I joined Twitter in 2007 and my brain slowly morphed over the next 15 years from hopelessly verbose to nihilistically pithy. I've kicked the Twitter habit, but the takes keep flowing. That's why I post them here and format them as a social network of one. You're welcome to bookmark any of these takes, though I'm not sure why you would.
By the way, the hearts and like counts are fake. They're just there to make you feel safe.
AppleCare One is a great deal if you like Apple's more expensive products. An iPad Pro ($10.99/mo), Vision Pro ($24.99/mo), and Pro Display XDR ($17.99/mo) somehow adds up to $19.99.
That's $33.98/mo cheaper than ala carte pricing. apple.com/applecare/
Did Satya write this for current and former employees or did Satya write this for Satya? blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2025/07/24/recommitting-to-our-why-what-and-how/
Finally, vindication. I've been calling bullshit on resting meat since I first heard of it. Get the meat to the right temp and shove it in your face while it's still hot. You can rest when you're dead. seriouseats.com/meat-resting-science-11776272
Almost made it 2 hours working in Xcode before hitting my first Spinning Beachball of Death. I triggered it by scrolling a file listing.
Nostalgic!
Starting my first new iOS app in over 15 years and on Day 1 I've spent more time debugging build errors in Keychain Access than I have in Xcode.
Some things never change.
The first draft of my "Full-breadth Developers" post included a throwaway line like "Forget 10x developers; think 100x" but then I came to my senses and deleted it. businessinsider.com/surge-ceo-ai-100x-engineers-2025-7
If my name were Albert, I would take advantage of the prevalence of sans-serif fonts and juice up that résumé. Tout what an expert in Al I was. Claim to be an Al-first developer. An Al-native. In the top 0.1% of the field with respect to Al.
Never get high off your own supply. This guy must be new at this. futurism.com/openai-investor-chatgpt-mental-health
Get yourself a girl who understands the plot of Tenet
I was red-pilled by Claude Code over 4th of July weekend. Its performance was incredible. Ever since, it's been unbelievably incompetent by comparison.
Now the AI bros tell me Anthropic's servers get slammed during US business hours and Claude becomes 70% stupider. It's 4pm on a Friday and I only realized because Claude stopped fucking everything up. Great job, everyone.
I am 40 damn years old and still believe it is a moral failing to take two trips to carry shit from one place to another, even if it's likely I'll drop everything.
If my blog post about Full-breadth Developers has you the tiniest bit curious about how to get started with coding with AI, read this: addyo.substack.com/p/the-ai-native-software-engineer
If candidates are cheating your interview process by using AI, the solution is not to quiz them on computer science topics. It's to pair with them and watch them cook! If they can cheat with AI better than you can, hire them.
People email me asking for my consulting rate and I tell them I'm not taking clients.
People email me about my blog post and I give them 3000 words of free consulting over six replies.
Anybody else have a recent MacBook Pro (M4 Pro in my case) for which the keyboard suddenly became really squeaky? Every time I hit the space bar, it's like nails on a chalkboard.
Using Claude Code makes me realize my trademark disposition that "nobody's work is nearly good enough and I can reflexively list 20 specific ways in which this code sucks" is finally valuable. REALLY valuable.
Claude Code gives me better apologies than I think I've ever received from a human.
Amazingly, Russian doesn't have a word for "no," only "not yet."
Everything we learn about Shizuoka just makes us more excited that we chose it as the place to get a condo. Turns out, it's a huge soccer town! Bonus: Fuji-adjacent stadium 🗻⚽️ youtube.com/watch?v=txanTKRQXmI