If you make a commercial product that allows someone to remotely access video, audio, or location data from a device, I am begging you to threat model for domestic abuse BEFORE YOU SHIP YOUR GODDAMN PRODUCT.
Once every four years we get an extra day, and yet we willingly allow it to be stolen by The Man unless it falls on a weekend. It should be a bonus bank holiday, a quadrennial party day in which we all go outside and enjoy the early springtime.
getting fired from apple for printing out little pieces of paper that say ".DS_Store" and leaving them everywhere
Just rewatched Dune in preparation for part 2 on Friday and once again I’m blown away by how good it is, after the trepidation of hearing a book I’ve read more or less annually since I was 14 was getting a modern film adaptation.
Apprentice is such a glorious shitshow. A laser focused exercise in how not to do business.
It has been 3 weeks since my son declared the toothpaste tube empty. Realistically I’d probably have chucked it by now but we’re so close to a full month I keep persisting and squeezing a little more out.
Big moment today as I encounter my first ever bug caused by integer endianness.
Hi, friends. Today is a very special day because I got to launch Television, the visionOS app I dreamed up a few months ago, and partnered with a very talented developer named Andy Roth and my dear bud @dan to make this thing real.
It's the future of television.
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/television-by-sandwich/id6475739340
It took approx 29 seconds to sell out of our last batch of EMF tickets. So now your only hope is to submit a talk, workshop, or installation! Tell us about the cool stuff you do! https://www.emfcamp.org/cfp #EMF2024 #EMFcamp @emf
Today in parental tech support: Running strings on the 40 odd Minecraft mods my son has installed to work out which of them popped the message "Obsidian man is here" before messing up his world.
I want to be cross at the mod maker for doing that and causing some degree of distress, but they did call the mode "Trolls & Traps", so really all I can do is nod with respect at them.
Today in incongruous sponsor reads, Better Help, in the middle of a video about Mario Maker. I’d love to see the ROI on selling therapy to kids who want to make Mario levels.
GitHub Codespaces. For when you accidentally put your work laptop in your bag before going out to work on personal stuff.
Watching Ambulance on iPlayer and as ever blown away by paramedics, paid an absolute pittance to do twelve hour shifts in some of the most stressful situations imaginable.
#uk government just going full fascist now.
“No protestor should be able to evade justice” obviously implying that the #homeoffice views all protestors as criminals (which of course, they do)
Get yourself a manager who when you say “I’m fried, going to put down this project and work on some easy stuff for a couple of days” whole heartedly backs you on it.
Apparently some XBox influencer ran a *7 hour* crisis meeting with other influencers on Twitter today to discuss the terrible news that MS might publish a few games on PlayStation. Not confirmed, just a vague rumour. Some people desperately need more in their life than a games console.
Threw a couple of peanuts to a crow that was hanging out on the grass outside my window earlier this morning. Now every ten minutes or so three of them rock up and shout at me until I chuck them some more.
I’m begging you iPlayer, stop asking me who’s watching. No one else lives here. No one else has ever signed in on this device. You can just assume it’s me.
Is their any video format worse than “YouTuber watches TikTok videos”? This question brought to you by my son’s terrible taste in YouTube.
I am now one full week into the worst insomnia of my life. It appears I can be tired at any time other than when attempting to sleep. If anyone has tips on dealing with this they’d be greatly appreciated.