Bob Peterson

@HootenHaller
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“the deceitfulness of wealth” -Matt 13:22
SupportJK Rowling
In her own wordshttps://www.jkrowling.com/opinions/my-article-for-the-sunday-times-scotland-on-why-i-oppose-gender-recognition-act-reform/
Turd Riech Survivor (so far)NO KING. Don’t blame me. I voted for Harris.
It's scary how many programers anthropomorphize AI. Makes me think. If it could physically do what you needed (non-sexual, grow up!), would you want your personal robot to be...
Like-like human form
8.7%
C-3PO like
20.5%
R2-D2/Robots from Silent Running
70.8%
Poll ended at .

I know what I’m going to be watching all day:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAhm880quUg

LIVE: See Donald Trump’s name come off the Kennedy Center as it happens

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Once I retired I, a career software engineer, was looking forward to developing apps for Apple devices. After struggling for a very long time with flakey, buggy, incomplete APIs (SwiftData, SwiftUI) I’m about to throw the towel in on creating some great apps for Apple iThings. There are other ways I can satisfy my creative itch to code for fun. This has not been fun.

If anyone out there with deep pockets would like to sponsor @Iconfactory or hire us for design work and help us keep developing the apps and art you love please get in touch.

I hate to be all doom and gloom on the verge of #WWDC but here we are. What a way to celebrate our 30th, right? 😬 Boosts appreciated.

More vibe coding fun. After giving Claude Code a request that resulted a in a lot of rather meaty code created, that code crashes at runtime. So I fed the errors messages back to Claude and the BASTARD thought long and hard before saying “That's a known macOS-side MusicKit bug. […] We need a different approach. Let me check the section API and switch to a different path.”

I want a refund on my used tokens and a free fix. Why the flying duck did it give me a known-bad code?

I’d hate to work in Maintenance and Repairs on an Empire/First Order ship. They’re constantly replacing blasted door control panels.

(Yes, I’ve rewatched the Star Wars saga.)

Watching Palm Royale for an hour is like seeing a full soap operas episode every five minutes.

Are you creating a new web app? For the love of all that is holy, don’t ask for a person’s email address and the use it as a username.

Years later they’ll have moved on to a new email account and be stopped dead when they try to reaccess your app and realize they have to use an email address they stopped using years ago. They don’t understand “username” is just a string, not an actual email address. Find a better way to identify accounts.

I tried writing a significant design spec for an AI coding project. Never again. While having a clear plan is personally useful, and the AI was able to cope with doing the implementation, it generated a helluva lot of advice in the log, more than I could absorb and act on at once. So I think my lesson is I need to give the AI smaller prompts that permit me to react to the results more coherently and correct AI missteps before it spends a lot of effort building crap atop crap.

Companies that think open sourcing their profit-critical software is dangerous might want to take a look at the oldest, longest running metaworld. Linden Lab allows people to run their own grids and fork their own viewers. This created a very loyal user community.

#BambuLab #secondlife #Firestorm_Viewer @atpfm