collin

collin, 8 months ago to random

A scary thing thinking back to when I was doing aikido pretty seriously is that the black belts really seemed to think it would work.

I don't think a martial art needs to be effective or practical in that sense to be worth doing, but thinking that you can defend yourself when you probably can't is probably the worst.

collin, 9 months ago to random

Maybe I'm weird, but I prefer subscription pricing. It lets the developers have more predictable income, and I don't have to keep track of when new versions of things are released.

If this had been how apps were priced when I released my Pinboard app a decade ago, maybe I could have afforded to keep updating it. The way things were, I made a few thousand dollars the first month, before having sales drop off to basically zero.

collin, 4 months ago to random

I’ve been thinking, and for the kind of guitar I want to be better at, I think the places to focus are getting to where I can name any note on the fretboard instantly (I still often do a little math in my head for this), mastering triads and getting better at arpeggios.

On top of the skills I already have, I feel like this is pretty much the whole game for the kind of music I want to play, which doesn’t involve a ton of solos, but does use melodic lines and different chord voicings a lot.

collin, 8 months ago to random

Does anyone have a good recommendation for an app I can use on my phone which will let me geotag photos I take using my camera?

collin, 7 months ago to random

I tried the thing where you can use your HomePods as speakers for your Apple TV and immediately noticed that it added a 3 to 5 second delay playing any video. Has anyone else noticed this?

collin, 6 months ago to random

I am kind of obsessed with my Benson now, but I do still love the AC15. If I ever find anyone to start a band with me, it would be great for practice and gigging.

collin, 8 months ago to random

I really like all of the Withings gear. They have a great app which syncs with Apple Health. I have their scale, sleep mat, blood pressure monitor, and thermometer. It's all been really good.

collin, 7 months ago to random

If you want to get into higher end acoustic guitars, the Gibson L-00 is amazing. I got mine used for about $1000 less than what they are new, and I play it all the time.

I feel like folks default to default to dreadnoughts, and I love my J-45 and J-35, but this one is so comfortable to play and sounds so good, I barely touch anything else. Plus it's the guitar Woody Guthrie is most associated with, which I think is neat. https://www.gibson.com/en-US/Acoustic-Guitar/ACCSMC348/Vintage-Sunburst

collin, 7 months ago to random

I feel like they must have changed something in the latest watchOS/iOS updates for how they calculate cardio fitness (VO2 max), because all of a sudden mine has jumped up like five points.

collin, 9 months ago to random

Every text editor should have the ability to run an arbitrary shell script from a menu item, send stdin, and replace the current selection based on the output.

collin, 7 months ago to random

My ability to get audio recorded in various unideal environments and setups sounding reasonable to good has gotten pretty on point. I owe a lot of it to Izotope RX. It's really a lifesaver.

collin, 11 months ago to random

Maybe I should just become of those Vim people? It seems like the one thing sort of guaranteed to never go out of style.

collin, 5 months ago to random

I know that UK, Australian, and European plugs are all “better” than North American, but truthfully, I don’t care what shape they are if they all used the same voltage and frequency.

collin, 8 months ago to random

Has anyone gotten the thing on Sonoma where you can put iOS widgets on your desktop work? I can put them there, but they never show any data.

collin, 10 months ago to random

I think I'd like to make something sort of real just using C and the standard library, just to see if I can. Not sure what though. I'd like to pick something substantial enough to share with folks as a useful tool, while also being approachable enough that I can see progress quickly.

collin, 9 months ago to portland

I am not going to argue that the #Portland city flag beats Chicago — they edge us out with the simplicity — but I think it’s a strong contender and definitely top-five in the United States.

I am sort of surprised you don’t see it everywhere here the way you do in Chicago.

collin, 9 months ago to random

I keep getting on calls with people who are using Stage Manager on their Mac and I'm like "how/why"? It's truly incomprehensible to me, but seeing other people use it makes me feel like maybe I'm missing out.

collin, 9 months ago to apple

At this point, I hope #Apple never fixes this layout bug in Terminal.app, because it gives me a sense of stability in a world gone mad.

collin, 10 months ago to random

It’s strange how in older code editors, like BBEdit and TextMate, being able to hit ⌘R to run the current file if you had a script open was standard, but none of the newer apps seem to do this?

collin, 9 months ago to random

I'm still bummed that Adam Schlesinger from Fountains of Wayne died of COVID.

collin, 11 months ago to random

It’s kind of interesting. I have had three blog posts now sort of blow up a Hacker News, which is cool, but as far as I can tell that doesn’t really translate to new readers. Maybe they are all subscribing via RSS and I don’t have a good way to track that, but mostly my suspicion is that you can get tens of thousands of visits per post and you’re still not really “building an audience.”

collin, 9 months ago to random

I had no idea 200,000 people had been let go since January. Thankfully it appears to have slowed down a lot, but, fuck. No wonder it's been so hard for people to find a job.

collin, 11 months ago to swift

I’m thinking an interesting follow-up to my MVC post could be figuring out what a modern #Swift app using #SwiftUI and #SwiftData would look like with that architecture?

I don’t think there’s any reason you couldn’t insert a controller layer in there or why that wouldn’t be a reasonable approach? It might even be kind of great?

collin, 11 months ago to random

Can anyone tell me what this font might be? https://i.snap.as/onaddV2k.png

collin, 9 months ago to random

I wonder if I had been able to talk my parents into getting me a G3 iMac as a kid what my life would look like now. I learned to program because QBasic was available on Windows 9x and there were lots of resources for me on the web.

If I was using Mac OS 8 or 9, I know it was possible to find something similar, but I wonder if the legwork required would have been more than 13 year old me was up for?