Dominic Hopton

Do you think iPhone Duo supports Bumble and Tinder or just Hinge?

How *IS* pre order supposed to work? Are we supposed to be force quitting & toggling network to flush DNS? Or just wait on the blocked screen? Also for the 2nd yr, the pre-preorder “complete your order” popover showed on start and then disappeared defeating the point. Had to find it in “for you”

Do you want a minion? (short post) www.codevoid.net/ruminations/...

Watching TV and every other ad is an app showing how you can chat with AI in the app (e.g. Thumbtack, Instacart). All I want is for them to expose an MCP server so my agent can talk to their services instead of using their apps. 😭

Is it me or does New Siri leave the response ui toast (eg turned a light on) up indefinitely?

Pretty excited for Reeder on the iPhone Duo, hope it's not going to be a terribly long wait.

The iPhone Duo has a lip on the interior? Did not expect that. That is disappointing.

I cannot get over how much of the iPhone Duo is what was leaked / talked about for Andromeda. "Postures". It's only missing the carpenter pencil. If it hadn't been a decade, and the Surface Duo hadn't happened, it'd have thought this was industrial espionage!

Apple Forgot to include the iPhone Air in the performance comparison section of the duo.

There are a million other changes and improvements throughout the app but those are the big ones. Now that we have a more affordable plan for single-network users, we're hoping to spread the word far and wide. We'd really appreciate if you could give this thread a share. Thanks - Ben & Aaron

Indigo 1.3 is available now! We've got a bunch of great new features I'll get to in a sec, but first up is a new pricing option. Indigo was great value if you used both Bluesky and Mastodon, but a little pricy if you just used one. Now there's a $19.99 plan for single-network use 😀

Imagine how bad the outage at Claude must be if Claude itself can’t fix it in 5 minutes.

OH At the Apple Store: Watch bands are in very short supply, so we're having to make compromises. [someone wanting to exchange a watch strap they bought with the watch but it didn't fit] Do Apple Watch straps have RAM?!

By @quinnypig.com shitposting.ai/pickup-incid...

Times when I most fantasize about quitting tech: 1. quiet sunlit mornings spent pondering the destructive effects of careless growth capitalism run amok, and mournfully reflecting on my direct personal contributions to these problems 2. trying to use Google Slides for literally anything

As we get better at AI tools, a lot of today's usage will look like treating early cars as faster horses before we ended up building cities around them. I suspect building more dashboards with AI tools versus asking agents for data and visualizations on demand is one of those patterns.

yes I practice TDD (token-driven development)

The problem with social media is the same as with betting apps: they privatize a socially conspicuous vice. Going to a sportsbook and being in that crowd naturally restrains a lot of people's gambling. On social media, you ingest opinions from lunatics you would never want to be around.

We were having dinner and one of my kids commented that the remainder of their bagel looked a lot like an ear and I asked if anyone had seen Vincent Van Dough around and none of those assholes laughed.

I cannot cosign this enough

There’s a thin line between creating a positive sense of urgency and management making their anxiety everybody’s problem.

Tired: Range anxiety on your EV Wired: Token anxiety on your $20/mo plan when the dumbass thinking sand tells you something categorically wrong, and now you've just wasted 3% of your 5hr window.

@anilineapps.bsky.social did y’all break the network overlay on avatars? I don’t seem to be seeing it in 1.2.1

We should actually be trying to use as much electricity as possible and always be increasing the amount of electricity we generate forever. Electricity gets cleaner as it scales. In the long arc of civilization, energy austerity is immoral and energy abundance is moral.

“are you in here? I know you’re in here. I can see you. Come on get out!” normal person: im in danger / going insane Cat owner: a normal Sunday night.

"The chat box can't be it" - We've given up 'doing' for 'pleading' as we sacrifice it on the altar of the chat box. www.codevoid.net/ruminations/... (a short blog post)

The rise of the “chat box” implies that the CLI was the only true interface, with GUIs being a 40 year detour till we found our way back to… describing what we want rather than just doing it. www.codevoid.net/ruminations/...

Tired of writing Swift code like an animal? Recent Swift compiler improvements cut your bathroom quality time short? AgenticSwift to the rescue, write what your function is supposed to do, list inputs and outputs, and let your agent do the work for you. github.com/migueldeicaz...

"We want no muffins, no toast, no teacakes, no buns, baps, baguettes or bagels, no croissants, no crumpets, no pancakes, no potato cakes and no hot-cross buns and definitely no smegging flapjacks!"

I'm sorry but fuck off with this. There's only one way to distribute apps on iOS and if you don't get enough attention then you can't use it? If you think my toy app is a waste of your resources then I'll happily take another way to distribute my app.

do I have to play the rest of the Fable games to understand Fable 5

My day job is at a rural branch of a public library, and we have a Pride display. Yesterday I was at the desk when a man came in. Fifties, maybe, or sixties. Plaid shirt, mesh trucker cap, suspenders. He went up to the display and just stood there for a long moment. Then he came up to the desk. 🧵 1/

show me the lie:

The Fox (What Does The Fox Say?) by Ylvis is still a banger. (It was a palette cleanser after the Timmy Mallet version of Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Polka Dot Bikini popped into my head)

New F1-overhead Apple TV screensavers wen

Just laughing my head off at the idea Lewis turned up dressed in a fish costume

My gut says this is an intermediate phase until a breakthrough makes AI reliable, not just convincing. I now see why Yann LeCun and Demis Hassabis are focused on world models that help AI understand how the world works. LLMs may eventually look like a distraction on the road to AGI.

This is the last WWDC before I get RSI.

I am going to start saying dumb shit like "the last WWDC before AGI."

My wife's (@patriciadeddy.com) books. Seriously, Hollywood, call us.

We used to edit work before sharing it, but now the internet is flooded with 3 hour podcasts of two guys in tech saying whatever into a mic, 10,000 word stream of thought blog posts, and 30 minute reaction videos about nothing. Exercise a little taste, this is how people are going to remember you.

The .sig of a friend back in 2000 or so used to be “in the canvas of life, incompetence is my brush” and I can often relate to it.

One of the best things I did when working on a Mac app was use a 1x display. You'd be shocked how many apps have simple pixel rounding errors.

If you do, and your revenue tanks it's Ok because your revenue per employee will go up!