@mikesusz social feed.

@m750 when i park in a parking lot, if i can’t pull through (so i can pull out) i will back in.

why? when i’m arriving at the parking lot, i have full situational awareness of what other cars and pedestrians are around me, this makes backing in easier & safer. vs when i’m leaving - i’m usually stuck between a minivan and a giant pickup truck, so backing out is fraught; i have no visibility to the sides as i enter the path of oncoming traffic or people.

@threetonesun would a “free candy” sign be too much?

how are your sunday chores going

@heymarkreeves yeah i guess marco doesn’t seem like he’s gonna Instapaper it anytime soon

it recently dawned on me that when i switched podcast players, away from Castro (which had been acquired and seems to be on life support with no care or attention from new ownership) i chose a new player based on the reputation of the parent company as a do-good organization for the web and the internet. i switched to PocketCasts. owned by... Automattic.

ugh.

my wife took this photo of me during a very important meeting.

@beep ethan this site uses cookies. cookies are essential! so many cookies. so important!

now enter your entire address again and every time you visit, how on earth could we possibly keep track of that

@sarajw if your target browsers all (natively) support a technology, then there has to be a very good argument to reinvent the wheel! now is the time to have those (respectful) arguments.

@sarajw this is a cool opportunity! and it’s your chance to create something lasting and extendable and maintainable. now is the time to think about how a future somebody-else will read and understand what you create.

every huge complicated codebase started out as a small and well-intentioned codebase that got more obscure and confusing with each tough decision that a developer had to make about quality vs. speed. try to push back and advocate for quality when all they ask of you is speed.

my time being thrown at a deadline-challenged project at work is coming to a close. while i look forward to not waking up in a panic every day, i am not excited about being on the ‘bench’ again and watching my utilization percentage dwindle with each passing day.

@rstevens are we talking those non-stop Alaska flights every morning/evening? pretty attractive option versus changes/layovers.

@threetonesun but Joe, you never owned any music before Apple Music Plus One Air Max Ultra, so that’s okay

this is my periodic reminder that if you rely on “Downtime” to regulate your children’s iOS devices, you need to go into Screen Time and verify the “Block at downtime” toggle is checked for them.

this seems to get unchecked for my kids regularly. i assure you that they do not know the Screen Time passcode.

i wish Apple would fix this.

35 minutes, 5 gallons of acorns.

@jerzone comet is heading to Boston, gate B22.

@fred try not to MAME yourself, Fred

@jayroh i still have some stickers left that i made a while back …

@threetonesun yikes. and i recently got an email from the Advanced Custom Fields plugin that said matt tried “ to forcibly appropriate the Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) plugin and .org listing.”

@threetonesun i remember being a freelance WP developer and i can’t imagine how those folks are doing now, thousands of rugs being pulled out from under thousands of feet.

@jerzone on the smaller screens with video ads i learned the 2nd button from the top on the left mutes the ads.

@hotdogsladies @wklj when your daily standup is suddenly joined by an Executive Vice Pelican

October 10th. 38F outside this morning. pellet stove on.

i love watching old music videos with my kids and i get to say “back when TV was a different shape!” and i’m sure they roll their eyes but i can’t see well enough to notice.

@mescutia ha, i hadn’t actually noticed the face on it until you pointed it out

the boys picked this one up on the shore of Lake Michigan in Petoskey, Michigan. #rocktober

@jerzone NYS Thruway?

@marcamos same. when they were small it was rough. the feeling of powerlessness to help them lingers.

@marcamos triggered. also need to stock up.

like i’m spending the morning declaring a strongly typed data structure for a component that will be resilient and re-usable and this is so afield of what i’ve been saddled with for weeks i’m reeling

today i begin building a new feature from the ground up*, and honestly y’all my brain is confused

(*versus inheriting a half-done, half-botched feature and told to just nudge it across the finish line which almost always takes more time and more work than building the whole thing properly myself)

this one came from the top of Mt. Washington. #rocktober

i’m at a wedding and it’s awkward. well. i’m awkward.

@jerzone a few years back, my brother was working for a company prototyping turbines, in the style of a jet engine basically. we went to an installation during a wind storm to check the output, it was absolutely terrifying to be near that thing.

@jerzone i love vertical axis but the max speed is 1x wind speed, means you really have to optimize shape. plus side, can’t spin out of control like some ”traditional” horizontal turbines

@jerzone that’s a good looking VAWT

@marcamos that’s an ios18 update i think

your house should have a “battery box” where all the batteries live. alkalines and rechargeable batteries, and the charger (and yes ours is a mess of other junk too)

but super important - a screwdriver. that screwdriver lives in this box and is always put right back into the box.

idea:

Apple Vision Pro is the Lisa of AR/VR for Apple.

🤔

any pot of coffee is a personal pot of coffee if you’re tired enough

@m750 as for the former, once i discovered that i have a backup of my website from before one of my co-workers was born. that was an interesting day for me.

@jerzone thank you for sharing all of this. my heart longs for the opportunity to just make myself insignificant in the face of nature and surroundings so amazing. someday. hopefully if i retire, i guess, i might be able to choose this.

@jayroh i watched a video of cheap hatchbacks driving around the Nurburgring and welp … now i know who i’m voting for.

@jayroh my “save” list is shared with the family regularly and i don’t know how foreign governments will take advantage of this but i don’t care

me, to the dogs: welcome to our Atio. notice there’s no P on it.

@siracusa every time i launch pokémon go. ugh.

It’s that time of year: grilling by flashlight

@jerzone hollywood upstairs medical college

TIL there are people in this world (who subscribe to Apple News+) who are motivated to cheat at the crossword. oh, the fortune and fame that awaits.

@irafcummings hire a contractor to build the app, pay them $55/hr. pocket the rest. brilliant.

@marcamos does it do the thing that the ‘movie’ type backgrounds do, where if you also set it as your screensaver, the screensaver animation will exit on wake and _be_ the background, slowing down and pausing the animation to become your desktop?