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Brent Simmons @brentsimmons@indieweb.social

· 1mo ago

Reminder: Apple is not your friend, even with a new CEO. Apple will continue to do some good things and some very bad things. Any feelings of love you have toward Apple is not reciprocated: Apple has no feelings. It’s a multi-trillion dollar company that, like every other corporation, would like your money but does not care about you, or your values, at all.

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Brent Simmons @brentsimmons@indieweb.social

· 6d ago

Fucking Reddit fucking sucks.

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Brent Simmons @brentsimmons@indieweb.social

· 3mo ago

Dog in my neighborhood.

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Brent Simmons @brentsimmons@indieweb.social

· 7mo ago

Boosted by @octothorpe@mastodon.online

Before sending Apple any money this week, remember that Tim Cook attended a private screening of the Melania documentary at the White House later in the same day that Alex Pretti was murdered by this administration. He knew about it and went anyway.

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Brent Simmons @brentsimmons@indieweb.social

· 1mo ago

Yesterday I thought it might be fun to get more into neovim — I’d downloaded and tried it a bit previously, and it seemed interesting. Anyway, I went to its home page to see if I could learn something useful there, and I saw a DHH quote. Nope. The DHH rule says nope. brew uninstall neovim

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Brent Simmons @brentsimmons@indieweb.social

· 12mo ago

There is no CEO of RSS.

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Brent Simmons @brentsimmons@indieweb.social

· 3mo ago

Boosted by @tchambers@indieweb.social

On my blog — what we’ve been doing with NetNewsWire over the past year: https://inessential.com/2026/06/15/netnewswire-status.html

inessential.com

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Brent Simmons @brentsimmons@indieweb.social

· 7mo ago

Fuck this translucency shit. Not sure how this has made my content front and center.

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Brent Simmons @brentsimmons@indieweb.social

· 3mo ago

I was curious about NetNewsWire for iOS usage per iOS release. Here are the percentages:

iOS 26: 92.17%

iOS 18: 6.28%

iOS 17: 1.23%

iOS 16 and earlier: 0.32%

(The current version of NetNewsWire for iOS runs on iOS 17 and newer.)

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Brent Simmons @brentsimmons@indieweb.social

· 8mo ago

On my blog — email from family in Minnesota: https://inessential.com/2026/01/21/email-from-minnesota-family.html

inessential.com

inessential: Email from Family in Minnesota

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Brent Simmons @brentsimmons@indieweb.social

· 8mo ago

Boosted by @gedeonm@mastodon.social

NetNewsWire 7.0 for iOS has finally passed through the review process. It may take a few hours to propagate — but it should be on the App Store now or soon-ish 🎸

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Brent Simmons @brentsimmons@indieweb.social

· 7mo ago

What breaks my heart about LLMs is that when I teach it something about coding, I’m not teaching a person. And the LLM is going to fucking forget anyway.

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Brent Simmons @brentsimmons@indieweb.social

· 2mo ago

My mini-rant yesterday about the iOS 27 beta crashing bug turns out to have been late — the bug was already fixed in the latest beta, iOS 27 beta 4 build 24A5390f. (Or, at least, I have no logs for this crash that reference 24A5390f.) I’ve updated my blog post with the good news: https://inessential.com/2026/07/23/ios-27-nnw-crash.html

inessential.com

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Brent Simmons @brentsimmons@indieweb.social

· 7mo ago

Two things I didn’t note in my post on Objective-C but could have: the compiler is crazy fast, and the debugger is wonderfully smooth, without all the latency we’ve become used to the last bunch of years. The whole experience feels so different — so light and easy.

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Brent Simmons @brentsimmons@indieweb.social

· 7mo ago

Why Objective-C: https://inessential.com/2026/02/27/why-objective-c.html

inessential.com

inessential: Why Objective-C

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Brent Simmons @brentsimmons@indieweb.social

· 5mo ago

I was called away from home (back now) for unexpected reasons.

Here’s what it looks like to fly into Minot, North Dakota in the evening. Note the many sloughs this time of year.

Here’s the jail in Benedict, North Dakota. My trip was not actually related to the jail! I just thought it was cool.

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Brent Simmons @brentsimmons@indieweb.social

· 7mo ago

Replying to

@KiloNiner @zackwhittaker Nope

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Brent Simmons @brentsimmons@indieweb.social

· 5mo ago

This time of year in North Dakota things are more brown than green. The farmhouses almost always have trees planted around them for relief from the wind.

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Brent Simmons @brentsimmons@indieweb.social

· 7mo ago

Beagle Bros love: https://ranchero.com/2026/02/26/beagle-bros-love.html

ranchero.com

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Brent Simmons @brentsimmons@indieweb.social

· 7mo ago

Boosted by @fahrni@curmudgeon.cafe

Unread remains cool: https://ranchero.com/2026/02/20/unread-remains-cool.html

ranchero.com

Unread remains cool - ranchero.com

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Brent Simmons @brentsimmons@indieweb.social

· 7mo ago

Boosted by @fahrni@curmudgeon.cafe

RE: https://social.lol/@swizzlevixen/116048729081283939 Hire my old friend and the better half of the original The Omni Show! I most wholeheartedly recommend Mark!

social.lol

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Brent Simmons @brentsimmons@indieweb.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@Bdkl Fun! It’s crossed my mind more than once — and more often lately — to do an official NetNewsWire for Linux. (Using GTK, yes, though I’d use Swift in order to share code.)

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Brent Simmons @brentsimmons@indieweb.social

· 5mo ago

We had to wait for a slow-moving train in Voltaire, ND on our way to Anamoose. https://www.anamoose.com/home.php

anamoose.com

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Brent Simmons @brentsimmons@indieweb.social

· 4mo ago

Replying to

@christianp@mathstodon.xyz https://nolearnings.com/

nolearnings.com

No Learnings

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Brent Simmons @brentsimmons@indieweb.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@Luke@typo.social @NetNewsWire@indieweb.social Gotta be square or I don’t care

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Brent Simmons @brentsimmons@indieweb.social

· 7mo ago

Replying to

@Doomscroll@zirk.us For anyone following along — don’t be surprised when I don’t start answering questions at 4 am my time! It will be several hours later. :)

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Brent Simmons @brentsimmons@indieweb.social

· 7mo ago

Replying to

@piyuv @maxb I hear you! But also remember that RSS feeds are publicly available on the web — it’s not like it’s your spreadsheet you were working on. AI bots have already slurped up that text, most likely. But still, I’m with you. If we ever do add some summarization feature or whatever, it would be local.

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Brent Simmons @brentsimmons@indieweb.social

· 15mo ago

Replying to

@tomas@iosdev.space I think it’s possible to provide a (mostly) glass-free option for the long term. At least on macOS. Apps with a great deal of custom UI — apps like Things; apps like Slack and Obsidian (Electron apps) — would have an easy time of this. We’ll see. It’s early still. But this situation reminds me a bit how, during the Aqua days, people started doing custom UI and non-standard layout to cut down on the excesses of Aqua (particularly the pinstriped window background).

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