In case anybody is wondering: I am a 49-year-old relatively proud American who has always been civically engaged while critical of our government. I had a US flag on my wall as a young teen. I believe in so much of what our country is supposed to stand for, but RIGHT NOW we are the most dangerous, least democratic nation on earth. Why? Because Trump & Musk are flaunting all guards, and nobody with power is stopping them. To sane civilians in other countries: most people in the US are with you.

Apple’s predictive programming model is a decent bartender. All lines generated by “let variableName =”

21 February 2025

Less inspired about British leadership! 😂

I think Apple’s predictive programming model is better than most people give it credit for.

Just posted FastScripts 3.3.5 with a bunch of fixes including restoring live script progress updates in the menu. redsweater.com/blog/4178…

I have to admit, “Working for HP” was never on the list of my exit dreams for indie software development.

God grant me the ability to view the weaknesses in my own products the way I viewed Humane’s Ai Pin.

I mean … no matter how it happened you should still feel really bad if you did.

I’ll admit that I have voted in ignorance before. But never to such an extent that I elected a fascist.

Normally I would grant a little leeway in judging anybody who voted for a fascist, but I thought the first Trump term was a pretty good wake-up call to anybody who might have been confused.

99% of the times you say “I might be overthinking this,” you are.

Arrest Elon Musk as an American traitor, seize his assets, and use the proceeds to fund social services in the United States. Especially services that benefit trans kids. These actions would provide Musk with as much respect and due process as he affords the institution of the US Government.

The Trumpist/Fascist right will try to rewrite the history, but many, many, noble American public servants have been fired, induced to quit, or resigned out of inability to fulfill inhumane commands. This is the history of Trump.

Resignation is patriotic, under the right circumstances. Kudos to all those justice-minded people who ended their government careers in the name of protecting the government.

I know lots of people experience “Raynaud’s Syndrome.” I did too, until I started regularly exposing myself to cold water. In 3 months or so of swimming in what any sane person would describe as “freezing water”, I haven’t had an issue. Today I ran in 32F with no gloves. No problem.

Hard to believe that a majority of Americans elected this bozo. You should feel bad if you voted for him. Real bad.

Don’t blame me, I voted against my interests. Trump’s utterly monstrous management of the Federal government threw many lives into chaos, but because I’m a white cis man with some money, I can weather a storm. I feel for the dingalings who voted for this shithead, unaware of how it would ruin them.

I spent a full week tracking down a vexing bug in MarsEdit’s syntax highlighting which I ultimately discovered is fixed in the latest version of tree-sitter, a dependency. There are many ways I could have avoided this mistake, but I never suspected tree-sitter itself as the root of the problem.

Shame, shame, shame, on whoever carries out the (corrupted) Justice Department’s demand to drop the case against NYC Mayor Eric Adams. The fact that those above you sacrificed their jobs to avoid the unthinkable should be all you need to know. History will remember your submission to fascism.

Saw a fascinating presentation at Boston CocoaHeads about skip.tools – it’s a proprietary transpiler + open-source libraries that converts native SwiftUI iOS apps to native Kotlin Compose Android apps. Nice work @skiptools@mas.to / @marcprux@mastodon.social !

The racist, homophobic, transphobic President of the United States has inspired like-minded monsters to ooze out of the woodwork. They waited a lifetime to express their inner evil, and Trump finally gave them permission to “shine.” Anybody who values human rights must reject them and Trump.

My family and I just watched Porco Rosso from Studio Ghibli. I personally found it artful, cinematic, and ahead of its time with respect to challenging assumptions about gender roles. But mostly I liked that it was anti-fascist. Being anti-fascist is the most important thing right now.

Watching “Bad Sisters” season 2. Fiona Shaw as Angelica is a DELIGHTFULLY HORRIBLE character. You know it’s good writing and acting when it inspires the viewer (me) to root for her murder.

I try to always write alt text for my images, but I thought this one was particularly good.

I respect anybody who recently left this platform because of perceived wrongdoings on the part of @manton, or anybody else associated with the platform. But I am also sad for them, because I truly believe they abandoned the most heart-driven, conscientious social network in the world. Sometimes circumstances cause us to make decisions that satisfy our moral or ethical codes, but those decisions might end up being counterproductive to the instincts that drove them.