Bryan Clark

shout out to whoever designed the "non-fiction" icon in Apple Books

they’re having a normal one

they are definitely a stable platform you can stake your business on

> "Nightshade transforms images into "poison" samples, so that models training on them without consent will see their models learn unpredictable behaviors that deviate from expected norms, e.g. a prompt that asks for an image of a cow flying in space might instead get an image of a handbag floating in space."

HELL yeah, this is so cool.

https://nightshade.cs.uchicago.edu/whatis.html

OMG WE DID IT!!! #Seattle #Ballard

King County Elections just did the first ballot drop and it looks like 1A is going to sail through!!!

@stg@c.im @thomasaw@mastodon.social @daringfireball@mastodon.social right??

“More than 2,800 injured” but @gruber@mastodon.social thinks it’d “make for a great movie” 🫠😡

git commit -m "feeling cute, might revert later"

after my son died, there was a rotting stump in our yard - put my anger into digging it out by hand. Planted a cherry tree; pink was his favorite color.

This week, it’s blooming.

Normally I'm all "yay congrats on shipping"

but it brings me great joy to see that HEY Calendar looks like complete visual dogshit, like it was designed in powerpoint by a consultant

This is what happens when half (?) of your staff walks-out-on-the-job because #Basecamp leadership was getting Pretty Fucking Racist.

Eat shit DHH!

you know that thing where Google yells at you that your storage is almost-full, but doesn't do shit to help you identify what's taking up space? (Because they want you to get frustrated and just pay $25/yr or whatever?)

TIL that DaisyDisk has *excellent* tools for scanning/deleting those files:

remember: your UI's empty-state is also its first-impression

when the git-blame says it’s actually your code from a year ago

reached 4,000mi on our cargo bike today with the kids

#seabikes

What I hope the sideloading thing reveals is just how shit the App Store has become. Imagine a SetApp-style store, with only good apps allowed, and an all-in-one bundle price.

(Meanwhile the App Store editorial tab is just endless ads for Roblox or “games for non-gamers” or whatever else.)

never seen this before, kinda endearing from an indie app?

Slow Horses is v good

“Vision Pro: the first Apple device made exclusively for tech bloggers”

Buh Buh Buh Benny and the Gesserit

#Seattle has a few surveys up for public-comment on the police department's proposals to install CCTV, junk-science gunshot detection, and whatever the hell a "Real Time Crime Center" is.

Go comment before the forms close at the end of the month! https://techtalk.seattle.gov/2024/02/02/public-comment-period-opening-for-the-technology-assisted-crime-prevention-pilot-technologies/