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iPhone on aggressive "No Notifications Mode" and "Auto Decline Unknown Callers"
MacOS 26 Tahoe still shows a call screening box every time a telemarketer calls. Super invasive and flow breaking.
MacOS 26 Tahoe still shows a call screening box every time a telemarketer calls. Super invasive and flow breaking.
October 20, 2025 at 9:54 PM
iPhone on aggressive "No Notifications Mode" and "Auto Decline Unknown Callers"
MacOS 26 Tahoe still shows a call screening box every time a telemarketer calls. Super invasive and flow breaking.
MacOS 26 Tahoe still shows a call screening box every time a telemarketer calls. Super invasive and flow breaking.
I'm hiring a founding engineer, and a candidate was using AI during the intro interview.
When I realized my heart sank.
It was dishonest, but it was more sad that they felt desperate enough that they couldn't do it on their own (despite their impressive CV).
When I realized my heart sank.
It was dishonest, but it was more sad that they felt desperate enough that they couldn't do it on their own (despite their impressive CV).
September 18, 2025 at 1:20 AM
I'm hiring a founding engineer, and a candidate was using AI during the intro interview.
When I realized my heart sank.
It was dishonest, but it was more sad that they felt desperate enough that they couldn't do it on their own (despite their impressive CV).
When I realized my heart sank.
It was dishonest, but it was more sad that they felt desperate enough that they couldn't do it on their own (despite their impressive CV).
The current Google Fonts preview text is from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR)
August 21, 2025 at 11:57 PM
The current Google Fonts preview text is from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR)
Turns out the Apple design team copied my jailbroken iPhone from 2010
June 9, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Turns out the Apple design team copied my jailbroken iPhone from 2010
Recently refreshed my website, check it out for some fun reads and interactivity.
May 21, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Recently refreshed my website, check it out for some fun reads and interactivity.
Apple, it's not a want. It's a need.
May 21, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Apple, it's not a want. It's a need.
Okay apple, here's what you need to do next.
Hint: this is not what these responses should actually look like.
Hint: this is not what these responses should actually look like.
May 21, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Okay apple, here's what you need to do next.
Hint: this is not what these responses should actually look like.
Hint: this is not what these responses should actually look like.
You know what? Google actually cooked with this new homepage.
May 16, 2025 at 1:06 AM
You know what? Google actually cooked with this new homepage.
You know, it's actually crazy that Apple neglected the primary thing that Siri needs.
Chat history, search history, some sort of home for Siri.
Chat history, search history, some sort of home for Siri.
May 14, 2025 at 9:12 PM
You know, it's actually crazy that Apple neglected the primary thing that Siri needs.
Chat history, search history, some sort of home for Siri.
Chat history, search history, some sort of home for Siri.
I certainly hope it’s clear that if you’re building a product to reduce friction while using cursor + a LLM, your product will probably only have a market for about 12 months max.
May 2, 2025 at 6:15 PM
I certainly hope it’s clear that if you’re building a product to reduce friction while using cursor + a LLM, your product will probably only have a market for about 12 months max.
Get used to doing hard things.
April 28, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Get used to doing hard things.
People keep saying SaaS is over.
But I think the role of who is building these tools and services is going to drastically change. It will start to exist more at smaller agency and freelancer levels in ways that it wasn't able to before.
But I think the role of who is building these tools and services is going to drastically change. It will start to exist more at smaller agency and freelancer levels in ways that it wasn't able to before.
April 28, 2025 at 2:12 PM
People keep saying SaaS is over.
But I think the role of who is building these tools and services is going to drastically change. It will start to exist more at smaller agency and freelancer levels in ways that it wasn't able to before.
But I think the role of who is building these tools and services is going to drastically change. It will start to exist more at smaller agency and freelancer levels in ways that it wasn't able to before.
My whole life I've been told how hard it is to do the things I want to do.
And I can confirm, things are hard, but why in the world would I want to live my life on the wrong side of it?
If you get good at hard things, hard things become easy.
And I can confirm, things are hard, but why in the world would I want to live my life on the wrong side of it?
If you get good at hard things, hard things become easy.
April 28, 2025 at 3:49 AM
My whole life I've been told how hard it is to do the things I want to do.
And I can confirm, things are hard, but why in the world would I want to live my life on the wrong side of it?
If you get good at hard things, hard things become easy.
And I can confirm, things are hard, but why in the world would I want to live my life on the wrong side of it?
If you get good at hard things, hard things become easy.
X, BS, and Thrds all have completely destroyed the quality of feeds compared to what we had on Tweety not even 3 years ago. The plot is lost.
The algorithms pump brainrot and attention baiting.
I'm sorry discover feeds, I am now only using following or curated feeds.
The algorithms pump brainrot and attention baiting.
I'm sorry discover feeds, I am now only using following or curated feeds.
April 22, 2025 at 10:54 PM
X, BS, and Thrds all have completely destroyed the quality of feeds compared to what we had on Tweety not even 3 years ago. The plot is lost.
The algorithms pump brainrot and attention baiting.
I'm sorry discover feeds, I am now only using following or curated feeds.
