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Mihai Parparita @mihaip.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

I've started to add BeOS to Infinite Mac - you can see the first few versions on infinitemac.org/?filter=beos Not having been much of a user back in the day, I'm looking for suggestions of software to make sure to include, or pointers to canonical […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

BeOS R3 running inside Infinite Mac showing GL Teapot, a movie playing, a terminal, a CPU meter and the Tracker desktop.

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Kumar McMillan @kumarvibe.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

The measles virus evolved to do this thing where it eats away at your “immune memory” during an infection — immunity to every random rhinovirus, coronavirus and so on. It is diabolical. So, if you survive an infection, you get strong immunity to measles itself but at the cost of many many […]

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MargauxMac @scottymac.ruby.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

So weird: I get an infinite redirect. loop and then a 503 trying to log into developer.apple.com on Golden Gate Safari, but doing the same thing in Vivaldi works fine. ¯\\_(ツ)_/¯

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MargauxMac @scottymac.ruby.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

Can the Duo replace my 13 mini? I dunno, I'll have to hold it and test it. My rough sketch makes me think it's too wide to fit into a front trouser pocket?

Photograph side-by-side comparison of what the size of the new iPhone duo looks like compared to an iPhone 13 mini. The duo is wider but shorter than the 13 mini.

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Helge Heß @helge.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026

People only complain about today’s Apple price increases. Ignoring that a set of products got enourmous price decreases! Like the Apple Polishing Cloth dropped from a staggering $20 to an affordable $10. I‘m personally not sure it can actually perform at that […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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MargauxMac @scottymac.ruby.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2026

Good gravy! I’m curious how much the 128GB was with my M1 Ultra. I’ll have to look when I’m back in the country.

This is a screenshot from the Apple Store of memory selection between 96 GB included or 256 GB for an additional $4000

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John Siracusa @siracusa.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/08/2026

Ever since Xcode 26, SwiftUI previews haven't worked at all unless I disable sandboxing in my app. If I don't do that, I get this error: XOJITError: Could not create code file directory for session: Permission denied I keep hoping a new version of Xcode and/or macOS will fix it, but it's the […]

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Dave Nanian @dnanian.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 01/08/2026

Welcome to the new SuperDuper! 4.0—a ground-up rewrite, new from tip to tail. www.shirt-pocket.com/blog/supererdu…

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Dave Nanian @dnanian.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 15/06/2026

There are few people in music as cool and grounded as Melissa Auf Der Maur, and here she is with Nardwuar...well worth your time: youtu.be/FdCGl-gkpNU

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MargauxMac @scottymac.ruby.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/06/2026

@Iconfactory any plans to fix 403 errors for Reddit feeds in Tapestry? (I’m guessing it would require a bunch of hoops to jump through, but just curious—it’s my primary use case)

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Karl Baron @kalleboo.bitbang.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/05/2026

Boosts are appreciated 🙇‍♂️ Hello all! I lost my steady gig a year ago, projects from my network are running out, and I need a job. I’ve worked as an iOS dev for 15 years on cool apps like Camera+, but also building and running web and backend systems. Objective-C/Swift, but also […]

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Jon Mitchell @ablaze.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/05/2026

“Oh, sweet. This image is a .webp file,” said no one ever.

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MargauxMac @scottymac.ruby.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/03/2026

RE: tapbots.social/@paul/11629604168052… I’ve also been using this 6K monitor since release and it’s been incredible.

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Dave Nanian @dnanian.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 04/03/2026

We can argue about AI, but one thing is definitely true: Donald Knuth would never be impressed with anything *I* have done, but he certainly was here: cs.stanford.edu/~knuth/papers/claud…

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Miguel de Icaza ᯅ🍉 @migueldeicaza.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/02/2026

Some folks are under the mistaken impression that our industry builds careful, handcrafted solutions. Most of the software industry was slop already. AI solutions are an improvement over the previous low quality slop.

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Jonathan Hogg @jonathanhogg.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/02/2026

We seem to have largely stopped innovating on trying to lower barriers to programming in favour of creating endless new frameworks and libraries for a vanishingly small number of near-identical languages. It is the mid-2020s and people are wringing their hands over Rust as if it was some […]

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Jonathan Hogg @jonathanhogg.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/02/2026

I will say one thing for generative AI: since these tools function by remixing/translating existing information, that vibe programming is so popular demonstrates a colossal failure on the part of our industry in not making this stuff easier. If a giant ball of statistics can mostly knock up a […]

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stephen ryner jr. 🦉 @nuthatch.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 12/02/2026

If an old person tells you to “Move over, bacon,” this is why www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSs1y_0A9VE

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MargauxMac @scottymac.ruby.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/02/2026

@steipete just opened YouTube on my AppleTV and was met with this. I had to walk over to the TV to read it 😆.

A photograph of a social media post by Peter Steinberger in a YouTube ad on a TV that says “Did some statistics. My productivity doubled with moving from Claude Code to Codex.”

