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Boat ride! ⚓️

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Splashdown! 🚀

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I hit that Mail bug again on iOS. Been careful since to only multiselect messages that are unread, but there’s definitely a problem with the state of the button toggle. It erroneously presented me with a Mark as Unread button.

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Re: micro-blog.brianward.us/2026/04/0…

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I wish I’d had NFOViewer back at Runic. Before I went to bed, I added a global search feature. This was finicky to get working at first, but it works. The other issue I had to fix was when filtering thousands of items, I’d hit a deadlock while rendering the UI, but we debounce and stream in now.

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In past support roles, I always preferred working from a Mac, but those pesky Windows System Information (*.NFO) files kept getting in the way. So tonight I built NFOViewer, a simple macOS app that opens them with zero friction.

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Tonight I went through the process of bringing the classic Mac OS X app Backhoe (a terrain editor for Second Life) all the way from Objective-C and AppKit on Mac OS X 10.4 (PPC) over to Swift, Apple Silicon, modern macOS – and running on the iPad!

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Fats Navarro w/ Don Lanphere www.youtube.com/watch 🎵 It blows my mind that I studied with Don and knew him a little bit. He was a musically-demanding perfectionist, but was a good guy with a kind heart. He used to tell me how much he and Charlie Parker hated Paul Desmond. 😆

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Anybody else notice an annoying little hitch lately when dragging and dropping files on macOS, like into Claude or a web browser drop zone?

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Got an old project up and running again in a docker container tonight. Hello, old friend!

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It’d be real sweet if Mail got an update sometime to make marking all messages as read not suck. Twice this year I have inadvertently flagged all messages on all my accounts by mistake, usually due to some kind of UI lag bug on the iPad.

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Last weekend visiting the cherry blossoms at the UW campus.

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We went to a No Kings protest yesterday afternoon in Ballard.

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First time at opening week! A good effort tonight even if we didn’t win. ⚾️

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Some news from my jobby job: We shipped Camelot Unchained into early access yesterday! 🎉 massivelyop.com/2026/03/2…

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Love it. Ship it on Windows and Linux too, please. webkit.org/blog/1786…

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I’ve heard that the A18 Pro is basically a tiny M1, so my hope is that the MacBook Neo pushes Apple to focus a little bit more on performance improvements to accommodate some of the older Apple Silicon out there.

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Jerry Bergonzi Quintet livestream from earlier today 🎷 www.youtube.com/watch

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A minor annoying visual bug on the iPhone lock screen in 26.3.1 (a). Should I be filing a Radar?

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Do you think that someday through some combination of AirPlay and other magic, those overpowered Apple displays that have A-series processors in them might one day be able to let you walk up to any random display and keyboard setup and just magically run macOS wherever you go right off your phone?

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I continue to wonder when the hell Spotify is going to ship a basic yet somehow novel accessibility feature called light mode. 🤔

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I was already into computers, so I got tapped to make a webpage to promote the CD. The obscenely long URL for which is printed on the back of the jewel case. One notable 90s quirk is that URLs often would often end in htm instead of html. I think this was because I made it on Windows 3.1!

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When I was a kid, our 6th grade class recorded an album. My dad worked for Muzak, and was able to pull in some favors to assist with its production. The result aired nationally in every McDonald’s for a period of time. Someone’s selling a copy on eBay right now: www.ebay.com/itm/32665…

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I’m just getting around to watching the Apple at 50 event with David Pogue at the Computer History Museum. It’s super entertaining! www.youtube.com/watch

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The OOBE and Windows Update experience is patently awful. I’m really not exaggerating. See for yourself: www.youtube.com/watch

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A lower entry point to the Mac will increase its market share and push Apple to focus on polish. Meanwhile, the MacBook Neo has rebooted the PC war at a time where Apple has footholds everywhere: www.theverge.com/report/89…

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@brianward More info here: westseattleblog.com/2025/11/s…

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@rchusid.bsky.social This used to be my belief as well; however, think the time has come for us to recognize that waiting for these people to act would be a dereliction of our own agency as human beings who have a stake in the fate of civilization. Something about Einstein and the definition of insanity.

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@thorbenson.bsky.social I would expect nothing less than slop from the NYP. A pair of basic New Balance sneakers at Nordstrom is $200, or you can maybe find them at the Rack for $50-75. Stuff is expensive. 🤷‍♂️ Also, they don’t know that she paid full price. But who gives a shit if she did? Pure capitalist hit piece.

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@bsward.bsky.social Inspiration: thehill.com/homenews/adm…

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@basicappleguy.com Are you redoing the entire OG iPhone UI as Liquid Glass? 🤪🤳

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@brianpjcronin.bsky.social Openly unconstitutional.

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@gtconway.bsky.social This is some sick Nazi shit right here.

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@atrupar.com I’m not even sure the guy being interviewed isn’t an AI at this point.

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@atrupar.com “In his wisdom”

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What kind of sycophantic cult shit is that?

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@atrupar.com We have entered Idiocracy. I’ll be at Starbucks. 👋

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@chrislhayes.bsky.social The book wasn’t supposed to be a how-to guide; it was supposed to be a warning.

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@dumbmike.bsky.social Instantly blocked him. No interest in his horseshit. 🤪

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@vmstan haven’t checked that one out! I still would love to add more data like electricity and water usage. And maybe other things. And of course more weather data!

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@atrupar.com Not that I’m gonna stick up for Elon here, but the whole “legislation is my craft” angle is INSANE for a democracy, if that’s still what we are.

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@georgetakei.bsky.social Everything this guy does is against the law. It’s kind of his thing and always has been. He continues to evade accountability.

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@aclu.org Look, I’m with ya. But maybe don’t put this one behind a paywall?

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@liminalscribe hops in the delorean Lets go! 🏃‍♂️🏃‍♂️

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@briangilham It honestly so fun!

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@bsward.bsky.social This is right up my alley. There’s something super reassuring about being able to communicate so far with a mobile setup like this. Love it!

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@bsward.bsky.social I’m kind of enchanted with it along the same lines. I picked up a CW operator in Texas recently and was able to decode his message with my phone. Emailed to let him know. Direct radio-to-radio comms across such great distances without relying on the internet really appeals to me these days! 😊

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@bsward.bsky.social Looking forward to getting into that! Plan to go for general in the next month or so. Have an HF antenna coming soon. My original intent was to go for both, but got technician started first since I’d been putting it off for so long. 😊 Am leaning towards trying out CW too — that seems so fun. 73!

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@bsward.bsky.social Thank you! Can’t wait for all the adventures I’m about to have. 😊

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@bsward.bsky.social Thank you!! Am super excited to get out there. 😊

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@adamkinzinger.bsky.social 🤣🤣 love this

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@kirk 🤦‍♂️ welp

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