I’ve never read Natalie Guest’s blog but this comment on her email subscription page persuaded me to try:

[Her writing] does have a knack of keeping me reading on even when I have better things to do

I always have ‘better’ things to do.

Murdo, with stick

Corrie Fee, Glendoll

Carolyn on Mastodon:

Could you please not denigrate a man by equating him to a woman? There are a lot of asshole men you can draw from.

Amen.

Falls of Unich, Glen Lee

🕹 Casual Birder - Playdate Season 1, Game 1

The first title is a groovy Pokémon-esque throwback for twitchers - gotta snap ’em all! Pokémon games were never my thing, but they might be yours.

But, holy cow, the text is small for my old eyes. Playdate XL, Panic?

Michael Amundsen:

Even the simplest screens in an app should be architected to allow for scrolling.

— Every Screen in Your App Should Be a Scrolling View - Lickability

When developing for iPhone today, if you can set a minimum version of iOS 16.2 then you need to be prepared to support the following phones and their respective screen sizes.

That’s ten different screen sizes from an iPhone 8¹ to an iPhone 14 Pro Max.

Comparing devices for “how much they can show on the screen” you should look at the Logical Dimensions column.

Path to Ethie, Angus

Finished reading: Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes 📚

A poignant exploration of the fragility of our psyche.

🕹 Playdate - initial impressions: perfectly cute, beautifully engineered

Kudos to Panic for bringing artisanal whimsy back to the world of video games.

Slàinte Mhath 🥃

It’s too late this year, but next… what do you do for hogmanay?

[David Sparks watches] Star Wars, Episode IV, in such a way that the Death Star blows up precisely a the stroke of midnight.

Blowing Up the Death Star at Midnight, Again - MacSparky

Looks like I am on a triennial blog refresh cycle.

New:

• Cards theme by @ericgregorich
• Conversation and Surprise Me plug-ins by @sod
• trialling On This Day page

Regressions:

• direction of next/previous buttons (also missing from posts)
• post category labels

Vaccinated.

Virus: SARS-CoV-2
Vaccine: Pfizer-BioNTech bivalent
Dose number: 4
Superpowers: »tracking disabled»

Truly that is news.

TIL - Xcode can display build time right there in the activity view:

defaults write com.apple.dt.Xcode ShowBuildOperationDuration YES

Command line preference settings. Living in the future.

Collaboration of the day… presumably an album is in the works.

XKCD x Leonard Cohen

UK energy company Northern Powergrid…

has apologised after 74 customers hit by power cuts during Storm Arwen accidentally received compensation cheques for trillions of pounds.

– BBC News

I am guessing that Apple didn’t do that much Neil and Joni promotion before this week.