Steve Riggins

Steve Riggins

@steveriggins.net

iOS engineer at eBay. He/Him. Started my career in the 80s at The Voyager Company working on laserdisc and CD-ROM interfaced HyperCard stacks. Shipped QuickTime video at launch. Bad puns are the best. All posts are mine and do not represent my employer.

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jamelle
@jamellebouie.net

I'm sure X is remarkably friendly if you aren't the target of racial slurs and harassment campaigns. Anyway, I wonder how many "niggers" I'll have to sift through if I start posting there again?

John Gruber@gruber.foo

I'm sure this one won't make anyone angry.

daringfireball.netX Once Again Marks the SpotIf you returned from exile on a desert island and took a look at X today for first time in a year, you might reasonably guess that Elon Musk got bored and sold it while you were away.

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Robert Reich
@rbreich.bsky.social

DoorDash spent $1.4M trying to stop Zohran Mamdani from becoming mayor. This week's historic $131.5M enforcement action against DoorDash for underpaying NYC delivery workers shows why. Yet another reminder that the only thing that can beat organized money is organized people.

theintercept.comDoorDash Spent $1.4 Million Trying to Stop Mamdani From Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why.In a wage-theft settlement, DoorDash now has to pay its workers around 100 times what it spent trying to beat Zohran Mam

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Joel Bernstein
@castirony.bsky.social

A lot of people seem to be getting upset at what appears to be an extremely transparent and responsible process of developing a feature that has significant accessibility benefits and minimal downside

Yoel Roth@yoyoel.com

Apple quietly dropped a ton of detail about the Apple Watch’s new always-on don’t-call-it-transcription feature and it is FASCINATING. support.apple.com/en-us/148354

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Ricky Mondello
@rmondello.com

New post on my blog about switching password managers in 2026! It covers: - why your iPhone or iPad, and not your Mac, might be the place to start your switch - the recent controversy in password management and some thoughts on values - and more! rmondello.com/2026/09/07/s...

rmondello.comSwitching Password Managers in 2026Important Note: Although I work at Apple in the password management and app/website authentication spaces, in this post I am speaking only for myself, personally. There is no “news” in this post or any kind of “inside scoop”. Please do share this post, but if I see “Apple’s Ricky Mondello” anywhere, I’ll be sad. My [...]

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Dare Obasanjo
@carnage4life.bsky.social

In a post on Instagram, the Tetris Company said it was not involved in the creation of the White House’s build-a-wall themed Tetris knock off and said "we take copyright infringement very seriously."

abcnews.comWhite House launches Arcade.gov with computer game that lets players 'deport' migrantsThe White House announced the launch of what it called "Arcade.gov," a website of five versions of classic computer games promoting the president's agenda.

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Dare Obasanjo
@carnage4life.bsky.social

Some companies losing money because of the cost of AI adoption. Figma swung from a +$2M operating profit this time last year to a -$117M loss due to AI related costs. Canva has reduced their revenue growth targets from 30% to 20% because the “average cost of serving an AI task was too high”.

Steve Riggins
@steveriggins.net

Ex-Money, as your ex money goes to him. Stop following the pied piper, morons.

Dare Obasanjo@carnage4life.bsky.social

Elon Musk has finally launched X Money, a key part of his vision to turn X into an “everything app”. X Money combines a deposit account, peer-to-peer payments, and a Visa debit card inside X. It’s available to Premium X subscribers. This is the Cybertruck of debit cards.

gizmodo.comYou Can Finally Trust All Your Money to X, the Everything AppX Money has landed.

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Dare Obasanjo
@carnage4life.bsky.social

Truth Social is planning to sell access to Trump’s posts to Wall Street before they become public. Trump is so brazen that not only is he admitting he posts to manipulate the stock market, he’s charging Wall Street to get in on the grift.

Steve Riggins
@steveriggins.net

OK, I redid my eye alignment with visionOS 27 and redid my optical tracking for the 10th time. I wonder if some of this is because I have replacement lenses from the cataract surgery.

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Cabel Sasser
@cabel.panic.com

it's official: these new bathrooms in pdx airport represent the peak of human accomplishment. individual, private rooms. no gaps. a shared sink and waiting area. light, bright, pleasant. accessible. the toilet gold standard. we did it folks

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Electrek
@electrek.co

A growing market of $20 to $50 plastic doll heads is being sold in China, specifically to deceive Tesla's cabin-camera driver monitoring. It raises questions about how easily these safeguards can be bypassed. Full story https://electrek.co/...

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Dare Obasanjo
@carnage4life.bsky.social

Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX, posted on X on Sunday that the company “might be able to reach approximately” $1 trillion revenue in 2030. If this happens, I will fry up my nicest pair of shoes and eat them on Instagram live. Dude will say anything to pump the stock price.

cnbc.comSpaceX stock jumps 20% in first full day of trading after record debutSpaceX is valued at over $2 trillion after its stock rallied on the first day of trading last week.
Steve Riggins
@steveriggins.net

They cannot even come up with unique plots, ripping this from For All Mankind. Please, send all billionaires to Mars.

Colin Girth@bonuseruptus.bsky.social

So I said it sounds like you're feeding billionaires to the vacuum of space and then his daughter started crying.

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Dare Obasanjo
@carnage4life.bsky.social

Zohran Mamdani signed an Executive Order temporarily repealing kids' bedtimes in the City of New York so that kids of all ages can watch the Knicks in the NBA Finals. Watching his mayoral run is one of the few bright spots in our political landscape.

Steve Riggins
@steveriggins.net

Whodathunkit

Dare Obasanjo@carnage4life.bsky.social

Amazon comes to its senses and realizes tokenmaxxing is dumb. The shut company has shut down an internal leaderboard that tracked employees’ use of AI tools after workers tried to boost their scores with unnecessary activity that increased the company’s computing costs. Goodhart's law strikes again

ft.comAmazon scraps AI leaderboard to stop workers chasing usage scoresSenior executive Dave Treadwell tells staff ‘don’t use AI just for the sake of using AI’ as costs rise

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Ricky Mondello
@rmondello.com

Exciting news! The Authentication Experience team at Apple, which brings you the Passwords app, passkeys, AutoFill of codes from Messages and such, and a lot more, is hiring a software engineer! [1/2] jobs.apple.com/en-us/detail...

jobs.apple.comSoftware Engineer, Authentication Experience - Jobs - Careers at AppleApply for a Software Engineer, Authentication Experience job at Apple. Read about the role and find out if it’s right for you.
Steve Riggins
@steveriggins.net

This is Trump and Vance, 2028

Olga Nesterova@onestpress.onestnetwork.com

Peter Magyar confirmed that Szijjarto, Orbán's FM, has barricaded himself with some of his closest colleagues and is shredding documents related to the sanctions on Russia any other evidence of treason.