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sam henri gold

@samhenri.gold
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sam henri gold @samhenri.gold · 27/09/2026
bluesky rocks dude. i have given a lot of thought to this argument, though, over the past year or so (see attached) idk i could be wrong about it.
My announcement post on bluesky. @hexaheximal.com replied “ai slop”I replied, “thanks i was on the edge of my seat waiting for you to weigh in.”

they blocked me :(((((bluesky rocks dude. i have given a lot of thought to this argument, though, over the past year or so.

an agent largely wrote the code, but i don’t think that really matters? in the case of slop, i would argue the world would be better off without it. i think the world is better with this project existing.

if this was going to exist at all, it was going to be with AI assistance because reversing and emulating PMICs is so beyond my paygrade as a designer. and hiring someone to do it by hand was never on the table because i don’t have the disposable income to hire someone for shits and giggles. the alternative is this not existing at all.

There are absolutely bugs and paper-cuts that bug me, there are absolutely code smells and footguns that someone more senior than me could spot from a mile away. Just like how software has always been.

In the case of software specifically, because agentic coding is so ubiquitous, I don’t think the benchmark of slop should be AI’s involvement. It ought to be “is the world better off with this existing”
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sam henri gold @samhenri.gold · 26/09/2026
A Mac app with an emulated iPod touch + bezel sitting on top of the Apple keynote gradient background. The iPod is loading a 2009 archived copy of the NY Times, and the Mac app sidebar is showing app results for the word "Doodle"Gameplay of Doodle Jump, with the iPod rotated and the iPod reflecting the bezel's rotation.
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sam henri gold @samhenri.gold · 26/09/2026
I built Light Touch, a full-featured iPod touch 2G emulator for Mac. Networking + Wayback Machine proxy, GLES/3D games support, a built-in app store via legacystore.app, rotation, screen capture, the works. Have fun github.com/samhenrigold...
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sam henri gold @samhenri.gold · 16/09/2026
apple music eat your heart out
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sam henri gold @samhenri.gold · 09/09/2026
kill me
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sam henri gold @samhenri.gold · 09/09/2026
fucking hell that’s rough
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sam henri gold @samhenri.gold · 07/09/2026
tripled it for funsies relay.experience.stjude.org
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sam henri gold @samhenri.gold · 07/09/2026
alright a couple people got it directionally but not in full fidelity. Lion DP1, you could set `defaults write com.apple.dock springboard-left-of-finder -bool YES` and get this. that first Lion beta build is absolutely chock full of experimental UI behind flags.
the first Lion beta running on a 2007 MBP. the prototype launchpad icon is to the left of Finder in the dock.
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sam henri gold @samhenri.gold · 05/09/2026
deutsche bahn delivering the NJT trademark experience 😍😍
“Norway, Switzerland, and Germany are the best to see Europe scenery by train or boat”The scene from a Deutschebahn window. The window is so hazy and filthy that it’s hard to see out of, but it’s just some exurban landscape. It either fills you with dread or does absolutely nothing for you.
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sam henri gold @samhenri.gold · 01/09/2026
I don't use it actively anymore but at this point I'm too scared to cancel and see what breaks.
iTunes match subscription renewal email
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sam henri gold @samhenri.gold · 30/08/2026
a fruit cup would send someone from the 18th century into a nervous breakdown
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sam henri gold @samhenri.gold · 29/08/2026
dude fuck my life. ONE promotion away from the corner office and my boss sends me to Snowglobe, Vermont for 48 HOURS to close a deal. now i’m snowed in, flight canceled, one room left at the inn, ONE bed, and some 6’4” lumberjack stringing lights on the town gazebo just told me “maybe christmas brought you here for a reason.” this better not make me question my entire fucking life
