According to the Svelte blog, Apple Podcasts on the web uses Svelte. So now I feel pretty good aboutd about my decision to learn it last year. 😇

https://svelte.dev/blog/whats-new-in-svelte-september-2024

I could have lived with NaNoWriMo leaving their AI stance at “if it helps you, sure, but using it to write for you defeats the purpose, y’know?”

But in the context of creative writing, comparing AI hate to ableism/classism rings extremely hollow, especially when they could have said nothing at all.

https://nanowrimo.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/19175896488980-Am-I-allowed-to-use-AI https://nanowrimo.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/29933455931412-What-is-NaNoWriMo-s-position-on-Artificial-Intelligence-AI

Okay, people in my phone: I just sold a laptop to Best Buy for $600. They currently have the 14-inch M3 Pro MBP on sale for $1500 (18GB RAM, 512GB SSD). Do I get this now? Or do I wait for the M4 MBP that will certainly cost $2000? I have an M1 Air that is doing well, but only 1 monitor is chafing.

I just had my best hand ever in Pile-Up Poker on Puzzmo! Now if only I was quicker at the crosswords…

https://puzzmo.com/play/pile-up-poker/sh2v2gdw/share

Anyone know if I can use Watir or Selenium to have my command line tool use Safari to generate a PDF? (Chrome might be ok, but I need to check if it avoids splitting paragraphs like Safari does.)

If your business model is such that you feel entitled to charge for using a used product, you’re doing it wrong.

And they said my generation was entitled!

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/08/22/peloton-to-charge-95-activation-fee-for-used-bikes-.html

I currently own 1/5th a share of Apple stock. Is there a way for me to register a complaint about their App Store policies (burning goodwill and harming long-term health), and would I need to buy the rest of the share to do it?

I trust Patreon as much as any venture-backed company (which is not much), but this is pure rent-seeking from Apple. This is monopolist behavior. Please, just stop. I dont want to have to make Linux my daily driver.

https://news.patreon.com/articles/understanding-apple-requirements-for-patreon https://oddevan.com/2024/01/17/just-stop-apple.html

I write fiction in markdown with a horizontal line (---) to denote scene breaks. A lot of the editing software I’ve looked at expects each scene to be its own file. So I wrote a PHP command line script to break apart a markdown file by scene.

https://gist.github.com/oddevan/e51c2283c6d27dedd77c7484facf820d

Still working out some bugs, but have a new theme for oddevan.com ! I wanted to have more prominent social links (since I took those away from eph.me ) and have a dedicated space for projects. Would love some feedback!

https://oddevan.com/ https://eph.me/

Finally got a solid component demo pattern for my very-in-progress UI library. So, naturally, I wrote a component demo for the component demo component using the component demo component.

Svelte-ception 😎

https://ui.oddevan.com/components/component-demo

Got a burst of inspiration for a point-and-click adventure, figured out ways I could build it in Svelte, and now I’ve got an HTML version of a old phone…

Teleprompter procured.

Slowly but surely I’m eliminating all the “reasons” I don’t do more videos. Soon I’ll be left with just “it’s too much work.”

Unexpected Unpermitted Parameters In Rails https://oddevan.com/2024/07/11/unexpected-unpermitted-parameters.html

Recorded a test video. Used a teleprompter app to show the script while I delivered into my webcam.

Watched the video and saw my eyes go back and forth from the webcam to the script every time.

Bought a teleprompter on eBay.

Manton Reece on the last few weeks:

"People are worried that Biden might lose. Good, be worried. If more people were worried in 2016, Hillary would be wrapping up her 2nd term right now."

https://www.manton.org/2024/07/09/postdebate-postinterview-questions.html

Downloaded 37Signals’ Writebook because free. I might try to run it locally as a Scrivener replacement, but I’m bristling at the thought of running a full Rails app on the server for what should be static files.

https://once.com/writebook

Timed the “intro to Smolblog” talk at just under 35 minutes. I should probably shave five minutes off somewhere, right?

Is a “where’s the beef?” reference too dated?

Between the coffee and the general environment, I’ve needed this deskmat cleaning guide from Mintlodica for a little while.

https://mintlodica.com/blogs/from-our-desk-to-yours/gaming-deskmat-cleaning-guide