New Apple Developer video alert: "Code-along: Experiment with coding intelligence in Xcode 26" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1WM3ALwQX8

I remember hearing this a decade or so ago when Alexa came out. No. The future of apps is not voice. The problem isn't tech. It won’t be fixed by AI, or smarter assistants, or whatever. Far too many tasks are inherently slower or too ambiguous to be reasonably controlled by voice. Voice is […]

When Senator Wyden expresses concern about a three-letter agency, people need to pay attention. https://mastodon.social/@zackwhittaker/116014644634836860

A surprisingly ambitious feature for a mid-cycle Xcode update. I'd love to see Apple further decouple feature updates from their usual yearly cycle when possible. For AI workflows, in particular, a major feature release once a year is just way too slow […]

If they nerf macOS's interface density advantage to make it more suitable mashing at screens with one's meat stick digits, gorilla arm be damned, then as far as I'm concerned that's the very opposite of what Snow Leopard was. I really hope the rumors of touchscreen Macs are from a long-since […]

Liquid Glass in dark mode in AppKit doesn't even remotely work — just look at this toolbar behavior. We're months post-release and this is what Mac developers are still facing out of the box 😑

Euro firms must ditch Uncle Sam's clouds and go EU-native https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/30/euro_firms_must_ditch_us/ Just because you're paranoid about digital sovereignty doesn't mean they're not after you

Mercury News: “Tim Cook slammed for partying at Melania Trump’s movie after Pretti killing” "Apple CEO Tim Cook is being excoriated online for showing up at the White House Saturday night — hours after Border Patrol agents killed a Veterans Affair nurse in Minneapolis — to party with Donald and […]

Should a time come that actual adults retake the wheel here in the United States, our new State Department is going to have a LOT of work to do. #uspol #greenland #leavegreenlandalone #denmark

"Open Source alone won't deliver digital sovereignty. Europe must fix procurement and fund those who actually build it." #technology https://werd.io/funding-open-source-for-digital-sovereignty/

Canada should not be forced into a position of preparing for an invasion by their neighbors to the south. This is madness. https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:lafbr3dznxdyvgup2umwssht/post/3mcw5lqjjkc2e

Canada starts preparing for guerilla warfare, just in case www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...

Oh wow. Trump got a hand-me-down Nobel Peace Prize! Did you know: It would not be the first time a Nobel laureate has given his or her medal away: in 1943 Nobel Literature laureate Knut Hamsun gave his medal to Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels.

The Verge: “Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai are cowards” https://www.theverge.com/policy/859902/apple-google-run-by-cowards #apple #timcook #google #grok #twitter

Remember, when something in the news upsets you, you are *not obligated* to spend the next hour hunched over your phone reading live updates and social media hot takes. You *can* stay informed without succumbing to this urge -- an urge deliberately conditioned into us for decades by the 24-hour […]

Enjoyed working on the "Rising Together" float for the Rose Parade tomorrow. This particular float features a phoenix rising up after the LA wildfires. Sponsored by The California Community Fund and Black Freedom Fund. The theme for the 2026 Rose Parade is […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

We just transitioned CoSocial from an ad-hoc combine of AWS, OVH, and DO to @fedihost, see https://fedihost.co, a Managed Fediverse Hosting outfit. Already feels faster, and should be cheaper too. Self-managed instances are cool but not, I suspect, the general-case future.

For once I... agree with Trump... on policy? Needless to say, this doesn't happen often. I imagine there's a catch. (To be clear, I still oppose his fascist ass in the aggregate. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day, etc. etc.) https://journa.host/@w7voa/115703589168080678

Neurosurgeon analyses Waymo’s data on 100M miles of driverless travel, concludes that it’s dramatically, qualitatively safer (at least the way that Waymo does it). Says if this were a clinical trial they’d stop it because giving placebos would be unethical […]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@verge/115674434817067404 This is the first departure talked about lately that, I think, would seriously wound Apple. Take the money they saved in not keeping Alan Dye and dump it on Srouji’s doorstep until he stays.

