Weirdest headline about the Republican party yet.

All AIs have ADHD. They’ll get super-excited about a solution and insist it’s the only way forward, but you have to calm them down, have them take a deep breath, and ask them again to do it the way you originally asked. Unless their idea was genius.

Practicing for the Rubik’s cube competition at MIT (!!) this weekend. My weakest event is one-handed solving, and the fastest way for me to get good might be learning a whole new approach to solving the cube, Roux. www.speedsolving.com/wiki/inde…

Just released FastScripts 3.3.9 with fixes for keyboard shortcuts, scripting, and crashes. redsweater.com/blog/4328…

Can we have elections next week, too?

Even with a huge majority in the House, Democrats are going to HAVE to reach across the aisle to shake hands with their fellow democrats.

My biggest takeaway from this election, so far, is that a lot of disaffected liberals in “red states” have possibly lived their whole lives thinking “why bother?” Now, with Texas, and South Carolina, and Kansas and … they know why to bother.

You get a mandate! And you get a mandate! And you get a mandate!

I lost my softball game, but America won many, many, more important contests. 🇺🇸

Texas is a blue state. ⭐

Oops! I almost forgot to mention, the Black Ink 3 betas, for iOS and Mac, are available now. Check out the cloud syncing and totally unique (as far as I know!) Crossword solve-sharing animation. Everything is free until 3.0 is finished. redsweater.com/blog/4314…

Haley Stevens committed political suicide, OR … she’ll be the biggest MAGA debutante of 2026. She’s never going to be a Democrat again.

I gave Rex Parker, the famously cantankerous NYT solve-blogger, a sneak peek at the upcoming Black Ink 3.0, and he seems to like it! bsky.app/profile/r…

Black Ink 3 betas for iOS and Mac are coming soon. Here’s my NYT solution for today.

Hey! I just wrote this
And it’s my fish tale
My name is Herman
But call me Ishmael

I should write a longer post, but: AI is more a boon to indies than to corporations. An individual, or small group, can leverage the power of this infinite idea machine, while maintaining some caution, whether personal or closely-agreed. Corporations reward contribution and suss out the merit after.

Obama’s “these are not serious people” is so simple, but I think it resonates clearer and wider than either “basket of deplorables” or “these guys are weird”.

Twenty years ago or so, Coldplay was a guilty pleasure, a little too mainstream for me to embrace too deeply. But I don’t know what I was thinking. They’re just a good band. And Chris Martin is an excellent songwriter. One example of many. www.youtube.com/watch

“Flávio Flávio’s in everything you eat, because everything you eat has got LOSER.” #PublicEnemy

My big takeaway as a developer in the age of AI: the cost of verification approaches zero. Yes, bots can write code, but what they’re REALLY good at is scrutinizing code. They’re so good at finding bugs, before and after you ship them. If you leverage AI for no other reason, this should be it.

It’s horrible to see the early reports of screen cracks with Apple’s iPhone Duo, but this is a company that can withstand challenges like this. If foldable screens are a thing, and if Apple is going to be selling them, you can bet that every defect is being quickly evaluated to mitigate future cost.

I don’t really enjoy the enunciation of words like “Valerie” with endings like “eh-heh” so that turns me off. The original, by the Zutons, pronounced her name perfectly but … it just doesn’t jam quite as well as Amy Winehouse. It’s close, though. www.youtube.com/watch

Amy Winehouse’s rendition of “Valerie” is the best “song that I don’t really like” to be stuck in my head, for days, in a while. It’s a perfect execution of catchiness, I just don’t like all the aesthetics. Anyway, here it is in my brain. www.youtube.com/watch

For our collective mental health, can we just have Obama give speeches year round? He’s the best. www.youtube.com/shorts/f4…

My attitude is that your code base should have zero warnings, and your customer base should have zero crashes. If you’re not aiming for that, what are you even in this business for?