Casey Brant @basecase.bsky.social · 2hI'm not worried about rogue AI killing me, but I do think seeing a few more "now, thanks to AI, anyone can finally do <skill you could have always learned the basics of in like an afternoon if you cared>" posts might do it. 010
Casey Brant @basecase.bsky.social · 11hAll I'm saying is if I could get compiz fusion to make my windows BURN UP IN FLAMES when I minimized them on a piece of shit scavenge box in 2005 *at 60 FPS*, Liquid Glass has no right to make my juiced up M1 MacBook Pro struggle this hard. 010
Casey Brant @basecase.bsky.social · 15hMy only hope for ever returning to visually pleasing desktop software is that ding dongs keep cranking up that corner radius until it integer overflows back to square. 010
Casey Brant @basecase.bsky.social · 16hOK here's the plan: somebody needs to infiltrate the billionaire group chat and convince them all that The Collapse is already underway, so they all go live in their secret underground bunkers. Then, we cut the Internet to their bunkers so they don't know if it's safe to come out yet or not. 220
Casey Brant @basecase.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Probably not how biology works but I like to imagine that all the colds circulating right now are weak little baby viruses because everybody refuses to mask and has tanked like a dozen and a half covid infections and completely stripped out their immune systems, so there's no pressure to be strong. 130
Casey Brant @basecase.bsky.social · 01/10/2026When I'm emperor I am going to make it illegal to write about things from the 90s if you were born in the 2000s. 030
Casey Brant @basecase.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Here at Slack, we want you to be able to work how *you* work best! That's why there are 6 different ways to view conversation threads, 5 of which are indistinguishable from practical jokes. 020
Casey Brant @basecase.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Finally working on getting off Adobe shit for design work. Started playing around with Affinity tonight and my first impression is very positive! A bit early to call it, but feels like it might actually be a strict upgrade for my use cases. 071
Casey Brant @basecase.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Saw a trailer for this game and thought it looked cool but didn’t wishlist. Now purchasing immediately. In 2026, being proudly human-made earns an automatic 3/10 extra points in my book. 010
Casey Brant @basecase.bsky.social · 29/09/2026yeah that and I think more generally the past decade or so has seen anyone who cares first and foremost about making users happy get pushed out or sidelined at apple. 010
Casey Brant @basecase.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Yeah the "this is another Snow Leopard" stuff is as far as I can tell total fabrication. Or rather, it *might* be true that 27 is a big improvement over 26 (I took one look at 26 and skipped it entirely) but it's still a complete UX disaster. 100
Casey Brant @basecase.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I've been seeing more posts of the type this one is referencing and it makes me feel crazy (which I think is kinda the point, so good job I guess). Completely bonkers to claim that nostalgia for adolescence is the only possible reason you might love media more than a couple years old. Fuck off! 031
Casey Brant @basecase.bsky.social · 27/09/2026The 3rd-party iOS apps I use used to do a great job of maintaining look & feel on older OS versions, but this has totally broken down with 26 and 27 while I'm still back on 18. Everything looks like a weird hybrid now. Apple must have made pre-Liquid Glass backwards compat extremely painful. 000
Casey Brant @basecase.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I have returned! Sadly I must report that I *did* think about computers while on vacation, but I did not Post about them, and that's at least something. 010
Casey Brant @basecase.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Vacation time! Not gonna think about computers for a week :D 040
Reposted by Casey BrantCopper Hamster @copperhamster.bsky.social · 19/09/2026My friend got a picture of them all together. 77125235116
Casey Brant @basecase.bsky.social · 19/09/2026If you're banging out a post with the thesis "AI-generated posters don't have to look like shit" you might wanna run a draft past somebody with eyes before hitting publish just to make sure your counterexamples do what you think they're doing. 050
Casey Brant @basecase.bsky.social · 18/09/2026It is *bananas* how shitty everything feels now. Constant UI stuttering. Actions like window dragging/resizing that used to be snappy are now laggy. Apparently activating Mission Control and dragging a window from one virtual desktop to another is one of the hardest things you can do on a computer. 010
Casey Brant @basecase.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Gotta hand it to the macOS team, they convinced me that my M1 Macbook—which I previously considered probably powerful enough to be the last computer I'd need for the next multiple decades—is actually an underpowered piece of trash. 030
Reposted by Casey BrantRadiant G🌈 @radiantg.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Job listings are like: [A/I job] [A/I job] [Gambling App job] [A/I job] [Listing seems normal but company is A/I or Cr/ypto] [Gambling App job] [Actual Creative Job but it’s 2 jobs in a trench coat for half the pay] [Unpaid Internship] [A/I job] [Great job but must live in Lubbock Texas] 19682230
Casey Brant @basecase.bsky.social · 16/09/2026www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/we-...mcsweeneys.netWe Must Create the Shit Machine“For as long as humans have created SHIT with our BODIES AND BUTTS, we have been asking this FUNDAMENTAL QUESTION: What if there were a COMPUTER that could A... 020
