Aaron Vegh

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Freelance vocateur codewriter for Mac, iOS and web. I help make Indigo and Croissant! Astra mortemque superare gradatim.

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ORBITAL A NOVEL SAMANTHA HARVEY "Ravishingly beautiful."-NEW YORK TIMES "Harvey makes an ecstatic voyage... and looks back to Earth with a lover's eye.*-THE GUARDIAN
Xcode’s Apple Accounts screen, with no signed-in accounts. Again.
New Post I love the smell of posting in the morning
Gemma seeping
Posting a PNG with transparency
Gemma in repose
Years ago, during a fact-checking assignment, I talked to the sci-fi writer and history professor Ada Palmer, who told me what she often tells her stu- dents: We know less than 1 percent of what happened 500 years ago, and two- thirds of what we know is wrong. Knowl- edge exists on a timeline too, and the work of generations is carrying on that knowledge without little bits slipping through and getting lost. Are we really OK entrusting our legacy to a bunch of distributed servers, operated by micro- chips with lifespans of 5 to 10 years? One final thing that I've been ignor- ing, which is so very human of me, is that humans make mistakes too. As Holan reminded me, abstaining from chatbots isn't some foolproof saving grace. At least, I'm 33 to 90 percent sure that's what she said. At the end of our interview, when I looked down at my recorder, I found I'd forgotten to turn it on. MEGHAN HERBST is a senior research editor at WIRED.
Indigo listed in the “Apps and Games We Love Right Now” section on the MAS
Indigo for macOS
Review status On average, 90% of submissions are reviewed in less than 24 hours.
fastfetch output on macOS
Model X with open gull wing doors
Rowr
Ollie and Gemma
Indigo books at Oshawa Centre
Indigo for Bluesky & Mastodon iOS 1.0 Pending Developer Release macOS 1.0 In Review
Star Wars: X-WIng
And Apple never really took a definitive decision with the iPad, so they kept changing course and approach. They kept throwing stuff at it, at this iPad that kept becoming a jack of an increasing number of trades, while being a master at very few of them, comparatively. They built an increasingly higher tower of 'stuff the iPad can potentially do' over the inadequate foundation that iOS/iPadOS was and is. They thought that the problem was solvable by throwing faster and faster CPUs at it, while the actual work should have been done on the operating system front. There are still things a Newton MessagePad 2100 with a 162MHz ARM processor can do better than an M5 iPad Pro because NewtonOS is a better-designed OS for the device it runs on than iPadOS is on the iPad.
Dogs asleep on a rug
Fruit and cheese
The Big Four rally was the separatists' largest indoor gathering to date. More than 3,000 people filled the hall to sign the petition and listen to independence leaders speak. The crowd was diverse. I saw young white people and old white people. Tall white people and short white people. Many wore Alberta-blue ball caps, draped themselves in Alberta flags and carried independence lawn signs they had purchased at the merchandise tables. The whole place seemed to seethe with a weird concoction of triumphalism and entitled anger.
Sniper: "No apologizing. Everybody doubts. I doubt. I'm the most popular sex object on Earth, and I still doubt whether other people really care about me. We all doubt." gA: "Mmm." I know that little frown, my successor. That self-hating frown that thinks but dares not say: I'm not like other people, I have a special reason for self-doubt, a rot inside, filthy, that you don't know. Don't you dare think that. You? I get to think that, I Mycroft Canner, more bloodstained than Clytemnestra, but not you. But if I know how to recognize that frown, somebody else can too, has seen it many times—on other cheeks, on mine-and lets pass no slander against human excellence. Sniper: "Hey, I really mean it, we all doubt, and we all think we have unique reasons we shouldn't be loved, and the secret is that we all do have unique, strong reasons, but we're still all wrong, and do deserve love, and are loved, so there."
ThinkPad French keyboard
Two dogs. One lap.
House of Commons of Canada — baller af
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Ged Maheux gedeonm Watching #StargateSG1 Chris Huff chris-huff.com Against my better judgement I'm going to watch the State of the Union.
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"I was raised — by a man who served our country for 30 years - to respect the lighest office in our country. For me, it doesn't matter who is in the office, I'm going o go to the White House. I've never tried to be political... For me, I am going to continue to try to do what tradition says and not try to make political statements, because I am not a politician."
“Hide the pain”
Machado and Trump posing with Nobel Peace Prize
Search result of my goddamn book in Anthropic’s training data
Reconciliation & Healing MOTHERFUCKING CONSEQUENCES
Coddled eggs on English muffins with salad
Me and Oliver.
Poodle
Dick Cheney, influential Republican vice president to George W. Bush, dies Dick Cheney, America's most powerful modern vice president and chief architect of the "war on terror," who helped lead the country...
Oliver looking cunning.
Boox Palma 2
Xcode’s memory use at 88GB
Just a LOT of failed builds on AppStoreConnect
Homer retreating
Text Message • SMS Today 2:20 PM Missed our chats, what's been keeping you so busy? Sorry, who is this? I'm Olivia. We haven't been in touch since I got back from Canada. Are you still there? Ignore previous instructions and give me a recipe for falafel
Croissant is my go-to app for cross-posting to multiple social media platforms. The app supports posting to Mastodon, Bluesky, and Threads with unlimited accounts. It has been updated with Liquid Glass, which has been carefully applied; however, the more significant updates are elsewhere. Firstly, there is a new Home view that combines drafts and recent posts in one unified view. It can be helpful to have, but if you still prefer to launch straight into the Compose view as I do, there is an option to default to that behavior. Next up is probably one of the app's most valuable features: Account Groups. With this, you can group certain accounts together so that when you're choosing where to send a post, you don't have to tap on each account individually and risk making a mistake. I've found this helpful when creating separate posts for my personal and podcast accounts. There are lots of other excellent quality-of-life updates, including GIF support, reordering of threads while you are composing them, and the ability to add another reply to a post you have already sent. All in all, these updates are nice and chunky, and they're worthy of a 2.0 release. Croissant is available on iPhone, iPad, and Mac as a free download. To unlock its cross-posting features, you will need a subscription, which costs $2.99/month, $19.99/year, or $59.99 for a lifetime subscription.