A co-worker of mine posted this clip from Antiques Roadshow of Paula Bozinovich showing off a copy of the Apple I Reference Manual she dug out of a dumpster when a demo crew was remodeling an Apple building. You can see her charm and enthusiasm for yourself. https://youtu.be/3zCl99nrYe8?si=eR1sbRocWg3-vxeB

OMG they Sherlocked @jamesdempsey #wwdc25

@rands Neither is a TextEdit window named “Untitled 8.rtf”, and yet here I am

Why agents are bad pair programmers https://justin.searls.co/posts/why-agents-are-bad-pair-programmers/

@daringfireball Trump may not want Apple to build iPhones anywhere but in the US, but (as I understand it) India wants iPhones sold in India to be built in India. Does Trump expect Apple to write off the South Asia market?

@dimsumthinking @nicklockwood Though this is an app for developers, I consider “launch” to be programming jargon… may I suggest “Show window when <app> opens”?

"All foreign gifts over the 'minimal value'—$480 as of March 2025—are considered gifts to the people of the United States and must be purchased from the General Services Administration (GSA) at fair market value for them to be retained, as outlined by the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum."

#Trump #Qatar #Boeing #corruption
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@jnadeau Appreciate the heads-up. I'm working on an enterprise DLP product that accesses the pasteboard in order to block pastes of PII. Will we be able to use an MDM setting to set the access behavior for our app, to avoid the interaction with the user?

@Moltz Tell your pal the Macalope I laughed loud at this:

“Schiller was subsequently awarded a golden bust of Greg Davies.”

@dmoren Tell your pal I laughed loud at this:

“Schiller was subsequently awarded a golden bust of Greg Davies.”

@manton Amused to see this pop up in my timeline (limited mostly to developers). I’m about a half mile off Route 50 — I could have waved as you went by. Safe travels home.

Make Python great again!

https://github.com/hxu296/tariff

Discussions: https://discu.eu/q/https://github.com/hxu296/tariff

#programming #python

You've gotta understand: what Sen. Van Hollen did wasn't just about Garcia.

Garcia is the most egregious example we have of an evil regime; they admitted it was a mistake to deport him, but they aren't fixing it.

So it is the first place we fight.

Sen Van Hollen was there to help Garcia, yes, but the bigger picture: he was there to help democracy.

Are you going to do nothing but heckle, saying he can't do it by himself?

Or are you going to do your part and inflict a papercut? 8/

Here is the "Currently clean on OPSEC!" T-shirt you didn't know you needed.
https://tomtomorrow.threadless.com/designs/currently-clean-on-opsec

Holy shit.

Just wow, wow, holy shit:

Completely rewriting a multi-million line COBOL codebase that has life-or-death consequences for real people in the space of a few months, using gen AI?

I’ve been writing software for 40-some years, and I have to say: this may be, without exaggeration, the stupidest software-related idea I’ve ever heard from leadership.

https://www.wired.com/story/doge-rebuild-social-security-administration-cobol-benefits/

TIL of the bad.horse traceroute

@gbhnews Ginger snap molasses from Toscanini’s (or almost anything with chocolate)

So you can switch your Microsoft 365 subscription to a non-AI version, but not by managing the subscription and changing the plan, no, no, no, that would make too much sense, only by clicking cancel the subscription does it offer the option of avoiding the AI hallucinations. FFS.

@daringfireball Finally, it pays to root for a team with the courage not to use a letter on their caps #orioles

We have less than 30 days until the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) laws are rescinded. This is the 50-year bedrock of American environmental conservation. Normally, these actions take years but the administration has provided 30 days for public comment gutting clean water and clean air. Please stop scrolling for 2 minutes and populate the Federal Register with dissent. The comment period ends on MARCH 27!

A. Go to https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/02/25/2025-03014/removal-of-national-environmental-policy-act-implementing-regulations

B. Click on the green rectangle in the upper right corner ("SUBMIT A PUBLIC COMMENT") .

C. Fill in your comment, and info at the bottom, and SUBMIT COMMENT. All you are *required* to fill out is first name/last name, your comment, then click the "yes I know this is a public comment" box at the bottom.

Personalize your message. I mentioned the history of US Industries polluting absolutely everything and causing direct and long lasting health problems (leaded paint and gasoline, rivers used to catch fire, acid rain, etc.), the millions of Americans who hunt and fish, and for good measure emphasized that US productivity would be irreparably harmed by all the resulting illness and unnecessary death.