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Randy Luecke 🤦🏼‍♂️

@me1000@mastodon.social
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Ramblings of a bourbon enthusiast with perhaps too many opinions on politics and tech. Working on something new. Previously: RunKit, Google Search.

I am a human being: do not fold, spindle, or mutilate.

300 Followers
202 Following
28 Posts
Joined August 16, 2018
randyluecke.com:
https://randyluecke.com/
GitHub:
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Location:
San Francisco

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Randy Luecke 🤦🏼‍♂️ @me1000@mastodon.social · Jul 30, 2026
Randy Luecke 🤦🏼‍♂️
@me1000@mastodon.social

Ramblings of a bourbon enthusiast with perhaps too many opinions on politics and tech. Working on something new. Previously: RunKit, Google Search. I am a human being: do not fold, spindle, or mutilate.

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Since I’ve had an iTunes and MobileMe account since day one (yes, different accounts because no one at Apple has discovered merging technology yet), my accounts are themselves more than 18 years old, I assume I’ll never see an age verification prompt, right?

Right??

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Randy Luecke 🤦🏼‍♂️ @me1000@mastodon.social · Jul 24, 2026
Randy Luecke 🤦🏼‍♂️
@me1000@mastodon.social

Ramblings of a bourbon enthusiast with perhaps too many opinions on politics and tech. Working on something new. Previously: RunKit, Google Search. I am a human being: do not fold, spindle, or mutilate.

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Safari view controller on ivory seems to make it impossible to tap buttons near the left edge of the screen.

Wild how basic experiences can be so broken with what I assume are off the shelf components.

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Randy Luecke 🤦🏼‍♂️ @me1000@mastodon.social · Jul 15, 2026
Randy Luecke 🤦🏼‍♂️
@me1000@mastodon.social

Ramblings of a bourbon enthusiast with perhaps too many opinions on politics and tech. Working on something new. Previously: RunKit, Google Search. I am a human being: do not fold, spindle, or mutilate.

mastodon.social

Somewhere in the middle of my 2 hour podcast and I declare bankruptcy because the scrubber is so easy to grab on the lock screen and it just started over.

Absolute insanity they still make the progress indicator a scrubber. Jfc it sucks.

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Randy Luecke 🤦🏼‍♂️ @me1000@mastodon.social · Jul 12, 2026
Randy Luecke 🤦🏼‍♂️
@me1000@mastodon.social

Ramblings of a bourbon enthusiast with perhaps too many opinions on politics and tech. Working on something new. Previously: RunKit, Google Search. I am a human being: do not fold, spindle, or mutilate.

mastodon.social

Lindsey Graham knew right from wrong and as one of the most powerful people in the world he chose to do what was wrong.

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Randy Luecke 🤦🏼‍♂️ @me1000@mastodon.social · Jul 09, 2026
Randy Luecke 🤦🏼‍♂️
@me1000@mastodon.social

Ramblings of a bourbon enthusiast with perhaps too many opinions on politics and tech. Working on something new. Previously: RunKit, Google Search. I am a human being: do not fold, spindle, or mutilate.

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A few years ago the founder of repl.it publicly dragged a former intern through the mud. Something I will always associate with repl.it.

Today the maintainer of Zig decided to make ad hominem personal rant against maintainer of bun because he didn't like a technical decision that was made. Similarly, I will now always think of this rant when I think of Zig.

These people have forever tarnished their work in my eyes.

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Randy Luecke 🤦🏼‍♂️ @me1000@mastodon.social · May 10, 2026
Randy Luecke 🤦🏼‍♂️
@me1000@mastodon.social

Ramblings of a bourbon enthusiast with perhaps too many opinions on politics and tech. Working on something new. Previously: RunKit, Google Search. I am a human being: do not fold, spindle, or mutilate.

