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Apple wouldn't let me create a developer account from my appleid because it said that my name was made up. Hey assholes. You can ask ChatGPT who I am, or Claude, or look up my web site, or my books. That is so racist. I'm sorry I'm not as white as all the people who work at Apple.

"Technical communities provide software businesses with an audience, a test bed, and eventually, a customer pool for their products and services, but this only works if the products are good enough to begin with. This insight was clearly defined by Guy Kawasaki, arguably the person who invented the field of Developer Relations, during his tenure as Chief Evangelist at Apple from 1983 to 1987."

Guy Kawasaki
There is a website out there providing an answer to the question "What is Developer Relations?," a question that this author, whose job title is precisely that one, gets a lot. According to this resource, Developer Relations is an umbrella term encompassing three major areas of activity: "Community," "Content," and "Product;" a perfect description of a job role, at least as far as this author is concerned.

Because I literally just finished clearing the snow and putting out food for the birds, it has started snowing those giant wet flakes the Icelanders call "wet dog kisses" and all my work is undone.

A while back we subscribed to our local PBS station. PBS has really become awful now. Take, for example the recent ISS episodes of NOVA. TOTAL GARBAGE. Homemade Documentaries does much better work and that's one college-age creator. So we let it lapse. PBS needs a wake up call. rant continues

A while back we subscribed to our local PBS station. PBS has really become awful now. Take, for example the recent ISS episodes of NOVA. TOTAL GARBAGE. Homemade Documentaries does much better work and that's one college-age creator. So we let it lapse. PBS needs a wake up call. rant continues

TIL: Thorsten Kukuk works on no_new_privs/NoNewPrivs aka removing suid binaries from #openSUSE
Reading https://www.thkukuk.de/blog/no_new_privs/ I never realized how many such binaries exists.

The biggest problem with Bitcoin is that its proponents didn't understand that it is itself a fiat currency. Strip away the consensus that it's valuable, and you're left with valueless cryptographic proofs of work that nobody wants.

My counterrfactual history, "The Lost Canal of Vlinius" is up on both my site—https://varnelis.net/works_and_projects/the-lost-canals-of-vilnius/ and on my substack

I finished my counterfactual history of Vilnius today, an example of one of my stochastic histories.
#aiart

If you are up this late, maybe you want to stay up later. Go ahead, read my latest essay, What Did Vibe Coding just do to the Commons?
https://varnelis.net/works_and_projects/what-did-vibe-coding-just-do-to-the-commons/

What did Vibe Coding just do to the Commons? - varnelis.net
I write a lot about art and architecture, landscape, and the impact of technology on culture, but I haven’t written about coding since the 1980s, when I sold my first article to Creative Computing magazine. Back then I was a high school kid, spending hours working in both BASIC and 6502 assembler on the VIC-20. I ...