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• Post #4423118

  Schrödinger’s TOCTOU https://github.com/xoreaxeaxeax/schrodingers-toctou “...the definition of ‘sane compiler' grows ever looser.”

• Post #4337001

  Typo of the day: “Fir All Mankind”

• Post #3671997

  Time to beat up the Beats (-:

• Post #3671996

  “anywhere it’s possible to hide a pointer, people will hide a pointer there” Maybe we should call that “Chen’s law” (-: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260630-00/?p=112488

• Post #3671995

  Sausages, batter, and overengineering, what’s not to like?

• Post #3433188

  “In the past year we also switched from Slack to a Discourse forum, so support and discussions can be /on the web instead of hidden away/.” [my emphasis] https://inessential.com/2026/06/15/netnewswire-status.html

• Post #3433187

  At this point I’m starting to wonder whether “strange women lying in ponds distributing swords” /is/ actually a reasonable “basis for a system of government” (-:

• Post #3433186

  Seeing as I won’t be visiting the US voluntarily any time soon, I decided to stay an extra few days and see some sights.

• Post #3433185

  Heaven is when all your US-based colleagues are taking a much-deserved post-WWDC break!

• Post #3433184

  “In the Network tab, when a resource redirects, [Web Inspector now shows] every request in the chain rather than just the final destination.” — https://webkit.org/blog/17967/news-from-wwdc26-webkit-in-safari-27-beta/ And there was much rejoicing!

• Post #3433183

  Found this in my org’s building during my recent trip. AFAICT it’s not deliberate, but rather an artefact of its design.

• Post #3433182

  That thing where you spend so long setting up your test environment that you forget what it was you were actually trying to test )-:

• Post #3433181

  Does anyone have this one in their Scots language phrase book? “I will cycle early to avoid the heat.” It’s missing from mine for some reason (-:

• Post #3433180

  “I’m going to pronounce it in my head as ‘buns’.” — “Training an LLM in Swift, Part 2: macOS built-in frameworks” https://www.cocoawithlove.com/blog/macos-ml-frameworks.html

• Post #3433179

  It’s amazing what taking the time to fold laundry can do for the elegance of your code.

• Post #3432233

  That thing where you go to write a doc comment explaining a limitation in your interface and decide that it’s easier to just rewrite the interface to define away the limitation.

• Post #3261949

  WWDC runs to Friday, but today is the last day I have to slather myself in sun cream, and that’s a small mercy

• Post #3219349

  Typo of the day: “inpersonating”

• Post #3219348

  Reading the Canon PIXMA TS6360a user manual, I was disappointed to discover that the “Troubleshooting” section has nothing about removing a full-on ant nest from your printer. C’mon Canon, you’re letting the side down here!

• Post #3219347

  Typo of the day: Swift Plagueground

• Post #3219346

  This view of KGV dock yesterday illustrates how Scotland generates 113% [1] of its electricity needs via renewables. [1] With the excess being sent south. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renewable_energy_in_Scotland

• Post #3219345

  Now that I’ve had some sleep, I’ve come to the conclusion that I should definitely not toot about California the evening that I get there, when I’m weary from travel and jet lag. Not that I did — despite the impairments, Yesterday Quinn™ had the good sense to delete the toot rather than sending it — but it was close |-:

• Post #3219344

  I’ll be at the Infinite Loop shindig this arvo. If you’re there and see a tall-but-tubby man with long, mostly grey hair, wearing a Celestial Teapot T-shirt, come say “Hi.”

• Post #3219343

  OTOH, if you see a very tall and not-at-all tubby man with long grey hair who’s probably not wearing a Celestial Teapot T-shirt, that’s likely my DTS colleague John. He’s friendly, so feel free to say “Hi” to him too.

• Post #3214555

  What are you most excited by in the 27 releases, Quinn? Well, I’m glad you asked… https://developer.apple.com/documentation/CrashReportExtension

• Post #1781910

  I mourn the death of Bill Atkinson. But I also celebrate his life! We all benefited from his work, and none more than me. And while the standard adage is “Never meet your heroes”, in this case that’s nonsense. The few times I met him were an absolute delight.

• Post #1683215

  Just watched a fascinating YouTube video about the Lincoln Project. No no, not /that/ Lincoln Project, but this one… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semi-Automatic_Ground_Environment#Project_Lincoln

• Post #1596290

  Dancing with Daemons: Porting Swift to FreeBSD, “And then things went quiet for about six years”, https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/YTBHYC-swift-on-freebsd/ #EskimoTV

• Post #1596289

  Software Unscripted: Gleam’s Design and Compiler, with creator Louis Pilfold #EskimoTV https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/software-unscripted/id1602572955?i=1000744551055

• Post #1596288

  What’s new in widgets, “These [reload options] are not mutually exclusive. Some widgets may want to use two or even all three”, https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2025/278/ #EskimoTV