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Oh, this is good. Chrome disabled the old one for me about a week back. Good work, @jetbrains and @phpstorm https://techhub.social/@phpstorm/114160062265790455

I’ve been shutting down some old web projects recently. It’s so weird looking back 6 years at when I attempted to build privacy-aware analytics.

I had this idea at about the same time Paul Jarvis had the idea for Fathom and started building it with @dvk

It was a great experiment. But I’m glad someone else took the idea and ran with it properly.

https://blog.kownter.com/2018/04/23/competition/

It seems my 9-year old child has written “a two voice poem using expanded noun phrases and figurative language".

What the hell are we teaching primary kids? This is ridiculous!

(She's very good at it though)

If I created an alt account to post about all the things I want to post about but can’t or don’t want to, would you all follow it and then promptly forget who it actually was???

I rarely swear out of anger and am 100% happy to pay my taxes but fucking interest on payments on account that no one told me I had to make is just bullshit.

I’d have paid if you’d told me I had to. You didn’t. You can’t charge me interest on a payment that I don’t know I have to make.

🤬

So here’s my tooling for reading the Internet on iOS. It’s getting to be a pretty sweet setup:

– Kagi search
– Feedbin via Reeder Classic for RSS
– @quicheindustries Browser
– @maxmelzer’s Flyleaf for a read-later list
– @mactanaka’s “Play” app for my YouTube queue

A pile of excellent, indie tools that give me a super-curated experience and some nice workflows.

So… I know it’s controversial because of the Yandex thing. I don’t know what to do about that. But heck, Kagi search is GOOD!!!

Modern world dilemmas. 😕

Good!!!
https://mstdn.social/@tdwllms1/114117763078795299

@maxmelzer

Hi Max. It’s the weekend so there’s no hurry. But I just sent you a Flyleaf help request as I have a “stuck” app that won’t load new articles.

Happy to chat here if that’s quicker/easier to help fix it.

Such a nice app! I forgot I had it but then started sending a bunch of stuff to it and now I’m sad that it broke.

Thanks!

So “vibecoding” is asking an ill-equippped and inexperienced thing to do a job for you and just accepting the sort-of-right result without questioning the details?

I get enough of that shit trying to get my kids to do chores. I don’t need it from my computer too.

😂

Yes, I could search for it. But Google is almost certainly full of SEO articles that got thrown together because there’s a bandwagon.

Can someone explain what “vibe coding” is? Is it a new name for something we were doing already?

This is an amazing website that takes you on a journey of exploring trust through game theory. But just SO well done.

https://ncase.me/trust/

(h/t @whitep4nth3r )

OK. Here’s what I want.

– Parental controls for a computer.
– Instead of one fixed block of time per day, I can set multiple smaller blocks.
– Each block has reminders to stop, like, 5 and 10 minutes before the end of the block
– A cool time time between blocks.

This is for my kids but it would be great for adults too.

Is there a tool that does this?

I’m now, what, 7 weeks into owning the little PlayDate console and I’m a total convert. It’s a delightful little video game snack machine. My favourites are the short, simple, self-competitive games:

– Root Bear
– Whitewater Wipeout
– Hyper Meteor (my current obsession)

But there’s other great games and the creativity is incredible!!

@ivory Oh. I got it…

“Mention and Notification tabs are now merged”

@ivory Did you remove mentions as an option for the little nav bar? Mine has disappeared!

Having not had much opportunity before, I am finally feeling the medium- and long-term benefits of putting my programming opinions into practice on a large codebase and working in a modern software team.

And it turns out they are good opinions. That's a relief!

https://rosswintle.uk/2025/03/i-am-actually-good-at-programming/

I’ve connected to some public WiFi places recently (with VPN!) and many want me to register. So I just register with a random name and an email address at the domain of the establishment I’m visiting. It’s a pointless gate with no verification.

Is it just to annoy people so they don’t use the WiFi?

So my kid has been nagging us for ages about getting a VR headset and we’ve been resisting.

A conversation revealed that he mostly wanted to play Beat Sabre. I’m not paying £300 for that.

So I did a quick search and found a game called Starri that’s £14 and uses webcam motion detection.

This morning the whole family are in on it. Cheaper. Easier. In some ways better.

A real parenting win!!!