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.
Thanks to the broad assortment of folks who reached out to wish us safety today. As it turns out, we bailed outta Orlando and drove to Savannah in order to escape Milton. ✌️
Love that command-shift-D means "Send" in Apple Mail and "Discard Draft" in Gmail.
iPhone 12 and later contains a barometric altimeter, so it knows when you're at high altitude and the accelerometer knows when you're traveling at high velocity… so why can't the iPhone just enable Airplane Mode automatically? Why do I have to do it?
Whenever I remark positively to something out of a sense of obligation, I lower the opacity of the text before hitting send.
Not a lot of people know this, but that’s actually where the phrase, "damning with faint praise," came from.
I really love eggs but I’m trying to steer clear of dairy.
When I wrote this pull quote even I was surprised by how much Standard Ruby has improved in the last two years railsdeveloper.com/survey/2024/#what-code-quality-tools-do-you-use
Had a dream last night that Apple (finally) announced a lightweight 12” MacBook Pro with M4 next month and I was so mad when I woke up and remembered they’ll never actually do this.
Inflation is the top economic issue in this election:
2020 iPhone 12 Pro: $999
2021 iPhone 13 Pro: $999
2022 iPhone 14 Pro: $999
2023 iPhone 15 Pro: $999
2024 IPhone 16 Pro: $999
Last night I won the Flower Cup in Mario Kart—I really put the petal to the medal!
100% agree with DHH on Passkeys. I too was bought-in on adopting them for my apps but realized they pose a customer service nightmare and went back to email login world.hey.com/dhh/passwords-have-problems-but-passkeys-have-more-95285df9
TIL about the treasure trove of design assets that Apple shares. Extremely cool. developer.apple.com/design/resources/
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
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.