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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.
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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.
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Photos of Lake Tuggeranong
This morning I went to Tuggeranong, south of Canberra. After a cafe breakfast I took a walk around the lake. It was a lovely spring morning for it: cloudy, mild but slightly on the cool side. It was also quite a decent walk: probably took an hour and 20 minutes, and I didn’t even cover the entire lake. All in all, a nice way to begin the day.
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🔗 Google suffers from a digital petro curse
Hearing the story about Stadia reminded me of this post by DHH. His thoughts on why Google can’t keep a new product around for more than a few years is insightful.
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Google’s damaged reputation made the death of Stadia a self-fulfilling prophecy. No one buys Stadia games because they assume the service will be shut down, and Stadia is forced to shut down because no one buys games from it.
What’s there more to say? 🤷
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🔗 Cloudflare’s CAPTCHA replacement lacks crosswalks, checkboxes, Google
I wonder: if Google, as many suspect, is using CAPTCHA for image recognition training, how certain are they of the positive results? If everyone were to start clicking anything other than crosswalks, would that screw up their training data?
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Things Dynamo-Browse Need
I’m working with dynamo-browse a lot this morning and I’m coming up with a bunch of usability shortcomings. I’m listing them here so I don’t forget.
The query language needs an
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An idea for anyone maintaining a 2FA app. When there’s only a few seconds left for an OTP code, start fading the numbers out.
I only look at the time remaining indicator about half the time, usually when I have a bit of time to enter a code. Other times when I’m under a bit of pressure to login, I just look at the code and start entering it, only to stop because the number changed without me noticing.
Seeing it start to fade is a good indicator that the code will change and that I should probably wait for the next one.
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The best Slack shortcut I learnt today is Shift+Esc. This will mark all messages as read. 😌
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I had some trouble trying out status.lol yesterday. Turns out the reason was that I was using the API key from meta.omg.lol. instead of from home.omg.lol. Once that was fixed, sending status updates worked without any problem.
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As a change of pace, I’ve picked up a frontend ticket at work today. TypeScript, React, GraphQL: yes, I’m using it all. I know a little of each so I’m not coming to it completely cold. But it’s still all quite new to me so there’s still that sense of doing something novel.
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Here’s something I learnt today about cockatiels: they sneeze, or do something that can be described as sneezing. Either way, I didn’t learn this from looking it up. 🤧
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Overlay Composition Using Bubble Tea
Working on a new feature for Dynamo-Browse which will allow the user to modify the columns of the table: move them around, sort them, hide them, etc. I want the feature to be interactive instead of a whole lot of command incantations that are tedious to write. I also kind of want the table whose columns are being manipulated to be visible, just so that the affects of the change would be apparent to the user while they make them.
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Tried something different today, by recording a how-to video of a project I’m working on. Must say that I now appreciate the effort of those that work with video after the attempt: roughtly 20 takes and I still haven’t got a cut I like (it’s only a screencast as well).
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Tax return done. Was in danger of forgetting to do it so deceided to get it out of the way today. Relatively painless: took probably 20 minutes. Let’s hope everything in there is correct. 😬
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To any Stratechery or Dithering subscribers that have seen no new posts since Monday: you may need to get new feeds from Passport. Ben just launched something new and in doing so, seemed to have broken article & podcast RSS feeds. Might’ve been just me, but just in case it isn’t.
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I must say, Feedbin does a good job making Twitter threads actually nice to read. I haven’t seen it work for every thread, but when it does, if feels almost like you’re reading a blog post. So much better than reading it in Twitter.
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🎙️ Really Specific Stories, featuring yours truly.
Had the privilege of being a guest on @martinfeld’s excellent show about podcasting. Check it out, then make sure you listen to the other episodes because they are all really good.
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Currently binging on Epic Engineering Failures from the Great Courses. The details of the failures are interesting, but the course also covers a lot on structural engineering, which I never expected to find just as facinating.
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Google, please; fix the locale detection logic in Sheets. Every newly created spreadsheet has the wrong locale set by default, and I always need to explicitly change it to AU. As fun as it is to use £ for currency, or month/day/year for dates, I prefer to use what I’m use to.
