benjamin kessler

the tools you use should inspire you

This is incredibly generous. TSA agents across the country are relying on food pantries and community donations just to get by. I remain the lone Dem to vote with my Republican colleagues to fully fund DHS and get people paid. It should never come to this point.

Respect @interaction Poke is awesome

@julianlehr Agree. Very command line-esque, just lines and lines of texts.

A hill I'll die on: Current LLM chat interfaces are a regression from GUIs. Actions that used to be links, buttons, or keyboard shortcuts are now things I have to spell out in conversation. Why?

@bscholl Completely agree. Even though as a photographer I do like camera control.

I would pay extra for an Apple Watch with fewer buttons. Never made sense to me that it had the crown and that other button. iPhone now also has too many buttons.

I have a 36 button Stream Deck on my desktop, physical tactile buttons are great…but on mobile touch first devices? Personally, I love Camera Control but realistically, the iPhone should have a side/power button and maybe a haptic volume area. I want my phone to feel as much like a singular sheet of glass as possible.

OK then, how about this: Every Apple product I’ve ever owned, I’ve wished it had more buttons.

@qcapital2020 I use Bloomberg Terminal on my Vision Pro, best of both worlds.

LOL

@signulll Yes! its awesome. if you are looking for a 32 in Pro Display....lets chat.

anyone else upgrade to studio display xdr today? it's absolutely insane, i just wish it was 32" (that's what she said).

April 1st marks 50 years of Apple. Thank you to everyone who’s been a part of our journey. apple.com/50-years-of-th… #Apple50

i only have one affiliation: i like good products, & i dislike bad products. that’s it.

@BasicAppleGuy Same with mine!

My kitchen HomePod has developed a life of its own, playing random music throughout the day and night and responding to Siri requests that nobody is making…

🚨🚨🚨@PaulDMauro has learned the IED thrown near @NYCMayor's Gracie Mansion home yesterday by a counter protester contained a powerful explosive device called TATP --Triacetone triperoxide My understanding is that this is an explosive used in previous, deadly terrorists attacks around the world.

@ianzelbo @raywongy Check DM!

@raywongy Same I want 32

Who else is looking at eBay and to see if they can score a Pro Display XDR for cheap now that it’s discontinued? I don’t need 120Hz, I want that 6K but not those knockoff clones

Blocks away from Ground Zero in NYC, a mob of Islamists chant “Kill another soldier now! Al-Qassam you make us proud! Allahu Akbar,” while holding images of Khamenei. Get these people OUT of our country.

@MacRumors Let me run macOS lol, if it can run on an A18 Pro.

Apple's Two New Studio Display Models Feature Different Chips macrumors.com/2026/03/04/new…

@johncoogan @SnazzyLabs has a great video on this.

The U.S. Air Force continues to execute a high volume of airstrikes into Iran. The two most powerful air forces in the world (🇺🇸+🇮🇱) are dominating the skies over the world’s largest state sponsor of terror.

@signulll @sovereign_kas As do I! Only way to clean Nano Texture!

@sovereign_kas i have 12 of them.

current hardware stack: - ipad pro nano texture (on the go computing for most tasks) - macbook air (lowest end standard for anything macos day to day & on the go) - macbook pro high end for travel & heavy lifting (local ai + ios development) - mac studio (super powerful + studio display for office) - iphone 17 pro max day to day - iphone air for testing & business line

Second: Under the Constitution, the separation of powers is clear: Congress has the power to declare war. The President, as Commander in Chief, has the power to command the military in a war that Congress has authorized. With respect to the war in Iran, authorization has neither been sought by the President nor granted by Congress. The President cannot constitutionally wage war without congressional authorization unless the nation has been attacked, is under attack, or faces an imminent attack. None of those conditions is present here. For too long, we have operated under a theory of presidential war powers so open-ended that it lacks anything resembling a limiting principle. The issue before us is not Democrat versus Republican, nor progressive versus conservative. It is Congress versus the President. It is Article I versus Article II. The Founders did not declare independence 250 years ago to replace one king with another. Nor did the Framers intend for the Commander in Chief to wield the unilateral war-making authority of an 18th-century English monarch. The notion that a President can plunge the United States into a regional war in one of the most volatile places on earth—without even briefing Congress, much less securing its authorization—is irreconcilable with the text, structure, and history of the Constitution. Instead of playing second fiddle to an imperial presidency, Congress must reclaim its rightful place as the first branch of government—exactly as the Founders intended. We are Article I for a reason. It is time we start acting like it.