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Pro tip: success in writing partly includes knowing your audience. Even if it’s an audience of just one (yourself) but especially if you know it’s for an audience of others. Some empathy in seeing how they’ll interpret your writing will go a long way.
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Table legs: the natural enemy of knees everywhere. 😫
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Dug out my Flutter RSS reader project and worked on it a bit today. The good news is that the release build doesn’t have the janky scrolling, so using Flutter is viable. The bad news is that there’s so much more work to go to make this anywhere near usable as a replacement for Feedbin’s PWA.
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If I ever built an RSS reader, I can guarantee you that you’ll be able to follow my progress… on my RSS reader! 😛
(Although probably not because it’d like be a slow, buggy mess that’ll see no work for a full year).
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“Get out more” goal for December achieved. ✅
Ending the year much like how it began: with a work event. This time it was the office Christmas party.
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I keep forgetting that Mastodon offers a way to follow posters via RSS. Gives me an opportunity to follow those that post way to frequently for my liking to follow them in Micro.blog. Strips out replies too, which don’t interest me, although I do loose the boosts (and maybe quote posts too?).
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Good to hear that Stephen Lemay, a software developer, is taking over software design from Alan Dye at Apple. Having someone who knows how to use
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When it comes to reading social cues, I am the absolute worst. If you need me to know something, please don’t be subtle. You really need to bash me over the head with it.
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Kind of nice to see that my heater and winter jacket is still getting some use on this lovely, supposedly summer evening.
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AWS should deprecate JSON and YAML CloudFormation templates and lean into CDK. As long as support for these formats continue, people will keep using them, and I’m left jumping through hoops doing things in these formats that would be trivial to do in a proper Turing-complete language.
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Quite a shock to think about how fast 11 months have gone. I remember putting this tree away, putting the tape on and thinking “this will be difficult to untape without ripping the box.” Well, I’m faced with that challenge now.
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Laughed out loud when I heard this as my experience with Stripe's API has been quite different. Stripe does quite well with keeping support for old versions of their API, but they're not afraid of making backwards-incompatible changes between versions. We encountered quite a few of these last time we were updating the SDK, and while I was going through their API docs a few weeks ago, I saw quite a few more that we'll need to make next go-around. I wouldn't call that "low needs" myself.
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Burning my 1,000th post of the year on the sad state of desktop monitors. I had a brief look at what’s available today, and I hope you like curves or the 16:9 aspect ratio (or narrower) because that’s much of what’s out there. Despite what I hear about the LG Ultra Fine from podcasters, it’s probably the best monitor I’ve used.
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📘 Devlog
Blogging Tools - Image Collections Triage App
Using Google Antigravity to add an improved image triaging feature for Blogging Tools, allowing the user to categorise images from posts and automate header image updates. Continue reading →
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I was pretty despondent with how little rain we got for much of the year. It’s all got made up in November though. 145 mm of rain this month, almost 3 times the monthly average, with the promise of more tomorrow. Good to have a wet start to summer. 🌧️
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Liked this line from Dave Winer post about official show podcasts:
i don’t know or care about the actors. If they’re any good they disappear. Whodat?
Never thought it that way before, but he’s right: a good actor should disappear, much like how a good UI design should disappear while it’s being used. It’s the bad ones that call attention to themselves and break the illusion.
(Don’t generally want to compare acting to UI design, but hey! It’s what I know, and it works as an analogy).
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Seems like I’m not the only person excited about the Metro tunnel opening. A few people at work expressed interest at seeing ANZAC station when it opens, and we’re actually planning the location of our next bocce season around use of the tunnel. Ought to be good.
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Hmm, it seems like my object-orientated design skills have atrophied to the point where a simple program requires 10 classes and 5 level of abstractions.
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Some Thoughts on the State of Python Package Documentation
The lack of standardized and accessible documentation for Python packages hinders the user experience compared to other languages like Java and Go. Continue reading →
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🖼️ Gallery
Revisiting Preston Market
I was rendezvousing with a few people for dinner around Preston this evening. I was early so I’d though I’d walk around the closed market. I used to come here all the time when I was a kid, and it was nice walking the laneways again, even if everything was closed for the night. As with most places you revisit when you’re older, it’s smaller than I remembered. Continue reading →
