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Ky @kynorthstar.me · 28/09/2026
“We mustn’t delay 27.1β; our new phone was just announced and 27.1 will have support for it! Instead, the sensible thing is to release 27.2β first, THEN 27.1β with more features than 27.2β, and make 27.2β not support the new phone. Also the new phone isn't in stores for another month"
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Ky @kynorthstar.me · 27/09/2026
Don’t update to macOS 27 Golden Gate. It’s vibe coded and it sucks. Tons of shis isn’t working at all, like minimized windows or the emoji picker. Avoid this update for as long as you can. It’s bad.
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Swift Language @swift.org · 15/09/2026
Swift 6.4 is out! 🎉 This release brings deeper interoperability, stronger platform support, and easier everyday code. www.swift.org/blog/swift-6... Highlights in this thread 🧵
The Swift logo with the text Swift 6.4
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Ky @kynorthstar.me · 16/09/2026
Today’s episode of TechBrew Ride Home was so scifi, I can totally imagine it being from an 80s movie trying to imagine life in 2026. “Concerns about AI safety has boosted cyber security stocks” would definitely be at home on the radio in Demolition Man or something @brianmc.bsky.social
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Ky @kynorthstar.me · 11/09/2026
Huh… I really thought they would have given this a new band
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caroline cash @cashbrowns.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Nancy 9/7/26 … Happy Labor Day 🛠️
8 Hours for Work, 8 Hours for Rest, 8 Hours for What We Will. Based on a screenprint by Ricardo Levins Morales after the organizing work done by Robert Owen.
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Ky @kynorthstar.me · 07/09/2026
iPhone Flex
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Ky @kynorthstar.me · 02/09/2026
Apple RefleXDR display 
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Ky @kynorthstar.me · 30/08/2026
I’m just glad Apple Maps still says Lake Ontario
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tbabb @tbabb.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
opus, what the fuck are you talking about
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Ky @kynorthstar.me · 20/08/2026
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Ky @kynorthstar.me · 18/08/2026
Prediction: The next wave of Unprecedented Times will be megacorporations buying out as many open-source repos as they can, and shutting them down, to "encourage" people to use their AIs to make apps. "Has your favorite app gone away? Use Grok to make a new version just for you!" 🤮
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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
This is just to say I have OCRed the text thet was in tne arch:ve and whicb yov were prabaldy seamhing for "breahtast" Fargme ms fheg mem debo:w5 sb ?mccf mmb 5c oc1b
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Ky @kynorthstar.me · 07/07/2026
When @marcoarment.bsky.social expected that Claude Fable would be back within months and that was shortcutted to weeks, he then expected the July 7th deadline wasn't what it seemed; it might be back again soon thereafter... I felt there was good truth to that. Didn't expect it back THE NEXT DAY 🤣
A screenshot of Claude with a pop-up that says “extended through July 12: Fable 5 is included in your plan for up to 50% of your weekly usage limit“
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Ky @kynorthstar.me · 02/07/2026
Sad to see Anthropic go this route. I expect this of companies like Google or Meta or OpenAI, who are eager to build a surveillance state, but until now Anthropic has felt similar to Apple: focus on just making a good product and always consider the user. Oh well. www.anthropic.com/legal/privacy
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Ky @kynorthstar.me · 24/06/2026
QUERY really shines best with large requests, since those don't neatly fit in a URL query string, and POST isn't designed to be a "fetch this data" method. My example would probably fit just fine in a URL query string, but I figured it's still an easily-understood example that gets the point across
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Ky @kynorthstar.me · 24/06/2026
This won't make headlines, but it really should. The QUERY HTTP method is finally an RFC, after over 11 years of redrafts, debates, and collaboration! QUERY gives devs a payload body like POST does, but it's safe, idempotent, and cacheable like GET is! datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc10008 🧵 1/5
datatracker.ietf.org
RFC 10008: The HTTP QUERY Method
This specification defines the QUERY method for HTTP. A QUERY requests that the request target process the enclosed content in a safe and idempotent manner and then respond with the result of that pro...
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TangentFoxOfficial @tangentfoxofficial.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
The promise of targeted advertising was to not waste time and effort by pushing things at people who don't want them. And initially, that's how it worked. A long time ago, I liked Google's ads because they were always about something that actually interested me.
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Ky @kynorthstar.me · 23/05/2026
I’m happy to announce 🐺 Howl: toasts for SwiftUI! 🚀 github.com/BlueHuskyStu...
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GitHub - BlueHuskyStudios/Howl: Toasts & bezel notifications for Apple platforms
Toasts & bezel notifications for Apple platforms. Contribute to BlueHuskyStudios/Howl development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Ky @kynorthstar.me · 07/05/2026
Is that Claude-style phrasing I hear in @brianmc.bsky.social's voice in TechBrew Ride Home? I wonder if that's just me, or maybe he's starting to talk like that from using Claude a lot, or maybe he's using Claude to help write scripts?
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Governor Jared Polis @colorado.gov · 05/05/2026
Colorado announced a new partnership with Wyoming to better coordinate permitting for carbon storage projects across state lines—speeding up the process, supporting cleaner air, and protecting property rights. Thanks to Governor Gordon and his team for the collaboration. ow.ly/SxjF50YV5v2
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Ky @kynorthstar.me · 03/05/2026
Here’s your yearly reminder that GitHub is closed source
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Ky @kynorthstar.me · 23/04/2026
I'm gearing up to release a really big update to one of my favorite Swift packages
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Bluesky @bsky.app · 20/04/2026
Who else has baseball fever? Get in the swing of the season with this starter pack for following the minor leagues bsky.app/profile/jenr...
