Josh Dick @joshdick@mastodon.cloud

If you’ve never played Frog Fractions, check out its totally free Game of the Decade Edition on Steam. One heck of a thing. Possibly worth an hour of your time. Maybe.

9:45 AM: https://www.macrumors.com/2020/08/13/fornite-adds-direct-payment-option-on-ios/
3:00 PM: https://www.macrumors.com/2020/08/13/apple-removes-fortnite-from-app-store/
When you dare to deign to take away Apple’s 30% and aren't Amazon or Netflix.

I find it interesting that William Fox lost control of Fox Film just 15 years after founding it due to the stock market crash of 1929, but his name has lived on for almost 100 years. https://twitter.com/verge/status/1292909003169832961

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-tech-congress-apple-idUSKCN24T1WY Everyone is the hero of their own story. Apple needs to do better here.

If liking "modern City Pop" is wrong, I don't want to be right. This song is great. https://youtu.be/BxqYUbNR-c0

Weird Al proves himself to be a genius yet again. https://youtu.be/oNEdEDbhTQw

“Disparaging the boot is a bootable offense!”

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