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yeah really. half way thru i realized and felt punked. write your own damn articles people.

You’re a ”developer“, i guess, but not a coder (anymore), which is what your interlocutors are probably asking about. You’ve migrated to a middle manager job, not something they pr…

clearly not a reader of Mondo 2000 back in the day. i do miss real hacker culture.

This brings up an often overlooked aspect of the role of laws in society, that it it’s important that there exist an ability to break laws. It’s critically important to the growth …

Pardons should be changed to be subject to congressional approval (and rate limited). It’s clearly been demonstrated that the temptation to abuse it is too great.

Everything they did was amazing. Hackers in the best sense.

As a young engineer, I was once visited at my work desk by my CEO and the HR team because of all the Dilberts I had up on my cubicle wall. They felt they were harming morale. The e…

I'd love to hear more! Have you collected stories on a blog or to places like Folklore.org?

Full agree. The TouchBar was a genuine innovation that gave new ways to interact with data and context. But without the function keys (and the real ESC) there were frequent acciden…

I didn’t notice that it hasn’t been updated since ‘21 (TM2), but I still use it every day. Just a reliable, minimal, fully native (no electron, etc) editor that is flexible enough …

i haven’t had my coffee yet, but i’m going to need to see this sentence diagrammed out.

Average users have no idea what of their information is in the cloud or not. Even if they did, they have no idea of the implications.

One can make Spaces deterministic by turning off Automatically rearrange Spaces. Add keyboard shortcuts for quick access to each. On multi-display setups, you can have the whole gr…

Nice. It’d be cool if you could tap on the subject tags to filter for the latest posts with that tag.

Bikes and scooters aren’t legal on sidewalks in Chicago, and these little robots are just clogging up what little pedestrian space still exists. Totally apart from the questionable…

+1 for the return of TouchID, but it’ll never happen. Having to orient the phone and stare into a bright screen all the time is sub optimal.

Back when I used to meditate regularly, I would find that an extra meditation in the middle of a sleepless night would go a long way toward pushing off the need for sleep. Generall…

relevant Dilbert: https://www.flubu.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/wpid-p...

Early releases of the dev tools even included the TextEdit source for you to learn from.

These days “classical” just distinguishes all things quantum from non-quantum. General relativity is considered a classical theory, for example.

Apple often goes to great lengths to avoid anything GPL.

At a minimum, an education should leave you with an ability regardless of the tools at your disposal. There may come a time when whatever tool you have grown accustomed to will not…

first thing i do on any email setup is turn off autoloading images to kill that positive signal. just doing this has cut down spam considerably.

I can’t speak to the errors you’re seeing, only that my experience is different. I’ve written well over a hundred CLI apps on macOS, of all sizes. I consider it a very good languag…