Yesterday I found myself searching for a new digital camera for an event I’ll be attending late this year. I was really hoping to find (both for thematic and nostalgia reasons) was a modern digital camera with analog-style physical interactions, like having to wind the film before you can take a picture. I’m absolutely romanticizing it. Still, I can’t help but see my high school…
I’ve recently been rediscovering an appreciation for the act of writing. I’m not sure how best to articulate it, but the process of feeling something that I’m not sure how to convey and progressively solidifying it as I scratch it out on a page with pen and ink is both gratifying and elucidatory.
I wanted to learn a bit more about WebKit, so I decided to take a crack at fixing an easy looking WebExtensions bug 297838 . This post just serves to gather a couple of notes on the contribution process before they fall out of my head. Process This assumes that you’ve Select bug Find the bug you want to work on bugs.webkit.org . If you have rights, assign the bug to yourself. If not, comment…
I’m not sure why, but for some reason this morning it occurred to me that I could probably use Shortcuts on macOS to improve my day-to-day workflow. Often when poking around in Finder I want to open a given directory in Visual Studio Code (VSC). My normal workflow is: Cmd+Tab over VSC Hit Cmd+Shift+N to create a new window Cmd+Tab back to the Finder window Drag the directory onto the new VSC…
Another few months have passed and the Chrome team has published another set of updates to the Chrome Web Store’s (CWS’s) Program Policies . Typically the Chrome team would announce this kind of update with a blog post as well as an email to developers, this time they only sent out the developer email ( reposted publicly by Stefan Van Damme ). They probably skipped the blog post this…
This post is based on a comment I shared on the chromium-extensions group. It’s a frustratingly frequent experience for extension developers: you’re going through your customer feedback sent to your contact email address (a CWS requirement ) and you come across something like this: I’m reaching out to you concerning the potential revenue generation from your Chrome Extension, .…
Chrome Web Store policy allows ads in extensions, but can Google’s ad products be used in browser extensions? Let’s dig through some policy docs to find out. Someone posted a question in the chromium-extensions Google Group a couple weeks ago asking whether they were allowed to use Google Ads in browser extensions. When I last looked into this I worked on the Chrome Extensions team and…
Came across grepjason.sh/discover/ (via the docs ) when looking for more info about how to find people talking about stuff I’m interested in. It’s an overly large bucket, but I’d still very much like to see @burk ’s suggestion of a 💻 tagmoji for “Technology/Programming”. As someone specifically interested in the web and web browsers, I’d selfishly like to…
Next weird thing, the UX around adding titles is odd. I know posts don’t have a hard 300 character limit. The docs suggest giving your post a title when it’s over 300 characters, but it’s not clear what that looks or feels like. Does only the title appear in the feed? If we jack into Hugo-level customizations can users provide a metadata field for a description and use that…
Re: dotproto.com/2023/02/2… New stumbling block: threading. There’s no obvious way to link multiple microblog posts together. For the moment I guess I’ll fall back to manually referencing the previous post as I have here, but that’s obviously not ideal. EDIT: The original approach I used was to add “Re: [LINK TO PREVIOUS POST]” on the first line. I’m…
I’m trying to wrap my head around how to engage with the micro.blog community and I feel like I’m grasping at straws. If you’re already here and active, you probably have a pool of people that you read, but as someone with no existing ties I feel adrift. micro.blog/discover is too limited :/ Thread Next: Micro.blog thoughts #2: Threading