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Not all the stuff I listened to back in the 90’s still lands, but some of it does. 😭

Eye contact. Denim. The color red. 

My goals today are simple: (1) support my engineers; (2) be kind to myself; (3) cry when I need to. .

I’m not sure how an 11” dog can so reliably kick a 72” person out of her own bed, but here we are again. 😑

Any day where I can capture four decent photographs of my friends and their families is a good one in my book. 🥰

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I’ve known these two fools since high school, and yet—in my eyes—this is the first photo we’ve ever taken together.

It’s so good to be seen.

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Back from San Diego Comic-Con.@pauline and I dressed up; there was dancing; Tori Amos played. Best one yet.

Well. Was supposed to leave Tucson yesterday, but that was before the rain went sideways and knocked over 30 utility poles.

Hoping to sneak out tonight. Two hours left to deliver on this dream.

Being in Tucson again, I am struck by the heat, and realize that skirts were always the solution. 💃

Cosplay. Star Trek. Eye Contact. Comic-Con. 

Badge arrives tomorrow!!

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Cosplay. Star Trek. Eye Contact. Comic-Con. 

Starting to pack for Comic-Con. I’ve been promised dancing, so I’m cobbling together a Star Trek-like outfit for the occassion.

San Diego Comic-Con is the perfect place to get out of my comfort zone: the whole town dresses up, the crowd is crazy, and there’s a growing trans presence.

Seven years in and we’re ten minutes to midnight on the Grues Day Clock.

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Sometimes I wear my Infocom T-Shirt to company meetings, just to see if any of my people are out there, or if we’re all likely to be eaten by a grue.

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I still remember the day when Nate Weiner invited me to join the Product Meetings at Pocket. It was the first time I’d worked in an organization where engineering was given a seat at that table and a voice in this conversation; it meant the world to me.

* Eats cookie for breakfast
* Enters cookie into meal tracker
* Sobs at cookie calorie cost
* Eats other cookie

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We have released Pocket 8.0.5 for iOS. One of the biggest changes is that you can now install the iPad app on M1 macs.

To make room for this new experience, we have removed the original Pocket macOS app from sale.

I have a lot of warm feelings for our original macOS app: I was the sole maintainer for seven years, and it offered me a regular respite from the world of touch-based operating systems—menus, windows, and processes, oh my. It had an eleven year run, and its users loved it. 🫗

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Game Porting Toolkit analysis by Digital Foundry suggests the M1 Max is in line with a GTX 1060 or RTX 2060 from 4-7 years ago. This represents what a game dev who does the absolute minimum will get, which is... not great. Supposedly the 1.0.2 update improved performance not reflected here. youtube.com/watch?v=jTsc_UvlT3

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There was a time in the last few decades where I would have held my emotions in check until after I’d read the opinions. I believe in the rule of law, after all. But this current court has been so blatantly obvious in its political agenda that I no longer can maintain the suspension of disbelief required to read the majority’s opinion as anything else other than a post-hoc attempt to rationalize a specific ideological objective.

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Basic models of flocking behavior are controlled by three simple rules: 1) separation: avoid crowding neighbours (short range repulsion); 2) alignment: steer towards average heading of neighbors; 3) cohesion: steer towards average position of neighbors (long range attraction). With these three simple rules, the flock moves in an extremely realistic way.