Caesar Wirth
cjwirth.com
Caesar Wirth
@cjwirth.com
software engineer mostly working on apple platforms. some of my posts reflect that, some are more general or personal.

Based in Sapporo, Japan
We did Christmas in a western way, and so New Years will be Japanese.

For Christmas Eve, we had festive decorations, special meals, treats, and gifts.

Now on New Years Eve, my wife hands me a sponge and bucket and tells me to clean the bathroom

I’m not sure I understood the terms of the deal
December 31, 2025 at 2:15 AM
The hobby that I’ve been the most consistent in maintaining over the years has got to be my Digital Tsundoku.
December 31, 2025 at 12:36 AM
We have reached the point of winter break where I think, “gee, wouldn’t it be cool to learn to read Middle Egyptian? Hieroglyphics can’t be that hard, right?”
December 29, 2025 at 3:04 AM
I can’t quite put my finger on why, but it bothers me that Scrooge is miserable at the beginning of the story. And his conversion is in large part due to seeing himself die with nobody there.

Maybe it makes it seem like yet another selfish act rather than actual compassion and kindness?
December 25, 2025 at 6:23 PM
I was wondering why clothes I bought were too small. I’m a Medium, I’m nearly always a Medium.

Well I bought it in Japan, where Medium actually means Small to the rest of the world…
December 23, 2025 at 12:54 AM
The intensity with which my son focuses on the single Spider-Man bedtime storybook we have makes me excited for post-Christmas when he’ll have the whole set of Spider-Man storybooks we are getting him.
December 22, 2025 at 10:28 PM
I don’t think that whoever wrote “Silent Night,” a song about the night a baby was born, has ever had a baby.
December 20, 2025 at 4:22 AM
Alright well I’ve kinda been hard on Japanese banks for the past few months, but at least I don’t have to wait “up to 3 business days, depending on the financial institution” for money transfers to happen. In my experience it’s been minutes if not seconds. Same with my German bank too, iirc
December 18, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Reposted by Caesar Wirth
the surveillance state is like “have u seen this man”
December 15, 2025 at 6:11 AM
In a pinch and need something to pinch your curtains shut? Try getting some nail clippers and closing them on the curtain! Hopefully they will be strong enough to keep your curtains closed.
December 15, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Me: see you later, I’m going out with some friends!
Son: you have friends??

wasn’t supposed to be a burn, but yeah, he got me
December 13, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Reposted by Caesar Wirth
I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork
December 12, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Correct? Incorrect?
Correct, incorrect is correct!!
December 12, 2025 at 4:25 AM
I wrote in an email: “so-and-so was a bit shaken by the earthquake”

I already sent it, but now want to follow-up with “omg no pun intended, they were actually scared, I’m not making a joke!” But I also don’t want to bring attention to it if they didn’t read it like that 🙈
December 8, 2025 at 7:44 PM
The content YouTube presents to me is pretty terrible, and I’m not sure how it got like this.
December 5, 2025 at 7:00 AM
I’m gonna start a tradition when gift distributing, I tell people to “render unto me the things that are mine.”

It will be great when my son (also named Caesar) starts doing it too.
December 4, 2025 at 6:48 AM
New career goal: don’t make it so the world celebrates when I leave my job
December 4, 2025 at 2:51 AM
I lived in a city whose symbol is a bear, and never in 2 years did I give a passing thought to real life bears.

Now I’ve moved away and I’m subscribed to notifications for when bears show up in my neighborhood or near the school.
November 29, 2025 at 9:17 AM
I had the boarding pass open in the app for hours. I got through security and everything. The. When boarding started it just… disappeared?!

Like the reservation and everything was still there, but the QR code and the option to view it were just gone.
November 28, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Watching the under plane camera during landing, and wow, it’s exactly like that one level of the Top Gun game for NES.
November 28, 2025 at 1:46 PM
I’m taking time off work, but I still feeling like writing some code. Maybe SwiftUI? Maybe break away and pick up some Web UI?

I’m on a plane all day today. What are the best resources I could follow along with to learn?
November 28, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Reposted by Caesar Wirth
Me after every social interaction
November 21, 2025 at 6:04 AM
The largest group I’ve seen speaking together in sign language were from Kenya. In Japan. Right now.
November 27, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Anyone ever set up a local wifi network on an airplane so your iPhone and MacBook can talk to each other? The phones hotspot is disabled when there’s no cellular data, and macOS doesn’t see to enable the network if there’s no actual connection it is sharing (eg no actual Ethernet port connected).
November 26, 2025 at 6:57 AM
Log into this shopping website? We will require all: password verification, login link by email, and SMS code.

New device? Your account is blocked from purchasing anything from all devices. You can unlock it after 15 minutes.

Not sure I have any more hair to pull out.
November 25, 2025 at 6:00 AM