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Chris Krycho @chriskrycho.com · 2d

Yeah, and I think the iPhone itself distorts their ability to prioritize things a lot—it just prints *so* much money. Add the Services bucket and it’s easy, I suspect, for them (or anyone in their seat) to forget that long-term greatness as a business has come by way of great products.

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Chris Krycho @chriskrycho.com · 2d

I don’t mind companies making money from good products. I do wish a co. like Apple that makes a big deal about its entire brand *being* the quality of its products would stand behind them more robustly. If hardware has a known *design defect* like this, fix it forever. You’d earn so much loyalty!

Chris Krycho @chriskrycho.com · 2d

My wife’s first-gen AirPods Pro still work great… except that they have the “one AirPod goes mad with hissing if you have it in Transparency or Noise Cancellation mode”, and that problem cropped up *after* the 3-years-since-purchase window Apple gave for fixing it. 🙃 Sure helps maximize profit.

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Chris Krycho @chriskrycho.com · 2d

My wife’s first-gen AirPods Pro still work great… except that they have the “one AirPod goes mad with hissing if you have it in Transparency or Noise Cancellation mode”, and that problem cropped up *after* the 3-years-since-purchase window Apple gave for fixing it. 🙃 Sure helps maximize profit.

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Typst @typst.app · 2d

We need your help to get Typst 0.14 over the finish line: The release candidate with accessible PDFs, character-level justification (not even in LaTeX!), and more landed today! Check your documents, packages and against "Typst 0.14.0 Testing" on the web or the new compiler.

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Chris Krycho @chriskrycho.com · 2d

Daaaaannnnnggggggg. I love autumn here.

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Chris Krycho @chriskrycho.com · 2d

You, too, can discover my music today! And it won’t even be an accidental-add-to-playlist thing that does it for you! 😂

Chris Krycho Music @music.chriskrycho.com · 2d

The Desert—a Lenten musical meditation I wrote in 2024—ended up on somebody’s much-subscribed-to playlist a couple days ago… and promptly got ~100× as many plays as it had since I released it. And I think it was a mistake! 😂 But a happy one, which I will take.

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The Desert | Chris Krycho – Composer

A minimalist/ambient work for solo piano, consisting of just 40 keystrokes. A Lenten meditation, inspired by Christ’s 40 days and nights in the desert.

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Chris Krycho @chriskrycho.com · 3d

If—unlike me—you aren’t rather sensitive to latency and responsiveness in your tools, the trend toward everything being in a browser(-based app) or over a network or both (think “remote dev environments” like GitHub Codespaces… which mostly only work with VS Code 🙃) might seem worth the tradeoffs. 😮‍💨

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Chris Krycho @chriskrycho.com · 3d

Density is definitely one I notice, tough at viewing distances it’s not make or break; the bigger ones are brightness and color. It ends up just being *nicer* across the board experientially. But I’m also suuuuper sensitive to those kinds of details!

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Chris Krycho @chriskrycho.com · 3d

Now that I have gotten to the bottom of this, and thereby unblocked True Myth’s nightly CI jobs and dependabot jobs, maybe the *rest* of the week I can spend evenings on some fun #Rust programming I’ve wanted to get to. 😁

Chris Krycho @chriskrycho.com · 3d

Spent half an hour working out what’s going on with an interesting change in how @typescriptlang.org v6.0 handles it when one interface extends two other interfaces that define the same field in a way that differs under `exactOptionalPropertyTypes`: github.com/microsoft/Ty... This is more correct! …

New behavior in v6 when interface extends two incompatible interfaces under exactOptionalPropertyTypes · Issue #62569 · microsoft/TypeScript

🔎 Search Terms Partial, @types/node, exactOptionalPropertyTypes, interface 🕗 Version & Regression Information This changed between versions v5.9.3 and 6.0.0-dev.20251001 ⏯ Playground Link https://w...

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Chris Krycho @chriskrycho.com · 3d

…but it’s *slightly different*, so you can trip over it if you’re not careful (`exactOptionalPropertyTypes` is often like this).

This is why I have a nightly TS job on True Myth. I was able to tell them exactly which nightly it showed up in as a result. Our guidance on semver-ts.org proves out! 🎉

Introduction - Semantic Versioning for TypeScript Types

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Chris Krycho @chriskrycho.com · 3d

Spent half an hour working out what’s going on with an interesting change in how @typescriptlang.org v6.0 handles it when one interface extends two other interfaces that define the same field in a way that differs under `exactOptionalPropertyTypes`: github.com/microsoft/Ty... This is more correct! …

New behavior in v6 when interface extends two incompatible interfaces under exactOptionalPropertyTypes · Issue #62569 · microsoft/TypeScript

🔎 Search Terms Partial, @types/node, exactOptionalPropertyTypes, interface 🕗 Version & Regression Information This changed between versions v5.9.3 and 6.0.0-dev.20251001 ⏯ Playground Link https://w...

github.com

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Chris Krycho @chriskrycho.com · 3d

Nope! It’s a great monitor—I use one every day!—, but it’s roughly the same tech they‘ve had in those 5K displays (only a couple a couple small improvements) since they released the 5K iMac way back in 2014, over a decade ago! The MacBook Pro screens are *substantially* better.

