On the other hand, the outcome of allowing people to pay for a verification status was painfully predictable, and I have nothing nice to say about how Elon has treated employees of a company he acquired

In 2022 my phone can call space if I get lost with no cell signal, but it can’t give me return directions to where I came from 15m ago. apple.com/newsroom/2022/…

Hmmm.

I find myself starting to root for Twitter to spectacularly fail, simply so there’s no danger people ever correlate success with these capricious leadership moves and cultish loyalty/purity tests

The code reviews will continue until morale improves!

Celebrating my 20-something year of increasing the width of the “Configuration” drop-down from the default of 65 pixels on a new Visual Studio install 🥳

The “leak of the email threatening leakers” is always a sign things are going well.

Still my all time favorite piece of Star Wars merch. Beware of overly dark sides!

What the hell is this new “continue reading in our app” insanity?

It’s neat how VisionOS uses Personas to emulate a front-facing camera so web apps and iPad apps “just work”.

Some 🔥 facts about Metallica: Fuel. Fire. Fury! ◼️ Built by Magnopus in UEFN ◼️ 10,251 actors in the experience ◼️ 7,322 lines of Verse code (with many more written and discarded throughout development) ◼️ 2,974 assets created during development ◼️ 31 unique device types used

One of the most impressive things made in UEFN. So far :)

So far the ChatGPT integration in the iOS 18.2 beta is just a) showing how much better the answers are than Siri, and b) making me wish I could make ChatGPT the default for questions (vs device actions)

Though it does seem just adding ‘gpt’ at the start will send things straight to ChatGPT ‘gpt what restaurants in Vegas have gluten free items on their menu’ etc

When you have to confess a rookie error to your AI coding agent

In Europe, sampling fine delicacies such as third-party iOS app stores