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Day Trip to Bundanoon
Decided to go on a day trip to Bundanoon today. It’s been five years since I last visited and I remember liking the town enough that I thought it’d be worth visiting again. It’s not close, around 1 hour and 40 minutes from Canberra, but it not far either and I thought it would be a nice way to spend the day. Naturally, others agreed, which I guess explains why it was busier than I expected, what with the long weekend and all. Continue reading →
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I enabled notifications on Vintage Logo as I wanted to be notified when new logo designs were release. Today I got two nusience notifications prompting me to open the app, the last one raise mere hours after I last launched it. So now I’ve turned off notifications. Why do apps do this to themselves?
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Photos of the poor patient, sitting next to the clumsy human. Rest assured, she’s getting a course of pain killers, plus a lot of apology head scratches.
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Bit of a stressful morning, involving injuries and unplanned visits to the vet. Things are well now, and the tension is starting to dissipate. But what a way to spend the morning. 😮💨
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Working with PostgreSQL is an absolute joy. Such an amazing database. Just goes to show that the fun tech out there is not always the new and shiny. The battled hardened, featureful, bread-and-butter tools that tends to get overlooked can be just as good (Linux falls into that category as well).
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👨💻 New post on AWS over at Coding Bits: AWS Secrets Manager Cached Credentials Error
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Attempting to give head scratches while recording video is more difficult than it looks. 🦜
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An Unfair Critique Of OS/2 UI Design From 30 Years Ago
A favourite YouTube channel of mine is Michael MJD, who likes to explore retro PC products and software from the 90s and early 2000s. Examples of these include videos on Windows 95, Windows 98, and the various consumer tech products designed to get people online. Can I just say how interesting those times were, where phrases such as “surfing the net” were thrown about, and where shopping centres were always used to explain visiting websites. Continue reading →
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I found this video on the failure of the Star Wars Hotel by Jenny Nicholson to be absolutely fascinating. A great example of Disney enshittification and promising more then they can deliver. Many of her other videos are great as well (I actually went on a binge session over the weekend). 📺
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👨💻 New post on Go over at Coding Bits: Disabling Parallel Test Runs In Go
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My Pile-Up Poker result for today = $840.00. Decent result for a first game.
Also, I’m not sure if sharing my actual “solution” is consider a spoiler, so click through to see that.
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Some More Thoughts On Unit Testing
Kinda want to avoid this blog descending into a series of “this is wrong with unit testing” posts, but something did occur to me this morning. We’ve kicked off a new service at work recently. It’s just me and this other developer working on it at the moment, and it’s given us the opportunity to try out this “mockless” approach to testing, of which I ranted about a couple of weeks ago (in fact, the other developer is the person I had that discussion with). Continue reading →
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I’m not on Threads but I do click through sometimes to post shared on Mastodon, and I’m a little confused by the web-based video player. It auto-plays, which is annoying enough, but it does so with the sound off and there’s no way to pause or scrub back to the beginning. Is that by design? Do I just have to always refresh the page whenever I want to watch something just so I don’t miss the beginning? Very strange.
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Must say I’m really enjoying M. G. Siegler’s new blog Spyglass. I’ve liked pretty much every post I’ve read so far. Definitely worth subscribing to.
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Returned to Tuggeranong this morning for breakfast and a walk around the lake. Really enjoy going to “Tuggers” when I’m in ACT. I can’t quite explain it, but I always get New Zealand vibes whenever I visit.
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If Slack’s looking for features to add, my vote would be for personal “annotation” messages in threads, similar to what Hey mail has. Many a time I receive a support request as a Slack thread, and it’d be nice to add notes such as customer IDs as a message that only I can see.
Here’s a mockup:
Edit: I knew I talked about this before. And looking through On This Day, I found this post, where I professed my wish for FastMail to add the same feature. Probably a good hint that such a feature should be table steaks for any system involving other people.
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👨💻 New post on Databases over at Coding Bits: PostgreSQL, pgx, sqlc and bytea
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Wish TLDraw offered a cylinder shape. I know my needs are quite niche, but I really like using this app for back-of-the-napkin architecture diagrams of software systems, and having a cylinder shape to represent a database or queue would really come in handy.
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Playing around with Vintage Logo this morning. HT to @odd and @mandaris for posting a link to this iOS app. They’ve got some very nice logo templates here, including this art deco one featuring a bird in flight.
Used it to make this logo, which I call: lodgings for the evening.
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I can’t for the life of me remember how to create a child page in Notion’s mobile app. Why do they hide that option with the bullets and headings? Couldn’t the New Page button be context specific, instead of creating a new top-level page wherever you press it?
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Reliving my European trip through my posts here. They’ve started to appear on my On This Day page.
I sometimes wonder if I should’ve posted more at the time. I deliberately kept to my usual pace of one or two posts a day, mainly because others suggest that it’s usually not a great idea posting loads of photos of your trip on social media, lest you make people jealous about what you’re currently doing. Although, when they say “social media” they mean Instagram or TikTok and not Micro.blog, although one could make the case that’s still kinda, sorta, if-you-squint-and-tilt-your-head social media, maybe?
Ah well, doesn’t matter. I think I made to right call: living the moment instead of spending all my time working out whether something was post worthy. Plus, I’ve still got loads of photo and journal entries that I could turn into blog posts. Maybe one day I will.
