AI is a technological inflection point. It’s scary, but also exhilarating and fun to live through. Most of the world is as ignorant about AI as people were about personal computing in 1982. It’s just breaking in to the mainstream, yet totally mysterious. IMHO, it’s a good time to learn about AI.

IMHO the #1 fix 99% of all web apps need to make is intercepting Cmd/Ctrl-Z so it doesn’t reopen the last tab you closed.

I’m seeing more of a scam directed at customer support addresses, where the scammer pretends to be a customer who is having trouble with the app, and asks you to look at a screenshot of the problem, which is a link to a page that coaxes you into running a nefarious program on your computer.

Afterwards, the photographer gave me a side offer to purchase rights to all the other photos in the shoot, for some ridiculously low amount, so I did. I’ve never used them, but they’re good photos.

Eleven years ago, Macworld sent a freelance photographer to my house in Arlington, MA. It’s one of the best photos of me.

“Speaking disrespectfully of the King’s letter.” The plaques of Massachusetts remember. (Photo by Paul Schlichtman)

Just posted MarsEdit 5.3.8, featuring an updated icon for macOS 26 and a few bug fixes. redsweater.com/blog/4239…

People often say entrepreneurs should find a co-founder whose virtues match, whose skills differ, and who will drive you to do your best work. But what if they turn out to be a blowhard who regurgitates right-wing idiocy while refusing accountability. I’ll take my chances alone.

Kamala Harris would have been SO much more boring and SO much better for our country.

The hardest job in America right now is being a Federal Judge. An unprecedented number of ridiculous, unmerited cases arriving at your desk, with an unhinged President, Congress, and Supreme Court prepared to challenge whatever decision you make.

We spent too many years with one side in American politics calling the other side “clowns,” that nobody knows quite how to describe the current state. Our entire country, from the President, to all of the Federal agencies, the Congress, Senate, and Supreme Court, are all controlled by clowns.

I achieved a major development milestone for my biggest app, MarsEdit, today. I can now build against Swift 6 with strict concurrency, and no warnings. It was harder than it should be (though Apple’s working on that), but it feels good knowing I can move forward with concurrent confidence.

The expectation/hope for a “rapture” always puts the Pedro the Lion song in my head: www.youtube.com/watch

I have never intentionally tuned in to watch Jimmy Kimmel, but of course i was outraged by his suspension. I expect and hope that many on the right felt the same way. We have freedom fundamentalists on the left and the right. Whatever you want to say, you have the right to say it. 🇺🇸

Has anybody tried to square Charlie Kirk’s widow “forgiving” his murderer with the fact that everybody on the right is committed to executing him? I don’t typically think of execution as the natural follow-up to forgiveness.

Tylenol IS actually one of the most concerning pain medications. If you drink or do drugs you should probably be careful with Tylenol. BUT of course whatever the President of the United States is saying is bullshit.

I just made homemade bubble tea for the first time. It’s remarkable how much the tapioca pearls transform from raw to cooked!

I guess the right thinks that this is a normal, appropriate amount of affection for a widow to express to the US President at her husband’s funeral. Looks weird as hell to me.

I don’t know if there’s a formula for this, but I picked “the end of his memorial” to stop shedding tears about his truly wrongful death, and return to assessing how bad a person, what a blight on society, and how harmful to other people Charlie Kirk was. We lost a bad man in a bad way.

I feel strongly that being assassinated doesn’t absolve you of your “sins”. Sometimes bad people get murdered unjustly.

So … when do we get to start acknowledging again what a complete and utter shithead hater Charlie Kirk was? Because I think his murder was appalling, too, but we should never forget what a bad person he was.

If you ever wondered how anybody could support Adolph Hitler while he upended German social norms, villainized people by race and sexuality, and suspended or ignored national laws, just ask your friend why they still support Trump.

In case I wasn’t totally clear: I changed my mind because of my kid. This is something I hope to do repeatedly as I get older.

I hesitated to cancel Disney Plus, in part because I know my kids rely on the entertainment from those channels. When I said something along those lines, my older son said “we could probably get those shows from the library.” He knew the priority, and he was nudging me in the right direction.

It’s surreal, as a 50 year old man, to live in the timeline I always dreaded. When I was a teenage punk in the SF Bay Area, we lamented HINTS at fascism that were evident in the worst of our elected representatives. Here we are, 30+ years later and all of our paranoia is coming true, triple-fold.