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Three nuisance calls today so now call screening is being turned on. I think this feature deserves a “finally.”
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Interesting to see how networks deal with a 5 day test match ending on day 2. Looks like Channel 7 has opted for three reporters sitting on the pitch talking about the match. Hope they’ve got enough material to fill 3 days. 😏
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Made a grave error today. I got invited to join people for tea, and I declined. That was a mistake: always go to tea! What’s so urgent in life that can’t wait an hour or so of socialisation practice? 🤦♂️
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First Impressions Of Google Antigravity
Testing Google Antigravity revealed its potential as a coding aid, but the overwhelming suggestions and interface design deterred further use. Continue reading →
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Would be nice for product feature pages to be a little more dynamic than they are, and indicate whether a particular feature is preview only, or not available on your plan or in your country, or just not enabled for your A/B cohort. Helps to know when best to look at it.
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Random luncheon thoughts wondered to the App Store, and how many users think that mobile apps all come from Apple. But isn’t that understandable if every App Store listing looks the same? Same colour scheme, same font, same layout. Only thing that is distinguishable at a glance is the screenshots and maybe the logo.
Apple likes to tout, at least in some contexts, that app developers are important to them. So would they even consider allowing developers to change the appearance of their app store page listing? Would one listing with a red background and another with serif fonts give a greater impression to users that these are very different apps from different developers?
I don’t know, and I’m sure Apple will never allow this. I imagine it’s beneficial to them to consider app developers as just one more commoditised supplier (I don’t agree, of course) and I think the general impression that all the apps come from Apple helps them believe this.
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I really enjoyed this video from Simon Willison giving a tour of his newsletter automation setup. Also made me aware of Observable, which looks like a JavaScript-based workbook (I’m guessing is a bit like Jupyter). Looks interesting. 📺
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I will concede, I am starting to like Liquid Glass on the iPad. Still plenty of bugs, but the aesthetics are growing on me. And as soon as the bugs are squashed, it may end up being a nice UI refresh.
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Gallery: Walking the Darebin Creek Trail
Had to do some stuff today that weighed on me a little, so it was nice to be given the opportunity to walk the Darebin Creek trail this evening. Walked as far as the Main Yarra Trail, beside the Eastern Freeway. It was a really lovely evening, and it called for some photos to be taken. Continue reading →
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I think I’ll stop donating to causes that podcasters are trying to raise funds for. Three times I told the cause to stop emailing me, and three times it ignored me. Is this what you do to people donating money to you? 👎
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This looks interesting, maybe. I’ve not made an RPG, or indeed played one. Maybe one day I may consider doing either. Until then, maybe someone else will get value from this.
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I think if told my ten-year-old self that one day I’d be arguing with a computer about what actually is available in the documentation it’s supposably an AI of, he’d probably say “ooh, just like that BASIC book I read, where they guy was arguing with his smart-lock.” The future is here, kid. 😏
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I do wish us Aussies had a closer affinity to 24-hour time than we do. I was messaging someone about a rendezvous, and he said they were unavailable from 7pm until 4:30pm. I know they weren’t doing something overnight, but was he unavailable from 7 am until 4:30pm, or was he unavailable at both 7pm and 4:30pm?
I was hoping to meet them at 7pm to pick something up, so I did what large organisations tend to do and recommended the less ambiguous time of 6:50pm. He accepted, which cleared the matter up. But what an unnecessary bout of uncertainty. If the response was that he were unavailable from “07:00 until 16:30”, then great! Let’s meet at 19:00. So much clearer.
Ah well.
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Last night, I dreamt of Paris, which is strange. I should’ve been dreaming of Toulouse.
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Been to dependency hell and back today. Can’t recommend it. Definitely not all it’s cracked up to be.
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It’s probably just a matter of time before I take a look at Google Antigravity. I visited their site today, and maybe it was just my laptop, but the scrolling seemed to have some sort of weird inertia effect (mobile was fine). Couldn’t say I liked it. Just hope the scrolling in the editor is snappy.
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Github FOMO
Haveing a self-hosted Forgejo instance is great, but it’s not without it’s tradeoffs. Continue reading →
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There’s real weight in deciding whether a change deserves a bump in the major number of a version tag. “Sure my change is technically backwards incompatible, but who am I to choose whether to move to version 2 of a (private) package? I should just play it safe and bump the minor version to 19.”
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Listening to Ben Thompson this morning about autonomous package delivery and wondered: would Transformers be useful here? It’s a delivery van on the road, then transforms into a humanoid to place the package at the house. Transforms back into a van to go to the next house. Might be a winner here. 😛
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🛠️ komodo: a tool to build and deploy software on many servers
Looks interesting. Putting this on my “if I get bored/frustrated with Coolify” list.
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Pro-tip for anyone using Stripe: don’t use colons in your metadata keys. It’s not that they’re not allowed, but there’s no way to escape that colon in a Radar expression. Best to stick with alphanumerics and the underscore, as if those keys were C idents.
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Using AI for your support chat is good and all but have you considered that those using it can’t really go to their boss and say “this is what the AI told me?”
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Took down my PeerTube instance. I wasn’t uploading videos often enough to justify running it, and given the watch counts from most of the videos there, I doubt anyone will miss them. The goal is to use Micro.blog for hosting videos if I can. The rest will now go to YouTube.
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Devlog: Blogging Tools - Chunking File Uploader
An attempt to improve upload speeds by chunking large files and uploading them via multiple HTTP requests dispatched concurrently. Spoiler: it didn’t help. Continue reading →
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🔗 Andre Franca: Small Web, Big Voice
Really enjoyed this post from Andre. I agree that some may view having a blog in 2025 as being irrational. I guess the belief is that it’s harder to get the exposure or virality with a blog than it is by simply posting on the socials (as if reach or cash is the only reason to do anything online). I’m not sure I agree, but even if that were true, it depends if that’s something you want. If it’s just to have a place that you can call your own, then I’d argue having a blog, even in 2025, makes total rational sense.
Via: Kev Quirk