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Steve Hayman 🇨🇦🇬🇱

@shayman@cosocial.ca
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Musical Dictator, Argonotes, the Until Recently Toronto Argonauts Band. Recently retired after 32 years at that fruit company you might know.

I took the photo above when I was 9. It's Apollo XI, on the way to the moon. (I have a better camera now.)

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Joined April 08, 2023
Blog:
https://blog.hayman.net
Where:
Toronto, more or less
Shoes:
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Instrument:
Trombone (badly), Piano (not quite as badly)

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Steve Hayman 🇨🇦🇬🇱
@shayman@cosocial.ca

Musical Dictator, Argonotes, the Until Recently Toronto Argonauts Band. Recently retired after 32 years at that fruit company you might know. I took the photo above when I was 9. It's Apollo XI, on the way to the moon. (I have a better camera now.)

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Steve Hayman 🇨🇦🇬🇱
Steve Hayman 🇨🇦🇬🇱
@shayman@cosocial.ca

Musical Dictator, Argonotes, the Until Recently Toronto Argonauts Band. Recently retired after 32 years at that fruit company you might know. I took the photo above when I was 9. It's Apollo XI, on the way to the moon. (I have a better camera now.)

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@shayman@cosocial.ca · 4d ago

Thrilled to give a presentation today at the Bay Area* Science and Engineering Fair, on "Where Emoji Come From", with great thanks to Apple for conveniently shipping the trombone emoji 🪊 in 26.4 beta 4 this week.

slight hitch, my laptop didn't have 26.4 beta 4 on it so some slides showed the Unicode "missing character" glyph instead.. frantic last minute copy/paste from iPhone.

* in this context "bay area" is referring to this end of Lake Ontario and I know nobody else calls it that

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Steve Hayman 🇨🇦🇬🇱
@shayman@cosocial.ca

Musical Dictator, Argonotes, the Until Recently Toronto Argonauts Band. Recently retired after 32 years at that fruit company you might know. I took the photo above when I was 9. It's Apollo XI, on the way to the moon. (I have a better camera now.)

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Steve Hayman 🇨🇦🇬🇱
Steve Hayman 🇨🇦🇬🇱
@shayman@cosocial.ca

Musical Dictator, Argonotes, the Until Recently Toronto Argonauts Band. Recently retired after 32 years at that fruit company you might know. I took the photo above when I was 9. It's Apollo XI, on the way to the moon. (I have a better camera now.)

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@shayman@cosocial.ca · 6d ago

Delighted to have helped in an extremely minor way with David Pogue's just-released book, "Apple: The First 50 Years."

Be sure to flip to page 410 :-)

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Steve Hayman 🇨🇦🇬🇱
@shayman@cosocial.ca

Musical Dictator, Argonotes, the Until Recently Toronto Argonauts Band. Recently retired after 32 years at that fruit company you might know. I took the photo above when I was 9. It's Apollo XI, on the way to the moon. (I have a better camera now.)

cosocial.ca
Steve Hayman 🇨🇦🇬🇱
Steve Hayman 🇨🇦🇬🇱
@shayman@cosocial.ca

Musical Dictator, Argonotes, the Until Recently Toronto Argonauts Band. Recently retired after 32 years at that fruit company you might know. I took the photo above when I was 9. It's Apollo XI, on the way to the moon. (I have a better camera now.)

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@shayman@cosocial.ca · Mar 10, 2026

While glancing at and trying to understand the latest Swift Evolution proposal ("Borrow and Inout types for safe, first-class references") .... I'm fondly remembering an earlier, simpler time when the "++" operator was removed because "++ increases the burden to learn Swift as a first programming language."

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Steve Hayman 🇨🇦🇬🇱
@shayman@cosocial.ca

Musical Dictator, Argonotes, the Until Recently Toronto Argonauts Band. Recently retired after 32 years at that fruit company you might know. I took the photo above when I was 9. It's Apollo XI, on the way to the moon. (I have a better camera now.)

cosocial.ca
Steve Hayman 🇨🇦🇬🇱
Steve Hayman 🇨🇦🇬🇱
@shayman@cosocial.ca

Musical Dictator, Argonotes, the Until Recently Toronto Argonauts Band. Recently retired after 32 years at that fruit company you might know. I took the photo above when I was 9. It's Apollo XI, on the way to the moon. (I have a better camera now.)

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@shayman@cosocial.ca · Mar 09, 2026

You just knew I'd way too much about how the trombone emoji in iOS 26.4 beta 4 🪊 got here.

https://blog.hayman.net/2026/03/09/today-at-last-the-trombone.html

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Steve Hayman 🇨🇦🇬🇱
@shayman@cosocial.ca

Musical Dictator, Argonotes, the Until Recently Toronto Argonauts Band. Recently retired after 32 years at that fruit company you might know. I took the photo above when I was 9. It's Apollo XI, on the way to the moon. (I have a better camera now.)

cosocial.ca
Steve Hayman 🇨🇦🇬🇱
Steve Hayman 🇨🇦🇬🇱
@shayman@cosocial.ca

Musical Dictator, Argonotes, the Until Recently Toronto Argonauts Band. Recently retired after 32 years at that fruit company you might know. I took the photo above when I was 9. It's Apollo XI, on the way to the moon. (I have a better camera now.)

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@shayman@cosocial.ca · Mar 09, 2026

ALERT ALERT ALERT iOS 26.4 beta 4 brings us what we have ALL been waiting for: A Trombone Emoji!

Approved in Unicode 17.0, the glyph U+1FA8A finally appears with this beta.

