John Siracusa

@siracusa
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Programmer, tech writer, and co-host of Accidental Tech Podcast, Reconcilable Differences, and Robot or Not.
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696: It Seems Petty, But I Endorse It
https://atp.fm/696

Lots of details from macOS Golden Gate, Apple's AI Tech Talk, road trips, and failed Bobs.

Accidental Tech Podcast: 696: It Seems Petty, But I Endorse It

Three nerds discussing tech, Apple, programming, and loosely related matters.

NetNewsWire - What We’ve Been Doing This Past Year

On his blog, Brent writes about the past year of NetNewsWire development.

Cobot (Robot or Not? 351)

Listener Paul has heard the term “cobot” to refer to “collaborative robots,” but can a robot that requires a human to function really be a robot?

The Incomparable
I am super excited to launch my new company, Offkilter Guitars, today. It’s a boutique electric guitar company, specializing in my own version of an offset Tele. It’s the culmination of the last few years of trying to find my perfect guitar, and deciding I had to build it instead. Check out the website here: https://offkilterguitars.com/ and some background on the company here: https://www.danprovost.com/blog/2026/6/15/offkilter-guitars

This is wild: edit and run Swift code in the browser. MiniSwift supports SwiftUI and even Metal shaders. Did I mention the browser-based IDE?

https://miniswift.run

MiniSwift — Swift Compiler for the Web

Write and run Swift in your browser. Zero dependencies, powered by WebAssembly.

…and IconFactory's PixelPalooza was a lickable yearly contest, and then they launched CandyBar!
Whenever someone says we should make some changes while the strategic rewrite is still pending.
https://swiftregex.com now links the pattern and Regex Builder DSL, hover over either side to see the corresponding structure highlighted in the other.

Quick update on @siracusa's Hyperspace for #macOS; it saved me nearly 4TB of drive space on one 20TB drive. It did take a while, but that's fine!

I have it grinding away on another to see what it can do there.

Elon Musk’s SpaceX IPO will probably make him the richest person to ever walk the planet. And while his mountain of horrible personal conduct could fill multiple books, one fact in particular stands out: A year ago, Musk’s actions directly led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people. He did it knowingly. And, worse — gleefully.

https://www.theverge.com/tech/949259/the-worlds-first-trillionaire-is-a-killer

The world’s first trillionaire is a killer

Elon Musk’s empire of wealth is built on suffering.

The Verge