hurts them, and sets a precedent for hurting other thieving AI companies, I’ll be happy. https://www.wired.com/story/anthropic-settlement-lawsuit-copyright/

Hey Bay Area… did Anchor Steam beer ever come back or not? And if it didn’t, y’all better not screw up It’s Its.

It’s always nice to have one of my major purchases validated (spoiler: the Mach-E wins). https://www.motortrend.com/reviews/compact-ev-suv-comparison-test-model-y-vs-6-others

OK, two decades late… how do I get into Daft Punk? I have — and really enjoy — “Alive” and the “TRON: Legacy” soundtrack. Where do I go from here? Is starting at “Discovery” the obvious first step? https://music.apple.com/us/album/alive-2007/717067737

Well, I just had the quintessential 2025 internet search experience: 1. Vacuum cleaner breaks down 2. Search for “vacuum cleaner repair [my city]” 3. Find AI slop page 4. Repeat step 3 ten times 5. Find exactly what I’m looking for on my local subreddit, r/grandrapids.

Previous boost: Sounds kinda cute. And the whole “cosplayer as IT lynchpin” is pretty accurate IRL. Except maybe in the US they’d all be furries.

J-Novel Club has announced at Anime NYC that they’ve licensed Yuki Kashirome & io’s Fired? But I Maintain All the Software!

I just rolled credits on Fire Emblem Three Houses for the third time, this time as Bylass + Dimitri.

I wrote a lengthy Reddit comment about the one-handed game controller we use for our kid and the Switch 2. https://www.reddit.com/r/disabledgamers/s/isII5T4j27

Sometimes when I’m brainstorming a piece of writing, I’ll put together a playlist to fit the mood, or maybe have songs that indicate a certain key moment or event. Maybe the last song is the end credits. Anyways, maybe I’ll have time to write this someday. For now, I jot down ideas when I can.

If you’ve had 92 years and you still won’t drop into a debugger, I guess nothing I can say will change that. (But seriously, y’all, learn how to use lldb, or your local equivalent.) https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/s/4tG5HP3RZs

First time charging the #mache at a Tesla Supercharger, one of the 325 kW models. OMFG, was this fast. It was going up like 1% every 30 seconds.

Finally! I finally got a one-timer in #ea_nhl. I mean, kind of rubbing it in when I was already up 3-1 with under 10 seconds to go, but it’s the thought that counts. #pwhl

Motherfucking wind farms…

New article on where to store your files and get beneficial behaviors like backup or automatic purging for free: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/foundation/using-the-file-system-effectively

Apparently, macOS 26 devs are having a problem with one-time codes from mail and messages showing up as an auto-fill option on every text field, even where they don't make sense. Thanks @rmondello for the fix […]

Was talking with my wife tonight and found ourselves wondering “when did movie marquees disappear?” I mean like the big ones that would be on the side of a building or out in the parking lot facing the road. We’re certain we haven’t seen one here since moving to Grand Rapids in 2008.

Doing an internal talk tomorrow on NotificationCenter messages (aka, concurrency-safe notifications). The core docs are up now: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/foundation/notification-center-messages

I need you people to understand what you’ve done. In my 1-on-1 with my manager this week, he asked me to explain Umamusume. I WORK AT APPLE, PEOPLE. YOUR WEIRD ANIME GIRL HORSE FETISH HAS GONE TOO FAR.

Between FF Tactics, FF XII, Valkyria Chronicles, and 13 Sentinels, I think this guy is my favorite vidja game composer. Wild to learn he started out as a hardcore I/O coder […]