Brent Simmons

Now that we’re a year (and two OSes) into Liquid Glass, I’m curious about how Mac apps have adapted to it.

Psychopaths have more empathy than corporations do.

Reminder: Apple is not your friend, even with a new CEO.

Yesterday I thought it might be fun to get more into neovim — I’d downloaded and tried it a bit previously, and it seemed interesting.

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I was curious about NetNewsWire for iOS usage per iOS release.

Dog in my neighborhood.

I usually wait as long as possible before installing new betas of macOS — but this year I think I’ll do it asap and live out of the beta all summer, which I never do, but Golden Gate looks like such an improvement over Tahoe that I want it right goddamn n…

My biggest hope for WWDC this year is an easy summer 🐣🐥🌴

Saw The Church last night at the Showbox in Seattle — great show!

This time of year in North Dakota things are more brown than green.

We had to wait for a slow-moving train in Voltaire, ND on our way one morning to Anamoose.

I was called away from home (back now) for unexpected reasons.

Code is a liquid now.

Wordlebot got what was coming to it today.

Reminder!

Before sending Apple any money this week, remember that Tim Cook attended a private screening of the Melania documentary at the White House later in the same day that Alex Pretti was murdered by this administration.

Jesper writes, in Welcome (back) to Macintosh, of his hope that Apple can “refocus its software and its humility too.”

Spotlight has recently become terrible for launching apps after being so good for years.

Karbon Based, And Stay Out: I sometimes think about what we lost along the way as Apple chased ultra-simplicity and luxury.

I’ve been doing some C programming lately — not NetNewsWire, don’t worry!

Just today I learned about Codeberg, “a non-profit, community-led effort that provides Git hosting and other services for free and open source projects.”

I hadn’t looked at my Safari Privacy Report in a while.

Engineers — new rule — pay attention: whenever you hear or read the word learnings, as said or written by someone in your company, you have to take the rest of the day off.

This has been the greatest long-term technical challenge of my life, off and on for years — but I finally figured out how to get my shell prompt to 1) show me the current git branch 2) in color.

I get that “stop doing Combine!”