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  Tonight's movie night movie will be, "My Cousin Vinny (1992)." This is one of those classic comedies I kept hearing about forever and simply never got around to watching, so tonight we shall watch it. Hopefully it's all right. 90s comedies are sometimes a bit hit-and-miss for if they hold up or not.

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  Blog post: Where are we going? https://bigzaphod.com/blog/where-are-we-going/ I should blog more often probably. Although maybe after reading this, perhaps I shouldn't blog more. Hmm.

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  The amount of FOMO I’m feeling today for not having a Switch 2 and Ocarina of Time is too damn high. I wonder if anyone has one in stock. I wonder if my credit card could handle the pain.

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  Well damn!

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  Dear political people who send emails, If your email title is "don't delete this" or "you gotta read this" you can rest assured I will absolutely delete that before opening it. Sincerely, Everyone.

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  Several weeks ago our 12 year old Subaru Forester got backed into in a parking lot. Today it's getting fixed up at the body shop (omg insurance worked?!) so we have a rental and they gave us a 2027 Kia Carnival. My car doesn't have any screens or smarts or anything. Basically the fanciest feature it has is cruise control. This 2027 has screens everywhere, backup camera, lane detection, built in maps, is a hybrid, and feels like driving the starship Enterprise in comparison.

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  Stupid time change.

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  Tired.

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  I love classic 23rd century design.

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  Feeling a bit depressed because I want to be excited about new hardware and stuff, but I simply cannot afford it. I see other indie devs lining up to buy stuff and meanwhile we're over here barely surviving. Tapestry doesn't make enough each month to afford *anything*. We've never recovered from the death of Twitterrific. I work harder and longer on Tapestry doing far more complex things than I've ever done before but it's just not paying off. So anyway. Ignore me being sad....

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  I sped up the Tapestry timeline by over 350% by getting rid of SwiftUI. Increasingly of the opinion that SwiftUI was a huge mistake. There are parts of it that are good and have increased iteration time immensely, but the costs.... oh the costs...

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  Just pushed a big Tapestry build to TestFlight and it took me like 20 minutes just to trim down the changelog to something that would fit in the box. This is what happens when I skip a week...

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  Testing a new build of Tapestry fresh from Xcode tonight after a long week (and weekend) of refactoring/rewriting/optimizing some stuff. So far so good. 🤞🏼

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  PHP stands for: Panic Holyshit, Panic!

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  I've seen some takes today blaming AI for the PHP bug - except it's an old bug! It predates AI and was in code written by humans literally over a decade ago as I understand it! AI just helped find it is all. But some folks acting like if it wasn't for AI this bug could have safely existed forever unfound harming no one. Which is bullshit. Some nation-state could have found it and exploited it the old-fashioned way! Heck, maybe they already did and no one caught them and t...

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  90s Trek was a weird blend of stage-like acting and regular tv acting. I don’t know how else to describe it. It’s often kind of stiff and sometimes exaggerated and doesn’t feel very natural at all, but it’s weird how well it works and feels almost timeless as a result of that. It sits firmly below realism which counterintuitively seems to actually aid the suspension of disbelief at times?

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  Dammit. Another mirror universe episode. #DS9

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  Sent off a new Tapestry build internally. (Mostly for @gedeonm@mastodon.social and @chockenberry@mastodon.social at this point.) Huge project to try to make it faster, better, stronger. Or something like that. Maybe just more complicated and harder to maintain? We’ll see.

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  Not sure if Linux or this ThinkPad, but wow sleep/waking the machine takes forever. Spoiled by Apple stuff, I guess. (And by this I mean, the Linux/PC world should get with the program here - same as with retina displays.)

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  So yesterday I got my old refurbished Lenovo ThinkPad X13 and I was messing around with it. It was an "Amazon Renewed" thing, so I figured it'd be pretty much ready to go when I got it. The first thing I did, though, was boot up Windows just to make sure it worked and stuff. And wow.. Window Defender was *unhappy*. It started spewing errors about viruses. Good lord.

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  You're ordering an iPhone Duo to run the latest iOS. I'm ordering an old ThinkPad to play around with Linux on the desktop. We are not the same. (Also the ThinkPad is literally 10x cheaper than the Duo.)

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  🚨 The Sisko is bald! I repeat: The Sisko is bald! 🚨

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  If you’re bored this weekend, Ollie’s Arcade got an update this week! And it’s totally free! https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ollies-arcade/id6446127619

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  Added a cool new feature to Tapestry this week. Too bad I have to wait for TestFlight review before anyone can see it. Took over a week last time, so, uh… 🤷🏼‍♂️

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  Someone should reboot Star Trek and the only change is that there’s no stupid mirror universe episodes.

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  Having doubts that the macOS Tapestry build will make it through TestFlight this weekend. It’s already been over 24 hours since I gave up and submitted a new build. I don’t get it.

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  When people older than me are nostalgic for something I have no memory of it makes me feel like a kid again.

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  I have been awake since 2am. I am a meat popsicle.

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  One thing 90s Star Trek failed to anticipate was security cameras. So many plots would have been easily solved by a few cameras on the promenade or in the hallways pointing at turbo lift doors.