Waldo Jaquith

@waldoj
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Thought follower. Male software developer. Alumnus of 18F, the Obama White House, Georgetown's Beeck Center, the Biden-Harris Transition Team, and the Biden administration. Speaks only for self. he/him
PlaceCharlottesville, VA, USA (Monacan land)
Websitehttps://waldo.jaquith.org/
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PronouncedJAKE-with
So…France?

RE: https://mastodon.social/@kottke/116212598196980733

We've taken our kids to one of these near us a couple of times now, and they love it. My wife and I like it a lot too. They don't absolutely nail it (for example, there's no salad bar), but the cups are red, the tablecloths are checkered, the building is shaped right, and the pizza tastes like the 1980s.

But unlike the 1980s, there's not a smoking section. So some things have been improved.

I got a sweet deal on a 32-address subnet.
The diff man page being insufferable
Apple shouldn’t put hinge screws in so tightly that a reasonable person can’t remove them.

Please enjoy Virginia Delegate Wendell Walker’s absolutely unhinged list of “everyday life” expenses that Virginians are liable to rack up in a normal January, which he shared on X-Twitter.

He’s a man of the people, you see.

Spending the day at the ITU in Geneva!
This thing was really easy to install.
Apple Maps' search functionality, on both macOS and iOS, now has the hint text of "Apple Maps.” This is weird. Apple Mail, Notes, and Photos, for example, have the hint text of "Search.”