Rob Napier

@cocoaphony
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Swift and Go. Love 'em both. They make me mad in completely different ways. Infosec as required. robnapier.net
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As a student of history, Peter Thiel fleeing to Argentina is a bit too on the nose. #IYKYK

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/28/world/americas/peter-thiel-argentina.html

It's been an incredible past few months of CEOs going mask off and showing how much they resent and despise their employees because they think they'll replace them with AI.

While I believe AI productivity gains are real, I also believe a bunch of these layoffs have been done without proof that AI can replace the lost staff. I expect some companies, but not all, will swing back to realizing people matter.
https://fortune.com/2026/05/28/ceos-ai-messaging-mistakes-bill-winters-low-value/

Boos, AI-washing, and ‘low-value human capital’: The psychological traps CEOs are falling into when they botch their AI messaging

Standard Chartered's Bill Winters is just the latest CEO to stumble.

Fortune

RE: https://iosdev.space/@marcpalmer/116626411424012666

Please do read this. I've been on the drowning side of this situation and was saved by a good friend. Drowning does not look like drowning. I appeared completely calm, but I could not keep myself above water. I am very lucky he decided to check on me, and that he was strong enough to drag me back to the boat.

(I've always blamed myself for not calling out for help, even though I knew I was in trouble. I didn't know that this is the norm.)

Twenty-five years ago today, I nervously stepped out onto the stage at WWDC 2001 and performed a humorous original song about software development.

The audience was both forgiving and enthusiastic and I have been writing songs and performing ever since.

I'm very grateful for those few minutes a quarter century ago and all they have led to through the years.

I hope you can make it out to our 25th anniversary show on June 11th!

https://livenearwwdc.com

LIVE near WWDC

Join James Dempsey and the Breakpoints, the iTunes chart-topping, nerd band for a night of original programming-oriented music and humor to benefit Techtonica.

not even half-way through this #curl release cycle we are already at 11 confirmed vulnerabilities - and there are three left in the queue to assess and new reports keep arriving at a pace of more than one/day

11 CVEs announced in a single release is our record from 2016 after the first-ever security audit (by Cure 53).

"Fun bug of the month, mesa edition, episode may"

so if you do "uint64_t some_var = 1 << 31;" in C you get "0xffffffff80000000" as the value, because that's super obvious and not confusing at all.

It's pretty funny getting reminded how non-intuitive and broken C is from time to time.

How it feels to be alive lately.

by Sarah Andersen

On “rich guy has an opinion” journalism, i.e. “entire news stories dedicated to the otherwise unremarkable opinion of a rich person, or news stories that fold the opinions of rich people into their otherwise neutral coverage”. https://stringinamaze.net/p/rich-guy-quote-journalism
Rich Guy Quote Journalism

How the media turns rich guys' opinions into news

String in a Maze
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