Brian Cordan Young

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iOS engineer @ , Recovering CG Animation Artist, Father and one who wanders.
Sitehttps://brian.cordanyoung.com/
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@designatednerd @mergesort it was a pastime of my older brother to go walk around “beer can hill” when we were kids. He built up an impressive collection of vintage cans. It was well in to my adulthood that I stopped to think about why the hell that hill was filled with so many cans! Our culture is definitely not starting from a place where littering was taboo.

Ok. I am a gen-x-er. We have advanced some since then.

(The hill was by a freeway. That leads to more questions about beer cans)

Look at that! Mercury Weather is App of the Day on the US App Store today 🤩🎉

https://apps.apple.com/us/story/id1805972582

@rands Thank you Lopp. That’s personally very helpful to know.
dear apple. when i want to choose another card, i will ALWAYS tap the top thing. always. i will never tap the second thing. please fix. thank u love u

I read the piece again and became even more disappointed.

2026: "Docter said Pixar found some parents didn’t want entertainment to force them to have a conversation they weren’t ready for with their children. “We’re making a movie, not hundreds of millions of dollars of therapy,” he said."

2009:

@danielpunkass with you 100% on the first sentence, less on the second. Human characteristics don’t help; it’s a tool, and you need to master its UI. The fact that the UI appears conversational is a huge UX failure in the current crop of implementations.

Highly recommend this post. It perfectly captures the internal conflicts and mindset shift I’ve gone through over the last 2 years of coding with AI.

https://matduggan.com/i-sold-out-for-200-a-month-and-all-i-got-was-this-perfectly-generated-terraform/

For a “Fallacies programmers believe about addresses” page, if that exists: There will never be a road called Test Street.

False, as I drove on it in Oamaru, New Zealand a few days ago.

what a beautiful walk home last night
A good morning.