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Dave LaMacchia @dml.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

saw the breeders at the castro. excellent show, plus I ran into a friend I was in a band with a long time ago. It’s hard to believe how much time has passed.

the breeders on stage at the castro, a view from the balcony

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Dave LaMacchia @dml.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

It’s a weird time to be any kind of software developer. Thrilled to get to reconnect with old friends and talk about it at this year’s #wwdc

a pile of stickers and a badge for this years apple developers conference. googly eyes, a spaceship, a bunny rabbit behind a laptop, a cloud of smoke with rings and stars

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Dave LaMacchia @dml.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

thanks to @adafruit.com I finally swapped out the broken jack on this guitar. sounds great!

red guitar on stand on concrete floor with broken jack sticking out right side

close up of repaired gold colored jack plate with partial view of guitar knobs in foreground

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Dave LaMacchia @dml.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Having one of these days: wondermark.com/c/523/

Wondermark comic #523: a man fixes a thing with a wrench

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Dave LaMacchia @dml.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

I spent New Year’s in Berlin. I found the murals on what remain of the Berlin Wall to be powerful. Messages of resistance to tyranny, hope, and freedom for all.

A mural with many years from 1961-1989 on it: “escape is a mighty method to destabilize dominion”

A mural: “say yes to freedom peace dignity and respect for all”

A beautiful mural, mostly swirls of black and white

A mural of a winged person carrying another over a field of blue sky and green grass, bicycles in the foreground

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Dave LaMacchia @dml.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

iPadOS 26.1: reduce transparency and then edit folder name results in blank keyboard keys

Photo of an iPad screen editing a News folder with four app icons in it. the keyboard keys are blank white

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Dave LaMacchia @dml.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

Yesterday I attended a recording studio crawl hosted by the Audio Engineering Society. What an inspiring day! I saw spaces for recording podcasts, audiobooks, bands, and mixing film scores. Even a Foley pit and some high end Atmos setups. What a great day

Desk, chairs, and racks of recording equipment with purple light behind

A studio with a large mixing console left, a guitar right, and window to another room center

A Foley pit with surfaces for recording walking on grass, leaves, concrete, and steel

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Dave LaMacchia @dml.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Congratulations to @somafm.com on 25 years of music! www.sfexaminer.com/news/the-cit...

The SF Examiner with today’s story on soma.fm on the front page

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Dave LaMacchia @dml.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Finally got to bike the new closed section of the Great Highway near Ocean Beach. Gorgeous! I love the art and how inviting it is to pedestrians, bikers, roller skaters, kids, and adults…everyone.

giraffes made of metal, one facing left and the other right, on either side of a paved road

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Dave LaMacchia @dml.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

I watched some people play Ice, a competitive game about exploring and retrieving artifacts buried under the ice. The board game is 3D and you reveal buried layers under the ice by removing tiles.

The board game for Ice, showing various layers currently being explored

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Dave LaMacchia @dml.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

I demoed Moon Bunny, where you are rabbits jumping around the moon, fulfilling individual and group goals to earn points. The same company was showing a dim sum game as well

Matching tiles for points in Moon Bunny. The white tiles describe the goals that earn points

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Dave LaMacchia @dml.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

Vantage is a game I came so close to picking up. Coop, you and the other players are exploring a planet. As you move around the planet you visit locations and communicate what you see to others by describing beautiful paintings of what you can see. Lots of strategy and replayability

the board game area for Vantage. The current visible location for the red player is a lighthouse near a beach

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Dave LaMacchia @dml.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

The Skyrim game is based on the Too Many Bones engine. It has some exciting ways to customize your character and I loved the “fatigue” dice that take up spots in an ability cooldown area

The boardgame playing area for the Skyrim game

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Dave LaMacchia @dml.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

Just a few I took photos of. This one is called Necromolds and is a kid-friendly game where spell casters turn playdoh into creatures!

The Necromolds game where spellbook-shaped molds smush playdoh into monstrous shapes

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Dave LaMacchia @dml.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

i recently went to the Voorlinden museum in The Hague. There was an exhibit where the artist made her childhood home out of marshmallows. Everyone got a marshmallow as they entered.

a living room where the couch and rug are made from marshmallows

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Dave LaMacchia @dml.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

well this is a first for me: AI-related spam (spammy link removed)

spam claiming to be from Fidelity mentioning a “joint partnership” with OpenAI

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Dave LaMacchia @dml.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

i love that in the Netherlands you can get “zakkenrollers” salty licorice — which translates to “pickpockets” — in the shapes of cell phones, keys, and watches

a package of licorice labeled “zakkenrollers” from Klene showing shapes like keys, cell phones, and watches

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Dave LaMacchia @dml.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

The (mis-)alignment of the username, verified badge, and display name is hard to unsee

screenshot of a New Yorker post showing the display name and verified badge centered vertically but the username several pixels below

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Dave LaMacchia @dml.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

met this lovely dog today who is in the guide dogs for the blind program. Such a good pup!

a golden labrador wearing an orange neckerchief and looking directly at the camera

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Dave LaMacchia @dml.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

just a few of the servers that power archive.org — all available for free, worldwide.

four racks of servers, each with an Internet Archive face plate

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Dave LaMacchia @dml.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

If you use iMessage for private communications, you should consider enabling Advanced Data Protection and setting an account recovery key. This ensures that even if Apple is hacked or forced to turn over data stored on its servers, your messages are not readable.

