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In this world of home delivery apps launching and crashing down to earth, the people who make those big insulated boxes you strap to the back of e-bikes are the ones selling the picks and shovels.

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TIL about signal.NotifyContext, allowing one to handle graceful shutdown on a signal as a regular context cancellation, without having to setup a buffered channel or separate goroutine. Graceful shutdown simply becomes the following:

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@manton I guess competition keeps people honest. šŸ˜

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@jean You might have some success with Airalo. Itā€™s an app that allows you to buy country/regional eSIMs. I used it while traveling Europe and Singapore (and maybe the US but I canā€™t quite remember) and it worked great.

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@collin Sorry to hear that you got let go in such a manner. Hope you can find something else soon (I would suggest taking a look at whatā€™s available on the mainland, if you can handle a small city hop).

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Also, this magpie was good enough to sit still for a photo. It flew away as soon as I put my phone down.

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Short walk on the Lilydale to Warburton Rail Trail around Mount Evelyn this afternoon.

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I saw someone strapping a hockey stick with a unicycle beside them the other day. It was a little odd, but I didnā€™t think much of it, until today when I saw a few other people with hockey sticks pushing unicycles towards a gym. Itā€™s when I realised that Unicycle Hockey is a thing. TIL.

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šŸ”— Daring Fireball: OpenAI Help Center Describes What Is Wrong With the New ChatGPT

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These three paragraphs, from OpenAIā€™s own Help Center, sound more like a criticā€™s scathing review of whatā€™s wrong with the new ChatGPT ā€œsuperā€ app than a guide to how to use it.

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I read those paragraphs and was reminded of the complex feature sets that came from various flavours of commercial software from the 90ā€™s, usually from Microsoft. Hereā€™s an AI slop impression:

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You know whenever you use apt install in a script and it prints out:

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WARNING: apt does not have a stable CLI interface. Use with caution in scripts.\n

Well, believe them. Because the CLI interface changed and it broke my CI/CD build. šŸ« 

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My regular walking path to the cafe has been closed off due to the level crossing removal work. Fortunately, an alternative was available to me.

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@JohnPhilpin Well, yeah. šŸ˜„

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Really enjoyed the latest Dithering where Ben Thompson and John Gruber discuss the new ChatGPT app. So many clippable moments, but this is probably the best one and covers my feelings exactly. The app really feels unfinished and rushed out the door without thinking the product through holistically.

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I frickinā€™ hate browsing the App Store for an app, so any disinterested parties posting their recommendations is always welcome. So consider this paying that forward: anyone looking for a remote desktop client for the iPad, I can recommend RealVNC. Iā€™ve been using it all morning to remotely connect to my...

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I downloaded the ChatGPT desktop app, wondering if it could potentially be useful for replacing Pulse. In theory, ChatGPT Work (ugh! of all the names) could produce an RSS digest based on my historyā€¦ provided I give it an export. Yes, ChatGPT Work does not have access to my ChatGPT vanilla chat history. And...

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More Kvetching About Stripe's Documentation: lmika.org

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@kimberlykg Nice photos. That wouldā€™ve been wonderful to witness.

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@lmika Oh, itā€™s worse than that. I think itā€™s translucent and it adopts the background colour of the page, so every page looks like it has a miss-configured margin, unless you have a header with a different background.

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Small thing about the new modem and fibre terminal box that I like: you can turn off the indicator LEDs. The equipmentā€™s setup in my living room, so their presence wonā€™t keep anyone awake. But itā€™s nice to be able to turn them off, and it does mean they could be set it up in a bedroom. Nice.

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Still discovering things I donā€™t like about Liquid Glass. I just noticed that the tab-bar in iPadOS Safari has a slight padding, but thereā€™s no obvious border between it and the page. If the siteā€™s backgroundā€™s a similar colour, it looks like it the margins are not styled correctly. Just awful.

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@finn_matti Looks exactly like our dog when he ate from yogurt containers.

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@ndreas Theyā€™re not bad. Think Wordle/Connections style puzzle games. They were innocent enough, although not enough to keep me going back.

