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\nI found out that Slack shows a \"So happy you're here!\", \"Welcome to the team!\", or similar banner on your profile if you set a start date within the last month. I appreciate that there was probably a meeting or two and a combined UI/UX/graphics effort just to make this happen.
\n","summary":"","url":"https://vinayh.com/2024/11/23/i-found-out.html","date_published":"2024-11-23T18:02:55+00:00","author":{"name":"Vinay Hiremath","url":"https://vinayh.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F40%2F1513193.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"vinayh"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2024-11-23 18:02","date_timestamp":1732384975,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"50242068","content_html":"Spent ~1 hour figuring out what a hotkey was triggering on macOS: Settings just said it was in use, the only dedicated app I found was outdated, and even disabling SIP to use opensnoop didn't help. Turns out it was in a nested menu all along. Could this please be made more transparent in the future?
\n","summary":"","url":"https://vinayh.com/2024/11/22/spent-hour-figuring.html","date_published":"2024-11-23T04:24:03+00:00","author":{"name":"Vinay Hiremath","url":"https://vinayh.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F40%2F1513193.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"vinayh"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2024-11-23 04:24","date_timestamp":1732335843,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"50218659","content_html":"This is rather impressive over such a broad array of metrics, although now I'm curious about exceptions to this trend.
https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/other/bengaluru-s-remarkable-rise-in-10-charts/ar-AA1up6Hf
I was mildly excited that it was a postal van that slowed down and flashed its headlights to let me cross when I wasn’t even at a crossing. Two things I like in one scene.
\n","summary":"","url":"https://vinayh.com/2024/11/19/i-was-mildly.html","date_published":"2024-11-20T03:37:20+00:00","author":{"name":"Vinay Hiremath","url":"https://vinayh.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F40%2F1513193.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"vinayh"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2024-11-20 03:37","date_timestamp":1732073840,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"50134899","content_html":"A glimpse of my walk yesterday, when I realized DC could be beautiful even while close-ish to a metro station and major streets.
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If you don't want to commit to another platform or manually post on multiple sites, this is a quick reminder that cross-posting tools exist, e.g. Buffer.
It doesn't address content engagement, but making content more widely available feels like a good start.
\n","summary":"","url":"https://vinayh.com/2024/11/15/if-you-dont.html","date_published":"2024-11-15T15:43:36+00:00","author":{"name":"Vinay Hiremath","url":"https://vinayh.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F40%2F1513193.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"vinayh"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2024-11-15 15:43","date_timestamp":1731685416,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"49652792","content_html":"I'm impressed that my grocery delivery, which due to my mistake was left outside on a commercial street with plenty of foot traffic for over an hour (in an open shopping bag!), was completely untouched. +1 faith in humanity.
\n","summary":"","url":"https://vinayh.com/2024/11/14/im-impressed-that.html","date_published":"2024-11-14T17:48:01+00:00","author":{"name":"Vinay Hiremath","url":"https://vinayh.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F40%2F1513193.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"vinayh"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2024-11-14 17:48","date_timestamp":1731606481,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"49575082","content_html":"Makes sense, although they may be better served by also endorsing an alternative (as did NPR... eventually).
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/nov/13/why-the-guardian-is-no-longer-posting-on-x
I appreciate the near lack of advertisements on platform walls of the DC Metro, with a few escalator walls featuring poetry instead. While limited in other ways, this and the lower fares compared to e.g. London make it feel a bit more like a public service than a business to me.
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A great take on the promises being delivered (or not) by this Indian government's economic reforms, and favouritism alongside protectionism diverging from the East Asian model.
https://buff.ly/3Ckdt1s
Apparently Siri does not do bigrams…
(I wasn’t able to reproduce this, to be fair)
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Apparently Siri does not do bigrams…
(I wasn’t able to reproduce this, to be fair)
Some opponents of direct democracy claim voters may not understand what they're voting on, perhaps true at times, e.g. given the scale and specificity in California (esp. SF) or Switzerland less so. But how well do voters understand how elected legislators would vote on similarly specific laws?
\n","summary":"","url":"https://vinayh.com/2024/10/08/some-opponents-of.html","date_published":"2024-10-08T18:48:22+00:00","author":{"name":"Vinay Hiremath","url":"https://vinayh.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F40%2F1513193.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"vinayh"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2024-10-08 18:48","date_timestamp":1728413302,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"47136099","content_html":"Some opponents of direct democracy claim voters may not understand what they're voting on, perhaps true at times, e.g. given the scale and specificity in California (esp. SF) or Switzerland less so. But how well do voters understand how elected legislators would vote on similarly specific laws?
