Last night I was excited to show a group of new people our GitHub Codespace to quickly get them up to speed with our project at Code for Boston. Unfortunately when we went to start it up, our “stateless” Docker environment crashed. Instead of an easy to use IDE we landed in a recovery container and I got to debug why it did not work.
Read MoreWWDC 2018 had a worthwhile session on the qualities of great design. Apple Design Evangelist Lauren Strehlow interviews several software designers to learn from them what good design is.
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Read MoreNow that it’s available on macOS, Shortcuts can get access to application support files that are kept private and hidden from users on iOS and iPadOS. More specifically, I remembered that Safari for Mac has long stored its bookmarks and Reading List items in a file called Bookmarks.plist, which folks have been able to read via AppleScript for years. Under the hood, a .plist file is nothing but a fancy dictionary, and we know that Shortcuts has excellent support for parsing dictionaries and extracting data from them.
A long time ago I used to participate in and moderate an online political discussion community. Most of the participants were conservative or conservative leaning, while I was one of the couple of token liberals. The threads were like a debate club and each discussion was a sparring match. It was fun for a while…until it was not.
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