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. |
Is it just me or does the stock market look insane?
There was a time when reality mattered. When people invested long term.
Right now it’s more of a game where traders are guessing what other traders might be thinking about what other traders might be thinking.
There’s the AI bubble. The infinite Tesla will be huge .. at something bubble. The knee jerk reactions to whatever Trump last posted (not to mention the insider trading on what Trump
will post in 15 minutes).
Rational markets!?
Its a long time since I flew to the US, but one of the reasons I stopped was the increasingly scary process of entering the country - the Transport Security Administration officers made the UK's Border Force at Manchester Airport look pretty friendly (in comparison).
Given their conduct in Minneapolis & elsewhere the news the Tangerine Tyrant is sending ICE agents to help the TSA at airports should fill any prospective traveller to the US with dread!
#ICE #USPol #Trump
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/22/ice-agents-us-airports
Hard to seeing any silver lining about wars.. but can we at least agree that de-carbonization is a priority? and a practical economic necessity?
Spare a thought for all the dummies who generate nearly all their power needs with renewables.
Why subscriptions? A one-time purchase revenue graph, even for a moderately successful app, looks like this. Yet work required only increases in complexity — Pastel has had 40 multiplatform updates since it launched in 2020, including two system UI redesigns, and a whole new OS (visionOS).
One-time purchases just aren't sustainable, unless the product itself is also one-and-done — and that's just not possible on a moving target like Apple's OSes. Revenue can't be inversely proportional to time
The British Labor government does not seem very serious about a reset of relations with the EU if 142M GBP a year cannot be found to subsidize British universities so they can take EU students instead of non-EU students without losing any money. That’s pocket change for a government.
The inability to compromise, to see the larger picture, the search for narrow advantages ... makes me feel that while the UK might be worse off outside of the EU, the EU is probably better off without the UK. 😔
RE: https://infosec.exchange/@adfichter/116234721614536779
It's one thing to get sanctioned by a US company at the order of the US government.
It's a whole other story to get sanctioned by an EU company at the order of the US government. WTF.
Just had a strange Reddit experience. I was reading a well researched, well formulated comment to one of my posts. Then below it a semi-literate “oh that’s a bot” trolling comment.
Then I had a moment of clarity: today you can tell AI and actual humans on social media apart only by the fact that the later are ill-informed, semi-literate asocial morons.
Joe Rosensteel 🏳️🌈
Emeritus Prof Christopher May
Steve Troughton-Smith
Siguza