RE: Donald Trump’s announcement of a “military rights deal” with Greenland and Denmark. The first rule of Trump is never believe Trump.

I’m using AI like crazy to build apps that no other human or AI could create.

When an AI says “Honest answer:” it means “I fucked up.”

App developers can’t be replaced by AI. Apps are expressions of human priorities. Like movies, essays, and paintings. And smiles, and hugs, and kisses. The ability of an AI to effectively replace ONE app says nothing about its ability to replace ALL apps. Humanity rules.

My downspout challenge prompted me to buy a telescoping pole, and after its maiden journey, I’m happy with it. It comes with a bunch of attachments, and now I’m excited to 3D print my own attachments. link.amazon/B0d7MNcST (affiliate link)

When I’m 96, I hope I’m in good enough shape to retire.

I was so preoccupied with whether I could, I didn’t stop to think whether I should. The hose has a 3D-printed high pressure nozzle. I am now recommending everybody own both a 3D printer AND a telescoping pole.

Every Terminal app, but especially Apple’s Terminal.app, needs a built-in feature to detect when a resumable agentic AI tool is running, suspend them on quit, and resume them on relaunch. Restarting is becoming a babysitting chore.

I wonder what Warren Buffett’s plans for retirement are like.

Starting with Xcode 27.2, Apple is moving to a new JSON-based project format. Developers have been complaining for at LEAST 25 YEARS about the Xcode project file’s difficulty to manage under source control. AI comes along and complains and Apple fixes it right away!

I had wondered about how trans people would play, and I’m glad to know that my local co-ed softball league has a good policy about this.

Remember when following tech news was a way to avoid confronting the most pressing issues in the world?

Today I released Black Ink 2.4 for iOS, featuring a new inline calendar browser for puzzle downloads. redsweater.com/blog/4293…

I remember, when I was younger, hearing people say “I still feel like I’m 20,” and thinking it was pretty unbelievable. But now I’m 51 and … I still feel like I’m 20. I know a few more things, but I am very tied to the personality, ethics, and ambitions of that 20-year-old.

I dunno, maybe I’m crazy, but if you start a company like Automattic, with your own name in it, the board better have a pretty good reason for kicking you out. I’m excited to hear you’re back in the captain’s seat, Matt, both at Automattic and soon (?) on your boat.

I imagine the feelings I have about AI with respect to knowledge work are akin to the feelings trades people had when power tools arrived. Yes, it will put you out of business IF you don’t adapt.

With the advent of mass-market AI, virtually every person alive has the opportunity to multiply their impact on the world by several times. I’m trying my best, and I hope you are too.

If you dismiss absolutely every other positive feature of AI, its ability to empower people suffering from ADHD and similar conditions probably redeems everything negative about it.

I know there are problems with the metaphor, but fire is a good way to think about AI. It’s a fundamental, culture-transforming technology that empowers people to destroy or create. Without fire, so many horrible things would never have happened, as would so many great things.

Over the years I’ve tried to learn what I can about finance and economics. A word that gets thrown around is “arbitrage”, where you essentially buy something that one market thinks is cheap and sell it in another market that thinks it’s expensive. The AI tech today is offering a lot of arbitrage.

If you haven’t found a way to be optimistic about AI, I don’t think you’re trying.

If Democrats win the midterms, I will give every American $6000 from the same funds that Donald Trump is planning to use for his $5000 payment.

If Republicans win in November, you MIGHT get a weird $5K payoff from Donald Trump. If Democrats win, you MIGHT avoid the US devolving into an increasingly fascist state.

Another weird side-effect of AI: I believe that anybody who is getting really good at managing AI agents is also getting pretty good at managing people. At least if they bring humanity to the table as a baseline.

I continue to be in awe of how fast I can tear through issues when AI helps. If everybody in the world whose productive output benefits society used AI, I’m confident it would repay whatever costs there are.