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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.
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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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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. 🥶
It got to -5.1°C last night. It’s currently -2.1°C as I write this.
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🔗 Nicholas Bate: The Greatest Productivity Tips, 159
Simply because we do not affix a postage stamp to our e-mail does not mean it is free. That mail has a huge cost in productivity terms: for us, in did we craft it correctly first time? For others in lack of certainty perhaps of what is required of them. For others in being cc’d without need.
No, mail isn’t free. It’s extraordinarily expensive.
So true. I would add that Slack is just as expensive, only that you’re making micropayments over the course of the day instead of one lump sum.
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Day 17: warmth
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Just watched the WWDC video on Liquid Glass and I must say it looks pretty nice. Granted I’ve not actually used any part of this new design yet, but if they can manage to pull it off, it’ll be quite a refreshing new look.
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Day 16: blur
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🔗 82MHz: Blogs are still a thing
One more for the “blogging’s not dead yet” list everyone’s keeping.
Blogging is a small niche these days. There isn’t much hype around it, nor is there any money to be made because the VC firms are all busy chasing the next big thing […] But it is still here, and I like it exactly because it’s not the hype technology of the day anymore. It isn’t commercialised, algorithmically curated and set up to make some other person rich.
That’s why I like it too. It’s a slow, quiet, and comfortable form of online interaction.
Via: Mastodon boost by Brent Simmons
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Day Trip to Yass
Decided to go to Yass today, a small town in NSW just north of where I’m staying in Canberra. I pass by Yass every time I drive to Canberra from Melbourne, and I wanted to see what it was like, at least once. And this morning I discovered that it had a railway museum, which sealed the deal. Unfortunately the weather was not kind: it was bitterly cold and rainy the whole time I was there.
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Day 15: tie
Was wondering what I’d submit for today until I realised that the bird cage had all sorts of toys with tied knots. #mbjune
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🔗 MOR10: Blogging is dead. Long live ephemerality.
This ended up being quite an insightful piece, particularly around how much better the authoring tools are in Instagram and other social media apps.
Via: Juha-Matti Santala
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Appreciate that there's someone else out there getting driven crazy by Apple throwing up permission pop-ups everywhere in MacOS. And the Terminal, of all places.
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Ricco’s taken an interest to my shoes today. Ivy, despite trying to come off as her own bird when it comes with dealing with Ricco, couldn’t help taking an interest too. 🦜
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UCL — More About The Set Operator
I made a decision around the set operator in UCL this morning.
When I added the set operator, I made it such that when setting variables, you had to include the leading dollar sign:
$a = 123The reason for this was that the set operator was also to be used for setting pseudo-variables, which had a different prefix character.
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Day 14: twilight
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I think I may need to write more long form. It’s easy to dash out a small thought or two like this. It’s quite different trying to organise your thoughts into something larger. Different muscles are being exercised, and it feels like mine have atrophied a little.
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Some Morning AI Thoughts
Some contrasting views on the role of AI in creation, highlighting the importance of human creativity and quality over speed and cost-cutting in technological advancements. Continue reading →
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Day 13: pathway
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Hello there. 🦜
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I must admit, I was not expecting much when I plugged my iPad into a HDMI and USB hub splitter. Yet I was pleasantly surprised that it had no trouble extending (well, mirroring) the display and enabling keyboard and mouse. It’s not perfect, but it’s better than I was expecting.
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Day 12: hidden
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If ute is short for “utility” vehicle, then instead of SUV, we should be calling these vehicles “sports utes”.
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🔗 Robert Birming: Blog Inspiration
Very nice collection of links to blogging resources — from ideas and inspirations through to colour and icon packs — from @birming. This stuff is cat nip for me, so I’m sure to enjoy browsing these links.
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Speaking of avians, I’m back in Canberra, which can only mean one thing: there will be photos of cockatiels.
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Every cafe or eatery at the airport uses an avian or aviation theme. Here’s a way to stand out: nautical theme. Having a fish and chip shop with boats and lighthouses will turn heads.
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🔗 You’re not a front-end developer until you’ve… - Nic Chan
Scored 17 in this little quiz. Not bad for a backend developer, although many of the questions universally apply.
Via: Jim Nielsen’s Notes
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Day 11: brick
Might be pushing the definition of “brick” for this one. #mbjune
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🔗 Science: Cockatoos have learned to operate drinking fountains in Australia
Each placed one or both of its feet on the fountain’s twist handle, then lowered its weight to twist the handle clockwise and prevent it from springing back up.
Amazing.
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Apple, I was kidding.
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Looking forward to all the fun new permission gates that will show up in MacOS Tahoe. “Your keyboard is trying to use a process on your computer. Keyboards are known to result in modifications to your personal data.” 😛
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Day 10: rail
I post a lot of train photos on this site, so here’s one of the other railed vehicles I encounter. #mbjune
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That Which Didn't Make the Cut: a Hugo CMS
You’ve probably noticed1 that I’ve stopped posting links to Open Bookmarks, and have started posting them here again. The main reason for this is that I’ve abandoned work on the CMS I was working on that powered that bookmarking site. Yes, yes, I know: another one. Open Bookmarks was basically a static Hugo site, hosted on Netlify. But being someone that wanted to make it easy for me to post new links without having to do a Git checkout, or fiddle around YAML front-matter, I thought of building a simple web-service for this.
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🔗 Dan Sinker: The Who Cares Era
This post has been doing the rounds in the online circles I travel in. I finally got around to reading it, and I think the author is right: caring about something in a world where others don’t is a radical idea. I know it’s an area where I could be better.
Oh, and I’m sorry, but I find the term “Instagram mini-essay” to be an oxymoron. The original poster’s quip of this Instagram essayist being another victim of the Who Cares Era are my feelings exactly. I mean, come on: don’t use frickin’ Instagram for your think pieces. Put a frickin’ URL on it next time.
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Day 9: wood
A photo of my grandfather’s old joinery. #mbjune
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Day 8: travel
I suppose I should start thinking about filling this up. #mbjune
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Will be away from home for a while so got a VS Code server ready so I can still work on projects. Setting it up in Coolify was so easy, yet I’ll need to fix the issue of the proxy server adding
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TIL that the metaphor for nervous anticipation is not to be “on tender hooks.” It’s to be “on tenterhooks,” a type of hook used in a frame called a “tenter” used to hold material.
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Just setup a cron for performing a repo backup on my Mac Mini server. And I swear to God: if MacOS prevents this backup from running because of some damn permission check, I’m going to be effin’ furious.