Catsby still has the right idea
@ANARCORAXA I have rather large hands, but still my favorite phones so far have been a Palm Pre and a Sony Xperia Z3 Compact
Didn’t stream tonight, but did spend an hour rearranging my workbench and then soldered in these two SMD ICs. Not perfect but pretty good for my first real attempt at hand soldering them
@sungo@nymwars.org Had a lil jar of this rosin paste flux on hand that seemed to work not terribly https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B008ZIV85A
Also, this is a practice kit that's supposed to have some blinkenlights when I'm done. Hoping to get a lot of screw-ups out of my system before I try assembling something I actually care about
COVID angst vs in-person work meetup
My org at work is having an in-person meetup this week in SF. I wanted to go, even given my social dread. I know morsels of face time are super valuable when working remote.
But, I'm staying home. This seems like awful timing, given fresh waves of the plague. To be fair, that could be said of almost any period of days in the past few years. But, I might feel safer if I had a more recent vaccination than last November.
My wife's just about to start a new job. She worked her ass off over the past couple of years to get here. I really, really, really don't want to bring even a mild case of the plague home with me and screw that up for her.
And then there's always Long COVID, around with which I do not want to fuck.
Now that we have a car again, I'd thought about taking a drive from PDX to SFO to avoid air travel. That's appealing in and of itself. But, the notion of exposure to dozens of people who themselves just enjoyed air travel feels fraught.
Man, I hate our current configuration of fuckery.
@jalefkowit @ocdtrekkie @cwebber FWIW, I was working at Mozilla at the time that feature was dropped from Firefox. I wasn't on the team who did the deed, but I was one of a few people who made noise against dropping it.
Analytics were the main rationale - i.e. barely anyone clicked that button anymore. Barely anyone used the built-in Live Bookmarks feature with it's RSS poller, either. So that went away a few years later, too. Folks making the decisions decided the engineers were better re-tasked to more popular "core" features.
That same pattern repeated for a few other features. It was based on internal analytics from telemetry, not arbitrarily following Chrome. It's not like there are meetings with slides of Chrome from which product managers make checklists.
It looks like following Chrome, I think, insofar as Chrome is currently setting user expectations for what browsers are.
All of that said, though, given Mozilla's mission, I think our job should have been to make that feature more discoverable and easier to use as a benefit to the open web. We should have worked to improve it, not excise it.
But, you know, I don't work there anymore. And I didn't push all that hard to stick my neck out to become a decision maker, either. So 🤷♂️
@edd @jalefkowit @ocdtrekkie @cwebber
"Iff there was a feed reader built into the browser a la bookmarks, there'd be a reason for most people to use it."
Funny thing about that, that did exist in FIrefox. It was called Live Bookmarks.
But it wasn't all that discoverable and it wasn't decently hooked up to that feed button.
I tried building an in-browser feed reader with it once, and it mostly worked? But then they pulled the whole RSS polling engine from the browser too.
https://decafbad.com/blog/2011/01/27/introducing-fireriver-a-river-of-news-for-firefox-4/
@jalefkowit @ocdtrekkie @cwebber I want to say this was also coincident with the period wherein Mozilla tried building FirefoxOS as a mobile strategy. Not all the same engineers, but it definitely imposed a certain center of gravity.
Firing up my Twitch stream for some soldering mistakes. No schedule yet, still figuring out if this will be a regular thing again.