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I got a lobster BLT at the Portland Lobstet Company this evening.

A sandwich on top of french fries in a paper basket. There is a pier in the background.

It seems like that goes against the rules of the mystery genre. We are supposed to only have the facts that the detectives have. I like the Father Dowling books, but several times the villain is revealed early in the story in a cut scene. This seems to spoil the rest of the book.

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I think it's because the flashbacks are short—usually less than 30 seconds. But they do fill in holes in the plot, so as a viewer, you start to solve the mystery before the characters do.

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I usually hate flashbacks in TV shows. They feel like they interrupt the flow of the story and place too much emphasis one or two past events that shaped the characters. But I'm watching Broadchurch series two and am liking how they use flashbacks.

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Matt Derocher @derocher.me · 22/07/2023

@bmann.ca I doubt you knew it, but Josh is my brother. We are a family of computer nerds :)

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I made strawberry scones today!

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…That's why git is simultaneously an extremely successful self-certifying system and a failed attempt at decentralisation."

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"A self-certifying protocol without a cooperation layer is (exactly) like git without GitHub. This offers a lesson: failing to build the cooperation layer leads right back to capture no matter how good the tool.…

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The digital sphere appears to be at an inflection point and we need to imagine what comes next as this era rots and burns. Imagining a renewed, decentralised world is difficult, but we can pull it off...

"People do care about having better digital lives and they will act on it if they can — but users are smart and they've been fooled before: they need evidence that it's not just an improvement in your head." berjon.com/decent-imaginaries

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Decent Imaginaries

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Can you give an example?

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This will be so cool to have!

Shopping on Amazon for a phone case. You can filter for anything but phone model—which is the most important detail! Searching for Samsung case and getting results for iPhone! We are nowhere near the computers taking over the world. Or if they do, we are all in trouble.

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P.S. having a glass whiteboard is fun until you have to take a picture of it. Had to clumsily hold a sheet of paper behind to make it somewhat visible.

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SwiftOnSecurity @swiftonsecurity.com · 19/07/2023

Revisions. My app uses XState for the logic, so all of this is handled by state machines.

Whiteboard showing application logic for saving annotations.

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First things to do after you win the lottery: 1.) Keep using Linux so nobody will suspect you

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Fission @handle.invalid · 14/07/2023

Working on logic for saving annotations. Already see flaws with how I'm thinking it through.

A white board showing a flow chart for saving annotations.

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BIG NEWS! We're launching a podcast! The Causal Islands 🏝️ Podcast will feature thought-provoking interviews with leading experts in distributed systems, AI, computing, and more, exploring the intricate connections between tech + society and how they will shape our future.

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Matt Derocher @derocher.me · 17/07/2023

Very interesting conversation. I love hearing how different people organize their notes.

Matt Derocher @derocher.me · 10/07/2023

If you don't hear from me again it's because I ate the airport sandwich.

Matt Derocher @derocher.me · 09/07/2023

"it’s easy to get caught up in creating abstractions everywhere. We see two screens that look alike, or two features that behave more-or-less the same, and our first impulse is to create a shared class or component to keep things DRY." www.maxiferreira.com/blog/architect…

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Don't Become an Architecture Astronaut | Maxi Ferreira

When you go too far up, abstraction-wise, you run out of oxygen. Sometimes smart thinkers just don't know when to stop, and they create these absurd, all-encompassing, high-level pictures of the unive...

Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 07/07/2023

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Social media strategy in the age of Threads, Twitter and Bluesky.

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Brooklyn Zelenka @expede.wtf · 07/07/2023

And I do mean more than size and spacing. It's not just getting things to line up perfectly (that is hardly ever possible with user editable content), but I mean components that work well together in general.

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The first version of the PomoDB (Rhizome Database) high level spec is up! github.com/RhizomeDB/spec @quinnwilton.com is working hard on getting the initial code into people's hands, too!

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I think WP has done a great job showing how this can be done with the Twenty Twenty Three theme, which takes advantage of Full Site Editing.

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Our components in a design system need to be thoughtfully compatible with the other blocks. This won't happen magically. We will have to take care to spacing and sizing to find this consistency.

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But the blocks that they do mold are thoughtful and follow a system. They have connectors that always line up with other blocks. Poles always are the same diameter so they can be held by a minifigure hand or stuck in a clip.

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But the real Lego blocks have shown us that it us possible to create unique things with the same base blocks. They hardly ever introduce a new molded piece. But find unique uses for the blocks they already have molded.

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It's hard to do a real system that is built with only Lego blocks. Most design systems have one-off mega components. This is mostly because designers want to start from scratch each time and add customizations to each block.

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Dennis Detwiller @drgonzo123.bsky.social · 06/07/2023

WordPress Full Site Editing looks extremely promising. There have been site editor plugins for years, but none of them were enjoyable to use. There are definitely a bunch of questions to answer and kinks to work out, but it's very exciting!

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The bard really did coin every phrase...

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Matt Derocher @derocher.me · 07/07/2023

I full-heartedly agree with this!