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It was probably not a good use of my time but my fork of Rouge now generates HTML for code blocks that both looks pretty and displays correctly in Feedbin.

My eyes haven’t adjusted to the spacing between the posts in Icro. I hope the real purpose for this is to fix the way links sometimes don’t respond to taps.

Game Night was better than I was expecting. I especially want to call out the soundtrack, though. It has no business being that good.

It feels like an increasing number of times lately that I’ll stumble across an interesting blog post, check the archives and discover the author stopped posting in 2016 :(

I tried finding a way to compile Lumo for ARMv7 devices last night but got nowhere. I love the speed with which a Node-based ClojureScript REPL starts but I guess I’ll just have to stick with old reliable Java.

I’m glad to see David Smith argue for a low-cost Apple Watch. He doesn’t make quite the same points as I made last March but I still believe this is a product that should exist.

Wow. Didn’t realise that Hugo could be installed without the entire Go toolchain. Since it’s a compiled binary, I shouldn’t have been surprised but I’m so used to Ruby I assumed it would be the same. I can see why this has become so popular.

I’m working on transcribing Clojure for the Brave and True to Markdown that I’ll update with all the pull requests that have been building up over the years. I expect the chances are good I’ll be told to take it down but let’s see how it goes.

I’ve complained about this before but I cannot for the life of me understand why Microsoft changed Outlook’s accent colour from yellow to blue. It used to be a cinch to visually distinguish between Outlook and Word. Now it requires additional mental effort every time.

I’m listening to old Café del Mar compilations so I can pretend it’s 2000 again.

So tempted to buy an Intel Compute Stick. I really don’t need it but it’s so cheap and then I’d have an x86-64 CPU running Linux in the house!

There’s some kind of poetic justice in seeing Apple struggle to move from a business built around paid upgrades to one built around subscription revenue.

The new theming capabilities of Micro.blog are pretty exciting. As a Ruby guy, I’m sad to see the backend move from Jekyll to Hugo but overall it’s hard to complain. Time to work out how to install Go on my development machine!

I thought episode two of season two of Star Trek: Discovery showed the limits of modern TV being obsessed with the season-long story. Everyone was so busy rushing around there was no time for the episode to breathe.

Osaka won! 🎾

I’m thinking a lot about @siracusa’s rant about iterative development on the latest episode of ATP. I think there may be reasons why iterative development isn’t possible with complex systems but I’m not sure.

I’ve been on a run of releasing open source projects. Tonight I published a simple gem that allows you to write plugins for the CommonMarker Markdown parsing library :)

I don’t know if it’s just the placebo effect but the silver lining of having to pay for that upgrade to Windows 10 Pro in order to use Remote Desktop is that the connection between my Mac and the PC seems higher quality and more responsive.

I’ve hit that moment after being awake for almost 24 hours where you wonder why you’ve been awake for almost 24 hours.

That feeling when you need to pay another ¥13,000 to Microsoft because their latest update to Windows 10 broke your hack way of enabling Remote Desktop.