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neilgmacy, to random
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Switching it up for day 2 of and writing about some basic DIY things I’ve learned in the last few months after lots of dumb errors https://www.neilmacy.co.uk/blog/diy-tips

neilgmacy,
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@hl That’s a genius way of getting out of making the tea 😁

hl,
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@neilgmacy I'm terrible at negotiations and arguments, so I still consider that one of my finest achievements.

neilgmacy, to random
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My first post for is a nice non-controversial topic: Living (Comfortably) In Apple’s Walled Garden https://www.neilmacy.co.uk/blog/living-in-a-walled-garden

niclake,
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@neilgmacy if you haven’t, don’t forget to submit your link to @Pomo

neilgmacy,
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@niclake @Pomo thanks for the reminder!

neilgmacy, to random
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I love the idea of posting daily for but frankly, posting weekly for a whole month will be an unprecedented success for me

niclake,
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@neilgmacy I’m having to scour the depths of my brain for post topics

neilgmacy, to random
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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?

neilgmacy,
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@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 also don’t understand the betting odds at all 🤷

chrishannah,
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@neilgmacy Yeah and it’s not really relevant from the context of viewing a single match either.
I agree on the odds, maybe they wanted to fill the space with something 😅

neilgmacy, to random
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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

robb,
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@neilgmacy I saw them sneak into my rss reader

neilgmacy, to random
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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.

https://www.neilmacy.co.uk/blog/homescreen-2024-01

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neilgmacy, to random
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It seems widgets on iOS 17 aren’t quite stable yet…

robb,
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@neilgmacy they should call it a beta or something

neilgmacy, to random
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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.

robb,
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@neilgmacy The real problem is that this huge waves of spam don't just affect that instance, it causes issues on other instances which is why a lot of instances (including the one I'm on) have to silence it for a period when this happens.

Having one mega-instance is also not ideal.

neilgmacy, to random
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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.

I’ll be so upset if Disney ruin season 2 of Andor, given that will be the end of the whole thing. There won’t be a season 3, season 2 goes right up to the Rogue One movie https://gizmodo.com/andor-season-2-production-writers-strike-1850411776

robb,
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@neilgmacy Season 4 of Lost is another good example of what happens.

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