Frank Reiff

@frankreiff
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I'm Frank Reiff, #mac #indiedev since 1996. I am mostly known for A Better Finder Rename, A Better Finder Attributes (bad names that stuck), Vitamin-R & Big Mean Folder Machine.

I endlessly toot about #indiedev, #mac, #ukPolitics, #climateEmergency, #games & #scifi.

Living in Luxembourg with my wife & 2 teenagers.

Mac indie developer at publicspace.net. Recent Twitter refugee.
Frank Reiff2d ago
Jeff Johnson3d ago

Surprisingly strong words from Macworld.

https://www.macworld.com/article/3115356/use-apples-app-store-at-your-own-risk.html

Frank Reiff4d ago
Logging into my XBox always gives me flashbacks to working in a corporate banking environment.
Frank Reiff5d ago

I’m outraged.

Who knew that he likes John Steward that much!?

Frank Reiff5d ago
Nick Young 6d ago

BOOM!
South Australia's power prices have plummeted as they near 100% renewables, proving to the world that relying on wind and solar with battery back-up is possible, more reliable and costs people less.

THIS is how we avoid the next oil crisis.

#EnergyRevolution #solar #renewables #australia #makeoilhistory #auspol #NZPol #NewZealand #iran

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2514985-this-states-power-prices-are-plummeting-as-it-nears-100-renewables/?utm_source=nickofnz&utm_medium=nickofnz

This state’s power prices are plummeting as it nears 100% renewables

South Australia is proving to the world that relying largely on wind and solar energy with battery back-up is incredibly cheap, with electricity prices tumbling by 30 per cent in a year and sometimes going negative

New Scientist
Frank ReiffApr 11
Benjamin Bouvier 🥐Apr 11

Wow. One of the most relevant blog posts I've read about AI coding for a long time: If you thought the speed of writing code was your problem, you have bigger problems.

https://andrewmurphy.io/blog/if-you-thought-the-speed-of-writing-code-was-your-problem-you-have-bigger-problems

Rings quite a few bells here.

#engineering #aicoding

If you thought the speed of writing code was your problem - you have bigger problems | Debugging Leadership

AI coding tools are optimising the wrong thing and nobody wants to hear it. Writing code was already fast. The bottleneck is everything else: unclear requirements, review queues, terrified deploy cultures, and an org chart that needs six meetings to decide what colour the button should be.

Debugging Leadership
Frank ReiffApr 9

I’m sick of reading Guardian OpEd pieces about how “European leaders were taken in by Trump’s vision for Iran”.

I can only conclude that they got the job by being somebody’s great grandchild, because it takes more than one generation of privilege to spout nonsense with that much authority.. in print.

Despite ample proof to the contrary, governing is quite different from spewing self righteous opinions. Actions have consequences and the current situation is a generational cluster $&@#.

Frank ReiffApr 8

Can’t help thinking that the major outcome from Trump’s attack on Iran will be that the power dynamics in the Gulf have permanently changed in favor of Iran.

They always had the power of shutting the Straight of Hormuz, frequently threatened it, but had never done it.

Now, the world economy is going to tremble every time an Iranian official even breathes the threat.

They can basically ask for anything. As often as they want. From whoever.

Frank ReiffApr 7

Popular opinion: let ChatGPT do App Review.

Despite the occasional hallucination LLMs are far more consistent than human reviewers.. which is an astonishingly low bar.

Frank ReiffApr 6
Show threadPaul CantrellApr 5

My fellow people of the United States, if I have anything to teach from what Minneapolis just lived through, it is this:

Nobody is coming to save us.

Not Congress. Not the courts. Not the ICC or the EU or NATO. Not the generals or the rank and file. Not the press. Not the markets. Not the elections. Not some mythical version of “The People” that materializes out of nowhere as some messianic external force.

We’re it. We’re all we’ve got. If we don’t stop fascism from completely engulfing the US, then nobody stops it.

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Frank ReiffMar 31
Cabel SasserMar 30
@marioguzman are you enjoying the freshly left-aligned (?!?!) Mail preferences as much as I am? 😵‍💫