“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 […]

My Objective-C-fu has withered over the years. I suppose it would come back around if I were writing more than 10 or 20 lines at a time, but I'm still leaning hard on autocomplete and the compiler to get me to the point where anything will build, no less work. On the other hand, Xcode builds […]

Back to work tomorrow after a week of errand-cation. Want to work on Foundation, but probably have to work on EU DMA first, sigh. 🇪🇺

Something you can do to help right now and in the coming years is make a point of telling everyone you know about jury nullification. fija.org/library-and-...

This might be the clearest public Wi-Fi TOC I’ve ever seen? It feels like it’s written for humans instead of lawyers.

Well yeah, it figures that my #applemusic number one all-time streamed song is what I have my HomePod wake up alarm set to.

This is the most range I’ve ever seen on the Guess-o-meter. Yay, summer. #MustangMachE

So, let’s see if I understand this right. This software update exists solely to prevent *future* software updates from locking me out of my car. Is that right? I mean, y’all could try not sending out future software updates like that, but you do you, I guess.

It’s the year 2025 and apparently I still have to fall back on OpenDNS, because Xfinity’s DNS (75.75.75.75) has been dog slow for days.

I thought of a good question for Stump @ WWDC, but I’m about 10 years too late, and don’t actually know the answer anyways. Still… “What was the last year in which Apple officially registered a new type / creator code?”

The kids are alright. #rushcover https://youtu.be/3fFGdl3_k0Q

Just noticed that to illustrate “user goes to a social network app on iPhone” to its annual developper demo, Apple chose a #mastodon app. #wwdc25 It doesn’t balance out the ad spendings on X but that is something.

So, this is a thing if you want to defend against the cellular network getting crappy on you. https://developer.apple.com/documentation/wirelessinsights

Shout out to @parrots01 and slopes! #wwdc

Types of codebases my customers send me: - Enterprise javabean factory factory... on a SIM card - C# programmer retasked to write an authenticated bootloader in C for an arm platform with no training - Beautiful well-written, easy-to-read C by an experienced systems programmer, with one […]

Imagine getting your own Wikipedia page for being “considered among the largest losers in casino gambling history.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ausaf_Umar_Siddiqui

Annnnndd… that’s the end of anime figures coming in to the US. Thanks, Grandpa Crazypants!

OMG, this AI slop is hilariously on point here in West Michigan.

Anybody else starting to contemplate the possibility that the Switch 2 just won’t launch in the USA, at least not by the announced June 5 release date, thanks to Grandpa Crazypants and his ever-changing moods?

Ambassador Spock modeling the proper “fuck you, make me” response to intimidation tactics. Our current-day institutions could learn a lot from him.

You are not ready for this. Al Stewart and Nirvana - "Come as the Cat" https://youtu.be/3w3LLvA5Ttk