I keep discovering macOS features I should've known about for years.

I stopped using Sass awhile ago. CSS nesting and custom properties cover almost everything I used it for. It's been liberating to not have a build step for my CSS.*

From a maintainer's perspective, AI-generated pull requests are just piles of potential slop that we have to sort through. We have no idea if folks are one-shotting them or if they're taking the time to spec out proper solutions and mold them into usable code.

As software engineers, we take pride in hand-written code and knowing how everything we build works in detail. While there are many developers out there who build good software, there are many, many more who don’t. Yet we balk at the idea of vibe coding, even when it yields decent results.

I've already written about FOUCE twice…it's that annoying Flash of Unstyled Custom Element that occurs when the page first loads. It's one of the most common complaints from folks who use web components.

I've been hooked on CSS nesting for awhile. Like Sass, I've always written it with the & selector at the front, like this.

I launched ColorCopy on May 18. It was my second macOS app, but the first one I launched on the Mac App Store. Today, I decided to pull it.

A tweet from Jamon Holmgren inspired some thoughts about how software has changed, from a developer's perspective. He says:

I built the dictation app I wanted. It's called TongueType, and my daughter did the voice over for the video. (Family business.)

My second macOS app, ColorCopy, was approved by the Mac App Store today! It started as a menu bar color picker. Press a key, click any pixel on your screen, and the color lands on your clipboard in whatever format you need.