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Wednesday, August 12, 2026 If you run a tech company I hope you didn't lay off most of your programmers last year when that was the hype -- don't wait too long before you fire your human developers. I'm now doing my second big project with Claude Code, not an experiment, an...

Railroad Crossing, 1926 #edwardhopper #newrealism

Don’t miss all of the events, store openings and more happening on the waterfront this August

The Buc-ee’s trademark bullying saga continues! The company, once best known for building ridiculously enormous gas station and convenience store combinations has more recently become nearly as infamous for its bullying and litigious behavior. Buc-ee’s has a habit of suing all kinds of other businesses for trademark infringement, so long as those other businesses use […]

Railroad Crossing, 1926 #edwardhopper #newrealism

Wavelength 2.0 was rejected for a second time. I don’t even know what to do with Apple anymore. Do I need to switch to Android and Linux? App review is so deflating.

Meanwhile the Epic case has dragged on nearly five years. Apple got another 24-hour delay today.

Both the web and Mac versions of Micro.blog were updated today with auto-saving drafts. If you start writing a longer post, Micro.blog will quietly save a draft to the server. This makes it less likely to lose any text if something goes wrong. For manually saved drafts, Micro.blog will still keep track of each version if you need to roll back.

I’ve tried to design it so that it gets out of your way:

I also fixed a few bugs in the Mac version. See the full release notes or download the latest version on the help page.

“Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth called on military leaders in Latin America on Wednesday to ramp up their fight against drug traffickers and join the U.S. military in operations against cartels,” the New York Times reports. “With his typical bravado, Mr. Hegseth said the cartel-busting coalition’s motto would be, ‘We do bad things to bad people.'”

“President Trump said Wednesday that the U.S. has total control of the Strait of Hormuz. The reality on the water tells a different story,” the Wall Street Journal reports. “Ship-tracking data shows that just 14 vessels on Tuesday crossed a waterway that routinely handled more than 130 a day before the war. Eleven of those […]

“Thousands of North Korean operatives are using fake and stolen identities to land remote jobs at U.S. companies—funneling hundreds of millions of dollars back to the regime,” the Wall Street Journal reports.