Hanging out at the Melbourne Pen Show all day tomorrow. Hope to see you there! https://www.melbpenshow.com.au #fountainpens

It’s Thursday night and there’s no new #StarTrek. 🥺 I think I will have to console myself by watching some old Star Trek.

The good news: Tuesday is a public holiday so I have all day to put the finishing touches on my #MelbJS talk. The bad news: I will inevitably spend all day fiddling with my #MelbJS talk instead of taking a day off. #JavaScript #webdev

#macOS Sonoma up to and including 14.1 still has the issue where Privacy & Security permissions sometimes go missing at boot. But a clever reader has written in with a work-around! #Apple

Kicking off work on my MelbJS talk for next week: “Help! Storybook is eating all our tests!” #storybookJs #JavaScript #MelbJS #webdev

Another 2023 special edition release from #Lamy, and this one I hadn’t seen rumoured anywhere: the dialog cc All Black. I loved the studio All Black in 2018, and the regular editions (Dark Blue and Piano White) are lovely. Looking forward to seeing this in the flesh! #fountainpens

I’ve had a weird macOS networking glitch confined to my M2 MacBook Pro for months. Wish I could figure out the root cause. #Apple https://kevinyank.com/posts/weird-mac-networking-glitch/

HomeKit has done that thing where it has forgotten where I live, and now all my “First person arrives” and “Last person leaves” automations are tied to a McDonald’s 2km away. Of course, Apple offers no UI to correct this. It’s mAgIc! 🪄🌈✨ #Apple

Missing product: a very small battery backup UPS that can deliver a full 10A to (say) a NAS for just the second or three it takes the house to switch to battery during a grid outage. You can get high-current/high-capacity and low-current/low-capacity, but not high-current/low-capacity. #solar

Siri, define irony. 😂

Cc: @siracusa@mastodon.social

Neither @Obscura@indieapps.space nor @halide@mastodon.social does the automatic depth map capture for retroactive Portrait Mode that the first party Camera app does on #iPhone 15 Pro. Assuming there is API support for this, it’s a race for the first 3rd party camera app to support it. #Apple

The #iPhone 15 Pro is still quite heavy compared to my iPhone 13 mini. #Apple

Bartender is not messing around with its #macOS Sonoma update! #Apple

I asked Siri “Is brontosaurus real?” and it replied with a confident reassurance that it is, in fact, real … sourced from godzilla.fandom.com. 🤨 #Apple

Flip-flopped and changed my iPhone 15 Pro order from Natural, which was just too drab, to Blue. Also switched to in-store pickup, so I’ll get it on launch day. #Apple

The most annoying bug left in macOS Sonoma GA is inserting hyperlinks in Notes using the keyboard (⌘K) only works about 50% of the time. #Apple

Trying out tsup to see if it can replace our hand-rolled tsc build to produce CJS+ESM packages. François Hendriks’s How To Make Tree Shakeable Libraries gave me hard-to-find confirmation that we want to avoid bundling of our packages. Thankfully, tsup supports the option to disable bundling. #JavaScript

Can’t wait to use the iPhone 15 Pro Action Button to open a third party camera app. #Apple

There should be some kind of teardrop tattoo equivalent for JavaScript engineers who have seen into the abyss of TS → ESM/CJS package publishing.

@acemarke@mastodon.social’s operatic record of his own journey is but a taste of the horrors. https://blog.isquaredsoftware.com/2023/08/esm-modernization-lessons/

Every time I think I’m ready to take stock and sum up my own experience, another layer of badness reveals itself.

A career highlight: #mollyholzschlag complimenting me after my talk at the Fundamentos Web 2006 conference in Spain. #rip

A little story about a time I spent with #mollyholzschlag in an airport, stranded between Sydney and Spain. #rip https://kevinyank.com/posts/did-not-depart/

Much less well-coordinated than the worldwide drop of the scala majestic jade earlier this week, both the #Lamy studio rose matte 2023 Special Edition, which matches the marketing photo out of China that I spotted back in January, and the aion deep dark blue 2023 Special Edition seem to have dropped at a couple of online retailers. #fountainpens

Thank you to @paulrobertlloyd@mastodon.social for his continued work on #Indiekit! Trying out the current main branch, which adds UI support for posting photos. Working great for me!

My #PlayDate finally arrived! The lack of Bluetooth headphones support gave me a reason to dig my Twelve South AirFly Pro out of the closet. This setup works great, with only very slight audio latency that won’t bother me for most PlayDate games.