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Breaking Change v28 - Do you regret it yet?
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I don't normally do this, but content warning, this episode talks at length about death and funerals and, while I continue to approach everything with an…
10h ago
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Overcoming Resistance to Extreme Programming
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The year is 2025 and, astoundingly, a blog post is advocating for the lost art of Extreme Programming ("XP"). From Benji Weber: In my experience…
on Fri, 9PM
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In case you’re wondering how wide the new Ultra Wide (32:9 @ 5120x1440px) setting is for Mac Virtual Display on Vision Pro, it amounts to: * 730 characters per line of text at Terminal’s default font size * 42 cells of data at Numbers’ default sizing * 24 slides per row in Keynotes’ Light...
on Thu, 10PM
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Breaking Change v27 - The Punsort Algorithm
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HEADS UP: This one has a video version in case you'd prefer to watch that! HEADS UP SEVEN UP: Here's a spoiler-free link to this year's puns as they existed…
on Tue, 6PM
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Review of the Bullstrap Leather NavSafe Wallet
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A few years ago, I bought a leather Apple MagSafe Wallet with its hobbled Find My integration (wherein your phone merely tracks the location at which it was…
on Dec 26
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Back home after 10 days spending Christmas in the Hamptons (Inn) and I gotta say, I much prefer my house to living in a hotel.
on Dec 26
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I love eggs but I'm lactose intolerant
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Becky and I circled the Costco three fucking times looking for eggs before independently realizing that OF COURSE they're in the room labeled "Dairy".…
on Dec 26
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My dad, Fred Jim Searls, passed away suddenly on Sunday night. Fortunately, my wife Becky, my brother Jeremy, and I, and I were able to get on a flight to…
on Dec 18
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Would love to be proven wrong here, but it sure seems like Apple has finally made it impossible to take a disk image of a Mac (not even bootable, just a compressed DMG file), given two ARM Macs and a cable.
on Dec 18
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How to transcribe a Podcast with Whisper on an ARM Mac using Homebrew
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Goofing around with podcast transcripts today. Here's what I did to transcribe version 26 of the Breaking Change podcast, after a couple hours of being mad at…
on Dec 15
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Well, this is a terrible workflow that Apple steers people through when replacing a damaged phone: 1. Apple Support app tells you to disable Find My before sending an Express Replacement iPhone 2. You receive phone and set it up with Direct Transfer from damaged phone 3. You realize a week...
on Dec 15
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Breaking Change v26 - Luigi's Mansion
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I'd write more here, but I've got places to be. Becky, Jeremy, and I are going to engage in some holiday festivities. We have a couple gingerbread houses to…
on Dec 14
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Playing with some local AI stuff this afternoon, and let me just comment on how unfortunate it is that the modern language with the worst packaging and dependency experience happens to be the one everyone uses for AI/ML.
on Dec 13
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How to fill Apple Passwords without constant Face ID and Touch ID prompts
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Having recently begun the long, arduous journey off 1Password and onto Apple Passwords, one of the biggest annoyances is how much friction it adds to the…
on Dec 13
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It's Thursday I still need these
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Record scratch you're probably wondering how I got here.
on Dec 12
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TIL that in recent versions of macOS, most stock apps can’t be deleted by the user. Want to delete News? LaunchPad won’t let you. Command-Delete ain’t it. It’ll bounce right off the trash. What gives? It’s because they’re not really in /Applications anymore. They’re installed in...
on Dec 12
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Evidence I've changed as a person: someone just stopped me on the street to say, "I'm sorry I just wanted to say you have an incredible energy and I wanted to hand you my card. Your chi is beautiful." And she clearly meant what she was saying. And seemed to be of sound mind. First time for...
on Dec 8
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Possibly TMI: just me, or do socks and shoes fit more comfortably after trimming your toenails? I'm not talking massive lengths here—even just a few millimeters and walking around in socks feels way more comfortable. Can’t tell if this is just me having some hypersensitivity disorder.
