I was on vacation recently and Apple Maps gave a weirdly circuitous route from our hotel to a restaurant. I checked Google Maps and it showed the direct route I expected, so I went with that.

Google Maps routed me on to a street that was closed due to construction, Apple Maps was smart enough to route around the construction.

I expect general parity between Apple and Google Maps, I had not expected Apple to have better data.

Execution is what matters, not ideas. Anyone can half-ass an idea and say “I did it first” but whoever comes along and does it right is who gets remembered.

For personal activity logs, [email protected] with a synced folder. It could probably work for a team too.

Here’s a Masto post from an ex-employee:

Thinking about making a “I was part of the Tumblr activityPub federation project ask me how it ended” t-shirt and wear it on my PFP here.

The CEO posted this reply to Twitter, acknowledging that Meta had beaten Tumblr to the Fediverse.

Here’s a screenshot of a post suggesting it’s not a high priority.

I tried that but the app froze

Do people these days still know O’Reilly books? I’ve seen a few posts over the past couple years that are essentially asking “how did you figure out how to program without Stack Overflow?”

Neither of those assertions are true, I don’t think you’re arguing from an informed position.

I’m more comfortable with macOS than Windows and find many of the UX patterns on Windows to be grating. It doesn’t mean Windows is insane, just that I’m more accustomed to the macOS patterns.

FWIW the Dock can be hidden, and the menu bar at the top can hide as well when an app is in full screen mode.

In addition to the ActivityPub plugin, I would add the Friends plugin. When you have both, Friends will let you follow and respond to people via your WP site. At some point I want to make my Masto account followers-only and make my WP blog my public ActivityPub identity.

TIL, good to know!

The difference between Docker and a VM is that Docker shares a kernel, but provides isolated processes and filesystems. macOS has a very distinct kernel from Linux (hence why Docker on macOS uses a Linux VM), I would be shocked if it could run on a Linux Docker host. Maybe you were running macOS in a VM?

A highly opinionated guide to learning about ActivityPub

Google’s promotion-pack culture strikes again. You don’t get promoted at Google for “maintaining a successful product and keeping people happy.” You do get promoted for launching a new product, even if it competes with another well-liked Google product.

So if you want to be successful at Google, you launch a new chat service.