Katie Zacharia is “stepping down” after 5 days… That’s just about half a Scaramucci for context (anything to not use the metric system).
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My youngest, who just turned two started doing these drawings. She spends twenty or thirty minutes on each and everything ob the page is something. She will point to a spot: ”thats monkey!” Or ”thats Pumpkin” (our cat). I’m here for it… and the final product is a pretty cool pattern.
Wonder how many commit messages end with some variation of :wq?
Diffs like this make me proud… Admittedly I also wrote all those 1365 lines; no regrets! They worked in production for about three years, the client switched vendors, the process is more streamlined now my work around was no longer needed.
“I don’t remember signing up for this” is an option, but you did not include “I DID NOT sign up for this” as an option. You must understand, nobody in the history of the world has ever signed up for a mailing list.
Got a notice from Google that my Chrome plugin was removed from the web-store. Which is a bit of a laugh. I wrote it about 8 years ago when I worked at an insurance company, I can’t remember the details but it correctly formatted pasted URLs from various policy documents. That is to say, niche.
I gotta stop going on Linkedin, sometimes I genuinely want to see what a colleague is up to or I need to post something I’m working on (speaking at a conference this fall gotta rep it). My feed is now, essentially 100% rage bait, the unhinged toxic “rise and grind” people are out of control and somehow it’s all I’m shown!
Dear Dash Docs, You are incredibly useful as an offline documentation viewer for the languages I use… I paid once and the product does everything that I paid for and continues to be a delight. Please stop asking me to upgrade; which, from what I can tell gives me the same features I already paid for with the added bonus of paying a yearly subscription.
Thanks!
I don’t follow the WWDC at all but this is a great write up morrick.me/archives/…
AI, and so much “technology” - or we’ll say services (ie. Uber Eats) seem designed to “take the friction” out of our daily lives; you don’t need to hail a cab, you don’t need to go to the record store, you don’t need need to talk to another person, you don’t need to leave your house- for anything, ever.
What are we doing? When you take all that “friction” out of your life, you may find that those individual points of connection and sometimes frustration were the things that punctuated a fulfilling life. What keeps you so busy that you can’t pick out the ten best photos from your last trip to send to a friend? What keeps you so busy that you can’t draw a beautiful picture? What keeps you so busy that you need an AI to give you ideas for how to spend time with your kids. What is this saving you from? What are you going to do now that you’ve freed up all that time?
I recall about 15 years ago it was fashionable for people who thought they were important to only wear one outfit to free up mental energy to make “big decisions”. I’ve always been skeptical of someone who had too much going on mentally to pull out a pair of pants; but now this thinking seems to permeate every facet of our lives. Don’t let finding the right book stand in your way, ask an AI, or have GoodReads select your next book! Hell, don’t let reading the right book stand in your way, just get it summarized by ChatGPT and say you read it!
Sad to hear about the death of Marc Johnson; he was an incredible skateboarder who I grew up watching. Perhaps more than any other skater; he was the epitome of being incredibly talented and hardworking but also never taking things too seriously just having a blast being different and weird. His skating was like a cocktail of Mullen’s technical abilities and Gonz’s weirdness.
Still an insane part: