Chris McGee

Memorial offerings for Renee Good at the site where she was murdered. Candles, flowers, balloons, Virgin of Guadalupe, a Mexican flag

The memorial keeps growing

“L’état, c’est moi.” www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/u...

AI agents are only as good as the tasks they can reliability perform.

Surf's up in Canada … in the winter | CBC Radio While some may choose to stay indoors during the frigid and snowy Canadian winter, Vesa Luomaranta tries to make the best out of cold weather — but he doesn’t play pond hockey or go for a ski. Luomara...

hell yeah

PBS taught me English, so... a lot of feelings today.

But it's also an important reminder: people talk about how the next administration will fix things, but what Trump and Co. are doing right now will take generations to undo.

We can't just sit passively - it's about fighting from every angle.

import Foundation let calendar = Calendar.current let openSourceDay = calendar.date(from: DateComponents(year: 2015, month: 12, day: 3))! let anniversary = calendar.date(byAdding: .year, value: 10, to: openSourceDay)! if calendar.isDateInToday(anniversary) { print("10 Years of Swift open source! 🎉") }

🎉 10 years of open source Swift! A decade ago today, we opened Swift to the world with a simple blog post: swift.org/blog/welcome

What's grown since—thanks to an incredible community of contributors—has been extraordinary. Here's to the next ten years. 🧡

YouTube video by AWS Events AWS re:Invent 2025 - Keynote with Peter DeSantis and Dave Brown

🏎️ While Swift was originally created for iOS/macOS apps, many might not realize that at Apple we run Swift on the server to operate massive services, on Linux, serving billions of requests per day. Check out our VP's keynote at AWS re:Invent for details youtu.be/JeUpUK0nhC0?...

I like the sound of idea: the tenor saxophone’s role in a classical orchestra is to add a layer of darkness to the lower brass section.

Antonym is the antonym of synonym.

1️⃣ Swift comes to FreeBSD

Swift is now available in preview for FreeBSD 14.3 and later. We want your feedback, bug reports, and contributions to make Swift great on FreeBSD! 🧑‍💻Read the announcement here: forums.swift.org/t/swift-on-f... #FreeBSD

I wish that more C/C++ projects would ship a clang module map with their headers. Modular headers and includes are a great feature that few people know about.

Doug Ford tells young job seekers “try inheriting your daddy’s sticker factory” QUEEN'S PARK - Ontario Premier Doug Ford is telling unemployed young job seekers to "Look harder" for label manufacturing companies that they can inherit, or failing that, a lifetime's worth of backroom conservative political connections.

Doug Ford tells young job seekers “try inheriting your daddy’s sticker factory”

I love these suggestions. They are fairly consistent with Gemtext, and Supertxt specs too. The idea of code blocks being extended to allow inline content of other languages like html is really good.

I think it would be worthwhile to consider line oriented design.

From the author of Pandoc —

"I'll go through the six features of Markdown that I think have created the most difficulties"

Beyond Markdown: johnmacfarlane.net/beyond-markd...

Did you know that you can build a Swift package that supports multiple versions of Swift with different manifests? More on this and other advanced features of SwiftPM at our docs: docs.swift.org/swiftpm/docu...

Lots of cool new features coming to Swift 6.2 -- including a new opt-in strict memory safety checking mode that identifies and prevents any use of unsafe features. Read more about it here: github.com/swiftlang/sw...

In a few days, I suspect all five of these kittehs will be looking for homes (somewhere in Ottawa ideally). Including Mom, who is the most adorable stray -- sweet and eerily intelligent. So start making room.

Earth has moderate tides.

But some planets in the habitable zones of red dwarf stars may have tides that send the water level up and down by ~100 meters over a month: arxiv.org/abs/2507.03850

Just consulted with the oracle of exercise. Now I’ve got some fresh ideas.

Holy smokes everyone. You gotta check out Ezra Collective. Try a few different songs.

Trump Invites Putin to Set Foot in America The Art of the Deal president hopes he can broker peace.

I know this is not on the table but it would be a very good opportunity to simply arrest him and hand him over to the ICC

An explosion at a U.S. Steel plant in Pennsylvania killed one person and injured at least 10 more on Monday, and rescuers combed through the rubble at the plant in search of survivors, the authorities said.

When designing the errors that you return to 3rd parties (whether from an API or SDK) please default to not returning sensitive data in your error messages. I've spent SO MUCH TIME handling bugs where we log customer data or return sensitive provider info from our API because of this.

It’s all about iridization. That is all.

Can Bluesky say every word in the dictionary?
I dunno but I plan to find out!

I made a website that tracks every single word said on bluesky (as of yesterday).

🧵 Dear Republican lawmakers,

Canada has the largest intact boreal forest on the planet.

An increasingly hotter world due to #ClimateChange makes longer dry seasons, far larger wildfires & yes, more smoke. No amount of "raking" fixes it. The scientists warned of exactly this for a very long time /1

Are we really headed towards auto generated user interfaces? What does that world even look like?

I understand the flexibility of prompt based interfaces, but are prompts the universal interface to every problem? Wouldn't feature discovery still be a challenge like we see with hidden menu options?

Just a friendly reminder: when software gives you actionable errors, don’t be afraid to give the action a try!

Anyone else in Munich in October?

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