Currently recruiting friends for the Pokémon card game on iOS. Wish it wasn't so well made but here we are 1320731700089555

Japanese media has taken to calling Trump's election "またトラ" (mata tora), as shorthand for またトランプ (mata toranpu), meaning "Trump again".
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Spoiler alert: Gladiator II is very good.

PSA: the "GO" app (prev. JapanTaxi) finally added support last November for account registration with foreign phone numbers, which they'd previously been using to gate the service to Japanese residents.

Strongly recommend using GO over Uber for taxi dispatch in Japan—far better coverage and availability goinc.jp/news/pr/2023/11/10/4zow9wentngt9gjmlsebyn/

My friend Nick has had a truly terrible year. First, he got kicked out of his brass band. Then they repossessed his instrument because he started missing loan payments. And now his wife is leaving him—says she doesn't want to be in a saxless marriage.

Next election, pollsters should just ask their sample to show them the top 20 items in whatever For You feed they look at first every morning.

I was extremely skeptical about GM dumping CarPlay and hiring Baris Cetinok from Apple, and after listening to this interview I am almost certain it was a mistake. Dude can barely string together several concepts in a row in comprehensible English. Can't imagine him running a complex software organization theverge.com/24285581/gm-software-baris-cetinok-apple-carplay-android-auto-google-cars-evs-decoder-podcast

Whose brilliant idea was it to base carrier activation of eSIM on scanning QR codes that need to be loaded on a screen of a second device?

Really nice interview on IndieRails with my better half about her Build with Becky product. Was fun to compare and contrast her recap of year we spent building this thing with my own perspective.

Aside: Becky's got such a great speaking voice that it's a crime that I'm the one with a podcast. Maybe she'll remedy that someday. indierails.com/47

There’s a device in my office closet that makes a pairing beep every few days. No idea what causes it. Could be any of two hundred devices spread across thirty bins and cubbies.

I will die not knowing.

One of the skills I've improved most over the course of my career is Dreading.

I used to dread work that'd actually turn out to be easy or otherwise let a a crushing slog catch me off guard. But now my sense of dread is finely tuned! I was really dreading editing this video and boy was that the correct reaction.

This may surprise some people, because I've been staunchly opposed to the privatization of space exploration my whole life and have been rooting against SpaceX from day one, but I'm a big man… I'm not afraid to admit when I'm wrong.

I've been watching the news, studying the issue closely, and I've changed my position. NASA should award SpaceX as many billions of dollars as it takes to send Elon Musk to Mars as soon as possible.

Using a Mac to get work done without Vision Pro for the first time in months this morning, and… wow, this fucking sucks.

Free idea: a browser extension that reaches through the screen and slaps you in the face when you accidentally add an item to your Amazon cart that’s shipped & sold by a third party reseller.

My first and only keynote at RubyConf was 10 years ago this week. The Social Coding Contract turned out to be a pretty accurate read on where things in open source were going for the next decade.

The one and only time I drew hundreds of slides with stick figures on a Wacom tablet. youtube.com/watch?v=HFRU6eQKp4Y

For macOS Sequoia 16, Apple should announce a ground-up rewrite of Time Machine that—under the hood—is literally just a GUI on top of rsync.

Three years of trying to get Time Machine to sync to a network share, and never got it to work once. rsync: got it in one.

tl;dr, pollsters are twisting twice as many knobs in 2024 as they were in 2016 (due to skewed and decreased response rates and scrutiny of past misses). Separately, a 50/50 tied result is likely to catch the least shit in the event of another polling miss next week.

The shocking conclusion? Pollsters are twisting the knobs such that most results come in around 50/50. More knobs, more bias. goodauthority.org/news/election-poll-vote2024-data-pollster-choices-weighting/

Three quick takes on ChatGPT integration in iOS 18.2:

1. You can disable Siri prompting you for permission to query ChatGPT
2. When using ChatGPT via Siri, you can type a follow-up and it’ll hold context and respond
3. If you want to bypass vanilla Siri actions, you may need to preface the query with "GPT" or "ChatGPT"

Trying to follow Ricky's advice and migrate one login at a time (testing each one, deleting defunct ones, adding 2FA as I go) from iPassword to Apple Passwords and… it took me 4 hours just to get through sites that start with "A".

Fuck. rmondello.com/2024/09/19/consider-slowing-down-when-switching-password-managers/

Look, all I want from political news—literally the only thing I’m asking for, and it isn’t much—is to tell me the literal future exactly as it will unfold so that my brain can go back to focusing on anything else.