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  “LisaFPGA brings Apple’s magnificent misfire back in programmable logic” https://www.theregister.com/personal-tech/2026/07/10/lisafpga-brings-apples-magnificent-misfire-back-in-programmable-logic/5269951 https://github.com/alexthecat123/LisaFPGA

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  “In the current wealth-transfer spectacle, managers at companies which are at the ‘top of the stack’ … chose to give all they have to the ‘bottom of the stack’ commodity semiconductor designers and manufacturers.” https://asymco.com/2026/07/17/why-all-in-and-why-all-are-in/

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  TIL that the 1954 animated “Animal Farm” film was effectively produced by the CIA (and, no, not the Catering Institute of America, although that would’ve been equally interesting :-) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_Farm_(1954_film)

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  I try to attend iOSDevUK [1] every other year [2] and, now that I’m feeling more human again, after the madness that was the second quarter of the year, I’m starting to look forward to September. Oh, and I get to stop over with /delightful/ rellies on the way down, and this year I’m planning a short diversion [3] (-: [1] https://www.iosdevuk.com [2] Just for fun, and on my own dime. Very much a busman’s holiday (-: [3] https://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/midlands/

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  My goodness, that last episode of “The Americans” (s6e10) is just heartbreaking. I’ve been rewatching the entire show over the past 6 months or so. I first watched it as it was originally released, and I remember it being the most amazing show. This rewatch has absolutely vindicated me carrying a torch for it all that time. Just brilliant.

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  My Mastodon instance, `toot.community`, is shutting down later this year. https://social.jorijn.com/@jorijn/statuses/01KYN00AP3NCZXCFB96KQB8GN2 This is sad, but not surprising. Running a Mastodon instance is hard work. I’d like to thank @jorijn for doing it so well over the years.

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  This means that I need a new instance. I’m going to continue avoiding the large instances, because we really should keep Mastodon federated. After zenning on it for a bit, I’ve decided to pick a Scottish one. While I may not be a True Scotsman™, I have lived here longer than I’ve lived anywhere else, so it seems appropriate.

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  My new account is @justkwin@mastodon.scot If all goes according to plan, everything will move over automatically, and this’ll be my last message from this account. See you over there!

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  Schrödinger’s TOCTOU https://github.com/xoreaxeaxeax/schrodingers-toctou “...the definition of ‘sane compiler' grows ever looser.”

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  Typo of the day: “Fir All Mankind”

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  Time to beat up the Beats (-:

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  “anywhere it’s possible to hide a pointer, people will hide a pointer there” Maybe we should call that “Chen’s law” (-: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260630-00/?p=112488

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  Sausages, batter, and overengineering, what’s not to like?

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  “In the past year we also switched from Slack to a Discourse forum, so support and discussions can be /on the web instead of hidden away/.” [my emphasis] https://inessential.com/2026/06/15/netnewswire-status.html

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  At this point I’m starting to wonder whether “strange women lying in ponds distributing swords” /is/ actually a reasonable “basis for a system of government” (-:

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  Seeing as I won’t be visiting the US voluntarily any time soon, I decided to stay an extra few days and see some sights.

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  Heaven is when all your US-based colleagues are taking a much-deserved post-WWDC break!

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  “In the Network tab, when a resource redirects, [Web Inspector now shows] every request in the chain rather than just the final destination.” — https://webkit.org/blog/17967/news-from-wwdc26-webkit-in-safari-27-beta/ And there was much rejoicing!

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  Found this in my org’s building during my recent trip. AFAICT it’s not deliberate, but rather an artefact of its design.

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  That thing where you spend so long setting up your test environment that you forget what it was you were actually trying to test )-:

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  Does anyone have this one in their Scots language phrase book? “I will cycle early to avoid the heat.” It’s missing from mine for some reason (-:

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  “I’m going to pronounce it in my head as ‘buns’.” — “Training an LLM in Swift, Part 2: macOS built-in frameworks” https://www.cocoawithlove.com/blog/macos-ml-frameworks.html

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  It’s amazing what taking the time to fold laundry can do for the elegance of your code.

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  That thing where you go to write a doc comment explaining a limitation in your interface and decide that it’s easier to just rewrite the interface to define away the limitation.

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  WWDC runs to Friday, but today is the last day I have to slather myself in sun cream, and that’s a small mercy

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  Typo of the day: “inpersonating”

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  Reading the Canon PIXMA TS6360a user manual, I was disappointed to discover that the “Troubleshooting” section has nothing about removing a full-on ant nest from your printer. C’mon Canon, you’re letting the side down here!

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  Typo of the day: Swift Plagueground

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  This view of KGV dock yesterday illustrates how Scotland generates 113% [1] of its electricity needs via renewables. [1] With the excess being sent south. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renewable_energy_in_Scotland

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  Now that I’ve had some sleep, I’ve come to the conclusion that I should definitely not toot about California the evening that I get there, when I’m weary from travel and jet lag. Not that I did — despite the impairments, Yesterday Quinn™ had the good sense to delete the toot rather than sending it — but it was close |-: