Because I was born in the LA area, I was a die-hard LA Dodgers fan as a kid, even though I grew up in the SF Bay Area. Eventually I starting rooting for the Giants, and after moving to Boston 20 years ago, the Red Sox. But now I want the Blue Jays to win. Yes, against my childhood team. Go Toronto!

I’m actually a fan of SwiftUI, but I’m not a fan, as primarily a macOS developer, of the constraints it would place on me. I stay subscribed to SwiftUI help channels primarily to remind myself of the anguish I’m missing by holding out. AppKit + Swift + Mac = Gold.

After working with AI assistance for a number of coding tasks over several months, I think I understand where it lands in terms of human metaphors.

An AI assistant is an extremely knowledgeable, confident, adaptable, and tireless worker with NO GODDAMN COMMON SENSE.

Sometimes it really is worth going to the doctor. I stubbed my toe pretty bad, and after a week it was still hurting. Everybody knows they “can’t do anything” for broken toes. But my doctor noticed it was red and swollen and looked more like an infection. An x-ray proved there was no fracture.

PLEASE tell me some Manhattan deli has named one of their sandwiches “New York’s Hottest Club” …

First cold water swim of the season. 59F. It’s time!

Trump deserves praise for brokering this very-welcome Israel/Gaza peace deal. Let’s hope it lasts. But nothing will ever outshine his cruel fascism. He’s particularly vindictive against his own compatriots. That’s his legacy.

The “me in my antifa uniform” meme is delicious. For the slow people in the class: nearly every American soldier throughout history was antifa.

Maybe Donald Trump should be President of Israel. Starting immediately.

LLMs are particularly good for asking “did I miss anything?” Whether that’s a piece of writing meant to convey something, a piece of code meant to perform something, or anything else where a “second opinion” might be useful. It won’t do anything bad, but it might do something good. AI naysayers hunker down on “it’s not 100% reliable.” No, but neither is any human.

Dismissal of AI technology today is akin to somebody in 1982 complaining that a Commodore-64 couldn’t scan their photos. You need imagination to understand how different the future will be.

AI is a technological inflection point. It’s scary, but also exhilarating and fun to live through. Most of the world is as ignorant about AI as people were about personal computing in 1982. It’s just breaking in to the mainstream, yet totally mysterious. IMHO, it’s a good time to learn about AI.

IMHO the #1 fix 99% of all web apps need to make is intercepting Cmd/Ctrl-Z so it doesn’t reopen the last tab you closed.

I’m seeing more of a scam directed at customer support addresses, where the scammer pretends to be a customer who is having trouble with the app, and asks you to look at a screenshot of the problem, which is a link to a page that coaxes you into running a nefarious program on your computer.

Afterwards, the photographer gave me a side offer to purchase rights to all the other photos in the shoot, for some ridiculously low amount, so I did. I’ve never used them, but they’re good photos.

Eleven years ago, Macworld sent a freelance photographer to my house in Arlington, MA. It’s one of the best photos of me.

“Speaking disrespectfully of the King’s letter.” The plaques of Massachusetts remember. (Photo by Paul Schlichtman)

Just posted MarsEdit 5.3.8, featuring an updated icon for macOS 26 and a few bug fixes. redsweater.com/blog/4239…

People often say entrepreneurs should find a co-founder whose virtues match, whose skills differ, and who will drive you to do your best work. But what if they turn out to be a blowhard who regurgitates right-wing idiocy while refusing accountability. I’ll take my chances alone.

Kamala Harris would have been SO much more boring and SO much better for our country.

The hardest job in America right now is being a Federal Judge. An unprecedented number of ridiculous, unmerited cases arriving at your desk, with an unhinged President, Congress, and Supreme Court prepared to challenge whatever decision you make.

We spent too many years with one side in American politics calling the other side “clowns,” that nobody knows quite how to describe the current state. Our entire country, from the President, to all of the Federal agencies, the Congress, Senate, and Supreme Court, are all controlled by clowns.

I achieved a major development milestone for my biggest app, MarsEdit, today. I can now build against Swift 6 with strict concurrency, and no warnings. It was harder than it should be (though Apple’s working on that), but it feels good knowing I can move forward with concurrent confidence.

The expectation/hope for a “rapture” always puts the Pedro the Lion song in my head: www.youtube.com/watch

I have never intentionally tuned in to watch Jimmy Kimmel, but of course i was outraged by his suspension. I expect and hope that many on the right felt the same way. We have freedom fundamentalists on the left and the right. Whatever you want to say, you have the right to say it. 🇺🇸