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🔗 Tom MacWright: Accidental anonymity
I saw a couple of people link to this post. Understandable. It’s one that left me thinking, especially this line:
[P]utting your art, writing, expression out to be judged by others is an act of bravery as much as talent, and a lot of people lack bravery. Sorry to say it but if you need your work to be polished and beyond reproach, that’s a determination and character problem, not a skill problem.
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I’m shocked and saddened to hear about the passing of Om Malik. I only recently started following his work, but I really liked his attitude to what he was doing, and his optimism towards the future. I regret not following him sooner. My condolence to his friends and family.
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Looking up (at the tram stop).
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Today’s task involved converting an SVG diagram from light mode to dark mode manually to make it presentable for the “big boss.” This was done in a bit of a rush, so there was no time to do something sophisticated like modify the SVG file directly. I just did it in Affinity.
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Really enjoyed Ben Thompson’s daily update about his experience vibe-coding an app. It touches on many of the feelings I have with vibe-coding, such as still needing to exercise basic software development skills to make something good. You may not be typing in lines of code, but you’re still responsible for driving the agent to build something you want. So you’re still on the hook for things like domain or architecture design. That can’t be completely offloaded to AI, nor should you want to. Oh, and UI design. I can attest how bad the current agents are at UI design.
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Ooh, this is a nice feature of Micro.blog. You can add pages that can hang off the URL of other pages, like a child page. As far as I can tell, it’s just a matter of including the parent path in the URL. I don’t know if you need the parent page. Having one works for me so I didn’t check.
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Trying out MonoLisa as recommended by Matt Birchler. First impressions: not bad. Looks good in Zed, although it’s a little wider than what I’m used to. I should try it in Terminal. It might look better in a more native app.
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The name I use for one of my test accounts is “Shouting Loudly.” Why? 🤷 I may had something about speaking softly on my mind at the time. Wish I wrote the reason down somewhere. And yes, I have been asked why I named it that.
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Prior to dawn.
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I probably should stop listening to music or podcasts while working on my Godot game. I really need to hear the game’s lack of a soundscape, so I can start filling it.
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I sometimes marvel at the effort that goes into some graffiti “projects”. Just the scale of some of them, like a single word that’s three people high and takes up most of the back wall of a building. Things that involve a ladder, basically.
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In fact, I may need to get a new mouse too. The parrots liked chewing the mouse wheel, damaging the rubber cover, and now it doesn’t spin as freely as it did.
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I had to stop using the Keychron keyboard. It was becoming unreliable: key presses were not being registered, or duplicates events were being emitted. I’ll go back to my Microsoft Sculpt as soon as I get batteries for it.
Follow up
Okay, it looks like restoring factory settings helped. The keys seem to be functional again, at least after a few hours. I can’t for the life of me understand why this would be necessary. But hey, looks like it is.
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Blogger Archetype Quiz: My Written-in Answers
Blogger reflects on their personal preferences and habits related to blogging and outdoor activities while questioning their archetype. Continue reading →
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Happy winter solstice from Canberra Airport, where it’s the darkest 4:59 you’ll experience all year.
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Is It Time For Another Coffee?
Because apparently I had an hour to kill and $54.00 USD burning in my pocket. And because I just read a post about a real coffee tracker and thought it’d be fun making this to suit my sensibilities. 😁
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Ankur Sethi post about how nobody clicks share buttons on a website. This tracks with my experience: in all my years visiting websites, I can count on one hand how often I clicked those share buttons that appear beside a post. I won’t spoil what people do instead, but I image you can guess.
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It’s said that “home is where the heart is.” That might be true, but I find that home where the routines are. Where you can rely on the familiar.
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Finished reading: Don’t Call It Art 10 Ways to Create Like a Kid Again by Austin Kleon 📚
Lots of thought provoking points. Thoroughly enjoyed it.
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It’s not a proper trip to Canberra without a visit to Tuggeranong. Went to my favourite cafe and walked around the lake, this time in a clockwise direction. Was a lovely morning for it.
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Was craving a curry a little this evening. Fortunately I stumbled upon a Japanese restaurant called Ikko on the way to where I was planning to go (always look around corners). They do a pretty decent Karaage chicken curry, which I thoroughly enjoyed.
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TIL that if a Stripe subscription is associated with a test clock, it won’t be returned in a List Subscription call. Not sure if it’s because the clock is set in the future, or it’s just the presence of the clock itself. Retrieving the subscription by ID seems to work, though.
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If a podcast ends, and it had a subscription plan offering extra content which ended alongside it, should that extra content be made public? Contemplating this while seeing my Downstream subscription get cancelled due to the show finishing up.
My vote is “yes” but that’s easy for me to say.
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I do wonder if the broader Go community would adopt the new UUID package. It’s purely additive so it’s not like they need to, but the strength of any one library package depends on how many people use it. There’s a lot of network effects involved. I definitely will make use of it, but if database client don’t, it will be quite disappointing.
I feel like they would though. There is some precedent of Go developers adopting new language features, such as threading
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Go 1.27 RC 1 just dropped. It looks like a bumper release. New JSON package, new UUID package, AND generic support added to methods. Looking forward to this going gold.