Mike Davidson

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Shakey at the Showbox. 🤙

Pretty much every war, since I’ve been alive at least, has been a “lesson in unintended consequences”.

Finally finished the series finale of The Boys on Amazon. Truly one of the greatest documentaries ever made, as @minakimes.bsky.social would say. I even loved the candid shots of the actors and crew as the credits rolled. Must have been so fun to make. A+

Nicely done. 🫡

Been feelin' this a lot lately. Having more fun building a meticulously dialed app for myself and some friends than I ever have for the masses. www.nyn.me/blog/the-sin...

Can't believe it took me this long to sort my Downloads folder in dialog boxes by date. Giant timesaver, and it's persistent.

I do not recall Holiday Grapes ever coming this early in the year. We may be heading towards violent heat death of the universe, but we will be extremely well-graped when it happens. 🙌🔥🍇

No, he took a swing at the president, noting that the president would rather spend time with her on his plane than do his job. If I complain that my son is spending all his time at the beach instead of doing chores, I am not actually "taking a swing at the beach"

I almost never buy things at duty-free but if you are in Heathrow anytime soon, the Yamazaki 18 is a great deal right now. A few hundred bucks off.

I am not the first to make this point but imagine a woman president obsessing constantly over her “ballroom” as the economy imploded and her war spun out of control

Feature request: Airpause. Pause your spouse’s AirPods remotely instead of saying the same thing multiple times before realizing they can’t hear you.

Imagine commissioning a 33-bedroom house and building only one extra bathroom across the entire thing.

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Yet another bizarre permutation of the term “out of pocket”. At this point, I am convinced people are just substituting the word “pocket” for any other word that appears after “out of”.

Fun little game. Guess the World Cup winner by different categories. I got Life Expectancy and Happiness right and CO2 emissions very very wrong. www.dataguessr.com/world-cup-20...

Wrote a little about Om, a guy I will miss. mikeindustries.com/blog/archive...

Hooboy, that final sentence slays. Don't cheat. Read the whole thing. lizleatrice.substack.com/p/the-year-i...

Cheddar people: I have crossed the frontier into 5-year extra-aged, and I can confidently report that it is a bridge too far. 4-year is the sweet spot. Beechers if possible.

Words that have never been spoken: “This tastes over-buttered”.

Longest pizza day of the pizza year! Can’t believe I waited this long to experiment with pastrami.

Met my wife 20 years ago today. Started dating her 19 years ago today. Still can’t believe she is willing to associate herself with me but I will take it! 🙌

Honestly, the thing I've learned the most while Claudecoding is the important of "idempotency". A word I had never heard before, still don't know exactly what it is, or how to pronounce it, but am constantly reminded of its importance.

Imagine being a 17-year old kid at a show at the Triple Door, and the musician asks if anyone in the crowd can play any of his songs, and you are the one person to raise your hand, because you can play *1* song, written 5 years before you were even born. And then you go on stage, and you crush it. 🙌

I built an app over the last few weekends that is already my favorite app on my phone. I have about 15 people on the TestFlight but I kind of never want to release it to genpop. Has anyone ever released an app as “friendware”? Not accessible on the AppStore, but by private invitation only.

Can’t believe I haven’t turned on Stage Manager in MacOS until now. Worth it for the clean desktop alone!

When a multi-year Kickstarter dream comes true, here’s to you. 🙌 @genmon.fyi

Florence… at the past and future home of the Seattle Supersonics. 🙌

I am pretty sure the cute little thing where Claude Code tells you it's "going to be about 4 weeks of work" is a deliberate, time-release humble brag.

Still works! #IYKYK 🐣

“It’s great seeing this design work at low fidelity.” “This is not low fidelity.” 💀

I wonder why Apple even allows apps to spawn app-store review prompts that don't use its built-in logic. It might be too hard to prevent. You could at least prevent it by policy and then ban for non-compliance. daringfireball.net/linked/2026/...

"This was an entirely unforeseeable usage of the tombstone functionality of Oregon Trail. If anything, our zeal for the social sharing of sensitive medical information was way ahead of its time."

Haven’t been much of a Gatorade fan since the days of glass bottles, but this Lower Sugar stuff is really good. Only 50 calories for 28 ounces, nice mild flavor, no gross aftertaste. Could even dilute it down another 25% if you wanted.

Even *this* guy knows how to concede.

"Everything that can be figured out based on disparate clues scattered across different documents *will* be figured out, in the next few years." www.thediff.co/archive/long...

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New favorite protein bars. 16g protein, 160 calories, 6g sugar and no other sweeteners. Tastes like the biggest marshmallow you ever ate. All flavors good. a.co/d/0bu0jJJY

"What Carter did in his speech was something rare in the annals of democratic government: he confronted the people with the truth—about his own failings, about the reality of the world around them, and most importantly about themselves." (via @anildash.com) www.liberalcurrents.com/after-a-dark...

Updated this post so it plays the '80s music if you click on the section headings.

Should you stay or should you go? I wrote a little post about how the job description for designers is changing and what you can about it. mikeindustries.com/blog/archive...

Easter, to me, is about one thing: remembering Pope Francis getting hella real on Twitter for a hot second in 2015.

Excited for the release of noon.design today. If you feel like we are at a transitional stage right now where no design or development tool feels “just right” for the new age we are in, you are not alone.

Still can't believe no one has made an excellent savory protein bar yet. Just start with peanuts, add some whey, and spice it up with cayenne and soy sauce. Basically like a Bear Bar but with some actual protein: bearbar.com