Came across a weird scam on the Apple app store - apps that are advertising themselves openly as casino/gambling apps in ad networks, but then the app listing page has been camouflaged so that they can evade Apple's gambling and age restrictions (downloadable by kids as young as 4).

"Of course, the last thing they expected to sell for £1 was... themselves!" www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Apple is absolutely killing me with this decade-long slow motion crash unifying MacOS and iPadOS

Shout out though to the Apple events video team coming up with ever more esoteric ways to transition between the different presenters

This year’s WWDC is an absolute Sherlock festival

Must be nice to be an LLM - I wish every request to *me* started with some affirmation like "You are a top notch software engineer who cares about coding reliable, user-friendly experiences..."

“No matter where you stand on Israel and Gaza, these blatant attacks on free speech should terrify you. We are witnessing the most aggressive crackdowns on speech, both online and off, that we’ve seen in decades.”

Requiring reproduction repos linked in your Github issues is an anti-pattern. I get the reasoning, but I suspect that in practice 90% of the repos with this requirement are adding it just so that people don't report issues.

Every time I play around with React Native, I'm reminded how far behind that dev ecosystem is compared with React on web. So many tools we take for granted on the web are still in their infancy on native - definitely feels like a big opportunity space for folks interested in DX tooling.

Well, that’s one way to confirm that TikTok did, indeed, believe my account was based in the USA… Darn it, now I have to train the algorithm from scratch all over again!

The age of generative AI is overhearing “my phone autocorrected merry Christmas to meerkat Christmas?” and being able to respond with a beautiful joke image in 30 seconds. I’m sure there’s some other useful stuff it does, but I’m here for the memes.

So Meerkat Christmas, to all who celebrate!

Oops! Startup YesMadam is now in damage control mode after (they claim) a viral marketing post meant to promote their new "employee destress" wellness programs went *too* viral and trashed the company's reputation. Don't try and stir up viral outrage at yourself!

TIL that Apple added a warranty narc daemon to Macs that logs if it ever detects that the Mac was exposed to liquids: 9to5mac.com/2023/11/03/m...

@jackosborne.com how did you get your domain as your Bluesky name? If there was a way to stop being “zackdotcomputer” and finally use the fact that I own “Zack.computer” I’m all ears…

“Cheers is just Always Sunny for boomers”