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I’ve stopped clicking on Twitter links. Starve the site of attention.
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Since pretty early days in OS X, I’ve always held down the option key when resizing my Dock so that it snaps to a predefined, presumably good size.
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I miss the old days when people would get really mad if an app phoned home.
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Twitter is, like Gab, Parler, and Truth Social, a right wing social network.
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“As I mentioned earlier” is Chatbot’s version of Siri’s exasperated “proceed to the route.”
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Every layer of abstraction you add translates to lost productivity in the future.
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The genius of Swift structured concurrency isn’t async/await — it’s @MainActor.
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The easiest code to read, debug, maintain, and extend is synchronous code that runs on the main thread.
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Another sign that the web heals as Twitter gets sicker — ooh.directory is a new collection of “blogs about every topic.”
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Correct me if I’m wrong — but I’ve long thought that variables names like
postId
andsanitizeHtml
are Microsoft form and names likepostID
andsanitizeHTML
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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?
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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.
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MarsEdit 5 Public Beta includes a “New ‘Micropost’ interface for streamlined publishing of short-form posts” that I’m keen to try out.
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This being your periodic reminder that macopenweb.com is a good list of apps.
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I found this nice page of mostly-text-only websites.
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Added to my RSS reader — twitterisgoinggreat.com/feed.xml
(Via Daring Fireball.)
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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.
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I’m at the age where Touch ID works only about a third of the time.
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Saw this cat yesterday.
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Since micro.blog integrates with Mastodon, you can now follow me on Mastodon — I’m @brentsimmons@micro.inessential.com.
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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.
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You have an unhealthy relationship with multithreading.
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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.
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Go Phillies! The hopes and dreams of all of America are on your shoulders.
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Prediction: Phillies win by two runs today. Verlander completes fewer than six innings.
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