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chloe 🐇 @sapphic.moe · 02/04/2026
World's First Enterprise Solution With Zero Nines Uptime
GitHub Platform: 89.91% uptime
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TangentFoxOfficial @tangentfoxofficial.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
For like a decade, I've thought it was bad that a failed sudo attempt sends an email, even though in practice this "causes no harm". Why make a security program run another program that is so much less secure on every failed attempt? It was begging for exploitation. And now we have that exploit:
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oh the sweet sweet irony
YouTube video by Low Level
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
The Voyageurs Wolf Project of Northern Minnesota tags & documents grey wolf ecology & behavior: www.voyageurswolfproject.org The video you see here is confirmatory proof: Wolves. Love. Blueberries. As much as 83% of a wolf's calories in summer months comes from eating berries.
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Ky @kynorthstar.me · 01/03/2026
“Being responsible isn’t profitable” – Anthropic www.anthropic.com/news/respons...
anthropic.com
Responsible Scaling Policy Version 3.0
An update to Anthropic's policy to mitigate catastrophic risks from AI
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Governor Jared Polis @colorado.gov · 27/02/2026
Thank you, Barbara, for your courage and for showing why we must always stand up to hate. Your message reminds us that kindness and respect are how we build a Colorado for All. ow.ly/sqJR50Yn6lp
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Ky @kynorthstar.me · 27/02/2026
If you tell people "this thing you need can no longer be obtained officially", they then obtain it unofficially. 🤯
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Kati Knitt @katiknitt.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
An edit of the quoted comic.

First panel. Chloe sits at a computer displaying a headline stating "HBO Max to be renamed PARAMOUNT".
Chloe: "Yeah, fucking whatever."

Second panel. Max and Chloe are talking to someone. Someone off-screen says "Hey, Max!"
Max: "I'm Spongebob."
Chloe: "She's Spongebob."
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It's FOSS @itsfoss.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Just Windows things. 😂🫡
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Ky @kynorthstar.me · 29/12/2025
In 2023, Apple changed the HIG to remove any mention that the default button of a window can be activated with the keyboard. This is the legacy of Alan Dye. Remove things which were there for good reason, without providing an alternative.
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Ky @kynorthstar.me · 09/12/2025
Really enlightening, moving from Google Photos to Apple Photos... just how featureless Apple Photos is. It doesn't even let you make a panorama from existing images!
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Amini Allight @amini-allight.org · 03/12/2025
It works! This is user-supplied control points converted to an SDF then the SDF converted to a mesh, allowing you to define terrain that mixes a heightmap with floating additive features and subterranean subtractive features Still blocky for now but it's a relief to know the approach is sound
A view from inside a blocky mesh tunnel in Blender.A wireframe of a flat plane with a U-shaped tunnel underneath in Blender.A repeating grid of white lines on black that drops away into a deep tunnel.
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ʕ∩ꜞ∩ʔ @gning.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
TFW you endlessly studied class inheritance in school only to gradually realize that inheritance is superfluous and all you ever needed, or ever should have studied, was interfaces. I was learning some Rust last year, and it's the first language I've seen that finally gave up inheritance.
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Ky @kynorthstar.me · 19/11/2025
Me, a Swift dev, watching Rust devs argue about the use of Rust's `Result`'s `unwrap()` which took down Cloudflare.
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a woman is drinking a cup of coffee from a white cup .
ALT: a woman is drinking a cup of coffee from a white cup .
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Ky @kynorthstar.me · 23/10/2025
Ah heck
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Basil 🌱 @basil-mage.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Still you
A shadow of Basil looking into a mirror, featuring a cutout drawing of puppy Basil with the caption; "Despite everything, it's still you"
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Alice Averlong 🏳️‍⚧️ @alice.averlong.com · 22/10/2025
can job listings be serious please
a job listing question: "How many APIs have you implemented in the last 2 years?"
with four options:
1-3 APIs
4-6 APIs
7-10 APIs
More than 10 APIs
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Morg @toolow.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
THAT WAS SICK
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Ky @kynorthstar.me · 21/10/2025
Massive @github.com Copilot moment 😭
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Ky @kynorthstar.me · 17/10/2025
The Xcode 16 icon was objectively better than Xcode 26… The new one just feels like someone didn’t have any ideas and threw something together slapdash. The old one was more fun, especially with the minor breakout from the squircle
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Ky @kynorthstar.me · 09/09/2025
> not called iPhone 26
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a man is talking on a cell phone while standing next to a fire hydrant .
ALT: a man is talking on a cell phone while standing next to a fire hydrant .
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TangentFoxOfficial @tangentfoxofficial.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
I don't have the data to back this up, and tbh I really hope I don't find data that backs it up, but I'm thinking there might be a global famine in 2045. Guessing because of IPCC's forecasts and modeling that we will hit bad enough climate change by then for it to happen.
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Ky @kynorthstar.me · 06/09/2025
I'm proud to live in Colorado 🫡
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David Marshall @illdave.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Font size and contrast affect readability more than stacking order. #graphicdesign #typography
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Van @megalardon.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
friend just called hyper boobs on a nb person "Big Neutrals" and now that phrase is seared onto the front of my brain thanks
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Ky @kynorthstar.me · 02/09/2025
@colorado.gov should I be concerned that I hear sirens going off at Buckley Space Force Base, around the same time that Trump was supposed to say that the Space Command is moving from here to Alabama?
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Rhett @rcssnaps.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
This old oven might be my favorite Little Free Library I've come across! I love it! #denver #colorado #littlefreelibrary #books #shotoniphone
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