Has anyone ever researched why check (cheque) (bill) splitting at restaurants is so weird in the USA compared to everywhere else with digitised payments? In the USA my experience has been that any non-trivial check splitting is refused by the server. Split two ways evenly, sure. Maybe as high […]

@siracusa The Private Cloud Compute software stack is not only distributed to security researchers, but to the general public: https://security.apple.com/documentation/private-cloud-compute/virtualresearchenvironment

It’s early in January and the sun is out so my mind has turned to rooftop solar. Time for a retrospective on my rooftop solar install in the UK. The UK is typically regarded as a poor location for rooftop solar compared to the rest of the Anglophone world, or much of Europe. That’s true: Spain […]

I firmly believe the two most comfortable wide-body aircraft for passengers are the A380 and A350.

Hey folks, if you’re running swift-nio-http2 we recommend you update to 1.38.0 as soon as possible. NIO defends against the new MadeYouReset attacks out of the box, but we have added some belt-and-suspenders defences to mitigate more sophisticated versions of the attack. These are available in 1 […]

Gosh United’s Basic Economy is terrible. Definitely a product the airline fully does not want you to buy.

On behalf of an entire continent I feel very comfortable saying: get fucked. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/26/trump-tells-europe-to-get-your-act-together-on-immigration-before-us-eu-trade-talks

Trump tells Europe to ‘get your act together’ on immigration before US-EU trade talks

Ursula von der Leyen will meet with US president on Sunday, who describes ‘20 sticking points’ in negotiations

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It’s rare to see a talk that so effectively demonstrates not just the tools for performance analysis, but the approach that leads to good results. This is a talk I wish I’d thought to give, but Matt absolutely crushed it. Comfortably my favourite session of WWDC 25 […]

@atpfm Relevant to the Cursor support chatbot blowup, Air Canada lost a court case on this: https://www.bbc.co.uk/travel/article/20240222-air-canada-chatbot-misinformation-what-travellers-should-know

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I’m a touch surprised that I can’t find any off-the-shelf examples of a fused spur with an integrated Shelly. I have found two: one is a relay without energy monitoring, and the other is a subscription service. What am I missing?

Hanging out at QCon today. Come find me if you want to chat about Swift, memory safety’s services development; or anything else!

Want to work on server-side networking in the Swift programming language at Apple? My team has multiple positions open, at various experience levels: https://jobs.apple.com/en-gb/details/200590921/software-engineer-apple-services-engineering?team=SFTWR. We're hiring senior and junior positions […]

Alternative photo community using activitypub called Vernissage if anyone wants to try. Since it uses activitypub it can interact with Mastodon, Pixelfed & others Angular, Swift, PostgreSQL, Redis, S3 ObjectStorage #fediverse #activitypub #photography #angular #swift #postgresql #redis #mastodon

The morning after. Feels surreal and humbling.

Unrelatedly, I’m getting more and more disappointed with BAs increasingly aged fleet of 777-200ERs. Even with the newer business class product, the noise and cabin altitude are markedly worse than almost any other aircraft in the fleet.

This is a phenomenal post, and well worth internalising for network engineers. If I see a htons in your PR I will reject it until it’s replaced. https://mastodon.social/@regehr/113703060799299405

It has been zero days since a mysterious throughput problem turned out to be TCP slow start.

@mjg59 spotted in Guardian article reporting on Craig Call-Me-Satoshi Wright.