sneak @sneak@sneak.berlin

gonna upgrade both primary systems to big sur this weekend. wish me luck

i need a manifest file format that can describe a list of files, metadata, and relative paths to the manifest in a structured format, ideally with golang/js libraries to read/write it. please advise?

larry fishburne was othello in 1995 and somehow i missed it? can't wait to watch this.

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/08/apple-wwdc-new-private-relay-feature-will-not-be-available-in-china.html

so many web apps and email systems can't deal with the new TLDs.

shoutout to blockcypher.com for having their frontpage and block explorer both work fine without javascript.

while you're out here raving without a mask, remember also that more people have died of covid in 2021 than in all of 2020:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/covid-19-deaths-this-year-have-already-eclipsed-2020s-toll-11623350773

super proud

imagine being fucked over by paypal and this being your response

https://social.mecanis.me/@er1n/106377083301167215

"omg i am being so weird i'm not used to being around people i'm so awkward and inappropriate"

no, you sucked at humans before the pandemic too, you're actually totally on-par with how you've always been, chill out.

I'm sitting in the continental US. I just wrote an article to post on my website, hosted by a US company. I'm having second thoughts posting it because I'm afraid of US government retaliation for its contents.

this is a good article. from HN today:

https://skamille.medium.com/an-incomplete-list-of-skills-senior-engineers-need-beyond-coding-8ed4a521b29f

the best part of the fediverse is the lack of censorship. the worst part of the fediverse is the lack of censorship.

worst part about being in my 30s? if i'm tired, other people can tell by looking at me. beauty rest is not optional. :(

i used to have an apple id and an apple card account.

now i have neither.

https://dcurt.is/apple-card-can-disable-your-icloud-account

on a brand new ipad pro, apple is now putting ads for apple arcade in the settings app.

the new m1 ipad pro, if in landscape mode when a firmware update starts (perhaps just because it detected the keyboard cover attached) does the firmware update progress bar and logo in landscape too

the cross-app tracking kerfuffle that ~0% of ios users opted in to after it became a configurable preference option seems like it was an apple fuck up in the first place: i bet users assumed that cross-company tracking between apps wasn’t supposed to be possible in the first place. it’s a sandbox violation, no?