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🔗 jaredks/rumps
by JamesRidiculously Uncomplicated macOS Python Statusbar apps - jaredks/rumps
I've been thinking about couple ideas for status bar apps that could help me at work. One of the largest barriers for me to actually build them is re-learning Objective-C (I can't believe ImageXY was almost a decade ago ) or learning Swift. Letting me write apps in Python should allow me to quickly prototype some apps and see if my ideas are actually any good.- Tagged with
- macos
- python
- programming
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🔗 https://mateuszurbanowicz.com/works/tokyo_storefronts_book/
by JamesJust watched an episode of Japanology Plus that had the artist of Tokyo Storefronts on. I love the style of these storefronts, they really are the treasure of Tokyo.
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The Week #21
by James- After 17 years Growl, the open source precursor to notification center on OS X, is going into retirement. I'm a bit sad as Growl was one of the first open source projects I ever contributed to. Chris (the project lead) and I used to meet up at the local diedrech's coffee and talk shop.
I did the initial implementation of the automatic album art downloader in GrowlTunes, where GrowlTunes would pull album art from Amazon if you didn't have album art set in iTunes. I also came up with the (I think still current?) settings interface and did a horrible Japanese translation of the app (that native speakers quickly noticed and fixed 🙏🏻).
- I reached my running goal of 40km this month despite not starting back up until about a week into the month. Assuming I keep pace, next month I should be able to run about 50km.
- I've started playing with ripgrep / sed a bit more at work for a large(ish) refactor and inspired me to start keeping track of the handy commands I use at work with examples so I don't have to experiment / fiddle the next time a similar task comes along.
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🔗 SpaceHey.com
by JamesSpaceHey.com — a space for friends. It's a place to have fun, meet friends, and be creative!
This is a brilliant remake of MySpace. I love how simple the design and how fast it loads. 34kb of Javascript sent over the wire and 33 of that is jQuery. Total page size including images, 350kb. It's the stuff of dreams these days.Back in the MySpace hey-day I liked Facebook more than MySpace for its clean and consistent design. But looking back with 20/20 hindsight I can't help but think I was remiss. MySpace was quite a special site in a special period of the web. People that maybe wouldn't ordinarily care about html or css were learning how to code them so they could customize their sites. Anything was possible.A lot of whimsy has been removed from the web as people locking themselves into the big social networks. Maybe a site like MySpace/micro.blog is a happy medium between the wild-west/running your own server and total platform lock in.- Tagged with
- nostalgia
- computing
- social media
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by James
Today's happy thought: native iOS apps running on a Mac means I can run fewer Electron apps.
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by James
Just past Shimoida station off the subway. Still blows my mind this is Yokohama. Nice 10k to round off the week and get my monthly goal kms in. 🏃🙌🏻
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by James
What if you made a service where each customer's data was kept in their own sqlite.db? GDRP compliance would be as simple as "rm hoge.sqlite", no mixing customer data, data exports easy peasy...
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by James
My mother-in-law made me this sweet holder for my pour over coffee filters. ☕️
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When it comes to tech or business, what are you most thankful for?
by JamesIt is American Thanksgiving (well, in America, it's the next day here in Japan) and Justin asked a good question in the Mega Maker Slack today and I wanted to share my answer publicly.
When it comes to tech or business, what are you most thankful for?My answer:
Open source. Not just because there’s a bunch of high quality tools available for free (gratis), but that it shows that humans, no matter where they’re from or what they believe can work together for the greater good.
When I was first getting into programming windows ruled and the idea of being able to work using open source all day every day was still a bit for dreamers. Grateful that’s no longer the case.
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by James
My first fun query using healthkit-to-sqlite and datasette: average duration of hand washing each day. Query is on my Healthkit queries page.
