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It’s surprising how quickly you can get use to a mask outside when you’re required to wear one, and then get use to not wearing one outside when you’re not. #mbnov
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My dilemma for today is whether to buy a blender, and which one would work for me. Something suitable for smoothies and that is easy to clean are features that I’m looking for. I’m also considering a coffee grinder. #mbnov
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Passed by what I think is a Norfolk Island Pine tree. Incidentally, Norfolk Island is one of the few places outside the US to celebrate Thanksgiving.
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I’ve just setup a subscription to Climeworks, which is a startup building plants for capturing and storing CO2 underground. I could argue about the price, but I think we need to adjust our thinking about these things if we’re ever going to mitigate this climate crisis. #mbnov
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Even in these Covid times when I’m home 95% of the time, deciding whether and when to go for a walk such that I’ll be home to receive a delivery is still a surprisingly tricky call to make. #mbnov
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Several years ago, I had the opportunity to work at a federal government agency. There was a lot to like about the experience, but one negative was the time it took to provision a virtual machine for us to run our code. The record for longest wait was about a year. #mbnov
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Sunset over the suburbs, taken 2 weeks ago. You can get some pretty nice sunsets around this time of year. It’s a shame my camera and photo-taking skills are not good enough to capture how nice the light was that evening. #mbnov
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During the second coronavirus wave in Melbourne, a “ring of steel” was imposed, encircling the metropolitan in an attempt to contain the outbreak. That border dropped a few weeks ago, and today we crossed it for the first time since June. #mbnov
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One feature of living in the Southern Hemisphere is that you get to see winter decorations in shopping centres twice a year. First when it’s actually winter, and the second around this time of year, with the lead up to Christmas. #mbnov
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It’s getting harder to go on lunchtime walks without having to slap on sunscreen or a hat. I may need to move to evening walks, when the intensity of the sunlight starts to fade. #mbnov (Today’s was a tricky one).
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After dealing with Apple Developer Certificates and Provisioning Profiles for a single app for work, I feel for all the macOS and iOS developers out there that need to deal with this on a regular basis.
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I don’t know if it’s just me, but I find all these online services that push you these A.I. driven “recommendations” of things to follow, watch, read, etc. really distasteful. I wish it was possible to turn some of these off. #mbnov
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Why I'm Considering Building A Blogging CMS
I’m planning to start a new blog about Go development and one of the things that I’m currently torn on is how to host it. The choice look to be either using a service like blot.im or micro.blog or some other hosting service, using a static site generation tool like Hugo, or building my own CMS for it. I know that one of the things people tell you about blogging is that building your CMS is not worth your time: I myself even described it as “second cardinal sin of programming” on my first post to micro. Continue reading →
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I have to keep reminding myself, when I’m building personal software projects, the costs of adding dependence to external modules. It’s one of those balances that I struggle with, along with the perennial one of building something vs. using something off the shelf. #mbnov
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There are people out there who love cars, boats and planes; but chalk me up as one who loves a good train. #mbnov
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Occasionally, when I go to the ABC News site, it stirs up the memory of the mid 90’s ad campaign for the site. Being the early days of the web, I remember distinctly the announcer saying out loud each letter in the URL. I think it was the first URL that I ever saw. #mbnov
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It’s meant to be a warm, windy, 33°C day today, a perfect day for washing sheets. What I’m currently seeing now is a far cry from that: dark skies and smattering of rain on the roof, with more on the way according to the radar. Why?! #mbnov
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Today’s Microblogvember word is spooky. This is not something that I handle well. For example, I don’t like spooky movies. I think the last one I watch was 20 years ago, and it had an effect on me for a few months. #mbnov
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I’ve switched from a Lenovo laptop back to a MacBook Pro for work, which means I no longer need this smart plug setup for extinguishing the charging LED at night. It’s not used for anything at the moment, but I guess it’s still useful. Maybe for the Christmas tree lights. #mbnov
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I was asked to come into the office for the first time since the start of the pandemic. It felt strange to wear a shirt again, something that I haven’t done since March. It also means that I’ll need to relearn how to iron it. #mbnov
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While I did say that I might have gone Chromebook over iPad two days ago, I must also say that the new Macs with Apple Silicon look really exciting and I look forward to hearing about how well they perform. #mbnov
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We’ve had zero new Covid-19 cases for several days now so I took a risked and visited my elderly grandmother. We were both very careful, we both wore masks during the visit, and were maintaining 2 metres of distance. But it was good to see her again. #mbnov
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The ads from Google are getting worse. I continue seeing an obviously fake one offering me advice on how to get rich (the claims of being an Aussie while using the NZ flag is a giveaway). If I keep seeing this, it will force me to setup Pi-hole. #mbnov
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An anecdote regarding the removal of iSH from the App Store
Around April this year, my old Android Nexus 9 tablet was becoming unusable due to it’s age and I was considering which tablet to move to next. I have been a user of Android tablets since the Nexus 7 and I have been quite happy with them (yes, we do exist). However, it was becoming clear that Google’s was no longer interested in maintaining first-party support for Android on a tablet, and none of the other brands that were available were very inspiring. Continue reading →
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If there’s something that I’ll take away from the events of this year, it’s that adversity can, in some circumstances, bind us closer together. #mbnov