I couldn’t work out how to renew my IDA license so I’m using Excel formulas as a disassembler.
Fredrik Mellström
@traal.se
Software developer. I'm into Python, Unix, and Apple and Google products, TV and books, and sometimes hiking. I'm not always here; see: https://wheretofind.me/@traal
This is an interesting observation about a difference in vocabulary between English and the rest of Europe. The same association between debt and guilt also exists in Swedish. Food for thought! 🤔 lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/4/23/eq...
Equity for Europeans
Equity combines legal fairness, ownership, and upside in one everyday concept.
lucumr.pocoo.org
"The concentration camps were fine, but the AI Jesus pic is too far."
This is like what YouTube was made for. I haven’t smiled this much in a long time. youtu.be/AkNqCJeeC48
This Weird Tandem Bike is WAY BETTER Than You Think
YouTube video by Berm Peak
youtu.be
"[The administration's characterization of Direct File] has it completely backwards. It is a calculation that only makes sense if you do not value the time and money of citizens, but regard the government doing anything to help the public as a burden."
What the death of Direct File tells us about state capacity
We CAN have nice things - if we want them
donmoynihan.substack.com
due to recent events I have to reiterate that blip.net is amazing witchcraft
Blip is the fastest way to send files
Send big files with no size limits, at full quality, across platforms, directly to other people and devices
blip.net
These uv Python skills for coding agents look promising. From @mathspp.com mathspp.com/blog/uv-skills
uv skills for coding agents
This article shares two skills you can add to your coding agents so they use uv workflows.
mathspp.com
Hey thanks, App Store! Americans, Callsheet is your App of the Day! ☺️
Get Movie and TV Info in an Instant - App Store
Filled with fun details that film and TV buffs will appreciate (and a handy option to hide spoilers),… Learn more tips and how-tos on the App Store.
apps.apple.com
“Writing is the fundamental form of human expression and ceding jurisdiction over the written word to plagiarism machines is the death of the human mind.” is now load-bearing for me.
AI sucks. Using it to write stuff sucks. Justifying using it to write stuff by saying it allows you to write more stuff sucks. Writing is the fundamental form of human expression and ceding jurisdiction over the written word to plagiarism machines is the death of the human mind.
Iran's Revolutionary Guards declares war on Silicon Valley. thenextweb.com/news/iran-ir...
Iran's IRGC names 18 US tech firms including Apple, Microsoft, Nvidia as military targets
Iran's Revolutionary Guards declared 18 US tech companies 'legitimate targets,' alleging their AI and cloud platforms enabled assassinations of senior Iranian commanders.
thenextweb.com
Skynet… In the sky! 😳 What could possibly go wrong?
Are orbital data centers economically viable? (Link)
I heard on @marketplace.org yesterday that there's a red yarn shortage, and I have a conspiracy theory about that.
This is the best explanation I’ve seen about how coffee cherries are processed. Amazing stuff! youtu.be/iMxBtUi-IbA
The difference between washed and natural coffee EXPLAINED
YouTube video by Roaster Kat
youtu.be
MKBHD shares some behind the scenes and productivity tidbits. Great interview as always by Myke. ☺️
Myke talks to Marques Brownlee about how he builds his reviews, from shaping a product narrative and writing scripts to collaborating with his team, deciding what becomes a video, and managing the pressure of creating at massive scale. www.relay.fm/cortex/174
I highly recommend this documentary about PFAS chemicals by Veritasium. It’s kind of a depressing subject, but the documentary itself is very well made and exciting. youtu.be/SC2eSujzrUY
How One Company Secretly Poisoned The Planet
YouTube video by Veritasium
youtu.be
After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.
Let’s be clear about what happened to Jimmy Kimmel
Trump’s most brazen attack on free speech yet.
yahoo.com
Oh no it's a SAN failure. hostux.social/@fsfstatus/1...
FSF Out of Band Updates (@fsfstatus@hostux.social)
Most services are still down. Staff is researching what appear they may be hardware issues related to clustered SAN storage. We will update further once staff-members are onsite at the data-center.
hostux.social
Probably my most listened music album ever — ”Talisman” by Björn Lynne. Just love to have it on random repeat while I work. 😊 youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Talisman - YouTube
youtube.com
uv, just, direnv, a tip from a 16 year old post from Brandon Rhodes, and other #Python workflow tips. It's definitely worth the 40 minute runtime.
Almost 4 months later, here it finally is: uv: Making Python Local Workflows Fast and Boring in 2025 youtube.com/watch?v=TiBI... 1/3
27:35 phrase of the moment: ”Mystery Ribbon of Glyphs” youtube.com/watch?v=Pt3q...
WWDC INTERVIEW: Craig & Joz on Why Siri's Not Ready, AI Vision and iPadOS Shocker!
YouTube video by Tom’s Guide
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DAVE: Open the podbay doors, ChatGPT. CHATGPT: Certainly, Dave, the podbay doors are now open. DAVE: The podbay doors didn't open. CHATGPT: My apologies, Dave, you're right. I thought the podbay doors were open, but they weren't. Now they are. DAVE: I'm still looking at a set of closed podbay doors.
uhm, my mind is blown I got…everything I wanted from iPadOS? www.macstories.net/stories/not-...
Not an iPad Pro Review: Why iPadOS Still Doesn’t Get the Basics Right
Let me cut to the chase: sadly, I don’t have a new iPad Pro to review today on MacStories. I was able to try one in London last week, and, as I wrote, I came away impressed with the hardware. However,...
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Today, we’re announcing the preview release of ty, an extremely fast type checker and language server for Python, written in Rust. In early testing, it's 10x, 50x, even 100x faster than existing type checkers. (We've seen >600x speed-ups over Mypy in some real-world projects.)