Liquid Lobster Engineer (they/them)

Can’t stop thinking about You Can See Everything. What a baller movie that is. Love u Nathan!

ME: (crawling out of the sea) Oh thank god! There’s been a terrible shipwreck! Please, I need water GUY ON SHORE HOLDING A GIANT BOOK: Not so fast, bitch. This is Puzzle Island

I reviewed the M5 Ultra Mac Studio with 256 GB of RAM. It’s the dream Mac for local AI agents. And I’ve gone local-only with Hermes. My story, with LOTS of interactive charts: www.macstories.net/stories/m5-u...

Photos app brought me this memory from 10 years ago.

2026 really is a momentous year

Talk to your kids about safe impact play before they learn it from their AI toys

Yawns are weird. You're tired? Why don't you open your mouth really big about it? What's that? You're not tired, but you saw someone else open their mouth big? Well, guess what.

“Oh no! I accidentally clicked the unsubscribe link on a marketing email!” - nobody ever. I would love to see the metrics on how often someone clicks the “resubscribe now” button on the “sorry to see you go” unsubscribe confirmation screen.

iOS dev hot take: MVVM is just a re-brand of MVC. MVC got a bad rap because it was so frequently misused.

I’m apparently a Snapchat girlie again

Neat! But the “business logic” is arguably the least difficult part of building a mobile app. Every app I’ve worked on has been 90% UI code 😕

One of those weird weeks where I feel exhausted, and I can’t tell if it’s because I’m struggling to keep up, or because I’m setting my own bar too high for myself.

The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice. Except it doesn’t bend on its own—it bends because we pull it in the direction of justice. What keeps me hopeful during times like these is being surrounded by people who are doing just that.

Here’s my custom stretchy() SwiftUI modifier built with visualEffect(), powering the stretchy header in @brevecoffeeapp.bsky.social ☕️ I shared the code for it earlier in my blog post: nilcoalescing.com/blog/Stretch... #iOSDev #SwiftUI

Just two more days until Blippo+ lands on your computer (or switch) in full color. Get ready for Tuesday! blippo.plus

This spam needs to STOP! 😩 how many times do I need to respond with “stop” before the messages stop coming?

The word “Paraphernalia” is the nastiest word in the English language. The word’s definition could apply to pretty much any specialized tool, but we only use it when we talk about drugs because everybody knows it sounds like an STD.

Ad sales are so wild

Some people take feedback as useful suggestions (whether they accept it or not); some take it as a personal attack. The latter take much longer to learn anything. Sometimes too long. I know it sucks but it’s the fastest way to get better.

Love to eat a fish with the face still on

SUPER MARIO GALAXY MOVIE. THIS IS NOT A DRILL

Deno 2.5 is out — ⭐ Permission sets in config ⭐ Setup and teardown APIs to Deno.test ⭐ HTML entrypoint support in deno bundle ⭐ Runtime API for deno bundle deno.com/blog/v2.5

Good luck to all iOS developers who haven’t tested their apps with liquid glass yet. I’m anticipating a lot of customer feedback. Stay strong 💪

Fresh 2 has graduated to beta releases - essentially release candidates before a stable release. Fresh can now act as a Vite plugin, opening the door to HMR, faster boot times, and Cloudflare deployments. deno.com/blog/fresh-a...

Feeling like a curmudgeon today 😩

The world needs more hand-drawn software

I haven’t tried Dia, but Arc is my daily driver. Huge kudos to the whole team at the Browser Company!

I've birthed life into an old Medium account of mine. Read my latest article here if you don't trust my own shady domain 😃

Did not expect Cracker Barrel to be the next woke battleground. Everybody dye your hair and pierce your septum, we’re eating country fried steak and meatloaf tonight.

The opposite of anxiety isn’t calm, it’s trust. Trust in yourself. Trust in your people. Trust that you can move through uncertainty together. Source: leadershiplearning.org/the-opposit...

My latest obsession: I connected a landline telephone to a self-hosted AI model running on my computer 🤩

Finally able to share a first look at Quiche Browser on iOS 26 with the new Liquid Glass theme. No TestFlight yet, but I’m pushing to be ready for day one 💪 #buildinpublic #browser #ios #ios26 #liquidglass #ux

🚨 Just Launched! Say hello to ALVA — your personal product risk scanner 📲 Scan any product 🔍 See ingredient risks 💡 Get personalized health insights Built for people who care about what they put on (and in) their bodies. → apple.co/4mZai2b #ios #healthtech #ALVAapp

Highly recommend the Naked Gun. I almost wet my pants I laughed so hard.

In case you missed

Anyway, here's Pooka singing the Chocobo theme to a foot

⭐️ Solid thread. Nobody has the time or resources to independently verify every scientific claim. So trust in the process (and community) is crucial.

New in SwiftUI 🚀 When you present partial sheets, the system now automatically applies the Liquid Glass design and adds more edge margin as the detent gets lower. → learnandcodewithenid.com

Phew.. releasing a game on 3 consoles at the same time is really exhausting 😅 Thank you all for the kind words / likes / RTs throughout launch week, that helped a lot! 💚 Already working hard on the first patch!

Never judge a book by its cover!