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@jemostrom Yeah, itā€™s those messages that seem strange to me. I donā€™t know how many people play them at work. I think a couple do, and Iā€™ve had a dabble in them for a couple of days probably 3-4 months ago (hence the emails encouraging me to come back).

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Iā€™m now have a fibre NBN connection, and while it may just be the placebo effect, it certainly feels a lot faster. I regret not doing a speed test with the old connection, but here they are for this hookup:

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Via LAN (Tully): 534 Mbps down, 46.6 Mbps up
\nVia Wifi (Stark): 454 Mbps down, 46.6 Mbps up

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This is...

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Speaking about games, I was watching a couple of episodes of The Games last night. Even after all these years itā€™s still a fantastic show. John Clark was a national treasure, of two nations. He is still sorely missed.

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Why does LinkedIn want me to play their puzzle games? What do they get from it? DAUs, perhaps? Nothing against the games, but itā€™s just strange seeing them send emails about them.

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Amusing seeing all these companies fire their engineers only to rehire them when they realise the AI meant to replace them is not up to scratch. Demonstrates which companies are worth avoiding, lest you be unappreciated despite the value you bring. Hope all the rehires asked for higher pay.

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Thereā€™s always a tinge of anxiety whenever I upgrade something in my life. Iā€™m getting fiber tomorrow, and all Iā€™m thinking of is the installation, the shuffling of everything around, how much more it will cost. Youā€™d think Iā€™d also be feeling excited about getting a faster Internet connection. šŸ¤·ā€ā™‚ļø

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@caaz.me Oh wow, thatā€™s pretty cool. Iā€™ve only done a tiny bit with shaders so far, and I had no idea they could be used this way. Will need to check it out.

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Outage.

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Just discovered the 2D particle system that Godot has. What comes out of the box is quite impressive. I was afraid I wouldā€™ve had to hand code how particles moved or how they were rendered. But no: all of that was configuration, and the only code I needed to write was to trigger an emission.

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Word of the day: chiaroscuro: (n) use of strong contrasts between light and dark as a way to affect a composition. A technique used in visual arts, videography, and game design.

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@kev Congratulations! They look wonderful.

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Pam the Bird has been caged, and I donā€™t know how I feel about that. #melbourne

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Slack needs to do better with their linking. I make note of messages by copying a link to in my Obsidian vault, but following the message requires going through the browser. And if the browser session times-out, because I use a client, thereā€™s no way to follow them. The clientsā€™ donā€™t support them.

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TIL that Goā€™s formatter will be fine formatting a file with a composite literal for a slice, yet the Golang CI linter will complain about it and simply say the file is not fomatted:

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@kev Oh, I feel exactly the same way.

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@Marty Okay, I wonā€™t. šŸ˜€

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@canneddragons Oh, thatā€™s cool. They did a good job.

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@Miraz Ugh! Sorry you have to put up with this rubbish.

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@hotdogsladies.bsky.social One off from being the most obscure 6-7 joke out there.

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@kev Ooh, that looks like fun. Tried it out on myself and got this: lmika.org/2026/07/0ā€¦

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@Miraz Oh, I know someone who wears shorts everywhere, even when itā€™s freezing outside. I canā€™t understand it myself.

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@snell.zone Oof! You know things are bad when I performed at concerts attended by more people.

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@matt_birchler Yeah, the survivors are noted as the exception to the norm. šŸ˜„

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@jsonbecker Yeah, agree. Having random sites keep passports on file is absolutely not a good idea, apparently.

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@siracusa I saw my first icon in Squircle Jail the other day and it really is a brutal punishment.

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@canneddragons Yeah, there is a trial version which is free. Thatā€™s what Iā€™m using now. I think thereā€™s only two weights and only a few ligeratures, and you can only use it for personal use, but itā€™s a pretty decent way to try it out.

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@lmika.org Yeah. I havenā€™t gotten to music yet but I fear I may have a similar problem: I tend to really like listening to stock music and soundtracks.

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@lmika.org I have a Microsoft Sculpt keyboard, which I briefly dug out, but somehow that was damaged too. I since learnt that restoring factory settings on the Keychron could fix the problem. I tried that, and that seemed to work. So Iā€™m still using the Keychron. Itā€™s a K15 Max.

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