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@EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu Tripled support for Ukraine.
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Jurgis Kirsakmens
@xjki@mastodon.social
mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06Indie iOS app developer and serial procrastinator.
Making https://landlordy.app and https://drinkcontrol.app
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Years ago I had a dream taking part in WWDC. Initially money was the blocker (as indie dev I had to pay everything out of my pocket, and 7d roundtrip to San Francisko from Latvia is really not cheap). Then it was challange of winning the lottery. But now traveling to US? Even if someone gave me free invitation and paid everything I would still stay home. It's incredible how Republicans fucked up brand of the "Land of the free" in such a short time. Probably for decades.
Have been traveling from Riga🇱🇻to Leonidio🇬🇷 by car and back for a month+ visiting 🇱🇹🇵🇱🇸🇰🇭🇺🇷🇸🇲🇰🇦🇱🇲🇪🇧🇦🇭🇷🇸🇮. Did not touch a code once, probably totally out of touch for anything AI coding agents related, no regrets.
#IndieDevLife
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Now I'm looking on my business (my iOS and Android apps I worked on for more than 15 years) and then there's this chart:
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And I know that @steipete and @mergesort and @dimillian are probably right and I applaud and respect @krzyzanowskim for being cool/skeptical with the train/hype and making https://CommanderAI.app (I hope you will sell it for billion), but it is exhausting even to watch. And I hate woods/handworking so that's also not an option.
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Thank you for being on my TEDtalk. Stay cool and clear-minded.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@kylebshr/116970459325827856
Sound advice, one of them is approachable.
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Started with read-book-get-hooked-on-programming, in late 80ies had chance (from small rural city go to bigger city 2x/week) to use Электроника БК-0010 in programming club, 90ies-soviet IBM mainframe clone with Rexx in the uni & PC revolution (Turbo Pascal, love you) from 8080->Pentiums, co-made library software for universities (dBase and FoxPro), co-founded software dev company (Oracle DB&Forms, web, Lotus, 15 years), sold it, got burnout, first (original) iPhone and mobile apps ever since.
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I'm 54 and while I consider myself reasonably up-to-date (aside from Swift modern concurrency, it's just too much for me) this train feels just too fast for me, I kinda wish it rolled a bit slower (but then again, probably a lot of people felt this before).
Next Anthropic AI model spotted in the wild (if you know, you know).
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PS Broken shoulder since 31.12.2025 and 2 weeks with severe allergy (10 days in hospital) probably also did not help with my existential dread. Was a quite harsh introduction into feeling/being/becoming old.
Hope you all are and will be well and healthy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_XNnJlssQ8
Waring's Pennsylvanians (+voc): Young And Healthy - Foxtrot (New York 1932)
Why Moby made "Future Quiet" album
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEB6Q3wTKcw
Why I Made 'Future Quiet'
"Following rigorous security testing and extensive evaluation by the German government, iPhone and iPad become the first consumer devices approved for use with classified information in NATO restricted environments"
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/02/iphone-and-ipad-approved-to-handle-classified-nato-information/
This was very interesting conversation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9aGC6Ui3eE
"In practice, agents default to satisfying whoever is speaking most urgently, recently, or coercively, which is empirically the most common attack surface our case studies exploit"
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.20021
What comes next:
"This was oddly poetic, as perhaps the only example in this entire saga of agents doing a favor for the soon-to-be-displaced white collar workers. When they ended up as delivery drivers, at least half their earnings weren’t going to Uber and DoorDash. Of course, this favor from technology didn’t last for long as autonomous vehicles proliferated. Once agents controlled the transaction, they went looking for bigger paperclips."
https://www.citriniresearch.com/p/2028gic
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@cocoaphony It absolutely is. It's also existential dread. Am I training robot to be even better (yes, I am most probably)?
One of my stances is [Do not recommend channel] for every video I see in Youtube with AI-slopped cover.
"We express our disbelief at such an unprecedented, incomprehensible and unjustifiable decision."
https://www.uefa.com/news-media/news/02a7-2109c8e9ef81-de5a993db109-1000--uefa-statement-on-the-balogun-case/
And ad breaks.
The worst part of having world cup in US (aside from all others) is the commentators talking about NFL celebrities and "international football".
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@krzyzanowskim@mastodon.social My only gripe is that it is so hard to tap prompt textfield with mouse, especially in ligh mode, I have less than 50% hitrate. #LiquidAss