Here’s another Wikipedia rabbit hole post. This time about the Canon Cat: a weird little computer from the late 1980s.| anderegg.ca
On Friday, Raluca Budiu posted “Liquid Glass Is Cracked, and Usability Suffers in iOS 26” to the Nielsen Norman Group site. If the name isn’t familiar to you, the Nielsen Norman Group are UI/UX specialists who’ve been commenting insightfully about design since the late-90s. The piece on Liquid Glass is scathing, and excellently summarizes many of my frustrations.| anderegg.ca
Wikimedia’s 2024 Picture of the Year finalists have been posted, and voting is now open (if you’re an active Wikimedia contributor). As ever, this is a beautiful collection images and photographs.| anderegg.ca
Before too much time passes, I wanted to jot down some thoughts about yesterday’s Apple event.| anderegg.ca
Yesterday I saw this Bluesky post from Adrian Black. He runs Adrian’s Digital Basement, a retro computer repair channel I really enjoy. In the post, he points out a trend I didn’t know about: YouTube views seem to have fallen off a cliff recently.| anderegg.ca
I recently read You do not need “analytics” for your blog because you are neither a military surveillance unit nor a commodity trading company by Leon Paternoster. It’s a well-argued piece, and I agree with the general thrust… but I also won’t be removing analytics from my site anytime soon.| anderegg.ca
I really love Jet Lag: The Game. Part of my Nebula subscription includes The Layover podcast, where the hosts discuss the show. In the off-season, the episodes are sometimes absurd takes on game shows. This week’s episode was one of those, and I got a kick out of it.| anderegg.ca
When I bought my first domain, there were only a handful of choices for top level domains (TLDs). Today I came across a blog hosted on a domain ending in .ooo. I haven’t thought about what TLD options were available in a while, and had some questions about this one in particular.| anderegg.ca
UPDATE: I heard back from Bryan Newbold, protocol engineer at Bluesky, about this. It seems this is an issue with the AppView layer of the protocol when it comes to large threads. There’s a new API in the works that’s set to help out with this problem. I’m glad to hear it wasn’t just me missing something obvious! The original post follows below.| anderegg.ca
I fell down a weird Wikipedia rabbit hole this morning. It was kicked off by a Bluesky post from Jeff Gerstmann, and it taught me two weird things about Sonic the Hedgehog.| anderegg.ca
November has sucked so far. One upside of the terrible nonsense is that more people are fleeing X. Many are choosing Bluesky. I’ve seen a bunch of takes about this recently, but I keep seeing things I disagree with. I figure that’s a good enough excuse to write more about this weird-assed social network.| anderegg.ca
It’s been a couple of weeks since I last wrote about WordPress. Stuff’s been happening in the background, but I’ve been trying to ignore it. This morning I read a story that bothered me enough to require another round of therapy-by-blog-post.| anderegg.ca
A flood of users left X and moved to Bluesky over the weekend. I’ve written a bunch of times in the past about Bluesky, and have gone from grumpy frustration to general acceptance of the service. I’m happy that people are moving away from X, and I think Bluesky is a reasonable replacement. That said, I think new users should understand a bit how the Bluesky system works. Some of reasons that people are leaving X also exist on Bluesky.| anderegg.ca
The WordPress saga continues. Theo Browne has a great video overview of things up to October 14. Since I last wrote about this there was more back-and-forth between David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH) and Matt Mullenweg. As I’ve mentioned before, I’m not a fan of DHH, but I agree with his takes on this situation. On October 13, DHH commented on the Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) hijacking. Mullenweg then responded but deleted the post. Mullenweg put a new post up at the same URL which offered a ...| anderegg.ca
A couple of days ago, I saw this Mastodon post from Casey Liss. I had previously used GitHub Codespaces when working with a client, but it was a bit much. It relies on VMs that run on GitHub servers to give you a VS Code instance. Those VMs take a while to spin up and you have a limited number of hours per month depending on your plan. It’s a neat service, but I wasn’t interested in using it for personal projects.| anderegg.ca
It’s super late at night on Thanksgiving weekend in Canada. I shouldn’t be thinking about weird internet drama, but here we are.| anderegg.ca
