What was the thinking of putting the close button on the right of the tab?

I appreciate that it's beautiful and awesome, but when the complete screen was filled, I wanted a flamethrower option.

Hah, believe me, the flamethrower feature is first in line for the v2 milestone!

I'd like it but don't listen to me and please just stay in love with programming because this is such an awesome little project.

It would also be really nice if you could snip bits, pruning what is growing - with cuts causing something different to happen...

Don't you know that you can just drive a Ford C700 refrigerated van through it instead of mucking around with messy dangerous flamethrowers?

Do you hold up that code to the standards you teach? Genuine question.

So, for better or worse, it's an "IT for Professionals" class, and I'm not "teaching coding" per se.

It's more a big picture view of everything tech related that I see as important to be aware of, as well as filling in some blanks. Most of my students get "straight up programming" in other classes. So I actually have always done "here is Bash scripting and what it's good for." And I definitely teach "the controversy," e.g. This AINT what you want for big and professional, but also, knowledge of bash (and similar) is a very useful "swiss army knife."

Got it, so in your case, you create code that only needs to work and to meet your personal standards. Interesting.

Or you just code it yourself.

I decrease the spacing that macOS applies between menubar icons:

  % defaults -currentHost write -globalDomain NSStatusItemSelectionPadding -int 8
  % defaults -currentHost write -globalDomain NSStatusItemSpacing -int 8

What's bizarre is that my previous TP-Link routers alawys had this ability, but when I upgraded two years ago, it was gone.

My current TP-Link router hides this behind the "Advanced" settings toggle.

I've got a TP-Link Archer C7, hardware version 5. No such toggle unfortunately, but thanks nevertheless. Perhaps I should try and flash it with OpenWRT.

I save to Instapaper instead of keeping the tab open.

What's interesting, is that this circumvents permanent DNS blocks that are maintained by the ISPs in my country (Netherlands). Probably not why you built it, but useful nevertheless :-)

That's absolutely a side effect indeed, though the level of interaction with the website is quite limited. But glad you find it useful!

Just so I understand; this watch does not show notifications when paired with an iPhone?

It shows them just fine -- the issue is that on iOS, only Apple Watches are permitted to perform notification "actions" (e.g., replying to a message, etc).

Recently, EU pressure might mean that Apple will open that ability up to non-Apple watches as well.

I think Apple lets third party watches show notifications but they're not allowed to take any action in response (eg having a snooze button when your alarm goes off or whatever). Next version of iOS will allow interaction for a single smart watch at a time in the EU. I think it's still unclear if Apple will enable that feature outside of where it's legally required.

Interestingly a Garmin can turn off an alarm on an iPhone. Not sure if this counts as an action in response to a notification, exactly.

ANCS lets bluetooth devices trigger basic positive/negative actions on notifications.

Stop alarm is presumably one of those basic actions.

But it doesn’t support custom actions that the app developer might have registered.

It's been always kinda weird to me that BT spans four layers, from antennas to volume controls. You'd think all the vertical integration should make it reliable and interoperable, yet in practice it's the exact opposite.

BT is one of my least favorite techs that took over. Every damn little thing now has a BT antenna that constantly wants to advertise and connect to something. I'd be willing to use corded headphones again to be rid of it. Might even plug my phone directly into my car... Life would be really hard, but at least we would be free from BT.

It was a surprisingly honest blog post, but like you, I can't really see any reasons why self-publishing would work this time.

I wouldn't pre-order (from somebody with no publishing track record) but working with publishers/editors you don't align with seems a major hindrance that now does not exist.