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Much of the personal stuff I’m currently doing outside of work involves writing. Lots of writing. So much writing. It’s not like a novel or anything: just a couple of websites I’ve decided to work on. Even so… still doesn’t give me the same buzz as coding does.
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Hmm, either Daniel is super obsessed with the Beths (or at least posting about it), or there’s a bug somewhere. 😀
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Content Warning: About A Spider
This spider was hanging around my garage door opening button for a few weeks now. I didn’t think much of it until today, when I noticed that it was actually a redback. Not the largest redback I’ve seen, but one located pretty close to a button I push quite frequently. Photo of said redback (it's small, but the photo is a close-up) If you look closely you can see a bit of the classic red stripe on the spider's abdomen. Continue reading →
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I’m going to be putting on my “I don’t like fun” hat for a minute and say I’m so glad there’s no “verb” for posting on Micro.blog. No tweeting, tooting, truthing, skeeting. None of that. Just good old fashioned “posting”, like the blogging gods intended. Okay. Hat off.
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I’ve abandoned any further thought of self hosting my code, at least for now. As predicted, I found other shiny things to distract me away from that path to madness. I can still use custom domains for Go packages if I wanted to, so I’m not really loosing much by keeping it all in GitHub.
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I’ve set up an instance of Linkding within PikaPods this afternoon. I’m going try it out as my bookmark manager, given that my Pinboard subscription has expired.
So far, so good. Importing my bookmarks from Pinboard was a breeze. The UI is cleaner that Pinboard as well, although I wish I could change the colour scheme (the purple is a but much).
Bulk editing of links was easy to do. Just run a search and click the “card” icon next to the search box. Checkboxes appear next to the links and you can select the ones you’d like delete, archive, or add or remove tags to. All pretty straightforward.
No social features though, which makes sense given that this is something you host yourself. But I never used the social features from Pinboard, so I won’t miss that at all. Poking around the settings it does look like you can make links public, but I probably won’t need that anytime soon.
One thing I’m excited about is that it sets the title of new bookmarks to that of site automatically if I don’t set one myself. Thank you! Finally! The fact that Pinboard didn’t do this, and just set the title to “No title”, really annoyed me. Such a bleeding obvious feature to add as well, and I don’t know why Pin… okay, breath, not a problem anymore. 😮💨
So yeah, we’ll see how this goes.
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Dentist today. The only mistake I made with arranging the appointment is booking it for today. Seeing the dentist doesn’t feel like a Thursday thing. Feels more like something for a Tuesday, for sure. Maybe even a Monday. Not Thursday.
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New post by Steve Yegge. I always enjoy his writing but please, can someone buy Steve a domain name? He changes blogging platforms so often it’s difficult to follow him (well I guess Twitter would have worked at one point).
Via: birchtree.me
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I’ve wanted attr() to be more widely accepted in CSS values since, well, I can’t remember. A long time. I want to be able to do something like:
p[data-size] {width: attr(data-width, rem);}I realize adding this would probably lead to someone creating a framework […] where all the styling is jammed into a million data-*attributes […], but we shouldn’t let that stop us.
Is it too late to vote for this? I’d love to be able to do this for background images. Relying on JavaScript to get the URL from the attribute and style the element is such a hack.
Via: Jim Nielsen
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April usually means controlled burns, and they’re conducting these burns at a bush reserve near my place. I was afraid that the smoke would be an issue, but so far it’s been such a non-issue I was wondering if the burns were actually called off. Apparently not.
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About Those Checkmarks
This posts going to be about Twitter. Yes, I know; another one out there. It’s also going to be a bit speculative in nature, so feel free to skip it if you like. I’ve been reading the coverage over the “retirement” of the legacy verification system, both in the news and on the socials. And what I find interesting about this whole affair is all the new Twitter Blue subscribers complaining about people that had the checkmark choosing not to sign up. Continue reading →
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Note to self: a shell script will always be quicker and easier to write than a Go program for a throwaway thing, no matter how much you wished it to be otherwise.
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Day One and Project Jurassic
So, Day One is in danger of being sherlocked by rumor’s of Apple’s upcoming journaling app: Mayne echoes the sentiment of several app developers who have been frustrated when Apple launched in-house competitors to the apps they have introduced to the ecosystem, often copying features those apps innovated and adding functionality that only Apple can offer, per the iPhone’s privacy and security policies and APIs. I’m a user of Day One and I have my doubts that Apple’s app would be a drop-in replacement for my journaling needs. Continue reading →
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Nerd Counterflex
You know that Washington Post article that has the list of websites Google used to train Bard? I been seeing people post screenshots of their sites in the training set on their blogs and Mastodon. This morning I read a post from Chris Coyier about it: My largest corpus of writing to date is on the web at css-tricks.com (along with many other writers), so naturally, I’m interested in seeing if it was used. Continue reading →
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Options For Self-Hosting Code Repositories
I’m considering something that some might say is stupid: I’m looking at options for self-hosting my personal code repositories. I’m coming around to the idea of having my own domain for things like Go packages. It’ll provide more opportunities for adding some structure to my repos, rather than having them all hang off a single github.com/lmika namespace. Plus, my personal code management system is reasonably good at the moment so, naturally, the time has come to change all that 😛. Continue reading →
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It’s always fun playing the “which faraway land is closer to me” geography puzzle when setting up an online services that doesn’t have a presence in Australia.
The answer is Hillsboro, OR — 13,021 KM from Melbourne.
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Dear The Economist,
Please restore the witty headlines you use for your articles to the digital edition. That’s one of the reasons why I read you. I know you include them as postscripts at the bottom, but it’s not the same.
Sincerily,
Me
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Sunny day today, yet a bit chilly. So the hat and jacket ensemble is out at the moment.
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Adding a new feature to dynamo-browse and now I’m beginning to wonder if this is why JavaScript has both a
nullandundefinedtype. In short: dealing with null pointers suck. They suck in Go and I’d imagine they’d suck a million times more in C. Better to have a dedicated type representing an undefined value, with all the associated methods to simplify the code.The thing is: JavaScript should’ve not exposed this to the user. Do they really care that
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Got to use one of the software tools we build and sell at work for a “real” purpose today, as in not just to test something. Felt good. Don’t get to do that super often.
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Maybe, before AI swallows our careers to the point where we’re little more than glorified prompt engineers, they’ll be a brief period of time where AI does the boring things in software engineering. Leave us to do the fun stuff like write the code. They can review it for us, like some fancy linter.
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🎵 Going Home: Theme from Local Hero
This week’s earworm. Apparently I loved this track when I was a little kid. Well, apart from the very 80’s sound (not a criticism), I’d say the younger me had great taste.
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This teeny tiny lizard made its way into my house somehow. I’ve seen it on and off over the last week, but I managed to catch it and put it outside. There’s another one running around that I’ll also need to find and rescue.
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There is no way to turn this news feed off. The best you can do is “manage interests” which kicks you out to msn.com to have you tell it what topics you prefer.
Definitely not trying Windows 11. I hate software that pushes news onto you, unsolicited and with no easy way to turn off! I’ve have my news sources that I read and trust. I don’t want things pushed to me from sources with some commercial agreement that doesn’t have my interests in mind.
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I’d argue that Google Reader shutting down was probably one of the best things that could happen to RSS. It might’ve been bad at the time, but it gave way to services like Feedbin that respect open standards and bring new users to the format, like myself. Having a large company like Google suck up all the oxygen in the room can’t have been good for RSS long term.
