A guy just used @AnthropicAI Claude to turn a $195,000 hospital bill into $33,000. Not with a lawyer. Not with a hospital admin insider. With a $20/month Claude Plus subscription. He uploaded the itemized bill. Claude spotted duplicate procedure codes, illegal “double billing,” and charges that Medicare rules explicitly forbid. Then it helped him write a letter citing every violation. The hospital dropped their demand by 83%. This isn’t just a feel-good story. It’s a preview of what AI will really do next: flatten systems built on opacity. Hospitals, insurance companies, legal firms—all rely on asymmetry. They win because you don’t have access to the same data, code books, or language. Claude gave one person the same leverage as a compliance department. That’s a revolution. We thought AI would replace jobs. Turns out, it’s replacing excuses.

This is a great example of the enshittification of Swift "header" files. They're largely unusable. Here, there are four available "styles" (circled in yellow) and each one is surrounded by an orgy of repetitive, useless bloat. Makes me miss Objective-C.

What people like @thesamparr miss when they make this argument is simple: buying a house *IS* a good investment for most people because it forces discipline. If you funnel the masses into the S&P 500, they'll never enjoy the returns in this chart because they'll sell shares whenever the market has a bad day or the blabbering idiot on TV tells them that the sky is falling. There is no friction. By contrast, you can't exit a house on a whim. It *forces* the masses into the buy-and-hold strategy that is required to be a successful investor. Most people need that. Stop trying to turn everyone into apartment-renting day traders.

"Grokipedia" is a terrible name. But whether that particular AI encyclopedia succeeds or fails, one thing is certain: @Wikipedia is going to face the same fate as @StackOverflow. It's just a matter of time.

I found a bug and came up with a pretty reasonable mitigation strategy:

A lot of Stockholm Syndrome appears in my replies anytime I argue that Apple’s 30% cut of developers’ revenue is wrong. The most common refrain is: “Apple has the device install base and customers ready to buy, so you have to pay to access those.” But this naively dismisses the *reason* that Apple has their massive install base: third-party apps. It’s a symbiotic relationship. Nobody buys an iPhone for Contacts and Calendar. Nobody buys an iPad for Weather. Apple built the platform on OUR backs. Third-party developers saved the company in the 1990s and we turned iOS and iPadOS into what they are today. Without us, they would have withered into irrelevance. (Anyone remember Windows Phone?) Too many people entirely miss this. They act as if Apple just showed up one day with these giant, successful platforms and that third-party developers should thank their lucky stars they’re allowed to access them at all. They argue that Apple is totally justified in taking 30% because they did all the work! Rubbish. *WE* built Apple’s platforms as much as anyone in Cupertino did. So maybe @TimSweeneyEpic and @EpicGames aren’t perfect heroes. But they’re at least punching back. And Apple is taking bruises: more and more courts are forcing them to allow sideloading. That’s good. So, if you’re going to lecture me about how Apple built their empire and I’m just lucky to lick their feet, I’m going to send you the 100+ emails I’ve saved from people who switched to a Mac *just* to use my apps over the last twenty years. Apple is better without toll booths. Even if they’re too stupid to realize it yet.

@epic and @TimSweeneyEpic may not be 100% right on all points, but their fundamental stance is correct: third-party developers don’t owe Apple funding for their R&D any more than Taylor Swift owes Apple a cut of her albums just because they were mastered in Logic Pro on a Mac. Rent-seeking is corrupting Apple’s soul and the company will look very different in 20 years if they continue maximizing grifts in lieu of innovation.

If you shoot a feature film on iPhone, is Apple entitled to some percentage of the revenue? They had to spend money on R&D to make good cameras, after all. That’s Apple’s argument for stealing 30% of third-party developers’ revenue: “We had to spend money making all the APIs, so you owe us.” The way I see it, those expenses are just like the expenses to keep improving the camera: Apple either spends that money to improve the platform or customers switch to the platforms that do. Why is it only app developers who have to fund Apple’s R&D? Why not filmmakers or musicians? Or anyone who uses Apple’s platforms to make money? It’s an incongruous stance. Apple should charge 5% to cover the costs of hosting the App Store and then make the rest of its billions by releasing great products, not taking rent from small developers.

App idea: a tool that goes through all Apple Music playlists and hits “suggest less” on any song where the lyrics contain the word “shorty.” Someone vibe code that and take my money.

I'm about to do something I think I've never done before, which is assert every bit of whatever authority I have as the person who discovered and wrote down the rules of open source. After ten years of drama and idiocy, lots of people other than me are now willing to say in public that "Codes of Conduct" have been a disaster - a kind of infectious social insanity producing lots of drama and politics and backbiting, and negative useful work. Here is my advice about codes of conduct: 1. Refuse to have one. If your project has one, delete it. The only actual function they have is as a tool in the hands of shit-stirrers. 2. If you're stuck with having one for bureaucratic reasons, replace it with the following sentence or some close equivalent: "If you are more annoying to work with than your contributions justify, you'll be ejected." 3. Attempts to be more specific and elaborate don't work. They only provide control surfaces for shit-stirrers to manipulate. Yes, we should try to be kind to each other. But we should be ruthless and merciless towards people who try to turn "Be kind!" into a weapon. Indulging them never ends well.

DHH is awesome and the Overton window has shifted enough (even in the bluer-than-blue tech industry) that normal people can finally call dumb things dumb again. This is dumb.

Observations from an Apple Store: 1. The iPhone Air feels magical. Like holding a Westworld phone. 6.5” is the perfect screen size, too. 2. The scratches on the iPhone 17 Pro’s backsides are real. Definitely caused by the MagSafe stands. The MagSafe “rings” wipe off; the scratches do not. 3. Cosmic Orange is not the move. 4. AirPods Pro 3 have *slightly* more noise cancelling and a *little* punchier sound. I was expecting more, based on the reviews. The “foam” in the ear-tips has been greatly exaggerated. They are louder.

- The 2,842 Bitcoin it took to buy an iPhone 4 is now worth $333,340,000 today. On the other hand, $2,842 from 2010 is now worth just $1,913. It has lost 33% of its value. Imaginary government fairy money is *great*.

These tiny kids lost their dad today because someone disagreed with him about politics. Whether you’re team blue or team red, the other side isn’t evil. They aren’t a “threat to democracy.” They aren’t Nazis. Stop that garbage. And stop following the people who spew it.

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Damn! Bought this Shitcoin back in 2013 and I am down 50%.

"Hacked" is a strong word. They just uploaded everything to a public bucket. Hell hath no fury like 4Chan scorned.

I've filed many Radars with examples. Foundation Models is great work! But Apple has a bad reputation for being an overbearing nanny. If the guardrails don't get significantly relaxed, FM isn't useful. It fails randomly 40% of the time. It'll piss users off, not delight them.

Apple Music in macOS 26. Primary controls go on the bottom for iOS apps because that's where your thumbs are. On Mac, controls go up top because that's where your attention defaults. This smells like an engineer with no concept of Mac idioms got assigned to work on a Mac app. Don't do this.