@danielpunkass For the first couple years I had an app for sale, I had a Mail.app rule that would play a cash register noise anytime a sale came through. I lived in a small apartment and would hear it anytime I was home. Always gave me a little burst of joy, and even moreso when they came in while I was actively working on the app.

If you hired a translator and they sent you a Google Translate translation, they would be a bad translator.

If you hired an artist and they sent you an image generated by Gemini, they would be a bad artist.

If you hired a programmer and they sent you a slopcoded website, they would be a...?

Yeah.

What is it with programmers and their desire for mediocrity?

Hi. Please play this amazing JND color game my friend Keith made and see how good you/your displays are at differentiating between similar colors. https://www.keithcirkel.co.uk/whats-my-jnd/?r=filmgirl

@film_girl That was interesting!

What's My JND? 0.0046
Can you beat it? https://www.keithcirkel.co.uk/whats-my-jnd/?r=AcofJP__7d1w

daylight will never truly be saved until we rid the world of morning people

A Young Man's Guide to Shaking Hands with Nazis.

#Nazis

I was doing some organizing and found my first gen iPod shuffle in a box. I charged it up, and am listening to it. The music on it is no newer than 2008, which is probably when I stopped using it. It's fun to go back in time to what I was listening to then.

@beejjorgensen Commander Keen was the first video game I can remember getting excited about, and was a huge part of my childhood.

@mortenbekditlevsen Thanks. That's the AutoPlay button, which is off already 😞

(It's in the queue sidebar. I'm talking about Mac Music.app here.)

How do I get Music.app to stop filling up my queue with random songs when I start playing a single song with an empty queue? I have AutoPlay turned off.

What an annoying anti-feature.

Asked a StackOverflow question for the first time in quite a while, and quickly got a perfect answer from the same guy that answered a similar question I asked 5 years ago!

https://stackoverflow.com/q/79843349/344733

(In case anyone's wondering, LLMs were absolutely zero help. I tried.)

I just ran across https://macrowave.co. I don't really have a use for it, but it sure is beautiful. I love seeing a wonderfully done UI with light effects, custom controls, and analogs for physical UI in a current Mac/iOS app.

What sort of applications are people writing where AI is saving them hours and hours of hand-writing boilerplate code? This is a genuine question because, apart from in perhaps the very early stages of a new application, I very rarely find myself doing this.

I’m starting to file it away with people who think that the speed they can type at is their biggest development bottleneck. Or am I just ponderously slow and I think about my code too much so that typing is the least of my worries?

Scientists have been studying remote work for 4 years and have reached a very clear conclusion: “Working from home makes us thrive”

"The four-year lens shows a real shift: flexible schedules raise well-being, protect focus, and support steady results. People sleep longer, commute less, eat better, and give more time to family. Because managers reward outcomes, trust grows and meetings get sharper. That is how remote work changes daily life without lowering standards."

Source: https://archive.li/URhbv

Also immediately backed this one: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/bzotto/go-computer-now-the-story-of-sphere

I ran across a Sphere computer 6 or 7 years ago and had never heard of them, despite living in Utah my whole life.

Insta-backed.
https://mastodon.world/@obsoletesony/115408810935025871

@harrymccracken Allen’s Camera is also there! They sell digital gear, but also sell used film gear plus film, and do film processing too.

I have absolutely zero respect for Cook after his embarrassing and shameful brown nosing the orange fascist. The sooner he packs up and retires the better.

Someday I'll ask AI for help solving a problem with some Swift/SwiftUI and it will actually give me a solution, but that day is not today.

"I am not here to make a careful comprehensive argument, because people have already done that. I am here to be rude, because this is a rude technology, and it deserves a rude response."

"But I am a hater, and I will not be polite. The machine is disgusting and we should break it. The people who build it are vapid shit-eating cannibals glorifying ignorance. I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself."

https://anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/haterdom/2025/08/26/i-am-an-ai-hater.html