Every year I end up revisiting the fact that #Apple #Photos has absolutely crap exporting and archiving features, so this year I decided to rewrite my #macOS #export scripts in #Swift:

https://github.com/rcarmo/PhotosExport

The long shadows of sunrise seen from space.

#space #earth #science

just a blender render of an animation originally made in Processing almost 3 years ago

A Christmas classic

I would—honest-to-god—buy an iPhone 4S form-factor phone and an iPad 2 form-factor tablet if they were available to run modern software. I think those were pretty close-to-ideal products.

More holiday cheer. For those of you asking about Safari’s “stable” Interop 2025 score…

movabletype.org in 2004
https://web.archive.org/web/20040904085051if_/http://www.movabletype.org:80

Years of experience as an app developer has taught me that people who don’t upgrade their macOS and iOS tend to be angry about things.

Me? I’m running macOS 15 and iOS 18.

Tomorrow is another day to keep doing your best while cartoonish villains destroy society in every direction

I just posted a quick write-up of my 2200 mile cross country EV trip: https://a.wholelottanothing.org/a-2-200-mile-ev-test-drive-from-texas-to-oregon/

Back on my bullshit.

#AppleII #retrocomputing

Me, a home automation dad, very wise: we need to geolocate our house so the IoT switch knows to turn the Christmas tree lights on 20 minutes before sundown AT OUR LATITUDE

You, a total rube. A simpleton: sets timer made in 1998 to turn on every day at 5:30pm and off at 10:30pm.

https://www.starwars.com/news/star-wars-50th-anniversary-theatrical-release

"Mark, it's Alan. Hey, I have a big scoop for ya but you have to word it just like this..."
https://mastodon.social/@markgurman/115657311502006405

my dad subscribed to some early PC magazines in the 80s, and i remember propping them open next to the keyboard as i typed out, line by line, some basic-ass BASIC programs into the computer, all to make colors and shapes appear on the screen

this is all to say: i love this with my whole heart https://vole.wtf/doctype/