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Cody Bromley

@codybrom.com
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technology person in tulsa ✍️ b10g.xyx 👨🏻‍💻 @blankie.rest & @tulsa.ok.wx.watch #WeAreBromley 🐦‍⬛

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Cody Bromley @codybrom.com · 16/09/2026
Working on iOS 27 enhancements for Blankie and I’m excited to use the new Now Play framework‘s MediaDuration.continuous case. It now hides the playback scrubber for content like ambient sounds that loop without a finite duration.
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Cody Bromley @codybrom.com · 14/09/2026
iPhone Trade In-flation: b10g.xyz/2026/09/14/iphone-trade-in… Apple’s offering record trade-in values for your old iPhone. I’m almost tempted to upgrade my 17 Pro for the $785 of trade-in credit but I can’t justify that just for an 18 Pro.
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iPhone Trade In-flation
Apple's offering record trade-in values for your old iPhone. I'm almost tempted to upgrade my 17 Pro for the $785 of trade-in credit but I can't justify that just for an 18 Pro.
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Cody Bromley @codybrom.com · 09/09/2026
Makes a fair bit of sense considering where they were 9 months ago.
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Tailwind CSS Announces 75% Layoffs as LLMs Reshape OSS Business Models
Tailwind Labs laid off 75% of its engineering team after revenue dropped 80%, as LLMs redirect traffic away from documentation where developers discover paid products.
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Cody Bromley @codybrom.com · 09/09/2026
I sold cell phones at Best Buy when the first iPhone launched. We didn’t carry it, but you wouldn’t believe how many people asked if it was compatible with their allergy medication.
A photo of a round, orange-ish pill with the word SINGULAIR imprinted on it.
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Cody Bromley @codybrom.com · 08/09/2026
Getting Back on My Fictional Horse: b10g.xyz/2026/09/08/getting-back-on… A decade of reading for knowledge made me forget how to read for fun. I thought I was a bad reader, but I just hadn’t found what I liked yet.
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Getting Back on My Fictional Horse
A decade of reading for knowledge made me forget how to read for fun. I thought I was a bad reader, but I just hadn't found what I liked yet.
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Cody Bromley @codybrom.com · 07/09/2026
Book Report — The Small Stuff: b10g.xyz/2026/09/07/book-report-the…
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Cody Bromley @codybrom.com · 07/09/2026
I still haven’t been meeting my personal writing goals, but I’m not gonna mope about it blog posts anymore. Just gotta write more.
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Cody Bromley @codybrom.com · 07/09/2026
Reminds me that I need to read “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This”
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One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This - National Book Foundation
On October 25, 2023, after just three weeks of the bombardment of Gaza, Omar El Akkad put out a tweet: “One day, when it’s safe, when there’s no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when i...
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Cody Bromley @codybrom.com · 30/08/2026
Writing Big and Small: b10g.xyz/2026/08/30/writing-big-and… Earlier this month I restarted blogging with the goal of posting twice per week. Now that I’m four weeks in, I thought it might be a good time to check in on my progress.
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Writing Big and Small
Earlier this month I restarted blogging with the goal of posting twice per week. Now that I'm four weeks in, I thought it might be a good time to check in on my progress.
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Cody Bromley @codybrom.com · 30/08/2026
Shade of the Art: b10g.xyz/2026/08/30/shade-of-the-art I don’t typically write movie reviews, but after seeing Coyote vs. Acme I only had one real grievance I felt kept it from being an all-timer. (No spoilers ahead.)
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Shade of the Art
I don't typically write movie reviews, but after seeing Coyote vs. Acme I only had one real grievance I felt kept it from being an all-timer. (No spoilers ahead.)
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Cody Bromley @codybrom.com · 29/08/2026
Coyote vs. Acme 🍿 Peter Lorre stars as a MacGuffin in a maul-teasing, foul-conning farce about the lengths people will go to for the things they want. The film is a love letter to golden age cartoons and film. Exactly what a no-taste exec would want to kill. I give it 4 beep beeps out of 5.
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Coyote vs. Acme (2026)
After Acme products fail him one too many times in his dogged pursuit of the Roadrunner, Wile E. Coyote decides to hire a billboard lawyer to sue the Acme Corporation.