Here's one as an actual Unicode glyph: 🪊

Now, that may or may not look like an actual trombone to you, depending on what version of what you are running.. It looks like this - this is an image, not an actual emoji though; it's how iOS renders it. Different vendors have the option of drawing it how they like.

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Steve Hayman 🇨🇦🇬🇱
@shayman@cosocial.ca

Musical Dictator, Argonotes, the Until Recently Toronto Argonauts Band. Recently retired after 32 years at that fruit company you might know. I took the photo above when I was 9. It's Apollo XI, on the way to the moon. (I have a better camera now.)

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Steve Hayman 🇨🇦🇬🇱
Steve Hayman 🇨🇦🇬🇱
@shayman@cosocial.ca

Musical Dictator, Argonotes, the Until Recently Toronto Argonauts Band. Recently retired after 32 years at that fruit company you might know. I took the photo above when I was 9. It's Apollo XI, on the way to the moon. (I have a better camera now.)

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@shayman@cosocial.ca · Mar 08, 2026

not to nitpick but we didn't exactly spring forward, we winter forwarded.

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Steve Hayman 🇨🇦🇬🇱
@shayman@cosocial.ca

Musical Dictator, Argonotes, the Until Recently Toronto Argonauts Band. Recently retired after 32 years at that fruit company you might know. I took the photo above when I was 9. It's Apollo XI, on the way to the moon. (I have a better camera now.)

cosocial.ca
Steve Hayman 🇨🇦🇬🇱
Steve Hayman 🇨🇦🇬🇱
@shayman@cosocial.ca

Musical Dictator, Argonotes, the Until Recently Toronto Argonauts Band. Recently retired after 32 years at that fruit company you might know. I took the photo above when I was 9. It's Apollo XI, on the way to the moon. (I have a better camera now.)

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@shayman@cosocial.ca · Mar 08, 2026

Yesterday I discovered that the drivers side buttons for the three other windows in the car weren't actually broken, they just needed resetting (via an almost magical sequence of button pushes.)

(Apparently the car forgets how to work itself if the battery totally drains to zero, which happened once this winter.)

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Steve Hayman 🇨🇦🇬🇱
@shayman@cosocial.ca

Musical Dictator, Argonotes, the Until Recently Toronto Argonauts Band. Recently retired after 32 years at that fruit company you might know. I took the photo above when I was 9. It's Apollo XI, on the way to the moon. (I have a better camera now.)

cosocial.ca
Steve Hayman 🇨🇦🇬🇱
Steve Hayman 🇨🇦🇬🇱
@shayman@cosocial.ca

Musical Dictator, Argonotes, the Until Recently Toronto Argonauts Band. Recently retired after 32 years at that fruit company you might know. I took the photo above when I was 9. It's Apollo XI, on the way to the moon. (I have a better camera now.)

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@shayman@cosocial.ca · Feb 26, 2026

Ontario premier Doug Ford would "love to get a tariff refund".

Um, apparently it's not just some American politicians who don't understand how tariffs work.

https://www.thestar.com/politics/provincial/doug-ford-says-hed-love-a-tariff-refund-from-donald-trump/article_2c900edd-6c0e-4ec5-b1e2-c29c4b2a280b.html

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Steve Hayman 🇨🇦🇬🇱
@shayman@cosocial.ca

Musical Dictator, Argonotes, the Until Recently Toronto Argonauts Band. Recently retired after 32 years at that fruit company you might know. I took the photo above when I was 9. It's Apollo XI, on the way to the moon. (I have a better camera now.)

cosocial.ca
Steve Hayman 🇨🇦🇬🇱
Steve Hayman 🇨🇦🇬🇱
@shayman@cosocial.ca

Musical Dictator, Argonotes, the Until Recently Toronto Argonauts Band. Recently retired after 32 years at that fruit company you might know. I took the photo above when I was 9. It's Apollo XI, on the way to the moon. (I have a better camera now.)

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@shayman@cosocial.ca · Feb 14, 2026

RE: @bigzaphod@mastodon.social

Very happy user of Tapestry here. You should try it too.

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Steve Hayman 🇨🇦🇬🇱
@shayman@cosocial.ca

Musical Dictator, Argonotes, the Until Recently Toronto Argonauts Band. Recently retired after 32 years at that fruit company you might know. I took the photo above when I was 9. It's Apollo XI, on the way to the moon. (I have a better camera now.)

cosocial.ca
Steve Hayman 🇨🇦🇬🇱
Steve Hayman 🇨🇦🇬🇱
@shayman@cosocial.ca

Musical Dictator, Argonotes, the Until Recently Toronto Argonauts Band. Recently retired after 32 years at that fruit company you might know. I took the photo above when I was 9. It's Apollo XI, on the way to the moon. (I have a better camera now.)

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@shayman@cosocial.ca · Feb 10, 2026
how is speed shovelling not an Olympic event yet? We're getting lots of practice.
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Steve Hayman 🇨🇦🇬🇱
@shayman@cosocial.ca

Musical Dictator, Argonotes, the Until Recently Toronto Argonauts Band. Recently retired after 32 years at that fruit company you might know. I took the photo above when I was 9. It's Apollo XI, on the way to the moon. (I have a better camera now.)

cosocial.ca
Steve Hayman 🇨🇦🇬🇱
Steve Hayman 🇨🇦🇬🇱
@shayman@cosocial.ca

Musical Dictator, Argonotes, the Until Recently Toronto Argonauts Band. Recently retired after 32 years at that fruit company you might know. I took the photo above when I was 9. It's Apollo XI, on the way to the moon. (I have a better camera now.)

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@shayman@cosocial.ca · Dec 05, 2025
You need this. https://boing.greg.technology
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