Links for April 2024
NYTimes: This Artificially Intelligent Pin Wants to Free You From Your Phone
Nope: "To unlock the device with a passcode, hold out your hand to project a green laser onto your palm. Pulling your hand outward increases the number while pulling it inward decreases it, and you select each digit by pinching two fingers on the same hand." #ml #humane
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Why did all the Little Chefs disappear?
Little Chef promise to swap your empty plate for our lollypop. Can't have been cheap. #littlechef
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San Francisco’s Train System Still Uses Floppy Disks - and Will for Years
“The system is currently working just fine, but we know that with each increasing year, risk of data degradation on the floppy disks increases and that at some point there will be a catastrophic failure,” - maybe save $400M with a floppy emulator and a USB stick? #sfmta #muni #sanfrancisco
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Links for March 2024
InfoWorld: White House urges developers to dump C and C++
Developers urge White House to dump Electoral College and supermajority cloture. #politics #electoralcollege #cloture #c #c++
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The New Yorker: What Have Fourteen Years of Conservative Rule Done to Britain?
"In messages during the pandemic, he referred to ministers as “useless fuckpigs,” “morons,” and “cunts.” The inquiry’s lawyer asked Cummings if he thought his language had been too strong. “I would say, if anything, it understated the position,” he replied." This is a depressing but definitive read as we wait for the UK election to be announced. #politics #uk
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Links for February 2024
Trident missile test fails for second time in a row
We should be kicked off the security council until we can make this work. #uk #trident
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Links for December 2023
The Washington Post: “Do I Know You?” examines what it's like to have face blindness - The Washington Post
I'm on the who the hell are you end of this spectrum. #prosopagnosia
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Tom's Guide: By the way, did you know Alexa's annoying suggestions can be turned off? Here's how
Alexa, stop by the way apparently. Saving for future use. #alexa #shutup
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Bridgy Fed
The docs suggest just passing a fragment will post part of a page but this doesn't seem to work, so testing again with a parameter as well... #ithcwy
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San Francisco Examiner: How to download new Muni app on Apple App Store, Google Play | Transit
A new app and a new account... Is this just to escape the 2.8 rating? #muni #sfmta #sanfrancisco
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Links for November 2023
The 'New' label from the New Microsoft Teams Taskbar Icon.
Go vote for this! I can't cope without a notification icon badge in Teams.
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Federation
ITHCWY is venturing into the Fediverse. This is the second attempt, I had a brief-lived API implementation to a bot account that didn't go so well. This time I've hooked up Bridgy Fed, which is free and easy and so far seems to work pretty well. I added webmention support last year which helped with the process. You can add me as @[email protected] or use the form on this page. If you reply to a post in the Fediverse it will end up as a comment on this blog (and vice versa).
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- Webmention on ITHCWY
- Tedious Feed Update
- Fight Facebook with Email
- Circles
- Twenty-Four Hours with Twilio
(Published to the Fediverse as: Federation #etc #ithcwy #bridgyfed #fediverse #indieweb #webmention ITHCWY is now part of the Fediverse at @[email protected] )
Blogging on reMarkable
Crossed a small thing off the bucket list today.
I've used a reMarkable paper tablet for a few years. It's a distraction free eInk writing device with a long battery life and no app store. At least half of productivity is getting stuff out of your head. The reMarkable excels at this without the risk of losing anything.
My dream was always to blog from written notes but the handwriting recognition isn't good enough. Or maybe my handwriting is just too bad. I probably could have got into medical school on that basis alone.
reMarkable recently released a keyboard case and I just got my preorder. With a few small changes to handle its HTML email format I'm up and running. There is still no app support, but you can send email and happily that's been how I post to my blog for over a decade.
It won't work for everything but it's great to have a new option.
So far the only thing I'm missing is a spell checker. Not my strong point so any typos are reMarkable's fault. Hopefully this will be added in a future update.
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(Published to the Fediverse as: Blogging on reMarkable #etc #ithcwy #remarkable #productivity Using the reMarkable ePaper tablet and keyboard case for blogging. )
Links for April 2023
It’s Not ‘Deaths of Despair.’ It’s Deaths of Children.
Defund the #GOP
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Fuck the Monarchy
+1
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More Colors
For a long time this blog has been black with some splashes of International Orange. The favorite icon and logo was some weird grid of dots (and yes, I give Google crap for Material Design). Now that Google has brought icons to the desktop search results as well as mobile I wanted a rounder favicon. Their direction is round icons all the way, and my weird dots don't look great in this format.
The new logo and favorite icon is a dynamic pie chart. This updates daily (the favorite icon will lag a bit due to caching) and shows the category distribution of posts over the last two years. The logo text is just a random permutation of the category colors. This is stupidly precise and geeky and also a lot more cheerful. I may add a few more splashes over time.
I started with some online tool for the palette and used International Orange as a starting point and its color wheel complement to pin the other end of the range. This looks terrible. I then had a long conversation with ChatGPT 4 and told it what I liked and didn't like about each palette it came up with. I was pretty high maintenance but the AI was patient and I'm pretty happy with the color scheme we ended up with.
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- Material Design 3
- The Secret Diary of a Xamarin Android Developer, Aged 48 1/3
- Where did that app icon go, Android?
- Did anyone tell Material Design about Gesture Navigation?
- Google search-for-your-own-verified-sites Console
(Published to the Fediverse as: More Colors #etc #ithcwy ITHCWY has a new 8 color palette, logo and favorite icon generated via a conversation with ChatGPT. )