Brian Webster

I'm a one man software company making macOS applications as @fatcatsoftware. Also at

[Brian Webster @bwebster]

@reason_whatever Sorry to see you had to end FWR. Thanks for all the great reactions, and I hope whatever’s going on you get through things OK. ❤️

[Brian Webster @bwebster]

Not gonna be posting here much or probably at all. Elephant link in bio.

[Brian Webster @bwebster]

@trozware My strategy for folks I follow on both is to mute the Twitter account. That keeps my Twitter following list intact, just in case Mastodon doesn’t work out.

[Brian Webster @bwebster]

@RebeccaSlatkin Is your painter a 3rd grader? Has his grandma died 2-3 times as well?

[Brian Webster @bwebster]

@PlayHearthstone Sorry

[Red Sweater @redsweater]

Just published the first public beta of @MarsEdit 5! No time to write extensive release notes yet, so only the adventurous need install. Key features include Markdown syntax highlighting and a dedicated “Micropost” panel for short-form blogging! https://t.co/tjOZmOQIU8

[Brian Webster @bwebster]

@BriannaWu @sternpinball Turkey Dinner Candy Corn is always the answer.

[Brian Webster @bwebster]

@BriannaWu It takes > 1000 poorly batched RPCs just to render a home timeline… because aliens!

[Brian Webster @bwebster]

@isaiah @codingmilf Don’t forget the homeomorphic endofunctors! Can’t have a social network without homeomorphic endofunctors!

[Brian Webster @bwebster]

@danielpunkass @bugcounter @AlexCox

[Brian Webster @bwebster]

@BriannaWu Turkey dinner candy corn

[Feminist Proper Gander @dappergander]

this website was free

[Brian Webster @bwebster]

@McCarron I actually don’t have too many one-off version checks like that because I had to write an entire set of classes just to manage behavior and terminology differences between different versions of iPhoto and Aperture. 🫠

[Zoë Schiffer @ZoeSchiffer]

Elon Musk is also asking for up 10 screenshots of the "most salient lines of code" from Twitter engineers 2/

[Marco Rogers @polotek]

People who need IT support from their children every Thanksgiving because they can't print anymore keep asking why Twitter won't just keep running with no employees.

[Brian Webster @bwebster]

And make sure you put your code screenshots into a Microsoft Word document because that’s the only program that 1137 haXX0r Elon knows how to use.

[Zoë Schiffer @ZoeSchiffer]

Elon Musk is also asking for up 10 screenshots of the "most salient lines of code" from Twitter engineers 2/

[Brian Webster @bwebster]

@martyrdison @codingmilf Those dudes traveled from the future to demonstrate how Twitter would end: a dude who didn’t know anything showing up to tell people everything.

[Brian Webster @bwebster]

@BriannaWu The first one, without any writing across the front.

[Brian Webster @bwebster]

@jamesdempsey As others have mentioned, you can just drag the window if you don’t need to actually save a copy of the screenshot for later.

The quickest way I’ve found to dismiss the window is a two finger swipe to the right.

[Brian Webster @bwebster]

@rmondello