This is a bad time for my team to be in the seat of reviewing products submitted to Chariz. Almost everything is slop in some way. Not enjoying this and I don’t know how long I can keep up patience for it. Chariz’s purpose was always to uplift new developers, make them realise they are a good […]

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It’s unfortunate this is buried in a podcast I can only describe as the voices in my head when I forget to take my ADHD meds for a week, but I wanted to give a shoutout to this interview with John MacFarlane, creator of Pandoc, CommonMark, and a new Markdown replacement, djot. In this era where […]

Who needs accessibility or editor improvements anyway? 🤷‍♀️

The more GitHub goes down despite adding more infra to feed the AI agents hammering it, the more I feel like it’s only to save face for being the source of the problem. They did reorganise GitHub under the AI group after all, so that infra spend barely registers on the balance sheet. How much of […]

When I get a url like ?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_fan&utm_content=web_share I just have to wonder who exactly are they fooling by exposing their analytics like that. I guess at least it isn’t a unique tracking token

Kinda back to a state of not understanding what is going on with Overcast. Marco seems to be getting a lot done, actual features this time not just redesigns, and they’ve all been great. (Volume normalisation is nice for the abysmal Acast ads to not rupture my eardrums every time they interrupt […]

AI agents have made it easy for me to keep up with all my podcasts. Not because they’re summarising them for me, but because every tech podcast keeps yapping about them and every boring episode gushing over them is such an easy skip

My favorite feature of watchOS is when I miss my 7:00 AM alarm and it decides to compensate by making it a 10:48 AM alarm that goes off out of nowhere

Fiddler really is One Of Those Windows Apps that does what it has to do, incredibly well, even if it looks dated. I always thought it was very disappointing that, post-acquisition, it went into maintenance mode and was replaced by a subscription product that STILL doesn’t come even slightly […]

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@kirb/115306892229431182 There are new articles this week, citing StatCounter, stating that Linux rose to 10% market share in the US. Exciting if true, but I doubt it is. More bots pretend to be real users than ever now, and as with last time, that messes with the […]

Adam Demasi@kirb.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 12mo ago

This article has come up on my timeline a few times, and it’s interesting seeing replies prescribing a reason for what’s clearly bad data from one source. For as long as I can remember, tech blogs have sat on the edge of their seat waiting for the month’s StatCounter update, so they can make a […]

I guess something I’ve wanted on macOS for a very long time now finally exists, but it’s entirely written by AI. I keep wanting to build an Activity Monitor replacement with the level of information Process Explorer provides on Windows, but haven’t found the […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@kirb/115306892229431182 There are new articles this week, citing StatCounter, stating that Linux rose to 10% market share in the US. Exciting if true, but I doubt it is. More bots pretend to be real users than ever now, and as with last time, that messes with the […]

Adam Demasi@kirb.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 12mo ago

This article has come up on my timeline a few times, and it’s interesting seeing replies prescribing a reason for what’s clearly bad data from one source. For as long as I can remember, tech blogs have sat on the edge of their seat waiting for the month’s StatCounter update, so they can make a […]

Finding it funny Stack Overflow now shows comment timestamps as “over 1 year ago”, even if the comment was made in 2010. Can’t decide if this is laziness about when it makes sense to switch to an absolute date, or an attempt at making the site look artificially more active than it is, or both

Love using the very stable and bug-free Windows App app to connect to my Linux machines

#mutualaid #mutualaidrequest #fedihelp Another week. My unemployment is still being "adjudicated" (going on 12 days now) I'm extra fearful of being given an eviction notice in August. So I wanna get on top of rent *before* August 1st ;-; the more runway I can give myself the better Truly […]

🌎⬆️ Legacy Update 1.13.2 addresses a security issue in the ActiveX control. Please update as soon as possible. https://legacyupdate.net/news/2026/07/21/legacy-update-1-13-2 #legacyupdate

Legacy Update 1.13.2: Security advisory

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🌎⬆️ Legacy Update 1.13.2 addresses a security issue in the ActiveX control. Please update as soon as possible. https://legacyupdate.net/news/2026/07/21/legacy-update-1-13-2 #legacyupdate

Legacy Update 1.13.2: Security advisory

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#mutualaid #mutualaidrequest #fedihelp (Boosts hella appreciated as always ;-;) I made it through to July. Cannot thank the folks that helped out enough, truly <3 I wanna get this GoFundMe "finished" and funded before August 1st. That should give me enough "buffer" for Washington State to […]

Every time I need to authenticate with my password manager twice, once to fill out the email step and click next, then again to fill the password, I wonder why no website is smart enough to have the password field hidden and autofillable. Trust that if the browser autofills a password, the user […]

In response to recent industry changes, we’re making the entire 576 KB Legacy Update program available as freeware on a floppy disk. Just send $1 to: Homer Simpson, Jr. Vice President Compu-Global-Hyper-Mega-Net 742 Evergreen Tce Springfield, USA Offer void in Nebraska.

Microsoft quietly extended Windows 10 Extended Security Updates to add another year of free updates for consumers. We updated our article about Windows 10 ESU to reflect this. If you haven’t seen it before, you might find it a useful read to know how to safely continue using Windows 10 […]

[mutualaid] (Boosts highly appreciated!! ;-;) I hate having to do this. But my back is severely against the wall at the moment. I've been unemployed since the end of March and have burnt through what little savings I'd managed to rack up My unemployment claim is "pending" until they verify […]

So you can enable a wacky debugging mode for Liquid Glass on macOS Golden Gate: `defaults write com.apple.SwiftUI flexiGlassTuningEnabled -bool yes` #apple #macos

So you can enable a wacky debugging mode for Liquid Glass on macOS Golden Gate: `defaults write com.apple.SwiftUI flexiGlassTuningEnabled -bool yes` #apple #macos

This post becoming my most popular on any social media ever was not something I was exactly expecting. Guess I should have expected it when semi-invoking politics on Bluesky. I will note the vibe was better during US sleeping hours. For about 6 hours, nobody tried to explain my joke to me.

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Is the Microsoft Office Ribbon causing people to have fewer children? A provocative new working paper explores the persistent drop in birth rates since Office 2007 was introduced nearly two decades ago.

New Finder feature in macOS 27: you can paste things from your clipboard into the filesystem. Who else has been asking for this one? 😄

Great news! Notion is substituting its Electron architectural problems for new SwiftUI architectural problems, because we know how bug-free SwiftUI is on macOS and in general. But at least the inferior experience will use less RAM. Problem solved 😊 […]

@siracusa “Golden Gate does sound like a code name rather than a public name” - you may be subconsciously remembering that it actually was the codename for Big Sur: https://hachyderm.io/@kirb/116720448084725303

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Attached: 1 image Golden Gate happens to be a codename Apple already used internally for macOS Big Sur. For a brief moment, when the name was announced in the keynote but before the Apple website went live, The Apple Wiki was the top search result for macOS Golden Gate: https://theapplewiki.com/wiki/GoldenGate_20A2261g #apple #wwdc

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Golden Gate happens to be a codename Apple already used internally for macOS Big Sur. For a brief moment, when the name was announced in the keynote but before the Apple website went live, The Apple Wiki was the top search result for macOS Golden Gate […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]