{ "type": "miscellanea", "title": "Miscellanea for 2025-05-14", "time": "23:59:00-07:00", "slug": "miscellanea", "tags": [ "miscellanea" ], "attachments": [], "year": "2025", "month": "05", "day": "14", "isDir": false, "date": "2025-05-15T06:59:00.000Z", "postName": "2025-05-14", "html": "\n", "body": "\n- Hello world!\n- Looks like I ended up with an AI-heavy posting day, today. I think I broke the seal yesterday. I'll probably post about other things in the near future.\n- I've been meaning to write something up about the Rube Goldberg machine that runs this blog now. Writing this bullet point to irritate myself to do it soon, maybe.\n- I bought a [BOOX Tab Ultra C](https://shop.boox.com/collections/all/products/tabultrac) almost 2 years ago. I use it almost daily for writing notes and journal entries. It's also been pretty great for reading comics in color. Two things I really don't like about it:\n\t- It's got a camera bump on the back, so it doesn't sit flat on a table without a case on.\n\t- The case that came with it is disintegrating into dust.\n\t- So, I'm considering trying to design my own replacement case - or at least a layer to stick on the back to even out the camera bump. \n\t- Hoping to use #3dprinting and embed magnets that line up with the device's own internal case mounting magnets.\n- But, like, why put a camera bump on a tablet?\n\t- Why design a camera bump into anything, really? Just make the device thicker and fill the rest of the space with battery.\n\t- I need to stop before I go on a cranky rant about my intense disgust for camera bumps and notches and other failures of design from Apple that the rest of the industry have just copied.\n\t- Really, I'm just caremad, because I used to be a huge fan of Apple - had the sticker on my car and everything. But, they have *betrayed* me over the years with stuff that seems to matter only to me. 🤷‍♂️\n- Just noticed that [jpmonette/feed](https://github.com/jpmonette/feed) - a node.js module for generating RSS, Atom, and JSON feeds - got [a new release](https://github.com/jpmonette/feed/releases/tag/5.0.1) a couple days ago after about 4 years of dormancy. \n\t- Looks like they may have possibly fixed a few of the issues I had with it, when last I tried using it. 🤔\n- I need to work links & bookmarks into this new blog in a better way. Like these:\n- [Nintendo Revises User Agreement, And If You Break It, Nintendo Reserves The Right to Brick Your Switch](https://www.ign.com/articles/nintendo-revises-user-agreement-and-if-you-break-it-nintendo-reserves-the-right-to-brick-your-switch)\n\t- Well, that just makes me want to jailbreak my Switch even more and then never again connect it to the internet.\n- [Critical Warning for External Purchases in App Store](https://mjtsai.com/blog/2025/05/14/critical-warning-for-external-purchases-in-app-store/)\n\t- Yeah, it's stuff like this that's got me fixed on switching back to Android with my next phone.\n\t- I've only bought one iPhone and I've never felt the Courage or the Magic the whole time I've used it. It's never felt like *my* phone, always felt like a loaner with a breathalyzer and a bill acceptor slot.\n\t- That said, the thing is physically a tank and will probably survive intact to annoy me for a few more years before I can justify the replacement cost.", "parentPath": "./content/posts/2025", "path": "2025/05/14/miscellanea", "needsBuild": true, "prevPostPath": "2025/05/14/quoting-ashley-willis", "prevPostTitle": "Quoting Ashley Willis", "nextPostPath": "2025/05/15/quoting-will-larson-on-career-advice-in", "nextPostTitle": "Quoting Will Larson on career advice in 2025" }