Daniel Jalkut
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  • 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.

    Selfie of a caucasian man with glasses, short grey hair styled up, wearing a baseball jersey with the name "BEER BOYS" across the chest.

    12 August 2025
  • 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.

    11 August 2025
  • 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.

    11 August 2025
  • 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.

    9 August 2025
  • Easiest NYT Saturday crossword ever?

    9 August 2025
  • 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…

    8 August 2025
  • Filing bugs works.

    Sometimes.

    Screenshot of a message from Apple Feedback Assistant stating: “Hello. Thank you for filing the feedback report. We have deployed the fix.”

    31 July 2025
  • 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.”

    30 July 2025
  • 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.

    29 July 2025
  • I took a class with Tom Lehrer in 1994. I think he was pretty impressed.

    Screenshot of an evaluation of my performance in MATH 80 - NATURE OF MATH. The key point is: “Although Daniel failed to turn in a number of assignments, his performance on the rest of them and on the exams was sufficient to warrant a passing grade.” For context, the course description was: “This course was designed for non-mathematics majors and attempted to impart an understanding of some concepts of higher mathematics, including some comparatively recent developments. Among the topics surveyed were logic, the number system, groups, infinity, various geometries, and axiomatic systems in general. There were two problem sets per week and two examinations.”

    28 July 2025
  • 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.

    28 July 2025
  • Never elect a President who lacks the feeling of embarrassment.

    26 July 2025
  • 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…

    25 July 2025
  • 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.

    24 July 2025
  • OZZY

    23 July 2025
  • Good job rubbing it in for all the people whose Wordle streaks ended yesterday.

    Screenshot of a crossword puzzle grid with a 5 letter blank word highlighted and the clue “Large-eyed primate”.

    19 July 2025
  • It’s OK to read the news about Trump’s vein problem, and wish that the “diagnosis” was worse. He’s caused uncountable numbers of deaths, through his direct actions and policy shifts. A worse diagnosis for him would be good for the world.

    17 July 2025
  • Many people are saying Trump has weak veins.

    17 July 2025
  • I’ve seen a lot of developers be frustrated by the response to DTS “incidents.” Here’s the thing: if Quinn didn’t respond to your incident, you’ll probably be disappointed. No shade intended on other DTS employees, but Quinn is the gold standard.

    17 July 2025
  • A great new feature in GitHub Issues.

    Screenshot highlighting a “Duplicate Issue” menu item.

    17 July 2025
  • AI isn’t the end of programming. It’s the end of whatever set programmer’s apart before.

    16 July 2025
  • Working with Claude Code and amused by the idea that an assistant I had hired might ask me permission every time it wants to “list files in a directory” or “build the project.”

    13 July 2025
  • There’s a lot of talk about LLMs making programmers lazy and uneducated, but I’m learning more than ever thanks to the way LLMs help me to drill into completely unknown areas with such speed. Always wary, but learning with almost every response.

    13 July 2025
  • I am considering taking away Donald Trump’s citizenship.

    13 July 2025
  • Jason’s sentiment here is great, and rings true with another mantra I repeat to myself: “You can screw up an infinite number of times before you succeed.”

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    13 July 2025

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