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Don't Choose To Reuse (Yet)
Designing software for reuse too early leads to unnecessary complexity and maintenance burdens, whereas focusing on immediate needs fosters simplicity and effectiveness. Continue reading →
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How many people do you think know about pigeon racing? I know it’s not a common activity, but I thought most people would be aware of it. Yet I was listening to a podcasts today, and it sounded like one of the hosts, who may have been 5 years younger than me, was hearing about it for the first time.
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I appreciate that those making, and putting up, these signs are sticking to this classic phrase.
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Argh! I keep forgetting Micropub wants everything to be an array. Setting a property in a
h=postPOST request to a plain old string doesn’t do anything. It took me 30 minutes of faffing about trying to get draft posts working before I turned to Claude Code to get the solution. -
Not that I need more social media consumption in my life, but I do wonder if it’s possible to follow Mastodon profiles in a Mastodon client, while responding to them via Micro.blog. I would like to follow a few people who post on Mastodon, but they’re really chatty, and I rather avoid having them in my Micro.blog timeline. I could use my Mastodon account to follow them, but that’ll mean responses come from there, and not from Micro.blog. Is there a way to bridge the two, I wonder?
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I keep forgetting that I have a Nebular subscription. I should use it more often.
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New Theme, Who's Dis
451 words about switching over from Tiny Theme to Mythos. Continue reading →
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Im happy to report that you can take portrait selfies in landscape on the new iPhones. Absolute sicko behavior, of course, but it’s there!
Portrait selfies with a phone in landscape orientation I can give or take. What I want is landscape photos from the phone in portrait. Device manufacturers, make that, then we’ll talk.
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Retired my old kettle and set up my new one. Currently drinking my inaugural cup of tea from it, while I work on my site.
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Just read this week’s P&B with @birming. Loved it. It’s always fascinating reading these interviews from people you follow.
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Can definitely recommend Nurse On-Call for any Victorian unsure about how to respond to a health problem. The queue was short, almost immediate, and the nurse took their time going through my concerns and symptoms. I got peace of mind and some material on what to do next. Wonderful service.
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Speaking of cafes, this pigeon is determined to get inside. It was shooed out a few minutes ago, but it wandered back in again. It’s at my feet while I write this.
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Whenever I go to the cafe, I bring along my iPad to read through my RSS feeds. One day, a kid walked by my table and took a peek at my iPad screen. I can only image their disappointment when they discovered I had no video or game playing on there. 😏
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Learning To Like Sentinel Errors In Go
Coming around to returning a result or an error in the Go programming instead of returning nil for both. Continue reading →
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“Get out more” goal for September achieved. ✅
Boardgames at the Melbourne Central Lion Hotel again. Tonight, it was Codewords (had a go at being the spymaster this time) and Dixit.
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🛠️ Glow: Render markdown on the CLI, with pizzazz! 💅🏻
Terminal Markdown viewer. Nice little app. My one criticism is that it should default to opening a file argument in the viewer, rather than just rendering the file to stdout. But otherwise, sure to be a useful little tool.
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I saw Manton use ChatGPT to try and guess his age, in the context of OpenAI adding some age gating features. I was curious to know how it’d go with my age, so I did likewise, giving it this prompt:
Based on your memory of past conversations, along with the various posts I make on sites such as lmika.org, can you guess my age?
It’s guess:
Putting all that together, my best guess is that you’re probably in your late 30s to early 40s.
Great guess! I’m 40, so bang in the middle.
Here’s a public link to the conversation outlining it’s reasoning (hey, first use of public ChatGPT share links!). All pretty accurate, especially around the topics of nostalgia.
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Spotted on my way to work: a Little Black Cormant and an Australasian Darter preening by the river.
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There’s not much us Android users have over iOS, but there is one: Myki integration with Google Wallet, with auto top-up. It really is quite nice not to worry about running out of credit when you’re rushing to catch the train.
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It’d be nice if ChatGPT had an option to link to a specific position in a chat session while keeping the chat private. That way, I can effectively create a bookmark that I can place in notes and refer to later. I’ve started doing this for Slack messages too, and it’s been quite useful.
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The files you create are more important than the tools you use to create them. Apps are ephemeral, but your files have a chance to last.
This is excellent advice, and one that I’m trying to practice better. I’d also argue that this can be extended to a software design principal, which is to assume the data will outlive the system. Therefore, prefer a data scheme that will be long lasting, and worry less about the systems that operate over it. This is why I found it distasteful to offload schema designs to ORMs.
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CSS is turning into quite a capable programming language. I just learnt that the language is getting custom functions and an if function. I’m quite excited to hear this.
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Credit to Metro. A tree blew over the line mid-afternoon, suspending the train line, and I was worried it would affect my commute. But they managed to clear it before peak time, and I experienced a smooth ride home. Very impressive recovery. 👍
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It’s amusing to imagine how far Apple’s bizarre, corporate-esque copywriting goes. Would one be able to go into Caffè Macs in Apple Park, pick up a packed sandwich, and see printed on the label:
With this sandwich, our focus is to maximise sustenance and nourishment so we can drive continued living in our employees.
We’ve also introduced a new ecosystem of ingredients to compliment this unique sandwich. Thanks to the incredible availability of nuts and other allergens, we’re able to create a new awareness that this sandwich may contain some of these.
😼
