Matt Green
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“Be anything you like, be madmen, drunks, and bastards of every shape and form, but at all costs avoid one thing: success. If you are too obsessed with success, you will forget to live. If you have learned only how to be a success, your life has probably been wasted.” - Thomas Merton
“Grief dares us to love once more.” - Terry Williams
December 1, 2025 at 1:32 PM
“Grief dares us to love once more.” - Terry Williams
Reposted by Matt Green
It’s not too late to read about how the horror that is the Oreo Thanksgiving Dinner Cookie Tin. www.theomnicosm.com/the-oreo-tha...
Review: The Oreo Thanksgiving Dinner Cookie Tin is here to ruin your holidays
A Turkey & Stuffing Oreo cookie is an abomination to all that is holy and snacky.
www.theomnicosm.com
November 29, 2025 at 12:46 PM
It’s not too late to read about how the horror that is the Oreo Thanksgiving Dinner Cookie Tin. www.theomnicosm.com/the-oreo-tha...
Periodic reminder that deload weeks are necessary and good.
November 28, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Periodic reminder that deload weeks are necessary and good.
Wrote some thoughts on the current state of hacker culture, and where we can go from here:
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4605...
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4605...
November 26, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Wrote some thoughts on the current state of hacker culture, and where we can go from here:
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4605...
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4605...
Horrific.
> This reminds me of an old bug in simdjson - any usage of it breaks std::unordered_map in unrelated parts of the code due to an unintentional modification of FPU flags
github.com/simdjson/sim...
> This reminds me of an old bug in simdjson - any usage of it breaks std::unordered_map in unrelated parts of the code due to an unintentional modification of FPU flags
github.com/simdjson/sim...
November 24, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Horrific.
> This reminds me of an old bug in simdjson - any usage of it breaks std::unordered_map in unrelated parts of the code due to an unintentional modification of FPU flags
github.com/simdjson/sim...
> This reminds me of an old bug in simdjson - any usage of it breaks std::unordered_map in unrelated parts of the code due to an unintentional modification of FPU flags
github.com/simdjson/sim...
Emojipedia's cookie disclaimer makes it sound like they're running a nuclear reactor: safety maintenance? R&D? Indexing and displaying emoji seems like a very safe and well-solved problem at this point.
November 23, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Emojipedia's cookie disclaimer makes it sound like they're running a nuclear reactor: safety maintenance? R&D? Indexing and displaying emoji seems like a very safe and well-solved problem at this point.
My Mac apps are 50% off for the week of Black Friday!
AudioWrangler: auto-switch to preferred speakers/mics - $0.99
apps.apple.com/us/app/audio...
IlluminateMe: customizable ring light - $0.99
apps.apple.com/us/app/illum...
AudioWrangler: auto-switch to preferred speakers/mics - $0.99
apps.apple.com/us/app/audio...
IlluminateMe: customizable ring light - $0.99
apps.apple.com/us/app/illum...
November 23, 2025 at 6:46 PM
My Mac apps are 50% off for the week of Black Friday!
AudioWrangler: auto-switch to preferred speakers/mics - $0.99
apps.apple.com/us/app/audio...
IlluminateMe: customizable ring light - $0.99
apps.apple.com/us/app/illum...
AudioWrangler: auto-switch to preferred speakers/mics - $0.99
apps.apple.com/us/app/audio...
IlluminateMe: customizable ring light - $0.99
apps.apple.com/us/app/illum...
Reposted by Matt Green
The most obvious tell of someone astroturfing for AI is they don't even try to sell you their masterclass at the end.
andymasley.substack.com/p/the-ai-wat...
andymasley.substack.com/p/the-ai-wat...
The AI water issue is fake
On the national, local, and personal level
andymasley.substack.com
November 15, 2025 at 7:37 PM
The most obvious tell of someone astroturfing for AI is they don't even try to sell you their masterclass at the end.
andymasley.substack.com/p/the-ai-wat...
andymasley.substack.com/p/the-ai-wat...
