While talking to a colleague about how I recently learned most people have never sat on a cow it came up that she has never sat on a horse. Like, not even once during childhood.
Another colleague admitted they also have never sat on a horse.
My hypothesis is that most people have at one point in their life sat on a horse.
Watching analysts everyday asking how Trump could be so stupid? Why is it going so badly? But I’m not so sure it is.
✅ Give Bibi what he wants ✅ Get focus off Epstein ✅ Raise oil price for friends ✅ Raise oil price for Putin ✅ Take advantage Venezuelan oil ✅ Drop sanctions for Putin ✅ Blame Europe for failure ✅ Weaken Europe with refugees
Only really seeing positives from his viewpoint.
Commentators focus on his popularity, but he has seen his last election (hopefully!)
TLDR; I rewrote Ensembles — my 13-year-old Objective-C sync framework — in Swift 6, using Claude Code. It now supports SwiftData, has new backends, and is in public beta. Way back in 2013, I was tr…
The problem is that they’ve built a piracy machine. It can pirate anything, from open source, to good ideas, to works of art. It can even pirate LLMs. The problem is not only that these companies have no moats themselves, it’s that nothing digital has a moat anymore. Not sure if there is a way out, and what that would look like. Good time to do a plumbing apprenticeship.
Been trying OpenClaw, Claude remote control, and loops. All converging. Wondering what it means for apps. Jensen Huang says OpenClaw will change the web, removing the middle layer (aggregators, etc). Apps may follow. An AI assistant will manage a knowledge base—you won’t deal with files directly. Apps become specialized views of data, simpler, like widgets. The return of Watson/Sherlock/Dashboard. Someone could build a cloud OS and disrupt everything.
Spent a few more hours with Claude, looking at whether Ensembles could be made to work with SwiftData. Seems it is relatively straightforward. In short: E3 should be capable of syncing Core Data AND SwiftData projects via a multitude of backends (CloudKit, Box, Dropbox, even peer-to-peer). If anyone has a backend they think would be good to add, let me know. It's best if it has a swift package, but can also use REST etc.
Pepijn