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Olof Hellman

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Offshored myself to Morocco, writing code, getting back to my materials science roots.

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Olof Hellman - Engineering the Arts There’s some deep comedy imagining the software engineering process as applied to art or music or writing. Would an artist publish a draft of a new painting on GitHub and open it up to pull requests f...

olof.micro.blog/2026/02/23/e...

23.02.2026 09:45 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Screenshot of what's apparently supposed to be a "git flow" chart from Microsoft learning materials.

It's full of bizarre spelling errors and fucked up diagram elements that make it pretty clear the thing was AI generated.

Screenshot of what's apparently supposed to be a "git flow" chart from Microsoft learning materials. It's full of bizarre spelling errors and fucked up diagram elements that make it pretty clear the thing was AI generated.

oh.... my god??

actual chart from learn.microsoft.com/en-us/traini... btw

16.02.2026 23:07 πŸ‘ 1312 πŸ” 368 πŸ’¬ 96 πŸ“Œ 209
15+ years later, Microsoft morged my diagram How Microsoft continvoucly morged my Git branching diagram.

So glad I'm no longer for working for Microsoft -- I'm not of fan of their "continvoucly morging" strategy. nvie.com/posts/15-yea...

18.02.2026 15:19 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Everyone in the world comes to get married at the NYC Marriage Bureau. Last week, the Mayor stopped by to officiate a few of those ceremonies.Β 
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Thank you to all the couples who shared their joy with us. Happy Valentine's Day, New York.Β 
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Β Watch the full video at Youtube.com/nycmayorsoffice

14.02.2026 16:09 πŸ‘ 17655 πŸ” 2687 πŸ’¬ 354 πŸ“Œ 632
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Hegseth to US military: if you get into MIT, we won't let you attend because of the risk that you will be exposed to ideas hostile to MAGA when you study there.

14.02.2026 14:38 πŸ‘ 1766 πŸ” 641 πŸ’¬ 309 πŸ“Œ 487

This is brilliant.

11.02.2026 23:27 πŸ‘ 14 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Plans to invade Greenland have just been cancelled after this

09.02.2026 06:41 πŸ‘ 6687 πŸ” 2102 πŸ’¬ 154 πŸ“Œ 529
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By sheer coincidence, "we're sorry to see you go" was also my message to the Washington Post.

05.02.2026 00:14 πŸ‘ 238 πŸ” 37 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

Jew in Amsterdam here. Please use Anne Frank as a comparison point to explain how state persecution of scapegoats impacts children, that is the point of her example, thanks

28.01.2026 08:10 πŸ‘ 8599 πŸ” 2242 πŸ’¬ 96 πŸ“Œ 45

Can’t help but notice a lot of social media reports of Tik Tok censoring anti-ICE content in its first weekend under Trump-directed US management, and no mainstream news coverage thus far.

26.01.2026 03:57 πŸ‘ 4334 πŸ” 1081 πŸ’¬ 107 πŸ“Œ 37

"ICE will leave Minnesota if you hand over your voter rolls" tells you everything you need to know.

This was never about immigration or fraud. It was always about rigging elections.

25.01.2026 23:01 πŸ‘ 26002 πŸ” 7312 πŸ’¬ 509 πŸ“Œ 221

Voting NO on the DHS funding bill is the bare minimum.

Backing Kristi Noem’s impeachment is the bare minimum.

Holding law-breaking ICE agents legally accountable is the bare minimum.

ICE is beyond reform. Abolish it.

25.01.2026 21:59 πŸ‘ 41797 πŸ” 10725 πŸ’¬ 728 πŸ“Œ 328

Call the piece of legislation that ultimately abolishes ICE the Pretti-Good Act

25.01.2026 07:06 πŸ‘ 5594 πŸ” 1260 πŸ’¬ 73 πŸ“Œ 64

Wow! @iosdevweekly.com linked to my video! Thanks, y'all!

24.01.2026 16:11 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Minnesota, you are excellent!

