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‘The process of code quickly becomes a game of anticipating every possible condition, and what started as a simple solution becomes one of the most dreaded things known to man.
It becomes a _codebase_.’
mikecaulfield.substack.com/p/softerware
I don't trust these app-reported podcast listening stats. Just barely 1 in 5 listeners skip the ad breaks? I find that _extremely_ hard to believe. That "scoop" ain't deep enough.
Too bad there's no way to verify, app can say whatever it wants.
adswizz (owned by sirius) testing hls video from a podcast feed...
didn't know they had aws.com
spinoff imminent!
ok there were more changes than I thought there would be
I guess this latest sdk rolls up OS betas 3 and 4
- new SwiftUI EnvironmentValues thingie for the new "reduce highlighting effect" system accessibility setting
developer.apple.com/documentatio...
- PassKit: PKPassLibrary.openPaymentSetup "Opens the card setup flow with attribution tracking. The merchant identifier will be used to track provisioning success back to the calling application and campaign."
developer.apple.com/documentatio...
- HealthKit: Apple Engineers - they're in the same trenches as the rest of us
- Contacts: removed CNContactFormatterStyle.handleName
developer.apple.com/documentatio...
- quite a bit of new stuff in CarPlay, such as CPSportsOverlay
developer.apple.com/documentatio...
- AVFoundation: moved to requiring 26 for AVContentKeyRequest.originatingRecipient
developer.apple.com/documentatio...
- AudioAccessoryKit: made a few things final
and removed the author from the header : )
alright #wwdc, let's see what's new in the latest iOS 26.4 beta, the churn should be low given the revision:
- new AccessoryTransportExtension.AccessoryTransportSession.EventHandler.dataEventHandler
whoa, vscode is now going to weekly stable releases as well?
code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_111
In a hotel room, a brick wall that has obviously had a huge hole repaired
Pretty sure the Kool-Aid man stayed in this hotel room once
@mims.bsky.social very interesting piece
(also had never come across "run a gantlet" - a spelling that is apparently preferred in American English - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Running...)
www.wsj.com/tech/gps-jam...
‘For both algorithm and creator, precision in form-matching takes precedence over individual inspiration and creativity. It didn’t matter which MrBeast production I watched, just as it doesn’t matter what the next item in my Instagram feed is. They’re all the same.’
apropos of nothing: today I saw with my own eyes - on an absolutely gray, gloomy day, across a flooded river on the far bank - a bald eagle feasting on a dead canada goose
Pizza Man
Amery, WI
‘Last week United updated its contract of carriage to specify that “passengers who fail to use headphones while listening to audio or video content” could be removed from a plane or not allowed to board.’
United Airlines says put on your headphones or get off the plane
www.msn.com/en-us/travel...
another good quality of life improvement for Bluesky 👍
‘For example, a message that violates Roblox’s profanity policies, such as “Hurry TF up!” would previously have appeared as “####” within experience chat. That will now be rephrased to “Hurry up!”’
How long until a de-explicitifier shows up in podcast players as well?
ir.roblox.com/news/news-de...
‘With these updates, we have also resolved our disputes worldwide with Epic Games.’
android-developers.googleblog.com/2026/03/a-ne...
‘Crucially, Deezer’s data suggests the primary driver of AI music uploads is fraud rather than creative intent.
Apple’s transparency tag system does not include any visible enforcement mechanism or cross-verification process.’
www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/apple-music-...
‘Without such options, a large class of telecom devices and XML‑based enterprise systems will lose their only practical browser‑native UI layer, and many deployed devices will be left without a functional interface.’
issues.chromium.org/issues/43562...
‘“Our video podcasts are over indexing on time of the day, like morning and afternoon, relative to our core subscription TV/film on-demand offerings,” Neumann added. “Similarly, it’s over indexing on the mobile device, so that’s pretty cool.”’
www.thewrap.com/media-platfo...
‘a devastating signal’
mv "iPhone 17e" "iPhone Neo"
