I turned off predictive completion in Xcode. It doesn’t work well enough to be useful. The code it writes is too often broken in really dumb ways (leaving off a parenthesis), which makes it more of a hinderance than anything else.
I turned off predictive completion in Xcode. It doesn’t work well enough to be useful. The code it writes is too often broken in really dumb ways (leaving off a parenthesis), which makes it more of a hinderance than anything else.
I feel like a little bit of a traitor for this as a person who develops for and has worked at Apple — but I think I’m going to start using Google Maps. The UI isn’t as nice and I hate that it doesn’t integrate with Contacts on iPhone, but otherwise, it’s got a lot going for it.
I just heard that Gen Z plays beer pong with water instead of beer? That’s the saddest thing I’ve ever heard.
Something cool about Portland is that we seem to have more homegrown regional stores. I’m thinking of WinCo and Bi-Mart. WinCo is employee-owned and gives equity to employees. I’ve stopped shopping at Target at all since the election and don’t miss it. #Portland
If you ever need to diff a repo, Kaleidoscope is absolutely worth the $14/month. kaleidoscope.app
I would always take something being less sweet but using natural sweetener over artificial sweetener. I can’t stand the taste.
So does everyone have that one sibling who brags about how rich and successful they are until someone in the family — like your parents — needs help and then they’re nowhere to be seen?
Spending a couple of hours going through the Rails “Getting Started” guide to get up to date on things that have changed or basic things I might’ve missed or forgotten about was a very useful exercise. Probably worth doing every couple of years.
I mean, aside from the fact that these macOS redesigns have not made things “better.” At best they’ve been different, and usually worse. Snow Leopard or Mavericks might have been the peak? Yosemite was okay. The current one was definitely a regression.
God, Apple, please don’t redesign macOS again this year. The last one just got good enough I’m not annoyed by as much anymore. We don’t need it. I don’t want to be on a cycle where whenever the design gets halfway stabilized, they decide it’s time to shake things up again.
I rarely ever manually long lines of code. Either I need to break it up in some way, or I let the editor wrap things for me.
The Ruby on Rails guides are pretty good. If you already know how to program, you could probably just read these and then pick up anything else you need as it comes up.
If I was going to write a real desktop app, I would use Swift, but for wrapping shell scripts or making a UI for your library, Glimmer DSL for LibUI seems like a really great fit.
Considering how much pain I’ve been in and how much has been going on, I think this week of work has gone pretty well.
I love setting up a nice little logging system. It’s a small thing that brings me joy.
Man, all of the Copilot plugins outside of the VSCode one are really crappy in comparison.
Building a little multi-threaded chat server thing in Ruby for fun. I’ve always wanted to make a MUD. Maybe this is a start? 🤷♂️
The thing with shingles is that it hurts a lot. You start to feel better, think maybe it’s over, and then the healing starts to hurt almost as much. It’s also triggered by stress, and so whenever you get shingles is probably going to be the worst possible time.
I am kind of surprised Apple has let Terminal.app stay in its current state so long. If it had 24 bit color, better unicode, and splits, it seems like it would compare favorably to most of them? Maybe adding those things would mean rewriting the app.
If the west had stood up to Putin in 2014 when he invaded Crimea, and Europe had not been afraid to lose access to cheap Russian oil, what are the odds the Ukraine war never happens?
Me and my friends playing music together. #BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography
Ruby LSP has sure gotten a lot better since the last time I used.
On the next episode of Rooftop Ruby, Joel and I discuss the value of Time Machine backups after Joel learns about me deleting my Application Support directory right before we were set to record 😑 #ruby
I wonder if anyone has ever been able to find an eyeglass screwdriver at the time they needed it. I only ever find them immediately after buying another.
I never notice how many little Collin-isms until I spend time around other people.