John Scalzi, How to Weave the Artisan Web:
Wouldn’t it be nice to have a site that’s not run by an amoral billionaire chaos engine, or algorithmically designed to keep you doomscrolling in a state of fear and anger, or is essentially spyware for governments and/or corporations? Wouldn’t it be nice not to have ads shoved in your face every time you open an app to see what your friends are up to?
Blogs are social media. These days people seem to think social media is just social networking — it’s not. Blogs were referred to as social media long before there was Twitter.
MarsEdit 5 Public Beta includes a “New ‘Micropost’ interface for streamlined publishing of short-form posts” that I’m keen to try out.
This being your periodic reminder that macopenweb.com is a good list of apps.
I found this nice page of mostly-text-only websites.
Added to my RSS reader — twitterisgoinggreat.com/feed.xml
(Via Daring Fireball.)
One time I overheard this bit of conversation on a bus:
“Who works at Facebook?”
“Nobody. It’s just part of the web.”
I remain haunted.
I’m at the age where Touch ID works only about a third of the time.
Saw this cat yesterday.
Since micro.blog integrates with Mastodon, you can now follow me on Mastodon — I’m @brentsimmons@micro.inessential.com.
I tried a few Git clients for Mac today, and I couldn’t find one that prioritizes the part that matters most to me — writing the commit message.
For me this needs to be front and center and large enough to fit everything I want to write. It should have shortcuts for frequently-used text, and I should be able to create templates for different kinds of commits.
The commit message isn’t just some ceremony — it’s as vital as the code changes.
You have an unhealthy relationship with multithreading.
Life lesson it took me a long time to learn — that whenever you tell a busy and overwhelmed person to “let me know what I can do to help,” you’ve just put another task on their already-too-large pile. Now they have even more to do.
Go Phillies! The hopes and dreams of all of America are on your shoulders.
Prediction: Phillies win by two runs today. Verlander completes fewer than six innings.
Took my first ever at-home covid test yesterday (negative; just allergies) — and I was surprised how very unpleasant the swabbing is.
It made my tear ducts run like two faucets, as if the saddest thing ever had just happened.
Hoping to never need to test again. 🐥
Note to people who work for corporations: “lessons” is a perfectly good and useful word. We don’t need “learnings.”
I realized the other day that I’m the age Hemingway was when he published “The Old Man and the Sea.”
But that doesn’t make me feel old — it makes me feel like Hemingway was still so young when his last years were on him.
We’ve got sea lions in my neighborhood! www.myballard.com/2021/03/0…
Stop consuming content.
SwiftUI LazyVStack in a ScrollView. Animation set to default. Add some pinned views — they skate around in a weird way.
Remove the animation from ScrollView and they’re fine — but other animations (adding/inserting/deleting) are gone. SwiftUI bug or holding it wrong?
How does one account for the sometimes large difference between crash log counts coming from PLCrashReporter and crash log counts in Xcode Organizer?
(Asking for a friend. Not a NetNewsWire issue.)
Another reason our pandemic may be forgotten is highlighted by Doc Searls’s post Will our digital lives leave a fossil record?
There’s no hard copy of our current times, and everything digital is impermanent.
I keep thinking how the 1918 pandemic was followed by the Roaring Twenties.