I’m sure my audience for this blog is familiar with the concept of memetics. If not, the basic premise is the idea that there are little bits of information that spread from person to person by observation and imitation. We call these little bits of information “memes” and they’re a lot like viruses. As Wikipedia, the bastion of human knowledge and an absolutely incredible…
Where did we leave off last time? In talking about macOS, we discovered many different little things signifying a wider rot. Through that exploration, a few consistent themes emerged. Some of these themes were: don’t mix metaphors, articulate clear directions, and prioritize the human above all. We’ve seen individual symptoms. Time to make it more concrete. Slowly then suddenly, macOS is facing…
This post exists because of macOS Tahoe. I’m rather irritated by the new release. This blog is trending towards becoming a place I dump complaints about the direction of current technology. I suppose if I’m going to seem like a grump, I might as well embrace it. From my perspective, macOS Tahoe continues a trend in recent macOS releases of more-or-less just making the OS worse and harder to use. I…
I’m worried. The current implementation of Bluesky bookmarks is fine, in theory, but it has some implications for the future of atproto private data I’m not sure I love. The main issue for me is the choice to implement public bookmark counts, where despite the bookmarks themselves being private to you, the AppView uses all the private bookmarks it’s aware of in order to aggregate counts of how…
Stuff I’ve been reading lately, in case you’re wondering where my head is right now: arstechnica.com/gadgets/2… arstechnica.com/informati… www.theverge.com/22684730/…
Trying out the developer preview of macOS Tahoe gave me thoughts I wanted to post. This is a short post, if you want me to do a more in-depth post let me know and I’ll do a proper review when the OS ships. My first impression is decidedly unimpressed. I think I need to start with Liquid Glass. Liquid Glass I like skeuomorphism, and as a result I think Liquid Glass looks pretty nice in some places.…
This post could’ve been titled “Nostr vs ATProto”, but that really isn’t what I wanted to do here. While I will be comparing and contrasting them a lot, and that’s kind of even the point of writing this, I didn’t want to really pit the two against each other at all, and especially not with the title. I also want to try avoiding commenting on the differences between the communities that have formed…
Test! Please reply to this :)
Alright, so you’ve been screwed over by whatever trendy new tech stack the JS devs have been pushing one-too-many-times, and you’re looking for a truly reliable, tried-and-tested, production-grade stack that will carry your application from first lines of code to IPO. Well, in that case HIPSTER is probably not the right stack for you (unless you happen to be Discord, which happens to be one of the…
I’m not quite sure how to describe it, but my issues with AI and VR seem to come from the same place
40 years ago today, this little creature was introduced to the world - a dogcow. The case she came in became affectionately known, famously, as the “Macintosh”, and the dogcow became known as “Clarus”…
I have somehow made the cursed decision of using my Raspberry Pi 4 as both a desktop computer and my home server
I recently installed a neat little piece of software called Eagle Mode on my Linux desktop (a Raspberry Pi 4). It uses a concept of a “Zoomable UI”, in which instead of double-clicking files and folders to open them, you just zoom in and out and pan around. It created a really neat, cohesive and overall plain fun environment to use. In fact I’ve almost switched to it entirely for day-to-day file…
test poast, somebody please reply
Trying out the Sparkles Micropub client! Very nice and minimal. This should go through Micro.blog, and if I have syndication set up properly, to Mastodon, Nostr, and Bluesky as well…
checked out a bit of Ruby’s DRb getting me more and more curious about distributed programming or whatever it’s called. probably time to check out cwebber’s goblins next
Migrating my blog to micro.blog so I can free up the server it was on for some cool stuff :P
okay this is great. micro.blog mac app is awesome. and with crossposting I may never again have to touch a web ui for social media
hmm
just settin up my micro.blog