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2026-10-26 00:36:33 UTC

Baja Blast or GTFO
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/117/504/408/866/192/869/original/6040838a1366af21.png

2026-10-24 14:38:45 UTC

Should this not be a bigger fucking deal?
https://archive.ph/20261024055616/https://www.vanityfair.com/story/jared-kushner-hacked-phone-secret-negotiations

2026-10-12 14:46:01 UTC

We all understand “X is friendly and inclusive now” is code for “I give much less of a shit now” right?
This is coming from the guy who posted “Apple is hiring the wrong sorts of people” a few years ago. Which was very clearly code for “not white men, just like me”.
Fuck ‘em.

2026-10-07 00:39:26 UTC

This is an absolutely amazing online book about computer graphics: https://taosengine.com/docs/graphics/index.html
It starts with super basic principles and then introduces quite complex techniques in a very simple approachable manner with lots of great inline examples.
Huge fan.

2026-10-04 18:17:09 UTC

I just assume every web page that looks like this is 100% vibe coded.
https://1amageek.github.io/MusicPlaygournd/
And of course the product it’s showing off is likely vibe coded too.
I have zero problems with vibe coding but I think it’s just polite to own up to it.

2026-10-02 16:48:24 UTC

So many Apple developer forum posts are:
Dev: Hey this is broken
DTS: Can you provide a repro case?
Dev: Um this is totally trivial to reproduce but uh sure
DTS: Oh shit yes thats broken.
* two years pass *
Another dev: Any updates?
DTS: *crickets*

2026-10-02 04:33:29 UTC

I dont think I like Metal 4.

2026-09-25 22:43:31 UTC

Really don’t want to go to a Japanese restaurant in this rural SC town… thank you, no. I don’t really care if the locals think its really good. Especially if the locals think its really good…

2026-09-11 16:52:10 UTC

mac apps that write lines to ~/.ssh/config - may you rot in hell.

2026-09-04 01:06:29 UTC

If not nazi why nazi shaped?
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/03/israel-far-right-minister-itamar-ben-gvir-plan-removal-palestinians-gaza

2026-08-27 19:39:50 UTC

So Apple Maps? Lake of America? Or are you going to grow a pair?

2026-08-21 16:58:20 UTC

Number of “blessed days” I’ve been told I to have…

2026-08-20 18:52:31 UTC

The ADHD evaluation is still:
"Please provide contact info for parents"
"They're still dead"
"Ok but if you choose not to put us in contact this may reduce the chances of a successful evaluation"
"They're definitely still dead"

2026-08-18 22:38:57 UTC

In the south for less than a day and only 3 confederate flags. A new low record?

2026-08-18 20:04:50 UTC

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@nprofile…76fl Except someone made a website for this fake poet and has been posting (bad) poetry under his name… so…

2026-08-18 19:14:42 UTC

After filling a 26 page questionnaire they've sent me a new online quiz ADHD quiz…
344 questions for ADHD…
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/117/118/106/095/308/912/original/c7e266b146264a10.png

2026-08-17 11:10:09 UTC

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@nprofile…rm2f The guaranteed to work "he deserved to die" murder defence! I

2026-08-04 15:18:22 UTC

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@nprofile…v2v2 @nprofile…s0r5 I highly recommend Hazel as a good tool to clean up this junk as it happens (i.e. when you drag an app to the trash).

2026-08-04 15:13:22 UTC

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@nprofile…s0r5 @nprofile…v2v2 there’s no hook and you’ll have a lot of left over files in weird places (not just user preferences) if you dont use one of various tools to clean up junk. I’m able to routinely find GB of junk.

2026-07-26 21:21:01 UTC

Wife got to meet her YouTube idol today in a Wholefoods in Cupertino. A Japanese housewife who has been making traditional Japanese food.
You’d think my wife was meeting the original Beatles or someone. The swooning!

2026-07-23 18:14:31 UTC

I guess I don’t get out much anymore since WFH full time during Covid
But the number of men who use their phone while standing at urinals constantly amazes me.

