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Drew McCormack @drewmccormack.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Is it AI if it just greps a bunch of keywords? Sounds like they could’ve made that 20 years ago.

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Thomas Spooks 🎃👻💀 @thomasfuchs.at · 10/09/2026

(via icy.wyvern.rip/notes/aqyu97...)

Photo of Apple's keynote where they show the iPhone Duo held in one hand in its folded and its unfolded form. The right hand would never be able to hold it as shown, so below is an edit of what the hand would have to look like.

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Drew McCormack @drewmccormack.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Thought they said support was coming later this year.

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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

No one’s calling it Lake America. “Lake America” is what you name a summer camp for soft children who say, “Don’t you know who my father is?” after a t-ball stand strikes them out

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Did DoD just admit in a court filing that it used xAI's Grok Gov Model to hit the girls' school on the first day of the Iran war? Based on some passages flagged by @rgoodlaw.bsky.social in DoD's recent filing in NAACP's case against X, it looks like it did 1/

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Drew McCormack @drewmccormack.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

In an effort to make the Dutch outfits as orange as possible, they have succeeded in making them appear red on the TV. I assume the cameras or TV are saturated. Might as well be watching the Red Devils (Belgium).

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Drew McCormack @drewmccormack.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Ensembles 3 is here 🎉 Local-first sync for Core Data & SwiftData. No server, no cloud bill, no lock-in. Sync via iCloud, Dropbox, WebDAV… or peer-to-peer. ensembles.io

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Ensembles — Sync for Swift Developers

The local-first sync framework for Apple platforms. Sync via existing cloud services. No server required. No cloud costs.

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Drew McCormack @drewmccormack.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Oh how he struggles. It is like he is wearing ski gloves.😂 It’s both painful and hilarious at the same time. “Maybe if I just try x=634px…no that didn’t work”

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Drew McCormack @drewmccormack.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

I have this AI agent called Beeks that does day-to-day stuff for me. I’ve trained him to book cinema tickets. It goes great…as long as the theater doesn’t have designated seating. If it does, Beeksy has to try to pick seats on a map…

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Drew McCormack @drewmccormack.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Fantasizing about ways to make walking my dog more fun. Introducing the Doggy Do

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Drew McCormack @drewmccormack.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

New short story: Delivered. One side of the conversation. drewmccormack.substack.com/p/delivered

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Delivered

You didn’t say goodnight.

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Drew McCormack @drewmccormack.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

It is just using the underlying Core Data notifications.

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Drew McCormack @drewmccormack.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Cream! That takes me back. Bit before its time. An early version of the “algorithm” every social app has now. These days you could definitely vibe code something. Probably use ML to learn your prefs. (Cream actually used Apple’s Latent Semantic Mapping, which was for language prediction.)

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Drew McCormack @drewmccormack.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

One of the hardest parts of learning Spanish (for me) is that I can read fine… but native speech often sounds like noise. So I built a web app with tiny audio stories + repetition to train listening. Free for now: blablets.com

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Blablets - Fluency Starts with Listening

Tiny stories that make language click. Free listening practice with spaced repetition.

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Drew McCormack @drewmccormack.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Last year I lost myself a bit when I realized that AI was going to change my job as a programmer completely. I wrote the short story "Assisted" in response. drewmccormack.substack.com/p/assisted

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Assisted

A programmer descends into the world of coding agents.

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Peter Steinberger @steipete.me · 25/06/2025

“Any of you feeling the same kind of urgent addiction at the moment? This overwhelming sense that everything in AI tech is moving at light speed and there literally aren't enough hours in the day to keep up? Like I'm in some kind of productivity arms race with myself.” reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/c...

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Drew McCormack @drewmccormack.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

You would have to have a death wish to get in one of these things. Coffin on wheels.

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Drew McCormack @drewmccormack.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Seeing how bad Apple is going in this space, maybe they should just buy Anthropic.

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Kristoffer Johansson @kristofferjohansson.com · 05/04/2025

Resubscribed to YouTube Premium. I lasted a month with the free ad-filled experience. Either I had forgotten how horrible it was or it’s gotten worse. At this point, I think I would stop watching content on YouTube if it wasn’t possible to pay to get rid of the ads.

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Nate Blouin @nateforutah.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

This is Utah in case anyone’s wondering how pissed off people are. I have never seen anything like this.

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Drew McCormack @drewmccormack.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

I’ve never been so desperate for the Aussie Rules season to start, just so I’ve got an alternative to constant Trump BS.

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Drew McCormack @drewmccormack.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Shorted Tesla a few weeks back. Good times, and it is going to get better…

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Drew McCormack @drewmccormack.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

I forget: was it “Stargate” or “Stardust”? Maybe “Stargaze” would work best, as in “Gaze at the stars in the Chinese flag as they fly past”

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Drew McCormack @drewmccormack.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Going full anchorman for tonight’s 70s party. Can’t say I’m not committed!

