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On the mailing list for someone who releases weekly digest newsletters using both Patreon and Substack. Both are now truncating the email, requiring me to click through to read the entire thing. Seems like a terriable middle ground between a newsletter (read the whole thing in my email client) and a website (read the whole thing in an RSS reader).
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Words I’ve been misspelling all week:
- Utilization
- Prometheus
And for today, a word that I thought I misspelt but I actually got correct: Thanos.
US spelling intentional.
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I shutdown my work laptop over the weekend, which means I usually start the week with zero projects open in my IDE. By the end of the week, the open project count is always much higher than I expect and I never remember how it get so high. This week, the count is 18 open projects.
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Really enjoyed Brent Simmons post about his experience with Frontier. I really like the idea of sorts of software tools that provide so much customisation that a user can really make it their own.
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Decided to move my journal over to Obsidian, taking up one of the 8, now 7, remaining vaults I have on my Obsidian Sync Plus plan. So far, so good. Offers a pretty decent writing experience — a nice thing about using Day One — while allowing entries to be plain Markdown files — which is nice about my bespoke solution. There are also some nice features with using a native app, such as having it launch on login, ready to start a new entry at a click of a button.
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I wonder if anyone finds being an actor in stock footage ambitious. Guess it’s much like being an actor that just does commercials.
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I can understand why Google’s choosing to block sideloading unverified Android apps, but this still disappoints me. The whole reason why I chose Android over iOS is the ability to side-load apps. Not sure what I’m going to do about this change.
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Devlog: Godot Project — Level 2-3 Update
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A recent scramble for the need of activity on Slack, yet no-one knows what activities need doing. Choosing this course of action:
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Tests failing on the build server so I’ve reverted to print debugging to find the cause. Part of me feels a bit dirty using this form of debugging, but there’s no doubting it’s effectiveness.
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Tempting fate by walking out of the house without an umbrella. Deliberately, I might add. Is no umbrella better than a broken umbrella? 🤔
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Oof! $149.00, paid to Apple for the right to notarise apps. Problem here being that I’ve not notarised any apps recently. Probably should release something, just to get my money’s worth.
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Today I had the pleasure of driving this:
An oil-fired steam locomotive. Drove it from Castlemaine to Maldon, round-trip of about 40 km, as part of the driving experience offered by the Victorian Goldfields Railway. Very fun. Was anxious about it at first but turned out to be a great experience.
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Devlog: UCL — Comparing UCL To Some Early Ideas
Comparing UCL to an idea for a hypothetical command language for a now-defunct CLI project, which aimed to combine shell-like REPL functionality with scripting capabilities. Continue reading →
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It’s always something with NPM, isn’t it:
Here’s an idea: why don’t YOU rename that directory, NPM?
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🔗 Wikipedia: White-winged chough
I’ve seen this bird before and I had no idea what they are: black, white tips on the wings, red eyes, and an interesting call. Their presence in a random YouTube video I was watching revealed the answer.
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Currently waiting for a Zero Trust 2FA email to arrive. It’s been about 8 minutes and I still hasn’t received it. I could always request a new code, but the minute I do that, the old code comes up and I have to wait another 5 minutes for the new code to arrive. Of course if I don’t do that, and the original code email failed for some reason, then I’ve waited 8 minutes for nothing.
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Why does Stripe delete test subscriptions after 90 days? What resources do these test subscriptions actually take up? I can understand deleting them after, say, 2 years, but 90 days seem a bit short.
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“Get out more” goal for August achieved. ✅
Boardgames at the Melbourne Central Lion Hotel. Played Codewords and Avalon. Was fun. I didn’t stay long but I’m considering this a success. Will probably go again.
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I rather services that were not localised than badly localised. Saw at an addressed in my calendar with
Melbourne VIat the end. What the heck does “Melboune VI” mean? Melbourne the 6th? I then realised that it was short for Victoria, the state, typically abbreviated asVicin Australia. But being a US service, they assume that states only had 2 characters. No, bad assumption. If you can’t do it right, don’t even ask for the state. -
I generally dislike people writing one sentence a message in Slack or any other messaging app, especially when they’re pushing out messages rapidly, constantly pings my phone. But I think I like the idea of one question per message, allowing the responder to answer it in a thread.
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Talk to anyone working on the Go language and they'll tell you about the JSON parser they built. Maybe the CSS designer equivalent is making their own CSS reset. 😏
