If you only buy one house in Bernal Heights this month it should be 94 Elsie Street on the west slope of the hill (I'm not biased, just happened to have lived there for nearly ten years!)
2/5
Very short. Not as grubby as I was expecting. You'd be better off just reading The Lean Startup.
5/5
Outstanding WW1 spy/psychological literary thriller.
3/5
Engaging romp of an alien first contact mission to Earth as experienced by a video game developer.
It's spring time in the northern hemisphere, autumn if your water flows the wrong way down the plughole. Rendered in Catfood Earth.
Did you know that Windows still has a vestigial finger command with just about nothing left to talk to? One of my New Year's resolutions is to bring finger back and unlike the stalled webfinger project I need to make some progress. Here's some C# to run your own personal finger daemon... you just need to create a .plan file in your home directory (haven't done that for a while):
(Published to the Fediverse as: Personal Finger Daemon for Windows #code #random #finger #fingerd An impractical attempt to bring finger back (the awesome UNIX utility for pinging a person, so much better than Facebook!) )
4/5
Epic book about the origins, frequency and long term outlook of life in the universe.
4/5
A search for a missing person is the backdrop for watching society start to collapse and the plot begin to thicken in the sequel to The Last Policeman. Here's hoping that the third book will be worth the wait.
Skype for Android is finally getting there. Push support means that it is now useful for more than conditioning your battery. Conversation read status is mostly synced between different client instances which is a big time saver. I'm actually starting to use it.
There is one horrible usability crime. When you open the app you get a list of unread conversations. Your set your finger in flight to the first one and then notice an ad sliding down from the top of the screen. With horror you realize it's too late to change course and you hit the ad instead of the conversation.
I'm not complaining about Skype being ad supported here, but if you were going to try and design a UI to trick people into clicking ads you really couldn't do better than this. I expect better from Microsoft.
Other than this the only real complaint is that new posts to group messages sometimes make it through to the notification bar and sometimes don't. You have to run the app periodically to see if there is something new.
Panoramic photo of downtown San Francisco by night from the end of Pier 14.
(Published to the Fediverse as: Pier 14 #photo #sanfrancisco Photo of San Francisco by night from the end of Pier 14. )
