BruceEel

Opens with a reference to Snow Leopard, I miss it to this day.

> I am now using for most of my projects a exe/dynamic lib format of my own. This file format is so miminal a simple RFC will suffice.

That's great! Have you published it? If not, please consider doing so.

This is actually a lot of fun. Never did it on Linux, but Windows PE EXE files make similar tricks possible. Windows 95 in particular was very permissive. Using a (very primitive, by today's standards) hex editor I tried making the ".text" section begin halfway through the header and bang! ..it worked, a revelation of sorts. I imagine today's loaders may be a bit more strict because of security but I guess you can always make your own loader :)

Good heavens, I was about to post "Well, make it Snow Leopard, please", nice to meet you.

I'm 100% going to add file_id.diz to anything I release, how could I forget!

Aye, they were. I also liked listening to this [1] (Jason Scott's) interview with Mark Herring.

[1] https://archive.org/details/20021102-bbs-herring/Mark+Herrin...

enjoy! - I think they've 100% nailed it once again.

Well, Atkinson Hyperlegible Mono ... - thank you!!!

Isn't it just! Even today, Brief puts some of our 'modern' editors to shame...

Very, very cool. Besides the top-performing models, it's interesting (if I'm reading this correctly) that gpt-5.2 did ~2x better than gpt-5.2-codex.. why?

A tragedy, yes. I can't be the only old fart around here with fond memories of John Siracusa's macOS ("OS X") reviews & Jon "Hannibal" Stokes' deep dives in CPU microarchitectures...

good heavens - can any thing or any one escape the subscription madness

Yes please! Speaking of which, was it Window Blinds(?) that could back/forward port UI themes across various Windows versions? Are they still around?

While we are here, may I ask what are some blogs you guys read regularly? (Regularly as in: going back to read new articles as opposed to a one-off link shared on some other platform.)

Neat. Personally, I wasn't aware of mathjax, it's a bit of a revelation to learn you can do this. I like very much the fact that the ASCII side is highly readable - compared to say, LaTeX (to me, anyway!) - as something I could use in code comments.

Excellent, I like offline players best.

Beautiful. I remember running iTunes 5 on my Powerbook G4, incredible how things have changed.

That's exactly what I like, airplane mode-friendly. Thanks!

Interesting! Will be checking it out.

sweet! Thx!

Nice! Speaking of Winamp - are you using any alternative music player for iOS that you would recommend?

and plus one here! I don't know, I like my mac workflow but irritation and aggravation have crept in more frequently of late. Last week I was told a binary that clang++ had just produced from my own code could not be run because Apple couldn't check whether it was safe.. And what to make of power users complaining bitterly about Tahoe & liquid glass etc? I'm hanging on to Ventura for now.

I thought it's interesting that GPT5's comments (on prompting it for feedback on the article) seem to overlap with some of the points you guys made:

   My [GPT5's -poster's note] take / Reflections
   
   I find the article a useful provocation: 
   it asks us to reflect on what we value in being programmers.
   
   It’s not anti-AI per se, but it is anti-losing-the-core craft.
   
   For someone in your position (in *redacted* / Europe) 
   it raises questions about what kind of programming work you want: 
   deep, challenging, craft-oriented, or more tool/AI mediated.
   
   It might also suggest you think about building skills 
   that are robust to automation: e.g., architecture, 
   critical thinking, complex problem solving, domain knowledge.
   
   The identity crisis is less about “will we have programmers” and 
   more “what shapes will programming roles take”.

Good heavens. Comparable to getting one of those $0x1.00 cheques from Donald Knuth...

> Or better yet, maybe Microsoft will realize very important parts of Windows are going downhill and remember what made Windows great.

Microsoft have done 180's in the past. I still hope that at some point they'll see the light and what you say here above will suddenly click and become evident to them. Windows, and DOS before that, did not succeed by holding customers as hostages.

Yes. The top marathon racing shoes are optimized for road-running & hard surfaces like asphalt. Definitely not good for trails. They are indeed very tall (though there's limits for official competitions.) Excellent lateral stability is essentially a non-goal so they are not a good choice for volleyball or tennis either. So yeah, we run in a very different world than the one where our ancestors evolved...

repo: https://github.com/manustalport/ardent

Maybe for maximum effect it should have been a Japanese company... (maybe Sony, who, IIRC, at some point in the past have required installation of proprietary software/DRM in order to play their content, snuck in a rootkit in the process too, which is itself a kind of cyberpunky thing to do I guess but I digress...)

Yes, indeed! Apple already posted a teaser, ft. the Chatsubo:

    https://x.com/GreatDismal/status/1940130126202839445

I'm not quite sure what to make of Liquid Glass, I developed an allergy of sorts to the term while listening to the keynote. Any 'relevant' new features for power users / cmd line geeks that you know of?