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Cody Bromley @codybrom.com · 25/08/2026
A century after oilmen rushed to Tulsa in pursuit of untapped natural resources, tech companies are rushing to exploit a whole new set of them.
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'Til the Clouds Come Home
My family first got online with Prodigy dial-up when I was 8. We connected to it via a local phone number, and so I thought that meant the offices of our local phone operator down the street was where...
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Cody Bromley @codybrom.com · 19/08/2026
Suggested watch for anyone who loves design, classic Apple stuff and creative process (a bullseye for me). In case you didn’t know, my blog’s logo is my own homage to Kare’s original icons for the Mac. youtu.be/YEvLKzsEw…
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Cody Bromley @codybrom.com · 19/08/2026
One of the constraints I’ve imposed on myself for my blog is to only write with Markdown. It’s a low-bar, but easy wins are still wins.
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Writing Requires Restraint
Setting big, lofty goals is one of my biggest personal failure modes. So this time, I set a small one.
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Cody Bromley @codybrom.com · 18/08/2026
I love @densediscovery.bsky.social , but the best part about this wasn't the feature. A designer friend posted about it in our community Slack before I knew about it. Friends who hype your work are the best.
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Cody Bromley @codybrom.com · 17/08/2026
When people say the Mac was weird and funny in the early 90’s, it’s stuff like this little utility from Altura Software that they were talking about.
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Cody Bromley @codybrom.com · 17/08/2026
mac-encoding on crates.io I’ve been working on some classic Mac projects but I kept tripping over text encodings. My toolchain for the projects is Rust and assumed there’d be a solid, maintained crate for this, but I couldn’t find one. So I made one that follows Apple’s official Unicode maps.
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Cody Bromley @codybrom.com · 16/08/2026
Plenty of people are aware of Clarus the dogcow (who says “moof!”), but I bet far fewer have ever laid eyes on a Wild Eep.
A pixelated black and white creature making an EEP sound.
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Cody Bromley @codybrom.com · 13/08/2026
RIP Claude – Rands in Repose I tried writing with AI, but I quit immediately because they suck at it. LLMs are good at structure, that’s how they convince us they’re smart, but without empathy it reads hollow. If fear of watermarks make people write for themselves again, I say that’s a good thing.
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RIP Claude
I've used Claude quite a bit for both the upcoming new book and the next edition of Managing Humans. I wrote the entire book, but, as I've done for years, I've
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Cody Bromley @codybrom.com · 12/08/2026
Looks like I won’t be able to try Manna’s drone delivery today in Tulsa because I don’t live or work inside the very small launch area. Excited to give it a try when they expand it a bit.
A map highlights the delivery area in Tulsa, centered around the Broken Arrow Expressway. Manna drone delivery launched today, August 12th 2026 and is starting with deliveries available Wednesday to Sunday from 9am to 9pm.
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Cody Bromley @codybrom.com · 12/08/2026
Manna drone delivery launches today in Tulsa. I first learned about Manna last year when Ben Thompson interviewed the CEO. Now 18 months later, it’s crazy to see Tulsa in a list like this. Cue the Sesame Street song. ”One of these things is not like the others…"
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Cody Bromley @codybrom.com · 11/08/2026
Claude to add “imperceptible” watermarks to text outputs in the EI: b10g.xyz/2026/08/10/claude-to-add-i… Anthropic added a new support page today with details about how they would comply with Article 50 of the EU AI Act. As a result, models released in the EU will ...
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Claude to add “imperceptible” watermarks to text outputs in the EI
Anthropic added a new support page today with details about how they would comply with Article 50 of the EU AI Act. As a result, models released in the EU will support machine-readable marking at launch, including text generated via APIs and through providers like AWS, Microsoft and Google.
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Cody Bromley @codybrom.com · 10/08/2026
It is but “birdwatching” is unfortunately a premium keyword on the .blog TLD and so it’d be a pricy renewal. I scooped up birdwatching.dev instead.