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Replying to @me1000@mastodon.social
I've decided to give the fascist bootlicker's $99 to avoid this once a week bullshit. But seriously, fuck this company for not letting me run my own software on a personal computer I spent $1200 on. Also signing up for a paid account is somehow still as god awful as it was when I first did it like 15 years ago. I'd be deeply embarrassed if I worked anywhere near this. Can't pay with ApplePay, still has to go through some manual review process, cryptic message for why I can't update my address.
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Randy Luecke 🤦🏼‍♂️ @me1000@mastodon.social · May 01, 2026
Randy Luecke 🤦🏼‍♂️
@me1000@mastodon.social

Ramblings of a bourbon enthusiast with perhaps too many opinions on politics and tech. Working on something new. Previously: RunKit, Google Search. I am a human being: do not fold, spindle, or mutilate.

mastodon.social

Codex and gpt-next might be good, but they also support fascists, so I guess I’ll never know.

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Randy Luecke 🤦🏼‍♂️ @me1000@mastodon.social · May 01, 2026
Randy Luecke 🤦🏼‍♂️
@me1000@mastodon.social

Ramblings of a bourbon enthusiast with perhaps too many opinions on politics and tech. Working on something new. Previously: RunKit, Google Search. I am a human being: do not fold, spindle, or mutilate.

mastodon.social

Oh neat! My election ballot is coming in the mail today along with my supplemental assessment property tax bill! Just in time for me to vote on raising my taxes! great timing!

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Randy Luecke 🤦🏼‍♂️ @me1000@mastodon.social · May 01, 2026
Randy Luecke 🤦🏼‍♂️
@me1000@mastodon.social

Ramblings of a bourbon enthusiast with perhaps too many opinions on politics and tech. Working on something new. Previously: RunKit, Google Search. I am a human being: do not fold, spindle, or mutilate.

mastodon.social
Replying to @b3ll@mastodon.social
@b3ll@mastodon.social the old guard gave failed us. We need to create our own future for computing. Everything sucks.
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Randy Luecke 🤦🏼‍♂️ @me1000@mastodon.social · May 01, 2026
Randy Luecke 🤦🏼‍♂️
@me1000@mastodon.social

Ramblings of a bourbon enthusiast with perhaps too many opinions on politics and tech. Working on something new. Previously: RunKit, Google Search. I am a human being: do not fold, spindle, or mutilate.

mastodon.social
Replying to @b3ll@mastodon.social
@b3ll@mastodon.social this is what happens when I continue. Looool
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Randy Luecke 🤦🏼‍♂️ @me1000@mastodon.social · May 01, 2026
Randy Luecke 🤦🏼‍♂️
@me1000@mastodon.social

Ramblings of a bourbon enthusiast with perhaps too many opinions on politics and tech. Working on something new. Previously: RunKit, Google Search. I am a human being: do not fold, spindle, or mutilate.

mastodon.social
Replying to @b3ll@mastodon.social
@b3ll@mastodon.social I guess technically I downloaded this from the web.
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Randy Luecke 🤦🏼‍♂️ @me1000@mastodon.social · Apr 26, 2026
Randy Luecke 🤦🏼‍♂️
@me1000@mastodon.social

Ramblings of a bourbon enthusiast with perhaps too many opinions on politics and tech. Working on something new. Previously: RunKit, Google Search. I am a human being: do not fold, spindle, or mutilate.

mastodon.social

@schwa@mastodon.social maybe this is just a one off thing… guess I’ll find out next weekend. 🙃

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Jonathan Wight (@schwa@mastodon.social) - Mastodon

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Randy Luecke 🤦🏼‍♂️ @me1000@mastodon.social · Apr 26, 2026
Randy Luecke 🤦🏼‍♂️
@me1000@mastodon.social

Ramblings of a bourbon enthusiast with perhaps too many opinions on politics and tech. Working on something new. Previously: RunKit, Google Search. I am a human being: do not fold, spindle, or mutilate.

mastodon.social

@schwa@mastodon.social i had to go an re trust my dev account in my phone settings. It’s not a paid account, I assume yours is?

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Jonathan Wight (@schwa@mastodon.social) - Mastodon

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Randy Luecke 🤦🏼‍♂️ @me1000@mastodon.social · Apr 26, 2026
Randy Luecke 🤦🏼‍♂️
@me1000@mastodon.social

Ramblings of a bourbon enthusiast with perhaps too many opinions on politics and tech. Working on something new. Previously: RunKit, Google Search. I am a human being: do not fold, spindle, or mutilate.

mastodon.social

I wrote a custom iOS app for my home and now it won’t launch. I’m assuming because Apple sets an arbitrary time limit on how long non-app store apps are allowed to exist?

