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Aaron Vegh

@vegh.ca
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Freelance vocateur codewriter for Mac, iOS and web. I help make Indigo and Croissant! Terra Ignota superfan! Astra mortemque superare gradatim.

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 11h
This is promising. The UK could go "all the way" towards rejoining the EU, Burnham tells the BBC. 🚨 EU membership is the only option that delivers £92 billion of growth. The government needs to take us back to where we belong: at the heart of Europe.
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Nina Modaffari @ninamodaffari.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
absolutely no hatred towards teen fantasy but I heard someone once call titles that are like 'a crown of blank and blank' stories as 'A kraft of mac and cheese' and I cannot stop thinking about it
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Aaron Vegh @vegh.ca · 29/09/2026
In other words… 🙄 www.bloomberg.com/news/articl...
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Matt Massicotte @massicotte.org · 29/09/2026
I know there's so much more nuance and complexity to it than this. But when a bad thing happens, and I see people say "see, dependencies are bad" I cannot help myself from interpreting it as "we should not work together on shared solutions" and I dunno it just makes me very sad especially lately
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Aaron Vegh @vegh.ca · 28/09/2026
Such a strange coincidence, I started reading Arthur Herman's The Cave and the Light this morning, which starts by ruminating on that work (and it's on the cover).
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Chris and his farmily of forever farm friends @caenhillcc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Good to demonstrate to vet Ross my sheep feeding technique, what could go wrong? Thanks Kate
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Sam G @samthegeek.net · 28/09/2026
Every social media app should have this.
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Aniline Applications @anilineapps.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We forgot to mention it when we added it, but if you're on iOS 27 you can now use Apple Intelligence to generate image descriptions And while we still encourage you to write your own descriptions, we know what a big difference alt-text makes for low vision users so we wanted to make it effortless
A screenshot of Indigo’s compose view showing an image of a pastry with no description The same screenshot after the alt-text was generated. It reads: A round pastry with a dark filling, topped with red sauce and a black berry, sits on a dark plate. The pastry has a textured, ridged surface. A portion of the filling is exposed. The plate rests on a wooden surface.
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Joe Fabisevich @mergesort.me · 26/09/2026
TFW you’re a little demon, but you’re also a pretty girl. #caturday
A black cat sitting in front of some roses
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Hendrik Mans @hmans.dev · 26/09/2026
Elizabeth Holmes is a convicted fraud and is rightfully in jail, but I can't help but notice all the extra misogyny whenever she is discussed anywhere. We all know that if this were an Edward Holmes, by now he'd have his own podcast, a sex cult, and a fascist Linux distribution
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Aaron Vegh @vegh.ca · 24/09/2026
Love how Lieutenant Jae is everywhere on TNG, never speaks a word, hangs out with Riker in the background. They're buds.
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Aaron Vegh @vegh.ca · 24/09/2026
I don't think there's any way to know. But it happens pretty fast so I've been assuming local (on my Mac and iPhone 15 Pro Max) but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Dr. Mike P. Moffatt @mikepmoffatt.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Also, I keep seeing in this threads the blame put on private/career colleges. All the private/career colleges across all of Canada COMBINED brought in fewer than one public sector institution in Kitchener. This was a made-in-government phenomenon.
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Dr. Mike P. Moffatt @mikepmoffatt.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This narrative is out there, but only partly true. We had one community college bring in 30,000 international students into a 600,000 person metro area overnight. There is no housing policy on the planet would prevent this from causing tensions.
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Aaron Vegh @vegh.ca · 24/09/2026
While I don't wish harm on any individual… at the macro level this is exactly the message we want Americans to receive. A truly sorry-not-sorry moment.
latimes.com
Canada's boycott forces the sale of a California winery
As California's wine industry struggles, a family-owned vineyard spanning 3,500 acres is for sale after its exports to Canada dropped 35% in a year.
