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AppKit engineer at  || Cats and board games || Leftist || Opinions my own || they/them

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it's like every band was holding back in order to all have fall tours at the same time. seeing more shows in the next two weeks than i saw in the first half of the year

13.10.2025 18:27 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I really like this one!

12.10.2025 19:19 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

it's cute how we always imagined the sci-fi dystopia as hyper-developed urban cores when NIMBYs won't even allow the construction of a five over one and a light rail

03.10.2025 16:13 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

30.09.2025 14:43 — 👍 49913    🔁 15591    💬 670    📌 724

please don't tell me i'm the one who planted this virus in your head with "unwise ebay browsing hours"

23.09.2025 07:32 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

AppKit was my first team as an engineer at Apple, so in a sense this is a homecoming. It's also an exciting chance to work on an area of the framework that's brand new to me. Every change is bittersweet and I'm incredibly proud of the work I've done for visionOS and the people I got to do it with.

23.08.2025 01:52 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I'm excited to share that on Monday I start with the AppKit team at Apple! It's been incredible to work with the amazing visionOS UI frameworks team the last few years and bring spatial computing to life. The Mac was the computer that made me love computers and I'm so excited to work on it again.

23.08.2025 01:46 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

i'm genuinely coming around to being really happy to pay for the websites and newsletters i read and enjoy but please, please, keep me signed in and don't rely on "magic link" emails that take ten minutes to show up in my inbox. if i'm paying for your work, it sucks to be hit with a paywall so often

09.08.2025 05:46 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

i swear every dentist is in the pocket of Big Waterpick

05.08.2025 03:27 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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I’m Starting To Worry This Industry Has No Respect For The People Who Work In It Once your stock options were fully vested, did you sell off all the shares in your humanity?

I wrote this column and I'll just say that the original headline was much meaner. The piece itself, though, is still very angry and very mean, I assure you.

14.07.2025 15:40 — 👍 5508    🔁 1567    💬 122    📌 90

a movie like Tomorrow, except only Weird Al songs exist and one guy remembers the originals

07.07.2025 17:11 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

no i'm not going to summerfest, im going to sumer fest. it's like the ren faire but we reenact the earliest human civilization

05.07.2025 01:18 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

people say "nice" to 69 because it's the perfect temperature to be outside in a t-shirt and jeans

22.06.2025 17:16 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

it's been great to see so many familiar faces and meet so many new people at #wwdc25 this year!! very thrilled to see the new design with Liquid Glass out in the wild and the enthusiasm from everyone has been so wonderful

11.06.2025 06:16 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

family guy has done a lot of cultural damage but the one that's maybe most personally frustrating is giving the phrase "it insists upon itself" to the "curtain is fucking blue" people.

08.06.2025 08:01 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

you can sing this to the tune of the TMNT theme song

07.06.2025 07:50 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

you can sing "Happy Pride Month, Minnesota!" to the tune of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles theme song

01.06.2025 23:49 — 👍 10    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1

not a day goes by where i don't yearn for the simpler era of vagueposting emo song lyrics

30.05.2025 21:22 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

honestly i've never met a lamp i liked. i don't know what kind of lamp i would like but it's definitely none of the ones i've ever seen. every lamp is a compromise

25.05.2025 21:52 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

everyone who thinks summer is better than winter, why do you think they made hell hot and not cold

17.05.2025 05:48 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I will not play grand theft auto because it perpetuates car culture :/

10.05.2025 01:06 — 👍 3683    🔁 340    💬 74    📌 20

malort communion

08.05.2025 21:50 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

the US has toppled dictatorships before and it's time for us to do it again.

17.04.2025 00:57 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

We have had nearly two decades of panic about Free Speech on Campus and not a single case, not even the ones they made up, were as bad as what's happening now

29.03.2025 14:24 — 👍 17821    🔁 6437    💬 172    📌 160

how old were you when you got your own blender

22.03.2025 07:03 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

when i was a kid i thought a blender was something every adult must end up with at some point but no, you can just go your whole adult life without one of those things

22.03.2025 07:02 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

idk what's up with the brightness in silo season 2 but the reflection of my room in the tv is brighter than some of these scenes

01.03.2025 19:05 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

i honestly really hate magic link logins. with a password manager i can log in instantly, with magic links i often have to wait 5+ minutes and usually go dig the link out of the trash.

27.02.2025 19:18 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

imagine if they made oranges without all the gross white stringy bits, it would be too powerful

23.02.2025 20:01 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

just a typical millennial night of eating taco bell and watching vine compilations

22.02.2025 06:55 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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