23.01.2026 21:29 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Silly Lightning Talk
Silly Lightning Talk YouTube video by Olof Hellman

Years ago I did a talk at Seattle Xcoders regarding variable naming and Noun Piles. After years of procrastination, here's a cleaned up version of that "Silly Lightning Talk" www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBVF...

22.01.2026 00:38 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Olof Hellman - AppleEvent Manager does not respect the kAEDontExecute flag of NSAppleEventDescriptor.SendOptions: This is FB21695413: My AppleScriptable macOS app is recordable. Occasionally, I have a UI action performed by the user that I handle internally, and I send a corresponding AppleEvent with the SendOpti...

AppKit / AppleEvent Manager does not respect the kAEDontExecute flag of NSAppleEventDescriptor.SendOptions: olof.micro.blog/2026/01/20/a...

20.01.2026 19:33 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
A Microsoft Teams window with the close button absurdly close to the corner and the name of the meeting in tiny print overlapping the expand button

A Microsoft Teams window with the close button absurdly close to the corner and the name of the meeting in tiny print overlapping the expand button

It's impressive they keep finding ways to make Teams uglier:

15.01.2026 17:28 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

For non-German speakers:

β€œDear media, I can’t stand the headline "No agreement between the US and Denmark” any longer. If an armed man storms a bank, you don't run the headline: "Robber and cashier can't reach an agreement on money transfer." Stop framing imperial aggression as normal diplomacy.”

15.01.2026 11:11 πŸ‘ 7031 πŸ” 2166 πŸ’¬ 38 πŸ“Œ 38

#slightlydiminishaband
Deutsche Amerikanische Bekanntschaft

11.01.2026 11:50 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

ICE would be scared of a butterfly.
Scared of a butterfly!
β€œIt could be a bee!”
It could be a bee β€”
It could be Muhammad Ali

09.01.2026 16:05 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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a man in a suit is holding a pink object ALT: a man in a suit is holding a pink object

i miss when this guy was the only LLM

07.01.2026 03:32 πŸ‘ 5776 πŸ” 2242 πŸ’¬ 39 πŸ“Œ 41

the 6% is the WaPo editorial board

05.01.2026 15:47 πŸ‘ 8912 πŸ” 1352 πŸ’¬ 24 πŸ“Œ 14

Shirogumi

01.01.2026 10:37 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

the racism coming from the entire conservative movement targeting the somali community is so goddam disgusting and its just being completely ignored

31.12.2025 18:52 πŸ‘ 5124 πŸ” 1061 πŸ’¬ 72 πŸ“Œ 55

WHICH MEANS ALL HIS SIGNATURES ARE INVALID!!!!!1

31.12.2025 01:35 πŸ‘ 733 πŸ” 24 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 0

I am determined as God is my witness to start the Trump fake hand conspiracy theory. His hand isn't showing signs of an undisclosed illness. It's a fake painted Halloween costume hand because his hand was already removed. It's time.

31.12.2025 01:31 πŸ‘ 3331 πŸ” 438 πŸ’¬ 163 πŸ“Œ 104
The iOS β€˜Larger Text’ accessibilty settings screen with a small red heart and a large red heart on either side of the slider control, and the slider position at three sizes larger than standard.

The iOS β€˜Larger Text’ accessibilty settings screen with a small red heart and a large red heart on either side of the slider control, and the slider position at three sizes larger than standard.

#mashupchristmasanything

25.12.2025 17:31 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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GitHub - olofhellman/AERecordingTest: sample app for Apple Feedback sample app for Apple Feedback. Contribute to olofhellman/AERecordingTest development by creating an account on GitHub.

If anyone is interested: a sample app that repros the issue: github.com/olofhellman/...

30.11.2025 18:40 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Just filed FB21212387: "AppleEvents sent to self are not received after turning on recording in ScriptEditor." If anyone can help or wants details, please let me know.

30.11.2025 15:50 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0