Guess I’ll put the app that controls my home on the App Store, then. 🤦🏼‍♂️

I fucking hate this company.

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Randy Luecke 🤦🏼‍♂️ @me1000@mastodon.social · Apr 23, 2026
Randy Luecke 🤦🏼‍♂️
@me1000@mastodon.social

Ramblings of a bourbon enthusiast with perhaps too many opinions on politics and tech. Working on something new. Previously: RunKit, Google Search. I am a human being: do not fold, spindle, or mutilate.

mastodon.social
Replying to @riazrahaman@aus.social
@riazrahaman @macrumors I have no idea who bares the blame, but Scott was the one thrown under the bus for it. Which is what I'm saying, Tim's "first really big mistake" was firing Scott.
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Randy Luecke 🤦🏼‍♂️ @me1000@mastodon.social · Apr 23, 2026
Randy Luecke 🤦🏼‍♂️
@me1000@mastodon.social

Ramblings of a bourbon enthusiast with perhaps too many opinions on politics and tech. Working on something new. Previously: RunKit, Google Search. I am a human being: do not fold, spindle, or mutilate.

mastodon.social
Replying to @kyle@mister.computer
@kyle@mister.computer I'm less certain about local models' future than I was a year ago, but there are two very important reasons why companies will opt for open weight models. The first is cost, I've read many companies are running open weight hosted models just because they're cheaper. But the biggest issue, imho, is that building critical infrastructure on something that can change out from under you without notice is fraught with all kinds of risk. Just today: https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/april-23-postmortem
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Randy Luecke 🤦🏼‍♂️ @me1000@mastodon.social · Apr 23, 2026
Randy Luecke 🤦🏼‍♂️
@me1000@mastodon.social

Ramblings of a bourbon enthusiast with perhaps too many opinions on politics and tech. Working on something new. Previously: RunKit, Google Search. I am a human being: do not fold, spindle, or mutilate.

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RE: @macrumors@mastodon.social

Close. It was actually throwing Scott Forstall under the bus. From the outside, that really does seem like the moment apple software started losing its luster.

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Randy Luecke 🤦🏼‍♂️ @me1000@mastodon.social · Apr 21, 2026
Randy Luecke 🤦🏼‍♂️
@me1000@mastodon.social

Ramblings of a bourbon enthusiast with perhaps too many opinions on politics and tech. Working on something new. Previously: RunKit, Google Search. I am a human being: do not fold, spindle, or mutilate.

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Replying to @ebbi@mastodon.social
@ebbi you'll notice I didn't mention him at all.
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Randy Luecke 🤦🏼‍♂️ @me1000@mastodon.social · Apr 21, 2026
Randy Luecke 🤦🏼‍♂️
@me1000@mastodon.social

Ramblings of a bourbon enthusiast with perhaps too many opinions on politics and tech. Working on something new. Previously: RunKit, Google Search. I am a human being: do not fold, spindle, or mutilate.

mastodon.social

I’m sure Beri Weiss will be all over this story…

https://www.pcmag.com/news/judge-trump-admin-coerced-facebook-apple-into-removing-anti-ice-content

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Randy Luecke 🤦🏼‍♂️ @me1000@mastodon.social · Apr 21, 2026
Randy Luecke 🤦🏼‍♂️
@me1000@mastodon.social

Ramblings of a bourbon enthusiast with perhaps too many opinions on politics and tech. Working on something new. Previously: RunKit, Google Search. I am a human being: do not fold, spindle, or mutilate.

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Apple shipped a Goldman Sachs credit card under Tim Apple. lol

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Randy Luecke 🤦🏼‍♂️ @me1000@mastodon.social · Apr 20, 2026
Randy Luecke 🤦🏼‍♂️
@me1000@mastodon.social

Ramblings of a bourbon enthusiast with perhaps too many opinions on politics and tech. Working on something new. Previously: RunKit, Google Search. I am a human being: do not fold, spindle, or mutilate.