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Chris Krycho @chriskrycho.com · 4d

Some of us like glossy. But also: they have an option for non-glossy if that’s what you want.

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Chris Krycho @chriskrycho.com · 4d

I really want an external monitor with the same quality as the screens on the MacBook Pro. I just love looking at these screens.

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Chris Krycho @chriskrycho.com · 4d

Congrats to her! That’s huge!

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Chris Krycho Music @music.chriskrycho.com · 4d

🎼🎧 Working through Camille Pepín’s oeuvre after being introduced to her work at the Colorado Springs Philharmonic’s season-opening concert this past weekend, and it is just lovely.

Expect to hear more on the subject (no pun intended!) in my end-of-month newsletter!

#orchestra #music

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Marco Ieni @ieni.dev · 4d

At the @rustfoundation.org we're hiring another Infrastructure Engineer to join my team. We'll work together to make #rustlang more scalable, sustainable and improve the developer experience of Rust contributors and Rust developers! 🌈

The Rust Foundation @rustfoundation.org · 5d

The Rust Foundation is hiring a Rust Infrastructure Engineer!

Help scale & secure the systems that power Rust & support its global community. 🌍

If you’re passionate about OSS & infrastructure, we’d love to hear from you.
Learn more and apply here by Oct 26: app.beapplied.com/apply/wus8sn...

The Rust Foundation is Hiring! Rust Infrastructure Engineer: Collaborate with the Rust community and Foundation team to sustain and grow the programming language as our new Rust Infrastructure Engineer. The person in this role will help shape infrastructure, improve systems, and keep Rust secure for developers everywhere. bit.ly/RF-infra-engineer

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nrc @ncameron.org · 6d

I have availability for Rust consulting or coaching. More details soon, and yep my website needs updating. But if you're considering adopting Rust, want your team to use Rust more effectively, or need a drop-in staff engineer, get in touch!

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Chris Krycho @chriskrycho.com · 6d

Well. Okay. I said I was done, but I’m on an editing roll. Landing at DIA a few weeks ago, I snagged this one, another of my favorites from that trip: v5.chriskrycho.com/photos/taxii...

Taxiing — Sympolymathesy, by Chris Krycho

Flying home a few weeks ago, I ended up with the entire exit row to myself. That made for a pleasant ride back, and it let me try some things when it came to...…

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Chris Krycho @chriskrycho.com · 6d

One more for this evening—the kind of shot I feel like I manage most often when traveling: some interesting combination of elements in a city at night. v5.chriskrycho.com/photos/dalla...

Dallas Wall — Sympolymathesy, by Chris Krycho

Walking back to the hotel after [drinks][drink] and dinner one evening on the Vanta all-engineering offsite, this wall and parking lot and parking garage and...…

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Chris Krycho @chriskrycho.com · 6d

One of our social activities in the Vanta offsite was visiting Dallas’ little Museum of Illusions. Most of them weren’t especially interesting *or* photogenic, to be honest, but this one at least checked the second box quite handily. v5.chriskrycho.com/photos/illus...

Illusion — Sympolymathesy, by Chris Krycho

My favorite of the illusions at Dallas’ little Museum of Illusions. See it full size. CameraSony α7R V LensFE 50mm F1.4 GM Settings𝑓/1.4, 1/500 s, ISO 500

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Chris Krycho @chriskrycho.com · 6d

The lighting on the bar 3Eleven in Dallas was perfect when they handed me this variant on an Old Fashioned. Had to get the photo. v5.chriskrycho.com/photos/good-...

A Good Drink — Sympolymathesy, by Chris Krycho

At 3Eleven Kitchen and Cocktails in Dallas, at a Vanta all-engineering offsite in September. A smoky variant on an Old Fashioned. See it full...…

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Sarah M 🫖 @lore.house · 7d

But when it comes to humans vs ANYTHING I will choose the humans first. You should be polite to the machines because of what it says about you. But you should never mistake the machine for a living, breathing, feeling, wonderful, miraculous, infinitely valuable human.

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Sarah M 🫖 @lore.house · 7d

I’m not anti-AI. I think they have definite uses, fascinating uses, though not everything the hype wants them to be. Their uses come when you think of them first and foremost as computers capable of processing enormous amounts of data rather than an assistant helping you out.

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Sarah M 🫖 @lore.house · 7d

Be polite to machines because you’re training yourself more than you are the machine. Be kind and generous to other humans and stingy and tightfisted with the machines.

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