Andrew German

@_german
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Staff Developer@1Password. Formerly Consumers Group@Autodesk and Harmony@Logitech

Rust 🦀 & Swift 🏎️
Toronto, Canada 🇨🇦

websitehttps://andrewgerman.com
codehttps://github.com/4german
pedants/less/fewer

I keep seeing articles like this, about how people choosing to drink less is hurting bars and restaurants, and it's almost always framed as people, especially younger generations, don't like to drink.

They never seem to bring up the fact that a cocktail is like $20 now unless you go to a really divey dive bar. It's the same kind of reporting they on how no one goes to the movies anymore. It's always about changing habits, and never that movie tickets just cost a lot now.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/16/dining/us-alcohol-restaurants.html

Dinner and No Drinks: Restaurants Are Struggling as Americans Drink Less

Traditionally a reliable revenue stream for restaurants, alcoholic drinks are down markedly — and the bottom line is, too.

The New York Times
heard "be the elephant you want to see in the room" earlier and gosh if that hasn't stuck with me

"Healthy people cost less.
Educated people contribute more.
Housed people are more stable.

...in a healthy society there are no "undeserving".
There are just people."

Ontario wants to change its FOI rules to keep some records secret. Here's what you need to know
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-ford-changing-foi-rules-9.7127884?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Toronto @toronto-cbcnews

Ontario wants to change its FOI rules to keep some records secret. Here's what you need to know | CBC News

Ontario wants to exempt the premier, cabinet ministers and parliamentary assistants from being subject to the province’s freedom-of-information (FOI) rules, a move that’s sparked outrage from experts, opposition parties, and the province’s privacy commissioner.

CBC

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@pheonix/116221805295722939

#Meta only exists for two reasons:

- Money
- Info gathering on everyone for reason 1

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@_german and Command-Shift-4 is canonically correct, from Technote OS 1, March 1985:

https://web.archive.org/web/19970615195630/http://www.devworld.apple.com/dev/technotes/os/os_01.html

OS 01 - Command-Shift-Number Keys

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re: https://daringfireball.net/2026/03/modifier_key_order_for_keyboard_shortcuts

A few years ago I worked hard to make sure the keyboard shortcuts in #1Password for Mac appear in the correct order.

It's the little things.

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