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There’s no reason to use Testify’s Suite package for Go unit tests anymore. It’s possible to do whatever you need to do with Go’s builtin test runner. Furthermore, most IDEs are smart enough to detect and run sub-tests that use
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This is a core system app interrupting you, promoting a sale by a movie-ticketing company, to push you to go see the platform vendor’s new movie.
Why not just pop up random ads all the time, always creating new channels that everyone’s opted-into by default so you can never keep up with opting out of them all?
Oh wait, that’s already what happens.
Apple’s as bad as everyone else. They don’t respect their customers — we’re fodder.
They truly have no standards anymore.
https://mastodon.social/@caseyliss/114738626109660386Maybe Apple can start putting ads for their F1 movie in their permission dialogues. Goodness knows how often I see those. 😛
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Day 25: decay
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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.
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🔗 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
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Day 24: bloom
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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.
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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.
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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. Continue reading →
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Day 23: fracture
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Brief Look At Microsoft's New CLI Text Editor
Kicking the tyres on Edit, Microsoft’s new text editor for the CLI. Continue reading →
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On MacOS Permissions Again
Some dissenting thoughts about John Gruber and Ben Thompson discussion about Mac permissions and the iPad on the latest Dithering. Continue reading →
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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.
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Day 21: silhouette
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Out early in yet another bracing morning. Didn’t even know this temperature gauge showed negative numbers.
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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).
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Day 20: gather
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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:
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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.)
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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
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Found a particularly interesting bug in Safari when I tried adding a background transition to radio-button labels styled to look like regular buttons. Tapping the labels on the iPad causes the background colour to flicker:
Fixed it by working around the problem: I only need the transition when the user taps “Submit”, so I held-off from applying the transition attributes until that happens. But wow, what an weird way to fail.
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Pro tip: don’t copy the
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Tried out the Micro.blog Raycast extension by Tynan Purdy. Works well. I am curious to know how customisable the input form is. A larger text box and a character counter would be nice.
