Eric Shapiro

So I download a dozen tv episodes to my iPad in Hulu. Open the app while on a plane. It says, "No network. Deleting downloads" and does exactly that. 🤦 WTF @Hulu?

If I were in charge of Apple I'd have a daily analytic count of how many people swore at Siri today. @TimCook

#Siri gets dumber every day.

Noodles & Company: “Here's a coupon for free delivery!” Also Noodles & Company: “There's a $5 convenience fee if you use the coupon.”

"We used to debate using tabs vs spaces in code we'd type out"

@paulg Stepford bots

I used to think woke mobs would be the death of Twitter. Then it seemed like right-wing goons would be. But cheery, vapid AI-generated replies seem more dangerous than either of them.

Idea of the day: CAPTCHA but in reverse - only AIs can solve the puzzle. I'll call it AMIAI.

@nikitabier @DCinvestor @X Getting rid of pure black will just piss off more people. OLEDs look great and use less battery with black backgrounds.

@DCinvestor @X We don't have the capacity to support more than two colors right now. But feedback noted: we are looking into lightening the black on web.

looks like @X got rid of "Dim" mode 😭 why @nikitabier why?? i loved that mode because it was less harsh on the eyes than white text on a pure black background (especially on modern OLEDs which have true blacks)

Anyone else out there vibe circuit-building?

@CraigDMauger Economists should be on the 100% list.

UM economist Justin Wolfers’ presentation on what jobs will be impacted by AI the most and least. Quite the lists.

The best macOS 26 feature? Preview.app finally supports dark mode for PDF files.

If you put the Apple icons in reverse it looks like the portfolio of someone getting really really good at icon design

The company hired me to lead their "Agile Transformation." I don't know what Agile means. Nobody does. That's why it works. I make $425,000 a year. To move sticky notes. From left to right. On a board. The board is digital now. The sticky notes cost $80,000 in Jira licenses. Progress. Day one, I said "we need to break down silos." Everyone nodded. Silos are bad. I don't know why. But destroying them is a career. My career. I introduced "squads." Squads are teams. But disrupted. We disrupted the teams into teams. Different names. Same people. Same problems. But Agile problems now. Agile problems are strategic. A senior engineer asked what we're actually changing. I said, "The mindset." He asked what that means. I said, "It's a journey." He asked where we're going. I said, "Toward agility." He asked what agility means. I pointed at the sticky notes. They were moving left to right. That's velocity. We have velocity now. The VP of Engineering said two-week sprints don't fit their work. I said, "That's waterfall thinking." Waterfall is bad. Like silos. I don't know what waterfall is. But I know it's bad. She stopped talking. Waterfall accusations end conversations. We had a retrospective. In the retro, we discussed what went wrong. Everything went wrong. We put it on sticky notes. Then we moved the sticky notes. Into a column called "Parking Lot." The Parking Lot is where problems go to die. It's full. We don't look at it. That's agile. Velocity is up 40%. I defined velocity. I also defined the points. I also defined the stories. We're crushing it. At the things I made up. To measure. Ourselves. The CEO asked for ROI. I showed a chart. The chart went up. Charts should go up. This one did. I didn't label the Y-axis. Nobody asked. Leadership is confidence. We do standups now. Every day. We stand. For 45 minutes. Standing is agile. Sitting is waterfall. My legs hurt. But we're transforming. The transformation is now "Phase 3." Phase 1 was assessment. Phase 2 was implementation. Phase 3 is "continuous improvement." Continuous means forever. Forever means job security. I'm very secure. My contract was extended. Three more years. For "cultural impact." The culture is confused. But impacted. Agile transformation isn't about being agile. It's about transforming. Continuously. Toward more transformation. The destination is the journey. The journey is billable.

@joshwoodward Multiple windows. Multiple tabs. Connect requests and responses and let users move them around between conversations. Full history, stored locally. Fast history search. Easy and fast anonymous queries. Copy and paste in useful ways, perhaps CSV, Markdown, etc. Backup.

Imagine it's early 2026, and you're using a Gemini MacOS desktop app. What features *must* be there for you to love it? Anything you really want to see in the desktop app specifically?

The last #penny

RIP the #penny.

Seems like we need an acronym for traditional intelligence to distinguish it from AI:

Too quiet in the neighborhood tonight. I’m actually looking forward to the teenagers-without-costumes showing up.

Idea of the day: A mood ring like in the 1970s but it’s IoT and the lighting in your house responds to your mood.

The lack of number formatting skills bothers me more than the premium increase: "Starting January 1, 2026, the new estimated monthly premium for your 2026 plan will be $123.2."