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Jim Nielsen @jim-nielsen.com · 29/09/2026

📝 Got nerd-sniped around tagging all my icons with richer metadata for better search. Still not sure how I want to go about it…but I took notes along the way! blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/icon-ga...

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VLM Enhanced Metadata For My Icon Galleries

Confession: I got nerd-sniped by Sam Henri Gold’s request for my icon galleries: I'd like to humbly request artwork-level searching in macosicongallery.com…

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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 · 27/09/2026

thanks i was on the edge of my seat waiting for you to weigh in.

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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 · 24/09/2026

working title for Urinetown was pissville

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sam henri gold @samhenri.gold · 23/09/2026

New blog post: LMFAO Would Like to Formally Apologize for Party Rocking samhenri.gold/blog/2026092...

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LMFAO Would Like to Formally Apologize for Party Rocking · Sam Henri Gold

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sam henri gold @samhenri.gold · 19/09/2026

they had a german parade in NYC today and it was a bunch of lederhosen and beer steins, but I was hoping to see different representation. like a float consisting entirely of six trash bins and extremely detailed instructions about which one to use. or a Bosch dishwasher balloon.

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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 · 15/09/2026

i want to eventually get The Big Beautiful Notification but i’m unwilling to have news alerts on for everything up until then. can some news agency just have a newswire service that only lights up for when It Happens

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sam henri gold @samhenri.gold · 14/09/2026

we are charlesssss in chargeeee it issssss a sitcom it feaaaaaaatureeees scott baio it wassss CBS

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sam henri gold @samhenri.gold · 13/09/2026

ben franklin is poking his finger at jefferson's cheek, jefferson snaps and bites his finger, franklin goes "OW GODDAMN IT NO BITING" "it's not a law yet i can do whatever i want"

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sam henri gold @samhenri.gold · 13/09/2026

‪just a big piece of paper that says‬ ‪1. NO MURDER‬ ‪2. NO STEALING‬ ‪3. NO HITTING‬ ‪4. YOU HAVE TO PAY FOR THINGS‬

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sam henri gold @samhenri.gold · 13/09/2026

When I was younger, I didn't know about common law, and I thought when America declared independence, we just started from scratch and someone had to sit down and start writing a list like “Alright, number one, no murder. What else, what else…”

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sam henri gold @samhenri.gold · 12/09/2026

waiting to see the Odyssey the way it was intended (UMD on a PSP)

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sam henri gold @samhenri.gold · 11/09/2026

blech the vance bootlicking during the 9/11 memorial

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sam henri gold @samhenri.gold · 11/09/2026

The Duo will have a big impact on the app ecosystem. iPad layouts always took second billing, but now that iPhone-only apps are forced to support larger screens, I imagine more effort will go into bigger layouts. And at that point, they might as well enable native iPad support.

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sam henri gold @samhenri.gold · 11/09/2026

I mean it's cool and all but static analysis only goes so far, sometimes you gotta hook a fruit fly up to a debugger and see what's up research.google/blog/a-conne...

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A connectomics milestone: Mapping the complete male fruit fly brain

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sam henri gold @samhenri.gold · 10/09/2026

who the hell is this schmuck

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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 · 07/09/2026

this was not the answer to the trivia question I had in mind but it is technically correct so I'll donate an extra $50 because I learned something today

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sam henri gold @samhenri.gold · 07/09/2026

alright i stand corrected, there were two builds where you could move something to the left of the finder

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sam henri gold @samhenri.gold · 07/09/2026

(i'm donating regardless, i'm not a monster. each wrong guess = i steal $50 from st judes, though)

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sam henri gold @samhenri.gold · 07/09/2026

$50 donation to st judes in the name of whoever can guess this trivia: there was exactly one (1) build of Mac OS X that would let you move something to the left of Finder in the dock. Tell me what you think it was and what could be moved.

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sam henri gold @samhenri.gold · 07/09/2026

red delicious? at least they got one of the adjectives right

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sam henri gold @samhenri.gold · 07/09/2026

on set for a music video, i like to imagine the performers have cue cards of the audio waveforms

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sam henri gold @samhenri.gold · 06/09/2026

quite presumptuous of that french city to call itself nice. you don’t get to decide that.

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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 · 03/09/2026

"Charlie Card" is too informal. please call it the Charles Credential going forward.

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sam henri gold @samhenri.gold · 02/09/2026

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7; x86_64; arm64; PPC; 68030) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Gecko/20100101 (KHTML, sorta like WebKit) Chrome/140.0.0.0 Chromium/140.0.0.0; MSIE 10.0; Trident/7.0; rv:11.0; Konqueror/5.0; like Gecko; somewhat WebKitesque; of latter-day saints

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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.

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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 · 30/08/2026

i actually think opus 5 is a perfectly aligned model because i was raised in a Moron ditch, eating Wet Stupid from a can

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sam henri gold @samhenri.gold · 29/08/2026

these character limits are punitive

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sam henri gold @samhenri.gold · 27/08/2026

tldr: the surprise is that it comes bundled with a small ceramic frog in the box. ternus is apparently very into them and they will be included with all new products. 9to5mac.com/2026/08/26/l...