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I’m pretty much all in on Inkwell that I’m considering ending my Feedbin subscription. The only thing that’s keeping me there is NetNewsWire sync support, but I imagine it won’t be too long before Inkwell support is released.
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Making apps shouldn’t involve needing to make business models. It should be akin to making bread. Sure you can open a bakery, but those providing the dough shouldn’t prevent you from making bread for yourself.
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Never ceases to amaze me the arbitrary limits AWS puts on its resources. For example, I just learnt that the total size of a Lambda’s environment variables cannot exceed 4 KB. I mean, I’m not asking for gigabytes here, but 4 KB? Are they storing these on non-HD floppies?
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Bought an umbrella a while ago that I really liked. I packed it for a walk one day, didn’t unpack it when I came home, completely forgot about it, thought I lost it, and went to buy a replacement. A couple of months ago I found it again. Now I have two umbrellas I really like.
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It sucks being ill, but it helps when the weather’s discouraging you from doing things you’d normally do when you’re well. ⛈️
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Signal failure at Southern Cross means no trains running through the Loop. This leaves Flinders St. being the only CBD station serving my line. And yeah, it’s a tad busy.
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If a company has an app that was not available on your platform or in your country, and they take steps to discontinue it, was it ever released?
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So, Apple’s becoming more like Google (ads in Apple Maps) just as Google is becoming more like Apple (restrictions on side loading in Android). I’m all for cross-pollination but I wish they didn’t pick each other’s bad ideas.
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Not every single blog post needs to read like an article from The Economist. You could, you know, just get to the point.
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For this train trip, the role of “automated station arrival announcer” will be played by your driver.
Reminds me of the last time I took a train in Sydney.
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Now that Claude Code has automated my job, I’m left with just pressing “Y” every time the agent asks me to approve something. Fortunately, there’s a way to automate that too. 😜
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Thanks to Merlin Mann’s Bluesky posts, I’ve been watching The Young Ones clips on YouTube. First time I encountered the show was in Year 10 Media. It was the weirdest thing I saw at the time. 24 years on, it’s still weird, but I can understand the humour of it now.
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Is there such a thing as too many lizards? Well… 🤔
This one was found in my bedroom. 🦎
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Darling Gardens.
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Some advice for other developers using these coding agents to “vibe-code” something: stick with technologies that you yourself understand. In my experience using these tools, while I get almost what I want, it’s never exactly what I want, and I’m usually left with something slightly broken or with a few things I’d like changed. This is where my skills come in, to finish the job.
Of course you’re free to use tech you’re not familiar with: I’m not telling you what to do here, and seeing code in an unfamiliar tech stack could potentially be a good way of learning it. But if all you want is a thing, if you’re not in a position to go in and make changes yourself, you’re kind of stuck with what was produced or spending tokens trying to get it exactly the way you want.
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It is interesting seeing so many people on the IndieWeb take on an us-verses-them approach to Big Tech, as if they’re rebels against “the Empire”. That’s not how I like to approach my participation in the movement, such that it is. I believe effective participation comes from using the technologies of the open web: blogs, RSS, etc. It doesn’t require a combative approach to people spending their in the walled gardens, or those who own the gardens themselves. I do believe there are plenty of problems with their business models — that’s generally why I stay away from them — and do believe those that enjoy said gardens are missing out on something, but who am I to tell them what to do? For me, it’s just enough to just be. Be myself, write for myself, in topics I’m interested in. I’m sure others will disagree, and express their disagreement on their own blogs. But hey, isn’t that the whole point?
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Good thing I checked the laundry basket first or I would’ve smothered this guy with my washing. 🦎
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Easy to forget, while browsing through the style classes in UI component frameworks like Bootstrap that… you can just write your own CSS rules.
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TUIs Are Underrated
There’s still room in this world for UIs made of line characters. Continue reading →
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Seems like matcha is the hot new craze round here. Lots of cafes are offering drinks with it now. For myself, I do like matcha. Prior to this craze, I managed to secure my supply from those at work bringing into the office goodies from their trips to Japan.
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🔗 Google’s New Sideloading Restrictions for Android Include a 24-Hour Waiting Period
Ugh! Google is just dead set on ruining Android, aren’t they. If I wanted a locked-down mobile OS, I would’ve bought an iPhone. At least that way I would’ve had access to better apps. 😒
Via: Daring Fireball
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Been trying out the coding agent skill Superpowers over the last few days. Seems to work quite well for larger changes. It feels a little slower, what with the agent asking questions and walking through a plan, but I think it produces better work overall. Just make sure to run it on a branch.
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Meta talking about platform fees for the metaverse feels to me like a school rock-band talking about how they’d divvy up revenue from ticket sales before they get their first gig.
Sounds like the band’s breaking up.
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The YouTube algorithm has decided I’m interested in city planning videos from Canadians, particularly Ontarians (not without cause). As a consequence, I’ve learnt the names of a few national and provincial public transport authorities. Via Rail? GO Trains? I know what those mean now.
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Found out that
!works in Claude Code, allowing you to run shell commands a.la. Vim. A nice feature that I wasn’t expecting.