Notices by sandofsky@mastodon.social

@ayanonagon I was also rocking the em-dash before the robots took this from us, but my typos let me pass the Voight-Kampff test.

Oh, we’re at that stage of fascism.

@Gargron @whattherestimefor @goondaba Why are you employees in my mentions asking for free labor?

So at some point Mastodon’s first-party client broke its screen transitions? They just jump into view with broken animations.

Is it just my phone? I’d expect more people would talk about this.

@whattherestimefor @goondaba Not my circus, not my monkeys.

Negawa Ryokudo, Tachikawa #BelieveInFilm

Taking a page from the Enron, WorldCom, and Bear Stearns playbooks. https://electrek.co/2025/03/21/elon-tells-tesla-employees-not-to-sell-tsla-stocks-board-execs-are-dumping/

Paul Graham’s latest post is so bad it’s been flagged off Hacker News.

I wrote 4,000 words about the end of the Twitter era.

As we walk through the graveyard of social media, let's explore network effects, decline, death, and rebirth.

https://www.sandofsky.com/end-of-twitter/

People of Mastodon: explain in one sentence why your company should wind-down their Twitter account.

Pitch it like you’re pitching your CEO.

Portra 400.

Halide now supports the iPhone 16's capture controls!

https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/1/24259340/halide-camera-control-button-exposure-focus-iphone-16

They didn't ask us to change the location permission prompt, but I threw in a limerick for good measure.

The latest Halide update was rejected because, after seven years, a random reviewer decided our permission prompt wasn't descriptive enough.

I don't know how to explain why a camera app needs camera permissions.

I submitted an update with our permission prompts in iambic pentameter. It was approved.

(We won't release it. I just had to know.)

This was one of those rejections where they're like, "If this is a bug fix, we can accept it for now, but you need to fix this in your next update."

We replied, "Yes, please approve, we'll fix it." 36 hours later, they approved, but we still need to deal with this.

So it turns out Founder Mode means coke. https://twitter.com/yanatweets/status/1830728471380902048

It took five years to write, but here's the full story behind Lambda School, Silicon Valley's disastrous foray into for-profit education.

I explain how they burned through $120 million in funding, why Income Share Agreements failed, the crimes committed along the way, and how one developer turned journalist put an end to the fraud.

https://www.sandofsky.com/lambda-school/

Men will start a PR war with Apple over an app rejection instead of going to therapy.

On Threads, my algorithmic timeline is full of right wing garbage, thirst traps, and Facebook employees complaining about Apple.

If I point this out, my replies fill with Facebook employees telling me it’s my fault for not following enough people, or that I should just switch to the “Following” tab every time the app launches.

I suspect the real problem is Threads has cooled off. With fewer posts coming in, it doesn’t take much engagement for trash to float to the top.