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Jeff Watkins

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<p>I’m proud of what I accomplished in my thirty-five years building software — including ten years building iOS software for Apple — but when we moved to Edinburgh in the autumn of 2024, I became fascinated with the history of our adopted home.</p><p>Now I make shit up and write it down.</p>

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    What the fuck! Slack just added a fucking menu barnacle. Fuck that shit.

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    So often I’m dumbfounded by the question: Why men?

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    JD Vance is literate? How did he become a Republican? https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/29/jd-vance-letter-may-offer-last-chance-to-avert-fresh-conflict-between-us-and-iran

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    Without an account, I rarely descended into the mire that is Reddit. Now I never will. I’ve added it to my blocked sites. https://www.theverge.com/tech/1022571/reddit-login-requirement-q3-2026-earnings

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    The more I learn about how people from earlier centuries perceived faeries, it’s a wonder to me that people now associate Disney’s Tinkerbell with faeries at all. Folks were genuinely terrified of those baby-stealing sexual predators! But it’s Halloween! That means it’s time to light the bonfires and push those creepy faeries back into the darkness until the sun rises again. https://metrocat.org/into-the-dark/

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    The new iOS 27 timer is so bad I’ve just stopped using it.

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    I feel for anyone in this poor third-world country who must struggle with the resurgence of flesh-eating maggots. https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/10/flesh-eating-screwworms-are-feasting-on-pets-4-dogs-and-cat-attacked-this-week/

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    I love it when brainy women¹ talk sexy in bed: “Tomorrow I’m going to research US Tax Code 174…” ¹ And by brainy women, I mean my amazing wife, @Jargoonco, who is the brainiest and sexiest.

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    RE: https://mastodon.online/@Jargoonco/116613292695698405 The 1973 Disney Robin Hood is objectively the best Robin Hood movie ever made.

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    I don’t think I even have a version of Xcode that runs on my current Mac.

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    In light of our impending move to the Netherlands¹, can anyone recommend Dutch language classes for cats? I don’t want our kids to have trouble socialising. ¹ Because the chuckleheads in London whether Tory or Labour.

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    RE: https://social.lansky.name/@hn100/116622164524419898 What a fucking shock! And at least with an employee you don’t have to wave away the “ethical considerations” of relying on stolen data.

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    @kcase Congrats!

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    Now that the American government has demonstrated that assassination is an “acceptable alternative” to diplomacy, what are the odds on a nation getting too frustrated with Trump’s tariffs or dementia-driven demagoguery and opting for the American Alternative?