@derekpeden Keep going, it keeps getting better!
Office for this morning. Refereeing the junior club championship.
@jthingelstad The “1” balloon kept getting pushed forward and I had to keep batting it back. Thankfully transporting these balloons isn’t a regular thing! 😄
TIL, there is no sensible way to transport helium-filled balloons in the back seat of your car when you’re the only one in the car.
@maique A wonderful sound!
This week, I learned how to build my own reporter for Minitest and rolled my own feature flag manager. I love programming in Ruby!
I’m unsure how I feel about the AI Chatbot feature in the latest Firefox release. Granted, it’s part of Firefox Labs, an optional experimental feature, but I still don’t see a real need for it.
@maique That's tonight's television sorted! Such a good show!
@jack I replied back to @annie about this and then seen your reply after I posted. I like your take on this with only the lik-er and the lik-ee being able to see them.
@Annie I know the idea of likes isn't being considered for Micro.blog, but I also miss the ability to like things. Just being able to acknowledge a post and show you appreciate it without trying to find the words to say so can mean a lot. Even if only the post's author could see the likes - that would be good.
@maique I'm curious. How are you sharing your phone screen?
I’m still following 25 people on the bird site. I check in here once every few weeks to see what’s what. On a slightly related note, I still can’t understand why more organisations are not running their own Mastodon instances. Too complicated? Unproven technology?
@maique I still have my account, but I don't post there anymore. I'm following a few people who are still only active there and nowhere else.
Is anyone a user of Hyper? I am looking for recommended plugins and themes. The Hyper homepage seems a bit sparse. I was hoping there might be more themes and plugins out there.
After six months of use, I cancelled my Pro subscription with Raycast. I can get the same functionality using Spotlight, Pastebot, Rectangle, and a mix of ChatGPT and Copilot for GitHub.
Starting the morning with coffee and some trip-hop. Need the coffee after having spent most of the night listening to a neighbour’s car alarm continually going off, and well, who doesn’t like trip-hop?
The downside to getting some new tech in the house is the need for follow-up purchases: screen protectors, cases, and sleeves.
@maique I've got it installed on my iPhone, but I haven't had much of a chance over the last couple of days to try it. Can't wait to try it.
We upgraded our youngest’s old 7th-generation iPad to a new 10th-generation iPad. I reset the old one, which I now use for reading and surfing. Usually, we re-cycle devices down the way to the boys, but our youngest needed a new one for high school. Happy to take the old one!
Not a bad day so far today. A cooked breakfast, to begin with, played golf with my Dad and then headed home to get a few chores done before the rest of the family gets home. I could do with a few more days like this through the year.
Took the wee guy to the driving range for a session today. Weather has been awful this week for golfing.
I love Michael Wade’s reason for using a fountain pen.
Thoughts flow more smoothly and there is an artistic aspect to the handwritten page.
— Return to Old School by Michael Wade
This morning, I received a nice little haul from Field Notes. A few items I saw in a recent sale.
@maique All these are great photos, but that first one with the sunset is fantastic.
@maique Truly beautiful! It's on my list of places to visit.
I’m always hesitant about using AI tools while coding, but I have found one good use for AI while coding: naming things. I’m terrible at naming things.
This week, though, I’ve been using Copilot to see if I can improve on the names of the objects and methods I have. I’ve had good results so far.
@iconfactory Hello! Welcome to the party!
I like the new Journal feature by 37signals included in their Hey product. I’ll explore this for a few weeks as I’m also trying Apple’s Journal app instead of Day One.
Another good day for Ethan on the golf course.
He won the Junior County Champion of Champions this afternoon at Paisley Golf Club.
Closing off the golf season with a couple of trophies, well done big yin!
@Annie Yes! Cookies that we don't need to share with the kiddos! 😉
I used the word “huzzah” without thinking during stand-up this morning. I think I might just go with it and use it more often.
Turn your phone into a dumb phone.
I love this, and I will definitely try some aspects of it. However, I can’t say if I’ll go the whole way and do everything in this video. If you prefer to read, there’s also a web page with instructions.
@odd Fast enough without it! 😁
@jeremycherfas Neither did I! A work colleague recommended it after I grumbled about the mat I bought for my office chair continually sliding under it. I bought the mat to protect the floor. With the rollerblade-style castors, you don't need the mat.
@manton It happened on the first version of the post. I managed to fix it, but I didn't see the issue until after I published it.
@matthewlang @help I managed to resolve it by adding an additional line after the blockquote, but it may also trip others up.
@matthewlang @help I can see now that the text after the blockquote has been merged into the blockquote itself, even though I have separated the two with a blank line.
@Annie It is always lovely having the kiddos around the house during the holidays, but I also like returning to a typical work day for a while. At least until the next holidays!
I replaced the plastic castors on my Ikea office chair with rollerblade-style castors. The difference is like night and day, and the new castors are better for our new wooden flooring in the office. My only gripe is that the office isn’t long enough to see how fast my chair can go!
@help Is there an issue with the new editor cutting off posts? My recent post has text after the blockquote, but it isn't being published. It does exist in the editor.
Over the next few weeks, I’m going to break out of my comfort zone and build a new Rails application using the latest Rails 7.2 release, which uses a dev container for the development environment. I’m also going to look at using the Zed text editor instead of VS Code.
Just finished watching The Marvels on Disney+. Thoroughly enjoyed it! A refreshing change from the MCU I thought. 🍿
@maique Intrigued! Installed and already liking what I see. Quite a steal as well from a price perspective.
@kjz It's kind of scary to think that in six years he will be finished school. I hope your youngest gets the grades they need.
@maique 👌 Superb choice sir!
@maique I'm on Mastodon as well and I don't have this issue there. My feed is quite easy to manage. Although I might not follow a massive amount of people here on Micro.blog is more of nuisance than anything else. Instagram and Threads is the two places where I definitely need it the most.