If you are a resident of California, the state now has a portal where you can demand deletion of your personal data from 500+ registered data brokers with a single request form, for free.

https://consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov/

Compare and contrast #wwdc2025 Liquid Glass vs. circa 2000 Aqua.

Working in an #AI Code Assistant app like #Cursor or #Cline, have you ever had multiple windows open, and typed the prompt intended for one window inside the other one?

The bewildered sense of utter confusion, yet willingness to do anything you ask…

<whimper>
”Let me look through your Django models for that React click handler.”

"Uncle Patrick's Secessionist Breakfast: A short story by Dave Eggers."

https://www.sfchronicle.com/projects/2025/dave-eggers-short-story/

Worth a read.

#california #sfchronicle

Are you concerned that your online content is getting scraped-up without your permission by search engines or #AIML training models?

Are you torn between sharing openly and feeling like others are freely taking advantage of your work to enrich themselves?

#RoboNope is here to help: https://github.com/raminf/RoboNope-nginx

Ignore at your peril! Feel free to share.

#opensource #AI #nginx

Have a long article related to #Apple, #siri, #appleintelligence, #Matter, and #HomeKit rattling around my brain.

It's all connected, and it goes back 20 years. Trying to decide if it's worth going down the rabbit-hole...

Prediction: The Chinese #AI models like #Qwen #deepseek and #Ernie will do to #AIML software what Shenzhen did for US electronics manufacturing.

It's an impressive feat of technology and business. Not sure if 5-year business moats can exist any more.

You know what would be a good use for AI on #Apple devices?

Have it automatically detect scam text messages, flag them, and put them in a special folder, or auto-delete them. All of this could be done on-device without violating privacy.

I don't need my messages summarized. I want to not worry about elderly relatives getting their savings stolen.

Had an interesting session with #Claude / #cursorai today. Working on an #ionic #vue web page. Nothing complicated. A text label was getting clipped behind a toolbar. A simple solution: add some vertical padding to the CSS on top and it pops right down. Easy peasy. Right?

Went to the #AI mavens, just for fun, and HOLY CRAP!They propose an entire revised view hierarchy. Utter chaos. Massive changes across multiple files. I'm staring at it, literally 😱

It's like your 'coding partner' turning into a meth-addled conspiracy theorist. I'm thinking a newbie in a similar position is going to click 'accept' and end up hating life. This is where we are.

Legendary Indian tabla player Zakir Hussain dies at 73

The Indian classical music icon died of a lung disease at a hospital in San Francisco.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c2exzm9r043o

(c) #BBC #News

So… any idea how would to go about removing a decomposing rodent from the sealed under-carriage of an #EV?

Asking for a friend.

Happy Birthday, #MQTT!
25 today :) xxx

#Gardening tip: don't cheap out on the garden hose. I picked up one of those green ones for a small, family pressure-washing project. Brought it back home afterward and stuck it in the back yard to water the trees. 2-weeks later, the rubber was hard, then it kinked, then it cracked every few feet. Total waste.

One of the nice things about #swiftui is how it forces you to 'containerize' your components.

You can create a small proof-of-concept iOS app, test out a single screen or component, then just lift the whole thing out and embed it into a larger app with very few changes.

#Python should eventually move to a mode where every string is by default, an f-string.

As expected, spending most of the day in bed following twin #COVID and #Flu shots. Bone aches, chills, then sweats. A little easier this year with #Pfizer vs last couple of years with #Moderna.

Still, managed to finish a doc review and get it back to attorneys. One less thing in the hopper. Now, on to binge-watching some dreck.

@Migueldeicaza Staying involved as a founder is important. But the counter to that is setting up processes to nurture the next generation, so the founder(s) can move on/hand off, without disrupting the company.

Heard this in a discussion on CEOs that really stuck with me (paraphrasing):

"It's not about becoming Buddha.
It's about establishing the tenets of Buddhism."

Okay, here's my writeup of the Internet Archive ruling. Fair use decisions always depend on vague vibes, but I think this one got some basics wrong. But, still, the comment at the end about how authors won't write any more if books are lent out is CRAZYPANTS. www.techdirt.com/2024/09/05/s...

Second Circuit Says Libraries ...

Interfacing with the OS is key for x-platform development. Skip lets you call Java/Kotlin API directly from your Swift and #SwiftUI. Link to #AndroidDevelopment libs, or drop Kotlin files into your project. And now you can add Java files to your project too!
https://skip.tools/docs/platformcustomization/

Cool point upgrade stuff in the #AppleEvent today. Was disappointed nothing in #iPad mini form-factor. Maybe something in October...