Michael Bishop

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…and they hatched!

→ 12:40 PM, May 12

A robin built a nest on top of our door wreath.

→ 11:52 AM, May 2

Seeing the memes of the Max Studio as Kirby are making me want that machine, but who am I kidding? I don’t need the GPUs on an M1 Ultra let alone a Max so it’s a Pro for me. I compile code and run Logic so CPUs, memory, and storage are my jam.

If there were a few AAA games for the mac, though…

→ 12:24 PM, Mar 9

Squatting hot-tip for those of us with tight, inflexible legs: Actively raise the top of your foot as you squat down. It will allow your calf to stretch.

→ 9:45 AM, Mar 9

This video exploring Roblox’s ability to leverage child labor to make its platform more lucrative is eye-opening. I even learned a new word: “scrip”.

Worth watching if you have children interested in Roblox:

youtu.be/_gXlauRB1…

→ 5:07 AM, Aug 20

Watching @jrpsaki at a press conference is like watching a seasoned basketball player, having practiced enough to internalize basketball, make shot after shot after shot.

→ 1:53 PM, Aug 6

I learned so much, and the humility enabled me to better have good-faith design discussions where everyone was interested in building the best outcome.

→ 1:31 PM, Aug 6

Someone on Hacker News recently asked what made people better developers. For me, it was being around brilliant, humble people.

→ 1:31 PM, Aug 6

Asked the fridge repairman which compressor he rarely services. He said GE and Whirlpool he sees the least. FWIW.

→ 10:46 AM, Jun 10

The iPhone mini is seriously great! I’m upgrading from a first-gen SE so every single thing is fantastic. I love being able to hold my phone comfortably in one hand. I love the hard edges. It feels like what the next generation should have been instead of the 6.

→ 12:08 PM, Nov 20

The truly amazing thing about AirPods Pro is that everyone is now walking around with binaural microphones in their ears. That’s what makes transparency mode work like it does.

→ 2:09 PM, Nov 10

I want to love SwiftUI, but the build system won’t listen to reason. Wiping out the DerivedData directory has become a constant chore.

→ 5:35 PM, Oct 4

You know when this is all over and Trump will have comitted the greatest political crime of our time, the only part of that legacy he will focus on is the word “greatest”. “America, I gave you a great show didn’t I? A really great show… the greatest…”

→ 1:07 PM, Oct 1

I called my house member (McGovern) to support impeachment (he already does). I asked my senators (Warren, Markey) to support McGovern as well. The Atlantic: If This Isn’t Impeachable, Nothing Is

→ 1:32 PM, Sep 24

Really bumed that I cannot continue to use 1Password 6 with Safari 13.

→ 9:03 AM, Sep 24

What "Siri" means in Japanese

Today, I was showing my spouse how to change Siri’s spoken voice to Japanese. She’s a genius and learned Japanese in college and noticed right away that the voice in the phone pronounces “Siri” as “Shidi” (spelled “Shiri”). That sounds like “shitty” which was already pretty funny before she told me that “Shiri” literally means “butt” in Japanese.

In fact, you can right now direct your kids to see a popular public television show called “Oshiri Tante” about a cartoon butt that solves mysteries: www.oshiri-tantei.com

→ 8:40 AM, Sep 23

Just discovered today that you can call Function Optionals in Swift with exactly the syntax I’d expect. For an optional function foo…
```
foo?()
```
Nifty.

→ 7:57 PM, Apr 16

I haven’t posted to my micro.blog for a very long time, but now it looks like I can edit previous posts (I didn’t think I could do that before). Hooray!

→ 9:29 PM, Mar 24