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I started wondering this afternoon at what point I take the family on a road trip somewhere. How many months do we remain here before that happens?

I’m at the point at which you parse the argument list of a JavaScript function with a character-by-character for-loop.

I can never hear cicadas in Japan and not think of Evangelion.

I’m not having much luck searching for how to localise long strings in an iOS app. Swift has multi-line string literals that would be perfect but the format used in .strings files doesn’t support them. Is there no standard solution for this?

I visited Apple’s Feedback Assistant a couple of times in Safari and now no matter what I do, I can’t convince Safari that when I start typing 'fee', what I want to do is go to feedbin.com.

Am so glad to have real NBA games back.

It’s difficult to overstate how bad the experience is when you add a link to Reading List from Mail on macOS.

After reading about ammonia becoming part of Japan’s future energy mix, I did a quick search as to why geothermal energy doesn’t play a larger role here. Looks like it’s at least partly due to local opposition in candidate sites.

We should pick one country as a permanent host of the Summer Olympics and one country as the permanent host of the Winter Olympics.

Ben Thompson says EU regulation hampers competition but is that true? Assuming competition even viable in most online markets, competitors need to be VC-funded. Needing some expensive lawyers doesn’t seem different than needing some expensive programmers.

It seems crazy that there’s no quick way in Interface Builder to connect multiple buttons to an existing function (such as by selecting them all and then control-dragging). Maybe I’m just missing it?

More like GPT-3-year-old, amirite?

I wrote earlier this week about a Finder quick action for creating a blank text file. You can export those but I didn’t know if anyone else would be able to use it without it being code signed so in lieu of that, here’s a screenshot of the steps in case anyone else is interested.

In macOS’s System Preferences, I wish you could rebind Shift-Backspace to select the previous input source (so that I could use it to switch between English and Japanese). Certain keys work but for some reason not Shift-Backspace.

「Go Home キャンペーン」amirite?

I finally got my ‘Create Blank Text File’ quick action for the Finder working the way I want. I can invoke it regardless of the item type selected, it will create the file in the current directory and make the file the selected item.