ATTENTION YOUNG PEOPLE. I’m allergic to work but attracted to money. My last “real job” ended in 2002, capping off a ~7 year career at Apple. I didn’t make a ton in salary, but while there I contributed the max to 401K. I invested in basic index funds and forgot about them. Now they’re worth as much as 10 years working that same job. Invest young, celebrate later. 🌈

The M1 Max MacBook Pro I replaced was so good, I hardly notice any difference on the M4 MBP. But what I really appreciate is the additional brightness of the display, and the anti-glare nano surface I ended up splurging on.

A 49-year old man in 49 Fahrenheit water.

The greatest problem in computer science is estimating software installation time. I just watched my brand new, 2024 MacBook Pro go from 3 hours, to 2 hours and 45 minutes, to 2 hours and 43 minutes, to 56 minutes, to “about a minute” in the course of an hour… and that’s where we’ve been for the last several minutes.

It’s so easy to be an ally. I wish more cis people realized it. Just accept that not everybody is like you. Breathe.

You’re either pro-trans or anti-human, there is no in-between.

In the last 24 hours I played an awesome softball game, swam in 49F water, and had a great in a pickleball match involving me, my younger son, and two of our parent friends. Activity is the antidote to age. Pass it on.

Imagine harping endlessly on the idea that trans kids are a threat to morality, while accepting whole-heartedly that a likely sex criminal, and at best “very creepy guy”, Matt Gaetz, is suitable to run all the top law-enforcement agencies in the USA. Folks, this is the Republican Party.

Core Intuition Episode 620: “I Just Kept Hitting Walls” coreint.org/2024/11/e…

Thanks to @revenuecat@mastodon.social for sponsoring the show!

My last (I hope) Twitter post may be my best: x.com/danielpun…

Is there some kind of contest for getting Apple’s Image Playground to deliver inappropriate material, and if so, how do I enter 😂

I never thought to question what the “jet” in “jet black” is. I guess I figured it was … engine exhaust? It’s a gemstone: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jet_…

Every year, Nova Scotia sends a Christmas tree to Boston out of gratitude for Boston’s kindness over 100 years ago. We need to see more of this in the world. Especially now. It’s heartwarming. www.bostonglobe.com/2024/11/1…

Congratulations to all NYT Tech Guild supporters who establish a new Wordle streak of 1 today! (The strike is off for now)

Wordle 1,242 4/6*

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We will persevere. We will overcome. Chin up.

I had a 30 minute swim today at a new low temperature for me, 52F. Honestly, I’m always a little concerned walking in, but it’s never as bad as I imagine, and most of the swim is a kind of joyful interaction with the water. Can’t explain why it’s so good, but it is!

Just posted Black Ink for iOS 2.2.4, featuring improvements to the appearance of the app in dark and light modes. redsweater.com/blog/4158…

Remember: voting for a fascist does not make somebody a fascist. It makes them a dipshit. Who may also be a fascist.

“And all creeds, and kinds, and colors of us are blending, ‘Til I suppose 10 million years from now, we’ll all be just alike

Same color, same size, all working together, and MAYBE WE’LL HAVE ALL OF THE FASCISTS OUT OF THE WAY BY THEN.”

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I could not have picked a better time to start cold-water swimming. Something about the ritual of marching in, facing adversity, accepting it, and powering through like it’s nothing. It’s empowering.

Like many Americans, I’m devastated by the ascension of a brazen, criminal fascist to the Presidency.

Not one of us alone can undo this, and it also feels nearly hopeless as a group. But over 4 years, if we do more good than he does evil, we’ll come out ahead.

Chip away at it.

The CEO of my favorite tech company kissing the dictator’s ass. Not a good look, Mr. Cook. x.com/tim_cook/…

It’s a good day for a crushingly cold swim.

Democracy died in dark news.

I’m rich enough, white enough, and straight enough to check out of this whole struggle. I could carry on living my life pretty well under any administration, no matter how sinister. On a devastating night like tonight, I am ashamed to say that I’m tempted to give up. But standing up for what’s right is both a privilege and an obligation. If you have a heart, you have to look out for others. That’s not America, that’s humanity.