on Dec 8
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Does anyone even work at Peloton anymore? On hold for what seems like forever listening to the same muzak loop endlessly. Reactivating their shitty bike resulted in their backend creating *two* concurrent subscriptions on a single account. What a garbage product.
on Dec 7
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Breaking Change v25 - Ghost Engineering
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I left the country for a few weeks to get that taste out of my mouth but now I'm back and as salty as ever. Brace yourself. I made a pretty strong appeal that…
on Dec 7
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Train fare in Japan isn't cheap, but one way Japan gets people to choose it anyway is by directly exposing drivers to road infrastructure costs through steep highway fees. In 8 days I drove 613 miles and racked up about $130 in highway tolls. Would have been more expensive to take trains, but...
on Dec 6
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How to add a headrest to a Steelcase Leap chair
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The Steelcase Leap (v2) is a good office chair in a world of mostly bad office chairs. I've been using it since 2020 and I don't love it, but I definitely hate…
on Dec 6
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Really feels like these ¥100 silicone mug toppers are trying to have it both ways.
on Dec 2
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It has been very fun and very weird to be traveling across Japan using an app that I built doing workouts designed by my spouse, but it's worked a lot better…
on Nov 25
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I can't remember getting spam issues and comments so frequently at any point in GitHub's run, so I'm not sure what's driving it now. This morning I woke up to…
on Nov 23
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I have always been willing to suffer Apple Maps in exchange for its tighter platform integration than its competitors, but at least in America and Japan…
on Nov 21
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Currently recruiting friends for the Pokémon card game on iOS. Wish it wasn't so well made but here we are 1320731700089555
on Nov 18
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Japanese media has taken to calling Trump's election "またトラ" (mata tora), as shorthand for またトランプ (mata toranpu), meaning "Trump again". 草
on Nov 18
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My friend Nick has had a truly terrible year. First, he got kicked out of his brass band. Then they repossessed his instrument because he started missing loan payments. And now his wife is leaving him—says she doesn't want to be in a saxless marriage.
on Nov 15
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Fixing bugs in production when all you have is an iPhone
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Noticed an issue with Beckygram yesterday where single-video posts weren't successfully syndicating to Instagram as reels if she didn't also upload a custom…
on Nov 15
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Next election, pollsters should just ask their sample to show them the top 20 items in whatever For You feed they look at first every morning.
on Nov 15
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Check out this deep-fried egg sandwich
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Tonkatsu-fried layered omelette sandwich. Greatest country on earth. 🇯🇵
on Nov 13
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Whose brilliant idea was it to base carrier activation of eSIM on scanning QR codes that need to be loaded on a screen of a second device?
on Nov 13
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Breaking Change v24 - Prophylactic Jet Lag
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TIL that 4 AM is way too goddamn early to record a podcast. Apologies if I'm more chipper than usual, that's probably the coffee talking. Had some great e-mails…
on Nov 10
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The Empowered Programmer: The Searls Cut
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It is finished. As mentioned elsewhere, I gave my final conference presentation at Rails World 2024 in Toronto back in September. The tremendous organizers did…
on Nov 10
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There’s a device in my office closet that makes a pairing beep every few days. No idea what causes it. Could be any of two hundred devices spread across thirty bins and cubbies. I will die not knowing.
on Nov 9
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Apple's own documentation doesn’t know about watchOS 11’s biggest feature
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From Apple's support page for connecting an Apple Watch to Wi-Fi: Note: Apple Watch won’t connect to public networks that require logins, subscriptions, or…
on Nov 8
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The people have been clamoring (clamoring!) for a demo of the hot new strength-training system everyone's been talking about, and today Becky has answered their…
on Nov 8
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One of the skills I've improved most over the course of my career is Dreading. I used to dread work that'd actually turn out to be easy or otherwise let a a crushing slog catch me off guard. But now my sense of dread is finely tuned! I was really dreading editing this video and boy was that...
on Nov 7