Jeremiah Lee @jeremiahlee@librem.one

not just alive, but alove

Mood: https://songwhip.com/katy-perry/daisies-acoustic

Time to Apple Pencil magnetic cap disappearing unexpectedly: 1 year, 18 days.

Such a bad design for an expensive stylus.

Illness anxiety is best paired with frustration at not being able to navigate hospital phone trees because they're all in Swedish and smashing 0 does not get you to a human.

Just randomly remembered the guy in my childhood church youth group who would always make a hand fart when putting his hands together to pray. So dumb, but I laughed every time.

My PowerBook G4 in college seemed to effortlessly handle my 1080P HD video animation and compositing projects, but my 6-core Intel Core i7 MacBook Pro in 2020 prepares for liftoff during a Zoom call.

Today is my half-birthday.

Stockholm is cold and dark in January, so I was planning to have a big outdoor party tonight instead, but I did not foresee a pandemic happening.

PSA: You don’t get to complain about things not going back to normal if you don’t do the bare minimum of wearing a mask. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-M2S4OJlq_g

I wish there were a software version of “Consumer Reports” that had in-depth problem statements and detailed evaluations of API gateways, service meshes, CI/CD tools, etc.

My sexuality is such a threat that a campaign to fight it can propel someone to a presidential victory. Sad news from Polska. #LGBT https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/07/polands-rulers-manufactured-a-rainbow-plague/614113/

The best way for me to get the long list of lingering small tasks done is to know I should be writing a conference talk instead.

90% of the ads on YouTube when ad personalization is off are from Grammarly, a product I will never use.

PSA: Cream cheese does not belong in vegetarian sushi. or any sushi.

I just gave $10 to every non-incumbent woman and person of color running for Congress endorsed by Senator Warren.

The diversity and awesomeness of people running gives me hope for America.

#WarrenDemocrats

https://elizabethwarren.com/endorsements

Everyone is like “zomg Spotify is crashing at startup!” but you should know that Deezer is also crashing at startup.

The Facebook SDK for the second time in less than 3 months is causing many apps to crash at launch. Facebook, once again, considered harmful. #DeleteFacebook

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23790089

Insightful article on user name UX and technical considerations https://lord.io/blog/2020/usernames/

I dare someone to change the MDN docs list to `["my parents", "Ayn Rand", "God"]`.

https://www.dictionary.com/e/s/serial-comma/?prev=t#6