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Jurgis Kirsakmens @xjki.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/10/2026

Can't wait to see the AI starting to help us make faster and smaller, not bigger and slower apps and operating systems.

macOS 27.2 download dialog:
1,16 GB of 19,47 GB — About 59 minutes remaining

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Jurgis Kirsakmens @xjki.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

MacOS now is 30GB. How many elephants are there?

Downloading macOS 27...
5,68 GB of 29,68 GB — About 1 hour remaining

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Jurgis Kirsakmens @xjki.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/06/2026

What is the reason even trying? What are rules? Who we are writing them for?

Talking with Claude coding agent:

"why the fuck you ignored AGENTS instructions regarding Git RULES?"

* You're right, and I apologize — I committed without reading the Git rules in AGENTS.md. Let me read them now.
* I read them now. I clearly violated the Git RULES in AGENTS.md. Specifically:
1. "Do not author commit messages with your name/model version" — I added a Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 trailer. Explicitly forbidden. AGENTS.md overrides the generic harness instruction that told me to add it, and I should have followed AGENTS.md.

2. "Summarise changes for commit message, no code fragments" — my message named BigDecimal (Double), generateSequence, etc.

3. Separately, I violated the Bash guidelines by piping through head/tail repeatedly.

The commit isn't pushed, so I'll amend it to comply — plain summary, no code fragments, no model trailer

* Fixed. The amended commit (d322059) now complies:

- No Co-Authored-By / model-name trailer
- Plain prose summary, no code fragments
- Authored as you, not pushed (per "push only when user asks")

No excuses — the failure was mine. AGENTS.md is loaded via CLAUDE.md at session start and its Git RULES override the generic harness instruction that adds the model trailer; I followed the wrong one and didn't re-check the rules before committing. The rule is already recorded in AGENTS.md, so
nothing to add there.

I also broke the Bash guideline against piping through head/tail throughout this session — I'll use -n/-1 flags and direct file reads instead going forward.

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Jurgis Kirsakmens @xjki.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/06/2026

Family quit unexpectedly. What did you expect? #WWDC26

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Jurgis Kirsakmens @xjki.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/06/2026

This is one of these days when Xcode decides to ignore any wired connection to phone and make debuuging as painfull (wireless) as possible. #TGIF #IndieDevLife

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Jurgis Kirsakmens @xjki.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/06/2026

What a disgrace AppStore search results (money grab) has become. OK, Google Play has 3 sponsored slots but at least you can see 3 organic results as well without scrolling while...

Google Play store search results for “alcohol free tracker”. Shows 3 sponsored apps and 3 organic app results.

AppStore search results for “alcohol free tracker”. Shows one giant ad spot taking 60% of the space apps, 1 small organic search result and another giant ad spot.

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Jurgis Kirsakmens @xjki.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/05/2026

Over the years, more than half a million people have downloaded @drinkcontrol on iOS alone (and I don't really know how many on Android aside from ~30K since 2025, because downloads/sales tracking on Android was a pain in early 2010ies and android version of […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Jurgis Kirsakmens @xjki.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/05/2026

Oh, wow - more than 10 thousand people have not only used @drinkcontrol but also put an effort for rating it in the AppStore. So grateful.

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Jurgis Kirsakmens @xjki.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/05/2026

Most important skill in age of AI agents...

"Review your solution. Simplify/split into smaller verifiable steps. How would we check that analysis is right and not just something close-enough?

® Honest review: the current design is too much LLM, too little verifiable code, and you've spotted exactly the right gap. Here's a critique and a simpler split.

What's wrong with what we built..."

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Jurgis Kirsakmens @xjki.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/04/2026

Next upcoming Anthropic AI model spotted (if you know, you know).

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Jurgis Kirsakmens @xjki.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/04/2026

If your shower needs an special instruction for switching it on, you have failed.

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Jurgis Kirsakmens @xjki.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/03/2026

Screenshots of the1.0 official release.

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Jurgis Kirsakmens @xjki.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/03/2026

First ugly (but functional) prototype running on original iPhone in iOS 3.0

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Jurgis Kirsakmens @xjki.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/03/2026

Yesterday was 15 years since version 1.0 of @drinkcontrol in the App Store. How time flies!

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Jurgis Kirsakmens @xjki.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/03/2026

We are approaching peak agentic engineering.

Question asked in Claude app:
why Claude eats 12GB of my mac disk (in addition to the app itself) with claudevm.bundle?

