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Aaron Vegh @vegh.ca · 29/09/2026

In other words… 🙄 www.bloomberg.com/news/articl...

Aaron Vegh @vegh.ca · 18/09/2026

Another hot take on the Duo after using the simulator: that front screen feels very limited. Shorter than you expect, and your content looks weirdly off-centre because of that sidebar.

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Aaron Vegh @vegh.ca · 18/09/2026

Holy cow, hold down Option in the Duo sim to control the folding state?!

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Aaron Vegh @vegh.ca · 18/09/2026

Delighted that Apple got Xcode 27.1 beta out this fast! Here's your first look at Indigo running in the Duo simulator. @benricem.bsky.social and I are very happy, but hasten to add that we'll be putting some work into polishing this.

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Aaron Vegh @vegh.ca · 17/09/2026

Out of nowhere this morning, typing in Mail.app looks like this.

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Aaron Vegh @vegh.ca · 16/09/2026

Another banger of a page from @adapalmer.bsky.social's Inventing the Renaissance. A perspective on pre-modern atheism I hadn't considered before.

Turning one's back on answers is very difficult, and is part
of why the study of atheism is so closely tied to the study of
philosophical skepticism, i.e. philosophies which say we cannot
understand the fundamentals of existence. Only very recently
a clear, technical model of the universe. Early atheists had to
saying you believed one thing so much that you were willing to
turn your back on the understandings of the world shared by
almost everyone, even though you didr't have a coherent alterna-
tive. There is a fragile courage to pre-modern atheism, when we
read someone like Diderot (1713-84), who was among the first
atheists who wrote directly about his atheism, as well as my first
historical love, my first-contact pre-modern atheist who made me
want to give years of my life to learning more about people like
him. 49 Diderot feels that the burden of proof is on him, and freely
admits that he can't meet it, that without Intelligent Design he
doesn't have a good explanation for how stars started to move, and
how forest animals have forest camouflage, he just looks around
and the world he sees, with its random encounters and entangled
lives, doesn't feel like it's scripted by any Providence or Maker.
Diderot's atheism is not the self-confident atheism of a modern
armed with scientific answers, but a timid, tender atheism sprout-
ing like a crocus through the snow, with little more than instinct
to back up its radical position. Embracing such an atheism was
very hard. Collecting ideas which could fill in the gaps left by
removing God from science-theories which could explain how
stars moved, or how animals fit their environments-
-could make
it easier.

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Aaron Vegh @vegh.ca · 14/09/2026

Horrifying reality for young women in the 21st century. And you gotta know that the best social network to collect and perpetuate this material is X. But it's cool because nobody fucking cares.

It doesn't help that X, the burnerverse's platform of choice, is famously subject to little
moderation. Since Elon Musk acquired the social network in 2022, its algorithm has
regularly boosted racist, misogynistic, and antisemitic content, making it the ideal petri
dish for a coordinated harassment campaign. On X, it's extremely easy for defamatory
or outright illegal content, such as Kowalski's NCII, to spread far and wide before
someone can issue a complaint or file a takedown request. "The platforms tend to be
pretty hands-off," says Ludwin. "They're also financially incentivized by followers, by
views, by clicks .. they're making money off this." (X did not respond to WIRED's request
for comment.)
Most burnerverse victims remain silent following their harassment, hoping for the
uproar to blow over. The majority did not respond to requests for an interview, or
declined to go on the record. They've spent thousands of dollars, if not hundreds of
thousands, on legal fees, therapy, and reputation management firms. "We are
unfortunately navigating something that I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy," one
father of a victim tells me anonymously. "I just don't think she's ready at this time."

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Aaron Vegh @vegh.ca · 09/09/2026

Ugh, gonna worry about Duo another day. These weirdos are freaking me out because it's dinner time.

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Aaron Vegh @vegh.ca · 09/09/2026

I think a lot of 3rd party devs are going to lag on adoption, leaving many new Duo owners using a very ugly default experience. Like… ooof.

Non-modified app on iPhone Duo. Not great Bob!

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Aaron Vegh @vegh.ca · 09/09/2026

This is Henry, frequenter of this pub we visited in Huntsville over the summer. #birdsofbluesky

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Aaron Vegh @vegh.ca · 09/09/2026

I'm still reading the home page of pushin.eu and this line lands *hard*. I think more of us devs need to think seriously about what software we can patriate outside the US. You have your assignments. Proceed.

Is this real?
Yes, it is! I'm Peter Ullrich, and I'm building Pushin.eu with my Labrador, Bella. I've worked as a software
developer for almost 10 years and live in Leiden, the Netherlands. You can also find many of my talks on
YouTube. I've built other projects, including Letter to Yourself and Indie Courses. I'm also currently No. ~108
globally. with the most reported CVEs because of my security work with the Erlang Ecosystem Foundation.
I started building Pushin.eu in April 2026, and it will become generally available in early 2027. I'm building
it for the long term, with the hope that it will help Europe become more independent.

