Monday, January 8, 2024
Tired - I've been mostly posting on Twitter the past few days. I've developped a raspy cough which is really bad at night time but mostly fine during the day. That's a bit strange. I'm not sleeping particularly well because of it, and so I'm feeling very tired. All the men at food places I go to have started bowing their head to me, which is odd. Multiple places, started the exact same time. All the woman are constantly calling me dog, and coughing all over my food clearly on purpose.
Both seem to be doing the thing where they hold the plastic bag so you slide you hand into the handles. I don't particularly care for that way of handing over food. It had this trap sort of vibe to it, so I always take the food with two hands. Anyway that really annoys some folks, particilarly the women.
Anyhow no matter what I do there is retaliation. Eventually everything escallates to some form of mutilation to me. #
RSS feeds - On the plus side I've almost got the RSS feeds rendering using the same server side components I use on the website. It will mean per item feeds for each of the blog, linkblog, podcast, newsletter and notes. I'll also hsve a summary feed for the linkblog and notes sibce these have a more frequent cadence.
I think I've also managed to create an everything feed. I used a feature where I can associate custom metadata to data imports. The RSSFeed component can use that data to select the right server side component at render time. It appears to work.
There will likely be issues to figure out though. Even if I an feeling drained, the development progress is keeping me somewhat positive. #
Thousands of Software Engineers Say the Job Market Is Getting Much Worse - When it rains it pours, although in my case it would seem it's much more like the entire multiverse is repeatedly destroyed over and over for eternity. I don't even want to be funny about it. That's basically what's happening and nobody can or is doing anything about it. The weather isn't too bad today, a bit hot around lunch time. Even trying to sound normal has an annoying funniness to it atm. vice.com #
IT Employment Grew by Just 700 Jobs in 2023, Down From 267,000 in 2022 - Seems like the IT sector has been hit particularly badly compared to other areas of the economy. wsj.com #
The Apple Vision Pro will launch in February - When the initial annoucement happened back in June 2024 seemed so far off, but now it feels like that happened a month ago or something. So many things have happened to keep us busy. Prescription lenses will be $149. Base model will have 256GB storage. I would have thought that folks will need much more storage for the 3D spacial videos they record. theverge.com #
I kept a diary of how I use my phone. The results were depressing - I can't say this mirrors my experience, I clearly don't use social media anywhere near as much as the author, yet there are some aspects of what he describes that ring true. theguardian.com #
Kate doesn’t want Prince George to go to Eton – and for once I agree with her - I often wonder if the people that incesantly bully me here aren't boarding school victims. Pretty sure regularly schooled folks wouldn't behave so attrociously. I went to mixed schools myself and liked it. Seems like no matter what you do the bullies eventually get you. theguardian.com #
Hundreds block off Westminster Bridge in call for Gaza ceasefire - They should release those that were arrested, especially if they were non-violent. theguardian.com #