Notices by Anil Dash (anildash@me.dm), page 4

Has anybody switched from a standalone 2FA app like Google Authenticator or Authy to Apple’s Passwords app? Looking for folks who have actual experience with it and how it works.

@mathowie @courtney it is indeed very similar to people fucking their first cousins

@humanhorseshoes

I’m bringing back lolcats

@blogdiva 🙏🏾💜

Embedding perl and ffmpeg in a macOS app.

I was pondering converting THE CYBERIZER to a macOS app so that it would be usable by non-combatants who cannot command-line. It is a long but straightforward perl script that invokes command-line ffmpeg to...
https://jwz.org/b/ykZK

@gloriousnoise yeah! he mostly put it on his social media channels, but you can see it here too https://foul-band-spectroscope.glitch.me/

@godzero @miah @Greengordon I'm just saying – we all do marketing. It's reductive to vilify it.

@miah @Greengordon there are just as many startups that die because engineering disappears down a rabbit hole of self-indulgence without considering what users or the market wants. It takes a collaboration that balances all these impulses. VCs typically make things horrible by focusing on hyper-growth and being over-extractive; they can achieve that through bad actors in leadership in marketing, engineering, finance, or anywhere else.

@godzero @miah @Greengordon your pinned post is marketing a petition, show that you're a person of principle and delete it.

@miah @Greengordon I think that depends a *ton* on the organizational culture. There are folks making decisions at Apple who would be considered marketing, but are making great choices that engineering can get behind. It's really about fluency and alignment to goals.

The @glitchdotcom community never fails to inspire! Elijah Nicholson-Messmer brilliantly dug into the data around @NPR's wonderful Tiny Desk series, and produced a beautiful set of visualizations about the concerts, then told everyone exactly how he did it: https://www.storybench.org/how-i-scraped-and-visualized-over-1500-npr-tiny-desk-concerts/

One really easy way to tell if an organization is going to embrace enshittification in its products is to see if everyone in a decision-making position did a stint working at Facebook after they enabled a genocide.

@abosio (sorry about that, had some site gremlins that are fixed now)

@casey oh snap

@sloot @chrisamaphone sorry, should be actually fixed now!

Okay, this was a fun one... back in 2016, Anna Delvey pitched me on her startup. It was... an AI platform for creators. She probably would have killed it if she were trying to fundraise right now. These are the messages I got at the time, along with her original pitch deck. https://www.anildash.com/2024/09/15/anna-delvey-pitch/ Good luck to her on her new dancing career!

@absolutspacegrl if he’s dismissing you saying that there’s something that matters to you, that’s a red flag. Worst case, he could say “can we talk about it later?” but that’s not what he did. You deserve better.

@danprovost sorry, little gremlin there, should be back up now

@dustin I really appreciate you sharing that.