Matt Hale

@mhale0
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I do communications work in San Diego. Also into photography these days.
The main two outcomes of General Magic were Android and Safari. Not bad.

Trans rights are human rights.

Boost if you agree.

Block me if you disagree.

“Boss Preppers.” Doctorow. Brilliant as always.

https://pluralistic.net/2025/11/22/eschatology-watch/#guillotine-watch

Pluralistic: Boss preppers (22 Nov 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

speaking to my dad this morning, a Microsoft Office user and Excel wizard for 25+ years.

“what the fuck is this copilot thing they’ve shoehorned into everything. it pops up everywhere and it’s absolutely fucking useless. how do i turn it off?”

By popular request: here's the majority AI view, writing up the reasonable, thoughtful take on LLMs that (in my experience) the vast majority of people in tech hold, that gets overshadowed by the bluster and hype of the tycoons trying to shill their nonsense. https://www.anildash.com//2025/10/17/the-majority-ai-view/ Please share!
The Majority AI View

A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

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If you hate the idea of your job becoming about cleaning up horrendous "vibe coded" output, spare a thought for accessibility specialists. They've been doing that all along.
In next year’s “27” series of releases, Apple switches from Liquid Glass to Hot Black. Everything will be black on black, and when you press a black button, it lights up black to let you know you’ve done it.

Another Xcode tip for you:

You will save hours of your life by turning off the 'Debug executable' checkbox if you don't actually need to debug your app right now. You'll still get log output, just not crash catching.

Build and run, even to devices over the network, becomes near-instant. Resource-intensive Simulators like visionOS become a lot more pleasant to use.

Just alt-click the run button in Xcode and click the box when you really need it

So how long until we get an "Sharp Icons" accessibility setting so that those of us with presbyopia don't think we're losing our fucking vision?
The immediately pre-pandemic reunion of the Western State Hurricanes was really good. https://youtu.be/I0zuYMkoSMA?feature=shared #supertrain #kexp
Western State Hurricanes - Unsalted Butter (Live on KEXP)

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