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film_girl

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It's film_girl, but on Mastodon. I'm a Senior Developer Advocate at GitHub, a podcaster, a journalist turned developer and someone obsessed with tech, OSS, and pop culture.

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film_girl, to random
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Window management on macOS isn’t great and I’ve tried a lot of tiling tools but none are as good as i3. I discovered AeroSpace today from @bobko and using it for a bit, it’s really solid! https://github.com/nikitabobko/AeroSpace — great work!

film_girl,
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@laen @bobko I haven’t spent a ton of time with this but already it is the closest to i3 I’ve seen and I try a new WM setup almost every 6 months.

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Where are all my #wwdc #wwdc24 people at? I’ll be in San Jose next week and would love to hang with anyone in town!

film_girl,
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@bcapps @matthewbischoff would love to see you both!

film_girl,
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@rwitherspoon always!

film_girl,
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@rileytestut @shanegill.io NICE!! Hope to see you! Will you be at the talk show by chance?

film_girl,
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@caseyliss hell yes!!

film_girl, to random
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This is true for sure — but sometimes you can be prevented by the new owner of what you can disclose. That was my only point last night. We were owed disclosure, but I put that onus primarily on the new owner. It looks now like there is an official statement — better late than never, but like many of you, it has left a bad taste in my mouth for sure. Ice looks promising (hidden bar hasn’t had an update in years so that makes me less comfortable). https://mastodon.social/@lapcatsoftware/112565037324342140

film_girl,
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@lapcatsoftware I think it can be so much more complicated than that. In this case, you’re probably right, but not everyone has the luxury of walking away from a deal because they don’t like some of the terms and so I try to offer grace for that. We were owed being told the app was sold. And most of us will prob rightfully side eye any future apps from this dev (assuming he releases any).

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I turned in my manuscript for the ActivityPub book for @oreillymedia !

https://evanp.me/2024/06/03/i-turned-in-my-manuscript/

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@evanprodromou @oreillymedia hey congrats!

film_girl, to random
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I’m from Atlanta, so I won’t drink a Pepsi product unless forced. We’re a Coca-Cola family. But Diet Dr. Pepper is the best diet soda that exists. I absolutely drink more Diet Coke ounce for ounce, even tho it is worse, just b/c it’s often on sale more but DP is the real shit. Glad to see it get its due. https://www.wsj.com/business/dr-pepper-soda-sales-92b292c3?st=ty1xr5af1rgj04d&reflink=article_copyURL_share

film_girl,
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@rgilmour70 no! but I have to try it now!

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Intrigued by the fact that the Verge story announcing Palmer Luckey’s new Game Boy clone reads very different from the original version, in part because the comments are literally flooded with people attacking the author for giving the console coverage at all.

Props to the commenters for keeping The Verge honest, for sure.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/3/24170572/modretro-chromatic-game-boy-color-palmer-luckey-price-release-date

film_girl,
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@ernie agreed -- that said, and I'm not defending myself here but it is what it is, I still bought one of these things because it looks really good (and I have two Analogue Pockets) and I've somewhat justified the Palmer Luckey of it all, if only because I have a feeling that these things will probably COST him money rather than help him profit. But that could just be a cope. Regardless, I'm glad the commenters forced more blatant of a discussion in the text of the article.

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@ernie totally! And I think most devs will work with playdate over this, if only because playdate is more novel/interesting. Because otherwise you’re just making a gameboy color game right? Which is at least an upside. Every game for this thing should work with an Analogue Pocket or one of the many non-fpga based software emulated handhelds as far as I can tell. The new Tetris is built off GBDK.

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It’s Sabrina’s summer. Period. https://youtu.be/cF1Na4AIecM?si=law6xDePShwZBPHB

film_girl, to random
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Re: the change in ownership of the Mac app Bartender (see last tweet and also this from MacRumors https://www.macrumors.com/2024/06/04/bartender-mac-app-new-owner/), I want to be clear that I do NOT blame the original owner Ben for selling his app or for choosing to make or not make a statement. A statement would have been great but honestly, he doesn't owe me that. He doesn't owe any of you that either. The new owners, however, do owe their existing and potential new customers a little more transparency than they've offered so far.

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Gawker Media LLC -> Gizmodo Media Group -> G/O Media -> / Media? Or maybe they can rename it based on the assets they haven't sold yet where the staff doesn't actively hate management like checks notes Quartz? Should they just rename themselves Quartz but with an asterisk so no one confuses it with the original Quartz?
https://writing.exchange/@ernie/112559953065962054

film_girl,
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@ernie oh I buy this 100%. He was like "finally, a website I actually visited intentionally that I can buy and ruin and not just website that I had never heard of but was chosen to lead a team to buy and ruin”

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I’m catching up on my May blog reading that I’d missed during the busyness of the last few weeks and learned that Carbon Copy Cloner, the best Mac app for backing stuff up/cloning drives or volumes or APFS snapshots, just updated to version 7. Insta-upgrade for me! I don’t think every Mac user needs CCC, but if you’re the designated tech support member in your crew, it’s 10000x better than the shitshow that is now Time Machine https://support.bombich.com/hc/en-us/articles/20686482705687-What-s-new-in-CCC-7

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@ezekiel it is just not at all reliable enough for me, especially if I’m using a networked disk to backup to. Not only that but local snapshots the way macOS does it can be a scourge, as @glennf described https://sixcolors.com/post/2024/03/a-disk-so-full-it-couldnt-be-restored/

film_girl,
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@philbee @ezekiel @glennf I think the issue was that the disk was so full no commands could be run at all, so even something that should work couldn’t run. And the fact that Share Disk didn’t work either was just an extra insult to injury. I’ve never had Glenn's issue, but I’ve seen how badly macOS handles local snapshot purging myself to know it made me turn off the feature.

film_girl,
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@glennf @philbee @ezekiel I’m so grateful you wrote that article Glenn because no snapshot or cache should EVER do what happened there. No Mac should ever break because a Time Machine snapshot went amok. Ever.

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We love @b0rk's new git zine so I had to make a little promo graphic for the socials, shamelessly riffing on her great style https://wizardzines.com/zines/git/ https://social.jvns.ca/@b0rk/112536801531164103

film_girl, to random
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I don’t miss being in a newsroom that often these days but today, I definitely miss it. Man.

film_girl,
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@flargh I totally get that. The rush of breaking news events can def take a toll, but I miss the excitement.

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