Alex

@alexmcroberts
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I’m a Director of Software Development at Hootsuite. Formerly at Damon Motorcycles, Intel and Recon. Originally from Belfast, living in Vancouver, BC.
Websitehttps://alex.mcroberts.me/

@marcoarment @overcastfm small feature request when you get past Liquid Glass Boss Level.

Make chapter art zoomable and scrollable, like a photo in Photos

@overcastfm I spotted a small difference in how Dish podcast album art is rendered versus Spotify.

Spotify seems to show “per episode” album art, versus the podcast art.

Each episode interviews a different guest, who are then featured on the episode art.

Is there maybe a setting I’m missing?

This IDEs of March, we discuss Cursor, Windsurf and Visual Studio Code.

@jordanmorgan saw your basketball app post on Hacker News.

For the video recording, you could try https://nonstrict.eu/bezel

I heard it mentioned on the Under The Radar podcast by @marcoarment and @_Davidsmith

Bezel • Mirror any iPhone on your Mac

Bezel mirrors any iPhone onto your Mac by just plugging it in. Beautifully designed for Mac, with ease of use in mind.

Bezel • Mirror any iPhone on your Mac
Endurance documents hunt for Shackleton’s shipwreck
New NatGeo documentary was directed by the same duo who brought us the Oscar-winning Free Solo .
https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/11/endurance-documents-hunt-for-shackletons-shipwreck/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
Endurance tells story of two expeditions, centuries apart

New NatGeo documentary was directed by the same duo who brought us the Oscar-winning Free Solo.

Ars Technica

On this day seven years ago I got A FRICKING GOLD MEDAL for my work on #curl. Real. Proper. Gold. From the hands of the Swedish king.

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2017/10/20/my-night-at-the-museum/

My night at the museum | daniel.haxx.se

Dementia patients often forget to fill an electric kettle with water before putting it on to boil. This is called a “dry boil”.

Dry boils happen to turn a kettle on and off very quickly.

We were able to spot trends where dry boils happened to increase in frequency. Both more times during a day, and more days of the week.

This data was all anonymized of course. The only thing we knew is “where in a house is the sensor placed or used for”.

Neat IKEA is selling these now!

https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/10/24240702/ikeas-energy-monitoring-smart-plug-is-here

But wait, what use can a smart energy monitoring plug be?”

Well, let me tell you about a time where I worked on a postgraduate university project where we were able to spot trends in the decline of patients with Dementia.

Ikea’s energy monitoring smart plug is here.

The Verge

Overheard in a coffee shop: “Iced latte, no ice”

So just coffee and cold milk then, is it? 😂