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  1. [✉️] Bad Company
    Aug 20, 2026 · original
    You get your takeout in a nice brown paper bag. As you’re folding it up to recycle it later, you see the bold black stamp on the bottom: “ULINE”. You open up a web link you found online to read an interesting article. It’s at Substack.com. You are buying a cool new t-shirt to support a favoured podcaster. The shopping cart opens and you see it’s a Shopify link. You are reading your feeds and discover that a journalist you’ve been following for years, a keystone of the small community to which you belong, has “returned” to X. These four stories are the same story. ULINE is a bad company . Substack is a bad company . Shopify is a bad company . X is a bad company . The thread is common: the people that make money from these companies are spending it to make our society worse. They are privileging their own wealth accumulation over the well-being of real people. They are, all of them, amoral
  2. [✉️] Let’s Indigo
    May 12, 2026 · original
    Today, Ben McCarthy and I are launching Indigo . It’s a full-featured client for both Mastodon and Bluesky, available on iPhone, iPad and macOS. Go get it on the App Store ! At the time we began work on this app in the fall of 2024, there was a consensus opinion that you couldn’t combine these two networks. Two text-based social networks, each with their own distinct characters (both in terms of the people and features!), could not help but fall apart under scrutiny. But Ben and I disagreed with that consensus. With enough thoughtful application, we really felt we could represent the best each service has to offer. For me personally, the motivation was powerful: I was fully invested in Mastodon, but I keenly missed the people I’d followed on Twitter who had migrated to Bluesky instead. I was never going to use two apps to follow both networks. Especially since, while we have truly terrif
  3. [✉️] A Canadian's Call to Arms, Being Totally Pissed Off At the State of Computing in the 21st Century
    Jan 6, 2026 · original
    I can’t explain to you how angry I am right now. They’ve taken the thing I love most and perverted it. They’ve perverted everything. The computers. The Internet. The glorious pocket computer. They used to be loaded with possibility. Now they’re a hard-wire, extracting cash from every spare waking moment. And for those of us who build software, we’ve found ourselves increasingly at the mercy of an oligarchy of companies who constrain the possibilities of the platforms, gatekeeping the relationship we have with customers and limiting the kinds of things we can do on those platforms. But it’s even worse than that. These companies have used their power and influence to centralize the fabric of digital society and the economy, tying it all up in Office 365 and Amazon Web Services. You can choose between Microsoft’s increasingly ad-ridden Windows OS, Apple’s locked-down macOS, or the even-more
  4. [✉️] They're Not Going to Change
    May 28, 2025 · original
    I was listening to the latest episode of The Talk Show , where John Gruber and Stephen Hackett were discussing the way Apple treats developers on its platforms. In the final segment of the podcast, they were talking about Fortnite’s return to the App Store, and segued to a larger dicussion of developers’ increasingly fraught relationship with Apple. It was particularly amusing to hear this chat because they appeared to talk themselves into the idea that Apple might use WWDC — or the week leading up to it — to launch a rapprochement with developers, to show somehow that they are valued and not treated as feedstock for their services revenue. This is a particularly momentous time for Apple and its developer community, I think. Vision Pro launched to very little fanfare: a brand-new developer platform that caused a collective yawn among the indies and corporations alike who have realized th
  5. [✉️] This Should Work Better
    Dec 10, 2024 · original
    I hate to complain, but I hit a breaking point tonight. While working on my app in Xcode, I ran into this super-common error (in case the image above is broken or something, it’s the “The compiler is unable to type-check this expression in reasonable time; try breaking up the expression into distinct sub-expressions” error). Again. And the thing you need to know about this error is that it’s a red herring: the problem is almost never that there are too many “sub-expressions” (whatever the hell that means). This error happens when there’s a genuine syntax error inside the body of the SwiftUI body . The best and easiest way to solve this error is to remove the most recently-added code. Then, carefully scrutinize that code manually until you determine what you’ve done wrong. Fix that, and this error goes away. I want to be patient, but I’m at the end of my rope on this stuff. Back when I wr
  6. [✉️] Dear Elon
    Dec 2, 2024 · original
    Hey Elon. It’s me, Aaron Vegh. You won’t read this, but I’m going to write it anyway. You are the wealthiest human on the planet. You will appear in history books. I am a modest technologist living a normal life in a mediocre country. I will be forgotten shortly after I die. So this is a silly exercise; the asymmetry between us is colossal. But here’s the thing. You were doing so well! And now, you’re just not. I remember the old days, when you seemed so incredible, so superhuman. You bought Tesla, and made electric cars real. You bought SpaceX, and you made space so much more accessible. You clearly felt the mandate to improve humanity, fighting climate change, and giving us a vision for a future beyond the earth. You were doing something almost nobody else gets to do as a private citizen: you moved the needle. And I admired you for it. You don’t know this about me, but I resist admirin
  7. [µ] Croissant 1.2 just submitted for App Review. Here
    Nov 9, 2024 · original
    Croissant 1.2 just submitted for App Review. Here comes the share extension that I was whining about the last couple weeks! Thanks to all for the help (but especially @maxgoedjen@maxtodon.lol)
  8. [µ] Low-key terrified that if I step into an Apple Sto
    Nov 8, 2024 · original
    Low-key terrified that if I step into an Apple Store now, I’m gonna be forced to walk out with a sweet l’il new Mac mini and I’ll name it Hippo and put little googly eyes on it. https://www.macrumors.com/2024/11/08/new-macs-now-available-for-apple-store-pickup/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
  9. [µ] New M4 Pro in the house!
