I've been doing better at spending more time reading books, and I'm glad of that. I think my next related challenge is to spend more time writing. Not necessarily to schedule more writing time, but to spend more of that time actually writing.
There's also a description of the app I'm working on in that post; I'm looking for alpha testers, if the app sounds useful and you'd be willing to help me test it, I'd appreciate it!
What a game, wow. Great defense by Draymond.
My M2 Air is just fine in general for writing a small iPhone app, but running UI tests takes quite a lot longer than I would like. (Good thing I don't actually like using UI tests much…)
Attentive dogs.
It's a little weird that the different United credit cards don't give monotonically increasing benefits.
The story behind Amazing Grace (or at least a version of that story, e.g. as Arlo Guthrie tells it) is maybe a good metaphor for a positive vision of America.
Some days I wouldn't mind having a Tom Lehrer song as an ear worm. A bit grim today, though…
Got woken up by this earthquake: earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquak... Didn't feel strong enough to be scary.
We have a hummingbird nesting in our back yard! Also, it's not clear from this picture but hummingbird nests are quite small.
I do like the Chuck Klosterman episodes of the Bill Simmons podcast.
So TSA agents are still at the scanner machines (while ICE agents are helping people get the bags onto trays efficiently) but ICE agents are actually speeding up the process as a whole, I'm fairly sure.
Just went through security at IAH; at first I was unimpressed by seeing groups of ICE agents standing around near the security line doing nothing, but when I made it further some are actually at the check ID / boarding pass stations.
I'm not used to Zelda dungeons being constructed quite like Jabu-Jabu in Ocarina.
Just finished watching Carole and Tuesday; I really liked that, I should go figure out what other Watanabe shows I should watch. I've seen Cowboy Bebop and Kids on the Slope, also both good; and I love how suffused with music Carole and Tuesday and Kids on the Slope both are.
(I actually went through my reading log to see if I could back up that "in years" claim; the most recent one that made me think "hmm, that might give it a good fight" was Nicola Griffith's Menewood, which I finished in November 2023. And which is not completely unrelated…)
Ada Palmer's Inventing the Renaissance is the most interesting book I've read in years; strong recommendation, whether or not you're interested in the Renaissance or are a fan of her other books.
Time to stop regularly doing Duolingo, I think; it was super useful, but the post-level-100 content is not well done, so I think I've gotten what I'm going to out of it, and I want to prune my daily checklist items.
E.g. in Ocarina you can't speed up text, and there's even one early dialog where the game basically warns you "this next explanation is going to be long, are you sure you want to hear it?" and then gives you a chance to bail out.
Nintendo 64 games are blurry. And it's interesting to see what now-standard interaction models aren't there yet.
I think I've pretty much had enough Silksong - I'm still enjoying the world and the platforming challenges, but not the combat challenges. I'll probably finish Mount Fay tomorrow and then move on to something else. (Not sure what, maybe Ocarina?)
That was a really good game from the Warriors.
The discourse around AI gives some support to the idea that human language / thought production is not all that divorced from stochastic predictive models.
You know, that's not a bad suggestion - now that I've made it through all of Duolingo's Japanese lessons, maybe I should stop doing Duolingo reviews and just watch an episode of an anime every day…
Huh, Carbon Copy Cloner warns me when I accidentally plugged the USB disk into a slow port. I wonder if that's related to why SuperDuper had been giving me problems recently, maybe I'd been using the wrong port then too?
Ah. Looks like he’s been in the US since he was 12, so still sounds pretty American to me, we’re just a melting pot.
? Harmonix is a Boston game company?
I'm kind of impressed that Claude on its own figured out correctly that it should do `git commit —amend` for one minor change because it wasn't worth calling out as a separate commit.
I liked the Clockwork Dancers fight in Silksong; pleasant change of pace mechanically, and a little poignant too.