Has anybody else ever been surprised that your rock stars get old at the same rate that you do?
I’ve been haunted by Ben Gibbard’s “Farmer Chords” for a long time, but I finally decided to look up the chords and try to play it. Pretty satisfying. I can’t do the fancy fingerwork yet, but I’m going to make it a priority! www.youtube.com/watch
I recently turned 50. I recently solved a 2x2 cube in competition in 4.14 seconds. There are no official rankings for old people, but on the unofficial “senior” rankings, I’m #40 in the world in the 50+ age group. wca-seniors.org/Senior_Ra…
There are many things AI still can’t answer. Some, like the vagaries of Apple’s OSAKit API, can only be answered by swamp-dwelling jedi knights like Mark Alldritt. Thanks @alldritt@mstdn.ca
I wonder is Lake Tahoe will sue Apple for diminishing its brand. So much anti-Tahoe on social media.
Determining that a given task is better suited to a machine than a human is an age-old challenge. AI is the latest factor. Your success depends less on using AI than knowing when to use AI.
Whenever Claude or another LLM says “I see the problem!” I imagine Dora the Explorer bouncing in front of me with a fixed smile.
I got sucked into an anti-trans thread rooted in one of J.K. Rowling’s utterly deplorable, obsessive takes on trans people. So many people are worried about trans women seeing cis women undressing. Why aren’t they equally worried about any person seeing another person undressing?
My coach’s DMs to God were answered. Beer Boys are 2025 champions, two years in a row!
One of the most ordinary things I do is play for a local softball team in my town. We’re “The Beer Boys”, our coach is a sober Christian, and if his DMs to God have gone through as expected, we’re going to be returning champions after we win tomorrow’s game.
I will start using SwiftUI for Mac apps when one full week elapses where I don’t see somebody at their wit’s end about how to achieve something with SwiftUI that is trivial with AppKit.
Imagine spending years of your life preparing for, applying to, and ultimately being accepted to the FBI, the most prestigious police force in the world, so that Trump can send you out on night shift to kick homeless people while they sleep.
Upon enrolling in AppleCare One, Apple informed me I would be receiving $hundreds in credit by transferring my Apple Vision Pro’s one-time AppleCare coverage in. It occurs to me that AppleCare One is an opportunity to rethink any one-time payment for AppleCare that you might be unsure about.
Easiest NYT Saturday crossword ever?
Rejoice, macOS Tahoe beta testers who also use Black Ink. With the 2.4.3 update, it’s “out of icon jail”! redsweater.com/blog/4219…
Filing bugs works.
Sometimes.
Claude Code has a cool feature that forces you to take breaks after you’ve been working too hard at one sitting. I really appreciate it. I don’t know why they call it “usage limit.”
The “Republicans” who support, by default, everything this monstrous President does, should feel very ashamed. There’s something deeply wrong with you if you don’t recognize how you’ve erred.
I took a class with Tom Lehrer in 1994. I think he was pretty impressed.
Being “anti-AI” is like being against chemistry or biology. Can you do bad things with these technologies? Yes. Should you deny every possible advantage they offer? Of course not.
Never elect a President who lacks the feeling of embarrassment.
It’s great to be transgender. If I were trans, that would be great. If my kids were trans, that would be great. If anybody I know and love, or don’t know and don’t love were trans, that would be great. If god were trans, wait, of course god is trans. timeloop.cafe/@Aleums/1…
When one LLM stops giving me the performance I am hoping for, one trick that sometimes works is to ask it to “give me instructions as plain text that would be suitable for pasting back as a prompt” and take it to another LLM.
OZZY
Good job rubbing it in for all the people whose Wordle streaks ended yesterday.
