Word of the day: kenopsia, (n) the strange sensation experienced while seeing a place that should be/is usually filled with people that is empty or abandoned.

Above the clouds.

Anyone else notice that AWS names their US regions after states instead of cities? It’s curious. Is it because naming us-west-2 “Portland” could spark confusion as to whether it’s located in Oregon or Maine? Surely the “us-west-2” would be a hint as to where it’s geographically located. 🤷

Devlog: Well Read - One Week Later: lmika.org

The ability to reply to posts from Inkwell is a nice feature. Really adds to the value of following Mastodon accounts via RSS.

Found out that ! works in Claude Code, allowing you to run shell commands a.la. Vim. A nice feature that I wasn’t expecting.

The YouTube algorithm has decided I’m interested in city planning videos from Canadians, particularly Ontarians (not without cause). As a consequence, I’ve learnt the names of a few national and provincial public transport authorities. Via Rail? GO Trains? I know what those mean now.

From the archives:

Meta talking about platform fees for the metaverse feels to me like a school rock-band talking about how they’d divvy up revenue from ticket sales before they get their first gig.

Sounds like the band’s breaking up.

Been trying out the coding agent skill Superpowers over the last few days. Seems to work quite well for larger changes. It feels a little slower, what with the agent asking questions and walking through a plan, but I think it produces better work overall. Just make sure to run it on a branch.

🔗 Google’s New Sideloading Restrictions for Android Include a 24-Hour Waiting Period

Ugh! Google is just dead set on ruining Android, aren’t they. If I wanted a locked-down mobile OS, I would’ve bought an iPhone. At least that way I would’ve had access to better apps. 😒

Via: Daring Fireball

Seems like matcha is the hot new craze round here. Lots of cafes are offering drinks with it now. For myself, I do like matcha. Prior to this craze, I managed to secure my supply from those at work bringing into the office goodies from their trips to Japan.

TUIs Are Underrated: lmika.org

Easy to forget, while browsing through the style classes in UI component frameworks like Bootstrap that… you can just write your own CSS rules.

Good thing I checked the laundry basket first or I would’ve smothered this guy with my washing. 🦎

It is interesting seeing so many people on the IndieWeb take on an us-verses-them approach to Big Tech, as if they’re rebels against “the Empire”. That’s not how I like to approach my participation in the movement, such that it is. I believe effective participation comes from using the technologies of the...

Some advice for other developers using these coding agents to “vibe-code” something: stick with technologies that you yourself understand. In my experience using these tools, while I get almost what I want, it’s never exactly what I want, and I’m usually left with something slightly broken or with a few...

Darling Gardens.

Is there such a thing as too many lizards? Well… 🤔

This one was found in my bedroom. 🦎

Thanks to Merlin Mann’s Bluesky posts, I’ve been watching The Young Ones clips on YouTube. First time I encountered the show was in Year 10 Media. It was the weirdest thing I saw at the time. 24 years on, it’s still weird, but I can understand the humour of it now.

Now that Claude Code has automated my job, I’m left with just pressing “Y” every time the agent asks me to approve something. Fortunately, there’s a way to automate that too. 😜