RobW

RobW, 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago) to random

TIL It’s not possible to transfer money between bank accounts in the US. This feels like one of those ‘lobbyists bribed politicians to make the customer experience worse so they can sell an unnecessary solution’ things.

Edit: I did not foresee this being such a thing. Please stop explaining banking systems, I think I now know in minute detail exactly where this post is and isn’t completely accurate. Thank you.

RobW, 10 days ago to random

The two stages of writing SwiftUI:

1. Omg. I love this.
2. Omg. I hate this with a passion.

RobW, 5 months ago to random

I recently started playing Cyberpunk.
What’s the point of being able to give yourself a massive willy if it won’t let you run around without your pants on?
Just think how funny it would be having a futuristic shoot out with that thing flapping around.

RobW, 1 year ago to random

Can you recommend me a pasteboard manager for MacOS?
I’m looking for something that will let me keep multiple items on the pasteboard, and will paste plain text by default (this is the way).

RobW, 11 months ago to random

I can’t use my Mac in dark mode. I can’t read the text, I can’t determine window focus.
The meme about not being a real developer because I use light mode is so hack and can get to fuck.

RobW, 9 months ago to random

Why are there even gendered divisions in Chess? How do your genitals affect your ability to think about moving some toy horses?

RobW, 2 days ago to random

That Microsoft considered protecting DRM content before protecting users in their new keylogger really shouldn’t be shocking, but somehow was. Classic capitalism.

RobW, 3 months ago to random

The lockdown project for one of my parents neighbours was to build a scale model of the lake district from Lego. It’s now in the local museum.

RobW, 8 days ago to random

Any ideas why maps will no longer give me spoken directions? They appear to be enabled in settings.

RobW, 1 month ago to random

Sometimes I’ll just look at the tube map for ages just for fun. And it’s things like this that make me think I probably don’t need to bother getting an official diagnosis.

RobW, 2 days ago to random

When Americans use the word ‘kickball’ do they mean football? As in actual football, not their weird version of rugby.

RobW, 10 months ago to random

I decided not to mow my lawn this year, and I much prefer it. The lawn is full of beautiful grasses and flowers and insects.

RobW, 9 months ago to random

Fwiw, getting started on mastodon is really difficult. Despite what the ultras say.
I have a decent feed because I was motivated, and made liberal use of twitter api tools which are no longer available. Discoverability is essentially impossible

RobW, 1 month ago to random

A while ago had an idea of making a Black Box style puzzle game where you had to use iOS accessibility features to solve the puzzles, but I don’t think I have the creativity to pull it off, especially in a way that is not exclusionary or feels exploitative.

RobW, 10 months ago to random

My wife just asked “What’s USB-C”, and honestly I don’t think I can answer.

RobW, 14 days ago to random

Has anyone seen my fleece jacket? You know, the blue one.

RobW, 19 days ago to random

Just watched a Thor movie and it struck me how wild it is that we’re still making contemporary stories about characters that were created thousands of years ago.
What’s the oldest character(s) we still make contemporary fiction about? Jesus? Are there contemporary stories of Greek gods? Anything older?

RobW, 22 days ago to random

This card kills fascists.

RobW, 1 year ago to random

They’re prosecuting a guy for egging King Charles last year, yet he’s allowed to egg a minor celebrity?
Time to overthrow the monarchy.

RobW, 1 year ago to random

Just reading a blog with the line:

> The above could be written in one line only:
> return item == nil ? viewModel.model.totalCollections : (item as? Collection)?.totalItems ?? 1
> Much better, don’t you think?

No. I don’t think that’s much better.
Still, I had to close a billion popovers to read the blog, so clearly not somewhere to take advice on readability.

RobW, 4 months ago to random

Giving my first presentation at Apple today. Expectation:

Tim Cook walks onto stage at wwdc and says ‘Thank You’

RobW, 16 hours ago to random

@lapcatsoftware Hi Jeff, I’d really love a way to be able to temporarily enable JavaScript with Stop the Script. Thanks!

RobW, 6 days ago to random

My home town, like many, has a Hollywood-inspired ‘walk of fame’ where local celebrities names are included in stars. Yet the dude I went to school with who had the massive willy who went to LA to star in porn films, is not amongst them.

RobW, 1 day ago to random

Am I going to book 5th July off work so I stay up all night watching Tory scum becoming unemployed?

RobW, 1 day ago to random

I’d love the (probable) incoming labour government to renationalise the railways and water, tax the rich, build houses, recognise Palestine, fix the nhs, rejoin the EU… in reality they probably aren’t going to do any of that and will generally be a disappointment. But I think we can be certain they can’t make anything worse.