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I was trying to get to get some work done when suddenly my brain decided that it needed to see a list of all Death Cab for Cutie albums ranked RIGHT NOW.

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My wheelchair's joystick stopped working when I got back home from a doc appointment. So I swapped out the joystick for the one on my previous chair. It worked, but turns out the orientation of that one is off by like 45 degrees. So I had to rewire my brain on the fly in the heat just to get out of the van and into the house. Took about 30 minutes.

Related: this is the best Coke Zero Iā€™ve ever had.

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I bet if you went back 100 years and described Spotify/Apple Music/Bandcamp to them, they would assume that in the future no one is working and everyone is listening to music all day every day in some kind of utopian paradise.

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To be clear, though, as much as I can understand the frustrations, my Mastodon experience has been the opposite. I donā€™t know if itā€™s because Iā€™m in tech (sup NERDS) or I just lucked out with my instance (social.lol).

Everyone is nice. There are lots of creative, interesting people posting art, code, statuses, silly things, serious thingsā€”just a good variety of stuff.

When I log into Bluesky, I donā€™t know who to follow and it looks like mostly just screaming.

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PHP 8 cost me a new customer. I can see in the logs where they tried to subscribe. But they hit PHP 8ā€™s insidious error, `Warning: Undefined array keyā€¦`.

For better or worse, checking an array value using a possibly-non-existent key was a common pattern in PHP code. You could do it in an if statement and count on the result being truthy or falsey. Yeah I know, I know. But still.

This change makes ton of existing code problematic.

Hereā€™s the best fix that I know of: mattwatson.org/blog/20230716-l

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I wish there was a CSS media query for the userā€™s scrollbar preference. macOS has three options for when to show scrollbars:

- Automatically based on mouse or trackpad
- When scrolling
- Always

I set mine to ā€œAlwaysā€ (even though many native apps including Setapp and Apple Music ignore it and disappear them anyway).

But it would be nice for web apps to know the userā€™s preference.

Screenshot of the macOS Appearance setting. Iā€™m highlighting the scrollbar section I described in the post.

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