Collin Donnell

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.

Remember when Sketch 1.0 came out and it basically didn’t work at all? I remember being frustrated with how basic functionality like undo was entirely broken. It’s pretty incredible that they stuck with it and turned it into what it is today.

I’m calling this Federighi’s Hierarchy of Needs:

If there isn’t an app for it, try Notes or Numbers. If Notes or Numbers won’t do it, start writing Shortcuts. If you can’t do it with Shortcuts, start learning Swift.

#ios

I wrote a shortcut that lets me hit the action button on my watch or phone and save the current GPS coordinates to a text file. I think this might be able to replace using a heavier-weight app for film photography.

I would love to see proper tagging in Micro.blog, with its own out of band field, I could use go discover people I want to follow.

I still don’t understand. What is the benefit of Substack over a blog on Wordpress or Ghost or something? Especially for all these journalists. It doesn’t seem to offer any features over a Wordpress.com business plan or whatever and you’re tied to this kind of questionable platform.

This Section 31 movie is baaad. I like all Star Trek and I don’t know if I can finish this.

Starting to worry I did something to piss one of my friends off without knowing it. I really hope I didn’t 😟

My last question at an interview is always “who’s your favorite Star Trek captain?” I think it’s a pretty good one.

Managed to go to bed and wake up at a reasonable time today, which has not be the norm. Hopefully I can keep it up!

We already knew that all of these corporations and CEOs were full of shit pretending to care about diversity or marginalized groups, but the rapidity at which they have dropped it as soon as they no longer saw it as politically expedient to pretend is still impressive.

Back when I lived in San Francisco, I would average walking 10,000+ steps in a year, with some months averaging 15-16,000. Now it’s maybe slightly more than half that. Not owning a car had benefits.

Looking at the different time tracking apps, I think that I’m going to go with Session. There are more automatic options out there, but Session also has the advantage of being a Pomodoro app, which helps me stay focused.

Harvest looks good too, but I think I’d rather not migrate off FreshBooks.

Romans didn’t do the “Roman salute.” It was created in the 19th century for theater set in the Roman period. And regardless, that’s just a different word for a Nazi salute. I don’t even know what people are trying to say with that.

I think the next four years are going to be a lot worse than the first time around.

Does anyone have a time tracking app for Mac that they like that is good for freelance work? I’m using Freshbooks for invoicing, but would like something that isn’t web-based and lives in my menu bar.

Pixelfed is great, but it’s not even close to an Instagram replacement, unless what you’re looking for is Instagram from 2011. A lot of people do want that, but I don’t think it’s a very large number. If you think it is, I can only think you’re not very aware how people use Instagram.