RE: https://zeppelin.flights/@jsnell/115900135386982836
I continue to be disenfranchised with major platform providers.
One new-ish (last 10 years) tactic on the Apple side is the insidious upselling they do on their platforms now. It's almost Microsoftian.
If you don't already pay for them, they badger you to buy their services: Apple News, Apple Music, iCloud, etc.
This model is now coming to iWork.
Nope. Nope. Nope. Hard pass.
It's a brand new year and loads of y'all are looking for work, so here's a thread of tech jobs I've seen in my online wandering that have tech for good (or at least minimally evil) vibes:
RE: https://wien.rocks/@noheger/115782327146927772
Super done with Apple these days. Their AI fail over correction with Liquid Glass was sort of my last straw. The Trump award didn’t help, either.
I’ve been using Linux full-time since Dec 19th as a trial run to see if I could pull it off for the jobby job.
I miss Adobe Creative Cloud and ARM battery life, but everything else has been fantastic.
Nearly everything I work on is open source, so it’s really about mail, Slack, and security tickets that must be filed privately on VPN.
I may have burned down six rain forests, but I was able to vibe code my first successful GraphQL query.
This may sound like a joke, but it is not.
Looking back, 2025 was a year where I proved I could live a fairly technology agnostic life without skipping a beat… better off in most cases.
Notables:
Google > Kagi (late 2024)
iOS > Android
MacOS > Linux (personal)
Keynote > Adobe Express
VS Code > Cursor > VS Code + Claude
iCloud Passwords > BitWarden
Chrome > Un-Googled Chromium
ChatGPT > Gemini
Gmail > Fastmail
Things > Todoist
Tesla > Rivian
Holy shit, this is a lot! Interoperability has come *so far* in the last 10 years.
@lars @michaelmarth Jokes aside, I think this [1] seems like it could be a relatively small lift, yet provide a lot of value for our open source repos. 🤔
LOL one of my employees just filed a ticket with a software company and got an AI and a human response to the same issue: Human: "Thank you for the report we're looking into this" AI: "Ya that's a known issue , none of those features actually work" I must say I admire the AI's honesty.
Me: you can have attitude or you can be wrong. You cannot be both. Which one do you want to be?
Kid: attitude.
Me: cool, make sure you’re right next time you have attitude.
Top 3 life events:
1. Birth of my daughter
2. Getting married
3. Using Cursor to solve my ProseMirror / CodeMirror questions
Which, is probably also a top life event for @marijn who has been so patient with so many people for so many years!
Some really great news for Lit and @openjsf. Congrats to all who made this happen!
Lit Project Moves to OpenJS Foundation with Google Open Source Contribution
https://openjsf.org/blog/lit-moves-to-openjs-foundation?hss_channel=tw-14538601
iOS to Android update:
It's been shockingly smooth. I cannot believe how nice Google Pixels are now.
OpenBubbles has been an exceptional iMessage client given the technology hurdles at play.
Moshidon is a great Mastodon client.
Todoist, while not as polished as Things, works for my brain.
Capy Reader is a near drop-in for Reeder.
All enterprise-y apps (Slack, Outlook, Teams, etc) function identically as their iOS counterparts.
The only clear miss: Ladder, my exercise app.
Jess Rose