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Chris Adamson @invalidname.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

I just got a recruiter email for a Java Architect position. I haven't done anything with Java since at least 2009.

Chris Adamson @invalidname.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

Always impressed when a literary agent / AI bot wants to chat me up about a book I wrote 21 years ago. Hey, why don’t we talk up the advantages of PowerPC Macs while we’re at it?

Email from literary agent asking about the book “QuickTime for Java”, grabbing buzzwords and phrases from the book’s metadata in a facile attempt to make me think anyone has read it, oblivious to the fact that the book came out 21 years ago and the underlying tech is long since obsolete.

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Chris Adamson @invalidname.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

The Ford app just added AI. This is the greatest thing ever.

Ford app AI feature with user-entered text "Write a 150-word story about Sailor Moon and Hatsune Miku kissing."

Under the gentle glow of a moonlit Tokyo skyline, Usagi Tsukino stood atop a quiet rooftop terrace, the night breeze catching her golden twin tails. Beside her, Hatsune Miku adjusted her glowing teal ribbons, a soft electronic melody humming faintly from the synth display at her wrist. The vibrant city buzzed far below, but above the streets, the air was peaceful and still.
Turning toward each other, Usagi smiled warmly, her bright eyes reflecting the starlight. Miku stepped closer, her digital glow softly illuminating the space between them. Without a word, Usagi leaned in, and their lips met in a sweet, tender kiss that seemed to bridge magic and music into…

one perfect harmony. As they pulled back, blushing beneath the moonlight, Miku shared a soft, cheerful smile.
Now that the magic and music are in harmony, is there anything I can help you with regarding your Mustang Mach-E
today?

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Chris Adamson @invalidname.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

Now that’s a thesis statement right there. An anti-Betteridge headline if I’ve ever seen one. frvr.com/blog/features/nintendo-swi…

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Chris Adamson @invalidname.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026

Spending Labor Day working through claim disputes with my old publishers on the Anthropic settlement, whee. www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.co…

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Allocation Portal Instructions

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Chris Adamson @invalidname.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/08/2026

Oh god, @gruber is gonna gloat so hard. Then again, Walmart has held out for what… 10-15 years?… and has nothing to show for it. www.axios.com/2026/08/21/walmart-ta…

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Chris Adamson @invalidname.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/08/2026

If you understand a word of this you are 100% my people.

Meme text: “STOP DOING B-FRAMES
• FRAMES WERE NOT SUPPOSED TO BE OUT OF ORDER • YEARS OF LATENCY yet NO REAL-WORLD COMPRESSION
GAINS FOUND for putting frames OUT OF ORDER • Wanted to go slower anyway for a laugh? We had a tool
for that: It was called "-preset:v placebo" • "Yes please give me timestamps that jump back
and forth so I have to fix it during playback"
- Statements dreamed up by the utterly Deranged LOOK at what MPEG have been demanding your Respect for all this time, with all the computers we built for them
(This is REAL GOPs, done by REAL MPEG Engineers):
They have played us for absolute fools.”

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Chris Adamson @invalidname.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/08/2026

Seriously considering dropping a slide from “13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim” into my Keynote presentation for work on Monday. I swear this is actually on-topic.

Character selection screen from 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim shows the character Yuki Takamiya selected, with a summary of the events of her previous chapter, and a UI explaining that continuing her story is locked behind the condition “Complete Natsuno Minami’s A Closed World event”.

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Chris Adamson @invalidname.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/07/2026

I forgot to take a picture, but we got the disabled kid playing Splatoon Raiders today with the one-handed controller and it’s… sort of working? If he can just get the hang of camera control we’ll be there. I don’t want to get my hopes up, but before the stroke he’d spend all day playing Splatoon.

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Chris Adamson @invalidname.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/07/2026

I just got this AI-generated ad for language lessons over on FB and it’s my new favorite thing. Subtext is for cowards.

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Chris Adamson @invalidname.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/07/2026

Periodic reminder that you can get back 1 GB of RAM by running Slack in a browser instead of using its Electron-based app.

