Rob Amos (Bok)

@bok
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iOS/macOS software engineer. Cloud Engima. F1 fan. Volunteer (@melbourne, @awsmelb). Many other things.
LocationMelbourne. Australia

RE: https://eworld.social/@512pixels/116241352502170912

You’re welcome and I'm sorry.

"It takes a long time to say anything in Old Assembler," intoned Greybeard, "so we do not say anything unless it is very important."

The A18 Pro in the MacBook Neo is 19% faster than the M2 Ultra in the Mac Pro in single-core performance (Geekbench 6).

The MacBook Neo starts at $599.

The Mac Pro, which is still for sale, starts at $6,999.

25 years ago today, Bad_CRC posted the primordial meme video "All Your Base Are Belong To Us" on Newgrounds.

In honor of this important anniversary, I downloaded the original Flash SWF file from Internet Archive, played it using Ruffle in a full-screen window, and replaced the audio with the original MP3 of "Invasion of the Gabber Robots" by The Laziest Men on Mars. So this is probably the highest fidelity encoding possible, without going back to the original forum GIFs.
https://jwz.org/b/yk3i

Writers: Generative AI models were built on our stolen works, are deeply unethical, and risk devaluing our entire profession.

Artists: Generative AI models were built on our stolen works, are deeply unethical, and risk devaluing our entire profession.

Developers: Wheeeeeeeeee!

Maybe the first genuine good use of GenAI: https://antirender.com
AntiRender - Reality Hits Different

Transform idealized architectural renders into what they'll actually look like. No sunshine. No happy families. Just cold, honest reality.

Just over ten years ago, a really smart person said to me “the services revenue is eating Apple’s brain, slowly, from the inside out. You won’t even notice it until one day you’ll wake up and Apple will suddenly be shit again.”

A solid hour of trying to debug what invalid combination of generics and protocols meant I couldn't see the methods I was expecting on this type.

Turns out I hadn't made the extension public.

An hour.

"Let us be the repository of your passkeys" and "We may terminate your account at any time and permanently refuse to communicate with you" ... seems like a bad combination?
TOMLDecoder 0.4 is out. And it’s 800% faster than 0.3. Here’s what happened: https://duan.ca/2025/12/10/TOMLDecoder-0.4.1/
TOMLDecoder 0.4 is 800% Faster

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