Day 26: bridge
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I can understand the move away from gas for home heating to reverse cycle, but I think I will miss it. Reverse cycle for heating is not perfect. I’ve got the thermostat set for 20°C and I still feel quite cold. I don’t get that toasty feeling that comes from central gas.
🔗 Spyglass: Apple Lives Long Enough to Become the Ad Villain
People pay a lot of money for these devices from Apple. And part of the implicit bargain is that they won’t have adware or ads themselves shoved at them in every direction.
Now I’m no marketing expert, but I do know that understanding one’s customer base is important for success. And I understand that Apple’s is generally made up of people who pay a premium for a good user experience. I wonder if Apple understands this. I also know that generally pissing people off with stunts like this will not get them to come to your party.
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 t.Run(). So save yourself some trouble and just use the defaults.
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/114738626109660386
Maybe Apple can start putting ads for their F1 movie in their permission dialogues. Goodness knows how often I see those. 😛
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.
🔗 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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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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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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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.
Day 21: silhouette
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Out early in yet another bracing morning. Didn’t even know this temperature gauge showed negative numbers.
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).