Brian Webster

@bwebster
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Iโ€™m an indie macOS developer creating apps such as PowerPhotos and PlistEdit Pro.โ€ฉ

#Apple #Mac #Cocoa #Swift #SwiftUI

Companyhttps://www.fatcatsoftware.com
Bloghttps://www.brian-webster.net
I enjoy Claude Code's sycophancy sometimes.
A few years ago I designed a way to detect bit-flips in Firefox crash reports and last year we deployed an actual memory tester that runs on user machines after the browser crashes. Today I was looking at the data that comes out of these tests and now I'm 100% positive that the heuristic is sound and a lot of the crashes we see are from users with bad memory or similarly flaky hardware. Here's a few numbers to give you an idea of how large the problem is. ๐Ÿงต 1/5

RE: https://toot.cat/@ceejbot/116169056742912847

This is a fucking great take on AI and how people involved in making software should think and act in this moment.

#AI #LLMs #programming

I connected to Xcode's MCP server (xcrun mcpbridge), and requested a list of all the tools. Then I threw that at Claude and had it whip up a "cheat sheet". In case you're curious what the agents have at their disposal.
Correction: not all the wallpapers are sideways. Some are upside down. We regret the error.
Updated to macOS 26.3 and now all my wallpapers from my photo library are sideways. ๐Ÿ˜•

Highly recommend this post. It perfectly captures the internal conflicts and mindset shift Iโ€™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/

Me finally trying Xcode 26.3 and having the Swift compiler immediately crash.

"Pete Arnold was able to get this shot of burrowing owls on the east side of Cheyenne this spring by leaving a GoPro video camera near their burrow."

https://www.wyomingnews.com/features/todo/burrowing-owls-put-on-show-for-local-photographer/article_5129f4e0-49de-11ef-b692-7327b2da8f6d.html

#Nature #Animals