On pretty much a daily basis I’m torn on whether to enforce real tabs everywhere even in shared code or give up and use spaces. Tabs as spaces are so much worse, it’s still surprising that most of the JavaScript and Ruby world has settled on them. Trying to fight it creates new problems.
Another Brandon Sanderson book has arrived! Secret project #2: Frugal Wizard’s Handbook. Love the illustrations in the margins. I started this on e-book last month but will finish with the print version.
That seems very doable. I've experimented with that for my own account and can probably generalize it to a plug-in.
Panorama Point as the sun’s starting to go down, at Golden Gate Canyon State Park.
Raining off and on today, so I’ve spent more time driving and less time walking. Mickey is my traveling companion now for all road trips.
Forgot the Stanley Hotel was nearby, the inspiration for the hotel in The Shining. Stopped for a little while, walked around, had a beer in the restaurant. I’m sure there’s lots of history here.
Outside the Glacier Basin campground at Rocky Mountain National Park.
Cool to see people using the App.net posts archive. Here’s a post from @jsonbecker, a post from @otaviocc, and another post from @maique. I was starting to doubt preserving the archive and seeing these reminds me why it’s worth it.
https://json.blog/2023/06/03/a-terrible-inefficient.html https://micro.blog/jsonbecker https://otavio.cc/2023/06/02/appnet-archive-migrated.html https://micro.blog/otaviocc https://maique.eu/2023/06/03/appnet-archive.html https://micro.blog/maique
Beautiful photo from aows. When I retire, I’m just going to blog photos of train tracks.
Thanks again to @vincent for fixing one of the servers yesterday while I was in Rocky Mountain National Park with no cell coverage. Not happy with the blips in downtime recently, going to reprioritize this. Enjoying the morning with good wi-fi and coffee at Inkwell & Brew in Estes Park. ☕️
Traveling today. Got to the airport early, plenty of time to catch up on a couple things. Submitted Micro.blog 3.0.3 to Apple to review. Hope everyone’s having a nice Friday!
Other things I learned about video games this week: the Wii with Skyward Sword still works, the N64 sort of works and then doesn’t, and the Game Boy Advance SP battery is starting to bulge, but replacements are just $10. 🕹️
We caved and bought another Nintendo Switch. The OLED Zelda edition. So nice. 🕹️
Ugh, this is a new pattern for me in Wordle. 712 X/6. 🙁
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App.net archive migrated https://www.manton.org/2023/06/01/appnet-archive-migrated.html
I like this post from Dave Rupert on lessons from old Russian small nuclear generators:
"I wonder if software has a kind of digital entropy, where even good software left untouched for a short timeframe rots and stops working."
Finished Ted Lasso. Overall really enjoyed it. This season almost lost its way a couple times, sometimes overthinking itself, but it wrapped up perfectly. 📺
I seem to have made a serious AWS pricing miscalculation, transferring a bunch of small files from EC2 to S3. Data transfer is free, but PUT requests aren’t. With millions of requests, adds up to real money. This is why I usually prefer Linode’s flat pricing.
Introducing Nostr cross-posting https://www.manton.org/2023/05/31/introducing-nostr-crossposting.html
Thanks everyone who sent me feedback about how you are using Micro.blog’s email newsletters. I took this into account while finishing the new feature, but I realize it’s a functionality change. It is very rare that we change a feature so significantly. Felt like it had to be done.