“Henry Kissmyassinger” - MDC www.youtube.com/watch

Getting some reports of hiccups while adding a new Mastodon blog in MarsEdit 5.1. If it claims to fail to configure, try approving the authentication from the browser and then trying again. Will improve in 5.1.1!

Just posted MarsEdit 5.1 with official support for Mastodon, major Micropost panel improvements, and more! redsweater.com/blog/4036…

AI generated art is Computer Aided Collage.

I file bug reports for all manner of Apple projects, but I especially like the ones I can fix myself. github.com/WebKit/We…

I don’t think prisoners should get stabbed, but the framing of Derek Chauvin as a victim or as a beacon for prison reform of any kind rings a little filthy to me. Find another champion www.nytimes.com/2023/11/2…

I think the nadir of Black Friday sales may be the promotion I received from Valvoline oil change.

Tofurky is good.

Core Intuition Episode 577: “Just a Quick Recap” coreint.org/2023/11/e…

Whatever is going on at the US/Canada border with NY sounds like a pretty serious deal, but I hope it brings you a little joy to appreciate the FBI reporting that the situation at Niagara Falls is “a very fluid situation.” 😂

I can be pretty foul-mouthed, but I grew up in a conservative Christian family where I felt it wasn’t OK to swear. My kids have scarcely, if ever, heard me utter a bad word. The other day I was driving my 11yo and almost got into an accident. He heard me say “Fuuuuuuu” and it rocked his world.

My god Albertsons is so much better at supermarkets than any other mass-market American company. Unfortunately our closest markets are NOT run by Albertsons but when I visit one I feel like I’m in grocery heaven.

What a surreal thrill to be listening to Roderick on the Line (catching up, an episode behind) and to suddenly hear them talking about me. I wondered if I was in a fugue state. Merlin almost remembered my gag exactly, but it was PORTS OF CRAWL (plural).

Que pena Argentina.

I know Sam Altman got a lot of flak for his “day phone and night phone”, and for his double collared shirts. Honestly, none of that bothers me. What bothers me is that Paul Graham likes him.

We should all aspire to be described as a “tireless humanitarian” when we die.

MarsEdit 5.1 will feature support for Mastodon, and a number of improvements to the Micropost interface: movable, resizable, can add images, can set ALT text, shows character count. It’s a big update! 5.1b4 is now available for beta testing: redsweater.com/marsedit/…

If you go to openai.com//about it will show you the About page for the company very quickly before redirecting to a 404. If I were on the QA team at the company, fixing this would be my passion. It doesn’t take artificial intelligence to know what we want!!

I’m enjoying the leftovers from my kids’ Mac & Cheese dinner, augmented with some sriracha. A lot of people say sriracha is the “ketchup” of Asian food. Exactly! Ketchup is good.

I was alarmed by the sound of a grown man talking in my house. Then I remembered I have a 15yo.

I’m successful enough as an indie developer that I regularly receive emails confirming the payments from my customers. I’m unsuccessful enough that the emails don’t annoy me.

Leadership of a company, even in the U.S., is a lot more like leadership ofa country in the UK, nad countless other states. You might think you’re in control, but “the board” can remove you at any time.

I am extremely knowledgeable about macOS development, Objective-C and Swift. My experience runs the gamut from 1996 when I started working at Apple, to now, when I run a Mac-only software biz. I don’t really want a job, but I want you to know I can be bought. Pay me a lot and I’ll teach you a lot.

In fact, after he did it on a second computer, I whispered: “Run!” and we left 😂

I taught my kids that, when I’m at at public computer store, I always go into a browser and punch in my own company’s URL (https://redsweater.com/). Today at MicroCenter my 11yo did it before I even noticed. Proud papa.