On Saturday, I'll present a workshop on Writing Groups for the Writers' Community of Durham Region! For more information, visit www.wcdr.info/calendar-new/

Another day, another set of intractable bugs.

First time seeing an iPhone dangling from a cross-body strap in the wild! (It's a gold chain, not one of Apple's). 👀

💯 Applicable to every country on Earth.

Me: burns for two months to build a vastly-improved Mac client for Croissant. Customer: "My dude, love Croissant, but I wish you'd give the Mac app some love!"

Or if you'd like me to help design your apps, I do design consulting work and I'm Pretty Good at it benricemccarthy.com/consultin...

My lovely partner Sara has recently started a masters in London which is Cool and Exciting but also means we're paying two rents for the time being which is Expensive and Annoying. So now would be a great time to buy one/some of my apps benricemccarthy.com/apps/inde...

Very pleased to learn my fellow Canuckistanians are pretty clear-eyed about what's happening here.

Sorry scammer, but if a woman named Olivia had ever shown a *scintilla* of interest in me, ever, anywhere, at any time in my life, I would've remembered.

Really not enjoying being a Mac guy right now. Big I. G. Farben energy.

My thanks to @macstories.net for this terrific little bit on Croissant's 2.0 launch!

Hey, Canadian Gubbermint? Does the "take normal security precautions" risk assessment of traveling in the US right now seem...adequate? I feel like this is not "normal security precaution" level risk down yonder. What does it actually take to raise the threat level? #cdnpoli #travel #usa

Report: 83% Of Americans Just Want To Put On Sunglasses And Say ‘Let’s Do This’ https://theonion.com/report-83-of-americans-just-want-to-put-on-sunglasses-1826567879/

Back at work after 10 days in Vancouver, Victoria, Ucluelet and Nanaimo. I cannot frickin believe that part of the country exists, is sitting there right now while I have to suck it in shitty Ontario.

I have never put a sticker on my computer before, but this was absolutely irresistible! basicappleguy.com/siliconinside

iOS 26, folks. I've seen this happen in multiple apps today.

Yes, it seems when we released Croissant 2.0 that we'd mistakenly enabled Deluxe for everyone — we heard nothing. Today we released an update that mistakenly disabled Deluxe for everyone — THAT we hear about! 😂 We're on it, we're on it.

I flaked out yesterday but today I'm celebrating the release of Croissant 2.0! It's an even-better cross-posting app for Threads, Bluesky and Mastodon, with an improved UI for iPad and Mac, the ability to reorder threads, continue posts as threads, attach GIFs and more. croissantapp.com

It's got a great new layout on iPad and Mac too, with a sidebar on the left with your drafts and recents, and on the right you can immediately choose the accounts you post to

Meet Croissant 2.0! @vegh.ca and I put a lot of work in over the summer to rethink much of how Croissant is structured, added a bunch of great features, and sprinkled in a little Liquid Glass for good measure apps.apple.com/ie/app/croissa...

Can't beleive it's only 25% from Canada. Let's go for 100%. bsky.app/profile/did:plc:tm25...

From the outside, this is also why we need to put some distance between us and the USA. And why some perspective is needed from Euro (and other) news orgs when discussing US events, rather than being carried away with the breathless drama and blindly following the US toxic infotainment industry.

*Looks in mirror* Well. One out of three ain't bad.

OMG I think I have this baby working! [REDACTED] might actually be real! OMGOMGOMGOMGOMG #omgomgomg

After Croissant 2.0 launches, and [REDACTED] is public and stable, I have my eye on a new project. It will be a web platform service. Research is underway.

This is bananas: Anthropic paying $3,000/book to settle a class action suit for authors. 👀 www.theverge.com/anthropic/77...

Statcan released their monthly job numbers today and they're... not good. I have some thoughts.

By "Labour Day", you mean "labour on your own shit", right? 👀

Just finished reading *In Ascension* by Martin MacInnes. It was such a beautiful story: literary sci fi that felt warm, human, traumatic, and absolutely drenched in ambiguity. It's a challenging read but I know it's going to stay with me for a long time to come.

I forgot to post it at the time but Obscura was App of the Day on Saturday in the UK and Ireland 🥳

Trying to balance my frustrations with iOS 26 with the fact that I'm excited to ship this update to Croissant that @vegh.ca and I have been working on all summer 🥐

One thing that's a nice side effect of working on this project: I get to make substantive contributions to an open source project.

My face when I finally put the wraps on a big update on the existing product, and go back to work on the big huge new product that I haven't seen in six weeks: 🫣

Yeah, I dig this. www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/20...

In a world where comedy is king, one man must learn the meaning of laughter.

That totally should've worked!

This piece reflects my own feelings very well. (Gift link)

Here's another test.

This video from Fairmount Bagels in Montreal from their Instagram is the most impressive thing I've ever seen

Boy, I did a real dumb with the latest Croissant release. A new release is coming tout suite, and thank goodness you don't have to provide a reason for an expedited review!

What a fantastic summary of Russia's advantage in Ukraine in 2025. The west let this happen by being pansy little bitches in support of Ukraine. I don't like where this is heading.(gift link) www.nytimes.com/interactive/2...

New episode! Are young Canadians being taxed like millionaires while living like broke students? We dive into the jaw-dropping disconnect between salaries, taxes, and the cost of housing. Watch here: youtu.be/rW9QZ91lF9k...

Many things are happening now.

Test

Pacman, the Arch Linux package manager, has the coolest progress indicator.

Trump himself has been convicted of 34 felonies and is the first criminal elected president.

So that's one way to do it.

Every day I become more convinced that Silicon Valley's long-term viability depends on instilling a culture similar to the U.S. government in one respect: Whereas the government relies on civilian control over the military, the tech industry should rely on humanities control over the technology.

When I met my wife in the late 90s, one of the first things we bonded over was our shared love of the writing of Guy Gavriel Kay. She was long on The Fionavar Tapestry; I adored Tigana.