Recently there's been a lot of debate on the role of LLMs in open source software. Let's try a thought experiment. If the value of code is now zero - what's the value of a pull request to an open source project? (I realize I've immediately touched on a contentious debate - but stick with me for the sake of argument.)

There's a series of articles that have been written casting doubt on Anthropic's claims of Mythos as some leap in cybersecurity. Tom's Hardware wrote up a good summary. I've seen other industry write ups like this one that also cast doubt on Mytho's prowess. When I read about Mythos one thing stood out to me: It didn't matter if the modal was aligned or safe.

Sinister variations on the positive state of flow

The other day I read a post entitled "Opus 4.5 is going to change everything". The gist was with Claude Opus 4.5 it's no longer necessary to review code. I have a vague idea, but you are right - I do not know how the applications are actually assembled. Especially since I don’t know Swift at all. This used to be a major hangup for me.

Jensen Huang tells the FT that he is concerned about a potential regulatory burden on AI.

Problem Solution Affected Games What Apple could do Problem I've submitted the issue described in this post to Apple as FB13375033. This issue has been open since September of 2023. If you game on a MacBook display - your game is probably rendering wrong unless you've adjusted your settings. If you're a developer building a full screen game in AppKit (or Catalyst) - Apple's APIs have some issues you need to be aware of.

Gordon Ramsey - famous hater of restaurant microwaves - throwing one out a window Last weekend I wrote a thing about microwaves that was actually about LLMs. I banged it out after I got mad reading more internet nonsense about LLMs. I thought just a few people on Mastodon would read it. More people than I expected read it. It's not my best writing.

As a restaurant owner - I'm astounded at the rate of progress since microwaves were released a few short years ago. Today's microwave can cook a frozen burrito. Tomorrow's microwave will be able to cook an entire Thanksgiving Dinner. Ten years from now a microwave may even be able to run the country. Recently I was watching a livestream of a local microwave salesman.

I missed my June update after diving into Claude Code which I didn't find completely productive and delayed some work. Here's my updated status for July!

In my last post - I wrote about my experiences with agentic LLM coding - specifically Claude Code. I also wrote that I felt like the tool as slowing me down without me realizing it. This post is a follow up. I'd like to write about other things - so this post is my way of putting a pin in the subject for now.

On my weekends I've been going through LLM coding workflows. I've used web assistants like ChatGPT and full integrations like Claude Code.

I am trying to extract the URL of the document a user has selected in the default "Open" dialogue of my document based macOS application. I understand, a fileWrapper is passed to the init

I've published a fork of the Gameworks PhysX to my Github that includes support for Vision Pro. I've also collected several other patches into the fork - including the patches we use for H'uru to build PhysX for other Apple platforms. This includes: Patches to fix compilation issues in modern versions of Xcode Support for Apple Silicon Macs These changes were…

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Back in 2005, Jobs spent months trying to figure out what to say to Stanford’s graduates. Newly released materials show how he went from hopelessly flailing to delivering a talk for the ages.

Now offering a USB-C only version, same great pak, with one less input port.  Nomad Pak MKII Is the replacement for the original Nomad 18650 Lithium Battery Pack.  This battery pack uses a custom char...

I'm trying to get back into blogging and as part of that I'm going to start posting my personal projects for the month. It's something to keep me posting regularly and also a nice way to hold myself accountable for progress. I'm working on a few things right now: I made improvements in OpenAL-Soft for detecting surround speaker configurations on macOS.

Screenshot of Uru running on a iPhone 16 Pro Max Over the past few years I've been been working on the Mac version of Cyan's Plasma engine. This engine was used for Cyan titles like RealMyst, Myst V, and Uru. I've been maintaining the port as part of the open source H'uru project. I always wanted to port to iPad as well.

A Boolean value indicating whether the app is an agent app that runs in the background and doesn’t appear in the Dock.