I joined Twitter in 2007 and my brain slowly morphed over the next 15 years from hopelessly verbose to nihilistically pithy. I've kicked the Twitter habit, but the takes keep flowing. That's why I post them here and format them as a social network of one. They're also cross-posted to my Mastodon account. You're welcome to bookmark any of these takes, though I'm not sure why you would.
By the way, the hearts and like counts are fake. They're just there to make you feel safe.
Computer science is about everything except I/O and application development is about nothing but I/O.
Was having an awesome week and then I realized half the assets I created for my new app in AWS are on us-east-1 and the other half are on us-east-2 and now I'm having a terrible week.
One bummer about Apple Vision Pro is that it appears Apple has no plans to sell a USB-C adapter for plugging the device directly into a computer as opposed to the battery pack (despite a couple photos of such a dongle floating around the WWDC reveal) apple.com/shop/accessories/all/apple-vision-pro
Update: nevermind we fixed it. This was a really, really frustrating and demoralizing pairing session. What a mess. github.com/rails/rails/pull/50758
Boy it’d be super cool if someone read this GitHub comment on this issue I found in Rails’ ActiveStorage and helped figure out how to fix it. I’m just gonna leave this here: github.com/rails/rails/issues/50560#issuecomment-1892134270
Whether or not you listened to the first episode of Breaking Change, if you DIDN’T e-mail podcast@searls.co with a question/comment/take, do it! Don’t think, "that’s something other people will do"—they won’t! It’s really on you this time!
Wow, Iconduck seems like a rad place to find open source SVG icons. Been looking for a good directory of them for a while iconduck.com/
Big day, everyone: I’ve expanded the justin.searls.co family of brands by launching a solo podcast that’s slow-paced, long-form, and world-weary. It’s called Breaking Change: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/breaking-change/id1725165751
Shout out to Dave from Ypsilanti who requested bids from contractors for a bathroom remodel on Angie's List and entered my cell phone number. 30 calls and 20 texts in the last 24 hours. Cool.
Annnnnd just got burned by #8 yet again. Glad I made this list so I could keep straight which bug I'm encountering justin.searls.co/posts/2023-buggies/
I had honestly never thought about shipping Standard with Rails, but now that you mention it… github.com/rails/rails/issues/50456
$ rails new -d postgresql -c tailwind -a propshaft --skip-docker --skip-action-mailer --skip-action-mailbox --skip-jbuilder
Just saw the phrase "food desert" misspelled as "food dessert" and, would you believe it, it profoundly changed the meaning of the sentence.
Every time I get asked to review a document, I'll leave several paragraphs of feedback about one of the first few sentences, exhaust myself, and then give up and close the window. #secret
Who the hell decided to call it "rendering to the shadow DOM" and not "shadow-boxing"?
I have a "private client" account at a regional bank, not because I want to talk to anyone, but because it gets you the lowest fees and best interest rates. The only "cost" is I have to screen a dozen phone calls and e-mails a year as they try to upsell me.
I think I’ve had 15 account managers in the last ten years. Most of the email they send me is them handing me off to the next one.
Man, Electron just can't cut it. Using Descript to edit a 15-minute video—I’m not even halfway done with about 100 stock videos embedded and my maxed-out M2 Ultra Mac Studio is chugging so badly that I can't resize shapes accurately (about 1.2 seconds of input lag per drag).
Anyone else noticing that the iPhone 15 pro is frustratingly slippery in an all-new way? Becky and I will leave it face down on a flat desk and after 10 or 15 minutes it’ll find a way to crash onto the floor.
It’s happened so many times I re-leveled the desk (was actually slanted the other way) and checked for seismic activity (none). What gives?
You just know that somebody in marketing at Volkswagen has spent the last week doing nothing but trying to figure out how to cut an ad that takes a victory lap for no longer being the car maker people most associate with Nazis.
Every time someone orders Chilean sea bass, I'm the guy at the table who reminds them that its actual name is Patagonian toothfish.
I'm super fun at parties. Inquire within.