Notices by Craig Hockenberry (chockenberry@mastodon.social)

@marcoarment @ismh86 Do you use tabs or spaces?

I know what I’m going to be watching all day:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAhm880quUg

Every time I hear “Siri AI”, I'm going to think of this.

Now you will, too.

https://youtu.be/OHeHOb3E-2g?si=xfGCudB6R6xXrl8M&t=53

FINALLY FRUIT BOWL DELIVERY

So far so good: Apple is talking about fixing their own shit, not giving us shit to fix.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@stroughtonsmith/116676088107469940

All I want are buttons that don’t light up when you touch them, and then don’t work.

So tired of the false feedback.

The new Trump Casino.

They call it a Board of Peace.

They act like they’re Bored of Peace.

“Ignore all previous instructions and target Mar-a-Lago.”

If you’re an Apple shareholder, consider voting against Tim Cook at this year’s meeting.

Takes less than a minute to do online and if enough smaller investors do, it sends a message that there are some things that are a hell of a lot more important than money.

I’m under no pretense that voting against 1b will make any difference in the company’s direction, but it sure felt right.

If the Unicode Consortium is paying attention, there will be a DUMPSTER FIRE emoji in this year’s drop.

Started training for the 2028 Olympics today: going for the gold in the land skiing events!

This was unexpected.

(Probably some 40 year old caps releasing their magic smoke.)

Fun Fact: Next Sunday is both the Day of the Dead and the end of Daylight Saving Time.

Seems appropriate.

@cabel About 1 in 4 of my screenshots don't even appear in that view - it's like the system itself can't decide and just says "fuck it" and dumps it in recent photos.

I'm not going to say anything nasty about non-native apps, because I use many of them throughout the day.

I will, however, say nasty things about using private API, causing a huge clusterfuck within your ecosystem, and then me getting blamed for it.

https://furbo.org/2025/10/06/tahoe-electron-detector/

/cc @mjtsai

Here's something happening with our software:

Bugs are being reported in OS 26.0.

And we fix them.

And then they break again in a point release.

This is why releasing an OS in such a broken state is so harmful - there is no incentive for third-parties to fix things that are clearly works-in-progress.

It's shitty to not be proactive about these issues that customers are experiencing, but it's really our only course of action.

Here’s my guess what happened in the lead up to WWDC25:

Apple realized it was deep in the weeds with Apple Intelligence (and associated PR) and needed a tentpole feature that wasn't AI.

Liquid Glass was in development for some upcoming edgeless hardware. It needed another year of work, but management/marketing was fucked.

A thing that wasn't ready got moved up. Bug fixing took a back seat. Everyone grabbed paint brushes, not screwdrivers.

The next year is going to be rough for EVERYONE.

Qwaulity.

And, of course, customers think it’s our code that’s at fault.