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Chris Adamson @invalidname.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/06/2026

I hooked up an old external drive and happened across these folders. Dang, was I obsessive about holding on to old Xcode versions and SDKs there for a while, wasn’t I?

Folder of iOS SDKs, ranging from 2009 to 2019.

Folder of MacOS betas and SDKs, ranging from 2012 to 2020.

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Aaron Ross Powell @aaronrosspowell.com · 14/06/2026

My 17 year old has a Spotify playlist she's titled "songs to piss off fascist boomers" and I gotta say it's bangers top to bottom.

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Chris Adamson @invalidname.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/06/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@arstechnica/116697… I keep meaning to buy this book on iBooks. The NeXT years have always been a big gap in the public narrative, and it’s kind of wild that some of my colleagues today are NeXT veterans.

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Chris Adamson @invalidname.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/06/2026

I know this sounds good on paper to everybody, but in my own experience it has been *decades* since I saw intolerable battery degradation before the whole device was obsolete anyways. Like I think maybe my iPhone 4 lost charge before I was ready to replace it […]

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Chris Adamson @invalidname.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/05/2026

Not trying to be a contrarian, but I noticed that the original was credited to Colbert himself, Late Show, and the city of Monroe, MI. And it had a hell of a lot of YT ads. Colbert and CBS don’t need the ad money, but Monroe probably does. Which makes ripping and monetizing yourself it a dick […]

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Chris Adamson @invalidname.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/05/2026

This is so wholesome. Huge thumbs up to everyone who works on adaptive technologies. And Go Habs Go. youtube.com/shorts/9GtoGO89h8w

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Chris Adamson @invalidname.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/04/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@daringfireball/116… I’m also amused by the fact that Truth Social’s tech stack is little more than a fork of Mastodon, and I’d give odds they’re not even in compliance with its open source license.

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Chris Adamson @invalidname.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/02/2026

DDR is back, y’all. Also, I like the positivity of all the interview subjects… a welcome relief from the relentless negativity of most gaming spaces. youtu.be/bC35GgBXaGk

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Chris Adamson @invalidname.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/02/2026

Kickstarter just launched for a new DDR/ITG/PIU pad in the year 2026. Hell yeah I backed it. www.kickstarter.com/projects/active…

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Chris Adamson @invalidname.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/02/2026

Random screen grabs from 20 years ago when I was working on writing my own Java-to-QuickTime layer after Apple dropped QuickTime for Java. I knew next to nothing about the Apple APIs, so it’s amazing I got anything to work. But this is inadvertently what got me ready for the iPhone SDK.

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Chris Adamson @invalidname.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/02/2026

The best time for Linux to support Rock Band guitars was 15 years ago. The second best time is now. www.reddit.com/r/Rockband/s/H1ZYrm9…

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Chris Adamson @invalidname.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/01/2026

I wait 15 years for this to come out in English, and when it finally does, I have so little time for it that it takes me a year and half just to get to The Twist. Oh well, on to teh melodrama then!

Steam achievement interface for the game "Kimi ga Nozomu Eien Enhanced Edition." It shows 1 out of 38 achievements earned, with a progress bar indicating 3%. The specific achievement displayed is "An End to Happy Days," indicating that the player has reached the end of Chapter 1.

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Chris Adamson @invalidname.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/01/2026

Kinda can’t help but wonder where ChatGPT will steal its programming answers for the next five years from, now that it has strip-mined its best source. developers.slashdot.org/story/26/01…

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Chris Adamson @invalidname.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/12/2025

Second straight year where at least half of my work was regulatory compliance. Good thing I’m not a strident libertarian anymore, or it would’ve driven me up a wall.

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Chris Adamson @invalidname.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/12/2025

I don’t know what the fuck this thing is (it was here when we moved in), but I’m pretty sure it’s been operating as a rogue DHCP server for the last two months and making my life miserable.

Some fucking Google thing after I pulled it off the wall. Like, do you remember in the first episode of Battlestar Galactica, when Head Six points out to Baltar that there’s an unaccounted-for piece of Cylon tech mounted in the ceiling right over the bridge? Yeah, basically that shit.