Life constants: death, taxes, and always needing to search to remember how to vertically center in CSS/Tailwind
November 14, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Life constants: death, taxes, and always needing to search to remember how to vertically center in CSS/Tailwind
Missed this when it first went around, but it is a lovely bit of irony in that the tech illuminati also suffer from tech-induced brainrot. www.anildash.com/2023/07/07/v...
"VC qanon" and the radicalization of the tech tycoons - Anil Dash
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
www.anildash.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Missed this when it first went around, but it is a lovely bit of irony in that the tech illuminati also suffer from tech-induced brainrot. www.anildash.com/2023/07/07/v...
everybody be thirsty for my insights lately
November 9, 2025 at 5:44 PM
everybody be thirsty for my insights lately
<br/> is so, so on-brand here
November 9, 2025 at 5:38 PM
<br/> is so, so on-brand here
Need to update your web app’s design for Liquid Glass? I got you. Simply add this to your CSS:
* {
border-radius: 900px !important;
}
* {
border-radius: 900px !important;
}
November 5, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Need to update your web app’s design for Liquid Glass? I got you. Simply add this to your CSS:
* {
border-radius: 900px !important;
}
* {
border-radius: 900px !important;
}
The original content blocker: just now realizing how many pages have that circling rainbow border on their "tRy wItH aI!!!!" buttons that I've been glossing over subconsciously.
November 3, 2025 at 3:56 PM
The original content blocker: just now realizing how many pages have that circling rainbow border on their "tRy wItH aI!!!!" buttons that I've been glossing over subconsciously.
This is such a great series on Swift concurrency by @massicotte.org.
I finished up another in my "Concurrency Step-by-Step" series. This one is about everyone's favorite: protocols!
It also has a sneak peek for a super-secret idea I'm really excited about: regular old classes.
www.massicotte.org/step-by-step...
It also has a sneak peek for a super-secret idea I'm really excited about: regular old classes.
www.massicotte.org/step-by-step...
Concurrency Step-by-Step: Conforming to Protocols
If there’s one topic that I find intimidating, it’s protocols. They are very powerful and in extremely wide use. But I’m sitting here, trying to figure out how to lead into this discussion and I’m alr...
www.massicotte.org
October 26, 2025 at 6:23 PM
This is such a great series on Swift concurrency by @massicotte.org.
macOS 26 is...fine, honestly. No real issues after I got used to the crazy border radius. Spotlight is really snappy now, and you can hide menu bar icons without an external app.
October 21, 2025 at 1:54 AM
macOS 26 is...fine, honestly. No real issues after I got used to the crazy border radius. Spotlight is really snappy now, and you can hide menu bar icons without an external app.
The AI opinion retcon is already upon us, and will continue.
In the late stages of the bubble we’re starting to see multiple “people in tech don’t really believe in all of this, honest, we just act like it because we think we have to”, but the truth is that it doesn’t matter. What matters is that you’ve been acting like a true believer and you are what you do
October 20, 2025 at 5:39 PM
The AI opinion retcon is already upon us, and will continue.
You had me at functional core imperative shell
October 17, 2025 at 2:19 PM
You had me at functional core imperative shell
Keep on keeping on
October 16, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Keep on keeping on
Can't tell if it's a recent Core Audio bug or I'm holding it wrong. Either way, please repost if you know people that work with Core Audio, I'm a bit stuck atm.
stackoverflow.com/questions/79...
stackoverflow.com/questions/79...
Core Audio: why are device UIDs issued by kAudioDevicePropertyDeviceUID unstable?
I maintain a macOS app that needs to recognize devices using the device's UID. To do this, I retrieve the device's UID using the kAudioDevicePropertyDeviceUID property, store that, and use it for
stackoverflow.com
October 14, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Can't tell if it's a recent Core Audio bug or I'm holding it wrong. Either way, please repost if you know people that work with Core Audio, I'm a bit stuck atm.
stackoverflow.com/questions/79...
stackoverflow.com/questions/79...
Reddit adding games is a negative health signal
October 10, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Reddit adding games is a negative health signal
Another good day of brain coding
October 6, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Another good day of brain coding
Despite what people on LinkedIn say, there’s more than one metagame to life.
October 3, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Despite what people on LinkedIn say, there’s more than one metagame to life.