Simon Rice

Creating quality apps & brilliant websites with a cheerful spirit! 🇬🇧/🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[Sunday Sport @thesundaysport]

Our ruling class will bend over backwards for scientists who want to lock us in our homes for 2 years and ban us from eating Scotch eggs, but refuse a few quid for boffins who make Britain a world leader in astrophysics

[ege @aegeantic]

And if you want @Xcode inside @grok Build, this is the command to add the official Xcode MCP. grokkie build and 4.5 are great for iOS development!

grok mcp add xcode -- xcrun mcpbridge

[Simon Rice @_SimonRice]

Surprised there’s no Grok 4.69 in the works 🙃

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Grok 4.6 in 2 weeks and Grok 4.7 in 4 weeks

[Sunday Sport @thesundaysport]

Shame we lost Frank Sidebottom.
He would have walked into the Department of Culture

[Simon Rice @_SimonRice]

Might be best to keep Midge Ure well away!

[No Farmers, No Food @NoFarmsNoFoods]

Britain used to give a free drink of milk to every schoolchild every morning. The government should bring this back. Ideally gold top milk - supplied by local farmers.

[Kahris @chrissotraidis]

I used Codex 5.6 Sol to get RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 running natively on iPad.

This is built on OpenRCT2, the open-source engine their team has poured years into. I compiled it to a native ARM64 iPad app and built the touch controls on top. No emulator, no x86, no streaming from a Mac.

Coaster building, scenarios, and park management all work by touch. First time I've seen RCT2 run natively on iPad.

Open sourcing it all below.

[DHH @dhh]

The most retarded argument for Europe's net-zero mission — including the war on air conditioning — is that it'll "inspire others to follow". What country will look at what Britain or Germany did to their economies in the name of net zero and say I WANT THAT!?!

[Katharine Birbalsingh @Miss_Snuffy]

White people are terrified of being seen as racist.

If white guilt permeates the online world and our schools, then our adults will feel guilty too.

This helps neither whites nor ethnics.

My ARC speech:

[Morgan Barrett @MorganBarrettX]

Jeremy Clarkson’s Farm show on Amazon is the most radicalizing piece of mainstream media I’ve ever seen

Just one example (bear with me):

Badgers became a protected species in Britain 40+ years ago.

The population has exploded and now frequently transmits tuberculosis to cows

But farmers can’t cull the badger population to protect their cattle because the government still considers them to be endangered

Instead of addressing the root cause, the UK has the most batshit testing regime for cattle

There’s no TB vaccine. So the cattle have to get tested. The vets administering the test have to measure welts on the cows neck. Whether a cow lives or dies comes down to a vet trying to discern 1mm on a caliper (reactive vs non reactive).

If a cow tests positive, the farm (already running on super thin margins) is quarantined and starts hemorrhaging money.

Jeremy Clarkson’s cow (pregnant with twins) has an inconclusive test so it’s separated from the herd. It receives a second inconclusive test so they have to kill it (before it can give birth to the twins).

Now here’s the kicker: the autopsy reveals no sign of TB. It was a healthy cow needlessly killed

So - silver lining the farm should be removed from quarantine, right? WRONG - it’s still under quarantine and has to keep testing and can’t sell its beef

Kafkaesque doesn’t even begin to describe how f’d up it is for British farmers

[Matthew Cassinelli @mattcassinelli]

I am an expert on App Intents, the API that powers Siri AI.

Giving full access to all your app’s data would be the end of personal privacy.

Apple doesn’t even read it – your devices send it cryptographically to Private Cloud Compute.

[Thomas Ricouard @Dimillian]

As a EU citizen, I'm really worried that the EU will disappear and be technology irrelevant.
It's one thing to not be able to produce the latest tech, but it's another thing to also cut yourself off from the latest tech because you have bureaucrats unable to understand a thing.

[Simon Rice @_SimonRice]

@steipete You’re absolutely right!

[Wise @trikcode]

British Python devs be like "that's a constructor, __init__ ?"

[Simon Rice @_SimonRice]

Yes, but can it run Duke Nukem 3D?

[Tom Warren @tomwarren]

LEGO is launching the most ambitious brick it’s ever made: a tiny computer that fits entirely inside a classic 2x4 LEGO brick. It will make entire LEGO sets come to life — with humming lightsabers, roaring engines, light-up blasters, and more https://t.co/b6GyAJPSrF

[FBI Salt Lake City @FBISaltLakeCity]

We are asking for the public's help identifying this person of interest in connection with the fatal shooting of Charlie Kirk at Utah Valley University.
1-800-CALL-FBI
Digital media tips: https://t.co/K7maX81TjJ

[Simon Rice @_SimonRice]

Claude Code just needs to help me with quitting Vim, and that’ll solve both of the hardest problems in tech!

[Balint Orosz @balintorosz]

Found the perfect use case for Claude Code - remove Adobe Creative Cloud _completely_ from my computer.

[HalfManHalfBiscuit @DailyHMHBLyrics]

I saw Badly Drawn Boy in a badly parked car
With a badly grazed elbow
What can you do?

On a badly lit street I was badly in debt
Badly in need of a goal at Field Mill

[Simon Rice @_SimonRice]

House of Pain - Jump Around

[No Context Brits @NoContextBrits]

I wish this man could narrate my life.

[Simon Rice @_SimonRice]

@camsoft2000 Sorry your star count momentarily dipped - turns out I already starred it ages ago!