2026-07-21 17:59:24 UTC

Hotel prices near the conference center were crazy prices so we were forced to stay a mile or so away in DTLA and uber back and forth. (No one walks in LA…)
But we did manage to book a room a room in this very very movie famous Westin Bonaventure. Such a 70s icon
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/116/959/248/853/502/755/original/be224a7ad17cca36.jpeg
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/116/959/249/532/042/750/original/9561ac916ee36e83.jpeg
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2026-07-18 23:26:36 UTC

I can’t imagine why people don’t seem to like this guy
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/116/943/565/108/058/746/original/ba4634d3d0835ac3.jpeg

2026-07-17 23:09:24 UTC

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@nprofile…76fl Changes it from what? I've never been ;-)

2026-07-17 19:17:23 UTC

Things my therapist worked with me on today:
- How to survive Disneyland

2026-07-02 14:56:05 UTC

I had a dream I was interviewing at Facebook and when lunch arrived everyone was cheering and high fiving over the worst catered sandwich spread you’d even seen. Then when I put on the One Ring everyone at Facebook turned out to be Nazgûl. Obvious in retrospect.
Make of that what you will.

2026-06-24 22:22:59 UTC

The year is 2,026.
Why do never use the , in years?

2026-06-23 01:43:26 UTC

The official Metal shader of NiN's Hurt.
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/116/796/883/060/163/862/original/664a6c8f5bc56203.png

2026-06-16 18:24:18 UTC

My siri overlay on macOS 27 is slowly migrating down the screen every time i use it…

2026-06-12 05:25:04 UTC

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@nprofile…gr74 They're still doing stickers on laptops eh?

2026-06-10 05:23:00 UTC

@nprofile…76fl "Ok, Script Graph, what is it? It is Reality Composer Pro's Node-Based Visual Scripting." Sound familar?

2026-06-09 21:34:47 UTC

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@nprofile…76fl Which session was that?

2026-06-09 21:00:44 UTC

It's only Tuesday and already very much over how cute WWDC presenters think their demo apps are.

2026-06-02 21:30:19 UTC

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@nprofile…76fl you mean something that doesn’t suck? So that rules out AppleTV

2026-06-02 15:35:42 UTC

SFO airport maps use grid numbers so you can locate things. So the airline lounge may be at grid B7… so guess who went looking for gate B7… yeah… design fail

2026-06-02 03:55:07 UTC

We in the west do not talk (or even hear) about the Chinese Space Program anywhere near enough.
They're truly doing some amazing stuff. The Tiangong space station has been in orbit for over 5 years, and is rivalling the ISS in capabilities (without those leaking Russian modules!). Considering they only started their manned program in the early 00s…
And then there's the moon missions - including sample returns. And they're looking to be on track for a manned landing this decade…

2026-06-01 18:40:26 UTC

Say what you want about Bambulab's business practices (you actually don't need to - various YouTubers are banking in sponsorship/ad $ by doing it)…
Build quality is amazing. I've had 2 BBL printers & they've been flawless. The one Prusa printer I owned was drastically overpriced, slow as a dogshit, and was incredibly unreliable to the point where i stopped using it.
And BBL's filament is top notch. I cheaped out (saved a few $ per spool) on some Sunlu filament and its been nothing but trouble…

2026-05-12 14:25:51 UTC

These kinds of boutique apps where the developers are basically just releasing it on macOS as an afterthought are all going to not be usable and they wont be updated.
Apple is being super irresponsible with this move.
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/116/562/064/003/773/474/original/7c7dba92d8194c44.png

2026-04-28 01:29:56 UTC

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@nprofile…76fl I wanted Touch Bar + 3ish hardware keys. (Escape, Volume +-). But that wouldn't have happened of course

2026-04-27 21:51:45 UTC

I am not looking forward to this governor’s election.

