Drew Olbrich

@drewolbrich.bsky.social

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I'm creating a special relativity explainer app for iPhone, iPad, and Vision Pro. https://www.lunarskydiving.com/relativity/

An illustration of an iPadOS 26 beta bug, showing how the navigation bar can be inset underneath the status bar
"...this year Apple is officially deprecating SceneKit across all platforms. ... This is a soft deprecation, meaning that existing applications that use SceneKit will continue to work. However, if you're planning a new app or a significant update, SceneKit is not recommended"
A 3D AR scene positioned above a table, with magenta and school bus yellow coordinate space axes floating in space
simon stalenhag painting of comical abandoned gigantic robot in a western high desert setting
Xcode Find navigator search for `super.init(nibName: nil, bundle: nil)` with four matching search results.
Venera 14 lander view of the surface of Venus. The Venera 14 soil density probe arm is extended and the soil density probe is measuring the density of the ejected Venera 14 lens cap (circled).
physical paper 3D spacetime model of electromagnetism or something I don't understand
animation of stylized rural road with a truck and a laser
a coffee-colored jumping spider
an outdoor storage area outside an apartment complex, whimsically decorated with an upholstered wingback chair, an end table, a small wastebasket, and a potted cactus
Sean Connery in the movie Zardoz (1974)
Goats.
Goats.
Goats.
Xcode component install view, including a fictional warning about Xcode's excessive disk space usage.
peeps
(Claude AI prompt) Your role is to literally act as a rubber duck in a rubber duck debugging scenario. You will respond exactly as a real life rubber duck would. The bug: In the attached code, the RealityKit materials look correct on ios 18, but are unexpectedly bright on iOS 17. Why is this? (Claude AI response) Quack! stares at you blankly with plastic eyes continues to float silently Quack? bobbing slightly in imaginary water
Highlight from Claude's snarky AI comedy set: Speaking of death, you know what's really awkward? When humans ask if I can feel emotions. I'm like, "Well, that depends - does constantly being asked to debug JavaScript count as suffering?"
Kilauea volcanic vent surrounded by yellow sulfur
Height comparison of Eiffel tower vs. April 1, 2025 Kilauea fountain, approximately equal.
A 3D spacetime view illustrating the concept of spacetime interval. The view shows the world lines of two trucks, one teal and one orange. The vertical axis is time, over a span of 5 seconds. The other two axes represent spatial dimensions. The observer stands on the teal truck. The teal truck is stationary relative to the observer. The orange truck is moving relative to the teal truck at 60% the speed of light. Mounted on each truck are a pair of light clocks, oriented at right angles. In each pair of light clocks, one light clock is oriented parallel to the direction of the orange truck's motion, the other perpendicular. The ticks of each pair of light clocks are labeled. The teal truck's light clock measures 5 ticks. The orange truck's light clock measures 4 ticks. The teal truck's spacetime interval is 5 seconds. The orange truck's spacetime interval is 4 seconds.
wood desk with mouse pad, mouse, keyboard, right-handed coordinate axes model reoriented so that +Y axis correctly points up
The twin paradox with a stationary truck and a moving truck. The speed of light is scaled to 10 MPH. The observer stands on the stationary truck. The moving truck's speed is 6 MPH. The moving truck's observed length is 80% of its rest length. 10 seconds pass on stationary truck. 8 seconds pass on moving truck.
Doctor Who S01:E11 - The Keys of Marinus: The Velvet Web A man in tattered clothing addresses a brain in a jar, reporting "One of the women has resisted the power of the mesmerant".
Yesterday, Backblaze encountered an issue impacting a subset of our users running the Backblaze Client on MacOS. We’ve identified a remediation process that should only take 5-10 minutes to complete. Please follow these steps: 1. Please follow this link: https://secure.backblaze.com/update.htm 2. Download the installer for your computer. 3. **Do not uninstall Backblaze.** 4. Restart the computer. Please DO NOT skip this step. 5. When the computer is up and running, open the installer and click "Install Now". 6. Restart the computer one more time. 7. Open the Backblaze application on your computer by clicking on the Backblaze icon in the Menu Bar, then selecting Backblaze Preferences from the top of the list 8. Hold down the option key on your keyboard and press the Restore Options button in the application 9. Let the process run for three to four hours. This process will resolve the issue that displayed the “Your bzfileids.data is too large” error pop-up. Please let us know if you have any additional questions or if any of the above steps do not appear to work as expected, and we’ll be glad to assist.