Like, not having to walk down and up two flights to tweak the thermostat when I’m perfectly snuggled into bed is kind of amazing.

Like relax.

A bad implementation of an idea does not make the idea bad.

Are smart things *necessary*? No, for the most part they aren’t. But is convenience worth paying for? If it means I don’t have to go outside just to turn off my basement lights in negative temps, absolutely. And it makes my ADHD life a bit easier.

Do I NEED a lock that unlocks automatically when I get close? No. Is it nice when I have my hands full so that it’s one less thing I have to deal with in the moment? Absolutely.

It’s not there yet, but could a fridge with a barcode/nfc reader be handy for someone who was, oh, I don’t know, blind, & would like a warning the milk may be bad BEFORE they have to find out the hard way?

MAY BE

Smart things help w/accessibility.

Again, not all smart things are done well, the automotive industry is egregious here. But is the idea of being able to light off the seat warmers in your car, or remotely start it when it’s -10° so when you get in, it’s already warm a had idea? No.

It would have been astoundingly nice when I had my first bout of sciatica and *moving* was painful AF. Sometimes, smart features are for accessibility.

My house has a basement. To get to said basement, I have to walk outside and around the house. I have ADHD, is there real value in being able to turn off my basement lights from my living room over WiFi? Bet your ass there is.

I don’t get the “it’s cool to hate all smart appliances/things” stuff. (For anyone who doesn’t know me at all, I’ve probably been in tech far longer than you, miss me with “you just don’t know.” I do know.)

Is some of it stupid? Sure. But for example, my home office is on the third floor. My washer/dryer are in the first. There’d be a real convenience in a notification that cycles were done, so I’m not doing a stair climber workout to check as I can’t hear the happy washer song up two flights.

Gruber is a year away from a full JK Rowling turn.

To be clear: i have no actual issues with intents and shortcuts.

But the idea that they are a platform-wide fully capable automation implementation is just pure fuckin’ fantasy bordering on lies.

#wwdc26platformsotu

WHAT IS THE OBSESSION WITH TAB SPLITTING?

Like for fuck’s sake, y’all treat dinner like multivariable calculus. It’s fucking food, you do not need a Datacenter to figure out FOOD.

This is why I end up paying for all of it. Because it’s worth the money to not deal with that.

#wwdc26

I have never, outside of physical ability, understood the obsession with dictating documents. Like it may be an ADHD things, but me dictating things is a fucking mess compared to typing.

#wwdc26

RE: https://social.bau-ha.us/@raganwald/116131929949149973

He reiterated this in far more blunt terms in “When Peace Becomes Obnoxious”, an essay more honkies need to read.

Y’all are some clown show MFers. May as well just replace all your HomeKit shit with Alexa. It’s what you want and you clearly don’t give a shit about who has your data.

I really cannot take Apple users seriously when it comes to privacy, because y’all will absolutely surrender all your data to Google, anthropic, or literally *anyone* if it means the slightest improvement in Siri.

“We want a company that works to keep our data private”

“Here’s a minuscule improvement in Siri”

“TAKE MY DATA, ALL OF IT, HERE, TAKE MY CHILDREN’S TOO”

@scriptingosx @talkingmoose hey, did y’all want to do a panel on scripting macOS at PSU MacAdmins this year?

Hey @scriptingosx is there a way to write a simple SwiftUI app that works from a command-line call? Like <swiftui app> -param1 -param2 ?

HARD agree: https://sixcolors.com/post/2026/01/wish-list-ssh-keys-in-passwords/

Although given how passkeys work, there’s potential to adapt them for SSH as well and it looks like that’s in the works.

The only video game I really play is FFXIV. Before that, D&D Online.

I am a spite-fueled grinding machine and more importantly, I am objectively correct: a programming language that lies is wrong to do so. Period.

I got time bitches, I got time.

The PowerShell cognoscenti think patiently explaining to me why PowerShell lies about returning arraylists & generic lists not as what they are but as arrays & explaining the history of the lie will get me to understand why that is actually good behavior.

1) Anyone thinking justifying shit like that will change my mind about something that is clearly & objectively wrong does not know me at fucking *all*.

2) I ground on Adobe for *15* years to improve office integration on macOS. I won that.

For @KingShawn:

I understand that one doesn’t excuse the other, but it sometimes takes me a while to even see the latest UI “disaster” that the macOS cognoscenti are up in arms about.

Mostly because I spend all day at work in Windows, and oh my dear lord…

So when I’m at home on my Mac, it’s like “this shit is so nice.”

Fun writing trick: the vast majority of the time, “that” is filler which can be removed with no other changes needed to the sentence.

Give it a try.

If you really want to stretch your writing chops, try to avoid adjectives.

It’s a lot more work, but a fun exercise in being more deliberate with your writing.

I’m greatly saddened by the desire to offload writing to various LLMs.