    Nov 8, 2024 · original
    New M4 Pro in the house!
  10. [µ] Apple: your MacBook Pro is shipping! You’ll have i
    Nov 7, 2024 · original
    Apple: your MacBook Pro is shipping! You’ll have it tomorrow. Here’s a tracking link! UPS: We don’t have the package yet.
  11. [✉️] I Can't Even With This Guy
    Nov 7, 2024 · original
    The whole world knows the news by now. Donald Trump is going to be president of the United States. Again. As a Canadian, I had no say in that decision, and at the same time, I’m going to be affected by the outcome. All of us will. It hardly needs to be said, but this guys is simply unfit to lead an after-school intramural soccer team, never mind the most powerful country in the history of the world. You know all this . So I’m actually not that angry at Trump directly. We know who he is. He is nothing if not consistent. But I’m livid . Like, scintillating, stars-in-my-eyes outraged at the approximately 51% of voters who chose that guy. How? My best, most generous take, is this: young people in particular are looking at the world they’re inheriting, and they’re simply getting priced out of existence. Rent is too high, home prices are stratospheric, and any hope of having the kind of reason
  12. [µ] I hate these “What’s New” views with the fire of a
    Nov 2, 2024 · original
    I hate these “What’s New” views with the fire of a thousand suns.
  13. [µ] Love this review of Croissant by @jhpot on Lifehac
    Nov 1, 2024 · original
    Love this review of Croissant by @jhpot on Lifehacker! Thank you! 🥐❤️ https://lifehacker.com/tech/croissant-app-posts-to-mastodon-threads-bluesky-at-once
  14. [µ] My god, I *love* love the Mac mini ad. https://www
    Nov 1, 2024 · original
    My god, I love love the Mac mini ad. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjpGvjy0Gxk
  15. [µ] Does this sort of problem go away if I have an M4?
    Oct 31, 2024 · original
    Does this sort of problem go away if I have an M4? 👀😡
  16. [µ] Happy New MacBook Pro Eve to all who celebrate.
    Oct 29, 2024 · original
    Happy New MacBook Pro Eve to all who celebrate.
  17. [µ] The AT Protocol is the worst. They really said to
    Oct 25, 2024 · original
    The AT Protocol is the worst. They really said to themselves: how can we put as much onus on the client as possible? Here they are saying the quiet part out loud when it comes to link embedding. Thanks dudes.
  18. [µ] I’ve looked at Yomu, Kortext, FBReader, EPUB Reade
    Oct 25, 2024 · original
    I’ve looked at Yomu, Kortext, FBReader, EPUB Reader, Omnireader… omg they gonna make me build another app help me
  19. [µ] So I’ve just done a survey of ebook reader apps fo
    Oct 25, 2024 · original
    So I’ve just done a survey of ebook reader apps for Mac and iOS. I want an app that can automatically parse my books and put them into series. It’s crazy to me that every reader app is just a wall of book covers. Books is awful but still the best.
  20. [µ] Love this little review of Croissant from the grea
    Oct 24, 2024 · original
    Love this little review of Croissant from the great @Steven_aquino! https://sfba.social/@steven_aquino/113364019988395328

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