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sam henri gold @samhenri.gold · 24/08/2026
jesus slow down
Your dasher is heading your way with your order. One of those proof photos is attached and it's completely illegible, motion blurred, you can't make out anything.
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sam henri gold @samhenri.gold · 21/08/2026
“yeah i vibe coded it in an afternoon, pretty good right?”
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sam henri gold @samhenri.gold · 19/08/2026
a slop slack emoji
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sam henri gold @samhenri.gold · 07/08/2026
This morning I was at a thrift store and Mamdani personally blessed me with this find. $50
a sealed fourth-gen iPod touch
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sam henri gold @samhenri.gold · 04/08/2026
**Miles Davis** themes just dropped →
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sam henri gold @samhenri.gold · 20/07/2026
To install directly on an old device, it needs to be jailbroken with AppSync installed. But it's pretty magical once you get that squared away to experience browsing an app store on these older devices.
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sam henri gold @samhenri.gold · 15/07/2026
thank god the dunkin’ donuts app implements a screenshot shield
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sam henri gold @samhenri.gold · 14/07/2026
I'll block a bitch on the Crisco Mobile HD app. idc
An app titled "Crisco Mobile HD" charting at 23 on an old snapshot of the App Store charts from 2010.
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sam henri gold @samhenri.gold · 12/07/2026
if i have to see this diva again im gonna lose my g-dang marbles
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sam henri gold @samhenri.gold · 12/07/2026
i've been working on a side project that indexes the various .ipa app files on the internet archive and, long story short, i have died and gone to hell and my eternal punishment is nitpicking which icon files are different enough to collapse in the S3 bucket
a table of random app icons, each row with nearly identical icons, with their perceptual hash deltas next to them
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sam henri gold @samhenri.gold · 11/07/2026
I wish software would take clues from game design and have an official end or completion with a credits roll. like one day you’re using salesforce and then this appears:
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sam henri gold @samhenri.gold · 07/07/2026
cat saying "i hope that notification isn't just madonna" headed into the madonna notification factory
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sam henri gold @samhenri.gold · 06/07/2026
“why is it always thinking” cat meme but “why is it always indexing” yelling at an iphone settings screen
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sam henri gold @samhenri.gold · 09/06/2026
doing my annual check to make sure NSDrawer is still used in the mail “connection doctor” window
the Connection Doctor window with all of my accounts. a drawer sprouts from the bottom showing a network activity log. the drawer looks out of place compared to the window, but that’s part of the beauty at this point.
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sam henri gold @samhenri.gold · 22/05/2026
sorry to cuss but what in tarnation
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sam henri gold @samhenri.gold · 17/05/2026
started writing fake celeb quotes
ANYA TAYLOR-JOY — on blinking
"I do it as needed."JONATHAN BAILEY — on being such a goddamn hunk
"That's very kind of you to say. Goodbye."GRETA GERWIG — on Greta Lee
"We are different people”GRETA LEE — on Greta Gerwig
"Yeah”
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sam henri gold @samhenri.gold · 15/05/2026
tv software is the great equalizer. you could buy a $200 walmart tv or a $2500 LG and you’ll still get ads in the menus and a hard button on the remote to some streaming service that won’t exist in a year
an LG remote with buttons for Netflix, Prime video, disney plus, lg channels, sling, and alexa
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sam henri gold @samhenri.gold · 14/05/2026
Sam Altman:

