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Looks like you-know-who has finally come for nitter. :-( nitter.net

Using the internet these days is like pulling off an elaborate heist operation. Every time I successfully load a page I feel like I've "gotten away with something".

It is sometimes tempting to mutter, "I'm in!" in your movie hacker voice when you finally get past all the cookie/subscription/notification pop-ups.

exploring, looks cool, writing emacs package for it.

This is what we need.

Just found a nice patch of sun in a comfy spot on the couch. Maybe cats do have some things worked out.

age restriction app on my phone doesn't let me turn off the picture in picture for YouTube T-T

hallo, whirled

I can't believe Apple fell for foldables

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and an top of that, not calling it the iFold

i think theyre pretty cool. the tech market is too safe nowadays.

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Totally, I'm glad they're at least trying something new (for Apple). It just underscores the general failure of imagination vibes I get from everything in tech nowadays. Most of the industry is breathlessly chasing a 20th century "golden age of scifi" vision of AI. And Apple's over there diligently trying to improve upon other companies' products from five years ago. At least no one's talking about the metaverse anymore.

yea its kind of sad how the design language has all converged to the same phones and laptops. 1990s/2000s tech had so much swag and fun with design, especially japanese brands. i like what nothing does, the uk smartphone brand. at least they have some identity. and yea the metaverse to my mind was just a meme eversince they introduced it, like I know exactly 0 ppl that own a vr headset, and im with the nerds here. just shows zuck is surrounded by yes men

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After months of hardly any rain, I’m really enjoying a cozy day stuck indoors just listening to the downpour; getting on with doing some house cleaning. Is it too premature to declare this autumn⁇

Somehow, I can't work in the mornings. Going to the office earlier just makes longer the "warmup period", this is, the period I stare the computer's screen reading stuff that is completely unrelated to my work.

Just started, and two made it to be block list. This is going well! :-D

Didn't realize there's a block list! Good to include, even when the point is minimalism.

It is good it exists. “Registration” is fairly open (and that’s good!), which could make the platform prone to abuse (and that’s bad).

At Chipotle for dinner.

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It is Taco Tuesday after all.

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World's best off-by-one error

I often wish I had the ability to pause my main quest so I could focus more on side questing.

Reading Slow Productivity by Cal Newport, discovered via onboarding content in mymind mymind.com

Trying the persona feature. It is very nifty!

good y'all ! time

Hello world

I've linked up my blog (jeff-mitchell.dev) to textlog. I hope to use the two things together now to build a bit more of a writing habit. The 500 character increase is nice, room to breath but not an essay. Gotta build the muscles slowly :)

ChatGPT-generated placards for fruits and vegetables at the local farmer's market 👌

Soon, a tablet stand where you type in “what do you feel like eating today?”, and it suggests the best and freshest products.

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or just talk to it.

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they will already know you want them and a drone would have already been deployed with a box with everything you need in it.

Regular photos are so outdated, everyone knows that

release 0.1.0

more like 0.0.1 :P

Off to handstand class. I have been known to recommend to everyone within earshot doing challenging and/or silly physical things in a community. Not bucking the trend here.

I'm doing experiments with short attention-span students and code. Starting with python, and, oddly, now working in BASIC. As a C programmer of 40+ years, I find this aesthetically and pedagogically displeasing, but I am delighted to see them getting fully absorbed in writing 130 PRINT "You have been eaten by a bear!" : GOTO 900. Yes there is spaghetti, but it's their spaghetti and they seem to take delight in debugging it. Python will come later.