Now that the iPhone is about to have 48MP cameras across the board, Apple should internally capture video in square 4K width and height and share in 9:16 or 16:9, such that bars are never necessary in either landscape or portrait orientations

So if someone hacks Siri, does that make it Apple Counterintelligence?

FedEx bought Kinko’s over 20 years ago and erased the brand in 2008 but people seem to mostly still calls it Kinko’s.

Not here to kinko shame, but seems like they threw away a really strong brand.

People ask why I specialized in software testing. Answer: I wanted to leave a legacy.

Reasoning: production code gets deleted all the time but y'all are too scared to EVER delete tests.

"Turkey's special" youtu.be/ez19iQMirzE

In order to protect user privacy, Apple Vision Pro does not trigger hover state on UI controls other than native visionOS applications. As a result, successfully clicking links and buttons requires the user to take a Tap of Faith that they're looking at them just right.

As a result, my click failure rate is like 30%. This is so dumb. Let me turn off gaze privacy.

Do people in Austin consider it cultural appropriation that J.D. Vance is so weird?

All 14 animated music videos for Daft Punk's Discovery album. You are welcome: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEPP5ddwMnT3pZR63WyemBtwFlvbRorqS

Against my better judgment, I now have Apple Intelligence on my phone.

So far, kind of impressed!

A lot of people are surprised that I pronounce my last name in Japanese as サールズ ("saaruzu") instead of something that looks more like Searls (せアルス). Here's why:

In English, Searls is pronounced like "Pearls" but with an "S" instead of a "P"

So I reverse-applied the same mnemonic to Japanese: start with katakana for pearls (パールズ) and replace パ ("pa") with サ ("sa"). That way in both languages, it's "Pearls with an 'S'"

I, for one, love Test Double's newly-animated Chaos Ruby testdouble.com/services/upgrade-rails

Writing this to demonstrate it's not "literally never" that application developers would benefit from the non-obvious data structures one might learn in a computer science program: I'm two days into a challenging feature and just realized it would have been way easier if I'd used a linked list.

First time in maybe a decade.

The Crowdstrike thing was such major news that it was the first time in a long time that non-technical family and friends texted me about software.

Do you have any takes on Crowdstrike or stories about disasters (averted or experienced) like this one that you'd like me to read on my podcast? If so, write in! podcast@searls.co

Experience seems to be the only way for a product manager to learn the profound difference between "Never" and "Almost Never" (or "Always" and "Almost Always").

I have two speeds:

1. Write automated tests for everything and achieve ~100% code coverage

2. Write automated tests only for things that can break without my noticing

And when I'm the lone developer, my top design priority is minimizing the latter risk blog.testdouble.com/talks/2017-05-11-how-to-program/

Just me or is universal <video preloading=none> support a lie? macOS Safari is downloading the entirety of 36 (hidden!) videos in the DOM on page load.

Having to resort to waiting to set the <source src> with JavaScript after user action. imagekit.io/blog/lazy-loading-html-videos/

A Breaking Change listener replied to v16 asking to see my new pool drain hose, and since it happened to rain today, here you go, my dude: youtube.com/shorts/Pq2NK-8hNqs

I've been using iOS 18 for 1 day and the reviews are in: full color tapbacks in iMessage are the worst design decision since the 737 Max.

I wasn't happy with the Faker gem's Lorem and Markdown modules, so—for anyone who might need it—I wrote a silly function to generate more realistically sized paragraphs with Markdown bits gist.github.com/searls/2859ad7e8941872edb9561eb965b7c76

I was today years old when I realized that when The Youngs say "LFG" online, they don't mean "Looking for Group."