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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

bumping this from three weeks ago in light of Elon Musk busting out a LITERAL FUCKING NAZI SALUTE at inauguration

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Drew McCormack @drewmccormack.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Zuck is such a loser. Literally a PHP developer who totally lucked out when he stole the idea of a client. And since then, I can’t think of a single good thing he has created. Not one.

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Thomas Spooks 🎃👻💀 @thomasfuchs.at · 09/01/2025

It’s incredible how many of the people I looked up to in the past in the world of web development have since revealed themselves as being somewhere in or at least adjacent to the manosphere-techbro-AI stan-maga-white supremacy oeuvre

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Drew McCormack @drewmccormack.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

I've spent the 6 months working on a new approach to shared data in Swift: Forked. Main features: - Git-like branching and merging for Swift structs - Advanced merge algorithms (CRDTs) - Macros to make structs mergeable - Sync structs via CloudKit with <10 LOCs appdecentral.com/2024/12/13/n...

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Now we’re all Forked!

Forked is a new Swift framework for working with shared data, on device, and across networks.

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Drew McCormack @drewmccormack.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Where is the web at? I think we are headed to a future where you have AI for info, and the web for shops. Search is dead. SEO is dead. What is left is pure commerce. And then the question is how they get their money out of AI. Remember how Google started as a simple text field. That is where we are.

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Drew McCormack @drewmccormack.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Apparently predictive text on iOS and macOS now does maths. Problem is, I have a customer telling me it is giving the wrong answers, and their immediate instinct was to blame our app Agenda. Apple are no doubt using an LLM to do the prediction, which is rubbish at maths as we all know.

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Drew McCormack @drewmccormack.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Whoa. Here in The Netherlands I pay about $150 a month for one.

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Drew McCormack @drewmccormack.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

I have a container like this, and assumed it was ok, but your post made me realize I probably need to make it conditional on the element being sendable, even if the class itself is thread safe.

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Drew McCormack @drewmccormack.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Nice post! I was wondering about something: if I have a generic container class using locks, is it possible to add unchecked sendable conditional on the contained type being sendable? Think about something like a class based array type. I guess it should be, but not sure…

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Drew McCormack @drewmccormack.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Don't miss #indieappsales today. Lots of great indie apps, including Glisten for all your foreign language podcasts. #languagelearning indieappsales.com#app-6D8E6BCB...

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Johannes Weiss @jweiss.io · 19/11/2024

Exciting opportunity to work on Swift Performance in London: jobs.apple.com/en-us/detail... Only drawback: You'd have me in your ear about this, that or the other performance issue or opportunity :).

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Swift Optimiser Engineer - Careers at Apple

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Drew McCormack @drewmccormack.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Trump is working for the Russians, and in that capacity his job is simply to disrupt everything. Putin has been using this tactic in Europe as long as I can remember, and now it is the US’s turn.

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Will Sebag-Montefiore @wsebag.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

He's so wrong that I'm starting to think there might be a God

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

The United States has oligarchs now. Not merely rich people with more personal influence on politics than poorer people have, but a few extremely rich people closely connected to the national leader who act in government-like roles despite never being elected or nominated to any official position.

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Here is RFK Jr. last year claiming that COVID-19 was “ethnically-targetted” and genetically engineered to spare “Jews and Chinese people”. The man is a crank and conspiracy theorist - and will shortly lead the US Department of Health. (📽️Credit: The Intellectualist via X)

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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

They flood the zone with crap, so much so that we can only stop so much. It’s the strategy: Crapocracy.

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Drew McCormack @drewmccormack.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

The Matt Gaetz appointment was a misunderstanding. Trump asked “Is there anyone who has experience with the justice system?” and Gaetz put up his hand.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 06/11/2024

The swing to Trump. Everywhere. To reiterate (ad nauseum) people wanted what he was selling. It’s not because your particular favourite issue wasn’t addressed. The American people wanted a fascist.

Map showing red swing to Trump everywhere

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kate conger @kateconger.com · 07/11/2024

what a thing to say about your own child

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Drew McCormack @drewmccormack.bsky.social · 05/11/2024

Elon claiming that anyone else is bad at public speaking is hilarious. Pot calling kettle black.

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Christian Selig @selig.bsky.social · 01/10/2024

Sad news, but Juno for YouTube has been removed from the App Store. It's been a ton of fun to build, thanks to all who used it and enjoyed it! 🫡❤️ christianselig.com/2024/10/juno...

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Juno for YouTube has been removed from the App Store

For those not aware, a few months ago after reaching out to me, YouTube contacted the App Store stating that Juno does not adhere to YouTube guidelines and modifies the website in a way they don’t app...

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Drew McCormack @drewmccormack.bsky.social · 01/10/2024

Exactly. I think they would have been better making an “AirDisplay”, which runs off your iPhone.

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