Josh Dick @joshdick@mastodon.cloud

The “Quarantine” episode of Mythic Quest was brilliant! Excellent TV.

I've seen anecdotal evidence that macOS Catalina is slow to launch apps, but it also seems to be slow to switch between already-running apps? cmd-tabbing between different apps on a 2018 MacBook Pro sometimes takes a few seconds to show a winodw. https://sigpipe.macromates.com/2020/macos-catalina-slow-by-design/

This was well researched, well written, and a very captivating read: When SimCity got serious: the story of Maxis Business Simulations and SimRefinery https://obscuritory.com/sim/when-simcity-got-serious/

It was a difficult decision, but I finally retired my oldest open-source project: https://github.com/joshdick/miniProxy

For @incanus @zorn: Here’s my slightly over-engineered “Today” perspective. Was thinking about blogging about this at some point. Flagged stuff is “must do today” and appears on top, stuff tagged Visible appears underneath and is optional. (With attached image this time.)

The only thing I want to know about the Magic Keyboard before mine arrives: Is it stable enough to use it on my lap on the couch? (None of Apple's previous iPad keyboards were.)

Better Call Saul is hands down the best show on television right now. Everything about it — the casting/acting, the writing, the cinematography — is excellent.

Nothing else like ‘em.

The New York Times Magazine has an excellent profile of Weird Al Yankovic. Definitely worth reading. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/09/magazine/weird-al-yankovic.html

Brilliant. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqIbEHNqbPs

Animal Crossing: New Horizons would be much more enjoyable for me if it had a feature to highlight the currently-focused ground tile. Especially since picking the wrong tile prematurely wears out your tools.

Just did a major cleanup of my "micropub for static sites" tool, microstat. Includes new configuration options for tags, for better Hugo support! https://github.com/joshdick/microstat

Coming soon to a socially-isolated streaming service near you, starring Ben Affleck and Mark Wahlberg. https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-million-n95-masks-are-coming-from-chinaon-board-the-new-england-patriots-plane-11585821600

Really enjoying Phish's new album, "Sigma Oasis". https://open.spotify.com/album/26UKByymr01m9Ayt9JUIWU?si=4uYIk5pfQkadqvg0QTJ97Q

Really enjoying Phish's new album, "Sigma Oasis". https://open.spotify.com/album/26UKByymr01m9Ayt9JUIWU?si=4uYIk5pfQkadqvg0QTJ97Q

RT @beardandbible@twitter.activitypub.actor
I don’t know who made this but they deserve an award

RT @AndrewM_Webb@twitter.activitypub.actor
I'm having trouble concentrating on science animations right now, so instead here are some screenshots from my favourite document on the planet.

These are taken from a 'work in progress' document from Pepsi's 2008 rebrand. Every figure is as incomprehensible as this one. 1/23

RT @JoshuaPotash
Somebody decided to invite Dr. Rishi Desai onto Fox.

I don’t think they’ll be asking him back.

RT @woke8yearold@twitter.activitypub.actor
Hmm yes fascinating

RT @TristanACooper@twitter.activitypub.actor
No one tell her. Don't you dare