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I have written my first professional #ruby PR. And by “I” I mean “ChatGPT and Stack Overflow” because I haven’t the slightest...

I have written my first professional #ruby PR. And by “I” I mean “ChatGPT and Stack Overflow” because I haven’t the slightest idea how ruby works.

@siracusa I heard your concerns that lawsuits weren’t a great way to regulate company behaviour on @atpfm and I wondered if you had seen...

@siracusa I heard your concerns that lawsuits weren’t a great way to regulate company behaviour on @atpfm and I wondered if you had seen this article: https://ianbetteridge.com/2024/03/22/a-few-thoughts-on-the-apple-doj-antitrust-case-from-someone-who-isnt-riding-his-first-rodeo/

It suggests that a conviction and the threat of a bigger future sanction like break-up makes companies self-regulate.

So perhaps Apple will go further for the US because of a vague fear, than they will for the EU where they maliciously comply with the letter of an explicit regulation.

I love almost everything about #CarPlay. I just don’t get why it doesn’t have the one feature I’ve had in all my dumb car stereos for...

I love almost everything about #CarPlay. I just don’t get why it doesn’t have the one feature I’ve had in all my dumb car stereos for 20-odd years: scrolling marquee track names.

RSS is apparently 25 years old today. I am a comparative newcomer to it having written my first RSS reader 20 years...

RSS is apparently 25 years old today. I am a comparative newcomer to it having written my first RSS reader 20 years ago.

https://feedthing.sourceforge.net

#RSS

So I have my own hosted RSS reader and also run a hosted Podcast reading service. For 10+ years I have been fighting with feeds that are...

So I have my own hosted RSS reader and also run a hosted Podcast reading service.

For 10+ years I have been fighting with feeds that are hosted behind Cloudflare that block access to server-side crawlers.

My current solution is starting to fail and I’m getting blocked more often again. Before I start trying to fix this myself, is there already an accepted solution? I know I’m not the only person who runs their own hosted RSS reader. What’s everyone else doing?

#RSS #podcast #cloudflare

Moving from a job with a coding standard of “no early returns” to one with “return early, don’t use else” is a head-fuck. #coding

Moving from a job with a coding standard of “no early returns” to one with “return early, don’t use else” is a head-fuck.

#coding

@atpfm This seems like a good idea and relevant to your interests...

@atpfm This seems like a good idea and relevant to your interests

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2024/03/carmakers-must-bring-back-buttons-to-get-good-safety-scores-in-europe/

It’s not just me that feels the overwhelming urge to thank #ChatGPT is it?

It’s not just me that feels the overwhelming urge to thank #ChatGPT is it?

It’s just the one swan, actually.

It’s just the one swan, actually.

New job, new Mac.

New job, new Mac.

This is old but is still one of my favourite encapsulations of #parenting https://theawkwardyeti.com

This is old but is still one of my favourite encapsulations of #parenting

https://theawkwardyeti.com

In other magical computing news, while writing my last post, my Mastodon client froze. But not to worry. These days you can just screenshot...

In other magical computing news, while writing my last post, my Mastodon client froze. But not to worry. These days you can just screenshot it, open the PNG in Preview, select the automatically OCR’d text and copy it. I sometimes wonder how we ever used to get anything done at all.

[UPDATE: I don’t mean to denigrate Ice Cubes. It’s my fault for running a very, very old version]

A couple of years ago my laptop died and the only thing that I couldn't restore from a backup was a little function that lived in my...

A couple of years ago my laptop died and the only thing that I couldn't restore from a backup was a little function that lived in my .zshrc file that let me choose which #python virtual environment to run.

Now I am hopeless with shell scripts and couldn't recreate it, but then someone on here pointed out that #ChatGPT is great at them and finally it’s back!

I am sure there are fancier ways to manage this stuff these days but I am old and this is how I like to do it.

https://gist.github.com/xurble/01092ad42edbbc2b8f611c9801f36c65

I just explained something to my youngest child and changed her mind. Not really sure what to do with the rest of the day now, I’ve kind...

I just explained something to my youngest child and changed her mind.

Not really sure what to do with the rest of the day now, I’ve kind of peaked.

#parenting

The Disney+ profile picture options might have been made specifically for my family.

The Disney+ profile picture options might have been made specifically for my family.

In honour of 40 years of the Mac, everyone is sharing their first Mac. This was mine. Discontinued in 1999, I got mine second hand in 2002...

In honour of 40 years of the Mac, everyone is sharing their first Mac. This was mine. Discontinued in 1999, I got mine second hand in 2002 or 2003. Was really happy with it despite how sluggish OS X was. I got one more PC after this (for work) and then I was done, all Mac all the time.

Helping my navigationally-challenged daughter with her hack. #horses

Helping my navigationally-challenged daughter with her hack. #horses

It is “light the fire for heat and not just for atmosphere” degrees Celsius this morning.

It is “light the fire for heat and not just for atmosphere” degrees Celsius this morning.

I just used the phrase “I’m going to be 50 this year” in conversation for the first time and now I’m worried I might crumble to dust...

I just used the phrase “I’m going to be 50 this year” in conversation for the first time and now I’m worried I might crumble to dust at any moment.

2023 has finally fucked the fuck off. Not a moment too soon.

2023 has finally fucked the fuck off. Not a moment too soon.