Granted, I'm less online than I used to be, but I haven't heard a single Weekend at Biden's joke yet.

Not mad at any of you. Just disappointed.

There's been a bug in the Apple Watch app ever since multiple watch support was added: if the pairing process fails on an additional watch and the phone begins unpairing it, ALL paired watches will be unpaired.

There is no way to recover short of setting all watches up all over again. Today marks the sixth time this has happened to me.

I tried to redeem a free year of Peacock I received via my Universal Studios annual pass, but it failed with an ambiguous 500 server error because I apparently already had Peacock Premium via my Instacart+ subscription.

Nothing about anything makes any sense anymore.

Over and over and over again, the same lesson: the most valuable thing a programmer can do for themselves is to invest in faster, safer feedback loops.

Forced myself to spend two hours this morning not building the thing, and the resulting script empowered me to make such aggressive and rapid changes that I accomplished a day's worth of work in the subsequent two hours.

Just got this email about my inadvisably authentic podcast, Breaking Change:

"Feels like you're burning a lot of bridges with how you talk on this podcast, but I find myself… liking you more than I used to?" justin.searls.co/casts/

When people ask the "secret to my success," I like to respond with any of the many attributes that set me apart from my peers.

Here's one: whenever someone says anything remotely hurtful, think about it several times every week for the next twenty years and get very, very sad.

TIL you can force a browser to print backgrounds of certain elements with CSS print-color-adjust: exact;

Can't believe it Just Worked developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/print-color-adjust

So long as you promise to vote for "Standard (gem)" as your preferred quality tool, I encourage you to take this year's Ruby on Rails community survey! railsdeveloper.com/survey/

I like to show off my progressive bona fides by exclusively drinking Bud Light.

My friend Eric is a painter. Here's a quick video showing of his process to produce a commissioned painting of Mr. Toad – impressive! youtube.com/watch?v=-jBN5ykqutY

Now that I'm syndicating to Threads via my new feed2thread gem, I've updated my
POSSE Pulse to explain all the site's automations. Seven so far! justin.searls.co/posse

Just published feed2thread, a Ruby gem that reads your site's feed and posts each entry to Threads, using the newly-released Threads API. Can run in Docker, similar to feed2toot for Mastodon github.com/searls/feed2thread

I know the market isn't amazing right now, but I'm thinking about finally learning how to code. Advice welcome.

Pro-tip to the 8 people out there using Vision Pro and Mac Virtual Display: don't let your Mac enter low power mode.

I set Low Power Mode to turn on when my MacBook Air is on battery and then spent 3 days being confused why the virtual display latency skyrocketed from "instant" to "slideshow".

This post is trending but it's completely wrongheaded and misunderstands why test doubles were invented in the first place.

I'd explain why, but it's probably not worth my time. You've figured it out at this point or you haven't amazingcto.com/mocking-is-an-antipattern-how-to-test-without-mocking/

Was thinking last night how much I loved Fallout 2 when it first released and how much of the magic was lost when Bethesda moved it to a high-budget FPS format.

Given all the Fallout buzz right now and the nature of Game Pass, Microsoft should find a studio to make a lower-budget Fallout 2.5 in the style of the original games but for modern platforms. Could be great.

Microsoft's new line of computers to be rebranded as "Copilot plus or minus" PCs
after indefinitely shelving Recall feature blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2024/06/07/update-on-the-recall-preview-feature-for-copilot-pcs/

My system tests fail all the time too, but I didn't realize I was supposed to write a blog post every time CI goes red world.hey.com/dhh/system-tests-have-failed-d90af718

The moment people most often update a dependency is when it isn't acting as they expect, and an update might fix it. The likeliest outcome is that the updated dependency will continue to not work as expected while also breaking in new and unrelated ways.

Boy I hope iOS 18 fixes this bug. If you have the beta installed, has Photo Shuffle for Lock Screen been refreshed at all? reddit.com/r/ios/comments/yn5gog/missing_people_in_lock_screen_photo_shuffle/