2026-04-15 18:42:16 UTC

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@nprofile…76fl thanks Claude :-)

2026-04-15 18:24:40 UTC

Exactly!
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/116/410/120/732/422/722/original/83e1375431bcd08c.png

2026-04-08 04:22:54 UTC

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@nprofile…gr74 https://github.com/ratatui/ratatui-image

2026-04-08 03:37:16 UTC

Wanted to visualise numerical data streaming out of my Metal renderer: frame times, sort times, GPU costs per frame.
Started designing a telemetry pipeline: lock-free ring buffer, out-of-process emission, capture daemon…
Then I remembered os_log exists and I was already emitting all the data I wanted captured in my logs already…
Apple had already done 1/2 the work for me…
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/116/366/995/047/427/377/original/23fc7314f3524302.mp4

2026-04-03 15:05:35 UTC

The juxtaposition between “if you use AI you are worse than a pedo” people vs “I have uploaded my brain into openclaw” people is wild.
The rest of us are somewhere in the middle trying to figure it out.
I do have to say the openclaw lunatics certainly seem to be having a lot more fun (as their bots happily delete their Time Machine backups). While those who sneer and look down on anyone using ai just seem like your normal internet assholes.

2026-04-02 22:00:17 UTC

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@nprofile…76fl @nprofile…lxex Because warren's code caught my attention and i had a "hmm what if" thought at just the right time…
Links?

2026-04-02 04:20:22 UTC

So I took @nprofile…lxex's MetalSlug (https://github.com/metal-by-example/MetalSlug) - itself an implementation of the https://sluglibrary.com paper…
Ported it to https://metalsprockets.com…
Optimised it so it renders all text in a single draw call (from an original 40,000 draw calls…)
And then entered the matrix?
Every glyph is vector. Whoa.
(Code needs a cleanup - it got messy but will put it online soon)
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/116/333/190/293/570/777/original/ffc8b03412956ed7.mp4

2026-03-27 21:37:47 UTC

OK i can't take these new meds with grapefuit.
I mean… I'm going to have to find out why not now.

2026-03-25 14:57:53 UTC

I’m sure this replacement for homebrew is awesome. But their website is literally fucking unreadable. https://nanobrew.trilok.ai/

2026-03-23 18:07:51 UTC

If you’re thinking of flying internationally to attend WWDC if you get a golden ticket (or any other US conference):
Please reconsider. Don’t come.
You can protest this administration by not coming and not spending your tourist dollars here
And don’t forget it’s just not safe to travel here.

2026-03-22 18:48:48 UTC

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@nprofile…76fl yeah but then this slop will train the next slop…

2026-03-21 19:28:15 UTC

Built (vibed…) a tool to manage my ~/Projects folder. Been using it for a few months and slowly improving it. It's proving to be really useful for making sure all my projects are in a clean state, all their PRs are closed and whatnot…
If you have ADHD too this may be useful. I'm hesitant to publish fully vibe coded projects - because the quality is all over the place. But a tool like this works well for me.
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/116/268/812/762/937/737/original/e0c5633e0b0a89e4.mp4

2026-02-26 15:42:49 UTC

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@nprofile…76fl both places desperately want to be NYC but have an inferiority complex about it.

2026-02-25 18:28:57 UTC

In honour of being in Chicago last night I watched Scorsese’s “The Departed” last night. Which for some reason I’d never seen before.
Sure technically it’s set in Boston but we all know they’re basically the same place right?

2026-02-04 17:17:05 UTC

Love your dog (but hate the planet enough to continue using amazon to buy plastic shite)?
Buy this toy:
https://amzn.to/4khLm4Z
Daisy is going ape shit mental for it. (Video coming at some point)

2026-01-22 15:27:13 UTC

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@nprofile…dymg @nprofile…48kq all the ones that continue to support Israel for a start.

2026-01-20 18:24:40 UTC

"JAMF Connect would like to find devices on your local network"
How about hell no.
Why corporate spyware that i run on my work laptop needs to know about my home network… Nope.

2026-01-19 16:14:04 UTC

Someone has parked a cybertruck outside my house.
SUGGESTIONS PLEASE.

2026-01-17 15:51:46 UTC

my MRI is going to be billed at $1500 of which I pay approx $1000.
And I have pretty good health insurance.
But my dog has better health insurance than I do. We’d only be paying $300 if this was her.
I honestly cannot understand why this nation is fine with this crap.

2026-01-14 22:15:03 UTC

"ICE agent involved in shooting of Renee Good suffered internal bleeding, officials say"
From what exactly? An ulcer from eating too many donuts?

