Mastodawn

Hi #fediverse. We need to talk about something.

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.

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Have you sat on a horse?

Please boost for scientific accuracy.

	Yes
	No

Poll ends at Mar 24 at 7:15pm.

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Drew McCormack 3d ago

@mattiem In case you are still at it, here is one way: Use an AsyncStream as the chokepoint. Low priority creates the stream and holds the sole continuation until work is done. High awaits the stream's first element, so it's blocked. Medium tasks saturate the cores, starving Low.

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Drew McCormack 3d ago

@ridmaur Best not add two syncs in the one app. But if you want to move to Ensembles, it should be fine once each device has your new version. I’m not sure what happens to the old CloudKit data. Don’t know if Apple have a way to remove that. It is probably just a zone you can delete.

Drew McCormack 5d ago

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!)

Drew McCormack 5d ago

The remote control function in Claude code is very flaky. Get the feeling they panicked over OpenClaw and rushed it out.

Drew McCormack Mar 14

Hegseth is a caricature of a US military leader. It’s like watching Mars Attacks!

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Drew McCormack Mar 12

@cdf1982 Both. The tests were ported. I think I added more, but not 100% sure anymore. I remember sessions debugging a few.

Drew McCormack Mar 11

Ensembles 3 local-first sync framework for Core Data and SwiftData is now a thing.

The full story here: https://appdecentral.com/2026/03/11/ensembles-reanimated/

Ensembles Reanimated

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…

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Drew McCormack Mar 11

Russia has apparently lost more than twice as many soldiers in Ukraine as the US did in its special military operation in Vietnam.

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Drew McCormack Mar 10

@axel https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/iran-football-traitors-national-anthem-silence-b2933480.html

Iran women’s football team branded ‘wartime traitors’ for refusing to sing national anthem

Iran’s players refused to sing the national anthem before their first game at the Women’s Asian Cup on Monday

The Independent