My first scientific publication in 20 years is live!
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Drew McCormack
@drewmccormack@mastodon.social
mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06Indie Developer. Digital Prospector.
agenda.com, glisten.ist, blablets.com
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Made my own little vibe coding environment. You know, for kids!
Vibe coded the whole thing. So I vibe coded a vibe coding tool that is used by non-programmers to vibe code. Turtles all the way down!
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@jamesthomson@mastodon.social Be great if they called it the Donald Trump special edition. (He likes that sort of thing)
What's the story with TestFlight review for macOS? I get that the first submission for a version may take a little longer, but even follow ups are now measuring in the days. Back to the bad old days. I envy the web folk.
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@pfandrade@mastodon.social @gruber@mastodon.social Hot take: We will start to see LLM optimized languages, not designed for human consumption. They will be optimized for LLMs, and include typing hints, but use a dynamic compiler to cut all the crap that you fight with in strongly-typed languages. Tests, which every LLM already produces, and the typing hints, will replace static typing completely. Probably end up back at Smalltalk😂
Men are from Mars, women from Venus, so non-binary people are from…Earth?
My Apple Watch SE after one week. Low drop onto hard floor, and it is done. Similar drops with iPhone no problem. So much for that experiment. A sports watch that can’t take any shock.
There is nothing more dangerous than a well intentioned geek.
Fun experiment: a short story that rewrites itself a little each day.
Meet “The Beast in the Bin.”
https://beastinthebin.mentalfaculty.com
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@pfandrade@mastodon.social @gruber@mastodon.social I went through the transition to SwiftUI a few years back. Built a few apps with it, including for the mac. The thing is, whether it is good or bad has become a bit moot. Is anyone writing code now? I *use* everything from UIKit to next.js in my software now, because I don't *write* any of it. Programming languages and APIs are becoming invisible.