Michael Josephson

@michaelj
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Programmer and Engineering Lead👨🏻‍💻📚🎸👨🏻‍🍳☕️
Websitehttps://josephson.org

I have been fumbling on what to tell high school and college students about the future of computer science and software engineering. What to focus on? It’s obvious now. I can be so dense.

All I know is everything I needed to know to do everything I’ve ever done. I never once in my life thought about what I wanted to study. I just tried to make things that I wanted to make and learned what I had to learn. Just do that. And those ideas can be 100x bigger than mine were, that’s fine, that’s great.

Just try to make software that is bigger and more complex than you’re capable of with whatever tools you can find. And when that gets easy try to build something even bigger. And never stop. Isn’t that all software engineering is? Ambition and resilience? Just try as hard as you can forever to make everything you ever wanted and never give up.
Only recently discovered, and have been enjoying, this daily logic puzzle game:
https://cluesbysam.com
Clues by Sam

A daily logic puzzle where you deduce who is a criminal!

Looking forward to watching this later.
https://mastodon.social/@gruber/114679603302685414
Heads up for anyone running into issues with @tvforecastapp today.
https://mastodon.social/@tvforecastapp/114152516383087751
This by @gruber is just wonderful. Please do yourself a favor and read it, since it is about things you might not expect and need to hear: https://daringfireball.net/2024/11/how_it_went
How It Went

Election day, 2024.

Daring Fireball

🧵📐 Let’s talk about optical centering and visual balance in UI design. This post has been making the rounds about iOS 18’s flashlight Live Activity, and it’s probably time we have The Talk.

About precision vs perception in interface design, that is.

@sandropennisi hey Sandro. Thanks for following back. Just checking out Woofly after seeing the retoot by @viticci 🐾

@upahead Hi 👋🏻

A suggestion for a possible future update 🙏🏻

If there are multiple timed events for the same day these are sorted by latest time first, but I'd expect the earlier one to be first in sequence in the timeline?

This means in the widgets Up Next shows the later event rather than the sooner one as being the next thing.

This only seems to apply when the events are either in the future or in the past. On the actual day of the events they're in earliest first order 😅

Thanks!

One of my favourite, most polished apps ❤️
https://indieapps.space/@upahead/112576081861721117
Up Ahead (@[email protected])

Attached: 1 image Up Ahead 1.4 is out now! We're so back. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/up-ahead-countdown-widgets/id1583147528

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