Got it, thank you girl with septum piercing.
Kim, can you play us out? 

Kim Petras:

Butt slut
Butt slut, doggy, doggy, ruff, ruff
Butt slut
Butt slut, doggy, doggy, ruff, ruff (uh)
Do it, do it, lube it, lube it
Gotta put your back into it
Smack it, smack it, ass attack it
Push your balls up on my racket
Lefty, righty, in between-y
Up the butt, thong bikini
Hanky-panky, Daddy Yankee
In the back door, gotta spanky (uh)
Ooh, he want it, want it all the time
Ooh, he want it, want it from behind, and I like it
Ooh, he want it, want it all the time
Ooh, he want it, want it from behind
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sam henri gold @samhenri.gold · 14/05/2026
Sam Altman

How are we looking?

Satya Nadella

Not great.

Girl with septum piercing

honestly it didn’t even hurt lol
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sam henri gold @samhenri.gold · 27/04/2026
what makes me sad on behalf of europeans is that you all will never get to experience a drag queen performing the jingle from a diabetes medication TV ad campaign
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sam henri gold @samhenri.gold · 26/04/2026
Computer Board
An auction listing for a single stick of RAM on AuctionNinja titled "computer board." Current bid: $1
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sam henri gold @samhenri.gold · 21/04/2026
actually no i hope WWDC is just two hours of him doing some fuckass white guy dance to “Tern down for what”
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sam henri gold @samhenri.gold · 06/04/2026
i wonder if this is a unique experience
installing mac os x developer preview 3 in QEMU on a flight
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sam henri gold @samhenri.gold · 01/04/2026
From hiring experience, I actually just wanna know if you want a fucking glass of water
Some dumb ass tweet “Never accept a glass of water at a job interview. Here’s why.” and then they ramble on with a wall of AI nonsense psychoanalyzing how you drink water
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sam henri gold @samhenri.gold · 28/03/2026
design is how it works
Spotify app showing “Skip to main content” underneath the window control buttons
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sam henri gold @samhenri.gold · 24/03/2026
music band
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sam henri gold @samhenri.gold · 20/03/2026
sorry to keep harping on this laptop but i just noticed the tongue of the usb c port on the Neo is color matched and I think that’s cute
my citrus laptop with a slightly lighter citrus-y inner tongue of the USB C port
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sam henri gold @samhenri.gold · 20/03/2026
told ya
a kid’s youtube video: “I saved up for my first computer: macbook neo unboxing”
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sam henri gold @samhenri.gold · 15/03/2026
WHAT UP BERGEN COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE, WE ARE KNOB SLOT!! ARE YOU READY TO ROCK HARDER THAN YOU’VE EVER ROCKED BEFOREEEEE
NSScroller.Part.knobSlot
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sam henri gold @samhenri.gold · 14/03/2026
Thanks! Hit the character limits here but got a similar note on Mastodon but here’s my explanation for that writing choice
I hear you! I actually gave a de-gendered draft of the essay to some friends a few days ago and heard that it landed with a thud — the essay is largely written about myself, in the third person, retrospectively, so removing the pronoun made the autobiographical thread harder to follow. I switched it to "he" to make that clearer.

I think if I used "she" it would've made the "That kid was me" transition harder — it would either involve some gymnastics to make it make sense or it would introduce a reading I didn't intend.
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sam henri gold @samhenri.gold · 15/02/2026
obsessed with the idea of someone doordashing from AMC.
Exactly what it says on the tin. The doordash page for an AMC movie theater. It features a $11 bag of popcorn and an $8 ICEE, which is like eating snow if a raspberry sneezed on it.
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sam henri gold @samhenri.gold · 15/02/2026
God is either impotent to alter His universe or ignorant to the horrors taking place in his kingdom
Action Retro sharing a picture of a "40th Anniversary Macintosh" — a heavily modified MacBook Pro with the hinge bent flat, propped up by two metal arms. The keyboard is covered up with a plate and a superdrive is vertically attached in front of it. It sits between two external speakers. In front of it, a compact bluetooth keyboard and mouse.
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sam henri gold @samhenri.gold · 07/02/2026
I built WireView because I got tired of an annoying workflow for sharing iOS screenshots at work. It’s a tiny app that captures screenshots and recordings from your iPhone/iPad over USB and copies them straight to your clipboard. No AirDrop or Universal Clipboard delays. apple.co/3Mvt9V5
Dragging an iPhone screenshot from the live WireView preview in the menu bar directly into a Linear issue.
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sam henri gold @samhenri.gold · 15/12/2025
if this flag offends you, i'll help you pack. the flag in question is a wedge of trader joe's toscano cheese black pepper
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sam henri gold @samhenri.gold · 19/10/2025
i beg to differ
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sam henri gold @samhenri.gold · 13/10/2025
two back to back emails. delta canceled my flight, then they asked for a customer satisfaction survey
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sam henri gold @samhenri.gold · 10/10/2025
dont hmu real ones know what’s up
Discord status: sam henri gold, online, listening to big time rush
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sam henri gold @samhenri.gold · 07/10/2025
oh also in 4.0.1 they changed the height of the lower bars to be taller lmao
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