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Aaron Vegh @vegh.ca · 07/09/2026

Meanwhile, I'm going to see if there is a moat or not github.com/youssofal/MTPLX

Downloading Qwen 3.8 27B Optimized Quality

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Aaron Vegh @vegh.ca · 04/09/2026

This prank, related from @adapalmer.bsky.social's *Inventing the Renaissance* is absolutely s-tier. Imagine having the wherewithal to get a whole city in on your ruse.

The prank which made Amanatini famous was masterminded
by Brunelleschi (who was not yet working on the dome), along with
Brunelleschi's equally famous lover Donatello and several of their
friends. Our account comes from a text written a number of years
later by admirers of Brunelleschi, so we need to keep that bias in
mind, but the details are as clear as they are implausible. Together,
Brunelleschi and his friends conspired to convince Amanatini
that he had gone mad and was actually someone else. Through
their influence, one morning suddenly everyone in the entire city
started addressing Amanatini as Matteo Mannini, an unskilled
day laborer (the kind that earns 35 florins a year). Brunelleschi
and friends locked him out of his house, and hid inside the house
loudly impersonating the "real" Amanatini, with their befuddled
victim listening outside. They got everyone in on this, and even got
the city watch to arrest Amanatini for Matteo Mannini's debts and
throw him in jail, where visitors pretended not to recognize him.
They then had two men bail him out, claiming to be his brothers,
who took him to their home and spent the evening convincing
him that he really was the day laborer Matteo Mannini, and that
his memory of being a master woodworker was a fit of madness.
Once their victim finally fell asleep, the pranksters returned him to
his real bed, and in the morning pretended nothing had happened,
trying to convince him it was a strange, elaborate dream.

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Aaron Vegh @vegh.ca · 28/08/2026

Random video of Costa Rica in case you needed it.

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Aaron Vegh @vegh.ca · 28/08/2026

Went down to the lake to confirm it's still called Lake Epstein Files, and yuuuup

Lake Ontario from Heydenshore in Whitby.

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Aaron Vegh @vegh.ca · 26/08/2026

I think we're supposed to hate Captain Jellico, but that man is *the business*. And thank god for this moment, getting Troi into a standard uniform. 😂

I'd appreciate it if you wore
standard uniform while on duty.

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Aaron Vegh @vegh.ca · 17/08/2026

Remember that episode of TNG when Riker is kidnapped by Romulans and stuck in a holodeck sim where 20 years have passed? One of the giveaways was the computers performing like shit. "Computer! End program!"

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Aaron Vegh @vegh.ca · 02/08/2026

Away for a computer-free weekend, I picked up this banger at the used book store.

GEORGE MARSHALL'S
UNFINISHED WAR, 1945-1947
THE
CHINA
MISSION
Daniel Kurtz-Phelan

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Aaron Vegh @vegh.ca · 26/07/2026

And if that weren't enough, here's another personal fave. Remember this guy?

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Aaron Vegh @vegh.ca · 26/07/2026

Here's another test. Continue to stand by.

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Aaron Vegh @vegh.ca · 26/07/2026

This is a test; please stand by.

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Aaron Vegh @vegh.ca · 25/07/2026

We applied for Apple's Small Business Program on April 27 — three months ago as of Monday. Radio silence. We're eating an extra 15% from our meagre revenues thanks to that. But if Apple could use some of our unearned revenues to fix sub pricing on ASC, that'd be great. 😡

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Aaron Vegh @vegh.ca · 22/07/2026

To be clear, I would never ship such a basic-bitch app as Invoicy (I'd also take longer to name it). This is useful to nobody but me. But even I, a developer, would never have built this app just for this. Here's some shots (showing data from 2014 so nobody should be offended).

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Aaron Vegh @vegh.ca · 22/07/2026

Byeeeeee Harvest. Way to torch a years-long customer relationship. 👋

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Aaron Vegh @vegh.ca · 07/07/2026

We had a bit of an incident at Starbucks today. My MacBook Pro drank a bunch of tea and now it doesn't turn on.

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Aaron Vegh @vegh.ca · 07/07/2026

Yes, *Orbital* by Samantha Harvey was beautifully written. But it had virtually no story, no plot, the barest teasing of interpersonal relationships. A Booker prize winner that left me bored and unmoved. Sad!

ORBITAL
A NOVEL
SAMANTHA
HARVEY
"Ravishingly beautiful."-NEW YORK TIMES
"Harvey makes an ecstatic voyage... and looks back to Earth with a lover's eye.*-THE GUARDIAN

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Aaron Vegh @vegh.ca · 05/07/2026

Sweet, thanks for signing me out of my three Apple dev accounts again. I was super-bored and needed to add another futile session of logins to my life.

Xcode’s Apple Accounts screen, with no signed-in accounts. Again.

