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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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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. 🐥
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Note to people who work for corporations: “lessons” is a perfectly good and useful word. We don’t need “learnings.”
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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.
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We’ve got sea lions in my neighborhood! www.myballard.com/2021/03/0…
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Stop consuming content.
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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?
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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.)
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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.
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I keep thinking how the 1918 pandemic was followed by the Roaring Twenties.
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It’s all I can do to stop myself from going through all of Crafting Interpreters in one sitting.
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Today I ran across this blog post I wrote in 2015, and it might be the post that sums up my coding philosophy the best.
It’s from a series of articles on not-crashing, but it’s about the mindset of not-crashing.
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Dear extroverts, we love you, but me and my fellow introverts are not going to be able to save you.
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I keep remembering that a vaccine is a year-and-a-half away, and so there’s every reason to think we’ll be doing this for that long.
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I hate to say this, but — if your face itches due to facial hair, and you keep touching your face, it might be time to shave. Just for the duration. You can let it grow back later.
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“Don’t multiply entities” is not just a great razor — it’s also words to live by when designing an app.
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I watch TV now just for the scenes of people in restaurants, so I can remember what it was like.
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