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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.
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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.

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Day 22: hometown

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

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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.

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.
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Day 21: silhouette

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Two parrots perched on tree branches are silhouetted against a cloudy sky.
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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 -2°C.
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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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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.
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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:

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.
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From the archives — 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.

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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

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.
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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 .git directory of one repository over the .git directory of another. Some weird and wacky things will happen, like the active branch changing from underneith you to the files you modified being in conflict with those same files being deleted.

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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.

Auto-generated description: A post to Micro.blog is being composed with text about Meta putting ads in WhatsApp, relating it to Microsoft's attempt to add ads in Skype.
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Thinking of Meta putting ads in WhatsApp reminds me of when Microsoft tried ads in Skype. The pitch for users, as I was to understand it, was that the ads will help drive the conversation. I know my life could be spiced up with a conversation about dishwashing detergent.

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Day 18: texture

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Auto-generated description: A geometric pattern of hexagons in black and green overlays an intricate background with hints of wires and electronic components.
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Mark this day where I got swayed to build something atop of Kubernetes rather than doing something hand-rolled. Hope not to look back on this day when things are broken and delayed and I have no idea of how to fix it.

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I think I’ve decided that I prefer Canberra in the summer rather than the winter. Sure it means you’re likely to get the hot weather, but it needs to get really hot before you decide not to go outside. And getting outside when the temperature is at or below freezing is just as hard. 🥶