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You’re mistaken. 1Password syncs keys. Therefore, they’re extractable.

Digital transit passes work fine for under 13 year olds with iPhones.

Matt Yglesias wants digital transit passes to work on Apple Watch for Kids watches.

This is a much more niche feature, but I agree it’s an annoying Apple Wallet gap. It’s likely a syncing issue; Apple Watch for Kids has a parent’s phone configure the watch in proximity initially, then does most things via sync thereafter, and Wallet isn’t focused on sync.

So MY’s title there is being deliberately provocative.

That raw statement is completely and totally false.

“Not as fully staffed as some people might hope” or “Developer Relations isn’t as responsive as I’d like” are both at least not obviously false.

I’m doing the same!

Do you find that CoreML manages to fill up your drive with so many tiny files that a reboot takes hours to clean them up? I keep meaning to get my friends still inside the spaceship to file a radar about that.

What game are you building?

Of course! About plot, not scenery.

For me, just different, not harder. But maybe the problem is you got some gray blobs, and I got nothing? If anything, my sense is that the absence of imagery makes book reading much easier for me. At least for plot and abstractions.

I'll confess I always skip over the described imagery in most written works, though, so it's not like I'm missing zero.

I do read about 6x faster than my wife, with better recall for the (non-visual) details. Not sure how much of that is my wife reading slow, I have many non-aphantasiac friends who read as fast as I do.

I have a strong sense of the geometry of things, which helps a lot with navigating in buildings.

So when people describe a flattened dodecahedron wrapping into its regular form, I have no trouble conceptualizing (I was going to say visualizing, but it's frankly not at all visual; I got nothing, when it comes to visualizing anything but what's in front of my eyes). But if you ask me to think about alternating solid colors on the dodecahedron, I can't do it.

Clearly there are many different variations on the theme, not just one modal experience! But it's nice to know we're not alone.

“Just” is doing a lot of work in your argument.

The government grocery store tender is filled with exceptionally bad ideas.

When he’s a normal politician doing normal things, he seems great. When he’s sticking to his guns on naive populist things he’s part of a worrying affection for counterproductive government programs.

You don't need to pay Apple $99.

You can make perfectly good apps that run great with a free account. They expire in a week instead of 3 months (for TestFlight builds). That's it. You can redeploy with minimal effort. You have to reauth with Apple every ~30 days. The reauth is the only part of that you can't have a cron job run (you need to authenticate the keychain).

For normie folks, the hoops here are mildly annoying. But if you're someone making vibe-coded apps, we're talking about two scripts and a cron job, here. Or just run Sideloadly, which I hear works pretty well.

There exist reasons to be annoyed by Apple's iOS security posture, but "I can't run my vibecoded apps" isn't an especially good one.

Have you gone around and surveyed Apple corporate employees to gather this insight? I’m amazed that your manager didn’t get a call from Apple security, if so.

They weren't handing out dev fused AVPs in sufficient number for anyone to do this when I left. And Apple software developers rarely buy their own hardware, why would you, when you get most of the hardware for free (and dev fused)?

It is true that buying one for use as an extra monitor was pretty niche at Apple Park. And it’s also true that everyone is crammed into shared offices where it would feel anti-social to be wearing one all the time.

So I’m vaguely aligned with you on the utility to the average dev, but your argument for why makes little sense.

FWIW almost none of my direct reports used HomePods, from your list of freely available devices, and grabbing an iPad for anything other than testing was maybe 50/50. And I don’t think you’d claim the iPad isn’t popular.

Wow. The reactions here. So negative!

I skimmed various sections. I found the animations pleasant, the text readable, and the content clearly not slop.

The historical context of the telegraph was interesting, and the treatment of bandwidth vs. latency was thoughtful.

I think it’s too long; I don’t think many people who don’t already know most of this material will read it, but I enjoyed the parts I read. Nice work!

LEO is not the place to worry about Kessler syndrome.

Mostly, Kessler syndrome isn’t something to worry about at all; there are just a lot of orbital planes available. But in LEO, the mechanics don’t even apply.

For agentic work, you just cache the prefill kv cache of the relevant system prompts. TTFT is a little slow (10s of seconds, oh no!) the first time you boot up a new harness.

I keep hearing people make this claim that TTFT is a problem, and… it just isn’t, if you’re running oMLX.

Folks in my camp keep saying this, and folks in your camp keep beating a drum we tell you isn’t resonating. Not sure why I keep bothering to argue; you can’t buy a high RAM Mac Studio like mine anymore.

This is one of those questions non-parents ask.

Kids come out as a person, with strong opinions and desires. You can shave off some rough edges, and maybe bend a few branches of their experience.

But if you present a kid with the opportunity to read, and they read, you can’t take much credit. That’s just who they are. Others are given the opportunity and don’t.

You can fail to provide the opportunity, but after that, it’s pretty much up to the kid.

As a life long reader, on my own, and to my kid, including many a night time baby -> toddler -> easy chapter -> harder chapter read, my kid doesn’t read books. Certainly competent to do so, but just doesn’t. Possibly we could have continued to deny access to Netflix until later (it was 1 hour a week until about 10). No YouTube allowed. Still, didn’t read. Other kids do, and I’m jealous.