2026-01-13 06:01:29 UTC

I'm sure Apple's deepening relationship with Google as part of Siri will definitely be beneficial to users.
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/886/265/824/717/678/original/b72921ab633c3cdc.png

2026-01-08 20:05:52 UTC

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@nprofile…76fl The furries love sendmail.

2026-01-07 05:53:14 UTC

I mean… sure…
https://www.rrauction.com/auctions/lot-detail/347010907346006-steve-jobss-personally-owned-apple-1-computer-ribbon-cable/

2025-12-13 01:34:35 UTC

Who had “woke fonts” on their bingo cards

2025-12-02 08:37:04 UTC

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@nprofile…fnpd Apple Arcade.
LOL

2025-11-26 11:18:48 UTC

Sad to think the last time I was in Europe I could have lived anywhere I chose to in the EU. And since then a bunch of xenophobic, moronic easily led sheep took that right away from me. 🇪🇺

2025-11-25 15:31:31 UTC

I do have to say Munich public transport is some of the best I’ve come across. Not necessarily because of speed, reliability, etc but just because there are no ticket stalls or gates.
It’s all basically the honour system (with ticket inspectors)
Buy a group day pass with the app - travel all day within the zone and don’t worry about tickets, gates, stalls, tapping on/off anything.
Super nice and super tourist friendly.

2025-11-23 07:46:32 UTC

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@nprofile…xlvy 47? Embarrasing

2025-11-21 16:54:03 UTC

iPhones don't sell themselves!
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/588/729/318/101/800/original/d5fecad05bfe7b6d.png

2025-11-21 15:46:07 UTC

One of the big hurdles in 3D Gaussian Splat rendering is sorting the splats… you need to sort every splat (and you might have 2M of them) every time the camera moves.
In my current renderer I'm doing it on the CPU (using a custom radix sort) and it performs well. But it's still a cost (doing it on the GPU is also an option but then you're robbing GPU from the work of rendering)
But here's an approach that totally negates the need to sort by using a Monte Carlo method to randomly pick splats 1/

2025-11-18 15:11:35 UTC

So it's actually this huh?
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/571/339/489/151/493/original/49aaf4fdaff112c9.png

2025-11-13 02:00:54 UTC

Do we need to spend so much time recombobulating?

2025-11-11 00:16:39 UTC

Watched a very scary Defcon talk this weekend about how quantum cryptanalysis is no longer perpetually 10-20 years away and is probably just a few years out now and no one is at all ready for it.
Hello Y2K welcome back!

2025-11-09 23:18:44 UTC

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@nprofile…rdan only domestic flights are meant to be cancelled so far.

2025-11-01 15:26:05 UTC

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@nprofile…f5ux I set up a regular monthly donation with Second Harvest of Silicon Valley. It's crazy how efficient food banks are. Every dollar donated is something like 2 meals… A little goes a very long way.

2025-10-28 12:09:45 UTC

Adding paid ads to Apple Maps would show that Apple doesnt care about usage of their app.
Most of the time when I’m searching in Apple Maps I’m searching for a particular place. “Emergency vet in Redwood City”.
If I want to find “dog friendly restaurants near me” I won’t use Apple Maps I’ll go straight to Yelp or something that can do filtered searching. And I’m (mostly) ok with ads there.
I don’t want ads in Maps when I am just looking for something I just don’t know the address of

2025-10-19 14:00:29 UTC

Trump posting a video of himself taking a shit on Americans is perfect.
10/10. No notes.

2025-10-16 04:08:59 UTC

I've built something Ive wanted for a long time. -- I got very tired of rendering 1 pixel wide lines in Metal.
This is GraphicsContext3D. It's basically SwiftUI's Canvas - but with 3D points instead of 2D. The geometry is converted to 3D meshes using Metal Object and Mesh shaders.
The API looks a lot like SwiftUI Canvas.
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/381/875/872/696/480/original/43bb1b65dc273d3b.mp4

2025-10-13 21:56:02 UTC

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@nprofile…843t And yeah - we didn't know quite to expect from Utah. But wow… it gave.