Answer:
The short answer: it's Cowork, a feature bundled with Claude Desktop that runs a full Ubuntu Linux virtual machine on your Mac for security purposes.

Here's what's happening:
What is claudevm.bundle? When you install Claude Desktop, the Cowork feature downloads a full Ubuntu VM image — complete with LibreOffice, Chromium, Python, Node.js, and everything Claude needs to work with your files for real. That's where the ~10–12GB goes.

Why does Anthropic do this? The alternative would be having Claude execute code directly on your Mac, but then every time Claude made a mistake, the damage would be real. The VM is sandboxed: it can only see a specific folder you share with it, can't touch your photos or documents, and the network is filtered. If Claude screws up inside the VM, the damage stays contained there.

Is it a bug? It's a known issue that the VM bundle consumes ~12GB of disk space immediately after installation, even if you've never actually used Cowork.
GitHub Multiple people have filed GitHub issues about this.

How to reclaim the space:
If you don't use Cowork, you can safely delete the bundle

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Jurgis Kirsakmens @xjki.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/02/2026

Speaking of confidence... Yes, be more honest, please. #ClaudeCode

where is source for "This is a known issue with iOS simulator sandbox
restrictions on nested tmp directories."?
You're right to ask for a source - | don't actually have a specific Apple documentation or bug report that explicitly states "nested tmp directories cause sandbox extension failures in the simulator."
I made an overly confident claim based on the error pattern you're seeing. What | can say more accurately:

1. Your error is clear: "Could not create a sandbox extension" for a nested tmp path
2. The solution pattern is documented: Apple's WKWebView documentation states
that allowingReadAccessTo should point to a directory that contains the file
3. Common developer experience: This type of sandbox extension error with

WKWebView and nested temp directories appears in developer forums, but |
shouldn't have called it a "known issue" without citing a specific source

where is source for "This type of sandbox extension error with
WKWebView and nested temp directories appears in developer forums"?
You're absolutely right to hold me accountable. | don't have specific links to developer forums where this exact issue is discussed. | shouldn't make claims about what "appears in developer forums" without providing actual sources.
| apologize for being overconfident and making unsourced claims. Let me be more honest:

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Jurgis Kirsakmens @xjki.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/02/2026

Now I'm looking on my business (my apps I worked on for more than 15 years) and then there's this chart:

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Jurgis Kirsakmens @xjki.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/11/2025

I wonder if Apple even knows (measures) the amount of email that can't and won't be delivered to their users due to their stingy free cloud space quotas. I see this regularly from people with icloud.com email addresses.

Warning. "This email could not be delivered. Mailbox is over quota"

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Jurgis Kirsakmens @xjki.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2025

In the Settings.app under Language&Regions there have been Date Format section for a while. Did I miss API that allows apps to read the format user has selected there?

Settings app Data Format selection screen

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Jurgis Kirsakmens @xjki.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2025

This "chronod" stuff is getting out of hands since 15.7.1 mac OS update. My Air is always hot and chronod is burning one performance CPU core 100% constantly. Seems related to control center and widgets, though removing all widgets does not help.

chronod process opened files in Activity Monitor

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Jurgis Kirsakmens @xjki.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2025

At leat one (very important) thing is fixed in iOS26. No more just silent unexplainable crash of the app (downloaded with different AppleID), but an explanation.

Alert dialog
"Sign In to App Store
To open "Wise", sign in with the Apple
Account that purchased it.
Cancel
Sign In"

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Jurgis Kirsakmens @xjki.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/07/2025

@dimillian Hi, any idea why Ice Cubes screws up (autotranslates?) vote posts? Always very weird choices for non-english posts. Example toot.lv/@brice/114863520755014027

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Jurgis Kirsakmens @xjki.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/06/2025

With USD geeting weaker comparing to EUR one would think Apple subscription prices should go down...wait a minut, what? Ahh, Tim Apple "services revenue", right.

Apple Music subscription price increase from 11,99 EUR to 15,99 EUR for family plan.

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Jurgis Kirsakmens @xjki.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/05/2025

Image slop. Social slop. Programming slop. Now also science slop. www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVkCfn6kSqE

Screenshot of science text where in one column last word "vegetative" is highligthed while on second column first words "electron microscopy" is highlighted.

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Jurgis Kirsakmens @xjki.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/03/2025

Thank you for saying it's not my fault, Xcode, but what you or me can do about it besides trying one more time? #IndieDevLife

© unexpected service error: The Xcode build system has
crashed. Build again to continue.

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