During production of Finding Nemo, we started using Linux boxes in addition to SGIs.
Why?

3D painting software we wrote for laying out coral was written in C++ using templates, and the debug info was too large for IRIX, but was debuggable on Linux.

Was this a 32 bit vs. 64 bit issue?

No.

IRIX reserved half the address space for the kernel, while Linux only did a quarter.

So on Linux, we had 3GB, and the symbols fit.

It was a 32 bit show, both machines had 4GB max.

Plenty for Finding Nemo.

A cruel irony of coding agents is that everyone who blew off automated testing for the past 20 years is now telling the AI to do TDD all the time.

But because LLMs were trained on decades of their shitty tests, the agents are also terrible at testing.

So I made another silly extension to cover up the translucent toolbar in Safari because I have no idea how glassy Liquid Glass will be in Tahoe. (It also makes the toolbar gray, so there's more contrast between the bar and the buttons.)

Then I submitted the app to the App Store, and it was rejected because the reviewer couldn't figure out what it does despite my explanation. So here's the direct download: https://andadinosaur.com/frosting/Frosting.zip

Honestly, this is making Terminal (and Safari) in Tahoe VERY hard for me to use.

Tabs in Tahoe are extremely difficult to distinguish from each other and from the active tab.

I've never switched away from Safari, and I've never investigated third-party terminal apps, but if this ships in the fall, I'll most likely need to do both. And I really, really don't want to.

Please, Apple, fix your design. Computers aren't passive "content" viewers — they're tools.
https://www.manton.org/2025/07/05/minor-nitpick-in-macos-tahoe.html

Synology:

“We’re quiet quitting the home/enthusiast market.”

https://www.theverge.com/news/652364/synology-nas-third-party-hard-drive-restrictions

For me, the net results of this change:

1) My current Synology will likely be my last
2) If it isn’t my last, the next one will be fewer bays. But I will endeavor to make it my last
3) As with the [slow] enshittification of eero, I’m now being pushed into Ubiquiti’s open arms from two directions.