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MargauxMac @scottymac.ruby.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/02/2026

@AppleFangirl ok I messaged the mods and played dumb — we’ll see what happens (this is my tech account - hi 👋)

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Kumar McMillan @kumarvibe.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/01/2026

The AI bubble will pop soon enough but this piece is surprisingly hopeful about what will emerge from the rubble — LLMs to help us write code faster or translate dialog on the fly, all the things I consider to be AI assistants. One unsung hero right now is HuggingFace who are working hard to […]

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Kumar McMillan @kumarvibe.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/12/2025

Best album cover of 2025. Wow. I Love My Computer by Ninajirachi It’s pretty hyper 😮 song.link/i/1824602994 song.link/i/1824602986 #dancing

A very lived in room. Album cover of I Love My Computer by Ninajirachi

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Simon Willison @simon.fedi.simonwillison.net.ap.brid.gy · 07/12/2025

I thoroughly recommend reading all of Cory Doctorow's recent speech on AI skepticism, it's crammed with new arguments and interesting new ways of thinking about these problems pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/pop-that…

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Mark T. Tomczak @mark.mastodon.fixermark.com.ap.brid.gy · 05/12/2025

In the _Starfleet Technical Manual_ , there is a throwaway detail of the LCARS user interface that when it is upgraded, users can still utilize the previous several versions. This is because their work is mission-critical and it is unacceptable to compromise the mission by forcing unfamiliar […]

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Scott Francis @darkuncle.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 25/10/2025

10/10, no notes. I spent decades admiring Apple’s design ethos and pathological attention to detail and UI/UX, and the downhill slide post-Jobs has turned into a freefall. blog.johnozbay.com/what-happened-to…

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苹果传奇般的细节关注力去哪了？

What Happened to Apple''s Legendary Attention to Detail? (blog.johnozbay.com) 03:05 ↑ 137 HN Points

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MargauxMac @scottymac.ruby.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/10/2025

TIL that SwiftUI Text views don't like orphans. And there's no way to disable orphan-handling. So I guess we're hardcoding `\n`.

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MargauxMac @scottymac.ruby.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2025

Ok the builds on AppStoreConnect seem to have finally ironed out (they have a status and default testers). So maybe this is just a front-end issue in handling the state of the build.

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MargauxMac @scottymac.ruby.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2025

Wow, whatever Apple did to AppStoreConnect the new build upload system is totally borked. Was this even tested internally?

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MargauxMac @scottymac.ruby.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/07/2025

Oh dear, someone forgot to give Gen Z the memo about not wearing the band’s t-shirt to the band’s show. (But seriously we had so many weird, dumb rules about being cool as Gen Xers; with showing that you liked something and “selling out” as two biggies) […]

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Christian Tietze @ctietze.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/07/2025

PSA: #SwiftUI gestures on iOS are super limited. UIKit's UIGestureRecognizers, which I've almost never worked with, run circles around the few gestures we can effectively compose in SwiftUI. Circles, I tell you! The power of tweaking how many fingers are needed for a pan gesture, or detecting […]

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Classic Web @classicweb.site · 16/07/2025

It's time to celebrate the women of the 2000s blogosphere, so now we'll be scrolling randomly through the June 2005 blogroll of misbehaving.net. web.archive.org/web/20050626031252/… #misbehaving2005

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Mihai Parparita @mihaip.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 09/07/2025

As a demo of what's possible, I put together Infinite Monkey: infinitemac.org/monkey It lets OpenAI's or Anthropic's computer use models control an emulated Mac, based on your chat instructions. This means that it's possible to run the @simon "draw me […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

Emulated System 1.0 instance running MacPaint 1.0. It is being controlled by the OpenAI computer-use model, and attempting to draw a pelican riding a bicycle.

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Simon Willison @simon.fedi.simonwillison.net.ap.brid.gy · 22/06/2025

@helge @kentbeck @gergelyorosz that's one of the most interesting questions right now, I think We clearly need to reimagine aspects of how we train new software engineers

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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 15/06/2025

if you are under 30 years old and picking a font size for something other people need to read, not just yourself: that’s too small. still too small. A LITTLE BIGGER #accessibility #ux #typography

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Dave Nanian @dnanian.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 10/06/2025

Because it's just so *readable*!

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Helge Heß @helge.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/05/2025

It is *very* tempting (and easy to fall back to) but my recommendation for #SwiftLang concurrency is the same I have for #SwiftUI. Do NOT try to map your existing knowledge to the new system. An actor is not a GCD serial queue, just as a SwiftUI View is not the same as a UIView. You essentially […]

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tomate 🍅 @jascha.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/05/2025

I was asked by a 20 year younger friend how my internet was back then. I needed a moment but then I told her the story of an IRC channel and how we made the day for a young girl who happened to be on our IRC channel. Because this is what my internet was like back then and I wish sometimes it […]

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MargauxMac @scottymac.ruby.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/05/2025

Booking some train travel in Italy and twice I accidentally booked the wrong day, the second time at considerable cost to refund. After you select your tickets the purchase flow doesn't show you what you're buying, so there's no way to confirm the date before you click pay -- it's just terrible […]

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Ian Robinson @ianrobinson.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/04/2025

Why yes, I am rewatching Star Trek: Strange New Worlds S1&2. If you haven’t watched it and Star Trek Lower Decks you are missing out, in my opinion. #StarTrek

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MargauxMac @scottymac.ruby.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/04/2025

Consistent. (btw Xcode 6.3 supported Swift 1.2 which allowed `if let` to unwrap multiple optionals at once. I remember being excited about that. Simpler times.) #swift

Screenshot of a Slack message from 10 years ago: "So Xcode 6.3 requires Yosemite; I knew the day would come when l'd have to upgrade. Thought I had more time!" And then one from today (April 18 2025) that says the same thing, replacing Xcode 6.3 with 16.3 and Yosemite with Sequoia.

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Glyph @glyph.im · 07/04/2025

Good executives describe their expectations in terms of outcomes. They let their staff—who inherently ought to have a better understanding of the mechanics of the processes they are responsible for—determine the appropriate methods to get things done. Leaders getting too involved in details are […]

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