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I've made it! I'm over the hump! I'm actually writing^* my language-learning app in Swift!

Send an email expressing how proud you are of me to podcast@searls.co. Or if there's any news worth following that isn't about AI. Too much AI stuff lately.

^*And by "I'm writing", I admit Claude Code is doing a lot of the heavy lifting here.

Hyperlinks:

• Girlfriend Reviews of Mario Kart World
• Mario Paint 2 for Nintendo Switch 2
• Ben publishes NSScreencast, not NSCoder 🤦‍♂️
• claude-discord-bridge
• Speeding up your Xcode tests
• Upside-down development
• There is no AI in Team
• Aaron's puns, ranked
• 7/24 - WaPo: This app lets women review their dates. Men are worried. (Apple News+)
• 7/25 - 404 Media: Tea hack exposed. Women Dating Safety App 'Tea' Breached, Users' IDs Posted to 4chan
• Security Breach at Tea Worsens, Revealing Users' DMs About Abortions and Cheating
• Tokyo prostitution ring members who targeted foreigners arrested
• Somebody's remaking Rebel Assault in UE5
• Battlestar Galactica writer Ronald D Moore is showrunning God of War
• AppleCare One is a good deal
• Apple CEO Tim Cook Tells Staff AI Is 'Ours to Grab' in Pep Talk
• Thanks for Your $1 Billion Job Offer, Mark Zuckerberg. I'm Gonna Pass (Apple News+)
• Steve Krouse with a great tech debt analogy
• Christina Wodtke on what it means that early-days web developers are pumped about AI
• Orta: Six weeks of claude code
• System prompt updates to Claude 4 Opus tries to ward off mania
• Foundation Season 3
• Halt and Catch Fire
• Saw that Family Guy musical, Music Man
• opencode.ai