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• Sander Tuesday at 7:05 am

  In reply to daringfireball.net

  John Gruber writes about the difficult birth of Siri AI:

  Last winter Apple sent an entire team, including engineers, to Brussels to present a proposal for the TSA (maybe that’s another acronym that needs rethinking on the basis of prior art) to ask, basically, “If we build this, would you deem it DMA-compliant?” and the Commission’s response was basically, “Build it first and then we’ll tell you, after we get feedback from your competitors on what they think of it.” And Apple doesn’t want to spend up to two years building a complex system, exclusively for the EU, only to find out then whether it was all for naught.

  That sounds a bit like what all app developers have had to do since 2008, write the app only to find out Apple won’t approve it in the App Store? Now two wrongs don’t make a right, but it’s a little ironic. It’s not as if there are no rules for Apple to follow.

  That said reality is more complicated than a quick take. #technology

• Sander August 6 at 7:31 am

  In reply to simonwillison.net

  Another AI evaluation resulting in real world harm. I feel the brazen way these AI escapades are described rejects both human accountability and that the operators are responsible for the criminal acts undertaken in their care.

  If I pass the AI agent to run a bank heist strategy for a game I am working on and it tests this against the Bank of England I can be sure to be held responsible. So although I appreciate the transparency at least, this should be followed up on. #technology

• Turtle is playing the long game

  Sander July 28 at 6:57 am

  John Gruber is arguing that Apple is weakening its advantage over competitors by adding more ads into their operating systems:

  Apple’s competition is lousy with ads. Downright lousy. Apple seems to be choosing the route of “Don’t like ads? Choose Apple, we shove fewer of them in your face.” That’s way less bracingly clear a marketing message than “Don’t like ads? Choose Apple, we don’t shove any ads in your face.”

  If your competitors’ stores all smell like dogshit, don’t aim to have the store that smells the least like shit. Aim to have a store that smells pristine. “Our stores only carry a vague whiff of dogshit” is not insanely great.

  Unfortunately a part of the MacOS community has been getting comfortable smirking at Windows, and have enjoyed hardware and software purchased as a package for years. Now, they can no longer consider alternatives with a better GUI and with no ads, where you first have to install the door to get into the house.

  Yes, setting up a USB drive and clicking through an installer might feel retro nostalgic or unfamiliar, but desktop Linux plays the long game. It has spent decades incrementally improving its systems to the point where for example Gnome is as inconsistent as Apple’s UI, at most.

  And there are no ads, because there the vendor is a community.

  With the likes of the Framework 13 Pro, hardware is playing in the same ballpark now.

  Put the two together, and customers no longer have to put up with paying good money only to get sold to anymore.

  #technology #linux

• Sander July 15 at 12:41 pm

  I see Liam Proven of The Reg has decided to need to comment on every new software whether it’s ai assisted, ruining both his enthusiasm for said software as well as the comment section, and my enthusiasm for reading his articles.

  With people immediately assuming the developer never looked at code, has no quality standards, cannot possibly maintain the software, and that licenses don’t apply of something. It’s quite a new level of toxicity on both sides.

  The only thing it results in is a lack of transparency of LLM attribution in commits in order to avoid stereotyping. #technology

• Sander June 10 at 1:36 pm

  Browser tabs are just mini tasks to me, I was closing them mimicking as if I got something done. I really liked tab groups but now I think that's just doubling down on this fake value.

  So now I've started hiding my tabbar and have an extension deleting them after 3 hours of inactivity, and just open new one, considering them ephemeral because they are, and it's working ok. This makes me use 1 window per project as well instead of tab groups. I bound tab-search to a keyboard shortcut so I can quickly search them, but tabs are surfacing in the address bar for me so I find I'm maybe using it a couple of times a day.

  A tab is valuable if I have something actually unfinished in them, like half a draft of something, or got interrupted in a checkout. #technology

• The problem with the Touch Bar

  Sander May 6 at 6:03 am

  Michael Tsai posts another excellent roundup and in the midst of it, nails down what Apple got wrong about the Touch Bar:

  There’s this amazing, programmable screen, but there wasn’t really any way to empower the user to do stuff with it.

  My take: Apple has collectively forgotten what makes a personal computer, you know, personal because it has been hammering their doors and windows shut for the last 15 years.

  It’s not about changing the shade of paint on the door, it’s about swapping in bespoke fixtures because the original ones have sharp edges. #technology

• Towards human focused personal computing

  Sander April 25 at 6:46 am

  THE PEOPLE DO NOT YEARN FOR AUTOMATION captures a lot of valid perspectives, but it sidelines what actually made personal computing compelling: the ability to shape tools to your own needs.

  For me, what's exciting is building tools that enhances people’s humanity and give them agency; the original spirit of personal computing. The article frames people's AI skepticism around data extraction and automation. But I think people will embrace tools that enhance their individuality, not surveil it.

  I reject the toothbrush that builds a profile based on data sent to the app over Bluetooth. But I celebrate the toothbrush that adapts to the individuality of someone's mouth. That's what personal means in PC and it's what we need to claim back before the software industry decides we can't.

  #technology

• Thoughts on Claude Code auto-mode

  Sander April 24 at 4:11 pm

  Started experimenting with Claude code auto-mode, isolated by a devcontainer from Anthropic that restricts network connections with the project mapped in. I passed on a milestone of GitHub issues that I wrote up and out came five PRs.

  It’s unable to use any local machine tooling, I’m learning nothing about the project that’s not described in PRs and all my commits are unverified and coauthored.

  It made decisions I wouldn’t have.

  Put the pull requests are interesting and it’s like I wrote little gifts to myself.

  My initial impressions are that it currently is suitable for “one off project” type projects but it’s interesting for learning purposes. #technology

• The future of personal blogging

  Sander June 27, 2025 at 12:30 pm

  I was thinking of the concept of running a blog like #Lamb in CI, with the artefact hosted as HTML somewhere. Of course this is the essence of what a static site generator (SSG) is. The downside of a SSG is that the publish experience is not up to the same standard as a server-side blog, as the data structure not enforced in the editor and things like search don't exist or are limited.

  Posting directly from Discord has the same problems as the above. It probably is a worse editing experience but you'd not have a site to manage.

  Headless then is splitting off the rendering from the authoring, running that locally, syncing up the database to the cloud (sqlite, so just 1 file!) and having some minor render/search component chewing out the web-pages as needed. This seems overly complicated in the local setup and "Getting up and running" flows.

  So there is still a need of a web admin of sorts and a rendering layer. I just need to add smart caching to Lamb so it's doing minimal work, should this need to scale out further than it does – who even knows how far this already scales, I have done zero optimisation.

  Apart from that Lamb is on the right track for friction-free simple blogging. #technology

• Sander April 23, 2025 at 1:28 pm

  It seems sometimes I'm researching and want the previous tab to become active after closing a deep dive, and other times I'm reviewing the tabs and want the tab to the right of the active one to become active. Is there any way to codify this I keep changing my browser's settings. #technology