Tired: “Dogfooding”: Using the software you work on with unbridled happiness and glee, no consideration what it is
Wired: “Catfooding”: Looking at the software and saying “Fuck that shit. I ain’t using that”, and then going for a nap.
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Dominic Hopton
@grork@mastodon.social
mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06Person, collection of elements producing something less than the sum of its parts. (Opinions are mine, and do not represent those of my employer)
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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?!
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@saagar@federated.saagarjha.com it’s not just apple. every tech company is now writing the docs they should have written a decade ago for other humans, but they had no respect for their fellow meat bag. But the thinking sand — we will move heaven & hell to make that happen. (yes, i’m bitter about this particular part)
https://xikipedia.org/
Feed-style Wikipedia. This is a ~brilliant~ terrible idea. (and it really is quite addictive)
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@kyle@mister.computer come again? I have no idea what you are saying (i’m likely too dumb)
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@kyle@mister.computer I see. I wonder if this is actually American-GenX? I honestly didn’t think this was edgy or hypocritical? If you’d asked me to generationalise it, i’d have picked late-stage millennial given the office reference being distinctly millennial, vs any other generation?
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@atpfm@mastodon.social the discussion of ads and how it slowly creeps deep into the way companies think reminds me of this blog (that I writes; #biased) https://www.codevoid.net/ruminations/2025/02/23/the-first-hit-is-free.html
Boosted by @fahrni@curmudgeon.cafe
Did Apple totally hork the home screen to app list & back animation in 26.2?
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@mrchrisadams@mastodon.social do you happen to know if its possible to use this without being a french professional or associated with a french educational establishment?
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@never_released @Migueldeicaza it feels like this financial situation is not… uncommon? historically in Argentina. Is it just one never ending cycle that it can’t quite break free of? Or something more structural?
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@davidaugust@mastodon.online https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxWN8AhNER0 (“Time Loop" sketch from Red Dwarf)
So What is it? | Red Dwarf | BBC Studios
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@PonyoMina@toot.cat @Gargron@mastodon.social Hendricks gin themed cat, or cat themed Hendricks gin? Who cares; cat is cute.
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@mattiem @kyle @jordanmorgan if you can generate a binary from a prompt directly, abstractions don’t matter because you can just generate it every time! and who needs language guardrails when you can generate a binary directly?
@ianb why monday, why not Saturday to allow the news to settle and stabilize the situation & markets?
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@kyle 💯 Sure, apps/software will still have UI (people like touching things). But the robots won’t talk to it that way. It’s hilariously lossy.
Do you want a minion? (short post)
https://www.codevoid.net/ruminations/2026/09/21/do-you-want-a-minion.html
Is it me or does New Siri leave the response ui toast (eg turned a light on) up indefinitely?
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.
@schwa@mastodon.social monster taught me about *69!
@schwa@mastodon.social can it hop all the way back to the Bay Area from SC?
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@bert_hubert@eupolicy.social is there a good tl;dr backgrounder or english-language dutch news site I can follow to understand this?
Is this cause for concern if one is traveling to the netherlands soon?
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@twilliability@genart.social It’d be really interesting to have the bot auto-split longer-than-toot-length articles into a thread w/ images.
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@Susan_calvin@mastodon.social @mrchrisadams@mastodon.social I mean, sure, but… I just want to try it out. And then be able to recommend it to others if it’s good.
Even in france you have to have a job to be able to use this — which feels weird?
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@finnvoorhees@mastodon.social does it drive by image only or is it also bringing in the acc tree, and then invoking via the acc tree?
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@lwdupont@mastodon.social @fahrni@curmudgeon.cafe Interesting. I rebooted and it persisted -- different orientation of the screen etc.
Very odd.
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@palmin@mastodon.social @Migueldeicaza@mastodon.social @WorkingCopy@indieapps.space I’m somewhat curious how well / not well the on-device model worked for the simplistic cases.