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Aaron Vegh @vegh.ca · 24/09/2026
Hey Cabel! That's Apple's Foundation Models at work. So it's only available on the latest devices; we fall back to the old text-scraping API where it's not available (and long-press on that button if you want to use that instead).
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Matt Kavanagh @mattkavanagh.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The feds ran much of Canada’s immigration policy through higher ed, which created distortions. It incentivized bad actors in the post-secondary sector (fly-by-night private colleges) and forced legitimate institutions to chase international tuition fees to replace shrinking operating grants.
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Neil Turkewitz @neilturkewitz.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
A fantastic piece that I encourage everyone to read. @reckless.bsky.social conducts an amazing interview, & Jonathan Kanter delivers a brilliant framework for our emerging technological world, rooted in understanding that technology that doesn’t reflect our values doesn’t advance our interests.
We need to enumerate, and Congress should step in and say, “Here are the things we value as a society. We value mental health. We value competition. We value authenticity of information. We value intellectual property and copyright of content owners. These are the kinds of things we value and we need to make sure that those values are embedded in the lines on the road and the stop signs and the traffic lights so that everyone has clarity at the outset what’s okay and what’s not.”
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Aaron Vegh @vegh.ca · 22/09/2026
Is AI dangerous? For Bill Gates, the answer is simple: yes AND no.
gatesnotes.com
gatesnotes.com
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Aaron Vegh @vegh.ca · 21/09/2026
Fascinating! I love to see people talk about how to evolve the desktop.
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Scott Jenson: Are we really going to use the same Desktop UX forever?
https://media.ccc.de/v/kde2026-7-are_we_really_going_to_use_the_same_desktop_ux_forever The desktop interface has remained fundamentally unchanged for over two decades, relying on legacy paradigms that haven't scaled to meet new modern needs. Industry leaders like Apple and Microsoft are too deeply entrenched in their established ecosystems to risk radical shifts. While the Linux community has shown some appetite for experimentation, much of it has nibbled at the edges such as focusing on tweaking window management. This talk reflects my lifetime experience as a UX designer at Apple and Google and how the deepest innovations happen at the most mundane level: richer input, better data flows, and breaking out of our 2d windowing prisons. Ironically, the open source nature of Linux and specifically KDE provides a unique opportunity to break free from these legacy constraints. Scott Jenson #kde2026 Licensed to the public under https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 21/09/2026
Yes. - Historians
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Mark Carney @mark-carney.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Our history makes us friends. Our values make us Allies. Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon makes us neighbours. 🇨🇦🇫🇷
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Aaron Vegh @vegh.ca · 19/09/2026
I'd say "I'd watch the shit out of that season", but I'm currently watching the shit out of every season so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
make the John Brown season of Reacher you cowards
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Ben McCarthy @benricem.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The banality of evil.
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Evergreen Intel @vcdgf555.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
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Aaron Vegh @vegh.ca · 19/09/2026
I remember flying past Miami en route to the Caribbean once and being struck by how SO VERY FLAT it is. A marginal increase in sea level rise is gonna swallow that city and I am gobsmacked that nobody talks about it. But money bay-bee 💸💸💸
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Aaron Vegh @vegh.ca · 19/09/2026
Kinda weird to realize that I'm the same age as Patrick Stewart was in season 7 TNG (53). I have way more hair, but Stewart has every other advantage. 🫠
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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.
iPhone Duo front view with Indigo
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Aaron Vegh @vegh.ca · 18/09/2026
I think one of my takeaways from looking at the Duo and running Indigo on the sim, is that I'm gonna want a bigger Duo.
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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.
Indigo on the front screen.Indigo inside screen - portraitIndigo inside screen - landscape
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
🔥 Mark Carney officially has the highest approval rating in Canadian history - a 70% approval rate. Carney’s EU moves have gone down well!
cultmtl.com
Mark Carney officially has the highest approval rating in Canadian history
Prime Minister Mark Carney now holds the highest recorded approval rating in Canadian history, achieved earlier this month in a study by Spark Insights.
