tbf Safari does give your MacBook that sweet, sweet battery life.
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I love Safari as much as the next person, which is to say not much. š
Iām being facetious, but I have two complaints:
1) Itās the oddball when it comes to developing extensions for it because it requires a corresponding app. Pretty annoying.
2) It deletes a siteās data storage after 7 days without visiting. I get why I think (anti-ad/privacy) but thereās a privacy hitāotherwise private local web apps will lose data unless they provide a mechanism for storing it remotely.
Actually, there is a point. Donāt forget that there was a time you were a beginner. When people earnestly ask for your help, remember the people who helped you and pay it forward.
When I was working at Mad Genius, a local ad agency, I was a decent āinteractive designerā but something I struggled with was asynchronous JavaScript. I just didn't understand it at all.
One of the senior devs helped me one day, stood at my desk for like 15 minutes and explained jQueryās deferred objects to me in a way that finally made it click (of course that translated to Promises easily enough).
Thereās not a point to this story. I just feel appreciative.
BREAKING: Executive orders have momentarily ceased as White House "ran out of that fancy paper"
A spokesperson said an intern failed to fill up on supplies after being tasked to retrieve ānice-but-cheapā card stock from Office Depot.
Version 3 of my minimal new tab page, A Fine Start, is out now! I did a little writeup of what's new, what's coming, some development notes.
https://blakewatson.com/journal/introducing-a-fine-start-version-3/
BREAKING: Latest executive order bans use of word "United" in names of other countries
First open this in a tab:
Press play, then open this in another tab:
Press play.
Now you are freeā¦
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Iām on a Milk Carton Kids kick. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fp0xjVzmKxY
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BREAKING: Executive order renames Mexico "the basement." With Canada fearing theyāre next, a government spokesperson revealed back-channel meetings have taken place to "get out in front of this thing." "We're more than a dusty attic and weāre looking for a naming compromise that isnāt harmful to Canadians."
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BREAKING: Executive order creates new agency to prevent Andromedaās stars from migrating to Milky Way
āTheyāre literally hurtling straight for us,ā a White House spokesperson said.
Thereās a blog post simmering here.
Things like Appleās Voice Control and hands-free input tools like Talon are coolā¦
But Iām increasingly frustrated that I have to act like a computer to get my wishes across. I donāt enjoy speaking in cryptic, pre-defined utterances. I want to talk like a person. The computer needs to accommodate me not the other way around.
I donāt know if this is something AI/LLMs can help with or not, but idk. Itās like one day I just woke up and thought, Iām tried of *being* a computer to use one.
BREAKING: Earth instructed to stop warming in latest executive order. "Itās up to Mother Nature to do her part," the president said. "Itās out of our hands."
I was just trying to dictate the words "personal care assistant" but the output was "personal terror assistant,ā which now I am super curious about.
I had a little bit of a bumpy start rolling out A Fine Start v3 to Firefox peeps (my first submission still had development URLs š¬). But after frantically squashing bugs and submitting several versions back-to-back, I think itās in good shape.
Firefox was my testing group. So now Iāve submitted Chrome and Edge. Should be rolling out sometime soon!
And thereās also a hosted version here: https://afinestart.me/bookmarks
BREAKING: Executive order instructs Treasury Department to make bills ācrispierā