Tom Harris

@stormhair
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Dice by PCalc 2.9 is out now!

My #ttrpg dice rolling app now fully supports all the 26 OS updates and has a shiny Liquid Glass redesign.

I've also reworked the reroll function, so it remembers the starting state of the last dice roll, including advantage, disadvantage, and any dice functions. Exploding dice now work properly too, and actually explode!

iOS:
https://pcalc.com/store/dice

Mac:
https://pcalc.com/store/dicemac

I am sorry, but everyone is getting syntax highlighting wrong

Applying human ergonomics and design principles to syntax highlighting

tonsky.me
Installed iOS 26 RC… wow, pretty rough

Framed #1256
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https://framed.wtf

Framed - The daily movie guessing game

Guess the movie from 6 frames. Come back each day to see if you can guess the daily movie, or visit the archive to answer the days that you missed!

Will of the people. We’re doing it gang. $10. Two stickers. Shipped worldwide. In a few weeks time.

👉 http://rknight.me/shop/training-data

@gruber @jsnell I expect 100 people have told you this already but the effect where you see things everywhere that you’ve recently gotten into is Frequency Illusion aka “Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency_illusion
Frequency illusion - Wikipedia

Important research going on here… https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c20x5x0g3kqo
RAF ban on 'exploding' Tunnock's teacakes lifted after 60 years

The marshmallow treats were put on the no-fly list after erupting in a cockpit in 1965.

BBC News
Good job, Apple “Intelligence”, exactly wrong
Is this thing working?

“It has come to my attention that the engineer working on the Dock is in FUCKING IRELAND”.

Really enjoyed reading this https://tla.systems/blog/2025/01/04/i-live-my-life-a-quarter-century-at-a-time/ from @jamesthomson - I’d heard part of the Jobs anecdote but not the whole thing!

I Live My Life a Quarter Century at a Time

So, we are coming up on a little anniversary for me this weekend. On the 5th of January 2000, Steve Jobs unveiled the new Aqua user interface of Mac OS X to the world at Macworld Expo. The Age of A…

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