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Wait, didn't Root end up in a mental facility at the end of Season 2 literally due to AI psychosis? #poi

One of the funniest jokes in Person of Interest. #poi

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By the way. I've been hunting for a new iOS Dev opportunity for the last 4 months. Want help with the iPhone Duo makeover? Launching a startup that needs an iOS app? I can set up the coding/building infrastructure, CI pipelines, architecture, and ship your product.

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Maciej Rutkowski @macbirdie.net · 2mo ago

Wow, this is a huge change, kind of in line what Apple's been doing the past two years. xcodegen and in one way Tuist were the true heroes when it comes to keeping the Xcode project description sane in a multi-dev and agentic setup. JSON-based Xcode project format coming in Xcode 27.2 ❤️

That was a pretty good episode of Crimson Tide in space. Finally no gimmicks, no noir, no singing, and no soap operas. #snw

Todd Vaziri@tvaziri.com · 3mo ago

I didn't even know such a movie was coming out but now I'm definitely seeing it after that review! 🔫🐓

"The End of Oak Street" (2026) review: www.instagram.com/reels/Db_ybi...

Using Qwen 3.6 27B I wanted to reverse engineer the app that resets the waste counter in Epson printers which makes them otherwise unusable unless you pay up to change a variable in its config. It however refused due to DMCA and other consumer-hostile laws. Changed to an uncensored model and...

Holy hell, I was not expecting to rewatch Even Horizon in form of a Strange New Worlds episode. 👻

Maciej Rutkowski @macbirdie.net · 4mo ago

bought a broken UPS, fixed it, replaced battery, connected a router and a PoE switch to it, connected some devices through PoE throughout the home, power goes down, said devices stay powered on *surprised pikachu face*

how in the vibe coding hell is it that an OAuth session may expire WHILE using the product authenticated? how can one screw up the most common authentication scheme on the internet so badly?

Maciej Rutkowski @macbirdie.net · 4mo ago

I feel like during the last two years software quality has gone significantly down. What the hell is going on? People just stopped caring didn’t they.

When coding by hand (crazy, I know), WWDC Coding Energy playlists from Apple Music are the goat. Need elevator music equivalent for vibe coding.

iPod Nanos are... a challenge to repair. I'm equally fascinated and apalled at how those things are put together.

iPod Nano gen 5 disassembled, ready for a battery change

be brave, dear Swift developer, use `unowned` more

Made an Ollama API proxy to llama-server's default OpenAI-style one so VSCode can use it natively without any extensions, err, and why is it writing a 500-word essay on dragons? is this some token use gauge calibration?

Can't believe it's 2026 and I still had to look up fuckingblocksyntax.com today; but not for long!

How Do I Declare A Block in Objective-C?

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So long, sleep, drink, food, and family. You will be missed.

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Some exciting new stuff in the PS5 jailbreak scene happened in the recent few weeks. Trying the new exploit with my 12.70 console, the console crashes on game exit (using a raunchy japanese Lua-based game); I thought, why don't I ask an seemingly all-knowing coding entity about the possible causes.

Home Assistant finally executed an automation I set up *two years ago* that would check sun's position and cloud covering to figure out if it should lower one window shade to stop blinding me when sitting at the living room table. AGI is here.

I'm a dimwit. I've been running this power-hungry moster of a GPU, RTX3090, on a single PCI-E cable essentially - simply connected the two plugs from the same cable to GPU's sockets, instead of providing it with power from two separate rails. Symptoms? Voltage drops, crashes, oxidated pins.

I had some fun with vibing backends macbirdie.net/2026/05/vibe...

Chasing the vibe-coded bottlenecks – making the roaming future

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Have a question, go to google, enter the query, skip irrelevant product results, go to a website with the answer, skip the cookie banner, privacy banner, interrupting newsletter banner, interrupting cross promo banner, autoplayed silent video overlay. ✋ Have a question, tell Claude to find one. 👈

Funny that if I host our music at home from a server and something stops working (which it never does) it’s my job to fix it. But also, if Spotify is down for several hours, somehow it’s my job to fix that too.

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Hello there. No HDMI though - literally unusable