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allenu

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Hey, thanks for following. I'm actually at capacity / liking someone else's posts / staring at the wall and may not have appropriate space for you. Is there someone else you can follow/create a parasocial relationship with?

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allenu, to random
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I'm surprised no one's remade NHL '94 or any of the original EA NHL games. You don't even need the official players or teams, just remake the engine and maybe have an option to import player stats and colors/logos. 😉

allenu, to random
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Just saw that the Leafs lost game 7 in OT. lol

allenu, to random
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I love that they have a donair gun at the game

allenu, to retrogaming
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Genuinely surprised I found No One Lives Forever at goodwill. You usually don’t see good games like this there. It’s usually sports games.

allenu, to swift
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I asked ChatGPT if there's a syntax in Swift that lets you make a copy of a struct with a list of properties to change and it said yes, there's a "with" syntax so you can do let foo = bar.with { $0.x = 1234 }, kind of like I've seen in F#.

I got excited because I didn't realize such a thing existed. I tried it, though, and it doesn't exist. lmao It made it up.

allenu, to Mac
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Minders 1.2 is now out!

You can now share from the app, making it a great place to start social media posts.

You can also share to the app to start a new post. Share a link directly from Safari or images directly from Photos.

https://blog.ussherpress.com/2024/02/08/minders-update-120.html

allenu, to random
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It is rumored that the bagul inhabits the baby doll and anyone who stares at a photo of it will have a very good day

allenu, to random
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I’m checking out the Zack Bagans Haunted Museum. I love a good kooky museum. I hope they don’t expect me to believe this stuff tho.

allenu, to random
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Holy shit this machine is paying out!

allenu, to random
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Doing a local-only app can be quite restrictive. I've been working on adding a Share Extension to my journaling app. With it, you'd be able to share text, a link, or images to the app to post. However, I only store data in your iCloud Documents folder.

My plan was to use an App Group to share the iCloud folder between the main app and the extension. The extension would load the document and add new content to it itself and let NS/UIDocument handle file coordination.

allenu, to Seattle
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A bit of cool tech for anyone in who likes obscure - a Sony Data Discman (Japanese) is for sale on craigslist https://seattle.craigslist.org/see/ele/d/seattle-sony-data-discman/7712108887.html

allenu, to random
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Now we're in business. I found a 2019 MacBook Air on craigslist for a good price. This should be a good test machine.

allenu, to random
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I really wish the iOS Simulator had Notes built in. So many times I want to test out copy-paste from an app and I have to make do with pasting into the tiny notes field in Reminders.

allenu, to random
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Man, who thought “Huel” was a good name for a meal alternative? I always think of “hurl” or the sound you make when you hurl when I see it.

allenu, to random
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For all the apps that I've made, I am starting to realize that the "product" at the end of the day is the data model I've come up with that makes things possible.

The UI obviously makes a difference, but the data model I use makes a bigger difference as to what's possible to do in an app. If I get the model wrong, all those nice features are really hard to write.

allenu, to random
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I saw the HN post about someone converting a SNES controller into a USB-based one and had to share my experience of going the other way.

I once converted a modern "Neo Geo X" USB controller to a standard Neo Geo controller. 😎 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39060594

allenu, to random
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@vga256 @cbielstein Oof. The temps in my screenshot were in F but still, I don't envy you. So low that C or F doesn't matter. lol

allenu, to random
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Ugh, trying to update Ruby on Mac but it's so broken. It's so bad that some guy built a product to help people get Ruby on Mac working properly.

All I want is a version that works so I can run jekyll on my intel-based Mac.

allenu, to books
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I’m finally reading Amusing Ourselves to Death after hearing about it all the time.

The first chapter is already resonating with my view of the world. We live in a world of symbols and the more we interact with machines, the more those symbols change our view of the world and of reality itself.

I enjoy the internet but I think it is fundamentally changing our perception of reality, going from more material-based experiences to one constructed by algorithms and “the crowd”.

allenu, to random
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I found a book on Scala at Goodwill. Soon I will have a library of books on every programming language.

allenu, to random
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Went to a neighbor’s holiday party. It was so nice to just hang out with complete strangers, and my neighbors, who were complete strangers as well.

allenu, to random
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Kind of weird to talk to neighbors who knew people who lived in your house before you bought it. It’s like a timeline before you existed almost.

allenu, to random
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Rewatching the Heaven's Gate cult documentary and they brought up the Asch conformity experiments[1] where they have several test subjects in a room vote on which of several lines is the longest on a diagram that all can see.

The twist is that they're all confederates except for one subject. The confederates eventually start stating the wrong answer and they find the non-confederate generally starts stating the wrong answer, too, to go along with the group.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asch_conformity_experiments

allenu, to random
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Man, is there any more stressful tune than the Sonic drowning music?

allenu, to programming
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One of the most challenging things with software design is knowing when two things that look alike are actually fundamentally different things.

If you end up treating the two things as the same, you glom behaviors together that aren't necessarily coupled, which not only adds complexity as you try to maintain the sameness between those two things over time, but it also prevents you from making each work independently as it needs to for the problem you're solving.

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