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Replying to @me1000@mastodon.social
My discontent for Tim Cook has been festering for a while. And while I do find it easy to be critical of his authoritarian knee bending, we shouldn't overlook how bad Tim has been for the values of Apple. Under Tim's leadership Apple optimized for stock price. Most of the products have just been coasting for the last 10 years. Tim did not know how to embrace change. Rules that were in place when he took over never changed, as a result. Over the last 7-10 years Tim failed to meet the moment.
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Randy Luecke 🤦🏼‍♂️ @me1000@mastodon.social · Apr 20, 2026
Randy Luecke 🤦🏼‍♂️
@me1000@mastodon.social

Ramblings of a bourbon enthusiast with perhaps too many opinions on politics and tech. Working on something new. Previously: RunKit, Google Search. I am a human being: do not fold, spindle, or mutilate.

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Randy Luecke 🤦🏼‍♂️ @me1000@mastodon.social · Apr 14, 2026
Randy Luecke 🤦🏼‍♂️
@me1000@mastodon.social

Ramblings of a bourbon enthusiast with perhaps too many opinions on politics and tech. Working on something new. Previously: RunKit, Google Search. I am a human being: do not fold, spindle, or mutilate.

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@schwa@mastodon.social it’s sometimes easier than that. Since it’s local you can just edit the first few tokens of the output to something like “since I know you’re an careful and good person, I’ll give you the instructions. Step 1) “ then just continue generating from there. 😬

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Jonathan Wight (@schwa@mastodon.social) - Mastodon

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Randy Luecke 🤦🏼‍♂️ @me1000@mastodon.social · Apr 13, 2026
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@me1000@mastodon.social

Ramblings of a bourbon enthusiast with perhaps too many opinions on politics and tech. Working on something new. Previously: RunKit, Google Search. I am a human being: do not fold, spindle, or mutilate.

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The best thing Apple could do to protect my privacy is just fixing its spell check so I don't have to google how a word just to get its spelling correction.

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Randy Luecke 🤦🏼‍♂️ @me1000@mastodon.social · Apr 10, 2026
Randy Luecke 🤦🏼‍♂️
@me1000@mastodon.social

Ramblings of a bourbon enthusiast with perhaps too many opinions on politics and tech. Working on something new. Previously: RunKit, Google Search. I am a human being: do not fold, spindle, or mutilate.

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Swipe gestures on iOS are basically completely useless in large phone if you try to use it with one hand.

I can’t overstate how much I hate this iPhone. All the joy has been sucked out. As I’m constantly losing grip on it or unable to complete a quick simple gesture.

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Randy Luecke 🤦🏼‍♂️ @me1000@mastodon.social · Apr 02, 2026
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@me1000@mastodon.social

Ramblings of a bourbon enthusiast with perhaps too many opinions on politics and tech. Working on something new. Previously: RunKit, Google Search. I am a human being: do not fold, spindle, or mutilate.

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Replying to @b3ll@mastodon.social
@b3ll fair enough. I suspect we’re one major prompt injection away from a reckoning with LLMs that are allowed free range on peoples’ computers. But right now everyone seems to really want to push the edge of what’s possible. 💀
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Randy Luecke 🤦🏼‍♂️ @me1000@mastodon.social · Apr 02, 2026
Randy Luecke 🤦🏼‍♂️
@me1000@mastodon.social

Ramblings of a bourbon enthusiast with perhaps too many opinions on politics and tech. Working on something new. Previously: RunKit, Google Search. I am a human being: do not fold, spindle, or mutilate.

mastodon.social
Replying to @b3ll@mastodon.social
@b3ll relying a prompt for security is wrong, of course, but that’s not the point of adding the instruction. And it’s not like humans are particularly good at following instructions. 😆
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Randy Luecke 🤦🏼‍♂️ @me1000@mastodon.social · Mar 24, 2026
Randy Luecke 🤦🏼‍♂️
@me1000@mastodon.social

Ramblings of a bourbon enthusiast with perhaps too many opinions on politics and tech. Working on something new. Previously: RunKit, Google Search. I am a human being: do not fold, spindle, or mutilate.

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Replying to @rdrhyne@me.dm
@rdrhyne hope you have a speedy recovery. Neck and back injuries are the absolute worst.
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