Ooh, how interesting: Vivaldi is offering blog hosting. I hear blogging is all the rage now, so I gave it a bit of a test. And it’s nothing Earth shattering: it’s basically Wordpress. But it’s interesting seeing Vivaldi do this.
Here’s a life hack: if you’re listening to a podcast, but not paying attention, and wishing you were listening to something else, stop listening to the podcast and listen to the other thing.
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Got a bit bored today. Fortunately Acorn comes with an eye-dropper and Galvji, the closest to SF Pro I had available to me.
It kind of blew my mind that this currency exchange rate “API” is nothing more than just some static files on a CDN, along with a cronjob that updates them daily. I guess it’s technically still an API. If the interface is stable, then there’s no reason why it needs to be backed by a database.
It’s amazing, when you consider the vast computing resources that AWS has, that it still takes tens of minutes to deploy several lambdas at once.
Fixed spelling of canceled
My last commit message. With the linter requiring US spelling for all code artefacts, I never had more of an urge to put scare-quotes in a commit message as I do right now.
On time arrival at Albury, NSW.
At “Broady 3,” waiting for the XPT to Albury. 🚂
Received another toy the other day: a new Keychron keyboard. It’ll take me some time to get use to the keyboard layout, and I’ll miss the numeric keypad; but it looks, feels, and sounds great. It’s also my first external keyboard with Apple keycaps: all the ones to date had Windows keys.
The weather is stubbornly refusing to turn autumnal. Fortunately the trees are happy to oblige.
That small lizard that occasionally gets inside my house is back. Got a bit of a surprise when I saw it in the hallway today. It ran as I reached for my phone to take this picture.
Does Vivaldi Mobile for Android have GIF support? Yes… I guess? Not entirely sure who’s asking. Or why. Are these the same people who want to know if Vivaldi has paid stickers or file sharing support? Is this for a hypothetical messaging app?
The epic feature branch rises again. Like a phoenix. A large, complicated phoenix; one that doesn’t get on with the other birds and is difficult to catch when it needs to be put back in its cage at the end.
I’m liking the idea Matt Birchler has with consolidating all the little web utilities he’s built into a single app. I’m wondering if I should do likewise for the random things I’ve built, like the world clock and two letter country code list. Cut down the number of subdomains I’m using.
I learnt something about myself the other day: I will shun a piece of software that has dates in the American format — mm/dd/yyyy — and won’t allow me to change it. The worst of this was Roam Research, which used that format in note URLs. No one wants that format in something that can’t be changed.
Request to add a new acronym to the vernacular: SMQL — Slack Message Query Language. Definition: a query for data from services by asking devs or operators working on those systems to get that data and send it back via Slack messages.
Every day is CSS Naked Day if you read your blogs in an RSS reader. 😛
Working for a large(ish) company, it’s difficult to know whether users are enjoying and showing interest int the products you work on (usually it’s the opposite, where your attention is needed when things go wrong). So it’s always a delight to see when they do. Makes it worth while.
Congratulations to Seth Godin for 10,000 blog posts. A phenomenal achievement. I’m a little further behind myself: this will be post number 2,666, just over a quarter of where Seth Godin is. Seth, I’m coming after you! 😀