Procrastinating starting on a talk I'm supposed to give on Wednesday.
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I love how social.lol is full of avatars by @heyheymomo and @andycarolan.
Mac apps Iāve been enjoying lately (both old and new):
- Ivory: welcome this fantastic Mastodon client to the Mac App Store!
- Tot: this replaced the built-in Stickies app for me. And itās free!
- Silicio: luxurious mini-player that works with Apple Music and Spotify
- iA Writer: great for writing and has all the features I need to be my main notes store.
- Things: Iām not a todo junkie but I canāt keep everything in my head all the time. Things helps me remember what needs to be done.
I dislike the UI pattern of āfloating action buttonsā because they end up blocking some part of the app I want to click or read. I get why they exist, though.
It kind of pisses me off that I canāt take a screenshot of a Netflix video. I understand DRM to an extent but a single still seems like fair game idk.
(My only attempt was using macOSā screenshot tool while using Firefox. Iām sure there are other ways.)
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Very much enjoying Tycho this week for some reason. I think my favorite album is Epoch.
Yay just installed the Ivory Mac app! Iāve been using the test version and itās been pretty great.
No one I know agrees with me but I like Apple Numbers. And the reason I like it is the reason most people Iāve asked donātāNumbers letās you put multiple tables on a page and move them around.
@BinaryDigit@easymode.im Oh cool! Yeah I mean I can see that tho haha.
@BinaryDigit@easymode.im what kind of work do you do (if you feel like sharing)?
I wrote a little bit about the solitaire game I made with PixiJS. https://blakewatson.com/journal/i-made-a-web-based-version-of-sawayama-solitaire/
This is how I ended up on social.lol. There were so many choices. Then I realized my omg.lol page came with a Mastodon account if I wanted it. Problem solved. https://mastodon.social/@bastianallgeier/110379415772407351
I donāt know who needs this but https://butt.holdings/
I shut down the blog but I maintain an archive of all the postsāgoing as far as to set up redirects of all the original URLs.
Unfortunately, that didnāt stop it from losing SEO juice. So he rarely gets credit for his accomplishment.
Because of that I like to give it the occasional shoutout.
Back in 2012 my brother, in a pee-holding-induced moment of inspiration, conjured up the concept of āpee math.ā He published the seminal work, Pee Math, on my now-defunct disability blog, I Hate Stairs.
The term took hold in online communities and its usage made it all the way to the New York Times!
Pee Math: https://blakewatson.com/ihs/pee-math/
Usage in NYT: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/01/health/for-millions-life-without-medicaid-services-is-no-option.html
The thing that scares me about passkeys is that they seem to rely on devices with biometric security, which are difficult for me to use (because I canāt handle a phone).
Related: how long until FaceID on a Mac?
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It was a random impulse buy on the then-brand-new iTunes Store. Maybe itās because Iāve been listening to it for nearly 20 years now, I don't know. But I've really come to adore the album Mouthfuls by Fruit Bats. https://open.spotify.com/album/1Wx4ud28ypU7HAWuOHkmQ2?si=O5dNLd_1R52GaRFr0zmx2Q
I love it when someone makes a little webpage that does One Thing Wellā¢. Todayās example, this dead simple tool that removes duplicates from a list of lines. https://dedupelist.com/