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Michelle Obama was wrong when she said "when they go low we go high." There is a difference. We always try to tell the truth. And sometimes the truth is pretty damn low.

Nominated for best picture of 2025, ranked by Metacritic rating.

• One Battle After Another. 95
• The Secret Agent. 91
• Marty Supreme. 89
• Train Dreams. 88
• Sentimental Value. 86
• Hamnet. 84
• Sinners. 84
• Frankenstein. 78
• Bugonia. 72
• F1: The Movie. 68

Random ramblings with past experience dealing with tech bullying. As I think about next steps for building out from WordPress to create a network of users and their writing, I wanted to review how XML-RPC came to be, so I did a podcast, and found some real gaps in my memory....

As I think about next steps for building out from WordPress to create a network of users and their writing, I wanted to review how XML-RPC came to be, so I did a podcast, and there were some real gaps in my memor. Then just a minute ago as I was browsing around the discuss.us...

BTW, promising to support the W3C version of your work in 1998 was what you did when the BigCo's said they're gunning for you. One thing you can be sure of is it'll take more time for them than it did for you. Also it'll be more complex, and take more work to support. And y...

Another BTW, I think perhaps just for fun we should create an XML-RPC implementation of the wpcom API. I have just the thing to base it on.

I’ve been enjoying Lawrence Sanders again. Specifically, the Archy McNally series: those breezy Palm Beach mysteries from the ‘90s and early 2000s, starring a trustafarian investigator who solves crimes among the wealthy, catalogs his consumption of calorific food and vodka gimlets, drives a red Miata, and moves around town in clothes befitting a peacock. This is the Palm Beach of Mar-a-Lago before the Mar-a-Lago of now. I’m a fast reader, and I’m already running through the series. The recent reading spree raised …

At some point we're going to want to make it as easy to set up a WordPress site as it is to create a new Bluesky account, because the two things will be basically the same thing. Either one will get you access to a network of bloggers.

A change to how Safari reports the OS it is running on led many in the media to lose their minds.

A new home page for the Scripting News podcast. Nice to get this one off the big todo list.

I've been following Bluesky since inception, even tried developing for it and found it was nothing new with its 300 character limit, no links, titles, etc. Basically you can build the same apps for Bluesky that we were able to develop for Twitter. I've also been following Le...

My first rule of platforms: "People don't listen to their friends, they listen to their competitors." I thought that rule was pretty new, but it actually appears in a 1996 blog post.

The unpolished version of the feature we have today only reiterates my belief that Tahoe is a mistake to be avoided. It’s a good idea though, and there aren’t even many of those in Tahoe.

Ken Case, on The Omni Group blog: The features noted above already make for a great upgrade. But as I mentioned last year, one of the interesting problems we’ve been pondering is how best to link to documents in native apps. We’ve spent some time refining our solution to...

Doug Gregor: The Swift code above has a very “C” feel to it. It has global function calls with prefixed names like wgpuInstanceCreateSurface and global integer constants like WGPUStatus_Error. It pervasively uses unsafe pointers, some of which are managed with explicit reference counting, where the user provides calls to wpuXYZAddRef and wgpuXYZRelease functions. It works, […]

David McCabe and Emmett Lindner (MacRumors, The Verge): TikTok said on Thursday that its Chinese owner, ByteDance, had struck a deal with a group of non-Chinese investors to create a new U.S. TikTok, concluding a six-year legal saga that saw the app banned by Congress and ensnared in politicking between two global superpowers. Investors including […]

Daniel Kennett (BasicAppleGuy): An exception to that, however, is Apple’s Aperture. I’m still grumpy that Apple discontinued it back in 2015, and I’m not alone. Start spending time in the online photography sphere and you’ll start to notice a small but undeniable undercurrent of lament of its loss to this day. Find an article about […]

Nick Hodulik (via Hacker News): You need to find an email. You type in the sender’s name. Nothing. You try the subject line. Nothing. You try a unique word you know was in the email. Nothing. […] You type a word. Autocorrect changes it. You delete it and type what you meant. Autocorrect changes it […]

Free Mac utility by Zendit Oy: A macOS app that enhances control over Elgato lights, offering features beyond the standard Elgato Control Center software. Features: Automatically turn lights on and off based on camera activity Turn lights off when locking your Mac Syn...