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The <a href="https://github.com/svandragt/wordpress-vandragt">source to the website</a> is available on GitHub.<p>#status </p>

 

Hacking a bit on Carbon again. I like tidying up a codebase with no responsibilities. Probably a good fit for portfolios once it’s more mature! Follow on <a href="https://github.com/svandragt/carbon">svandragt/carbon</a><p>#status </p>

 

Great post <a href="https://drewdevault.com/2018/07/09/Simple-correct-fast.html">https://drewdevault.com/2018/07/09/Simple-correct-fast.html</a><p>#status </p>

 

There is such depth to the Groove Rider GR-16 groove box, I’m reading the manual front to back. So much to master, a real professional music making tool for iOS <a href="https://www.jimaudio.pro/">jimaudio.pro</a><p>#status </p>

 

Just cleaned out the charging port speaker port headphone port and mic port of my iPhone with a cocktail stick. Restored sound!<p>#status </p>

 

macOS you could fix “recent” finder sidebar to actually show recent results.<p>#status </p>

 

macOS, you could add Automator actions for all the common publishing systems.<p>#status </p>

 

WWDC. I wish non App Store apps could piggy back on the system update mechanism. Imagine no more prompting.<p>#status </p>

 

https://jamesshelley.com/2018/05/07/if-youre-not-doing-anything-wrong-what-do-you-have-to-hide/

> If you’re not doing anything wrong, what do you have to hide?<p>#status </p>

 

<a href="https://www.wired.com/story/whats-not-included-in-facebooks-download-your-data">What's Not Included in Facebook's 'Download Your Data'</a>: all the data about you.<p>#status </p>

 

A <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/apr/21/identity-checks-election-disenfranchise-ethnic-minorities">hostile environment</a> for immigrants is a hostile society for everyone.<p>#status </p>

 

Sad but true: we create our own surveillance society and then proclaim privacy is dead.<p>#status </p>

 

This is how to build trust, thanks Apple

<img src="https://vandragt.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/7/2018/03/550de294ae134fdf94e99b91bbfec991.jpg" width="600" height="600" /><p>#status </p>

 

In the alternate universe Apple created a home(pod) entertainment system that elegantly worked with TV, consoles, music, & film.<p>#status </p>

 

Perhaps making websites appears hard again to avoid the impression making them is easy, self preservation.<p>#status </p>

 

Self documenting code is a lie, it only describes the single solution that was chosen not why it was and why others were not.<p>#status </p>

 

<p class="e-content">Wow, Inception - The App is back on the app store! <a href="https://www.inception-app.com/">www.inception-app.com</a> My go to app to drown out background noise. Love it. “Hear” is also good.</p>
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Lost my BBC complaint data due to accidentally swiping back to the previous page whilst trying to move the cursor. Feedback sent to Apple. TIL write anything moderately long in a proper text editor such as iA Writer.<p>#status </p>

 

Accidentally watched BBC News this morning as they parrot Trumps’ incorrect facts and read out the tabloids attention diversion tactics.<p>#status </p>

 

How long do people keep their upstream pull requests open on github? Forever to help forks or give up after 6 months?<p>#status </p>