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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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Please join me in calling it the “Trump virus” from now on.
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In honor of tonight’s WA state primary, we’re making sloppy joes for dinner.
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Me DuckDuckGo-ing:
when’s lunch is anyone else hungry could we have lunch now please what about lunch did I miss lunch is it okay to wait under my desk do people just hate lunch nowadays can I survive on sugar-free mints why does the very air hate me
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Why do AppStoreConnect and Xcode Organizer show different crash logs for a given TestFlight build?
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This is your periodic reminder that macopenweb.com has some pretty good lists.
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You know that “this milk has gone sour, taste it” thing?
In that spirit, have a taste of https://knewz.com/.
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Is there no way, on iOS, to specify the default RSS reader — that is, specify the app that handles the
feedandfeedsURL schemes?It looks like Apple News always handles it, no matter what, and then doesn’t actually do anything with it. Which cuts out every RSS reader.
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I just renewed therecord.co for three years (the max it would let me). It gives me great pleasure to keep that site going. I keep hoping Chris and I will find the time to do a second season.
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