Day 25: decay

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Auto-generated description: A close-up view of a weathered, cracked wooden post with leaves and debris collected in the center.

Shoutout to all the vendors out there that slip a question about a feature that’s never used in production on a certification exam. I’m only going through training at the moment, but the instructor had a colleague that saw a question about a “tip of a day” feature on an exam once.

πŸ”— Omer: you are what you launch: how software became a lifestyle brand

they don’t just ship features anymore, they ship vibes. onboarding becomes a performance. the ui is the brand. the founder’s blog post is the manifesto.

it’s not about what the software does.it’s about who it’s made for.

I guess this shouldn’t be surprising. Software construction is like any other human endeavour, where the person making it puts a bit of themselves into it. How can they not? But I enjoyed how this essay explored this phenomenon.

Via: Jim Nielsen’s Notes

Day 24: bloom

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Auto-generated description: A tree with vibrant pink blossoms stands against a backdrop of a partly cloudy sky.

Slack’s Canvas feature needs to make clearer which bullet point is associated with the open thread. I’ve been pinged in three separate threads over the last minute, and I can’t tell which one is which. Showing the bullet point at the top is not enough as we’re using headers to distinguish them.

Need to change my credit card as my old one is expiring, so I’m doing a stocktake of what I’ve subscribed to. Total service count is 28. Potentially more as I’m sure there are some that I don’t have a 1Password entry for. A good opportunity to trim some of them down.

I.S. Know: An Online Quiz About ISO and RFC Standards

An online quiz called “I.S. Know” was created for software developers to test their knowledge of ISO and RFC standards in a fun way.

Day 23: fracture

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A fibreglass building with a window with slatted glass panes and a green recycling bin nearby, surrounded by grass and foliage.

Brief Look At Microsoft's New CLI Text Editor

Kicking the tyres on Edit, Microsoft’s new text editor for the CLI.

Day 22: hometown

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Hot air balloons float over a city skyline near a river during a calm evening or morning.

On MacOS Permissions Again

Some dissenting thoughts about John Gruber and Ben Thompson discussion about Mac permissions and the iPad on the latest Dithering.

Returned to Tuggeranong for breakfast and a walk around the lake. The morning was quick crisp, and there was plenty of frost on the ground, but it was quite nice in the sun.

Auto-generated description: A serene lake reflects the surrounding mountains and trees under a clear blue sky, with dry grass in the foreground. A narrow dirt path winds through a frosty park with scattered trees, leading toward a distant building by a body of water.

Day 21: silhouette

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Two parrots perched on tree branches are silhouetted against a cloudy sky.

Out early in yet another bracing morning. Didn’t even know this temperature gauge showed negative numbers.

A car dashboard shows a speedometer, check engine light, and a digital display indicating the time as 9:21 and the temperature as -2Β°C.

Being in meetings most of the day has left my voice hoarse and completely tired out. I don’t know how people who talk for a living do it (my suspicion is a decent microphone and regular vocal training).

Day 20: gather

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A spacious, elegantly decorated banquet hall features rows of chairs and round tables facing a lectern set up for an event beneath a high, beamed ceiling with large windows.

Was writing “Airbus” in a message and mistakenly typed a P instead of a B. Found the results amusing, so I fired up ChatGPT’s image generator:

An AI generated image of a cartoon cat dressed as an airline pilot gives a thumbs-up with an airplane in the background above the word AIRPUSS.

From the archives β€” key ring:

Image of a keychain with the phrase 'Everyone I know has gone to Europe and all I got is all this work to do' with stars below Europe, and laptop and briefcase emoji below 'Work to do'

Was true a year ago and is currently true today.

Done. Removed the Discover feed from BlueSky. I was getting a little too obsessed with it and depressed from it. It’s reverse chronological from here on out.

(Honestly, I should probably cut down on social media altogether, but one step at a time.)

Day 19: equal

Full disclosure: I used the Google Photo AI erasure tool to remove the front number-plates from these two silver Toyota Echoes (if you’re a regular reader, you can probably guess why). #mbjune

Two cars of the same make, model, and colour are parked side by side in a parking lot at night with a building in the background.