","summary":"","url":"https://mastodon.social/@vinayh/113273294210941653","date_published":"2024-10-08T18:48:22+00:00","author":{"name":"Vinay Hiremath","url":"https://vinayh.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F40%2F1513193.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"vinayh"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2024-10-08 18:48","date_timestamp":1728413302,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"47136166","content_html":"Good start @tfl, although this may be even more useful on trains rather than at bus stops. How does one make this the new ‘Mind the Gap’?
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Good start @tfl, although this may be even more useful on trains rather than at bus stops. How does one make this the new ‘Mind the Gap’?
test post
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","summary":"","url":"https://vinayh.com/2024/03/17/draft-preventing-gaming.html","date_published":"2024-03-17T16:22:00+00:00","author":{"name":"Vinay Hiremath","url":"https://vinayh.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F40%2F1513193.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"vinayh"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2024-03-17 16:22","date_timestamp":1710692520,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"32511449","content_html":"Trying an accountability system with a friend for some life habits with minimal overhead by using a dedicated group chat in which the two of us can each log our activities, hopefully avoiding the trap I’ve fallen into previously of using a spreadsheet which can be endlessly optimized.
\n","summary":"","url":"https://vinayh.com/2024/02/28/trying-an-accountability.html","date_published":"2024-02-28T11:48:05+00:00","author":{"name":"Vinay Hiremath","url":"https://vinayh.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F40%2F1513193.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"vinayh"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2024-02-28 11:48","date_timestamp":1709120885,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"32345519","content_html":"A work-in-progress for me: shifting my response to someone describing a situation from suggesting or projecting emotions onto them (“that must have been great/difficult/…\") to just being curious (“how was that?” or “how did you feel about that?\").
\n","summary":"","url":"https://vinayh.com/2024/02/25/a-workinprogress-for.html","date_published":"2024-02-25T12:47:57+00:00","author":{"name":"Vinay Hiremath","url":"https://vinayh.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F40%2F1513193.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"vinayh"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2024-02-25 12:47","date_timestamp":1708865277,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"32283402","content_html":"Google Maps still displays many ghost Tube trains, at least at unusual hours, despite the TfL app and public API being far more accurate. The ghost trains may exist on the timetable, but you would think Maps could verify with live data considering I wrote a (very minimal) app to do so in a few days.
\n","summary":"","url":"https://vinayh.com/2024/02/24/google-maps-still.html","date_published":"2024-02-24T01:26:18+00:00","author":{"name":"Vinay Hiremath","url":"https://vinayh.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F40%2F1513193.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"vinayh"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2024-02-24 01:26","date_timestamp":1708737978,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"32222786","content_html":"Now that I’m reviving my blog, I decided to change up the theme and settled on one that seems to tick most of the boxes I was looking for (credit to Tufte). I got it to a perfect score on PageSpeed Insights just by tweaking a few HTML attributes mostly for accessibility. The joys of a static site!
\n","summary":"","url":"https://vinayh.com/2024/02/23/now-that-im.html","date_published":"2024-02-23T00:44:42+00:00","author":{"name":"Vinay Hiremath","url":"https://vinayh.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F40%2F1513193.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"vinayh"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2024-02-23 00:44","date_timestamp":1708649082,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"32164772","content_html":"Spending a few weeks trying Swift (and SwiftUI): vinayh.com
","summary":"","url":"https://vinayh.com/2024/02/22/spending-a-few.html","date_published":"2024-02-22T01:54:30+00:00","author":{"name":"Vinay Hiremath","url":"https://vinayh.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F40%2F1513193.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"vinayh"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2024-02-22 01:54","date_timestamp":1708566870,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"26350194","content_html":"Less than half serious: with the number of cameras on public transport in London, I sometimes feel like TfL is operating a city-wide panopticon alongside transportation.
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\n","summary":"","url":"https://vinayh.com/2023/11/14/less-than-half.html","date_published":"2023-11-14T00:01:50+00:00","author":{"name":"Vinay Hiremath","url":"https://vinayh.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F40%2F1513193.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"vinayh"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2023-11-14 00:01","date_timestamp":1699920110,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"26349960","content_html":"TIL you can enable multiple language versions, such as English (US) and English (UK), for the macOS spell checker. I like this for editing shared documents but also for the more arcane spelling differences where my preferences don’t always line up cleanly with one language region dictionary.
\n","summary":"","url":"https://vinayh.com/2023/11/13/til-you-can.html","date_published":"2023-11-13T23:53:51+00:00","author":{"name":"Vinay Hiremath","url":"https://vinayh.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F40%2F1513193.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"vinayh"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2023-11-13 23:53","date_timestamp":1699919631,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}}]}