Eric Blair

@jablair
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Engineering Lead for iOS at The Washington Post
Opinions are my own… or possibly what the little green men have implanted.

@ivory On iOS, is there any way to jump to the unread indicator as opposed to top or “place you were at before you accidentally triggered scroll-to-top”?

I sometimes get impatient waiting for position to sync across devices and end up in the past.

Honestly, this could’ve been a direct quote from the wilderness first aid class I took in college.
Ah, gotta love malicious compliance.

We’ve been asked, countless times: “Are you folks working on a Mastodon app?”

The answer isn’t a simple one.

https://blog.iconfactory.com/2023/01/mastodonerrific/

Masto-do or Masto-don’t? • The Breakroom

Let’s just say that January 12th was expected, yet still surprising. We knew the cutting and slashing at Twitter would affect us at some point, but how we’d get eviscerated was an unknown. Many other people saw it was coming as reality began to sink in at the end of October. We’ve been asked, countless […]

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I do not know it I can adequately describe what I watched an Alexandria PD cruiser do while I was heading out of dinner.

It was legitimately weird.

Cannot reiterate this enough:

PLEASE don’t request refunds from Apple for any unused time on your Twitterrific or Tweetbot subscriptions.

It could literally bankrupt small shops like these.

https://blog.iconfactory.com/2023/01/twitterrific-end-of-an-era/

Twitterrific: End of an Era • The Breakroom

Twitterrific has been discontinued. A sentence that none of us wanted to write, but have long felt would need to be written someday. We didn’t expect to be writing it so soon, though, and certainly not without having had time to notify you that it was coming. We are sorry to say that the app’s […]

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A very Washington moment: seeing a friend quoted in a story on the front print page of the Post's Style section... because she works at the National Archives... and the story involves actual, government-spec red tape. https://www.washingtonpost.com/magazine/2023/01/16/red-tape-in-washington/
They’re getting rid of ‘red tape’ in Washington. Literally.

The National Archives is selling the storied « tape » — actually woven cotton — once used to bind government documents.

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You had to be there 💙
NetNewsWire - How to Subscribe to a Twitter List in NetNewsWire

Though the UI doesn’t expose it (we should fix that, yes), you can subscribe to a Twitter list in NetNewsWire. (Note: this works with iCloud and “On My…” accounts.) First make sure you’ve added your Twitter account to NetNewsWire in Settings > Extensions. Then go, in your browser, to the Twitter list you want to add as a feed. Copy the URL. Then, in NetNewsWire, add it as a web feed (not as a Twitter feed).

When you see a @[email protected] piece and think “Is that what I think it is? Yes, it is.”

I’m the Prince from ‘Two Princes,’ and I have also written a tell-all https://wapo.st/3X8IVoX

I’m the Prince from ‘Two Princes,’ and I have also written a tell-all

Prince Harry can understand what the Spin Doctors were singing about.

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