For FastScripts 4.0 I’m leveraging AI not only to help me harden security, but also to localize to other languages.

I used Claude Opus to design this amazing (as far as I can tell) system for FastScripts, to control whether outside entities can run scripts on the user’s behalf. Security, yay! I would have had the idea before, but never all the ideas for execution. I think this is going to be good.

Honestly I think AI naysayers are not even trying to embrace it, Maybe with good reason, but to discredit the whole technology is an own-goal. We are in a situation where the technology is coming, and we have to decide by our selves, as a country, and as a world how we’ll deal with it.

The ability to easily localize apps to almost any language is one example of a benefit to developers and their users from AI. I’m working on it now, and I’m impressed by its careful consideration of locale differences. With Apple’s own built-in Xcode guidance, it seems pretty frickin' good!

AI is powerful enough that if there are significant externalized costs, for example using resources or polluting the environment, we need as a society to decide who gets to use it. Because it’s definitely something that should be used.

I also loooooove that Prusa hosts fully interactive 3d models of their machines' parts.

I’ve had a 3D printer for a few years, but my interest and productivity with it have only shot up recently. Count me among the many psyched Prusa customers who is excited to be able to print his own replacement parts for the printer itself.

I’d like a “Screentime”-like app that just tells me how many times per day I select the Slack app icon when I meant to choose Photos.

Zohran Mamdani, mayor of New York City, deserves some kind of Nobel Peace Prize for American unity by continuing to stay in Donald Trump’s good graces.

“UGH! I can’t break into the sub-20s Rubik’s Cube solving average!” is not a lament I ever expected to express. But here we are.

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.