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Matt Green @mattgreenrocks.bsky.social · 13h

Can't tell if it's a recent Core Audio bug or I'm holding it wrong. Either way, please repost if you know people that work with Core Audio, I'm a bit stuck atm.

stackoverflow.com/questions/79...

Core Audio: why are device UIDs issued by kAudioDevicePropertyDeviceUID unstable?

I maintain a macOS app that needs to recognize devices using the device's UID. To do this, I retrieve the device's UID using the kAudioDevicePropertyDeviceUID property, store that, and use it for

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Matt Green @mattgreenrocks.bsky.social · 3d

Reddit adding games is a negative health signal

Matt Green @mattgreenrocks.bsky.social · 3d

I worry Apple got too big to care about some things post iPhone

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Matt Green @mattgreenrocks.bsky.social · 4d

Simba lion king meme that says "look Simba, everything the light touches is broken"

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Matt Green @mattgreenrocks.bsky.social · 7d

Another good day of brain coding

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Matt Green @mattgreenrocks.bsky.social · 11d

Despite what people on LinkedIn say, there’s more than one metagame to life.

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Matt Green @mattgreenrocks.bsky.social · 17d

Today's discovery: a Github notification from the fixpoint operator of combs that I cannot dismiss

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Matt Green @mattgreenrocks.bsky.social · 18d

Changed keycaps on my Leopold FC750R to a Keychron dolch set. Happy with the result, and I even have proper command/option keys!

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Matt Green @mattgreenrocks.bsky.social · 18d

“Do you love her? Do you hate her?”

“Why does it have to be one or the other?”

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Reposted by Matt Green

Victor Savkin @victorsavkin.bsky.social · 19d

10/10 Summary:

AI agents are very useful. But creation itself is irreplaceable.

If you always delegate creation, you lose mechanical sympathy, and eventually effectiveness.

Question: how to preserve that effectiveness while still getting the most from agents.

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Matt Green @mattgreenrocks.bsky.social · 21d

Watched my coworkers struggle with this. Favorite moment: Claude deleting tests around transaction handling in order to make the test suite pass.

Everyone talks about the need for a world model for LLMs, but I think distributed systems reasoning requires a multi-world model due to concurrency.

Antithesis.com @antithesis.com · 21d

We asked two of our best engineers to try and teach Claude distributed systems programming, and it was... an interesting experience.

Will and Akshay spill about this and other adventures with co-pilots on October 9th with the New Stack's @chrispirillo.bsky.social

The New Stack @thenewstack.io · 23d

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Matt Green @mattgreenrocks.bsky.social · 21d

And if you get a 90, ah, then the world is yours!

May the odds be ever in your favor.

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Matt Green @mattgreenrocks.bsky.social · 21d

"It’s sort of pathetic to reflect that we have so few—maybe no—authentic and unmediated experiences that the thing that now really upsets people is an alteration of a simulation of authenticity...it reflects a deep spiritual poverty in our country."

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The Cracker Barrel Hype(rreality)

Simulation and Simulacrum in America

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Matt Green @mattgreenrocks.bsky.social · 21d

Sleep is way too nuanced to be reduced to a single number. It's not like a 97 means I'll feel refreshed upon waking. The utility of sleep tracking on the Apple Watch mostly comes down to tracking sleep stages for me, and that, too, is up in the air as far as accuracy.

Still miss my Zeo.

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Matt Green @mattgreenrocks.bsky.social · 22d

We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
- T.S. Eliot

Matt Green @mattgreenrocks.bsky.social · 24d

Definitely in a gray area. Probably okay if you frame it correctly. Stay far away from anything that implies you are getting access to things you shouldn’t.

Matt Green @mattgreenrocks.bsky.social · 26d

The answer is yes.

More seriously you usually have to both write it top-down to truly have the API feel right and bottom-up in order to understand it 100%.

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Matt Green @mattgreenrocks.bsky.social · 28d

Already told the wife that changing the background may have to be considered an act of aggression 😂

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Matt Green @mattgreenrocks.bsky.social · 28d

Glad to see Apple embracing the Myspace 1.0 aesthetic with Messages backgrounds in iOS 26.

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Matt Green @mattgreenrocks.bsky.social · 29d

I have never played any of these games, what's your favorite?

Was looking forward to FF Tactics Remake too, but I have yet to play that one as well.

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Matt Green @mattgreenrocks.bsky.social · 29d

100%. It's an MMO filled to the brim with slop that feeds off our death drive: "this is kinda dumb but if I do it long enough I can numb out everything."

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Matt Green @mattgreenrocks.bsky.social · Sep 11

Really good music has layers to it that you continue to discover through repeated, attentive listenings

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Matt Green @mattgreenrocks.bsky.social · Sep 9

If ultrathin phones are now cool, can we have the iPhone mini back in the lineup?

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Matt Green @mattgreenrocks.bsky.social · Sep 9

Contemplative movement, where have you been all my life?

Matt Green @mattgreenrocks.bsky.social · Sep 9

“Be anything you like, be madmen, drunks, and bastards of every shape and form, but at all costs avoid one thing: success. If you are too obsessed with success, you will forget to live. If you have learned only how to be a success, your life has probably been wasted.” - Thomas Merton

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