Inktober 2026 Day 2: Relic. (I hated the way 8-track tapes often had to change the track sequence on albums, to make the content fit the tape loop.)
#relic #Inktober #Inktober2026 #InkArt #Drawing
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Son of a Sailor
@Sonofasailor@mastodon.social
mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06Hi! I'm Craig, a sometime cartoonist, former graphic designer, and retired software developer. I love art, reading, photography, science, cats, music, movies, and gaming. I like playing bass and ukulele, and making music with my brothers. Recently I've been learning about SwiftUI and how to write software for Apple platforms...but then Baldur's Gate 3 came along...
Still trying to figure everything out. As one does. He/him.
#nobridge (looking at you, snarfed.org)
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Joined November 09, 2022
Currently reading::
Ancillary Mercy, by Ann Leckie
Currently playing::
Diablo IV, and Batman: Arkham Origins
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@bigzaphod@mastodon.social @Iconfactory@iconfactory.world @simonharper@mastodon.social Fixed in 26.4.1! 🎉
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@Gargron@mastodon.social Only because streamers crush the bit depth and use low bit rates. The resolution is there, it's these other issues that make it look crappy.
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@hotdogsladies@mastodon.social It is a crime (a CRIME, I say!) that Phone Guy is not an interstitial segment on SNL or some other late night show.
I wish Apple News could do for news source subscriptions what Apple TV has done for streaming subscriptions: a one-stop shop for subscribing to and paying for whatever news source I wanted, with cancellation one tap away.
@BasicAppleGuy@mastodon.social Suggested space for your WWDC bingo card: Tim Cook gets a standing ovation.
@caseyliss@mastodon.social “Out here, people struggled to get by with the most basic technologies; a ship would bring you work, a gun would help you keep it. A captain's goal was simple: find a crew, find a job, keep flying.”
Loved this patch note:
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@bigzaphod@mastodon.social @Iconfactory@iconfactory.world @simonharper@mastodon.social This. 26.5 can't get here soon enough.
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@marioguzman@mastodon.social Anything that can make more Mac apps be Mac-assed Mac apps is a good thing.
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@jsnell@zeppelin.flights Oh, crap, it didn't come out until 1989. So I guess that's System 6? Rats.
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@joshbressers As someone who spent many 70-hour weeks making sure Y2K wasn't an apocalypse, I couldn't agree more!
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@acedtect@mstdn.social The Patreon app says you're at 6,695 patrons, so can you clarify the 4,000-patron goal? Do you mean *add* 4,000 patrons, or get to 4,000 paid patrons? If the latter, what's the gap? How many more do we need? (Already a paid patron here. 😊)
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@Gargron@mastodon.social But only when switching to the alternative app store plan for distribution. Not that that helps from a philosophical point of view.
I keep seeing posts saying iPad is dead, yet Apple sold $30 billion worth of them last year and almost $7 billion worth in the first quarter of 2026. Not bad for a dead platform.
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@jsnell@zeppelin.flights I want this on my desk just so I can have it running Flying Toasters.
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@gedeonm@mastodon.social Ha! The odd line from Star Wars that sticks in my head is Han saying “Chewy, lock in the auxiliary power.” He says it twice as they’re being pulled in. This occurs exactly one hour into the film, which, hypothetically, may or may not have been the perfect point for a young boy to maybe or maybe not flip over a 120-minute tape in a cassette recorder that may or may not have been in a knapsack the hypothetical young boy had with him. 😎
I guess we’re in the Apple news doldrums, nothing much to talk about.
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@benpocalypse@mastodon.social @thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io You could do a lot with it. I used it to write a real-time burglar alarm monitoring application with a custom windowed interface. 🤓
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@nixCraft Me! And I still have the floppy disks to prove it! (I started with Turbo Pascal 2.0.)
I even used Turbo Modula-2, but that one went nowhere fast.
The fact that Anthropic was careless enough to let something they themselves consider dangerous be accessed by an unauthorized user through the simplest of hacking techniques (changing the URL) is inexcusable. That's amateur hour stuff. Security 101. I'd have been fired for letting that happen.
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@lolennui@mstdn.social Attn @neilhimself@mastodon.social, your Stardust sequel has written itself.
RE: @daringfireball@mastodon.social
The new Netflix Apple TV app is definitely a step back in usability. It’s like I’m constantly stubbing my toe whenever it fails to work like it should.
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@MacStoriesDeals@mastodon.macstories.net My copy arrives tomorrow. (I forgot to pre-order.)
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@gedeonm@mastodon.social Go Rays!!
Shooting an iPhone video out of the window as you ride in a vehicle. As you do.
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And anything I have it say to my wife *without* the word “mail” in it gets handled just fine. #Siri #AppleWatch