@rasterweb This is where I nervously glance at my (checks notes) 360 GitHub repositories and give thanks to past me for mostly having digital serial enthusiasms that don't take up any physical space.
At the same time, projects are starting to accumulate in my workshop and I feel a 3D printer coming on soon
@benbrown I follow them too! I fell down a rabbit hole of Twitch DJ streams a year or so ago and followed a whole bunch after raids & shoutouts.
Here's another DJ that I'm a big fan of, looks like she's doing a fun set tomorrow
@emma @rasterweb Nah, I keep flirting with getting one and then wandering off
Some days you get up and just want to scrub the launch, get out of the space suit, and go back to bed. That's today, for me.
Did you know that Jane Badler - i.e. "Diana" from the V miniseries in the 80s - does dance music now?
https://poptasticconfessions.blogspot.com/2023/09/tears-of-faith-by-parralox-featuring.html
@retroist I feel like this is a weird ad for a new pumpkin-spiced kool aid flavor
I, a webdev guy, have gotten lured into starting work on an iOS app using Expo / React Native. Tempted to blog about the crash course I've given myself.
Personally, I feel embarrassingly behind the times. But also it seems like maybe my chosen tech stack is exotic, or my google-fu is failing me, or google itself is failing?
Digging up the basics on going from an empty directory through to pushing something out to TestFlight using automated services has felt like a bit of a dark art.
I've mostly got an assemblage of parts working, and I think I understand it mostly, but dang there are a few weird things in there
@Brilliantcrank "inspired by recent conversations on ... the Phone app on my iPhone"
:blobrofl:
@Mossop Heh, yeah, I very quickly became good at spotting the date stamp on whatever docs or blog post I was trying to read. So many dead-ends I ran into around old, deprecated, or even just plain obsolete processes
@Mossop So far, the whole "updates" system atop the native app seems like a big win. Especially being able to share preview builds for use in Expo Go. But yeah, there are layers & layers of context to absorb
I guess the thing that makes me reticent to write about it is that I feel a bit dense at finding this process difficult.
But, from various folks, I'm hearing that maybe it's not (all) me and is actually a bit of a charlie foxtrot in general
@billseitz That's kinda the approach I'll be trying for this app. It's starting from a mobile-first website in a webview, but using a postMessage channel to augment the site with further native capabilities and screens.
@stupidmentalhealthwalks stupid sun got me walking too 😠
Recognizing and accounting for the status quo and anchoring biases can enable us to create a workplace that not only attracts but also retains its employees in the new age of flexibility.
Wow, this Fortune article delivering bad attrition & recruiting numbers around mandatory return-to-office results spins super hard in the last third to chalk it largely up to "status quo" and "anchoring" biases on behalf of employees.
Versus, like, you know, folks genuinely having found work-from-home more enjoyable & fulfilling.
No, it's the children who are biased. You just have to be more subtle about the forced return to the real estate for which you paid too much.
Like, yes, as individuals we should look out for and be aware of cognitive biases within ourselves. But, this article reads to me like advice on how to more cleverly gaslight employees, using cognitive biases as the justification
"You didn't really want to keep working at home. Actually, that's status quo bias. Here's some mandatory quarterly corporate training to overcome it and better enjoy your time in the open plan office after a 45 minute commute"
"Overcome your personal failings in having succumbed to anchoring bias about how we promised you could live 200 miles from the office! C'mon, try something new! Move closer to HQ!"
@hackermatic @estelle Hah, I was just about to look for this article!
Yeah, folks of a decidedly different complexity were blamed for the catalytic converter thefts out here in Portland - meanwhile the ring was tracked down to the quite affluent nearby suburb of Lake Oswego
@secretgeek @seldo I mean, you know, it's pretty close to 2024. But still time to course-correct
I just got an email from Jameco Electronics about "DIY Electronic Game Kits" - there's clones of Pong, Simon, even a little simulated D6.
You know what I want to see someone make? A kit clone of Mattel's old Electronic Football. I never used to understand what it had to do with football and just pretended it was some kind of spaceship game anyway.
@dria Those things really had all the right beeps and boops and blinkenlights
@dria Yaaassss, I had one of those and ended up dismantling and breaking it when I was about 11. Every now and then I want to find a broken one on eBay to revive with weird modern innards
@jalefkowit Huh, if my napkin math is right, that's only about 80 times the LD50 for me. Intriguing.
@dria Some real formative hunks of plastic and angry pixies right there
@futurebird Once upon a time, I made this one-handed keyboard where most of the keys could do 4 things depending on combinations of modifier keys.
I spent a week trying to teach myself to type on it. That was a very stupid week.
