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Written by James Thomson on 2025-01-29 at 02:11

I guess this really is the year of the snake.

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Written by James Thomson on 2025-01-27 at 23:38

After updating to macOS 15.3, my Trash has Siracusa Stripes again.

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Written by James Thomson on 2025-01-27 at 10:28

I then asked for a list of ten Easter eggs in the app, and every single one was a hallucination, bar the Konami code, which I did actually do.

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Written by James Thomson on 2025-01-27 at 10:18

Tried out the new and popular “Deepseek” LLM with my standard “tell me facts about the author of PCalc” query. At least half were misleading or straight up hallucinations. LLMs are not a suitable technology for looking up facts, and anybody who tells you otherwise is… probably trying to sell you a LLM.

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Written by James Thomson on 2025-01-24 at 01:32

I shouldn’t have looked outside.

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Written by James Thomson on 2025-01-23 at 19:43

In the face of the red weather warning, the West End of Glasgow has sold out of sourdough bread.

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Written by James Thomson on 2025-01-23 at 17:53

That’s my first ever emergency alert!

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Written by James Thomson on 2025-01-22 at 16:04

Now is a great time to enthusiastically confirm your support for LGBTQ+ rights - particularly those of trans and enby folks at the moment - and the rights of women, BIPOC communities, and anybody else that the new US administration is actively trying to oppress.

I wholeheartedly support the rights of all of these people.

It shouldn't need to be said, but right now it does need to be said. If you are able, consider donating to organisations that are trying to protect them.

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Written by James Thomson on 2025-01-22 at 11:28

Finally bit the bullet and deleted every single account I had on Twitter. I already had them set to private, and wasn't posting, but turns out a literal nazi salute was my line for having anything whatsoever to do with that place or that odious man.

Yes, I should have done it years ago.

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Written by James Thomson on 2025-01-20 at 11:02

I dreamed I was back at Apple (stress dreams again), attended an internal rehearsal for WWDC, and watched the entire keynote.

So, I just want to say that if SwiftUI for Windows is announced in June, I'm some kind of witch and should be burned at the stake.

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Written by James Thomson on 2025-01-17 at 19:46

Most of our PCalc merch is on sale today - if you use the code FLASHSALEFRIDAY at checkout, you'll get 20% off everything (except pins).

Cotton Bureau tells me this is a Severance-related promotion, so uh, buy some for your waffle party? I don't know.

http://pcalc.fun

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Written by James Thomson on 2025-01-16 at 11:24

I am starting to suspect that the sites actually know that I'm not a robot, and just want to me to train their self-driving cars for free.

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Written by James Thomson on 2025-01-07 at 17:48

Sheer perfection.

https://mastodon.social/@finnvoorhees/113788317982978851

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Written by James Thomson on 2025-01-05 at 18:04

DRM, 1980s style.

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Written by James Thomson on 2025-01-04 at 00:45

I wrote up the 25th anniversary of the unveiling of the Mac OS X Dock at Macworld Expo, from the perspective of a scared twenty-something engineer.

It's me. I'm the engineer.

https://tla.systems/blog/2025/01/04/i-live-my-life-a-quarter-century-at-a-time/

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Written by James Thomson on 2025-01-01 at 01:34

Time to update all those copyright strings.

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Written by James Thomson on 2024-12-29 at 15:16

Every AI story like this, my faith in the technology reporting of the BBC slips a bit further:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm2evjxev4jo

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Written by James Thomson on 2024-12-27 at 11:45

Can’t tell if this sale price in Lidl is a really good deal or a really bad deal.

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Written by James Thomson on 2024-12-25 at 18:20

This episode marks ten years of me being a guest on the show. Do I get a watch or something?

https://relayfm.social/@clockwise/113714824332671764

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Written by James Thomson on 2024-12-24 at 18:59

I really shouldn't be looking at 90s SPARCstations on eBay. No good can come of this.

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