Weeknotes 116

Four days of this week were spent in Wrocław, Poland. It’s a pretty place with an interesting history. I would recommend it. Back to work on Friday.

From this thread on Mastodon about toggling hidden files in Finder:

But did you know you can use shift-command-. (dot or period) in Finder to toggle hidden file visibility?

Shift + Cmd + . – I did not know that.

You can now set a Mullvad VPN location as your Exit Node when connected to your tailnet. I already use Mullvad and have paid up for a year so I won’t be switching just yet, but I like the integration.

Tailscale has partnered with Mullvad to make its global network of VPN servers available for our customers. You can now easily browse the web using any one of Mullvad’s available servers as a Tailscale exit node while maintaining the user privacy that’s synonymous with Mullvad.

When someone asks a question but they’re not getting an answer, offer a suggestion even if you know it’s incorrect. Others will jump in to tell you you’re wrong and the original poster will get their answer.

Stephen Margheim has written a series of blog posts about using SQLite with Rails. Very informative. He’s also working on adding various improvements to Rails' SQLite adaptor.

I pre-ordered an iPhone 15 Pro because I’m a consumer whore (a process which was incredibly bad).

Now I embark on an epic journey into the confusing world of USB-C cables – a cable which often looks the same but can have a myriad of different abilities. To aid in that quest, I also bought a USB-C cable tester so I can check what existing cables I have (but mostly because I like buying weird circuit boards on the Internet).

It’s already proving quite difficult to buy a suitable USB-A to USB-C cable that is both short and USB-IF approved (I don’t want a cable to melt into my new phone).

When MFA isn’t actually MFA.

The caller claimed to be one of the members of the IT team, and deepfaked our employee’s actual voice.

This tale of social engineering is scary. Even when you think you’re doing everything right you can still get caught out.

“Airbus open sourced their new cockpit font” – B612 FONT FAMILY.

B612 is an highly legible open source font family designed and tested to be used on aircraft cockpit screens.

I’m still not tinkering with my Neovim config by installing lualine.nvim as a fancy statusline replacement. A very good use of time.

The weight loss is more of a “gain” at the moment :-/