@robb fun fact, it’s not that easy if you were born in Scotland. You have to get an amended birth certificate instead, which really screws with the companies who can barely cope with a deed poll
Is it just me that feels a bit bitter when Apple releases (or is about to release) new iPad hardware?
I used to get excited for new iPads. But then I remember iPadOS and go back to my Mac.
@chrishannah I feel exactly the same, I couldn’t care less about the probably amazing new hardware because I can’t use it anywhere near how I’d want to
Apple Sports. I’m having flashbacks to working on Yahoo Fantasy Soccer. US designers working on international sports… what do these numbers mean? Why are they so prominent and yet so meaningless?
@chrishannah you’re right, although I had to check. In US sports though, they would do W-L-D, I had to argue to rearrange that when I worked at Yahoo years ago. And the whole look just feels very American and odd for “soccer”, so it probably triggered something for me!
I noticed a couple of people posting about digging out old blog posts recently, and it got me looking through old archived stuff.
I found some old posts from 2015 and 2016, back when I was trying to be vocally opinionated. I’ve put them in a hidden section on my website. I’ll almost certainly never write like this online again https://www.neilmacy.co.uk/more
I might have to start a little series of my experiences talking to fellow developers at work. Because it seems that me and my colleagues aren't always on the same planet (not sure who is where).
@chrishannah I’ve had colleagues like that before. The most extreme example was someone who was absolutely magic at one specific thing (building things in Unity), and utterly useless at anything else involving a computer
Wrote up my Home Screens at the start of the year. I’ve done this every year for about a decade in my Day One journal, but this year I thought I’d share it.
@robb I only just freed my Home Screen of Huckleberry. It is a mostly crap app (I wish it had Shortcuts support and an Apple Watch app), but being able to see sleep trends over time was really helpful for us
If mastodon.social is the biggest server, and people are directed there by the main Mastodon app, does that essentially make it unblockable? If I were on another instance and my admin blocked it, I’d leave that instance.
If you’ve ever seen Quantum of Solace, you’ll see an example of what happens when you continue with a production during a writers’ strike. Awful movie, and it was in between Casino Royale and Skyfall which were great.
