It's a 3 language week already! C++ (and C), Python and Dart. LLMs sure do help with the learning and re-learning of programming language techniques and the open source ecosystems available. 🤓

"Hands Off"... "No Kings"... spells HONK!

I'm attending the #NoKings #protest: “NO KINGS - Stop the Circus, Palm Springs” from 6 PM - 8 PM this Saturday downtown at the art park! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...

NO KINGS - Stop the Circus, Palm Springs · No Kings

**In America, we don’t put up with would-be kings.** NO KINGS is a national day of action and mass mobilization in response to increasing authoritarian excesses and corruption from Trump and his allie...

mobilize.us

Dear YouTube, Thank you for teaching me how to pronounce certain technical acronyms that I've only never heard, only read in print. Today I learned #MADIS is pronounced (May-Diss), not mah-diss. ... and #ECMWF is *not* pronounced (Eck-Mwoof)... but Eck-Mwoof has a nice ring to it, I think.

If you use a #SwampCooler or #EvaporativeCooler check out the app I just released for helping forecast your *indoor* conditions, showing when or if your cooler will work, based on your local weather forecast (and much math!) Free w/ limited ads. swampcooler.app (US only first, more countries soon)

... just submitted my first mobile app to Apple for review before public release. #Dart / #Flutter made it easy to develop for both iOS and Android. As soon as I finish the monetization code for Android, I'll send it to Google for public release review, too.

Apple's loss of their exclusivity for in-app-payments is now rippling out into the mobile code ecosystem. Borrowing a quote from someone I respect: "This is a big f---ing deal" github.com/flutter-stri...

NVMe bubble gum is the worst.

Math is hard for journalists. I can't count the number of articles which say the 145% tariff on China will make goods 1.45x more expensive. No. It's actually 2.45x. By example: Original price: $100 Tariff imposed: $145 (because 145% of $100 is $145) Total: ($100+$145) = $245. That's 2.45x ! 🧐

Chrome's "Memory Saver" feature didn't know who it was up against! 😜 Upgrading my RAM later today.

Gemini AI generated some ice cream flavors to describe Trump. Runner up: > Meltdown: A bitter orange swirl with a wall of questionable sprinkles. My favorite: > "Covfefe Crunch": An unsettling blend of orange sherbet, questionable nuts, and a lingering aftertaste of chaos. 😆

TIL: as a mobile app developer with ~8 phones on-hand for testing... I got EIGHT #earthquake alerts for a 6.6 simultaneously. After the shock of the cacophony of alerts, I didn't notice any shaking here in Palm Springs. Glad it was only 5.2 in Julian/SD, not 6.6. Thankful for #USGS! 👍

Adding support for in-app-purchases to my first #Flutter app. About 10x more complex than I expected. Crunching through the Google Play integration first. Apple's recently went through a major deprecation/API-replacement to StoreKit2. I sure hope the dust has settled on the client libraries. 🤞

Latitude's sign bit Indicates the hemisphere, A boolean test.

#Flutter #Dart Today I wrote my first extension method for an auto-generated data class- a PODO for de/serialization, to give it a useful behavior. Is this enough new XP to level up?

Trump revoked their Mar a Lago bathroom privileges? time.com/7270771/trum...

Trump Revokes Security Clearance for Biden, Harris, and More

Trump revoked security clearances for Biden and others. Here's a look at the full list and what that means.

time.com

Fresh hell. www.vice.com/en/article/r...

You May Want to Rethink Your Gum Chewing Habit. It's Essentially Plastic.

According to new research, chewing gum manufacturers have been hesitant to tell us that their product is essentially plastic.

vice.com

I haven't needed to use git LFS (large file support) before now, and wow, it works so seamlessly and easily, even with a non-github self-hosted repo. Guilt-free git commits for large-ish video assets!

Something just made an unfamiliar "ding, bloop!" sound... I'm sure it's important, but can't figure out where it came from.

Today I realized my app can show an error message popup (the kind that auto-dismisses, aka snackbar), for a *variable* duration... based on the length of the string of the error message (plus a constant)... so humans can read them before they disappear... TL;DR: Using constants is unfriendly?

TIL: mobile apps on Apple/iOS don't have a Quit button. On purpose. TIL, Part II: ...and they cannot self-exit, or risk violating Apple's rules for apps.... The company line is that the Home button is the only valid way to "exit" an app. I think Apple needs to loosen up a bit.

To store emojis in MariaDB/MySQL for an existing table using the default/bad collation: ALTER TABLE your_table_name CONVERT TO character set utf8mb4 collate utf8mb4_unicode_ci; In Django's settings .py: 'OPTIONS': { 'charset': 'utf8mb4', } NOTE: collation name and charset are slightly different.

today's todo: convert more screens in my app to have working layouts for tablet-landscape mode... 2 screens down, 3 to go.

Unix epochtime crossed 1.74 billion!! # date +%s 1740008723

I love when moving a single line of code solves all¹ my problems. It doesn't happen often for me, but when it does, it's a rare kind of magic. Footnotes: 1. obviously not ALL my problems, but the difficult ones at hand.

Trump is not forever. One day, we will be free of him. Four years isn't forever.

26,001 LoC... momentum, don't leave me now

Happy Birthday, Carmen Miranda!

just crossed 25k LoC, writing my first app (including the backend server code)... hopefully launching in a month or so!

Ugh, I feel like it won't be long before we get some new reality-TV competition show with an awkward name like "America's Most Patriot!!" where contestants try to out-dumb each other.