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War! Uh! What is it good for? Accelerating the civilian adoption of dual-use technologies developed under defense contracts!

Sky has truly bungled the SNL UK rollout. Posting about a quarter of the clips on the Sky youtube channel (not a dedicated channel) hours after the fact, then posting it for streaming internationally two days later.

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this also includes a little trick I’ve been using for a while: there’s an undocumented Info.plist dictionary you can enter to generate an app icon.

Finally giving the people what they want: a modern Swift refactored lid angle sensor demo app with adjustable parameters for prototyping, an app icon, and a menu bar extra https://github.com/samhenrigold/LidAngleSensor/releases/tag/1.1

drag race producer: “yeah this lip sync track cut is good, but can you make it end with a boom?”

“uhhh this is a ballad”

“MAKE. IT. END. WITH. A. BOOM.”

sorry to keep harping on this laptop but i just noticed the tongue of the usb c port on the Neo is color matched and I think that’s cute

Anyone in NYC interested in a 2022 Studio Display? Local pickup in Manhattan

The thing I find icky about OpenClaw is that, by its nature, its output is not vetted by you but it still reflects on you in some capacity. In the same way that you have to be very cautious with vibe coding, you have to be very cautious with vibe agency/autonomy.

shot, chaser https://substack.com/home/post/p-191342187

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told ya

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While testing WireView, I noticed something in the Linear app I hadn’t seen anywhere else: it detects if the screen is being captured or mirrored in some way and it automatically shows touch dots. Even supports multitouch! Could be a useful debug thing to add to your own apps

a sitcom called The Straight of Hormuz about a guy who goes into the Iranian navy only to discover he’s the only straight guy on a boat full of gay guys

im tired of trump, you're tired of trump, fully understood.

however this idea has been in my head for days and I just needed to make it so I could free up space up there

love web toys like this https://walzr.com/rosetta-map/

AERIAL TRAMWAY 🗣️🗣️ https://youtu.be/59CpJqCbxXs

ran into zohran just now while getting coffee. really nice guy. ironically this was the playlist i was listening to

The MacBook Neo is such an interesting machine that it coaxed a thousand-word-essay out of me: https://samhenri.gold/blog/20260312-this-is-not-the-computer-for-you/

We have another design team opening at Tavus for a Brand & Product Designer! If this strikes a chord, DM here or electronically mail me with a resume/website/portfolio/whatever you have (sam at tavus dot io)

#getfedihired #fedihire #jobs

do you remember that thing before browsers had integrated search/url fields where, if you typed a search query into the URL field, it would redirect to a SERP owned by your ISP? absolutely wild.

you could not write a more 2008 sentence if you were given a year

war today queen?

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With all due respect did the person who wrote “displays real hands” breastfeed on rocks as a baby

app review didn’t like my video or the fact that I said “for iOS” in the subtitle or the fact that I added the opener to Pride and Prejudice in the release notes. this is what 1984 warned us about. probably. i didn’t read it.

i saw this yesterday and the concept of spinning up nano banana to draw a rectangle on a screenshot kinda made me want to scream

Going onto fox news to fear monger about minified JS. “parents, do you know what your children are seeing when they press F12? your kids will start writing !0 instead of true. they’ll write things like `!function(e,t,n){}` — this is not an accident.”

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kinda surprised nobody has noticed the About screen text yet

idk why my WireView video blew up on YouTube (apparently 90% of the views came from the YT home page) but it now has 23k views lol https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQ9XTSt5Hms

(hushed tone) listen if we all use UIDesignRequiresCompatibility they can’t take it away this year

Kinda curious how shitpost-y they’ll let me get in the release notes field

Introducing WireView, a new tool for the iOS developer workflow. It’s primarily for me but you can have it, too. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/wireview/id6756973128?mt=12

Did you know your MacBook has a sensor that knows the exact angle of the screen hinge?

It’s not exposed as a public API, but I figured out a way to read it and make it sound like an old wooden door.

Source code and a downloadable app to try it yourself: https://github.com/samhenrigold/LidAngleSensor