Cosmo Catalano

it's telling to see how quickly developers went from shitting on each other for being bad at writing code to shitting on each other for being bad at managing code-writing robots.

rounded contrasting rectangle behind text should be a default fucking feature for any application that does graphical text editing in 2026 and I will die on that hill

Jason Kottke (@jkottke) on Threads The folks behind Dark Sky spun themselves out of Apple and have built a new weather app: Acme Weather. “We missed those days as a small scrappy shop. So let’s try this again…”

RE: https://www.threads.com/@jkottke/post/DVGlJh8EcAF

THANK. FUCKING. GOD.

Final Cut 24.0 is DOGSHIT do not upgrade

Gmail has added AI-powered grammar suggestions, which—bluntly—is fucking moronic. If I wanted to sound like an LLM, I'd use a fucking LLM.

If you receive that level of remuneration to turn out this level of slop, it is right and just and desirable that the robots will put you out of a job.

A screenshot of a YouTube Studio survey on-board popup with left aligned blue text that "no thanks", aa centered large blue button that says "show question" and a vertically-misaligned, centered-text but right-aligned popup that says "Close Survey" when an X in the upper right is moused over.

beneath the frothy AI hype, there is the economic fact that products like this jacked-ass excuse for an interface element require probably half a dozen people to produce, at a median income of ~500k USD per year

A 20-year-old Maxtor hard drive connected to a FireWire 800 cable connected to a Thunderbolt 2 adapter connected to a USB-C form factor Thunderbolt 4 adaptor connected to a new MacBook Air

20+ years and a crazy-ass chain of adaptors later, FW800 still rips.

Way better than USB’s never-ending shit-show game of slow connection wack-a-mole

Google Calendar error: "Imported O out of 38 events. Some of the events in this file were not imported because..." and no further text is provided.

fucking Google every fucking time

Still shot from the iOS weather app reading “sleet for the next hour”

Screenshot from the same app at the same time at the same place saying it’s snowing

The iOS weather app is telling me two different forms of precipitation are currently falling in my town and they’re both wrong.

I know there’s a lot wrong in the world, but Tim Cook, why the fuck didn’t you just throw an Apple logo onto Dark Sky and leave well enough alone?

screenshot of an @davechensky post on Threads "For some reason this tweet comes to mind today: '@Grosdoriane This is NOT what America is about. America is about *opens history book* uh oh *Frantically starts flipping though pages* uh oh. oh no. no no no. uh oh 7:51PM - 5/24/19''"

ages ago, I worked for an NGO. among other programs, they did some policy work on nuclear non-proliferation that an Important Donor felt was a waste of resources.

in particular, they cited the "no-first-use" policy the org advanced because "the US would never initiate a nuclear weapons strike"

Bosquet Ski’s ticketing system has failed at every step of the process. I am honestly impressed.

Still from Die Hard (1988): two women in a police dispatch office with earpieces on, with the text “McClane: No fuckin’ shit lady. Do I sounds like I’m orderin’ a pizza.

There’s no footage of McClane delivering this line because it was added after the fact to make the movie more fun.

performance issues at Internet Archive are routinely interfering with my ability to do actual research.

This is incredible.

I remember this Star Market shutting down because I was living in Winter Hill when it happened…

*17 years ago*

https://mastodon.social/@knizer@toot.boston/115708701767757200

Top 10 Most Infringed Disney Franchises 1) Star Wars 78% 2. Mickey & Friends [image of buzz lightyear] 65% 3. Mickey & Friends 40% 4. MARVEL Cincmetic [sic] Universe [image of Elsa from frozen] 35% 5. Froz [sic] King [image of if Ariel and Grown-Up Simba had a human daughter] 28% 7. [sic; 6 is missing] The Little Merrraid [image of kid Simba that kinda looks like scar] 22% 9. [sic; 8 is missing] Crispres [sic] of Caribbean [image of Lightning McQueen but with headight eyes instead of front glass eyes] 19% 10. Lilo & Sitch[sic[ 12%

"copyright infringement"

Trying to Make a Useable Archive Volume from a Time Machine Backup, Day 72

Even if you're an a11y hater (and if you are, fuck you) even those that don't rely on assistive tech want to rip through listing pages and open potentially interesting product pages in new tabs.

screenshot of the Craft sportswear page showing the right-click menu of an image tile on a product listing page. The optons are "Open Image in new Tab" "Save image as…" etc because the HTML element is an <img> that hasn't been wrapped in an <a>

I know there's a lot wrong in the world, but can we stop making fucking images function as links without actually linking them?

It's a hoax so hackneyed it has its own Wikipedia page, for crying out loud:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spoon_bending

RE: https://mastodon.social/@cosmocatalano/115661756779236682

Also, if you're gonna say the company name was inspired by The Matrix, please at least *mention* that The Matrix scene was in turn referencing the 1970's flimflam of warping flatware with "mental energy".

I wouldn’t necessarily let that stop you. In fact, here:

“Great work by the team scoring loads of uncritical media impressions with the Eventbrite acquisition. But (link to my post) looks like you’ve word of mouth issues around trust and brand integrity. Here’s how I can help with that…”

What is Bending Spoons? Everything to know about Eventbrite’s acquirer | TechCrunch Bending Spoons remains largely unknown, even as its portfolio of products has served more than a billion people.

how the fuck do all these pieces on Bending Spoons omit the fact that the company turns the product to absolute dogshit for the end user?

https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/03/what-is-bending-spoons-everything-to-know-about-aols-acquirer/

the only thing that makes me ashamed to be from Massachusetts these days is how little snow it takes to cancel school and related activities.

trying to us Google in 2025 is just so fucking heartbreaking

"buT thE StOCk PriCE is uP"

Last Crusade was good because Tom Stoppard was great.

`install antigravity`

(by which I mean "go fuck yourself")

this is not to say that I *have* successfully installed it. I have, as of yet, run nothing.

BUT I have installed enough of it that I can now actually try running it to see if the previous steps were actually successful.

I have finally gotten to the point in the installation process where I can begin Step 1 of the tutorial.

python devs really looked at the javascript landscape and said "here, hold my beer"