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Just today I learned about Codeberg, “a non-profit, community-led effort that provides Git hosting and other services for free and open source projects.”
I have open source projects, and plan to have more, and getting away from big-corporation-owned services is an extremely attractive idea. I also like, for obvious reasons these days, the “Hosted in Europe, we welcome the world” part.
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I hadn’t looked at my Safari Privacy Report in a while.
Wow Google! Holding the top five spots. Amazing work!
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Engineers — new rule — pay attention: whenever you hear or read the word learnings, as said or written by someone in your company, you have to take the rest of the day off.
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This has been the greatest long-term technical challenge of my life, off and on for years — but I finally figured out how to get my shell prompt to 1) show me the current git branch 2) in color. Whew!
I gave the path a color too, since I was on a roll. Extra credit, gold star for me. 🐥
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I get that “stop doing Combine!” sounds like an old guy thing to say — but I’m in on Swift structured concurrency and SwiftUI.
My argument is the opposite of curmudgeonly — Combine is not the future, and we want to use future things.
But I get that Combine tastes like honey and sparkles.
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I keep telling the younger developers “stop doing Combine!” and… they keep doing Combine.
To be fair, though — and I mean this sincerely — they’re all smarter than me. :)
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It’s Seattle Xcoders night! Standard place and time — 7 pm at Bale Breaker in Ballard. We’re usually outside by the fire things.
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Pretty stoked about the Seahawks hiring Mike Macdonald. SAVIOR OF BOOM!
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Note to Mastodon users — if you’re following this account (@brentsimmons@micro.inessential.com), you should switch to following @brentsimmons@indieweb.social.
(This account is actually my ActivityPub-compatible micro.blog account, rather than a regular Mastodon account.)
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Enjoying some photos from an old family photo album.
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It is shocking how many episodes of “Little House on the Prairie” are rated 13+ these days.
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Wondering how long before Twitter will stop letting RSS readers use the Twitter API.
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When Apple gives a customer a refund, does all the money come from the developer, or does Apple pitch in its 30% (or 15%)?
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Craig Hockenberry writes, in The Shit Show, that “It feels like the time is right for a truly universal timeline.”
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On the NetNewsWire blog — How to Subscribe to a Twitter List in NetNewsWire.
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Here’s the help page on subscribing to Twitter feeds in NetNewsWire for Mac. Instructions are similar for iOS.
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Reminder — if you still want to read Twitter, but don’t otherwise need to engage, you can switch to one of the many RSS readers (NetNewsWire included) that have Twitter integration.
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49ers fans should be nervous.
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I don’t know enough about these things to agree or disagree with any of the article — but I find it interesting. Here’s Dana Blankenhorn on The Failures of the Cloud Czars.
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Doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results is the very definition of working with computers. It works!
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Every day Touch ID seems to work less and less well for me.
But, as annoying as that is, there’s a bright side — as my fingerprints disappear my crimes will become more numerous and successful.
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I’m so glad to see that, at least so far, this year’s covid winter surge in the U.S. is so small compared to the last two winters.
According to the New York Times, the daily average for Jan. 7, 2023 was 67,308 cases, far less than the daily average for Jan. 7, 2022 — 648,729.
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For some unknown reason, Swift protocol names ending in “ing” are like nails on chalkboard to me. I know the API design guidelines say it’s okay, but I still feel a little ill whenever I see one of these names.
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One of my many favorite Bowie recordings is his cover of Scott Walker’s Nite Flights.
Here’s the original version.
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DJ Jake Rudh is doing a Remembering David Bowie event on Twitch tonight — a “5+ hour program of Bowie’s iconic career including hits, deep cuts, b-sides, influences, collaborations, side projects, soundtracks & more.” Starts at 9 pm Eastern, 6 pm Pacific.
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