Phillip Cohen

@philltopia
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Show threadPhillip CohenMar 5
@ttscoff check out Marvis.app! It brought back some of that "iPod era iTunes" feeling back
Show threadPhillip CohenFeb 16
@caseyliss but with the trade-off that they're all working on things you identify? I think many will take it. The challenges are similar those the recently promoted face. "how do I ensure this org doesn't fall off the rails even though I can't craft every line of code myself anymore" What's scalable? What's actually important? etc
Show threadPhillip CohenFeb 16
@caseyliss think of it as being involuntarily promoted into management. Middle management, even.
Phillip CohenFeb 7
Michael Stapelberg 🐧🐹😺Feb 6

PSA: Did you know that it’s **unsafe** to put code diffs into your commit messages?

Like https://github.com/i3/i3/pull/6564 for example

Such diffs will be applied by patch(1) (also git-am(1)) as part of the code change!

This is how a sleep(1) made it into i3 4.25-2 in Debian unstable.

Phillip CohenMay 29, 2025
Show threadSimon B. StøvringMay 29, 2025
Noticed Slack is either no longer or not consistently including emoji in the accessibility value when sending messages. It worked a week ago when I last tested. If this sticks, my Mac app won’t be able to preserve emoji when interacting with Slack 😕
Phillip CohenJan 28, 2025
Mario GuzmánJan 28, 2025
Pulsating Mac OS buttons thread 1/2
Phillip CohenJan 28, 2025
abadideaJan 28, 2025
Turns out that if you copy text from OneNote and paste it into something that can accept either text or images, it decides you must want a bitmap rendering of your text. I pasted the text into this posting box and got the image, then pasted it again into the image's alt text and got text. Incredible. 0/10 ux, principle of least astonishment maximally violated
Show threadPhillip CohenJan 19, 2025
@drdrang There's also no switch statement, right? (besides choose from menu which requires a fixed list)
Show threadPhillip CohenDec 31, 2024
When dictating, it looks like the "that" used in such commands like "put quotes around that", "put parentheses around that" refers to the last uttered insertion by default if you don't have a selection. This provides a useful way to insert a quote or parenthetical clause more ergonomically, if you can say it all in one go.
Show threadPhillip CohenDec 31, 2024
A couple of useful shortcuts in messages: cmd-e to edit your last message, cmd-t followed by 1-6 to send a tapback. (these work on all three platforms, including macOS.)