Always impressed when a literary agent / AI bot wants to chat me up about a book I wrote 21 years ago. Hey, why don’t we talk up the advantages of PowerPC Macs while we’re at it?

The Ford app just added AI. This is the greatest thing ever.

Now that’s a thesis statement right there. An anti-Betteridge headline if I’ve ever seen one. https://frvr.com/blog/features/nintendo-switch-2-deserves-to-win-the-generation-simply-because-its-the-only-platform-thats-even-trying/

PR up for the first half of swift-foundation documentation, to be hosted on swift.org. https://github.com/swiftlang/swift-foundation/pull/2209

Spending Labor Day working through claim disputes with my old publishers on the Anthropic settlement, whee. https://www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/allocation-portal-instructions

Oh god, @gruber is gonna gloat so hard. Then again, Walmart has held out for what… 10-15 years?… and has nothing to show for it. https://www.axios.com/2026/08/21/walmart-tap-apple-pay-options

If you understand a word of this you are 100% my people.

Dennis@rodney.io · last mo.

Seriously considering dropping a slide from “13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim” into my Keynote presentation for work on Monday. I swear this is actually on-topic.

@gruber So, new Rolling Stones album? https://music.apple.com/us/album/foreign-tongues/1895941732

Foreign Tongues by The Rolling Stones on Apple Music

Album · 2026 · 14 Songs

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I forgot to take a picture, but we got the disabled kid playing Splatoon Raiders today with the one-handed controller and it’s… sort of working? If he can just get the hang of camera control we’ll be there. I don’t want to get my hopes up, but before the stroke he’d spend all day playing Splatoon.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@macrumors/116952783080906583 PWHL or GTFO.

I just got this AI-generated ad for language lessons over on FB and it’s my new favorite thing. Subtext is for cowards.

Periodic reminder that you can get back 1 GB of RAM by running Slack in a browser instead of using its Electron-based app.

I hooked up an old external drive and happened across these folders. Dang, was I obsessive about holding on to old Xcode versions and SDKs there for a while, wasn’t I?

My 17 year old has a Spotify playlist she's titled "songs to piss off fascist boomers" and I gotta say it's bangers top to bottom.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/116697230522661726 I keep meaning to buy this book on iBooks. The NeXT years have always been a big gap in the public narrative, and it’s kind of wild that some of my colleagues today are NeXT veterans.

I know this sounds good on paper to everybody, but in my own experience it has been *decades* since I saw intolerable battery degradation before the whole device was obsolete anyways. Like I think maybe my iPhone 4 lost charge before I was ready to replace it […]

Not trying to be a contrarian, but I noticed that the original was credited to Colbert himself, Late Show, and the city of Monroe, MI. And it had a hell of a lot of YT ads. Colbert and CBS don’t need the ad money, but Monroe probably does. Which makes ripping and monetizing yourself it a dick […]

This is so wholesome. Huge thumbs up to everyone who works on adaptive technologies. And Go Habs Go. https://youtube.com/shorts/9GtoGO89h8w

RE: https://mastodon.social/@daringfireball/116456109047485141 I’m also amused by the fact that Truth Social’s tech stack is little more than a fork of Mastodon, and I’d give odds they’re not even in compliance with its open source license.

Update from the worky-work that I can share publicly: https://github.com/swiftlang/swift/pull/88061

Add .docc catalog to allow publishing stdlib documentation on swift.org by invalidname · Pull Request #88061 · swiftlang/swift

This PR adds a .docc catalog and a full set of DocC curation files to stdlib, to provide a rich documentation experience for working with the Swift standard library. See the post in the stdlib foru...

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DDR is back, y’all. Also, I like the positivity of all the interview subjects… a welcome relief from the relentless negativity of most gaming spaces. https://youtu.be/bC35GgBXaGk

RIP my Mastodon mentions, but everyone else blasts when their department has an opening, so… https://jobs.apple.com/en-us/details/200647338-0836/developer-publications-content-engineering-author?team=SFTWR

Developer Publications - Content Engineering Author - Jobs - Careers at Apple

Apply for a Developer Publications - Content Engineering Author job at Apple. Read about the role and find out if it’s right for you.

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Kickstarter just launched for a new DDR/ITG/PIU pad in the year 2026. Hell yeah I backed it. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/active-gaming-pad/gamr-active-gaming-play-pad/description

Random screen grabs from 20 years ago when I was working on writing my own Java-to-QuickTime layer after Apple dropped QuickTime for Java. I knew next to nothing about the Apple APIs, so it’s amazing I got anything to work. But this is inadvertently what got me ready for the iPhone SDK.

The best time for Linux to support Rock Band guitars was 15 years ago. The second best time is now. https://www.reddit.com/r/Rockband/s/H1ZYrm96Eo

I just went through someone's Xcode project, ripped out a bunch of aliases I thought were redundant, and ended up being reminded of the importance of Chesterton's Fence. https://theknowledge.io/chestertons-fence-explained/

Chesterton's Fence: Explained

TL;DR / Summary G.K. Chesterton was an early 20th century English writer known for his clever paradoxes. He once wrote: “There exists in such a case a certain institution or law; let us say, for the sake of simplicity, a fence or gate erected across a road. The more

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I wait 15 years for this to come out in English, and when it finally does, I have so little time for it that it takes me a year and half just to get to The Twist. Oh well, on to teh melodrama then!

Kinda can’t help but wonder where ChatGPT will steal its programming answers for the next five years from, now that it has strip-mined its best source. https://developers.slashdot.org/story/26/01/05/1431212/stack-overflow-went-from-200000-monthly-questions-to-nearly-zero