Will Trump call out the national guard in the worst crime-ridden cities?:

•   Memphis (TN)
•   Detroit (MI)
•   St. Louis (MO)
•   Baltimore (MD)
•   Oakland (CA)
•   Philadelphia (PA)
•   New Orleans (LA)
•   Baton Rouge (LA)
•   Cleveland (OH)
•   Birmingham (AL) 

And what authority does he have?

August 12, 2025


Apple has really gone far astray with this new iOS 26 beta.

  • the color contrast is far too low
  • icons are far too busy
  • text is too small
  • transparency on pop-overs makes the underlying text difficult to read
  • Liquid Glass is just gratuitous fluff and adds nothing

Between this and Tim Cook’s disgusting kowtowing to DJT it might just be time to look at computing alternatives. This is the first time I’ve seriously thought this since getting my first Mac in 1985.

August 8, 2025


I’m a professional photographer, with a significant hobby, which is photography.“

Elliot Erwitt

July 3, 2025


Congratulations Trump voters !!!

July 1, 2025


LLMs are a problem

Now it’s LLMs. If you think these crawlers respect robots.txt then you are several assumptions of good faith removed from reality. These bots crawl everything they can find, robots.txt be damned, including expensive endpoints like git blame, every page of every git log, and every commit in every rep…”

Please stop legitimizing LLMs or AI image generators or GitHub Copilot or any of this garbage. I am begging you to stop using them, stop talking about them, stop making new ones, just stop. If blasting CO2 into the air and ruining all of our freshwater and traumatizing cheap laborers and making every sysadmin you know miserable and ripping off code and books and art at scale and ruining our fucking democracy isn’t enough for you to leave this shit alone, what is?”

Drewvault.com

March 20, 2025


Awful People

Trump has given permission for all of the secretly despicable people in America to be who they truly are. There are an awful lot of them, but not nearly as many as we who believe in the Constitution and the rule of law. We will win, but getting there is going to be painful.

March 17, 2025