I'm a software developer in Camarillo, California. I enjoy hanging out with my beautiful family and 4 rescue dogs, technology, automation, music, writing, reading and tv and movies.
😰 Last.fm wins the award for API that's the hardest to actually get a valid session out of.
I've been having an intermittent issue with Safari failing to sync any data via iCloud that you would normally expect — history, tabs, bookmarks and the landing page were all behaving independently despite iCloud syncing being enabled.
My site was scaffolded out using Timothy Lin's tailwind-nextjs-starter-blog project (which I highly recommend checking out). As part of the build out I wanted to display the books I'm currently reading and the song I most recently listened to, data available from oku and Last.fm, respectively[^1]. I've added the display for this data to the top of the home page using a pair of light-weight React components.
So you want to migrate over to Fastmail for your email — here's how you can go about doing so as seamlessly as possible.
Apple's Messages app recently started crashing in a loop on my Mac Mini — it would happen every time the app was opened after a 5-10 second delay. Deleting conversations from other devices and letting that change sync over didn't appear to help.
I'm still plugging away with my reading habit and my streak is now at 772 days.
Lately I've been leaning into automating the cleanup of email I receive in Gmail using a combination of Inbox-era categories that the application still exposes via search and Google Apps Script.
Last week my Apple Music collection, in as far as I can tell, become corrupted or otherwise unmanageable. This isn't the first issue I've had with the service nor is it the most severe — I gave Apple Music a try right after it launched, remnants of Beats Music and all.
As a developer, a version control system is a critical part of your toolkit, no matter the size of the project or team you may find yourself working on.
Everything you do online — from browsing to shopping to using social networks — is tracked, typically as behavioral or advertising data. But browser extensions are simple, generally free add-ons that you can use to slow down or break this type of data collection, without completely ruining your experience of using the internet.
This is a helpful, albeit basic, guide to online privacy tools.
I've been working on making reading a habit again for the past few years (my streak in books is currently 383 days).