TIL about the treasure trove of design assets that Apple shares. Extremely cool. developer.apple.com/design/resources/
Apple Design Resources - Apple Developer
There have now been 20 major versions since the initial release of Breaking Change, but this is one of the less bad ones. It was substantially improved by friend of the show, Eric Doggett, who helped out with mixing!
If you have strong feelings about anything you hear, you know where to stuff those feelings (other than "deep, deep down"): podcast@searls.co.
Spicier-than-usual show notes follow:
Did you know that init.d was named that because it was written by an Initial D fan at AT&T?
Something I wish they'd told me as a kid: not only is failure an option, it's actually super popular.
Extremely interested to know how the Apple Watch Series 10 loses 1.1 grams of weight when you add a cellular modem to it
36.4 grams (aluminum, GPS)
35.3 grams (aluminum, GPS + Cellular)
41.7 grams (titanium)
Five wooden nickels for anyone who can answer this for me stackoverflow.com/questions/78965596/is-it-possible-to-detect-with-css-or-javascript-whether-safari-has-compact-tab
Just reached for my todo_or_die gem for the first time in a while (adding time bombs to remind me to clear out Rails monkeypatches in the future if they're no longer needed).
Noticed it's been ported to Rust, JavaScript, Python, and Elixir. Cool! github.com/searls/todo_or_die
GitHub - searls/todo_or_die: Write TODOs in code that ensure you actually do them
Lotta grumbling about Apple's "Glowtime" teaser tagline to tomorrow's keynote as being an inapt description of the new Siri interface.
What if the Capture button is translucent, has an LED beneath it and it glows? Remember the breathing iBook/PowerBook LED? Maybe it lights up with notifications or while operating the camera to indicate some UX state?
Something people misunderstand about "ball hogs" is that they assume they hog the ball because they're better than other players.
It's the opposite! Ball hog is a personality type (and I am one of them). I want to be in control as much as possible, and as a result I spend time getting really good at what I do. Almost all of my own skill acquisition can be explained by this impulse.
How do people write prose in code editors, with vim movements, and insist on softwrap? Drives me up a fucking wall not being able to navigate up and down reliably with j and k. #TeamHardWrap80cs
TIL that Amazon's shortened links (and all affiliate links) are CASE SENSITIVE. Any web app that normalizes urls by transforming them to lower-case will break Amazon affiliate links and I finally understand why they don't work on half the web.
God dammit all to hell.
We got a HOT new rule change proposal for Standard Ruby that I'd love more people to chime in on! github.com/standardrb/standard/issues/650
Request to change Style/HashSyntax to ruby19 (the default) · Issue #650 · standardrb/standard · GitHub
The key to making friends as an adult is to identify people you want to be your friend and then acting like they've already been your friend for years and eventually they get used to it.
Realizing that the majority of clever Keynote slide tricks I've accumulated over the last 15 years have been to make intangible topics feel more concrete and easy-to-follow. Because my next talk is essentially an annotated demo of real, working software, I'm finding myself discard most of my own tropes to save time.
New User of the Month
Why should you come to my Rails World talk about building an app? Look no further than my latest credential. Hotwire user of THE WHOLE MONTH.*
*Apparently there are actually two of us.
You'll never guess whether or not I am finding NONE, A FEW, or EXTREMELY MANY bugs in the Squarespace website editor.
Folks should check out this Ruby on Rails thing. I'm getting an awful lot done!
The Course Reader project
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You know a SaaS product has really "made it" when the the home page's Login link is as prominent as the Sign Up button.
Surprisingly few programmers know this, but mutable and immutable actually mean the same thing.