Kicking the tyres on Edit, Microsoft’s new text editor for the CLI.

Some dissenting thoughts about John Gruber and Ben Thompson discussion about Mac permissions and the iPad on the latest Dithering.

Decided to go to Yass today, a small town in NSW just north of where I’m staying in Canberra. I pass by Yass every time I drive to Canberra from Melbourne, and I wanted to see what it was like, at least once. And this morning I discovered that it had a railway museum, which sealed the deal. Unfortunately the weather was not kind: it was bitterly cold and rainy the whole time I was there.

I made a decision around the set operator in UCL this morning. When I added the set operator, I made it such that when setting variables, you had to include the leading dollar sign: $a = 123 The reason for this was that the set operator was also to be used for setting pseudo-variables, which had a different prefix character. @ans = "this" I needed the user to include the @ prefix to distinguish the two, and since one variable type required a prefix, it made sense to require it for the other.

Some contrasting views on the role of AI in creation, highlighting the importance of human creativity and quality over speed and cost-cutting in technological advancements.

You’ve probably noticed1 that I’ve stopped posting links to Open Bookmarks, and have started posting them here again. The main reason for this is that I’ve abandoned work on the CMS I was working on that powered that bookmarking site. Yes, yes, I know: another one. Open Bookmarks was basically a static Hugo site, hosted on Netlify. But being someone that wanted to make it easy for me to post new links without having to do a Git checkout, or fiddle around YAML front-matter, I thought of building a simple web-service for this.

Encapsulation is something object-oriented programming got right.

🦆: Did you hear about The Browser Company? L: Oh yeah, I heard the CEO wrote a letter about Arc. 🦆: Yeah, did you ever use Arc? L: Nah. Probably won’t now that it seems like they’ve stopped work on it. Heard it was pretty nice thought. 🦆: Yeah, I heard Scott Forstall had an early look at it. L: Oh yeah, and how he compared it to a saxophone and recommended making it more like a piano.

Significant milestone in integrating UCL with Dynamo-Browse, as UCL extensions are now being loaded on launch.

Some thoughts of changing how assignments work in UCL to support subscripts and pseudo-variables.