Another gripe about how Chromium browsers don’t have a “go back 30 seconds” button on their HTML 5 audio player. They do know that podcasts on a website are a thing, right? Vivaldi, here’s your time to shine. Once you’ve finished adding reminders or whatever you’re doing now…

Once in a while, I like to listen to old episodes of Hypercritical. They’re more than 10 years old now and yet they’re still a great listen. John Siracusa’s review of his (then) new TiVo is probably my favourite segment.

While reading the part about podcasting on Scripting News this morning, it got me thinking: has Apple’s foray into podcast subscriptions actually gone anywhere? I haven’t heard anything about it since its launch. It could be because I don’t use Apple’s podcast player app. But even so, I would have thought I’d heard something from others by now if it had some success.

It’s weird that when you join a second or third Slack workspace, all the onboarding stuff is shown to you again, as if you’ve never used Slack before. I’d thought Slack would be checking your email address against other workspaces to save you this hassle. 🤷

One thing I miss from using Gnome and Linux is the ability to pin any window to the top layer, so that it appears above all the others. I’m a little surprise that MacOS doesn’t support this at the OS level, and that apps need to offer it themselves. Of course, not every app does.

Ok, I’m all in on Obsidian for my note taking now. I’ve found myself using it at work every day this week. The editor they’ve got in the latest version is quite nice. And now that their mobile apps are out, it’s great that I can now access my notes on any device.

Useful thing to know about Go: you can do lookups on a nil map:

var xs map[string]string = nil
x, hasX := xs["hello"]

The result will simply be the zero value of the particular type. In this case x will be the empty string.

Tinkering around with some tools I use to help me at work. One, a CSV editor which runs in the terminal, has a command-line interface that is so wimpy I’m having trouble resisting the urge to rip it out and replace it with something like TCL. I don’t need another distraction.

There a so many good, high quality TV shows available at the moment. And yet I have little interest in watching any of them. They feel like such a time investment. Of course, the alternative is vegging out to YouTube, so where’s the real time-sink here?

New blog alert: lmika.day

Started a check-in blog, similar to manton.coffee. Having a record of places I’ve been to has been something I’ve been thinking of for a while, and I suspect all the travel this year, plus the recent talk about Meridian, nudged me to start keeping one.

Trying Obsidian for note-keeping at work again. I used it a lot in my last job, but I never really liked how the markdown was styled, so I stopped when I started working where I am now.

One other reason why I didn’t keep using Obsidian was that I always forgot to launch it. Out of sight is out of mind for me, and I never think of launching it when I need to write something down. This means that most of my notes usually end up in Tot or various untitled TextEdit windows.

Fortunately, the styling of the markdown editor is closer to my taste in the recent version, so I’ll give it another go. I’ve also added Obsidian as a login item so that it shows up as soon as I log in now.