I don’t know what “Gay Halloween” is but I love it because gay people rule. If you’re not gay, you should support gay people. If you are gay, you should support gay people, too.

I’ve gotten to the point of parenthood where your kid comes home at midnight on Halloween with two friends and wants to hang out in the basement until their parents come over to get them. Time is an illusion, parenthood doubly so. (Apologies to Douglas Adams)

A distinct sign of my maturity is that i don’t post everything I think or feel anymore. I know it might seem like I do, to some, but I don’t.

Rode my other bike to the lake today.

Rode my other bike to the lake today.

My friend Joe Fabisevich has been locked-in on AI since the outset. Everybody knows more than somebody about AI, and Joe probably knows more than you. mastodon.social/@mergesor…

There should be some legal consequence for a President who just up and destroys 1/3 of the White House without consulting anybody. Then again, there should be some legal consequence for a President who does all the things Trump has gotten away with.

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…