Weeknotes 104

Quite a good week in terms of work. I made some changes that I was happy with.

I had no idea there is a built-in QR Code Scanner in iOS. I usually fumble for the Camera app.

I couldn’t agree more with Tom Stuart’s toot about Conventional Commits.

In the past I’ve peacefully ignored Conventional Commits on the assumption that it’s a harmless nuisance, but now that I’ve worked on projects that use it, I realise it’s a genuinely terrible idea which must be stopped at all costs

One of the major features of a commit is to communicate the change being made. Does prefixing your commit subject with something a computer is going to use benefit the humans involved?

I have a suspicion that those who like conventional commits are the same people who fail to write decent commit messages.

My car has been making a weird noise which eventually turned out to be the engine cover under the car flapping about. It’s quite likely that when it was last serviced the garage left out three bolts when putting things back together. Good times.

Brighton Ruby is next week; it should be nice to catch up with some people I haven’t seen in a while. Hoping it’s not as sweaty as previous years.

macOS Sonoma was announced, so I decided it was time to upgrade to Ventura. I feared that everything would stop working but it was surprisingly straight-forward with the small exception of my Studio Display becoming unresponsive until I power cycled it 😬

The “new” System Settings really is as bad as everyone has been saying this last year. Genuinely awful.

My Apple TV remote volume control buttons stopped working. I had to reboot it to fix the issue. I had to reboot my TV remote.