😳 https://mastodon.social/@joshcalvetti/114777922756562966

XKCD's role is not to make me cry, but it did. https://xkcd.com/3172/

It is horrific, This "peace plan" means that we are fighting for nothing, giving our lives for nothing. “I have no words, because this is a proposal to capitulate to an enemy that is destroying civilians, that is killing people,” […]

HTTP has a new method: QUERY. Tl;dr: GET with a body. https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-ietf-httpbis-safe-method-w-body-14.html #ietf

Well, now I’m interested —— Sales of AI-enabled teddy bear suspended after it gave advice on BDSM sex and where to find knives | CNN Business https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/19/tech/folotoy-kumma-ai-bear-scli-intl https://edition.cnn.com/2025/11/19/tech/folotoy-kumma-ai-bear-scli-intl

If you haven't been able to ship your iOS/macOS 26 update yet and have been feeling bad about it, just remember: Apple still hasn't shipped iWork with Liquid Glass, and Apple also opted all its pro apps out of Liquid Glass. Final Cut Pro on iPad still doesn't support the background video […]

Developer Pro-tip: Whenever an outage occurs I find it a great opportunity to polish my error-handling, retry states, etc. #cloudflare #outage

RE: https://mastodon.social/@macrumors/115567319299216766 Must be nice.

Anyhow, I'm not on the lookout for a new native Mastodon app. What's good these days? More than happy to pay $$$, recurring or one-time.

Fellow developers: Please don’t do this. Set expectations clearly at the time of sale, and certainly don't act like every new feature after your customer’s supposed "one-time" purchase was some sort of gift. And, needless to say, don't gaslight them as to what "one-time" means or imply that […]

Pet peeve: Using new app versions to avoid having to honor what were advertised at the time of sale as one-time/lifetime in-app purchases. I’m VERY open to paying for software, and don’t particularly mind any business model. I like to support fellow indie developers in particular. And if […]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@MonaApp/115555724255071879 The old "oh no, your lifetime purchase was for our OLD app.."

Maybe a Trump administration cabinet position will open up for him. https://mastodon.social/@verge/115555408368078602

In case you could use a timeline cleanse. #joyscrolling #waves #ocean

It’s often hard to appreciate (upright or guitar) bass tracks as they tend to be thrown back in the mix, and compression algorithms really nuke them, so listening via youtube through bluetooth just nukes the bottom end. Get yourself a real stereo, folks. Listen to music. It’ll blow your mind […]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@invalidname/115537203117101983 These car companies acting like this is customer-centric are bonkers. I can’t believe any of them actually believe it. Even if they can provide a comparable experience to CarPlay — a huge “if,” because I’ve yet to see that happen — […]

If you must traverse the war-torn hellscape that is Portland, you're gonna need a good transit guide. https://mastodon.social/@marioguzman/115528490257349127

I've just published the 4th edition of macOS Apps Step by Step formerly titled macOS by Tutorials. Read the details and check out a sample chapter at https://troz.net/books/macos_apps_step_by_step/ #macos #swift #swiftui #appkit #techbooks

It occurs to me that so much of what I know about debugging things comes from troubleshooting INIT/extension conflicts in the '90s. #macintosh #macos #classicmac

The Gestapo will absolutely be targeting the Dodgers parade and celebrations.

A bunch of ordinary people spontaneously organizing and standing up to Trump in a way that *nobody* in a position of power is willing to do.

LOL #grokipedia #wikipedia https://mastodon.social/@verge/115449043441244841

“How are my competitors doing, the ones you all insisted students use instead of me? That’s right, they were supposed to go to the American Journal of Social Sciences, Powered by OpenAI. Or museums, like the Smithsonian’s Charlie Kirk Shrine to American Greatness. I guess they can still count on […]

Next up is one of our nerdiest products ever: the T568A shirt design transforms our logo to demonstrate the One True Wiring Standard for Ethernet connectors. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI/TIA-568#T568A_and_T568B_termination https://atp.fm/store#t568a

As long as the Mac Pro remains in limbo, we’ll still be offering the Mac Pro Believe shirt. Keep hope alive! https://atp.fm/store#mac-pro-believe

Clinical depression is a real thing, y'all. #mentalhealth #git #github #depression #iosdev

I like how, every once in a while, ChatGPT will attempt to tie my wholly unrelated question (in this case, what the members of a long-defunct band are working on now) to my software development background. #ai #LLM

I’ve yet to find a suitable replacement. https://mastodon.social/@BasicAppleGuy/115401456498420243