Notices by Daniel Jalkut (danielpunkass@mastodon.social)

ATTENTION YOUNG PEOPLE. I'm allergic to work but attracted to money. My last "real job" ended in 2002, capping off a ~7 year career at Apple. I didn't make a ton in salary, but while there I contributed the max to 401K. I invested in basic index funds and forgot about them. Now they're worth as much as 10 years working that same job. Invest young, celebrate later. 🌈

The CEO of my favorite tech company kissing the dictator's ass. Not a good look, Mr. Cook. https://x.com/tim_cook/status/1854225875002396860

I regret that I had but one Washington Post cancellation to give for my country, and I gave it a few months ago.

Americans are always demonizing the other party. For example, Democrats are always saying Republicans want to "have authoritarian rule and ban women from controlling their own bodies", and Republicans are always saying Democrats want to "give everybody free healthcare." Wait...

A reminder that Apple is welcome to borrow my proposed tagline: "There's nothing artificial about Apple Intelligence", in exchange for my usual marketing fee. https://mastodon.social/@danielpunkass/112362640179228885

I nailed it! A year too early... https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/7/24173528/apple-intelligence-ai-features-openai-chatbot

My post from last year: https://bitsplitting.org/2023/05/25/apple-intelligence/

@gruber @chockenberry @nilay_patel

@photomatt I'm impressed how well you've managed it, and fostered the right community to help manage it. Great work all around.

If you’re blind and have a Mac, try MarsEdit, my highly accessible native editor for Wordpress and other blogging systems. It defies the whole “block based” Gutenberg approach and just lets you write. Like the ‘90s.
https://mastodon.uno/@talksina/112494473098177798

Thanks to @cultofmac for including MarsEdit in its list of the "16 Best Mac Apps"! https://www.cultofmac.com/854892/best-mac-apps/

My town lets you request street trees be planted anywhere you can keep an eye on them and water if needed. I am responsible for four trees on my block, and just requested three more. It's great to know that I'm literally throwing shade.

Core Intuition Episode 594: "Dreams and Hopes" https://coreint.org/2024/04/episode-594-dreams-and-hopes/

Thanks to @revenuecat for sponsoring the show!

Russians don't deserve to be terrorized by ISIS any more than they deserve to be terrorized by Putin.

I think about @Gte every time I edit my podcast (https://coreint.org/) because I inevitably end up cutting silences after my pensive thoughts ...

Who had "Apple will release a new language, implemented in Kotlin, with IDE integration for everything but Xcode" on their bingo card? https://pkl-lang.org/blog/introducing-pkl.html

I like the sentiment behind this effort: https://ma.tt/2024/01/freedom-grants/

Remains to be seen how it will work in practice but just trying is a good start, IMO.

The good news is @bbedit 15 is out! The AMAZING news is that I contributed to it! If you had told me 20 years ago when I was merely a starry eyed Bare Bones fan, that I would be in the About Box (for real!), I wouldn't have believed you. https://www.barebones.com/support/bbedit/notes-15.0.html

Core Intuition Episode 580: "Adobe Can Buy Us Now." https://coreint.org/2023/12/episode-580-adobe-can-buy-us-now/

Thanks to @revenuecat for sponsoring the show!

On the subject of Covid tests, in case you live in the US and didn’t know: you’re entitled to 8 more free Covid tests by mail since earlier this fall. https://special.usps.com/testkits

Sometimes it boggles my mind to think that Microsoft owns so many distinct companies/brands: Xbox, GitHub, LinkedIn, Minecraft, etc., which all add up together to make it ALMOST as valuable as Apple, which is effectively one brand.

I am so proud of myself and my society that my 15yo boy can come home and tell me nonchalantly about one of his best male friend's boyfriend. Like it's nothing. This is the future we want. Never would have flown in my childhood. And I'm sure it doesn't fly many places today.