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tommertron

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IT person by trade, nerd by calling. Sometimes I write things in a text editor.

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tommertron, to random
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@hotdogsladies As a man who loved Stath Lets Flats, I cannot recommend Peep Show more highly. British and weird + Olivia Coleman? You cannot go wrong.

tommertron,
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@hotdogsladies Depends.

matthewcassinelli, to random
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computers r cool

tommertron,
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@matthewcassinelli @jeffkibuule A better answer is if the smaller Stream Deck controlled the bigger ones. “I got Stream Decks to control my Stream Decks” is a world class flex.

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@matthewcassinelli Hey Matthew! Would you be at all willing to meet for a couple minutes sometime to get thoughts on discord?

Want to use it for a school reunion and have a private space for the planning committee but an easy way tor attendees to join and just be in a public channel for updates and socializing / questions etc. Like what you do with yours but also Discord is confusing af to me.

tommertron,
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@matthewcassinelli Okay cool. Might just have to play around with roles a bit more. I guess I could just make the default role the “public” one and then manually change committee members to give them access to the private channels.

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My Link Sharing Workflow

I recently started creating posts of links that I’ve found interesting throughout the week, and thought I’d share a little meta post explaining how I put these together. This is one of those fun problem solving categories that you can do very simply, using a notes app, or open tabs or something, or very complicated, using a rube-golberg-esque combination of apps and automation.

http://coefficiencies.com/2024/05/05/my-link-sharing-workflow/

tommertron,
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@matthewcassinelli Calling myself out more than anything. 🫠

tommertron,
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@matthewcassinelli Ooooh didn’t realize that! I dunno I’m liking my method tbh! Though mine aren’t Daring Fireball style link posts which Wordpress makes kinda tricky.

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I love how so many people are like “these reviewers are paid off” and this guy’s like, “nah, it’s malpractice for a reviewer to actually give a bad review.”

A historically bad tech take that should be put in a museum.

https://x.com/dvassallo/status/1779753281960722706

tommertron,
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@matt Oh man. You don’t get to 18 million followers by beating around the bush. Good on Marques and all the reviewers for calling a spade a spade.

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So I’ve been writing… pretty decent? blog posts now for six weeks in a row which I’m pretty proud of. I’m really enjoying the process of writing but I am not at all getting a lot of views on the blog. I’m still not sure whether to care about this. But I know part of my lizard brain is upset about it.

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I’m really tempted to write about how I budget using Apple Reminders and Shortcuts. But I’m worried that:

➡️ It’s the “wrong” way to budget
➡️ Most people will never do this.

But I think it’s neat!

tommertron,
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TLDR the way I budget is to just have a certain amount of money from each paycheque left for “fun stuff.” I don’t have some for “entertainment” and some for “dining out” etc. Just a certain amount left after I pay all the stuff I need to (including savings etc.) if there’s money left, it just stays there so I have even more fun money.

tommertron,
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And then I use Reminders to track my bills and deposits coming up, and a Shortcut that asks how much is in my chequing, deducts my upcoming bills until the next paycheque and then tells me how much fun money I have left. That’s it.

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Wrote up a love letter to my over-the-air TV setup. https://coefficiencies.com/2024/03/09/how-i-watch-tv-in-2024/

matt, to random
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So I completely sympathize with devs who don't want their iPad apps to run the Vision Pro, there are good reasons to not want your app to be available on a platform you've never been able to use.

That said, I kinda wish there was a “I know this may not work perfectly and I shall not be allowed to leave a review complaining about this app, install it anyway” checkbox I could use on apps I've already bought to force them to install on the Vision Pro.

tommertron,
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@jimmylittle Also, Cuil!

tommertron, to random
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Ugh. Trying to google for "ghost v wordpress" is just a fucking disaster of SEO-bait garbage. I really wish independent blogging was more of a thing and there was a good overview that didn't try to sell you something.

tommertron,
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@matthewcassinelli Do you mind if I ask if your newsletter itself powered by Wordpress?

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I think John Oliver finally said something that will anger this crowd 😝

https://youtu.be/p4QGOHahiVM?si=RTsvZwc0XIezT38k

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tommertron,
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@jimmylittle @matt I do find it kind of weird that in the Apple community there’s this understanding that Apple TV+ is like the new HBO. It’s not. A couple of good show but their batting average sucks. So many stinkers on Apple TV+.

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Half surprised the lightning accessories don't come with a special dongle to charge them, because they have real “Apple Pencil 1 with new iPad” vibes.

tommertron,
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@jamesthomson @joesteel Now do one about only one external monitor on the base Pro.

tommertron, to Starfield
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Pretty excited to dig into . But it’s kind of…. boring so far? Maybe I just need to get through the tutorial mission. Not really getting a whole “open world to explore” vibe just yet.

lcamtuf, (edited ) to random

You know, I really dislike ad blockers from the security perspective. They need exceptionally broad permissions that make the extension a juicy target for attacks. Pop one of the maintainers' Google or Github accounts and own hundreds of millions of people overnight - their email, bank accounts, social media identities, and all that.

The consequences of simple coding errors are similarly disastrous - and I bet that there are some good UXSS bugs lurking in all that JavaScript.

For these reasons, I resisted ad blockers for 20+ years, and I endured countless cookie prompts, subscription interstitials, "sponsored results", and unskippable ads. But around 2020, the anti-user patterns on the web have gotten unbearable. And I say this as a person who grew up in the era of auto-playing Flash-based pop-under ads.

I'm not a security absolutist. It's all about trade-offs: the convenience of using a modern web browser, for example, generally outweighs the risks of living with its massive attack surface. But in the case of ad blockers, you gotta take a hit just to continue to browse in peace. It blows.

tommertron,
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@lcamtuf This. A thousand times this. I actually want to support sites by viewing their ads (or paying them) but the auto playing videos, css screen takeover pop ups, tracking cookies, JavaScript bogged sites make it so difficult. Just have a simple banner ad and I won’t block it I swear.

matt, to random
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A couple weeks ago I wrote that adaptive audio on AirPods Pro was indistinguishable from transparency mode to me. Half agreed, half thought I had a bug.

New phone and new AirPods Pro later and I can report…adaptive and transparency modes are EXACTLY the same. I don’t get this feature at all.

tommertron,
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@matt I notice the difference in that I can hear my podcast audio words clearly on Adaptive Audio when walking around on a busy street whereas on Transparency I often could not. I can still hear street sounds on AA but with clearer audio.

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In Rainbows (365 Albums) https://birchtree.me/blog/in-rainbows-365-albums/

tommertron,
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@matt So good. I think I’ll give a listen today.

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The Pixel 8 Pro’s thermometer is in fact not stupid.

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tommertron,
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@snazzyq @siracusa @caseyliss I’m now caught up on this whole thread and I still have no idea why there is a perfectly cut in half pan in the video. What is happening.

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    tommertron,
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    @matt For sure, I've had so many similar conversations with people who loved it, so totally get it. It just... did not land with me. But maybe that's what makes it good art?

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