Casey Brant @basecase.bsky.social · 16/09/2026www.penny-arcade.com/news/post/20...penny-arcade.comArtificial Intelligence, Quote Unquote - Penny ArcadeVideogaming-related online strip by Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins. Includes news and commentary. 000
Casey Brant @basecase.bsky.social · 15/09/2026😭 IT is forcing my work computer to install a version of macOS with Liquid Glass 😭 110
Casey Brant @basecase.bsky.social · 15/09/2026I love seeing your WIPs because in addition to looking cool I know you’re actually doing the work and not just slopping ‘em out. 120
Casey Brant @basecase.bsky.social · 14/09/2026I hope Apple releases non-joke versions of their operating systems soon. 030
Reposted by Casey BrantTof Eklund @tofeklund.bsky.social · 13/09/2026"AI may make your job easier, but that effort has just been shifted onto your users. They are noticing it and they hate it." I've said this before: if you bracket self-delusion, generative "AI" doesn't save labour, it displaces it onto the people who have to deal with the slop. 15316
Reposted by Casey Brant💖gail 💖 🔜 Metaphor Chicago 🔜 GATEway @notgodzilla.bsky.social · 14/09/2026can we PLEASE bring back the word "poser" and stop using "larp" or "cosplay" - being a "poser" or "faking" being into something is lazy and disingenuous whereas cosplayers and actual larpers are passionate about their hobbies and out a lot of time and effort into them 531131484
Reposted by Casey Branttante @tante.cc · 14/09/2026Omarchy is part of new fascism. But it's also a good case study about how little political resilience is built into FLOSS: The libertarian roots have not only made the whole movement ready for the taking by corporations but also by fascists. 110124
Casey Brant @basecase.bsky.social · 14/09/2026I love food youtube videos with titles like "This Immigrant-Owned <regional American cuisine> Shop Sells Out Every Day!" and the interview with the chef is always like "yeah we took <regional American cuisine> and tried adding any spices, people went wild for it". 020
Casey Brant @basecase.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Very discouraging to see what's happening in Bevy (and Rust more generally) right when I finally decided to prioritize seriously learning them after years of casual observation. blog.fallible.net/it-breaks-a-...blog.fallible.netIt Breaks a Village: Bevy's 6th BirthdayThis post, like all my posts, was written by me. It came out of a lot of conversation and reflection with many people. It is long. I promise you there's valu... 030
Casey Brant @basecase.bsky.social · 10/09/2026I think we can probably award the very first person to make a "my pronouns are <things that aren't pronouns>" joke in 2015 like a 7 out of 10. Nice one, very topical. A bit lazy execution-wise. Then every other person since then who made a "my pronouns are" joke loses Internet access for life. 030
Casey Brant @basecase.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Ever since I was a little boy I dreamed of leveraging a strong Dollar to delegate administrative tasks to my virtual assistant in the Global South. 010
Casey Brant @basecase.bsky.social · 10/09/2026YUP! I’ve been saying all along that LLMs (+ whatever scaffolding you put around them) can never do the work of a programmer, and people always try to hit me with “but the latest models are great at generating code!” as though that has anything to do with what I said. 020
Casey Brant @basecase.bsky.social · 09/09/2026I think iPhone Duo looks like shit which given my track record with these things means it's a guaranteed all-time sales record breaker. 010
Reposted by Casey Brantbrian nam-sonenstein @bson.bsky.social · 08/09/2026dear god.. a flavor scientist at the Cheetos factory has published a blog post saying no one is prepared for how "dangerously cheesy" they are 12136393
Casey Brant @basecase.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Dunno what form of article this could take, but most CSS news I see is people excited about piping hot new stuff, and for my own practice I'm a lot more interested in "stuff that was new last year and is now stable for most users and browser types, so you can start using it in serious stuff". 030
Casey Brant @basecase.bsky.social · 09/09/2026A web app you use sprouts new banners announcing sweeping, utterly baffling new product direction, poorly communicated and seemingly only partially implemented. A couple days later you happen to look at that company's job listing page. You see this. Ah. The first thing makes sense now. 042
Casey Brant @basecase.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Every design article roundup newsletter I subscribe to is just 8 variations on "what is the role of the UI designer in the Age Of AI" every issue and like I get it but also for the love of god show me some cool weird icons from 1991 or something, *please*. I'm desperate for *any* variety. 010
Reposted by Casey Brantphylan @phylan.website · 08/09/2026"my LLM is so powerful it's dangerous and risks breaking containment!" "ok let's destroy it" "oh, haha, no. no." "let's intensively regulate your company then" "oh, no. no. look can you just put it in the newspaper that it's powerful" 7838297
Casey Brant @basecase.bsky.social · 08/09/2026"I know you are but what am I" remains an unbeatable defense tbh 000
Casey Brant @basecase.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Oh, Pivotal Tracker (RIP) felt pretty good to use also. Would've loved that card drag & drop implementation in a general purpose cards-on-a-board app. 010
Casey Brant @basecase.bsky.social · 08/09/2026There have been approximately 1 gorillion web apps whose core interaction verb is "drag rectangular cards between columns" and as far as I can tell the only one that got even close to feeling good was Trello pre-acquisition. 120
Casey Brant @basecase.bsky.social · 07/09/2026I guess I'm Poisoned By Nostalgia or whatever the fuck but I am friggin HYPED for tomorrow's Zelda 40th Anniversary Direct. 010
