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enjoying the passage of time
First new iPhone in about 10 years, and this setting on my Mac had me thinking that Apple and iOS had just completely removed all ringing and notifications from their phones.
December 19, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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… and he SERVED ✨
December 6, 2025 at 1:56 AM
I'm on the wrong platform, but I'm calling Esdeekid to battle and defeat boy throb on Christmas day.

Half the world will be online and experience the Chalamet singularity. The other half will have just logged off and have no idea what happened.
December 3, 2025 at 6:16 AM
Are Windows 3.11 icons public domain yet?
November 30, 2025 at 4:23 AM
just wrote "sux" in a DM for maybe the first time in 20 years. I think we could bring it back.
November 13, 2025 at 6:19 AM
TFW you challenge Mr 11 teaching himself to play Seek and Destroy and he knows what he is doing but you think it should be an Iggy Pop song.
November 11, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Getting there.
November 1, 2025 at 5:20 AM
Would you journal more if it was in a notebook titled "unpublished tweets" with little tweet cards to write in?

I'm too lazy to make products, but kinda wish this existed.

Alternate title: Deleted drafts
October 29, 2025 at 6:02 AM
Girls did great yesterday.
October 27, 2025 at 4:53 AM
Maybe LLMs are useful for some things.
October 3, 2025 at 7:33 AM
balance over symmetry is going to be my longest and hardest life lesson.
September 22, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Pretty bummed to get a 25% increase in youtube premium today.

It's becoming a low bar being the only service offering full width theatre mode and not being spotify.
September 20, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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Perfect way to deal with Destiny Church
September 13, 2025 at 12:58 AM
How do I advise Ms 9 that there is no spoon.
July 31, 2025 at 5:25 AM
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This piece was originally commissioned by refactoring.fm, and later picked up by IEEE (career highlight!!), but this is the first time I've published it in full and uncut.

It's also the source material for the talk I gave this week at #LDX3. speakerdeck.com/charity/in-p...
In Praise of "Normal" Engineers (LDX3)
The software industry is obsessed with hiring and recruiting “top talent”, “best of the best”, “10x engineers”, and so on. I think this obsession misund…
speakerdeck.com
June 19, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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"Socrates said 'The misuse of language induces evil in the soul'...A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it. Writers know words are their way towards truth & freedom, & so they use them with care...By using words well they strengthen their souls"
-Ursula Le Guin
July 2, 2025 at 6:25 AM
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June 28, 2025 at 6:50 AM
I am no longer professionally interested in this conversation.
April 15, 2025 at 6:29 AM
I guess there is honesty here. But how about just a url?
March 23, 2025 at 6:22 AM
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Humans quietly being excellent. The best.
February 6, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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#blogvent day 4 is here!

I wrote about writing! So meta!

But actually though, writing for devs/a techy audience can be tough, so I tried to put together some useful tips that have helped me. Hope it's helpful!

cassidoo.co/post/good-wo...
Writing good words for tech folks
Writing content for developers can be challenging, and there's some tips that might help.
cassidoo.co
December 5, 2024 at 5:14 AM