The algorithms pump brainrot and attention baiting.
I'm sorry discover feeds, I am now only using following or curated feeds.
I see more politics here than on X.
As far as I can tell, no amount of tuning of the BlueSky discover feed can actually remove politics.
I aggressively say "See less of this" and have the topic off in settings. I've blocked keywords, and even use custom feeds (which aren't great for discovery).
As far as I can tell, no amount of tuning of the BlueSky discover feed can actually remove politics.
I aggressively say "See less of this" and have the topic off in settings. I've blocked keywords, and even use custom feeds (which aren't great for discovery).
April 22, 2025 at 10:46 PM
I see more politics here than on X.
As far as I can tell, no amount of tuning of the BlueSky discover feed can actually remove politics.
I aggressively say "See less of this" and have the topic off in settings. I've blocked keywords, and even use custom feeds (which aren't great for discovery).
As far as I can tell, no amount of tuning of the BlueSky discover feed can actually remove politics.
I aggressively say "See less of this" and have the topic off in settings. I've blocked keywords, and even use custom feeds (which aren't great for discovery).
Okay pretty sure I need all AI models to support 1M tokens from here on out.
April 20, 2025 at 5:11 AM
Okay pretty sure I need all AI models to support 1M tokens from here on out.
You know how airpods automatically hijack your microphone input on Mac?
I have a repeating shell command running inside Better Touch Tool that checks every few seconds to see if my airpods are connected. If so it forces microphone input from my AirPods to my lapel microphone.
I have a repeating shell command running inside Better Touch Tool that checks every few seconds to see if my airpods are connected. If so it forces microphone input from my AirPods to my lapel microphone.
April 17, 2025 at 4:27 PM
You know how airpods automatically hijack your microphone input on Mac?
I have a repeating shell command running inside Better Touch Tool that checks every few seconds to see if my airpods are connected. If so it forces microphone input from my AirPods to my lapel microphone.
I have a repeating shell command running inside Better Touch Tool that checks every few seconds to see if my airpods are connected. If so it forces microphone input from my AirPods to my lapel microphone.
I would much rather spend my time here than X, but I don’t see relevant content here - not sure how to better tune my feed - do I need to make the better performing feed algorithm? Is that it?
April 16, 2025 at 6:47 AM
I would much rather spend my time here than X, but I don’t see relevant content here - not sure how to better tune my feed - do I need to make the better performing feed algorithm? Is that it?
Discoverability needs to get better in bluesky
April 16, 2025 at 6:44 AM
Discoverability needs to get better in bluesky
I'd bet all the people building Loom clones are only doing it now because @thewebprodigies dropped a 16 hour tutorial in October.
April 15, 2025 at 3:40 AM
I'd bet all the people building Loom clones are only doing it now because @thewebprodigies dropped a 16 hour tutorial in October.
I've seen the team at OpenAI talk about how they know they're bad at naming conventions, so I'd assumed it was a problem they were working on solving...
but I can't believe that they truly just went from 4.5 to 4.1.
Guys, it's not hard. Just increment the number.
but I can't believe that they truly just went from 4.5 to 4.1.
Guys, it's not hard. Just increment the number.
April 15, 2025 at 12:00 AM
I've seen the team at OpenAI talk about how they know they're bad at naming conventions, so I'd assumed it was a problem they were working on solving...
but I can't believe that they truly just went from 4.5 to 4.1.
Guys, it's not hard. Just increment the number.
but I can't believe that they truly just went from 4.5 to 4.1.
Guys, it's not hard. Just increment the number.
Your platform won't have my full attention if I'm required to be in people's comments in order to grow my audience.
Threads, TikTok, and YouTube enable me to define the conversation without being the reply guy or engagement-maxing.
I want to focus on creating, not consuming.
Threads, TikTok, and YouTube enable me to define the conversation without being the reply guy or engagement-maxing.
I want to focus on creating, not consuming.
April 14, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Your platform won't have my full attention if I'm required to be in people's comments in order to grow my audience.
Threads, TikTok, and YouTube enable me to define the conversation without being the reply guy or engagement-maxing.
I want to focus on creating, not consuming.
Threads, TikTok, and YouTube enable me to define the conversation without being the reply guy or engagement-maxing.
I want to focus on creating, not consuming.
It seems like Claude really wants me to use Gemini 2.5 pro.
April 14, 2025 at 10:35 PM
It seems like Claude really wants me to use Gemini 2.5 pro.
Humanoid robots are closer to appliances similar to vacuums and microwaves.
April 14, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Humanoid robots are closer to appliances similar to vacuums and microwaves.
I'm actually surprised how little I use AI image generators.
They're fine for conceptualizing something that already exists, or putting a spin on something, but they're very bad at being very specific.
They're fine for conceptualizing something that already exists, or putting a spin on something, but they're very bad at being very specific.
April 12, 2025 at 12:56 AM
I'm actually surprised how little I use AI image generators.
They're fine for conceptualizing something that already exists, or putting a spin on something, but they're very bad at being very specific.
They're fine for conceptualizing something that already exists, or putting a spin on something, but they're very bad at being very specific.