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Collin Allen @command-tab.com · 26/09/2026

You need a Pixar Image Computer themed one 🤔 O•X•I•D•E

Pixar Image Computer and display exhibited in a museum

Collin Allen @command-tab.com · 26/09/2026

Turns out, Backblaze is half busted on macOS 27 and there's no fix yet. Have to launch /Library/Backblaze.bzpkg/bzbmenu.app manually for now, it seems.

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Collin Allen @command-tab.com · 25/09/2026

Building good looking, flexible, accessible web UIs with modern CSS tools is so satisfying. We have it so good now compared to the IE6 days.

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Harlan Haskins @harlanhaskins.com · 24/09/2026

Swift Testing was updated to support Embedded Swift on `main` so of course you know what that means

A Game Boy Advance displaying the console output from a Swift Testing example test suite

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Collin Allen @command-tab.com · 17/09/2026

Throwback to this cool custom rackmount G4 that arrived on a pallet of unrelated electronics at a previous job

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Collin Allen @command-tab.com · 03/09/2026

The #N64 development scene has been making huge strides recently. I blogged about where things stand right now: Also, that chunky header image took a *while* to make 🥹

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The Nintendo 64 Renaissance

The N64 homebrew scene now has better developer tools and support than ever

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Firefox for Web Developers @webdevs.firefox.com · 24/08/2026

Intent to ship: JPEG XL! This will be on-by-default in Firefox 157, which should become the main release version at the end of September. This includes key JPEG XL features like progressive rendering. groups.google.com/a/mozilla.or...

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Intent to ship: JPEG XL

As of Firefox 157 I intend to turn JPEG XL decoding on by default on all platforms. It has been developed behind image.jxl.enabled, which today is on by default on Nightly only, and has had a Firefox…

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Annie Sexton @anniesexton.com · 11/08/2026

This is the coolest article I've ever written. Genuinely. All of you should read it.

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Collin Allen @command-tab.com · 28/07/2026

2001: Playing Halo CE with my teenage friends 2026: Playing Halo CE with my teenage kids

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Nuxt @nuxt.com · 18/07/2026

Nuxt 4.5 is out, and it's a big one. 🚀 - ⚡️ Vite 8 - 🦀 Rspack 2, now powered by Rsbuild - 🌊 experimental SSR streaming for faster TTFB - 🩺 a new stable error code system - 🎨 useLayout, named views, and more ... plus a lot of groundwork for Nuxt 5! 💚💚💚

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Nuxt 4.5 · Nuxt Blog

Nuxt 4.5 is our biggest release in a while. Vite 8, Rspack 2 powered by Rsbuild, experimental SSR streaming, a stable error code system, a new useLayout composable, named views, and a lot of groundwor...

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Kate - Mac Librarian @maccy.me · 12/07/2026

New Video - History of AOL Instant Messenger - out NOW on YouTube! www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxKe...

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The History of AOL Instant Messenger

YouTube video by Macintosh Librarian

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pumpkin spice jorbo 🍂 @bookenj.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

developers developers developers developers

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Collin Allen @command-tab.com · 20/06/2026

Hoping someday SVG rendering in Chrome won’t look terrible 🙏🏻 It’s been 84 years… issues.chromium.org/issues/40827...

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Chromium

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Collin Allen @command-tab.com · 17/06/2026

Received mail from from the Phantom Phreak himself 💾 😃

A yellow 3.5” floppy disk with a gum splat, signed:

HACK THE PLANET!
Renoly Santiago
The King of Nynex

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Collin Allen @command-tab.com · 13/06/2026

The way you install and trust self-signed/in-house root certificates in iOS Simulator, now Device Hub, has changed significantly: command-tab.com/2026/06/12/i...

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Importing Certificates into Xcode 27's Device Hub

The process for importing certificates into iOS 27 simulated devices has changed for the better

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Collin Allen @command-tab.com · 07/06/2026

Also, I am absolutely here for the return of translucent plastics in electronics 😍

Xbox Series X25 and controller in translucent green plastic. Limited edition, November 2026.

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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

I was truly not prepared for a future in which the phrase "stolen compute from Chipotle's AI chat bot" makes any kind of sense.

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Collin Allen @command-tab.com · 31/05/2026

That's not going anywhere.

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Collin Allen @command-tab.com · 31/05/2026

It's years late for a review, but I wrote about how fantastic Indiana Jones and the Great Circle is: I wish I could forget it and play it all again from the beginning with fresh eyes. I love it so much.

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Indiana Jones and the Great Circle

My review of Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, one of the few licensed games that actually understands its source material

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Collin Allen @command-tab.com · 20/05/2026

Unreal barely ran on my PowerBook in 1998, but it was still such a formative experience. Once my friends and I got our machines networked together, we spent so many hours hunting each other in DMDeck16. One of them would be the best man at my wedding a decade later.

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Aniline Applications @anilineapps.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Introducing Indigo A beautiful new app for Bluesky and Mastodon and the best way to experience both social networks together. It's tough keeping up with everyone when they're split across networks but Indigo brings them together for a seamless social experience. apps.apple.com/us/app/indigo-...

