Gareth Simpson

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I love almost everything about #CarPlay. I just don’t get why it doesn’t have the one feature I’ve had in all my dumb car stereos for 20-odd years: scrolling marquee track names.
It’s just the one swan, actually.
New job, new Mac.

This is old but is still one of my favourite encapsulations of #parenting

https://theawkwardyeti.com

The Awkward Yeti

Heart and Brain comics and animations by The Awkward Yeti

The Awkward Yeti

In other magical computing news, while writing my last post, my Mastodon client froze. But not to worry. These days you can just screenshot it, open the PNG in Preview, select the automatically OCR’d text and copy it. I sometimes wonder how we ever used to get anything done at all.

[UPDATE: I don’t mean to denigrate Ice Cubes. It’s my fault for running a very, very old version]

A couple of years ago my laptop died and the only thing that I couldn't restore from a backup was a little function that lived in my .zshrc file that let me choose which #python virtual environment to run.

Now I am hopeless with shell scripts and couldn't recreate it, but then someone on here pointed out that #ChatGPT is great at them and finally it’s back!

I am sure there are fancier ways to manage this stuff these days but I am old and this is how I like to do it.

https://gist.github.com/xurble/01092ad42edbbc2b8f611c9801f36c65

Python venv selection function for .zshrc

Python venv selection function for .zshrc. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

Gist
The Disney+ profile picture options might have been made specifically for my family.
In honour of 40 years of the Mac, everyone is sharing their first Mac. This was mine. Discontinued in 1999, I got mine second hand in 2002 or 2003. Was really happy with it despite how sluggish OS X was. I got one more PC after this (for work) and then I was done, all Mac all the time.
Helping my navigationally-challenged daughter with her hack. #horses
It is “light the fire for heat and not just for atmosphere” degrees Celsius this morning.