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Aaron Vegh @vegh.ca · 18/09/2026
Strange New Worlds' latest resumes the dumpster fire. It's too painful to watch!
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Aaron Vegh @vegh.ca · 17/09/2026
It's not enough to deliver a message of unity to Europe and the world. It needs to be done with grace and poetry. PM Carney is a gifted writer and speaker, and I'm so proud to watch him work and represent us.
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Prime Minister Carney delivers an address to the European Parliament
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Raywat Deonandan 🍁🇨🇦 @deonandan.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
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Mike 🍁 @thewarrenisempty.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Some choice quotes from Carney's speech in this thread. Looking forward to the deranged ranting we'll get on truth social later - once someone explains what all the big words mean.
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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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Trevor Foster @darthfos.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Another moment in history that is changing the way the world views Canada. My Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney speaking to the EU Parliament. "Canada and Europe are each strong. Europe and Canada are stronger together." Here is his full speech:
youtube.com
PM Mark Carney addresses European Parliament – September 17, 2026
YouTube video by cpac
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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 17/09/2026
This absolute horseshit from the Washington Post is more proof the problem isn't just Trump, but a society of Trump enablers, one Canada indeed should be 'decoupling' with a helluva lot faster than it is.
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Aniline Applications @anilineapps.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Don't forget you can submit feature requests to our public board here (just make sure you check to see if something similar already exists):
indigo.nolt.io
Indigo Feedback
Let us know how we can improve. Vote on existing ideas or suggest new ones.
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Aniline Applications @anilineapps.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Indigo 1.3.3 is available today with a bunch of little fixes: - Fixes for links in Bluesky DMs - Fixes for handling single-service Magic Mention search results - Fixes for avatar badges and layout - Fixes for Bluesky OAuth handling - Fixes for layout of thread detail, timeline and image gallery 🥳
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Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
‘Star Trek: Insurrection’ Reimagined as an Unhinged Italian-Dubbed Food Comedy laughingsquid.com/star-trek-in...
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'Star Trek: Insurrection' Reimagined as an Unhinged Italian-Dubbed Food Comedy
"Picard Looking" reimagines “Star Trek: Insurrection” as a food-obsessed Italian-dubbed parody using deliberately bogus English subtitles.
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Aaron Vegh @vegh.ca · 16/09/2026
I sometimes find myself daydreaming about creating a combined hardware/software product that would replace this.
macrumors.com
Reminder: macOS 27 Ends Time Machine Backups to Time Capsule
If you're upgrading to macOS Golden Gate and you have an AirPort Time Capsule, Time Machine won't be able to back up to it. macOS 27 removes support for AFP, the legacy file-sharing protocol that Time Capsule relies on for Time Machine backups. Said backups now exclusively use the SMB protocol, which Apple's discontinued Time Capsule hardware does not support in the form required by macOS 27.
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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 · 16/09/2026
People say "Mastodon or Bluesky is full of people who [x]" and that is wildly untrue. Both services are big enough to contain multitudes. One of the great things about Indigo is how much control it gives over what you see, thanks to easy blocking, muting, custom lists. I'm using it today. 🫣
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
the patriots are at home this week and unrelated but did you know you can write stuff on a beach ball and if its deflated you can put it right in your shirt and no one will know until you bring it out to inflate it?
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Aaron Vegh @vegh.ca · 16/09/2026
I guess I suck then. Bye.
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Aaron Vegh @vegh.ca · 16/09/2026
I'm not sure what you're proposing here. I voted in an election. I am observing the outcome. I'm not 100% happy with what I'm seeing. I'm planning to vote in the next election. Are you advocating armed resistance?
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Aaron Vegh @vegh.ca · 16/09/2026
I know about all that stuff. I'm not happy about all that stuff. But that's not the sum total of running a country. It's vastly more complex. And I wanted to see what Carney would do vs a PM Poilievre. I'm still happy I made that call. We'll see again in 2029.
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