2025-10-10 04:47:02 UTC

Crazy idea. We are disappointed in Apple. Maybe we, I dunno, start boycotting their products and services.
I’ve seen (and am responsible for) a lot of bitching. But I’m not seeing a lot of action.
And I’m noticing a lot of people loving their orange phones who probably don’t love that orange shitstain making demands of Apple.

2025-10-09 14:37:01 UTC

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@nprofile…843t yeah for us it was our last stop before Zion and we were throughly impressed. The dog had a blast exploring each nook. Although it had just rained and that stuff is like porridge.
I recommended Dead Horse Point state park in Utah to you before. Standing by it. If you go near Moab for Arches or Canyonlands it’s well located and is just breathtaking.
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/344/711/104/667/283/original/78ed8b64f1d58ea8.jpeg

2025-10-09 14:22:58 UTC

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@nprofile…843t cathedral gorge!
Gorgeous! Pun intended

2025-10-08 00:56:30 UTC

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@nprofile…sht7 wouldn’t you prefer a polynomial amount of nickels?

2025-10-06 05:04:19 UTC

I always wanted a nice implementation of those rotation widgets you seen in various 3d editing apps.
I based this one off the one in Magica Voxel which is a rather nice one.
But i figured why limit yourself to just a cube…
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/325/470/582/308/846/original/77f15b5de428e8f3.mp4

2025-10-03 15:38:40 UTC

Very disappointed in Apple and the take down of IceBlock (as problematic as that app and its developer were).
But infinitely more disappointed in anyone who reacts with "but what choice did they have".

2025-06-17 22:13:06 UTC

"Trump Seeks Iran’s ‘Unconditional Surrender’ as War Escalates"
Imma going to go out on a limb and guess what the response to such a dumbass request is going to be…

2025-06-17 00:07:55 UTC

I wish I had the ability to focus on a task like Daisy can focus on the place she saw a chipmunk
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/695/790/324/629/966/original/bb6fa2f37fcb4ae7.jpeg

2025-06-14 20:59:26 UTC

San Mateo #nokings protest is straddling El Camino Real with protestors waving signs on each side of the street.
Cars driving down El Camino are honking in what can only be assumed to be total support and not frustration (tbh protestors are not blocking traffic)
A car with a poodle sticking its head out the passenger window came down the road to massive cheers and applause and I swear the poodle thought it was all for him.

2025-06-09 21:54:26 UTC

I miss the old Xcode settings window.

2025-06-09 20:09:03 UTC

"Sure the new Liquid Glass UI is nice but it doesn't really fit our corporate language so we're not going to do anything"
Every large company app designer.

2025-05-23 23:25:58 UTC

“Put it somewhere safe” is code for “lost, never to be found again until we’ve gotten a replacement”

2025-05-01 15:07:57 UTC

I am just furniture. And I’m ok with that.
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/433/200/830/684/558/original/7eeb7e552bb4674b.jpeg

2025-05-01 06:29:39 UTC

Hey Apple friends… this…
https://techhub.social/@jonathanreed/114428416928978665

2025-04-24 17:34:55 UTC

“Your package is on the way”
Checks shipping website “label created”
Five days later checks shipping website and still at label created.

2025-04-22 14:44:33 UTC

Reminder that just because you can it doesn’t mean you should.
“Config as code” is a bug not a feature.
Config should be easy to reason with and understand. Being forced to run the code to understand what the configuration is, is a huge failure.
Package.swift should have been something like TOML (or whatever) with a suitably expressive schema instead…
https://chaos.social/@ole/114381265023437618

2025-04-14 14:58:53 UTC

“No sleep til Dubdub” is toxic masculinity.
Thank you for coming to my ted talk.

2025-04-11 20:56:07 UTC

ICE agents wearing face masks to hide their identities while they smash car windows to arrest people tells you everything you need to know.

2025-04-09 18:04:55 UTC

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@nprofile…8xaf until tomorrow

2025-03-28 19:52:21 UTC

Wait wait wait. Genmojis are an alt-right power move?

2025-03-27 22:36:27 UTC

This wasn't quite the response I was expecting to get from ChatGPT but I'll take it.
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/236/783/582/995/482/original/8389c30d8856011a.png