Brent Simmons

  • Back to the Double R on Angelo Badalamenti.

  • Sheila and I tested positive again. Rebound. Family Christmas further postponed. Pissed off at this fucking thing.

  • After one week, I finally tested negative for covid. Whew! I feel fine now, and really wanted the test to not fight me. šŸ£

  • Though I canā€™t know for sure, I credit Paxlovid with pulling me out of the worst of it.

  • Recovering from covid. Iā€™ve never had a cold before that would attack in multiple places, move on, attack other combinations, circle back, as if conducted by a malevolent intelligence.

    One of the top four worst illnesses of my life. So much pain.

  • Iā€™ve stopped clicking on Twitter links. Starve the site of attention.

  • Since pretty early days in OS X, Iā€™ve always held down the option key when resizing my Dock so that it snaps to a predefined, presumably good size.

  • I miss the old days when people would get really mad if an app phoned home.

  • Twitter is, like Gab, Parler, and Truth Social, a right wing social network.

  • ā€œAs I mentioned earlierā€ is Chatbotā€™s version of Siriā€™s exasperated ā€œproceed to the route.ā€

  • Every layer of abstraction you add translates to lost productivity in the future.

  • The genius of Swift structured concurrency isnā€™t async/await ā€”Ā itā€™s @MainActor.

  • The easiest code to read, debug, maintain, and extend is synchronous code that runs on the main thread.

  • Another sign that the web heals as Twitter gets sicker ā€”Ā ooh.directory is a new collection of ā€œblogs about every topic.ā€

  • Correct me if Iā€™m wrong ā€”Ā but Iā€™ve long thought that variables names like postId and sanitizeHtml are Microsoft form and names like postID and sanitizeHTML are Apple form. True?

  • John Scalzi, How to Weave the Artisan Web:

    Wouldnā€™t it be nice to have a site thatā€™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? Wouldnā€™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 ā€”Ā itā€™s not. Blogs were referred to as social media long before there was Twitter.

  • MarsEdit 5 Public Beta includes a ā€œNew ā€˜Micropostā€™ interface for streamlined publishing of short-form postsā€ that Iā€™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 ā€” twitterisgoinggreat.com/feed.xml

    (Via Daring Fireball.)

  • One time I overheard this bit of conversation on a bus:

    ā€œWho works at Facebook?ā€

    ā€œNobody. Itā€™s just part of the web.ā€

    I remain haunted.

  • Iā€™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 ā€” Iā€™m @brentsimmons@micro.inessential.com.

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