Collin Allen
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Staff Software Engineer at Pixar building web and native apps · Mac nerd since the PowerPC 603 · Interested in hardware and infosec · N64 and original Xbox homebrew enthusiast #Vue #Nuxt #Python #Swift #SwiftUI #Rust #Terraform #Kubernetes #PostgreSQL
Intent to ship: JPEG XL! This will be on-by-default in Firefox 157, which should become the main release version at the end of September. This includes key JPEG XL features like progressive rendering. groups.google.com/a/mozilla.or...
Intent to ship: JPEG XL
As of Firefox 157 I intend to turn JPEG XL decoding on by default on all platforms. It has been developed behind image.jxl.enabled, which today is on by default on Nightly only, and has had a Firefox…
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This is the coolest article I've ever written. Genuinely. All of you should read it.
ngrok@ngrok.com · 3w agoCompression and LLMs are trying to solve the exact same problem: predicting what comes next. @anniesexton.com's interactive essay walks us through the basics of compression to reveal its surprising overlap with every language model you've ever used.
2001: Playing Halo CE with my teenage friends 2026: Playing Halo CE with my teenage kids
Nuxt 4.5 is out, and it's a big one. 🚀 - ⚡️ Vite 8 - 🦀 Rspack 2, now powered by Rsbuild - 🌊 experimental SSR streaming for faster TTFB - 🩺 a new stable error code system - 🎨 useLayout, named views, and more ... plus a lot of groundwork for Nuxt 5! 💚💚💚
Nuxt 4.5 · Nuxt Blog
Nuxt 4.5 is our biggest release in a while. Vite 8, Rspack 2 powered by Rsbuild, experimental SSR streaming, a stable error code system, a new useLayout composable, named views, and a lot of groundwor...
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New Video - History of AOL Instant Messenger - out NOW on YouTube! www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxKe...
The History of AOL Instant Messenger
YouTube video by Macintosh Librarian
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Hoping someday SVG rendering in Chrome won’t look terrible 🙏🏻 It’s been 84 years… issues.chromium.org/issues/40827...
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The way you install and trust self-signed/in-house root certificates in iOS Simulator, now Device Hub, has changed significantly: command-tab.com/2026/06/12/i...
Importing Certificates into Xcode 27's Device Hub
The process for importing certificates into iOS 27 simulated devices has changed for the better
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Halo: Campaign Evolved, Crazy Taxi World Tour, and the Xbox Series X25 intro are giving me nostalgic warm fuzzies
[4K] XBOX Games Showcase 2026 | Gears of War: E-Day Direct
American Sign Language: https://youtube.com/live/macPbXej0a0 British Sign Language: https://youtube.com/live/tYGKZsFGQzA Audio Descriptions: https://youtube.com/live/EPJcQA2eUbo Join us for our double feature on June 7, 10am PT - XBOX Games Showcase immediately followed by Gears of War: E-Day Direct. It's our 25th anniversary and we're excited to share upcoming games from our first party studios as well as partners from around the globe. Stay tuned immediately following the Showcase for the Gears of War: E-Day Direct and join The Coalition for a deeper look into the upcoming origin story in the critically acclaimed series.
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I was truly not prepared for a future in which the phrase "stolen compute from Chipotle's AI chat bot" makes any kind of sense.
kottke.org@kottke.org · 3mo agoChipotlai Max is an AI agent that runs on “stolen compute” from Chipotle’s AI chat bot. They are looking to borrow from bots from Ikea, Expedia, Home Depot, and others. (via @masnick.com) [github.com]
It's years late for a review, but I wrote about how fantastic Indiana Jones and the Great Circle is: I wish I could forget it and play it all again from the beginning with fresh eyes. I love it so much.
Indiana Jones and the Great Circle
My review of Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, one of the few licensed games that actually understands its source material
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Unreal barely ran on my PowerBook in 1998, but it was still such a formative experience. Once my friends and I got our machines networked together, we spent so many hours hunting each other in DMDeck16. One of them would be the best man at my wedding a decade later.
Dreya@dreyameir.bsky.social · 3mo agoWe join Prisoner 849 as they escape their crashed prison ship and emerge into a strange land full of bizarre creatures and an alien society built on violence and subjugation. They quickly find a gun and don’t think too hard about it. youtu.be/RpqKNdpvl1M
Introducing Indigo A beautiful new app for Bluesky and Mastodon and the best way to experience both social networks together. It's tough keeping up with everyone when they're split across networks but Indigo brings them together for a seamless social experience. apps.apple.com/us/app/indigo-...
Dimming the screen for the screen saver on #PicoIDE was boring so I added flying toasters as an option. Sprites borrowed from the PicoPOST project
Hello if you are in the bay area over the weekend and are interested in technology and how it affects actual people, may I recommend popping up to Petaluma for @NorthBayPython? It's this weekend! Talks and tickets: https://northbaypython.org/ (We'll waive ticket costs on request too, if you […]
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Feeling optimistic about the future of Xbox with Asha Sharma at the helm. She’s saying the right things. Now to actually execute.
I blogged. It's been a while. command-tab.com/2026/04/15/g...
Command-Tab - Going Electric
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How long until we get this far more expressive text-to-speech in Siri? Between LLMs, Apple devices' available context, and advances like this in speech, Siri ought to be light years better than it is now. Maybe WWDC and the upcoming OS releases will bring the goods? blog.google/innovation-a...
Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS: the next generation of expressive AI speech
Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS is now available across Google products.
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Announcing Oxfmt Beta * 100% Prettier Compatibility * Additional File Formats * Tailwind CSS Integration * Import Sorting * package.json Sorting * Embedded Language Formatting * Node.js API * `--migrate prettier` * config overrides * Full IDE support oxc.rs/blog/2026-02...
Oxfmt Beta
A collection of high-performance JavaScript tools written in Rust
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This year is a 2-Pixar-film year! Hoppers is just around the corner, and Toy Story 5 is shortly after that: youtube.com/watch?v=c51ND9Hdbw0 So stoked about both of these 🤩
Toy Story 5 | Official Trailer | In Theaters June 19
YouTube video by Pixar
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@aeronautapp.com A feature request, if I may: Please add image size options. Images consume a lot of vertical real estate while scrolling, and I'd like to be able to choose a smaller size image thumbnail, and click to open it in a new media viewer window. The web page embeds look great, though!
Excited to announce that Aeronaut is now live in the Mac App Store! 🎉 After two years of tinkering, polishing, and obsessing over the little things, it’s finally here! If you’re looking for a Bluesky app designed and built for macOS, take a look… apps.apple.com/us/app/aeronau…
The PicoIDE Crowd Supply campaign is now live! Back the project to be among the first to get yours! PicoIDE is an open IDE/ATAPI drive emulator for retro systems. www.crowdsupply.com/polpotronics...
PicoIDE
An open source IDE/ATAPI drive emulator for vintage computers
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National media should really be covering the fact thay every major school, museum, and arts institution in the Twin Cities, and hundreds of local businesses are closed tomorrow to protest federal occupation. Nothing like this at this scale has happened anywhere in America anytime in living memory.
Ubiquiti has such a good native iOS app, and they do a really solid job organizing a significant volume of information about network hardware, clients, settings, etc. Worth looking into if you’ve been on the fence.
I would enjoy watching videos of someone competently building stuff with #Rust and talking about why they’re making the decisions they’re making as they go. Recommendations?
