Greg Knauss: What I am talking about is being replaced, about becoming expendable, about machines gaining the ability to adequately perform a very specific function that was previously the exclusive domain of skull meat. What I’m talking about is that nothing I do matters. That nothing I can do matters. In just the past few […]

Fatbobman (Mastoson): This library is designed to simplify and enhance Core Data’s handling of multithreading, drawing inspiration from SwiftData’s @ModelActor feature, enabling efficient, safe, and scalable operations. […] Custom Executors for Core Data Actors CoreDataEvolution provides custom executors that ensure all operations on managed objects are performed on the appropriate thread associated with their managed […]

Mark Pilgrim’s reappearance on Daring Fireball this week prompted me to revisit this essay I wrote 20 years ago. Holds up pretty well, I think.

This bit, in particular, seems particular apt w/r/t Tahoe:

I’m deeply suspicious of Mac users who claim to be perfectly happy with Mac OS X. Real Mac users, to me, are people with much higher standards, impossibly high standards, and who use Macs not because they’re great, but because they suck less than everything else.

Tomas Kafka: Multiple locations — the most-requested Weathergraph feature — is finally here. Save home, work, your favourite trails, or your next destination. Switch between them instantly with a single tap. Finally. This is still my favorite weather app. As with the forecast provider toggle, the location toggle works on the main graph (and retains […]

Adam Grossman: Fifteen years ago, we started work on the Dark Sky weather app. […] We enjoyed our time at Apple. So why did we leave to start another weather company? It’s simple: when looking at the landscape of the countless weather apps out there, many of them lovely, we found ourselves feeling unsatisfied. […] […]