Avi Flax
I just released a new version of FC4, a FLOSS framework for authoring, publishing, and maintaining C4 software architecture diagrams.
The (abbreviated) highlights:
- Rendering multiple diagrams is faster and more efficient
- The versioning scheme has changed to work better with Homebrew
The release notes contain more details, including upgrading instructions.
I’d welcome any feedback you’d care to share!
Anyone else use an iPad with an external keyboard (Bluetooth in my case) and found that Safari is really flaky when it comes to responding to keyboard shortcuts? Maybe there’s some kind of focus thing I’m missing, but I’ve been really annoyed by this apparent bug.
I just used Proporti.onl to estimate the gender distribution of my Twitter followers and those I follow, based on their profile descriptions or first names. It’s not great: 1% non-binary, 36% women, 62% men. I’m gonna work on this.
I’ve been playing around with the recently upgraded @GitHub Actions and it was surprisingly easy to port some CircleCI jobs. Some intriguing features!
(The jobs are a little slower, but I suspect that’s largely due to the lack of dependency caching, and they’re working on that.)
App idea: Reliable Regular Reminders. Pops up reminders reliably at the designated time — daily, weekly, fortnightly, monthly, etc — and each “instance” of each reminder is supplanted by the following “instance”.
(Yeah, I’m really frustrated with the iOS Reminders app.)
Interesting idea came up in a recent chat with a colleague: that remote members of hybrid teams need on-site allies to speak up on their behalf, to make sure in-person meetings are recorded, or notes are shared; to address A/V issues; to invite them to ad-hoc meetings, etc.
This is amazing — the authors of the tool Kodiak documented the differences between it and 13 alternatives in an extremely clear table. I ❤️this!
I ❤️ git hooks, but I’m happier now that I’ve converted my pre-commit hook to a pre-push hook. Turns out I like to commit often, even — especially — when the work is still a mess — and clean it up before pushing. This new setup lets me stay in the flow!
US citizens/residents: if, like me, you’re giving Amazon more of your hard-earned money today or tomorrow during their contrived day of consumption, please join me in giving matching donations to RAICES or any org working to help immigrants and refugees at our southern border.
See You Yesterday is a wonderful film. Moving, fun, intriguing, and exciting. Highly recommended!
Just published my highlights from the wonderful Write the Docs Portland 2019 conference — I’m super grateful that this conference exists and I was able to attend!
#writethedocs
I’m trying out Vale to lint my prose, and I’m feeling super called out here… 😱
Just gave a fun little talk at the #writethedocs PDX 2019 unconference: Storytelling with Git.
I’d love some suggestions of other events or contexts that might be a good place for this talk!
BTW #writethedocs PDX 2019 is fantastic!
Anyone know of a way to use @github’s “team discussions” feature to host fully public discussions in a public repo? So far my impression is it that it’s oriented around internal discussions within an org. I’d love to use @discourse but my project isn’t big enough 😞 — yet! 😅
New/recent albums I’ve been enjoying:
💿 Young Enough by Charly Bliss 💿 Morbid Stuff by PUP 💿 Father of the Bride by Vampire Weekend 💿 This Land by Gary Clark Jr. 💿 There Will Be No Intermission by Amanda Palmer 💿 Tides of a Teardrop by Mandolin Orange
What about you?
