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Nicolás Alvarez @nicolas17.xyz · 13/10/2026

@xkeeper.net @daeschala.bsky.social I just saw this shared on Discord and you may want to see it too :3

Photo of a book. It reads: "Are you still with me? I know, this stuff gets pretty dry. That's why I've included Figure 10-1. It has nothing at all to do with HTML5, but I thought we could all use a little breather before taking on APIs."

Then there is a picture of a red panda captioned "Figure 10-1. This adorable baby red panda has nothing to do with HTML5. (Photo by Tara Menne.)"

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Nicolás Alvarez @nicolas17.xyz · 02/10/2026

Saw this while traveling last week

"Before you criticize somebody else try to keep in mind that you are probably a piece of shit". Phrase spray painted with a stencil on a wall.

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Nicolás Alvarez @nicolas17.xyz · 25/09/2026

Here's an old pic of about half my mom's owl collection.

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Nicolás Alvarez @nicolas17.xyz · 20/09/2026

>get message from B >"find M and tell him 'B asked me to ask you for pussy'" >wtf >find M at the conference >show him the message and ask "do you know what the heck this is about" >he says "oh I was looking for you" >he hands me an envelope

Pile of postcards with cute cat pictures

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Nicolás Alvarez @nicolas17.xyz · 11/09/2026

I hit "record voice memo" and then went back to the watch face.

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Nicolás Alvarez @nicolas17.xyz · 02/09/2026

[CW AI slop] This was in the span of about 3 blocks. I'm going to lose my mind.

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Nicolás Alvarez @nicolas17.xyz · 02/09/2026

The springs to connect modules with wires were a neat idea, but in practice there wasn't much you could do without *also* using the breadboard. For example you can't just wire the battery to an LED that way, you have to go through the breadboard to add a resistor...

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Nicolás Alvarez @nicolas17.xyz · 23/08/2026

I haven't yet seen it in real life with *food*, but obviously-AI banners are everywhere.

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Nicolás Alvarez @nicolas17.xyz · 15/08/2026

And then there's this absurd Guinness-record paella

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Nicolás Alvarez @nicolas17.xyz · 15/08/2026

There's regional festivals in Spain where they do truly giant ones

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Nicolás Alvarez @nicolas17.xyz · 10/08/2026

I remember the cringe when I saw this update on my phone. How big was it before??

iPhone App Store, release notes for "Termius - SSH client":

• Significantly reduced the app size.
• Stability improvements.

This new version is 100.3 MB.

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Nicolás Alvarez @nicolas17.xyz · 31/07/2026

As far as I know there isn't any Apple hardware supporting DisplayPort Multi-Stream Transport. IIRC the display controller firmware for M5 finally has strings mentioning MST but it still don't work. Maybe it's coming in M6...

Multi-Stream Transport is a feature first introduced in the DisplayPort 1.2 standard. It allows multiple independent displays to be driven from a single DP port on the source devices by multiplexing several video streams into a single stream and sending it to a branch device, which demultiplexes the signal into the original streams. Branch devices are commonly found in the form of an MST hub, which plugs into a single DP input port and provides multiple outputs, but it can also be implemented on a display internally to provide a DP output port for daisy-chaining, effectively embedding a 2-port MST hub inside the display. Theoretically, up to 63 displays can be supported, but the combined data rate requirements of all the...

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Nicolás Alvarez @nicolas17.xyz · 24/07/2026

On the terminal you have to explicitly turn it on. But there's also gvim (even available for Windows) where the mouse just works.

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Nicolás Alvarez @nicolas17.xyz · 20/07/2026

I finally got around to filing FB23866004 for this Apple Sports issue: penalty scores don't fit on Apple Watch. Will Apple ignore my ticket for years? Probably.

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Nicolás Alvarez @nicolas17.xyz · 12/07/2026

Video from some crappy pirate torrent because the legal stream doesn't let me screencap. Audio from outside my bedroom window.

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Nicolás Alvarez @nicolas17.xyz · 07/07/2026

A truck driver decided "the football celebrations are HERE" and parked in the middle of the intersection. He was later convinced to move a few meters to unblock the main road (which was traffic chaos by then). The other street will be blocked for a while anyway, with or without that truck...

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Nicolás Alvarez @nicolas17.xyz · 29/06/2026

Well, this seems relevant 🙃 The config file ("geo_manifest") for Apple Maps removed the URLs for a dozen APIs, and the baseURL for several tileSets including RASTER_SATELLITE.

Diff of textual protobuf config, showing deleted resourcesURL, searchURL, autocompleteURL, directionsURL, and more.

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Nicolás Alvarez @nicolas17.xyz · 13/06/2026

Here's a relevant wholesome pic from the Internet.

A small black and green rock rests on an acrylic display case in a museum. The sign says:

"Bethan's Rock (2019)

On 23rd August 2019, Bethan visited Poole Museum.

After talking with her mum about what museums do, Bethan decided she wanted to donate her 'most precious' rock to the museum.

She asked that we put it behind glass and look after it, so that everyone could see and enjoy it."

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Nicolás Alvarez @nicolas17.xyz · 09/06/2026

Is iOS software update broken right now? 😅

Unable to Check for Update: An error occurred while checking for a software update.

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Nicolás Alvarez @nicolas17.xyz · 09/06/2026

That meme originated last year when Apple posted a video on YouTube without considering the play button. They rushed to update the thumbnail but it was already in the tech news by then.

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Nicolás Alvarez @nicolas17.xyz · 08/06/2026

These are Apple's rules, but in practice they seem more liberal than that. I suppose it's still good to not give them reasons to want to apply the legal terms more strictly :p

A participant in the Apple Security Bounty program will not be deemed to be in breach of applicable Apple license provisions which provide that a user of Apple software may not copy, decompile, reverse engineer, disassemble, attempt to derive the source code of, decrypt, modify, or create derivative works of such Apple software, for in-scope actions performed by that participant where all of the following are met:
a. The actions were performed strictly during participation in the Apple Security Bounty program;
b. The actions were performed during good-faith security research, which was — or was intended to be — responsibly reported to Apple; and
c. Neither the actions nor the participant have otherwise violated or exceeded the scope of these terms and conditions.

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Nicolás Alvarez @nicolas17.xyz · 28/05/2026

Are you a robot? Click all images containing: dog.

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Nicolás Alvarez @nicolas17.xyz · 19/05/2026

I wonder what ever happened with open FaceTime. Patent trolls?

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