Alasdair McCall

Alasdair McCall

@alasdair.md

AI & App hired gun. Currently slinging code in London https://alasdair.md

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Cabel Sasser
@cabel.panic.com

the temu app will be studied for generations. i opened the app. here’s my unedited, nearly two-minute launch sequence. i was just searching for a bookshelf

Alasdair McCall
@alasdair.md

A really useful AI task I use: take a photo of hard-to-read or badly worded instructions, then ask the model to turn them into simple step-by-step directions. It’s especially helpful when the text is tiny or unclear — and when your eyesight isn’t quite as good as it used to be 😑

Alasdair McCall
@alasdair.md

The nice part is you can keep going step by step and ask follow-up questions at any point, even by adding more photos, like I’ve done below. Also, the AI somehow spotted my cat in the photo, which was pretty funny.

Alasdair McCall
@alasdair.md

"Liquid Glass [..] a new way while letting content shine through underneath it." Generally I like LG on iOS26, but it makes the lock screen ugly and unusable. The notifications _are_ the content, yet LG makes them look dark, bland and, worst of all, unreadable. #liquidGlass #iOS26

Alasdair McCall
@alasdair.md

Compare the Lock screen to the Home or App Library screen. The apps and their icons _are_ the content. Here they are vibrant, bold and immediately usable. I suspect in a few releases time, the notifications will revert to solid backgrounds. 🙏

Alasdair McCall
@alasdair.md

Installed the #iOS27 beta asap and tested the new Liquid Glass tinting. Lock screen notifications are so much more readable. More please from the Apple team.

Alasdair McCall
@alasdair.md

Nothing beats that feeling when your weekly Claude session is _about_ to reset and you can finally go nuts with multiple agents on the frontier model. #noMiniForMe

Alasdair McCall
@alasdair.md

🤯 Just discovered that it's Crt+V to paste images into Claude/Copilot CLI. How long have I been dragging screenshots into the terminal because Cmd+V didn't work?

Alasdair McCall
@alasdair.md

@americanexpress.bsky.social login issues? Web says password is wrong, app works. Reset on web → app breaks. Reset on app → web breaks. Been stuck in this loop 4 times. Using a password manager, cleared caches, triple-checked passwords. Feels like web/app auth are out of sync. 😤

Alasdair McCall
@alasdair.md

Mark Carney just gave the most outstanding speech at Davos. Really potent, spine tingling stuff. I would be so proud to be Canadian right now! #davos #markCarney

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Alex Hern
@hern.bsky.social

This matches with my understanding of where LLMs are likely to impact science quickest – bringing techniques that are well-understood to one set of experts, and applying them to questions raised by a different set of experts www.quantamagazine.org/ai-comes-up-...

quantamagazine.orgAI Comes Up with Bizarre Physics Experiments. But They Work. | Quanta MagazineArtificial intelligence software is designing novel experimental protocols that improve upon the work of human physicists, although the humans are still “doing a lot of baby-sitting.”

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Peter Steinberger
@steipete.me

📢 I built a free, open source analytics backend for Sparkle because all existing solutions are ancient. I'll take over hosting cost for other oss Mac apps who value simple, minimal and privacy-first analytics. No login, no tracking, no cookies, no bs. steipete.me/posts/2025/s...

steipete.mestats.store: Privacy-First Sparkle Analytics | Peter SteinbergerHow curiosity about VibeTunnel users led me to build stats.store - a free, open source analytics backend for Sparkle using AI tools, all while cooking dinner.

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Dani Devesa
@dadederk.bsky.social

If you open @smashingmagazine.com, you might (or might not) recognize the name on the latest article. 😁 Apologies in advance, it’s a long read, and there’s not a single line of code. But I’m a little bit proud of this one! ☺️ What you think?! #accessibility www.smashingmagazine.com/2025/04/fost...

smashingmagazine.comFostering An Accessibility Culture — Smashing MagazineWhile there’s no definitive playbook for building an accessibility culture, Dani shares lessons from his experience in shaping it through habits rather than mandates.

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Tim Harford
@timharford.ft.com

Imagine Julian Simon and Paul R Erlich had made their bet about commodity prices at a different time. Decade by decade, who would have won? Fun, instructive by @hannahritchie.bsky.social ourworldindata.org/simon-ehrlic...

ourworldindata.orgWho would have won the Simon-Ehrlich bet over different decades, and what do long-term prices tell us about resource scarcity?In the 1980s, economist Julian Simon won his bet with biologist Paul Ehrlich on mineral prices. But what does the long-term data tell us about supply and demand for resources?

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Tom Eaton
@tomeaton.bsky.social

A slightly surreal sight on Constantia main road: a truck transporting a very dead whale to its final resting place. Traffic backed up for miles behind it, providing a slightly grumpy unwilling funeral procession. That's its mouth at the front, drooping off the truck.

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