Avi Flax
I just randomly tried to run pico — wow, blast from the past!
I spoke at the Clojure/conj last week, on (Architecture) Diagrams as ✨Data✨
I’m very happy with how it came out. Thank you to everyone who helped me prepare and everyone who gave me feedback!
If you’d like, you can check out the description, the slides, or the video.
🤔 It’d be handy if I could assign a title to a given browser window — i.e. a set of tabs — so I could group sets of tabs by activity or topic.
It looks like there are a few Firefox extensions that do this, but it’s unclear how effective they are on MacOS. I’ll have to try them.
I just proposed a ⚡️ lightning talk for the next Write the Docs NYC meetup: Storytelling with Git.
Aphantasia: yes, it’s a thing
Just now, while writing a presentation with my Mac, I typed “aphantasia” and noticed that the spell-checker flagged it as an unknown word/spelling.
This made me chuckle. I’m used to having to explain aphantasia to humans — so why shouldn’t I have to teach my computer about it too!
It was first described in 1880; it’s really a thing! And yes, I really have it.
I’m still blown away by how compellingly Blake Ross described it:
I have never visualized anything in my entire life. I can’t “see” my father’s face or a bouncing blue ball, my childhood bedroom or the run I went on ten minutes ago. I thought “counting sheep” was a metaphor. I’m 30 years old and I never knew a human could do any of this.
New release of the FC4 Framework adds ability to render to SVG
I’ve published a new release of FC4, a FLOSS framework for authoring & maintaining C4 software architecture diagrams.
This release adds the ability to render diagrams to SVG in addition to (and even simultaneously with) PNG.
Thanks to Mike Fiedler for the feature request and to Simon Brown for Structurizr and Structurizr Express!
On a lark, I just installed Lynx and used it to view the homepage of the FC4 Framework. It looked great! I got a real kick out of this; it took me way back. I was also pleased to see that the structure and content of the page worked well when represented in plain text.
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.)
As someone who likes both beer and kombucha, I thought I might like this. And I was right. Good stuff!
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!
