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Heard someone on the train talk about names. “Leo is Leo, and Leon is Leon,” she said. As a Leon I can confirm that Leon is indeed Leon… most of the time. You’ll be surprised how often Leon is missheard and mistakenly written as Lion (happened a few weeks ago).
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The problem with being a bad sleeper is that you can’t use the excuse of a bad sleep to get out of work. 😛
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Incidentally, this is probably the first vibe coded project that uses something beyond my current knowledge. When I asked for an Android app, the agent decided to use Jetpack Compose, a DSL for creating UIs much like Swift UI, and something I have no experience with. Looks pretty nice though.
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Talked to the agents yesterday and it’s come back with this Android app. Primed the pump, as it were, by bookmarking a few posts in Quick Reads for the commute home. We’ll see if I’ll read them.
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Oof! Almost fell for a phishing email. Got a “payment failed” email seemingly from OpenAI and without thinking, I clicked the big link to update my payment method. Caught myself and took note of the sender before the page finished loading (it was a frickin’ Gmail address, for heaven’s sake). Closed it immediately and blocked the sender.
The thing is, I’ve been getting some payment failure emails recently as I had to update my credit card and I missed some subscriptions. Maybe without that recency bias my guard wouldn’t have been so far down as it was this evening. Although probably not because there wasn’t much thinking going through my head when I saw the email. I was distracted, tired, and just absentminded.
It probably didn’t help that it also slipped through the spam and phishing filter. Funny how such protection could lull someone in a false sense of security: “the email’s not in the spam filter, so it must be genuine.” 🤦
Anyway, be careful out there.
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Joining a Zoom meeting, which starts like every other Zoom meeting: people having technical difficulties, talking while muted, talking over each other, etc. And to think we once looked forward to video phones.
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This is your occasional reminder that micro-services suck and we shouldn’t be using them. Unless we’re Google — which we are not — just build a frickin’ monolith.
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I may give read-it-later services another try, just to give me something to read on the way home from work (rather than social media). Matt Birchler’s new Quick Read service looks interesting. Only trouble is that there’s no Android app. So I… ah… may need to talk to a few agents about that.
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Everyone’s thinking about our strategic oil reserves, leaving our strategic Mother’s Day card reserves unaddressed.
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I’m now deep enough into my blogging career that it’s not just the typos I see, it’s the incorrect use of prepositions. Is it “in support of the post” or “in support for the post?” Are they interchangable? Am I still getting the meaning across? So much doubt.
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🔗 Blain Smith: Just Fucking Use Go
There are not enough “this"es in the English language I can add in support for this post.
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🔗 The Homebound Symphony: Predictable (emphasis added):
Every university function that is on the internet is a security vulnerability. (Just look at how many online systems we have!) But every university function outsourced to a giant company whose tools are used by many universities is a far greater vulnerability, because there is so much money to be made from exploiting all that data. Locally owned and managed data is a smaller and less appealing target for hackers.
It’s kind of ironic that the move away from home-spun and locally managed data stores, usually done in the name of “security”, has not left us more secure at all. All it’s done is made larger, more valuable, targets.
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🔗 Manton Reece: Inkwell app review history
Get it together, Apple! This is an app I’m interested in using, and your review process is getting in the way. What the heck is the problem?!
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End of the path.
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It just occurred to me that the Terminal may have been the original superapp. 😛
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Salvation from doom-scrolling doesn’t go through saving RSS posts to read later. Instead, it’s ensuring you’ve subscribed to enough RSS feeds that post frequently enough that you don’t need to doom-scroll. It’s a demand problem, or lack thereof.
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Well, the search may have been fruitless, but it’s ultimately not about the destination. What’s important is all the tools we made along the way.
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Listening to FLYING TOTEMS (movement 2) by Jean-Michel Jarre from Equinoxe Infinity 🎵
This is usually a Friday listen, but it’s been a bit of an earworm this week.
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📦 Release
Dequoter 0.1.9
Initial release of Dequoter: a simple Boop-like text processor for MacOS. Continue reading →
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🔗 Pixel Envy: ‘Knowledge Fight’ Is Over:
Sometimes, periodical media is created with an elaborate plan or story arc. Often, though, there is no predetermined structure and, especially in the case of reactive or commentary media, the next entry feels almost inevitable. Until it stops. Then we get to feel what our world is like without it and, if it leaves a void, it is a sign it was valued.
Knowledge Fight has been a guilty pleasure of mine. The subject matter is awful, yet Dan or Jordan approached it with the attitude it deserves, namely mockery. I still have the back catalogue to enjoy, but I will miss this.
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While we’re adding features to public web services, here’s another one: request durations in Stripe’s Workbench. I’m seeing some pretty slow subscription update calls and it would be nice to see if it’s impacting the timeout of our integration.
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A nice feature search engines like Kagi could add is a way for users to filter certain domains from the results, sort of like a personal blocklist. That way, if I were to stumble on a site which engages in shitty SOE and ads, I’ll never have to visit them again.
Follow up
Apparently this is already possible in Kagi.
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Yep, tram bunching FTW. (Pro tip: if a tram is significantly delayed, and when it arrives it’s packed to the rafters, wait for the next one. It’s probably going to be on time, and most likely very empty.)
