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Thinking about Twitter and newsletters during my morning walk, I wonder: did Twitter actually do anything with Revue after they bought it last year, or was it one more acquisition that was left to die on the Vine? (pun intended, sort-of)
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Didn’t sleep well last night. Why? Because it was the first night of on call that I’ve had in a while, and I was afraid of being woken up by PagerDuty. Yes, that’s right: the fear of being woken up last night kept me up last night. 😫
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I went to the dentist a few weeks ago (for the first time in five years 🙈) and the dentist asked if I was grinding my teeth. I said “no” as I didn’t think I was, but now I’m wondering if I do. It’s certainly something I’ve been noticing I do more often since that visit.
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What Would Get Me Back to Using Twitter Again
Congratulations, Elon Musk, on your purchase of Twitter. I’m sure you’ve got a bunch of ideas of how you want to move the company forward. I was once a user of Twitter myself — albeit not a massive one — and I’m sure you would just love to know what it would take for me to be a user once more. Well, here’s some advice on how you can improve the platform in ways that would make me consider going back. Continue reading →
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Thinking about that last post a little more, maybe it’s just a matter of framing. After all, if others didn’t post about what they’re watching, reading or listening to, there would be a bunch of great stuff I never would have heard of or experienced.
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I sometimes wonder, during days where I have very little to say, if it would be better to talk about something “trivial” like a new TV show I’m watching, or if it would be better to say nothing at all.
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For want of a new tool, Xcode command line tools needs to be upgraded.
For want of upgraded Xcode command line tools, Xcode needs to be upgraded.
For want of an upgraded Xcode, MacOS needs to be upgraded.
And you can probably guess where I’m going with all this. 😒
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A few people I know are isolating due to Covid-19, so I stayed in last night. I rewatched Helvetica by Gary Hustwit. Last time I watched it was at the start of the pandemic, when Hustwit offered viewing it for free. Watching it again actually brought be back to that time.
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Started reading: The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi. It was page 2, when I read the name of the mobile app the protaginst was working on, when I got good feelings about this one. 📚
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During the last four days, I drove home from Canberra (not a bad thing), my job went live with the project I’m working on, I intended the funeral of my grandfather who passed away last week, and I came in contact with someone who has Covid-19. One more day to go.
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Just got my new passport today. Shortest six weeks of my life. 😉
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🔗 Facebook on 30 Percent Platform Fees: ‘Hold Our Beer’
Meta talking about platform fees for the metaverse feels to me like a school rock-band talking about how they’d divvy up revenue from ticket sales before they get their first gig.
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Went to the National Gallery of Australia today. Must say that I enjoyed it much more than I thought I would. I didn’t think of myself as someone who liked going to galleries. Maybe it’s just because it’s been a while since I’ve gone to one (last time was in 2017).
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Trying to use GitHub Codespaces on an iPad. It sorta works. When it does, it works quite well. But there are times when the Enter and cursor keys just stop responding, and a reload of the page is required to get it working again.
I’m also a little surprised there’s no iOS app for Codespaces.
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Dad and I will be driving to Canberra today to spend some time with the family over the Easter long weekend. Estimate travel time is 6.5 hours, so the trip will pretty much take all day. Not that I mind. I do enjoy the occasional long drive.
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Really enjoying the newsletter Speaking Tech by Michael DeHann. It reminds me a lot of Steve Yeggi’s Drunken Blog Rants.
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The thing about Severance is, while it may be the case that those on the severed floor at Lumon are living through a mega-corp workplace dystopia, at least they get to keep regular working hours.
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Started watching Severance yesterday and I got to say, it’s pretty good. Certainly something that grabbed me early, which is probably the reason why I couldn’t get into Ozark.
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A Case For Mocking in Unit Tests
Here’s a short account of a realisation I had this morning on the occasional usefulness of mocks in unit tests. I’ve never been a huge fan of mocking in unit tests. The code to set them up is tedious to write, and tends to be very fragile. Any change or refactor you make to the module being tested — even if the behaviour doesn’t change — and all your tests break because the mocks are no longer called the way they were. Continue reading →
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Love this remark from Gruber about the comment from Twitter about Musk’s board seat:
The first thing I’ll note is that Agrawal had to share the “brief note” itself as a screenshot, because, well, Twitter only supports up to 280 characters in a post. Duh, right?
Could have been worse than a screenshot. They could have shared their brief note as a Twitter thread. 😄
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Passport renewal forms filled in and sent away, along with new passport photos. Apparently there’s a bit of a backlog, and it will take six weeks for my new passport to arrive. I guess after the last two years, people are eager to get back to travelling overseas again.
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Finished reading: Indie Microblogging by Manton Reece. Great read, especially about all the work the Indyweb is doing, and the principals behind Micro.blog’s design. 📚
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Went for a walk this afternoon and came home to two deliveries of online orders, which was quite surprising. Guess I wasn’t the only one working this weekend.
