@matthewcassinelli yeah it looks great. Making it context-aware with Shortcuts is going to be awesome. Perhaps showing different menus or launching different apps based on location, or time or day or day of week.
The variety of apps for Mastodon is as amazing as it is overwhelming. The bare-bones ‚original’ #Mastodon for iOS, the neglected #MetatextApp, #Amaroq, my current favourite #IceCubesApp … and I haven‘t even tried #Ivory, #Mammoth, and #Mastoot yet. 😅 Which client do you use?
@jackwellborn aha, ok. Yeah I had forgotten about that. I tried it with my JBL speaker but I don’t think they support the standard properly, or something like that.
I wanted to use the set volume command to reset the speakers back to a normal volume each night. The HomePods do, the JBL is selectable to do that against against, but does nothing.
I think all-electric cars are a bad idea. My case:
Structural: Lithium is a scarce resource, and I’d rather make multiple plug-in hybrids with the same amount it takes to build a single all-electric car
Individual: especially in the US, we should expect the power grid to get worse before it gets better. Going all-in on electric doesn’t make sense to me as weather events get more extreme, making energy infrastructure less reliable. A vehicle with two energy options feels safer
@danilo I agree with you RE electric-battery vehicles being pushed too much, instead of generally a wider market of sustainable vehicles. Sunlight for hydrogen production gives rise to lots of potential in India etc. too (and could be for Arizona etc.?).
There are a few interesting videos with JCB folks on their bet on hydrogen for heavy industrial vehicles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxtxZY45RMM, where you can’t have a vehicle having zero utilisation during long charge times.
@amara I think it’s situational: if you’re contributing to a team or existing code base, follow those conventions. (And write them down if they don’t already exist.) Then I think it’s language-dependent: python likes underscores, lisp family likes hyphens etc.
Personal preference though is that kebab-case wins… easier to read than camel and easier to type than snake 😁
@atpfm Anecdata: I’m team @siracusa with the Core2 Duo. I’d wanted my first Mac for a couple years, waited for the Intel machines to come out, and purposefully skipped the first Intel MBP, getting the second one with a Core2 chip.
I remember it being a rumour almost immediately as the first machine came out, and to my mind a better (64bit) instruction set seemed more future proof.
Aside: it also had 802.11g only, with a $1.99 (?) update to get 802.11n eventually… (Sarbanes-Oxley?)
@caseyliss ah, I wasn’t hit by that. I was just hacking something together for personal use, against their HTTP endpoints on my local network. Still a PITA.
@caseyliss Yeah agreed… but it is a commercial product, and JSON is hardly new.
I wouldn’t even mind the XML if it was sane in the semantics it presents. To do what I want to do (I think quite a simple use case), I have to call one endpoint, use some of the return values when driving another, refactor a response… it just lacks delight for the person driving the API. Feels like it’s not really meant to be used at all.
Hashtags didn't start out as a software feature on Twitter.
@chrismessina proposed their use, and for a long time, they were just a cultural norm.
It was months later that Twitter engineers turned them into links that went to a search result screen.
Same thing with @-addressing. It was a practice for blog comments that came over to Twitter, but there was a long time that there were no affordances in the UI to support them.
Same with retweets. People starting using "RT", and it took off.
