Oh Boing Boing, you bring the world to our desktop in all it’s glory. boingboing.net/2019/04/2…

That was unexpected. Had left the grill cover off for a few weeks, a family “moved in”

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Hey video nerds. I’m enamored with the idea of using a high quality camera as my webcam, using an Elgato CamLink4k. The cheapest supported (https://www.elgato.com/en/gaming/cam-link/camera-check) DLSR or Mirrorless (something with good depth of field) I can find is the Rebel SL2.

Anyone tried this?

I did a small fix to the WebXR Viewer, now mostly rewritten in Swift. Which I’ve never used.

So ~20 lines of code took … a while (“Dear Google, how do I declare an array in swift?”).

But, it worked, and I’ve now written code in Swift. I’m a Swift Coder, y’all!

Rare bit of Overwatch: 2 games, both super fun.

Game 1, won a map, then someone left on our team. Lost a map, then they reappeared as the other team hit 99%-0% … we captured and held to win. NEVER give up! Woot!

When you write a bunch of code in Javascript, and the first 15 minutes of debugging is finding all the stupid shit any strongly typed compiled language would have caught.

(no, raw JS is not my choice; I’d use Typescript if it was my project)

As I sit and read my email after the Tornado Watch was lifted for the past few hours, I find it ironic to read about the potential negative impact of 5G on weather forecasting … hackaday.com/2019/04/1…

So if Google gets dinged for antitrust for it’s favoring of Chrome on Android, why doesn’t the EU ding Apple for not letting user’s change their default HTTP handler and their handicapping of competing browsers (wkWebView << safari’s webview)?

As I sit and read my email after the Tornado Watch was lifted for the past few hours, I find it ironic to read about the potential negative impact of 5G on weather forecasting …

At today’s yearly checkup, was presented with explanation of some billing stuff (“if we discover and address problems as part of your visit, they will cost extra”). This is a great example of the massive financial uncertainty that makes the US health care system is so awful.

Need a tool that lets me export my FB data, and then import it into my personal Mastodon instance. Create fake local private ID’s for everyone I’ve interacted with, and have tools for helping friends claim them (or make them anonymous). So I can preserve my FB “history”.

And there’s a bunch of expert witnesses who won’t be getting new Teslas apple.news

Apple and Qualcomm drop all lawsuits in surprise settlement - The Verge

Crazy. Just found something (again, this is the second time) so much cheaper on Prime Now than regular Amazon that it was cheaper even with the “driver tip”. So, I get it today, for less money than waiting till Thursday.

I have to admit, every time I get a popup to install an update to Java on my mac, I roll my eyes. Java is still a thing? Ugh. It’s bad enough Universities still teach it (ensuring students are prepared for yesterday’s jobs!)

(I get it, old things use it, but …)

I missed this story when it broke, this is pretty “funny” … at least some folks at FB are clear-eyed. www.neowin.net/news/ocul…

Wish I was more sophisticated with CSS. I’m using a version of the Nurui theme on my blog, want to replace the “featured” slider (siema) with one where the panels sliding are more obviously “links”, perhaps based on the small squares that are used on the blog page.

My home office Mac when I sat down this morning after being away for the weekend. unfortunate (for non-mac folk, that’s the “no bootable disc” startup logo). (rebooting with cmd-option-p-r cleared it, thankfully) (apparently I need to clear my screen too)

Universities (Princeton in this case) finally banning professors from dating grad students. What took so long? (they exempt current relationships, because “why?”; wonder how many profs-married-to-former-students voted for this?) www.nj.com/education…

Had a great time watching Overwatch League games in LA with my son this weekend.

Played a few games when I got home; 1st fine, 2nd had a bunch of toxic racist a-holes in it, who especially didn’t like being called out. Sigh.

OWL != OW 😡

Love the overwhelming visuals at the end of each map. Wonder what Johnny Carson thinks of what’s become of his studio?

Excellent. So tired of people reclining into my laptop on daytime domestic flights. Sleep at home. apple.news

Delta Air Lines is eliminating one of the most annoying things about flying - Fast Company

Back at Blizzard Area, ready for day 2 of our @overwatchLeague trip

Fun night at the Blizzard Arena watching Overwatch League. Shame Atlanta lost, but the other games were great, and we had a fabulous backstage tour!

In the arena, getting ready to watch the Reign! #LetItReign

Landed in LA …. Hey, ATT, you aren’t fooling me with your fake 5G shenanigans