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offby1, 11 days ago to random

tl;dr, the developer of Bartender quietly sold the app to parties unknown about 2 months ago. v5.0.52 should, theoretically, still be fine, but consider turning off auto-updates.
https://mastodon.social/@webology/112561271072786435

offby1, 12 days ago to random

The longer I spend on Mastodon, the more I realize that I just completely don’t understand some other peoples model of consent. I don’t entirely understand why “this is a great post" would be something that you wouldn’t necessarily choose to share because you didn’t want to single out a great post.

phildini, 11 days ago to random

This right here. I’d love to move off cloudflare, but until there’s something that actually replaces their service, it’s untenable.

Yes, I know about Tailscale and ngrok. No, they aren’t a replacement. https://wetdry.world/@lexd0g/112557872631430477

offby1, 12 days ago to random

A UI failure that I hit all the time with macOS apps is that ⌘-w almost always closes a window, but the keystroke to re-open the main window is different in many applications, and sometimes doesn't exist. The option is often differently named in the menus, too, and in a different menu.

offby1, 11 days ago to django

I have a possibly obvious-to-experts #Django question: is there a supported way for a Django “app" to depend on other apps, and implicitly "install" them?

bitprophet, 15 days ago to random

Trying out #Alfred-sans-PowerPack, so far so good. (Been a decade since I last used it ~= "new user”…)

Once I added documents to its default search (no I don't want to do the ' thing) it can find my microwave manual PDF!

When I tell it I want to open "Documents", it opens ~/Documents, not some empty, unused "Documents" folder buried in a random app-related location! Wow!

Spotlight devs: see? was that so hard? Alfred's even using /your/ fucking metadata index to do this!

offby1, 15 days ago to random

There is no lie so persistent, so pernicious, so inescapable as the “remember me" checkbox on airline websites.

bitprophet, 19 days ago (edited 16 days ago) to macos

Fed up with #macOS' #Spotlight. No fuzzyfinder, in 2024; no real drilldown; the way it organizes/sorts results are unintuitive. I shouldn't have to remember what /format/ a document is to go "oh right I oughtta scroll down a bunch to see PDFs” 😩

What's good for alternative launcher/finder tools these days? AFAIK, it's still down to the same candidates from ~10ya, ie #Alfred, #Quicksilver, #Launchbar? (EDIT: Raycast enters the chat! Tho its AI focus is worrying.)

See poll!

offby1, 17 days ago to random

NGL, the Waymo ride is really cool. I like the driver.

mjg59, 19 days ago to random

Waymos have a DNS button and I am terrified about what might happen if you press it

jacob, 23 days ago (edited 23 days ago) to random

If for no other reason*, I support a mask requirement at #PyConUS because the kind of person who doesn’t attend because they’re required to mask is the kind of person who I don’t want to hang out with anyway.

(* and there are lots of other good reasons too)

tylerdave, 24 days ago to random

Left from #PyConUS about 33 hrs ago. Had a scratchy throat this morning w/ a negative test and just now have a positive test.

I went out with various groups, unmasked, throughout the weekend. This was a risk I was willing to take. Still, I'm glad I was wearing a mask in the convention center around folks who did not choose to take that same risk.

I'm gonna go rest now.

offby1, 20 days ago to django

Is it me or is the #Django documentation for project templates uncharacteristically bad?

Like, I have so many questions about how this templating works. Do I get to template filenames? How? Can I include the template as a subdirectory in a repository, or do I need to have it hosted in its own? How about providing one as part of a wheel?

I would love to build a project template into NomNom, so that later worldcons can just “django-admin startapp --template nomnom:basic_template" or something.

bitprophet, 21 days ago to random

Finally done with precautionary post-#PyConUS isolation. Tested negative✌🏻

offby1, 23 days ago to random

It's the last day of #PyConUS for me, spent in semi-isolatiion because of a scratchy throat and a COVID exposure.

I've tested non-positive two consecutive days though, so I have hope it's not the bad one. Still, not the way I want to end a PyCon.

offby1, 22 days ago to Seattle

I have a #PyConUS / #Seattle “missed contact" question; I spoke to a Tammy who was at #PyCascades and PyCon US, and we talked about GitHub's contribution graph; if anyone knows who that is, can you put her in touch? Thanks!

offby1, 23 days ago to random

New rule: you're not allowed to invent a new use for personal AI unless you run it past someone who's survived domestic abuse.

ehmatthes, 23 days ago to random

Wow @webology, Syncthing made it so easy to jump back onto my desktop this morning and pick up right where I left off on the plane last night.

offby1, 24 days ago to random

Are there any #PyConUS sprint stragglers up for an outdoor-seating dinner? Allergies + talking have left me a sore throat, so I avoided the CC today, but I've tested and am not a plaguebearer, so I'd love to have a drink and a bite with some nerds.