The winds are picking up now for Storm Ashley. Had I known the winds were only going to pick up now, I would have probably taken Drew out for a few holes of golf this afternoon, but the storm warning has been in place since this morning. Oh well.
microposts
I’m using an old iPad I inherited as a secondary screen for my MacBook. I’m very impressed with the setup. I can see myself using this setup a lot.
Today, finished getting the back garden in order for the winter. Just the remainder of the leaves to fall and the golf net will come down in a couple of weeks.
Really happy with the avatars Andy Carolan did for me. Sprung for the additional backgrounds as well. Might have to see if I can get a golf one for next year!
I’m looking forward to a few days off work starting tomorrow. I had big plans to play golf tomorrow, but the weather gods have scuppered any plans for that.
Hunkering down for the night. Beer in my hand, lights are dimmed, watching the NFL. Love this time of year.
Last round at the Fairmont in St Andrew’s for the big yin. Hard to get creative with pictures round a golf course, but I try.
I am starting to get in the habit of copying and pasting the responses that ChatGPT gives me into my Bear Notes and then adding any changes I want to make there. Trawling through the ChatGPT history is a bit of a pain, but then it’s not really supposed for long-term storage, I suppose.
I’ll be honest; I had goosebumps watching this. There is so much pain ahead, but I can’t wait.
GitHub Copilot is now available on github.com.
My first impressions are good. Summarising pull requests is a significant benefit. Unfortunately, Copilot could not diagnose the problem with a GitHub Actions workflow I was working on. It had issues accessing the correct action being run.
It’s been one of those days when everything moves in the right direction. I’ve had days like this before, but today, it felt more significant.
It’s not even October, and I have already had two mince pies. The supermarkets should just sell them all year round.
I was sad to read this morning that Pivotal Tracker, the project management tool for software teams, will be discontinued at the end of April next year.
It was the first project management tool I used as a web developer during my first permanent role using Ruby on Rails.
A south-facing office window has its ups and downs.
On the upside, bright sunny days like today are great for looking outside, and the office is well-lit throughout the day. On the downside, it means some serious squinting of the eyes is needed to read the code on my monitors.
Another great Sunday afternoon golfing with Drew.
Still scrolling through Reddit’s /r/coolguides group thanks to @Annie’s earlier post. So many good guides!
It’s that wonderful time of year when I can golf in the afternoon with the boys, head home for a Sunday roast dinner, and watch a couple of NFL games in the evening.
I’m unsure how I feel about the AI Chatbot feature in the latest Firefox release. Granted, it’s part of Firefox Labs, an optional experimental feature, but I still don’t see a real need for it.
I’m enjoying using Hyper for my terminal and Zed for my text editor. A good combination and an excellent alternative to using Visual Studio Code.
I’m still following 25 people on the bird site. I check in here once every few weeks to see what’s what. On a slightly related note, I still can’t understand why more organisations are not running their own Mastodon instances. Too complicated? Unproven technology?
Is anyone a user of Hyper? I am looking for recommended plugins and themes. The Hyper homepage seems a bit sparse. I was hoping there might be more themes and plugins out there.
After six months of use, I cancelled my Pro subscription with Raycast. I can get the same functionality using Spotlight, Pastebot, Rectangle, and a mix of ChatGPT and Copilot for GitHub.
Starting the morning with coffee and some trip-hop. Need the coffee after having spent most of the night listening to a neighbour’s car alarm continually going off, and well, who doesn’t like trip-hop?
The downside to getting some new tech in the house is the need for follow-up purchases: screen protectors, cases, and sleeves.
We upgraded our youngest’s old 7th-generation iPad to a new 10th-generation iPad. I reset the old one, which I now use for reading and surfing. Usually, we re-cycle devices down the way to the boys, but our youngest needed a new one for high school. Happy to take the old one!