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Cody Bromley @codybrom.com · 10/08/2026
My blog officially has a new name: birdwatching. The domain (b10g.xyz) is still the same. I’d been considering changing the name for about 4 years, and with all the other changes it felt like maybe the right time to finally do it.
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Cody Bromley @codybrom.com · 09/08/2026
The number one reason I've not published more on my blog was that I kept thinking it still needed something. Moving to Micro.blog is in large part a way for me to lower my own bar, and write more on my blog and less just on social media.
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Simon Willison on Technical Blogging
Simon Willison recently reshared some advice he gave in an interview: My number one tip for blogging is to lower your standards! Aim to hit publish while you are still actively unhappy with what you h...
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Cody Bromley @codybrom.com · 09/08/2026
Why I moved to Micro.blog: b10g.xyz/2026/08/09/why-i-moved-to-… I’ve learned too late in my writing journey that wrangling your workflow will drain your capacity for writing and creating if you let it. I’m moving to Micro.blog because it has constraints I can’t control.
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Why I moved to Micro.blog
I've learned too late in my writing journey that wrangling your workflow will drain your capacity for writing and creating if you let it. I'm moving to Micro.blog because it has constraints I can't control.
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Cody Bromley @codybrom.com · 09/08/2026
I’ve mostly finished redesigning b10g.xyz after moving to @Micro. Their platform doesn’t have built-in analytics and I won’t be adding any of my own. The only measurement I care about is how many days a week I’m posting. My goal is for it to not dip below two.
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technology person in tulsa, ok
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Cody Bromley @codybrom.com · 08/08/2026
The Death of Compromise: b10g.xyz/2026/08/08/the-death-of-co… Blockbuster died because we stopped having to compromise. Some of the best movies I’ve ever rented were ones I settled for when what I wanted was out of stock.
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The Death of Compromise
Blockbuster died because we stopped having to compromise. Some of the best movies I've ever rented were ones I settled for when what I wanted was out of stock.
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Cody Bromley @codybrom.com · 07/08/2026
rust-lang/rust is adopting an LLM policy: b10g.xyz/2026/08/07/rustlangrust-is… Rust is adopting a new LLM policy that will allow contributors to use AI to analyze and review code, but not to create it. The rule specifically targets a growing bottleneck of AI-generated PRs...
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rust-lang/rust is adopting an LLM policy
Rust is adopting a new LLM policy that will allow contributors to use AI to analyze and review code, but not to create it. The rule specifically targets a growing bottleneck of AI-generated PRs that maintainers don't have the time or bandwidth to review.
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Cody Bromley @codybrom.com · 07/08/2026
Agents in the Loop: b10g.xyz/2026/08/07/agents-in-the-l… Jon Udell dislikes the term “human in the loop” because it implies machine dominance over our work, but humans are still the most valuable part of the loop.
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Agents in the Loop
Jon Udell dislikes the term "human in the loop" because it implies machine dominance over our work, but humans are still the most valuable part of the loop.
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Cody Bromley @codybrom.com · 07/08/2026
Two Things Can Be True at the Same Time: b10g.xyz/2026/08/07/two-things-can-… Hank Green’s AI burnout reveals a modern trap: these tools give us magical powers to build at scale, but infinite capacity isn’t infinite purpose.
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Two Things Can Be True at the Same Time
Hank Green's AI burnout reveals a modern trap: these tools give us magical powers to build at scale, but infinite capacity isn't infinite purpose.
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Cody Bromley @codybrom.com · 06/08/2026
I moved my blog over to micro.blog and I’ve ported over my social replies-as-comments system with it. I’ll share more about why I moved and how I set this up soon, but any public replies to this will show up on my site here: b10g.xyz/2026/08/0…
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Cody Bromley @codybrom.com · 06/08/2026
I’m taking up blogging again because the alternative was sending my friends extra long text messages. They’re too nice to complain, but if I dump my thoughts into a blog instead I can send them a link they can give a thumbs up reaction instead. It’s a win-win.
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Cody Bromley @codybrom.com · 02/07/2026
Those are just for the World Cup. They’ll be cleaned up by August.
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Cody Bromley @codybrom.com · 25/06/2026
Thanks for nothing bot. I see your other replies.
