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The amount of spam I receive in my iPhone notification screen/center seems to grow daily. The big offenders in the past 24 hours:

• Starbucks
• Warby Parker
• Target
• Dunkin’
• Uber
• Instagram
• Amazon

From the Gates Foundation:

In 2018, after three years of prototyping, digesting 1,800 pages of federal and state regulations, prototyping again, and pilot testing, Michigan rolled out a new form. It is 80% shorter. Nine out of 10 applicants fill it out in 20 minutes or less. And it takes staff 42% less time to process.

As I have been scaling back my usage of twitter one of the things I have discovered is reading online news without social media is better. By not wasting time on links to sites with pay walls I get right to the story. Many of the opinion peddlers on twitter were working to monetize their writing on places like Substack. Sometimes their perspectives were interesting or insightful, but I do not miss them.

Due to the holiday weekend and travel I took a few days off from blogging. Apologies for the lack of announcement on that front. I had some weekend links to share:

• Ignore Rubocop Changes in Git Blame is a handy trick for resolving the issue of how and whether you should make commits that merely refactor or restyle code but also want to make sure git blame is useful.
• AWS and Blockchain is an interesting perspective on why AWS did not push more heavily on blockchain.
• Host Your Own Mastodon Instance on a Raspberry Pi.
• Co-pilot is like GPT-3 for Code tells the origin story of GitHub CoPilot.

In anticipation of the collapse of twitter I re-started my daily blogging habit. I fortified my RSS reader with feeds from my favorite sources. I write here mostly for myself, but am thankful for all the readers of this little corner of the Internet.