If you can't beat them, pretend to be them
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Russell Ivanovic
@rustyshelf
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Developer @bjango and software developer who is way too into energy generation and storage. He/him.
"look how far we've come in just 1 year! Imagine where we'll be in another year!"
I hate to be a downer (ok I lie, I love to!) but that's not how progress works in tech. The first 70% tends to be explosively fast. The last 30% can take _decades_.
Self driving cars are a great example of this. We were "almost" there 10 years ago. I was at the Google I/O when they were shown off in 2016 and I took this on an Galaxy S7 🤣.
"You see soon we'll all be coding in high level languages, like Engli..." no, no thank you.
We going down the stack now! Come get me!
Making audio plugins is all fun and games until you realise you have to test in sixty million different editing apps. So far I've managed to get by with just these 5 (ordered from best to worst to use).
iOS 26.1 review: eh it’s fine. Most of the glass effects aren’t that offensive. Do I love it? No. Do I hate it? Also no.
That said I legit can’t read the percentages on this Apple battery widget. Why the tiny font? Why so much transparency? It’s a giant widget. Gimme bigger text you cowards.
I'm not even sure how you'd raise this as a bug...but depending on my terminal colour I don't get a scroll bar in Tahoe 😠@petehare help me Obi Wan
If I ever get expensive laser eye surgery I wouldn’t tell anyone…but there would be signs.
Ok. I waited patiently for the .1. Time to see what all the fuss is about and move off iOS 18,
Replaced my aging and annoying FetchTV box with a pi 5. Very impressed with how this tiny thing handles recording/watching tv!