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Cody Bromley @codybrom.com · 23/06/2026
And if you know someone who might like Blankie please share with them!
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Cody Bromley @codybrom.com · 23/06/2026
My first solo iPhone app, @blankie.rest, is live! Blankie is a FREE and open-source ambient sound mixer for iPhone, iPad and Mac with no ugly ads, no sneaky business model and no compromises for your privacy. It’s also, possibly, the first ambient sound app with CarPlay support! App Store link 👇
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Cody Bromley @codybrom.com · 20/06/2026
Launching my first solo #iOS app on Tuesday after a year of work. I can’t wait to share it.
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Cody Bromley @codybrom.com · 10/04/2026
I also want to give major thanks (ou, devrais-je dire merci) to @dandu.be for their « incroyable » deep-dive back in 2015. It was very helpful to see Bruce across all the different FCP versions. The only question I have left is if Bruce's Yak Bites were translated beyond English (but I assume not).
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Connaissez-vous Bruce le yack ? | Le journal du lapin
Globalement, Bruce peut apparaître si vous laissez une machine travailler sans y toucher pendant plusieurs heures, mais ce n’est évidemment pas très pratique.
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Cody Bromley @codybrom.com · 02/04/2026
I am actually working on something for this. Stay tuned!
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Cody Bromley @codybrom.com · 02/04/2026
You did it!
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Cody Bromley @codybrom.com · 01/04/2026
@ubillos.bsky.social l revived Bruce in his own macOS app for Apple's 50th. Would love to know if I captured his good side.
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Cody Bromley @codybrom.com · 01/04/2026
For Apple's 50th birthday, I revived and rebuilt Bruce the Wonder Yak as modern Swift. Whether you've missed him or just heard of him, you can now invite him to graze your screen and share his wisdom. #Apple50
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the yak is back
For Apple's 50th birthday, I resurrected Bruce the Wonder Yak
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Cody Bromley @codybrom.com · 01/04/2026
To me, Bruce represented the unserious side of Apple I loved so much. Sadly, that all started vanishing when the iPhone-era took off. A lot of old software was made for weirdos, by weirdos. I miss that, and I wanna do my part to fix it. I didn't understand it when it wasn't weird. #Apple50
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Cody Bromley @codybrom.com · 01/04/2026
Bruce was actually part of FCP from the very beginning, spreading wisdom and confusion until he disappeared in FCP 7. At this point, he's been gone for nearly 2 decades now, but I probably remember him better than anything I edited on FCP back then. #Apple50
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Cody Bromley @codybrom.com · 01/04/2026
However, if you moved your cursor too close, Bruce’s eyes would get really big and he’d scurry off screen in a panic. To the uninitiated, you weren’t sure what you just saw or how you’d explain it without sounding crazy. It was like seeing the Macintosh-equivalent of Bigfoot. #Apple50
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Cody Bromley @codybrom.com · 01/04/2026
Periodically, thought bubbles with "pearls of wisdom" would appear from its head, such as: “I'm glad it's getting weird again. I didn't understand it when it wasn't weird.” Another revealed his name: "You can call me Bruce the Wonder Yak" #Apple50
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Cody Bromley @codybrom.com · 01/04/2026
If you left older versions of Final Cut Pro running for 12 hours or more, you might come back to a small brown creature grazing a patch of grass on your timeline. There were other ways to intentionally trigger him, but this was the most fun one. #Apple50
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Cody Bromley @codybrom.com · 01/04/2026
On the Macintosh episode of Version History, @davidpierce.xyz & @reckless.bsky.social had fun riffing about Mr. Macintosh, Steve Job's idea for a digital cryptid who lives in your Mac. But 15 years later Apple basically shipped this, and instead of a little man it was a yak named Bruce. #Apple50
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Cody Bromley @codybrom.com · 24/03/2026
I don't scroll or post to LinkedIn as much as I used to, but on the occasion I do I have started to feel like most posts there are AI slop. It made me wonder if my network would notice if I posted slop. They didn't.
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nobody on linkedin called out my AI slop
I posted 100% AI-generated content on LinkedIn as an experiment. Nobody called it out. Thoughts on slop, authenticity, and why I should hit post more ofte…
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