It might be time for the City of Melbourne to close off Collins St. to cars between Spenser and King. Tram Stop 1 is so busy in the afternoon. So many people are transferring to trains. It’d be easier if they can use what is currently the road. That leaves the busses but they can use the tram line.
I’ve was really excited about LLM-powered auto-complete when I first started using it, but now I’m starting to find it a little annoying, particularly if completions are offered unbidden. It feels like the IDE equivalent of someone attempting to finish your sentences and often getting it wrong.
🛠️ CyberChef
A nice website for doing the sort of things one tends to do when writing software. Quite a large suite of tools: JWT decode, Protobuf decode, X.509 cert decode, UNIX epoch conversion, etc. Runs completely within the browser. In fact you can download the HTML+JS and open it locally.
Open any book about creativity and the author would say something like “ideas do not beget action; action beget ideas.” I’ve never really internalised this until quite recently, when I found myself getting many more ideas for a project only after working on it. I just needed to start work.
If you’ve designed a REST API that requires users to distinguish between a null value and a missing value for any particular JSON field, then you’ve designed your REST API badly.
A very nice exploration of webpage design using a monospace font. The first thought I had when I saw this was that this would work great for online man pages, which never look as good online as they do in the terminal.
Via: Robb Knight
Find it I did. Went by St. Ali Coffee on my way to work today on the advice of a friend. Tried their expresso. Not much of an expresso drinker but I did like it: a very interesting taste. I may try their cappuccino next time.
Devlog: Blogging Tools — All About Images
Some recent changes to Blogging Tools around images and image processing.
The same market had a showcase of vintage cars maintained by enthusiast. I know a few people who would love to see this stuff. Not me, however. I wouldn’t know a Mustang from a Maserati.
Passed by some old-school “marketing” on my way home from the cafe this morning.
Bocce at Albert Park. Stunning day for it. Quite cold in the shade, but the Sun’s got that bite to it again, announcing that Spring is on its way.
From the archives:
If there was ever an instance of technologists overengineering a solution without considering how it would be used to solve the problem, the Semantic Web is a great example.
Was reminded of this when I saw Dave Winer mention RDF. It was meant to be the future of the web — the original Web 3, before those peddling blockchain rubbish commandeered the name. I’m really glad that it went nowhere. Building for the web would’ve been bloody awful otherwise.
Might be my imagination, but I think Google has tweaked Maps to show street names more often than they were. If so, nice work, Google. Appreciate it.
It’s funny how one’s route to a venue has an impact of how one feels of that venue itself. After that new route to work, it feels a bit like I’ve entered the office for the first time today, despite coming here 3-4 times a week for the past two years. Maybe it’s just a new sense of place as you see areas you’re unfamiliar with: filling in the gaps, as it were.
Walked to work via St. Kilda Road today, which is a route I’ve not taken yet. Longer than my usual route, but was still very pleasant, until I had to cross Kings Way, which is a little stroady. Will file this route under “occasionally”.
The exhaustive Go linter complaining about missing cases for switch statements with a default clause is killing me.
missing cases in switch of type this, and this, and this, and this, and…
I can count on one hand the number of times I regret writing something on this blog. To count the number of times I regret not writing something on this blog, I’d have to include both feet. Wish I can get over the sense that others wouldn’t find it interesting. That’s probably true. Write it anyway.
Aaaaargh… 😫
May need to get a new kettle. In the meantime, coffee machine’s putting in double duties.
🛠️ LlamaLab: Automate for Android
Found this app while looking at AntennaPod. Looks similar to Workflows or Shortcuts on Apple products, but for the Android platform. Looks very interesting.
I gotta say, I’m not digging this white-on-white button motif in Liquid Glass. It looks buggy and unfinished. A little dated too: it reminds me of the late 2000’s when box-shadows were added to CSS 3 and websites were experimenting with using shadows as borders.
