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Engineer going through a prolonged iOS phase.

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Would absolutely read your biography/watch your biopic :)

04.03.2026 17:09 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I’m out of tokens and have to raw-dog react native for the next hour like it’s Q3 2025 😭😭😭

13.02.2026 00:26 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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This little β€œcardboard cutter”, that I use mostly to slice through tape and open envelopes. Combines the efficacy of a box cutter with the safety of a butter knife. canary-usa.com/cdn/shop/pro...

12.02.2026 03:28 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I think this is a reasonable call if the mess is internal to the codebase, but if the mess is awkward abstractions or outright incorrect behaviors that are exposed to users, it’s best to nip it in the bud before your bugs become β€œcommon-law features”.

07.02.2026 17:12 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Minimizing the window where I read about how our world is a joke and we're at the mercy of megalomaniacal evil perverts. Logging on to the work zoom. "Heyyyy I'm good! How are you?"

04.02.2026 02:14 πŸ‘ 4343 πŸ” 678 πŸ’¬ 29 πŸ“Œ 24

It was just a single method to draw a path, and I would’ve wanted to e.g. convert to ARC (yes, *that* old). And honestly I’m just much more fluent in Swift nowadays.

03.02.2026 15:10 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It's both a comfort and a let-down to see that if you want at least some things done right you have to do them yourself. Or at least it's one of those things where explaining what you want in words takes longer than just writing the damn code.

03.02.2026 05:27 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Spent a bit of time with Claude Code trying to resurrect an old game project. We were getting nowhere until I dug up my 15-year-old Objective-C implementation which still works perfectly once Claude converted it to Swift/SpriteKit.

03.02.2026 05:15 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
An image from a scientific paper showing two people stuffed into some kind of scanning machine and the resulting scan. I think the scan is actually a CT, but the principle remains! Also shown is a crosssection of the resulting scans.

An image from a scientific paper showing two people stuffed into some kind of scanning machine and the resulting scan. I think the scan is actually a CT, but the principle remains! Also shown is a crosssection of the resulting scans.

Turns out it would be pretty easy to substantially lower the cost of MRIs.

29.01.2026 16:07 πŸ‘ 1830 πŸ” 111 πŸ’¬ 117 πŸ“Œ 29

You’re not imagining thingsβ€”the plums that were in your icebox are *completely gone*. Here’s why that’s bad news:

β€’ They were *your plums*, that you were saving for breakfast. That makes this personal for you.

β€’ They were *sweet*, so whoever ate them *enjoyed* them. That’s unforgivable.

13.01.2026 02:33 πŸ‘ 302 πŸ” 64 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 0

Can I say β€œPigeon Creek Number 2”, which is a totally not-made-up waterway?

12.01.2026 23:21 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I feel like I haven’t even been properly lied to about the purposes of this war

03.01.2026 09:13 πŸ‘ 22436 πŸ” 4726 πŸ’¬ 202 πŸ“Œ 180

This is pretty cool (I had this same thought myself) and honestly not a bad business idea as a web service. "People who are strongly considering dropping 4–5 figures on an HVAC system" seems like an audience that businesses would be eager to advertise to.

03.01.2026 06:12 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
01.01.2026 20:40 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Four dogs in a tropical forest

Four dogs in a tropical forest

Had a similar experience in Fiji where four random local dogs took us on a hike through the national park. Or we took them on a hike? The only scary part is one of them had a car-chasing instinct leading them to be repeatedly inches away from getting run over.

23.12.2025 18:24 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot

08.12.2025 09:29 πŸ‘ 27964 πŸ” 7583 πŸ’¬ 371 πŸ“Œ 1110
Hello by Martin Solveig but you're having an MRI
Hello by Martin Solveig but you're having an MRI YouTube video by isaiah658

www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8hB...

01.12.2025 02:37 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?

23.11.2025 19:30 πŸ‘ 40209 πŸ” 11729 πŸ’¬ 974 πŸ“Œ 678
Fiji $7 bill

Fiji $7 bill

That”s a relief. The Fijians were concerned.

24.11.2025 12:29 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It’s high time English replaced β€œph” with β€œf”. Fotografy instead of photography; filosofy instead of philosophy; ufolstery instead of upholstery.

22.11.2025 23:45 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Break up the massing comic where the more you break up the massing the more you fall into despair

Break up the massing comic where the more you break up the massing the more you fall into despair

19.11.2025 17:42 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

When people say they want flying cars, what they really mean is that they want the only flying car.

16.11.2025 18:30 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

Just heard the alphabet song for the first time in years.. it actually holds up

15.11.2025 12:44 πŸ‘ 226 πŸ” 17 πŸ’¬ 13 πŸ“Œ 0

I was going to start arguing that residents of some *small* cities can *also* avoid driving in traffic but then I remembered weβ€˜re the number one least affordable small city in the country (#4 overall) so it’s not quite the flex I thought it was.

13.11.2025 15:35 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It’s R290. Which means North American code writers have are going to need another half dozen years to β€œresearch” if it’s safe to have a few ounces of propane in an outdoor unit that could conceivably leak, which of course never happens with propane in your house that you burn on purpose.

10.11.2025 03:24 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Whore you, the apostrophe police?

08.11.2025 00:35 πŸ‘ 418 πŸ” 67 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 1
MacOS26 terminal icon on a dark background looking lopsided

MacOS26 terminal icon on a dark background looking lopsided

@pbones.com IMO the funniest Liquid Glass icon blooper (visible with the Terminal icon on a dark background) is this lopsided mess

05.11.2025 17:03 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

This is a fun follow: bsky.app/profile/mcma...

04.11.2025 21:30 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Half the time the single unanswered question is one that I wrote and forgot about.

30.10.2025 03:21 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0