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I’m starting to think that the 1x zoom on this Pixel 6 might be a bit too wide. I was scrolling through some photos I took this morning, hoping to post them here, but the subject is too hard to see. I may need to move to 2x or even 4x for future shots.
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These signs were up around town today. We went to the usual places they have markets but there was nothing there: no stalls or anything. It’s only just now that I realised we may have looked at the wrong places.
Probably need more signs around those other market spots.
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Had the opportunity to play Ticket To Ride, Europe today. It took a little while to get my head around the rules, particuarily around how cards should be drawn, but it eventually clicked once we started playing.
I’d recommend playing one or two rounds without stations first, just so that the core mechanics of the game could be practiced without too many moving parts.
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I tried walking around with a notebook yesterday to… you know… be the type of person that carries a notebook. First attempt did not go well: got in the way of my phone a fair bit. I might try carrying it in my other pocket with my keys.
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I used the BBEdit diffing tool for the first time today, and I must say that it’s actually quite good. Shame I didn’t try it sooner. It would have saved me a couple of hours trying to debug the CI/CD problem I’m trying to fix.
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The "Too Much Data" Error in Buffalo Projects
If there’s anyone else out there using Buffalo to build web-apps, I just discovered that it doesn’t clean up old versions of bundled JavaScript files. This means that the public/asset directory can grow to gigabytes in size, eventually reaching the point where Go will simply refuse to embed that much data. The tell-tail sign is this error message when you try to run the application: too much data in section SDWARFSECT (over 2e+09 bytes) If you see that, deleting public/assets should solve your problem. Continue reading →
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Signed up for an online course this morning, then browsing the web an hour later I found someone else offering another course on the same topic that also looked interesting. Can I sign up to two courses that cover the same thing at once? 🤔
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I really dislike code reviews. I admit it. I don’t like doing them, and I don’t like having it done to the code I write. I know this is my ego talking here, but really, sometimes I just want to say to the reviewer “if you don’t like the code as written, why don’t you write it?”
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🔗 No, Apple Did Not Crowdfund :focus-visible in Safari (via Daring Fireball)
I see nothing wrong with this. Apple has got their own priority backlog of work for Safari, but the fact that Safari is open source means that if others have different priorities, they have the ability to make these changes to the project directly, should they be capable of doing so. What these other contributors choose to do, and how they choose to decide this, is their business.
I’m not expecting regular users of Safari to understand this distinction between open-source project owners and contributors, but I’d had though that web-developers, whom I imagine deal with open-source software all the time, to know better. So it’s either that those complaining are not aware that Safari is an open-source project, or they do know and are just jumping on the rage bandwagon for whatever reason they may have. If it’s the latter, then I think they’re doing themselves a disservice.
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Watching a lot of vintage computing videos recently, it’s staggering how much system “software” was actually burned into ROM. The modern day developer in me feels squeamish about the prospects of releasing something like this, bugs and all, without the ability to change it.
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I’m feeling a bit stuck in my career at the moment, and I’m wondering if the thing that’s keeping me from moving to the next level is the fear of being on the hook for something.
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A couple of months ago, I put my name down on a waiting list for an online course I thought would be useful for my career. I got an email last night saying that applications open next week and now I’m slightly afraid to enrol. Must be worth doing, just for that reason.
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It’s interesting. I’ve lived in Melbourne my whole life, and there are large, large swatches of the metro area that I’ve never seen before. Might be worth exploring some of these places.
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One thing that has been lost from all this working from home is the ability to use things like whiteboards to sketch out an idea with a team. I bought an Apple Pencil in 2020 so that I can recreate the experience to some degree in video conferences. Probably one of the most useful things I bought during this pandemic.
Now, if only Apple made it easier to share an iPad screen during these video conferences.
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Finished reading: The Dip by Seth Godin 📚
Short book: only took a few hours to get through it. Message is quite simple but will require some courage to apply.
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On Posting Daily
I recently listen to an interview with Seth Godin on the Tim Ferris podcast. In that interview, Seth mentions that he writes up to five blog posts a day. He just doesn’t publish them all. I guess that means that he has at least one or two drafts that can be touched up and published when he needs them. Although I don’t think of this blog as being anywhere near the quality of Seths, I think I’d like to start trying to publish on this site at least once a day. Continue reading →
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At the cafe this morning, someone arrived with a dog that shares the same name as myself. It was surprisingly tricky not to respond to this person issuing commands like “Leon, get down” and “Leon, stop doing that.” 😄
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Boosted. 💉💉💉
Also bought a “Moderna muffin” to mark the occasion. (it’s just a chocolate-chip muffin from a nice bakery) 🧁
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It’s amusing to see that Google is confident enough in their AI to tell me that I’ve received a SMS message that is spam, yet not quite confident enough not to tell me that I’ve received a SMS message that is spam.
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I got a bit of a streak going so I was hoping to post something here today. Only trouble is that I had some nervousness and pessimism preventing me from thinking of topics to write about. It calmed down after some writing it my journal, freeing me up to make this post.
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The Future of Computing
I got into computers when I was quite young, and to satisfy my interest, I read a lot of books about computing during my primary school years. I remember one such book that included a discussion about how computing could evolve in the future. The book approached the topic using a narrative of a “future” scenario, that would probably correspond with today’s present. In that story, the protagonist was late for school because of a fault with the “home computer” regarding the setting of the thermostat or something similar. Continue reading →
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Shut down one blog this week and moved all the posts into this one. There’s another blog that I haven’t updated for a while, but people are reading it and I’m wondering whether it’s worth bringing it back to life. I only wish I picked a better name for it.
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I posit to you that the reason developers find it hard to do anything related with encryption is not because they’re in the weeds of how the algorithms work. Rather, it’s the confusing barrage of acronyms and standards that all reference each other.
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I was looking for a simple timer this morning until I remembered that the Vivaldi browser actually comes with one. And sure enough, it works. The addition of these little utilities like a timer, alarm, and notepad is one of the things I like about Vivaldi.