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Ian Scott @polpo.org · 10/05/2026

Dimming the screen for the screen saver on #PicoIDE was boring so I added flying toasters as an option. Sprites borrowed from the PicoPOST project

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Christopher Neugebauer @fedi.chrisjrn.fyi · 24/04/2026

Hello if you are in the bay area over the weekend and are interested in technology and how it affects actual people, may I recommend popping up to Petaluma for @NorthBayPython? It's this weekend! Talks and tickets: northbaypython.org (We'll waive ticket costs on request too, if you […]

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Collin Allen @command-tab.com · 24/04/2026

Feeling optimistic about the future of Xbox with Asha Sharma at the helm. She’s saying the right things. Now to actually execute.

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Collin Allen @command-tab.com · 20/04/2026

“Not after… the incident.”

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Collin Allen @command-tab.com · 16/04/2026

I blogged. It's been a while. command-tab.com/2026/04/15/g...

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Command-Tab - Going Electric

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Collin Allen @command-tab.com · 15/04/2026

How long until we get this far more expressive text-to-speech in Siri? Between LLMs, Apple devices' available context, and advances like this in speech, Siri ought to be light years better than it is now. Maybe WWDC and the upcoming OS releases will bring the goods? blog.google/innovation-a...

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Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS: the next generation of expressive AI speech

Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS is now available across Google products.

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Collin Allen @command-tab.com · 28/03/2026

I'm in! I am already comfortable with CSS grid and flexbox, but I want to get *really good*. Looking forward to working through this!

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Boshen @boshen.github.io · 24/02/2026

Announcing Oxfmt Beta * 100% Prettier Compatibility * Additional File Formats * Tailwind CSS Integration * Import Sorting * package.json Sorting * Embedded Language Formatting * Node.js API * `--migrate prettier` * config overrides * Full IDE support oxc.rs/blog/2026-02...

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Oxfmt Beta

A collection of high-performance JavaScript tools written in Rust

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Collin Allen @command-tab.com · 19/02/2026

This year is a 2-Pixar-film year! Hoppers is just around the corner, and Toy Story 5 is shortly after that: youtube.com/watch?v=c51ND9Hdbw0 So stoked about both of these 🤩

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Toy Story 5 | Official Trailer | In Theaters June 19

YouTube video by Pixar

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Collin Allen @command-tab.com · 09/02/2026

And once the Discord servers go away, knowledge will be lost 😞 I miss the information longevity of forums and old web publishing.

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Collin Allen @command-tab.com · 31/01/2026

@aeronautapp.com A feature request, if I may: Please add image size options. Images consume a lot of vertical real estate while scrolling, and I'd like to be able to choose a smaller size image thumbnail, and click to open it in a new media viewer window. The web page embeds look great, though!

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Collin Allen @command-tab.com · 30/01/2026

Subscribed! This is a really nice app 😍 I’d welcome an iOS version someday, too.

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Aeronaut @aeronautapp.com · 27/01/2026

Excited to announce that Aeronaut is now live in the Mac App Store! 🎉 After two years of tinkering, polishing, and obsessing over the little things, it’s finally here! If you’re looking for a Bluesky app designed and built for macOS, take a look… apps.apple.com/us/app/aeronau…

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Ian Scott @polpo.org · 29/01/2026

The PicoIDE Crowd Supply campaign is now live! Back the project to be among the first to get yours! PicoIDE is an open IDE/ATAPI drive emulator for retro systems. www.crowdsupply.com/polpotronics...

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PicoIDE

An open source IDE/ATAPI drive emulator for vintage computers

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Thomas Leeper @thosjleeper.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

National media should really be covering the fact thay every major school, museum, and arts institution in the Twin Cities, and hundreds of local businesses are closed tomorrow to protest federal occupation. Nothing like this at this scale has happened anywhere in America anytime in living memory.

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Collin Allen @command-tab.com · 23/01/2026

Ubiquiti has such a good native iOS app, and they do a really solid job organizing a significant volume of information about network hardware, clients, settings, etc. Worth looking into if you’ve been on the fence.

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Collin Allen @command-tab.com · 22/01/2026

Oooh, route rule layouts will be useful 😍 🤩 Thank you!

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Collin Allen @command-tab.com · 22/01/2026

I replaced my Ring devices for the same reason, and went with a Ubiquiti setup and I’m loving it, fwiw

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Collin Allen @command-tab.com · 16/01/2026

Even though it was terrible, I still looked forward to it each week 🫣

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Collin Allen @command-tab.com · 15/01/2026

I would enjoy watching videos of someone competently building stuff with #Rust and talking about why they’re making the decisions they’re making as they go. Recommendations?

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AK @akfamilyhome.com · 05/01/2026

heard the RAM shortage is getting bad so I've been trying to stock up🤞

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

It’s almost like green energy is the only way forward and a handful of oil barons are doing everything in their power to keep that from happening so they can get even richer at the cost of literally everything else in the world.

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Todd Vaziri @tvaziri.com · 24/11/2025

Hey, movie directors - don't you want to be on this list, too? An Ongoing List of Directors Positively Acknowledging Visual Effects fxrant.blogspot.com/2023/02/a...

Ryan Coogler on the tonight show with Jimmie Fallon mentioning the VFX team from sinners by name

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