I see this old work project of mine contains the files "prototype" and "prototype (non idiotic version)".
Distressingly, I can't see a problem with the first one.
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Project progress! Lots of fiddly soldering later, the DC side is working. Now for the AC connections...
In day 3 of this now, and people are openly trolling. Overnight someone suggested "if you want to unsubscribe, simply reply-all with STOP" and so far twenty people have. Someone else said "for your convenience, I asked Copilot to summarise this email thread" and pasted the output which helpfully suggests "action: review and correct the mailing list membership".
This is a small beacon of untrammeled joy in what's otherwise quite a wearing few days.
One of my favourite things: I'm in a small but perfectly formed reply-all-pocolypse in work. Just 170 people, but so far ~35 increasingly irate replies telling everyone else to stop replying, ~10 demanding to be unsubscribed, and 1 hero who replied-all with "I'm just here for the drama 🍿".
There's something incredible about the thought process "the previous thirty people all telling each other to stop are the problem, but *my* reply-all telling people to stop is the solution we need". Amazing.
Hobby project side-quest: accidentally built a ghost concealment device.
Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊Apparently, it's bad luck to mention a "MacBook" in a software company. You have to call it "the Scottish laptop".
Yes, there's nuance. I'm not against all joy. Things can be toys and tools at the same time, and a lot of the distinction is in the mindset of the person currently using it: am I focusing on the fun way the pen blots and glides and scratches around the page, or am I quickly scribbling notes in a lecture, barely aware of the pen's existence?
Both can be excellent, but something sold as a tool should at least have the *option* to be used as such.
This is probably my most "old man shouts at the cloud" opinion, for the time being.
Too many apps and services claim to be tools but also try to be toys, and the constant attention-suck is exhausting. E.g. I don't want to enjoy "using Spotify", I want to enjoy "listening to music".