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A lot of people like to make things, and making things is great. But if you want to be a software developer, you have to enjoy fixing things. If you don’t enjoy fixing things, you’ll never be good at software.
Daniel Jalkut
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Karoline Leavitt is leaving the White House, reportedly to spend more time with her shame.
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The Siri interface on macOS Golden Gate betas still looks like a 3rd party app where the developers never got the memo about how Mac apps work.
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Just posted MarsEdit 5.4.5 with “A Heck of a Lot of Bug Fixes”! redsweater.com/blog/4287…
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My 14yo tried to stream a video game on Twitch, and the quality was horrible, so he asserted he “needs a new computer.” I said “Twitch has been around for 15 years, so I’m sure it works on old computers.” Flipped a few switches, turned a few knobs, and boom! Dad’s still got it.
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Iran: “We’ve waited 50 years for this! A moron who believes everything we say. BAHAHAHAHA. Wait, hold my tea. BAHAHAHA. America?!? BAHAHAHA”
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Iran keeps setting up the football and Trump keeps running at it. #Peanuts
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“My adult son” is something I can start saying today.
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The satisfied look on my face comes from having figured out how to attach the Old Town kayak to my body with that orange strap, so I can wheel it down the bike path hands-free.
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I went for a short swim in Brighton, England, a few weeks ago. For those who don’t know, the beach there is not sandy, but covered with pebbles. It’s SO painful to walk on, but I had the sense that if I were to walk on it every day my feet, and by extension I, would be cured of everything.
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Macbook, bro, you must chill.
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I hope there is a god, and that there is a heaven, and that Lindsey Graham is there, finally having the loving gay relationship he waited all of his life for.
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Over the weekend, I had a commitment about 12 miles from home, with the only navigable routes through urban areas. Our only family car was taken, so I decided to bike. Owning an e-bike made all the difference, as I sacrificed the significant time (1:15 each way), but kept most of my energy. FTW!
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I’m enduring multiple unsolicited spam texts “from Troy Jackson” … for America. 🇺🇸
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I know this will be controversial to AI antagonists, but the LLMs we have access to today are the natural culmination of human knowledge sharing, going back to the first scrolls, books, libraries. The better we get at sharing knowledge, the farther we advance as a species.
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I enjoyed the Apple TV show “Pluribus”. I think there’s an analog between their all-knowing “hive mind”, and the ways that AI LLMs can benefit humans. For all of history it’s been unheard of that a single entity knows virtually everything about everything. This is a big opportunity for humanity.
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I had Claude Fable identify 100 bugs, and then asked Claude Opus to tackle large swaths of them. On a day when I’ve been busy with other things, went swimming, etc., I’ve already closed 25 substantial bugs. And I reviewed them all. LLMs are better at improving human output than replacing it.
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With apologies to any good people who work for SpaceX or otherwise hold shares, I can’t help but cheer when I see their stock price is down. Elon Musk is a scourge against humanity and anything that hurts him (I know, it’s virtually impossible) should be celebrated.
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Just posted MarsEdit 5.4.4 with improved animated GIF support, and a few bug fixes. redsweater.com/blog/4280…
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I’ve read about the challenge Apple, and other gatekeeping app distributors, are having in dealing with the onslaught of new AI-designed apps. Apparently it’s leading to longer review times for everybody. Here’s an idea: always review the apps that have EVER been approved before first.
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On a hike in the hills above Edinburgh, Scotland, we passed an older man, around 80, who was making his way up the hill. He told us we could swim in the reservoir, as he had done “every day, as a child, before breakfast.” I knew what I had to do.
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You might be in Scotland if …
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Here’s a hot tip if you ever travel to other countries, particularly to the same ones repeatedly: register an Apple ID for each country, with an easy to remember format, like joe.uk@example.com. bitsplitting.org/2026/07/1…
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Apple’s new Developer Search LLM ( https://developer.apple.com/search ) refuses to answer general knowledge questions unless you phrase them in the form of a programming question. 😂
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If you only watch 10 minutes of competitive cube-solving, watch now. It’s blindfolded which blows EVERYBODY’S mind. www.worldcubeassociation.org