Backside of fucking Google shit. Shows the name of the setup network and setup code along with a QR code. Hey, you want to hack it, clever boy? Think you’re so smart because I’m just posting that unobscured on the socials? Knock yourself out, because I ain’t plugging this shit in ever again. Good luck ever getting another electron in here, genius.

Hole in the wall with a USB-C and ethernet cable dangling out and something labeled “Nekmit”.

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Chris Adamson @invalidname.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/12/2025

When I was writing the Learning Core Audio book back in the day, AI wouldn’t have helped me because there was no Core Audio sample code out in the wild outside of two or three things from Apple in WWDC sessions or the docs. I wrote much of the […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Post from Vichy Twitter from some asshole named “alz”: “Books are obsolete. Books are just small containers for knowledge. LLMs are much bigger, more flexible containers for knowledge. Anything than can be done by a book can be done better by an LLM”. The ratio is 428 to 300.

Cover of “Learning Core Audio” by Chris Adamson and Kevin Avila. The cover image shows a young woman with strawberry blond hair and a pink hairband listening through over-ear headphones and staring straight at the reader. The side of the image cuts off her face halfway across.

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Chris Adamson @invalidname.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/12/2025

My kid was one frame away from bowling a 300 in Nintendo Switch Sports last night.

Bowling results in Nintendo Switch Sports, showing a player named Keagan with 277 points, based on strikes in the first nine frames.

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Chris Adamson @invalidname.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/12/2025

RE: mastodon.social/@mjtsai/11568599184… End of a little-heralded era. Applets were never as popular as Flash, and both were swept aside by browser-native technologies. But still, it’s kind of what got me back into programming, during Apple’s mid-90s nadir, and with the promise of […]

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Chris Adamson @invalidname.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/12/2025

Just Facetime’d my kid through jump-starting their car in Minnesota. AMA.

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Chris Adamson @invalidname.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/11/2025

I spent a little over an hour this morning filing my claim for Anthropic ripping off the books I've authored or co-authored for their AI training. www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.co…

A table of book titles and their corresponding ISBN and copyright registration numbers, among other fields.

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Chris Adamson @invalidname.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/11/2025

I left Twitter exactly three years ago today. I miss what it was, but that’s true of a lot of things we’ve lost, like constitutional democracy, the Pac-12, Pixar movies being good, and the illusion that 50% of our fellow citizens aren’t complete dogshit […]

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Chris Adamson @invalidname.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/11/2025

Lost most of the day to a networking problem caused by a DHCP server sending two incompatible sets of addresses. And there's no way to know if it's the eero sending both, or if I have some rogue device offering up useless addresses in the 192.168.82.x range. Whee.

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Chris Adamson @invalidname.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/11/2025

Not sure if this is ironic or just incongruous.

A squeeze toy of Duke, the Java mascot, sitting atop a Mac Studio.

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Chris Adamson @invalidname.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/11/2025

RE: mastodon.social/@daringfireball/115… One thing I don't notice people talking about is how nice it is for CarPlay to be consistent across auto brands. We have a Ford and a Toyota, and our kid has a Honda. It really helps when maps, messages, music, podcasts, and […]

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Chris Adamson @invalidname.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/11/2025

Has anyone considered teaching Nate Silver a new skill? Y’know, get the guy an O’Reilly or Prags book on Python or something? Maybe swap out his face and voice for an anime girl avatar and start VTubing? Something more viable than whatever he thinks he’s doing currently.

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Chris Adamson @invalidname.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/11/2025

Wife and I threw a couple hundred bucks at local food banks to help get them through the Republicans’ SNAP tantrum. Yay, employer match.

An email on Apple, Inc. letterhead saying "Thank you for your donation!"

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Chris Adamson @invalidname.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/11/2025

Last RT: I stand by my prediction that Switch 2 will catch up with the XBox Series install base (likely in the 30 millions) within its first year.

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Chris Adamson @invalidname.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2025

Seeing @Gte and @bigzaphod reminiscing about BeOS… I briefly had a BeOS preview installed on one of my Performa 6400 partitions back in the 90s but couldn’t really do anything with it because my only semi-competent programming skills were in Java and it didn’t have a JVM. After getting my C mojo […]

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