Mesdames et messieurs: voici la tentative d’aujourd’hui de passer à un petit-déjeuner plus minimaliste: deux grands cafés au lait.
Ladies and gentlemen: presenting today’s attempt to move to a more minimalist breakfast: two large cappuccinos.
Just listening to Ben Thompson’s and Andrew Sharp’s hot takes on baseball on the latest episode of Sharp Tech. My suggestion to Ben would be to try watching a game of test cricket some day. Sounds to me like they share many of the same attributes that Ben likes about baseball. 😄
@sod Ah, that's true. I guess that makes my snarky post and screenshot kind of redundant now. 😅
@V_ Might be because I'm not a user of Reddit, or maybe chalk it up to blind optimism, but I'm generally of the impression that this decision would hurt Reddit more than it would hurt the open web. I can't imagine this being something that they would choose to do: despite Google's marketshare, I do believe they would prefer they'd have links to their site on every available search engine. They'll need as much traffic as they can to get that ad revenue they promise their investors when they went public. Feels to me Google force their hand here, as part of this cash for AI training data deal (just speculating here, I really have no idea).
But as for the open web, I think it'll be fine. I won't be changing search engines, so they'll be more opportunities for me to see those that post on their own site, rather than relying on these private spaces. And given time, might be that Reddit itself would be replaced with something else, just like it replaced Del.icio.us or whatever that social bookmarking site was. Websites come and go, but the web will remain.
But yeah, this is just how I see things at the moment. Opinions shifting with the wind, etc. etc.
I wonder if M.G. Siegler had anyone in mind when he wrote this.
@V_ Oh yeah, I tried something similar, a "serious tech blog", and pretty quickly burnt out on it. I couldn't get over sharing links to that one either (I'm not a great promoter). I've just settled writing for pleasure at the moment.
Was talking to a fellow colleague today and he mentioned that he’s recently started a blog on Bear Blog. He was reluctant to share the URL to it though, which I can understand. I’m not in the habit of sharing mine with people I know.
Anyway, if J. C. happens to stumble upon this blog, hey! 👋
It’s going to be a lovely day today. Perfect day to just sit in an office and do work. 🧑💻
@DaveyCraney I guess one could call this "networking" in a way, in which case we can't be too bad at it. 😂
@odd 😄 Thanks for that. Turns out the issue was not the network but our code. 🤦♂️ So we may not need a network engineer after all (or "network" to get a network engineer either, 😉).
Networking is hard. This remark applies to every form of networking you can think of.
This day in work spam: anyone care for some “world knowledge information”? 😏
Preparing the second room for a couple of house guests that’ll be coming next week. 🦜
They get a little funny around mirrors so I’d had to cover the wardrobe with newspaper. Hope it holds.
🔗 Major Windows BSOD issue hits banks, airlines, and TV broadcasters
Oof! I feel bad for all those Window sys-admins who’s weekend has just been ruined.
@V_ The trick is to find a way to turn down those that give you admin access, along with a list of new responsibilities. Still trying to find an answer to that conundrum. 😄
Maybe the key to a happy career in software engineering is: keep the number of systems you have admin access to as low as you can. 😛
Had a go at recreating the last song Anders Enger Jensen wrote for 8 Bit Keys, since it’s one that I like quite a bit. Here’s a YouTube link to the original. This one was done in Logic Pro, and has a little more of the typical synth leads than the more brassy sound Anders Enger Jensen used.
@yorrike Might be just me, but I do have a tendency to pronounce Los Angeles as "los an-gel-eese".
@lmika Also, for the last few years, MacOS has been marking "earworm" as a spelling error, suggesting either "ear worm" or "ear-worm" as corrections. Yet, after doing a quick online search, it seems like "earworm" is a legitimate way to spell this word. I suppose those working on the Wikipedia page or the OED could've miss-spelt it also, but given MacOS's track record with spelling, I'm more incline to believe them.
This week’s earworm: Warsaw in the Sun, by Tangerine Dream. 🎵
📺 Everybody’s Free (to Make Websites)
One word: this!
Edit: Kev Quirk shared a link to the post by Sarah Joy, who wrote the narration for this video.
Got asked to come up with a way of representing some data today. Before diving into a design, I thought of finding out whether a standard existed. I couldn’t find one, and when I asked those in the know, they confirmed that no such standard exists. That’s good news! No chance of an accidental 927.
@odd Unfortunately not. I haven't dipped my toe that far into the retro scene yet. 😄 It would be good to get an old PC though. Maybe some day, when I get a bit more room.
A bit more retro gaming this evening. Tonight, some Paganitzu, Part 1, or “Pagan” as I tended to call it, since that was the command to invoke it on the DOS prompt.
@lmika I will admit that the only reason why I was reading it at all is because I'm procrastinating. I really should get back to writing this documentation. There's just so much to write about, though. 😮💨
I don’t use Ghost, but I did sign up for it once, so I’m still getting the newsletters. And the latest one has got some interesting stuff. I’m not planning to employ someone for my “writing business” but I did find the list of recommended links to be pretty good.
@Miraz Could also be a useful memory aid for where you parked your car. "Oh, I parked my car at Clooney".
@Burk Oh, I know which keyboard you're looking at. 😃
@sod I remember watching this a while ago. It was probably the first anime movie I ever watched. Found it be quite a good movie, if not shocking at times.
@goblingumbo Wow, that's amazing.
@furstenberg Yes, I have to agree. Especially now, after I bought it.
@furstenberg Yes, that is true.