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. 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.
For macOS Sequoia 16, Apple should announce a ground-up rewrite of Time Machine that—under the hood—is literally just a GUI on top of rsync.
Three years of trying to get Time Machine to sync to a network share, and never got it to work once. rsync: got it in one.
tl;dr, pollsters are twisting twice as many knobs in 2024 as they were in 2016 (due to skewed and decreased response rates and scrutiny of past misses). Separately, a 50/50 tied result is likely to catch the least shit in the event of another polling miss next week.
The shocking conclusion? Pollsters are twisting the knobs such that most results come in around 50/50. More knobs, more bias. goodauthority.org/news/election-poll-vote2024-data-pollster-choices-weighting/
Three quick takes on ChatGPT integration in iOS 18.2:
Trying to follow Ricky's advice and migrate one login at a time (testing each one, deleting defunct ones, adding 2FA as I go) from iPassword to Apple Passwords and… it took me 4 hours just to get through sites that start with "A".
Fuck. rmondello.com/2024/09/19/consider-slowing-down-when-switching-password-managers/
Look, all I want from political news—literally the only thing I'm asking for, and it isn't much—is to tell me the literal future exactly as it will unfold so that my brain can go back to focusing on anything else.
Who the hell called it "yelling at people to teach them stuff" and not "verbal insightment"?!
My ability to predict which tasks will turn into life-rending quagmires has gotten a little too good. I pushed off everything that I feared would become a multi-day nightmare into October so I could wrap up betterwithbecky.com and Rails World, and… the check has definitely come due.
One reason why economic health indicators are less politically salient today than, say, the 1992 presidential election is that families no longer sit down at the dining room table outside Thanksgiving and hardly anyone has a checkbook to balance anymore.
Can't say I'm surprised to learn it's hard to keep a professional snowboarder away from high-quality powder thedailybeast.com/ex-olympic-snowboarder-ryan-wedding-flees-after-hes-charged-in-murderous-drug-trafficking-scheme/
I've had a bunch of friends and colleagues ask for my advice on how to best learn Japanese this year, and since (1) the last time I started learning it was over 20 years ago and (2) Tofugu's entire business (via Wanikani) is teaching it to people efficiently, my best advice is to just start with their guide: tofugu.com/learn-japanese/
When we lived in Columbus, Junko and I would meet weekly in person for Japanese conversation practice. She's an awesome, fascinating person, but she also taught me a TON of practical Japanese and wasn't afraid to correct me. She just started giving remote lessons. Strong recommend: popa-japanese-lessons.mystrikingly.com/
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Great blog post about how to build a Ruby LSP add-on that I'm totally linking to because it uses my Standard add-on as a case study. railsatscale.com/2024-10-03-the-ruby-lsp-addon-system/
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