The best scene in the Home Alone series was the last 30 minutes of Skyfall.

My favorite thing about macOS is how consistent the interface metaphors are. No matter what app you're in, if you click the red circle in the top left corner, it'll close the window.

Unless, of course, you're in the Music app's MiniPlayer. In that case the red circle makes the window 16 times larger. Naturally.

So much of programming looks like deciding between six of one and half-a-dozen of the other, but the reason it's so hard is that a keen attention to detail almost always reveals it's really 6.05 of one versus 0.498 of a dozen.

Sweating the small stuff is almost always rewarded in the long-term, even if
either path would work in the short-term.

1. Login authentication fails (incorrect password)
2. Click Forgot Password
3. Open reset password link
4. Paste exact same password in as new password
5. Error: new password cannot match current password
6. ಠ_ಠ

BREAKING NEWS: After several years of not working, Legitimate LLC's home page is working again. legitimate.us/index.html

Not a big fan of the two big three-letter acronyms to emerge in the Apple blogosphere so far in 2024. To recap, these already have robust definitions in online discourse:

• AVP: Alien versus Predator
• CTF: Capture the Flag

My useless superpower is the ability to accurately predict in advance exactly how miserable something will be, and with no ability to do anything about it but to wait in lucid anticipation for said misery to unfold.

Decided to "treat myself" and pull in a third party dependency to render breadcrumb links in this new app I'm building. Apologies to future me for when this inevitably breaks someday! I was being lazy.

I had an app exactly like this in my backlog of projects: an on-device social network where your posts don't go anywhere and you get random (fake) likes from names of people in your contacts. Perfection apps.apple.com/us/app/palmsy/id6478816320

I received a lot of questions on my syndication strategy for justin.searls.co, so today I published the first edition of my POSSE Pulse explaining exactly how I'm doing it justin.searls.co/posse/

I don't get why people complain about how long my podcast is. The latest one was barely 5 minutes longer than Oppenheimer. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/breaking-change/id1725165751?i=1000648680970

When I finally isolated and reproduced this bug today, I will admit I let out a very loud, "oh for fuck's sake!"

I've had even lousier-than-usual luck recently stumbling onto obscure and bizarre bugs in extremely well-used libraries github.com/sparklemotion/nokogiri/issues/3147

The Breaking Change mailbag is starting to run low. Email podcast@searls.co and ask me literally anything and I will maybe possibly answer it in the next episode! 🤞

In hindsight, when I was under a lot of pressure to drop CoffeeScript a decade
ago in favor of "modern" JavaScript (defined as using tools like babel and
webpack), I wish I'd held my ground.

Without a doubt I'd be better off today if I'd just gone straight from CoffeeScript to real ESM and import maps. Just spent three hours dealing with bitrot in a webpack config with no end in sight. The JavaScript Dream was always a house of cards.

Just used my Apple Vision Pro for anything other than screen sharing in over a month because my Mac was installing an OS update.

Spent all morning trying to figure out why every postcss plugin that has anything to do with color conversion can't handle CSS Colors 4 rgb() calls (even the two that claim to do exactly that).

Now I have my own custom postcss plugin named 'these-colors-dont-run' that I have to drag around until the end of time. Great gist.github.com/searls/d9ca494792736f94d765223c6ba98d33