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Google has released Android 17, and I just initiated the process to download and install it on my Pixel 10. 9to5Google has a video overview of all the changes, which are mostly cosmetic. For the last several years the Android version...
I’d really hoped I’d have shipped Stream for Mac by now. I’m just having so much trouble polishing off the final bits. It doesn’t feel quite right yet. This is the point in Stream for iOS where I punted and made some views as Web Views...
Happy pride ! One way I celebrated was by reading Lax & Phillips 2009, Gay Rights in the States: Public Opinion and Policy Responsiveness. It’s on-theme, an example in the MrPlew paper (which I also still need to digest), and … Continue...
For better or worse, Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle engineered the Western mind. Above all, they formed part of a movement that stood at the crossroads…
Inspired from Simon Willison's post, I created fork of liteparse project and deployed it - https://orsenthil.github.io/liteparse/ It is wonderful to see browsers and models running in browser, capable of parsing PDFS, and doing OCR...
I try to keep my eye out for examples of the general absorption of 'presentations' into culture. PowerPoint parties were my previous favourite example. This is now the best one:Date My MateThe global movement bringing real-life...
Hi Crowd! Yesterday Derek Guy posted about Emily Segal’s recently coined term “tasteslop” in part because of Phoebe Luckhurst’s big piece in The Times about it. If you are in the Telegram group you saw this come through last night but...
For the past few years I've spent most of my time building database operators on top of Kubernetes. Along the way I kept coming back to the same idea: under all the YAML and the moving parts, Kubernetes is really a framework for feedback...
Doing yard work was not exactly how I wanted to spend my final day of vacation, but here we are, doing yard work. I want to retire so bad. A week and a couple days off did nothing for my burnout except make me want more time off. 😃 I’m...
Safely at Mom's. Sucks getting old. I used to be able to just drive and drive for hours. For the last few years, I've been good for about two hours before having to stop. Now it's about an hour. Or, at least it was today. It's not a...
(Continued from my last post.) As is tradition with one of these gigantic cave-delving based games — and there is cave-delving, even though it wasn’t clear at first — let’s spend some time outside first. To recap from last time, the game...
A plane flew over whilst we were walking the dog. Almost nothing else happened today. I wrote a lot of email, proofread some things, coached some junior badminton. Not a lot of opportunity today.34 words · 1 image