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Home Screen Of 2024
It’s just turned 3:00 in the afternoon, and I was alternating between the couch and the computer desk, racking my brain on what to do. With no ongoing projects — a few ideas have been bouncing around, yet none has grabbed me so far, and I had nothing else in a state where I could just slip on some music or a podcast and work on — and seeing a few others make similar posts on their blogs, I’d figured I talk about my home screens. Continue reading →
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Strange dream last night. Dreamt I was invited to go to Google’s campus in Sydney to discuss some performance issues in Go. Some manager gathered all the Go devs in a large conference room and ask them, in an aggressive tone, what was behind the slow performance. The phrase “gate latch” was thrown about, and then I woke up.
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Sighted an echidna today. It wasn’t a close encounter; I was about seven or eight metres away. Probably why it wasn’t too fazed to have its picture taken.
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I’m a bit behind ATP, only now just listening to episode 618, and all the suggested names for John’s app. Here’s my suggestion: Hypercleanable.
Also considered: Hypercopiable, and Hyperdeclonable.
Enjoy. 😄
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Dear AWS,
Deprecate functions in your SDK if you must, but please post a link to the method I should use in its stead. Or tell me it’s no longer supported. Otherwise, I have no recourse but to either search mountains of documentation, or take my chances with what is deprecated.
Sincerely,
lmika
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Released version 1.2.0 of Sidebar for Tiny Theme. In this version, the sidebar can now be configured to appear on pages other than just the home page. Options include showing it on the pages of posts, or pages other than posts. With both on, the sidebar will now appear on all pages of the site.
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Successfully moved my PeerTube instance over to Hetzner and Coolify, allowing me to shutdown the Linode instance I was using. Net cost savings to me is $0.00, but I’m hoping to use the new Hetzner server for more than just PeerTube.
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2024 Song of The Year
It’s Christmas Eve once again, which means it’s time for the Song of The Year for 2024. Looking at the new and rediscovered albums for the year, there are quite a few to choose from. The runners up are pretty much all from Lee Resevere, a new artist I’ve started listening to, and includes: Should I Run, by Kristen Martell, arranged by Lee Rosevere Miles Wide, from Synths Working Overtime, by Lee Rosevere We’ve Been Here Before and Hide Your Heart, from Stationary Loops, by Lee Rosevere But there can only be one winner, and this year it’s Oxygene, Pt. Continue reading →
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That’s it! I’m never going to use a framework that uses Webpack or installs more than 5 Node dev dependencies. Why? Because every time I check it out to work on it, all these dependencies break, and I’m left to spend hours updating them.
Never again! 😡
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🔗 Lens
A nice looking meta tag checker by Robb Knight. Finding a good meta tag checker that’s not riddled with ads is difficult. This might be the one I’ll use going forward. I also liked his blog post on how he built it.
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Thought I’d have another go at looking at BoxedWine for making an online archive of my old Delphi projects. They’ve been some significant improvements since the last time I looked at it. They don’t run fast, but that’s fine. As long as they run.
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It’s a shame that there’s no MacOS release for Alan Wake. I tried playing the Windows version in Crossover yesterday on my M2 Mac Mini, and even with all the graphic settings set to their lowest, I was getting frame rates in the single digits.
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I wonder if we could convince Ben to order another run of Stratechery mugs shaped like the one he drinks from. I really like my Stratechery mug — it's one I often use — yet the mug he describes here is intriguing.
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One of these days, when I see a car idling while the owner is outside picking up coffee, I’m going to walk over there and turn it off. Or steal it, depending on how annoyed I am. 😏
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That Which Didn't Make The Cut
I did a bit of a clean-up of my projects folder yesterday, clearing out all the ideas that never made it off the ground. I’d figured it’d be good to write a few words about each one before erasing them from my hard drive for good. I suppose the healthiest thing to do would be to just let them go. But what can I say? Should a time come in the future where I wish to revisit them, it’d be better to have something written down than not. Continue reading →
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I’m happy that Ludo Studio managed to secure a deal for a feature-length Bluey film, plus attractions in Disney parks. But it’s just another example of how the ABC cannot keep nice things. It happened to Kath and Kim too.
Maybe it’s enough that it’s role is more of a launch pad for good media.
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Oof! Almost deleted my Obsidian notes while cleaning out my work laptop. Fortunately it was a simple move to recover. Ended the year with 581 notes, totalling 8.7 MB. Most of these are Daily Notes, of which 214 were created this year. Thus ends the second full year of using Obsidian for work.
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Counting down the hours now. 3 to go…
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Writing documentation for tools that others will need to run over the Christmas break. I remain convinced that documentation is a great way to spot the usability flaws in the tools I write. The question then turns into one of priorities: should I fix the tool, or just explain the flaws in the docs?
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I’m not a fan of the changes Google made to their Weather app. It assumes you’re interested in saving every location you search for as a favourite, which is not how I use search. And horizontal scrolling for the 10 day forecast? With no date?
No, sorry. This is a step backwards in design.
