RSS feed for posts https://minniefloppy.com Wed, 15 Apr 2026 21:19:50 -0700 There's an old joke: "How do you end up with a million dollars?" Answer: Start with ten million. It seems that the CEO of Everything not Owned by Musk, Jeff Bezos, has... Wed, 04 Feb 2026 00:00:00 -0800 post/?item=makeamillion post/?item=makeamillion Today is a day about reporting how Silicon Valley continues its downhill slide. This article deals with HP, that company that says in their marketing "built for a better tomorrow." Well, I... Fri, 30 Jan 2026 00:00:00 -0800 post/?item=invisibleswitch post/?item=invisibleswitch Today is a day about reporting how Silicon Valley continues its downhill slide. This article deals with Apples Creator Studio, which they promoted to the hilt yesterday. Since I'm a creator,... Fri, 30 Jan 2026 00:00:00 -0800 post/?item=noonehome post/?item=noonehome How I long for the olden days, before what Doctorow (correctly) calls enshitification happened to Silicon Valley. I went into Fond Memory Mode when I saw the latest news pop up... Tue, 27 Jan 2026 00:00:00 -0800 post/?item=applecooked post/?item=applecooked It seems the billionaires are moving (again). This time in response to a law that doesn't even exist yet. It seems that if the rich don't like even the suggestion... Sun, 18 Jan 2026 00:00:00 -0800 post/?item=emmigration post/?item=emmigration It started as conspiracy theory (there’s hidden folk running our country) and became a political mantra (the Democrats are a hidden Deep State, especially if their name is Clinton or... Thu, 15 Jan 2026 00:00:00 -0800 post/?item=deep-state post/?item=deep-state Small Men go after smaller targets, mainly because they are trying to not to lose (though that doesn't always work). Boys learn this in fifth grade. Small Men never unlearn... Mon, 05 Jan 2026 16:00:00 -0800 post/?item=moronroe post/?item=moronroe I've got a friend who wrote one of the early, seminal books on the programming language C. He used to love looking for silly programming errors, such as #define MAX 100; int... Mon, 29 Dec 2025 16:00:00 -0800 post/?item=rusty-dindoze post/?item=rusty-dindoze In a heated press conference today, Santa vented harder than a Republican seeing immigrants. "No chimneys, roofs covered with solar panels, ADU proliferation, restricted fly zones, and finding where the homeless... Wed, 24 Dec 2025 16:00:00 -0800 post/?item=madsanta post/?item=madsanta San Franciscans just encountered The Night of the AI Dead. If they weren't already afraid of getting into the back seat of a vehicle with no driver, what happened when... Mon, 22 Dec 2025 16:00:00 -0800 post/?item=waymotaxis post/?item=waymotaxis Today the White House announced the renaming of the capital, which will now be referred to as Trump-Washington DC. Apparently a random group of people wearing red Make America Go... Thu, 18 Dec 2025 16:00:00 -0800 post/?item=trump-dc post/?item=trump-dc Cloudfair has published their annual we-count-everything report, and the bots are starting to show up, while maliciousnous can also be clearly seen. 4.2% of HTML requests on the Internet are now... Sun, 14 Dec 2025 16:00:00 -0800 post/?item=botsarehere post/?item=botsarehere Silicon Valley has long been said to be a disruptive force. In its infancy it disrupted tubes with chips. Then it disrupted mainframes and minicomputers with personal computers. Eventually it... Fri, 05 Dec 2025 16:00:00 -0800 post/?item=thatslooney post/?item=thatslooney Let's start with some quotes: "leaving after years of absolutely abysmal...design" "it's not just that [he] is a fraud of a UI designer and leader" "[Fruit Company] employees 'giddy' about..departure" "I think we're all... Thu, 04 Dec 2025 16:00:00 -0800 post/?item=underbus post/?item=underbus It seems that the M&Ms (Mainstream Media) have finally picked up on something: the Orange One's pardons seem to be in direct contradiction of many of his stated goals and... Wed, 03 Dec 2025 16:00:00 -0800 post/?item=pardonme post/?item=pardonme Just a test for RSS. Wed, 03 Dec 2025 16:00:00 -0800 post/?item=test post/?item=test I just found out that our inVanceable veep said something I missed last week. And that was: "[Many times in history,] all the experts were wrong". Hmm. I thought that they... Mon, 01 Dec 2025 16:00:00 -0800 post/?item=invancible post/?item=invancible Oh oh, it's happening again. ChatGippity is creating a developer ecosystem that can install things for all Gippity users. This is core Silicon Valley: build something, figure out how to make... Thu, 27 Nov 2025 16:00:00 -0800 post/?item=everythinganos post/?item=everythinganos What rises from US$6.50 to US$45 only to fall back to US$6.14? I'll give you a hint: it's named after the only person to bankrupt casinos three times. You know,... Thu, 27 Nov 2025 16:00:00 -0800 post/?item=lessthanzero post/?item=lessthanzero Hello everyone, I just wanted to post a quick hello and apology. I really should have gotten to publicly publishing this blog back when I first started tinkering writing new... Wed, 26 Nov 2025 16:00:00 -0800 post/?item=hello-world post/?item=hello-world My sister Effie called yesterday. I had told her last week that there was a new program on Apple's streaming service she needed to watch. "I can't find it," she said. "It's... Mon, 24 Nov 2025 16:00:00 -0800 post/?item=appletvplus post/?item=appletvplus If you’ll get into my time machine and follow me back to 1979, you’ll find me in a computer store selling Apple II after II. All to the same basic... Fri, 31 Oct 2025 17:00:00 -0700 post/?item=aimentality post/?item=aimentality When Silicon Valley quickly ran through all the competent core hires and started to grow staff at rocket launch speeds, the industry ended up with cubicle upon cubicle (and eventually... Tue, 14 Oct 2025 17:00:00 -0700 post/?item=pretendsolving post/?item=pretendsolving The first time I went to Australia, I found myself without Life Savers. You know, those little rings of colored sugar that you either melted in your mouth (but also... Tue, 04 Mar 2025 16:00:00 -0800 post/?item=musklifesavers post/?item=musklifesavers Performative acts are actions or statements that not only communicate a message but also bring about a change in reality through the act of performing them. Ironically for our resident... Tue, 04 Mar 2025 16:00:00 -0800 post/?item=performativeacts post/?item=performativeacts