David Smith

I am an irregular collection of floating diffuse lights, chiming softly

David SmithCatfish_Man
2025-06-16

@mxsparks I use my dad’s recipe: crush a whole head of garlic into a stick or two of butter, whip, slather heavily on a split loaf of crusty bread. Throw it under the broiler and take it out just before it burns.

David SmithCatfish_Man
2025-06-16

I just don’t understand why so many places describe something as “garlic bread” and then it’s like… the la croix of garlic bread. Toast that was briefly in the same room as some garlic.

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2025-06-15

People who upgraded to the Tahoe beta and couldn't get Steam to work: there's a new Steam beta out that's *finally* native on Apple Silicon and apparently works on Tahoe. macrumors.com/2025/06/13/steam

David SmithCatfish_Man
2025-06-14

@phil and that's still fairly early game 😂😭

David SmithCatfish_Man
2025-06-14

ngl I simply don't have the patience for some of the very late game Blue Prince puzzles. Game is just too dang big lol.

David SmithCatfish_Man
2025-06-14

@rosyna 10.0-mode date/number formatters aren’t necessarily, I added locking for 10.4+ mode ones. If you see issues with those file ‘em please.

David SmithCatfish_Man
2025-06-14

@rosyna ah cool. I missed that because it was right when I joined :)

David SmithCatfish_Man
2025-06-14

@rosyna I don't have a full list handy but NSUserDefaults should be fine, and I somewhat doubt NSAppleScript is.

David SmithCatfish_Man
2025-06-14

@rosyna any in particular on your mind? If you mean the collections, definitely not, but they did get CoW instead which is usually a nicer alternative.

David SmithCatfish_Man
2025-06-14

@eramdam eating takeout on the shore is S-tier. One time @boredzo and I got Mexican fish and chips in Sausalito and sat by the bay, it was so nice.

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2025-06-14

today i learned that based on one line of dialogue in a single episode of the original series (that may or may not be a hallucination owing to space madness) the officially licensed blueprints of the starship enterprise from star trek (drawn circa 1975) include a six-lane, regulation-length bowling alley with spectator seating

i shit you not

and now the only thing i want is bridge crew bowling league night

A detailed vertical cross-section of the Enterprise from Star Trek from Franz Joseph's 1975 technical manual, showing a large number of rooms, all labeled. 

The bowling alley is at the very rear of the lower hull.A close-up from the same set of drawings of a horizontal cross-section of the Enterprise, showing the bowling alley in detail. Six lanes, seating for 83, and a snack bar.
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Miguel de Icaza ᯅ🍉Migueldeicaza
2025-06-13

This session has a plot twist at the end that qualifies as a cinematic masterpiece of the year:

developer.apple.com/videos/pla

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infinite love ⴳtrwnh
2025-06-13

the follow up

a google assistant notification that's been truncated by ellipses due to the screen not being wide enough. the title says "talk to tour ass..." and the body content says "just press and hold the action butt.."
David SmithCatfish_Man
2025-06-13

Slow websites are an accessibility problem. Just got signed out of the website to send my doctor a note about my ADHD meds because the website was slow enough that I got impatient while waiting for it to load and switched to doing something else, then forgot it existed >.<

David SmithCatfish_Man
2025-06-13

“What???”

Eggs “Benny” Benedict, a silver-grey long haired cat, sitting on a green pillow looking *incredibly* startled
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Fi 🏳️‍⚧️munin@infosec.exchange
2025-06-13

oh for fuck's sake what the absolute fuck.

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Ben Brockertwikkit
2025-06-13

This is the 100 year anniversary of humans having an idea of what the heck the sun and all the stars actually are. If you had asked a leading astronomer in 1925 what the sun was, they would say that it's basically the same as Earth, but very hot.

In Cecilia Payne's doctoral thesis she was the first to say, from spectral data, that the sun was overwhelmingly made of hydrogen and helium.

It was later described as "the most brilliant PhD thesis ever written in astronomy".

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecilia_

David SmithCatfish_Man
2025-06-12

@jrose @madcoder @joe and the time I accidentally made it so swift_retain_n would fail if n==3

David SmithCatfish_Man
2025-06-12

My workaround for a compatibility bug introduced by a compatibility fix itself introduced another compatibility bug, which I'm working around.

For my next trick, I'll backflip through three flaming hoops and then move to the woods never to be seen again.

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roku shinhou no akegatawehpudicabok@kind.social
2025-06-12

crossing out "dexterity" on the character sheet and writing "sinisterity" because my character is a left-handed language nerd

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