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Aaron Vegh @vegh.ca · 27/06/2026

One of my favourite features of Indigo is the whimsy that @benricem.bsky.social added to the placeholders in the composer. I'd love to find more places to shine like that in the app!

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I love the smell of posting in the morning

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Aaron Vegh @vegh.ca · 24/06/2026

Sorry, dogs are closed for the day. Come back tomorrow.

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Aaron Vegh @vegh.ca · 15/06/2026

So turns out if you install this little bad-boy, VirtualBuddy behaves better!

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Aaron Vegh @vegh.ca · 14/06/2026

We like to be transparent.

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Aaron Vegh @vegh.ca · 10/06/2026

Lemme tell you about *my* day

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Aaron Vegh @vegh.ca · 10/06/2026

Fantastic wrap up on this article in the latest Wired about AI fact checking (spoiler, no worries). Name dropping the great @adapalmer.bsky.social? Spectacular.

Years ago, during a fact-checking
assignment, I talked to the sci-fi writer
and history professor Ada Palmer, who
told me what she often tells her stu-
dents: We know less than 1 percent of
what happened 500 years ago, and two-
thirds of what we know is wrong. Knowl-
edge exists on a timeline too, and the
work of generations is carrying on that
knowledge without little bits slipping
through and getting lost. Are we really
OK entrusting our legacy to a bunch of
distributed servers, operated by micro-
chips with lifespans of 5 to 10 years?
One final thing that I've been ignor-
ing, which is so very human of me, is
that humans make mistakes too. As
Holan reminded me, abstaining from
chatbots isn't some foolproof saving
grace. At least, I'm 33 to 90 percent sure
that's what she said. At the end of our
interview, when I looked down at my
recorder, I found I'd forgotten to turn
it on.
MEGHAN HERBST is a senior
research editor at WIRED.

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Aaron Vegh @vegh.ca · 09/06/2026

Indigo is on the front page of the Mac App Store today! 🤯 cc @soapboxsoftware.bsky.social

Indigo listed in the “Apps and Games We Love Right Now” section on the MAS

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Aaron Vegh @vegh.ca · 07/06/2026

Let's see how well this works for all the homies at… home.

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Aaron Vegh @vegh.ca · 28/05/2026

Ha ha ha ahahahhahhaaa hhaaaaa!! **Takes deep breath** haaaaaaaaahahahahahahaha! (Indigo 1.0.3 for Mac has been "Waiting for Review" for a full week now)

Review status
On average, 90% of submissions are reviewed in less than 24 hours.

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Aaron Vegh @vegh.ca · 27/05/2026

I really love the `fastfetch` command on Linux systems so I had the idea to build a Mac version today. Turns out (of course!) someone has already done it. brew install fastfetch and… 😍

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Aaron Vegh @vegh.ca · 23/05/2026

Look at my little dino.

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Aaron Vegh @vegh.ca · 17/05/2026

Rare Model X spot in Whitby with the gull wing doors. Of course the douche is parked in the handicap spot.

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Aaron Vegh @vegh.ca · 12/05/2026

Really appreciate the warm reception to Indigo today. With the support of these monsters, I hope we can get even more people using it!

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Aaron Vegh @vegh.ca · 09/05/2026

When I tell 95% of my future customers that the app is called Indigo: "Sure, okay, whatever." When I tell a Canadian: "WTF are you doing moron?! You're toast!"

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Aaron Vegh @vegh.ca · 05/05/2026

30 hours ago, I asked for an expedited review of Indigo for macOS. 29 hours ago it went into review. It remains in review. We have scuttled our Thursday launch plan, and are hoping for next Tuesday. Thanks Tim Apple!

Indigo for Bluesky & Mastodon
iOS 1.0 Pending Developer Release
macOS 1.0 In Review

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Aaron Vegh @vegh.ca · 05/05/2026

I put so many hours into this game, and I've never been able to successfully emulate it since.

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Aaron Vegh @vegh.ca · 04/05/2026

Oh man, shots fired! (and hit, omg hitting *so hard*). This is a fantastic piece with many juicy bits. morrick.me/archives/10306

And Apple never really took a definitive decision with the iPad, so they kept
changing course and approach. They kept throwing stuff at it, at this iPad that kept
becoming a jack of an increasing number of trades, while being a master at very
few of them, comparatively. They built an increasingly higher tower of 'stuff the
iPad can potentially do' over the inadequate foundation that iOS/iPadOS was and
is. They thought that the problem was solvable by throwing faster and faster CPUs
at it, while the actual work should have been done on the operating system front.
There are still things a Newton MessagePad 2100 with a 162MHz ARM processor
can do better than an M5 iPad Pro because NewtonOS is a better-designed OS for
the device it runs on than iPadOS is on the iPad.

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Aaron Vegh @vegh.ca · 21/04/2026

Excuse us while we hold down this carpet

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