Weeknotes 128

I went to London for work on Monday. Of course my train home was cancelled 5 minutes before it was due to leave on the homeward leg which meant I ended up on a train headed for Swansea. Needless to say, I didn’t want to go to Swansea. Trains gonna train.

Reflecting on 18 years at Google – Google has changed a bit.

You should read Searls' blog.

…every time I looked closely at any of these wannabe Steve Jobs types, I’d be repulsed to find their own work was drenched in mediocrity.

Simple, Non-Commercial, Open Source Notes – I really enjoyed this video on the various ways to take notes with free and open source software.

…if you’ve watched this whole video, you are lost…

And he’s right, I am lost.

I thought I’d better actually start using the hard drives that I bought recently so I kicked off the process this week. I’ve been putting it off because it’s scary.

I’m following the blog post which I wrote last time I did this for most part. I’ve yet to see the results as I’m currently resilvering disk 4 of 6.

I’m hoping that the new space is going to magically become available once all disks have been swapped out, but I’ll have to wait and see.

The block button is the ultimate source of dopamine. Use it.

There’s a crucial difference between silencing someone and choosing not to engage with them. Blocking someone isn’t about denying them their right to speak. It’s about asserting your right not to listen.

We went to Gdańsk, Poland for a long weekend, our third Polish city having already visited Kraków and Wrocław in recent years. It was very nice. Both the Museum of the Second World War and the European Solidarity Centre museum were excellent. Well worth the time.

This trip was a lesson in paying more attention to the “Feels like” temperatures of a weather forecast…

Any time on an aeroplane reveals just how little testing this industry is doing without an active Internet connection. Spotify on iOS for example. The iOS system dialog appears when you start the app, fine. To be expected I suppose. It then is shown again at regular, but surprising, intervals whenever switching back and forth.

Has no one at Spotify been on an aeroplane?

This week I discovered that you can hook into Ruby on Rails generators so you can executed your own code after they run.

class Application < Rails::Application
  ...
  config.generators.after_generate do |files|
    # do things with the files
  end
  ...
end

Nice ✅

Do you need to launder some money? Apparently “hackers” are using MTG cards 😆

Uranium Finance hacker cashes out in Magic: The Gathering cards

“the weird, secretive world of crisp flavours” – Find out why Paprika is so popular in Germany.

Jeff Bezos Rowing Boat by Bobby Fingers – God this is good. Seriously, watch this. The creativity is mind-blowing.