The only people who think AI can replace developers either aren’t developers or need to level up their engineering skills. AI might seem to be able to talk like a developer but I find it to be very obviously AI generated and it’s not going to replace a human.

On any sufficiently complex problem the detail I get back from an LLM agent is more specific than I’d hear from most senior developers, sure, but the logic and decision making needs more guidance than I’d give a Junior.

Look what they did to their installer icons 😭

(Screenshot of my macOS installers folder - local Sequoia finder below, remote Tahoe finder above)

I have long been a huge fan of iina as the default video player on my mac, but lately Firecore's infuse has been a much better experience.

I was watching a zoom recording download today and realised that seeking with the arrow keys in iina was _slow_. Video pauses for a second or two after seek. I normally only use infuse for plex and jellyfin, but I opened the same video with infuse and seeking is instant.

I don't want to judge too quickly, it's just one example, but good to know for sure.

Safari is still a garbage tier browser - simple back and forward navigation doesn't work on websites I use daily - and this extends to webkit-based Orion.

But at least they don't drain my (Apple Silicon) laptop battery by 2% or more overnight the way every chromium-based browser does. Including Helium which I had high hopes for after discovering it yesterday.

The search for a properly good browser seems like it will never end. I think Zen will be my shelter, until it loses all my tabs again.

The enshittification of browsers continues.

Opera just lost all my tabs after an update; no sign of them in recently closed. Lucky it wasn’t my main browser. Now it’s in the trash for good.

Back to Orion, I guess. Maybe they’ve fixed the performance bug that drained my battery overnight.

Spent the evening swearing at the new default network manager in Debian 13. In a proxmox LXC it fails to detect when the network is connected after boot (the host boots faster than the network switch).

And anyway, why on earth would you take such a nice lightweight OS and run a permanent 25mb resident python script to handle the networking 🫠

I’ve rebuilt two of my tiny services on an alpine base, the rest I’ll either have to swap manually or switch them to Ubuntu.

What kind of app running on macOS doesn't support cmd+w to close the window?

An Apple app, of course. System settings got itself wedged into some sort of broken state as usual.

In preparation for the Apple '26 releases I'm turning off auto update on my iPhone and mac.

I have been an early adopter for 20+ years but I am entirely uninterested in such a poorly designed interface.