"Because Apple does not have the keys required to recover your data, only your account recovery methods can help you get your data back if you lose access. Device Backup, Reminders, Messages Backup, Safari Bookmarks, iCloud Drive, Siri Shortcuts, Notes, Voice Memos, Photos, Wallet Passes"

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Dave LaMacchia @dml.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

it worked! the frame is joined through use of two stainless steel couplers

a red bicycle in a garage, leaning up against a white wall

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Dave LaMacchia @dml.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

This is going to be a bit of a puzzle. This is an interesting bicycle where the frame itself can be broken down for compact packing.

a disassembled bicycle in a square black container

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Dave LaMacchia @dml.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

For anyone who has read dungeon crawler carl, I have this photo of someone’s cat on my phone and this is the cat I think of when I think of Princess Donut

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Dave LaMacchia @dml.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

met this sea lion, Wanda, today. She was injured (likely by another animal, I was told, vs a boat) and has been recovering the past few weeks Looking good, Wanda!

a sea lion suns itself on a dock with a number of yellow and red kayaks on the left side

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Dave LaMacchia @dml.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

My bluesky iOS app right now.

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Dave LaMacchia @dml.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

From the Frost the night before. Trapdoor!

King Gizz plays Trapdoor with Stu on flute in center, keys on left and drums on the right

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Dave LaMacchia @dml.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

If you see this, post a concert picture you took… (King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard 11/04/24, song: Trap Door)

Band in front of red background and yellow lights, Stu on the flute, keys on left and drums on right

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Dave LaMacchia @dml.bsky.social · 28/10/2024

Here’s a photo of the summit from far away, looking at the tower and the above view from the north.

a mountain at sunset, topped by a tiny lookout tower, with a snowy mountain range in the background

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Dave LaMacchia @dml.bsky.social · 28/10/2024

If you see this, post a picture taken in the mountains. One of my favorites, this was taken from the top of the Aguille du Midi in Chamonix, France. The peak is about 12,000ft and is reached via a precarious cable car ride. Not part of any resort, some people manage to ski down from this view.

from atop the clouds a peak of untouched snow fills the bottom half of the photo. there are additional snow topped peaks to the left and right

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Dave LaMacchia @dml.bsky.social · 05/11/2023

hipstamatic, nice :) found mine from 2011. Drums of War was the d&d app I wrote that got me into iOS development:

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Dave LaMacchia @dml.bsky.social · 19/07/2023

Between the unnecessary horizontal line and the avatar not being lined up with the ancestor / reply, this UI makes my eyes hurt Bluesky

two bluesky posts showing avatars that don’t line up horizontally

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Dave LaMacchia @dml.bsky.social · 11/06/2023

TIL duolingo has imessage stickers that change based on your current language being learned

white background with multiple images of the green duolingo mascot owl, each displaying a short phrase in spanish

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Dave LaMacchia @dml.bsky.social · 26/05/2023

Second time at an In a Landscape concert, this time at the Botanical Gardens in Golden Gate Park. The series brings classical music to parks and other outdoor spaces. www.inalandscape.org

Pianist Hunter Noack plays a Steinway grand piano on a raised platform on a grassy field

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Dave LaMacchia @dml.bsky.social · 23/05/2023

The NYT covid data report, once regularly updated, is now completely useless and out of date.

Text saying: "With the end of the Covid-19 public health emergency in the United States, the C.D.C. is modifying what data it releases and ending some datasets that are displayed in the tracker. We are pausing data updates as we assess the impact of these changes. We intend to resume updates as soon as possible."

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Dave LaMacchia @dml.bsky.social · 19/05/2023

You can now take sunset tours of the Point Bonita lighthouse! Been wanting to visit for a long time.

lighthouse on white building with lit fresnel lens

sun setting behind a wooden support for a small suspension bridge

lighthouse memorabilia including photos of previous keepers dating back to 1850s

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Dave LaMacchia @dml.bsky.social · 18/05/2023

This part of that verge article on today’s 230 decisions, about algorithmic recommendation systems, is particularly interesting

The interpretation may deal a blow to one common argument for adding special liability to social media: the claim that recommendation systems go above and beyond simply hosting content and explicitly encourage that content. This ruling’s reasoning suggests that simply recommending something on an “agnostic” basis — as opposed to, in one hypothetical from Thomas, creating a system that “consciously and selectively chose to promote content provided by a particular terrorist group” — isn’t an active form of encouragement.

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Dave LaMacchia @dml.bsky.social · 16/05/2023

If you’re in the bay area and haven’t checked out the pedestrian path along Devil’s Slide (open to walkers and cyclists, but not cars) it’s really wonderful. Enjoyed visiting it again while bike camping this weekend

Man in bright yellow safety jacket and red cycling helmet with the ocean in the background. Three bicycles loaded with panniers are on the left.

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Dave LaMacchia @dml.bsky.social · 14/05/2023

Bike touring through half moon bay. Beautiful wildflowers

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Dave LaMacchia @dml.bsky.social · 08/05/2023

missing these two floofers!

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