It turns out that if you start a stopwatch in the Clock app on macOS, it will keep counting through reboots and upgrades. As of today, my stopwatch has been running for over 1,000 days.
I wonder what it was I was originally timing. Looks like the first ‘lap’ was 100 days long.
I have a pet peeve about people talking about the weather, particularly on the radio, which is where I hear most of my weather-talkin’.
You’ll often here the weather-person express a kind of value judgment on the weather: it’s going to be a ‘nice day’, or the weekend ‘looks good’, or they have ‘good news in the weather forecast’.
The thing is, there isn’t good or bad weather.
Ok, there can be bad weather. No one wants a tornado or a flood.
Other than those extremes, though, weather isn’t good or bad. It depends on your preferences and needs.
Throwing an outdoor wedding reception? You probably don’t want rain. Trying to keep failing crops alive after weeks of drought? You probably do want rain.
I know people who love a hot and humid day. They call it a “beach day”. I hate hot humid days. I can only take off so many clothes.
This is mostly trivial peeve of language, but I do think there’s a deeper issue. If we prescribe values to something as arbitrary as the weather, then we allow something which we have no control to impact how we feel.
Don’t value judge the weather! It’s is a path to sadness!
In the world of CSS, there are two different types of spacing between elements:
I’ve come to believe that scheduled meetings have MARGIN and PADDING too. Meeting Margin is the space between two meetings. This needs to be explicit. The screenshot below shows two meetings with no margins. They’re bumping up against each other.
Meeting Padding is the space inside a meeting required to make space between other meetings/activities before and after. For example, if I show up immediately after a previous meeting, I’ll still need a minute to find my notes, or run to the bathroom.
I try to give meetings Margin so they don’t end up with too much Padding. I try not to put two meetings immediately adjacent on the calendar. I don’t always success.
I wish calendar tools like Google Calendar would make this basic human requirement a bit more obviously part of the flow of booking meetings. Let me know that this meeting runs right into the next one, or that the person I’ve invited has zero minutes between their previous meeting and the one I’m scheduling.
Everyone knows that if you have a truck, you have a social responsibility to help your friends and family move stuff. It’s in the Bible.
Now, if you have a working printer, you have a social responsibility to help your friends and family print stuff. I humbly accept this responsibility.
The Heavyweight podcast from Jonathan Goldstein is back on a new network after being lost in the shuffle of Spotify acquiring Gimlet Media.
I loved the show back when it was Wiretap on CBC Radio. In the latest episode, Gregor is back. I love Gregor.
I work hard at my job, but nothing can compare to how hard I will work on redirecting a stream at the beach. I will dig in the hot sun until my hands are blistered.
The first day of school each fall is challenging. There’s some excitement, but also some dread and anxiety.
The second day, you no longer have the novelty or excitement, and you’re exhausted from getting through the first day.
The second day of school is harder than the first.
This week YouTube started showing me an ad with an obviously (to me) fake video of Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney asking people to sign up for some AI program. The link points to a form hosted on TypeForm.
I’ve reported this ad as a scam at least three or four times, yet YouTube continues to serve it to me.
I can see how it would be infeasible for YouTube to screen every video they host – but as soon as they accept a penny from an advertiser, they take on the complete burden of filtering out (at least obvious) scams.
I would also expect that some facial-recognition might be in order for a G7 world leader.
Shame on YouTube.
Did you know there was a super-group that released an album in 2009 that consisted of:
Weird but true. Enjoy Kind of a Girl by Tinted Windows.
Update: I learned from Wikipedia that the guitar play from the Lemonheads also performed with Tinted Windows. And the Lemonheads have a great new song out.
I learned this week that the Annotations feature in Figma is not accessible for people with free accounts. Instead, you need to have a paid account with Dev Mode access.
This is a major hindrance and disincentive to use the feature. While I understand that Figma will want to drive subscriptions, and I’m happy to pay for the tool, this is one more stone on the “Figma alternatives” side of the scale.
It was even more frustrating to learn this after our team had been using annotations for a while. I’m sure the documentation and announcements of the feature may have explained the paid-account requirements, we missed this and you may have too.
