Photo of San Francisco seen through some rocks on Mount Davidson.
(Published to the Fediverse as: San Francisco from Mount Davidson #photo #mountdavidson #sanfrancisco Photo of San Francisco from Mount Davidson (through some rocks). )
Catfood Earth 3.41 fixes a problem that was preventing the weather radar layer from loading.
I've also updated to the latest (2015g) time zone database and the latest time zone map from Eric Muller.
Download the latest Catfood Earth.
We'd probably be living in a post-scarcity Star Trek / Culture style universe happily working on self-actualization if we didn't have to spend so much time fucking around with OAuth.
(Published to the Fediverse as: OAuth #etc #oauth A detailed and thoughtful critique of the challenges of working with OAuth. )
When I run an app or launch a website it's generally because I've got some task to complete and a few free minutes to try and complete it.
Let's take Facebook for example. I want to quickly scan through to see which of my friends are sharing anodyne inspirational quotes superimposed over stock photography and silently judge them.
Facebook picks this moment to let me know about a new feature that will display previously unshared photos and videos to try and get me to share them. I'm instantly pissed off because of the unwelcome cognitive load and then I realize that the whole app has frozen. In fact every time I load Facebook at the moment it just hangs until I give up and do something else.
This is probably because one of my daughters has the endearing habit of shooting hour long 4K videos of the floor. The poor app is probably innocently trying to grab a couple of thumbnails and instead getting an object lesson in the halting problem. I'm sure this will eventually get fixed and it's not even the root cause of my current fury.
Got It
My only option is to click Got It. This chirpy little phrase is slowly infesting every corner of interaction design. It seems relatively innocuous at first but let's unpick it a little.
Generally Got It signals that something has been added to an app or site that the designer feels is important enough that they need to let me know about it.
This is almost always going to be bad news. Probably the way I complete my task has changed and I'm going to have to learn the new way. Maybe there has been a complete redesign and the use I had for the app was considered an edge case and has been removed. It could be that for legal reasons I need to be told that some new previously unpillaged corner of my privacy needs to be violated.
I'm immediately in a bad frame of mind when I see Got It.
Also there is rarely a Don't Got It or Don't Want It link. Got It is a sign that something is being forced on you and the happy language is an implicit forced value judgement that you've both fully comprehended the change and that you wholeheartedly agree with it.
It probably feels cute to designers that come up with this. After all, a whole team has probably toiled for weeks if not months to come up with a new way to cause my phone to hang. They really want me to use it. But you're not putting yourself in my shoes. I rarely care and usually you're making my day fractionally less enjoyable and the design should be about me and not you.
I miss OK. It's less loaded. I'm OK with dealing with whatever you're inflicting on me. It's not as good as OK / Cancel but sometimes OK is about the best you can expect.
I just don't Got It.
(Published to the Fediverse as: Got It #etc #youtube #facebook #londonist Why I hate that chirpy Got It link in interaction design - it's almost always bad news with a forced positive value judgement )
Google is generally pretty good about managing multiple accounts but sometimes you get completely stuck. One example is Google Inbox where your primary account is Google Apps for Work without Inbox enabled. You just get a screen saying that Inbox needs to be activated and no option to switch to another account.
There is a fix, and this sometimes works for other products as well. In the URL (https://inbox.google.com/u/0/) there is a user number. Change the 0 to 1 (or maybe 2, 3, etc depending on the number of accounts) and you can get Inbox up and running again.
One case I haven't found a clean workaround for is importing a segment or custom report in Google Analytics. You just get the default profile and if it's not what you're after then there is no way to switch. What does work here is launching an incognito window, signing in to the relevant account and then using the import link. A bit painful but gets the job done.
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Too much flat pack furniture assembly, not enough slaying of eldrich horrors. Also I miss Bob.
360 degree timelapse from the top of Twin Peaks in San Francisco.
(Published to the Fediverse as: Twin Peaks 360 4K #timelapse #4k #360 #video 360 degree 4K resolution timelapse shot from the top of Twin Peaks in San Francisco )
Photos of gray whales at Waddell Beach in California.
(Published to the Fediverse as: Gray Whales at Waddell Beach #photo #whales Several photos of gray whales at Waddell Beach in California. )
A timelapse where each photo has been reduced to just its average color. Extreme pixelation if you will. The image above is the average of the averages. I imagine this is how a bristlecone pine experiences a day. Need to try this again in the summer I think when it might be a slightly less depressing hue.
(Published to the Fediverse as: The color of yesterday #timelapse #yesterday #video Timelapse where each photo has been reduced to its average color. )
I have crunched the numbers and calculated the average length of blog posts on I Thought He Came With You vs. how many children I had at the time the post was written.
(Published to the Fediverse as: Correlation is not causation but... #etc #blog #ithcwy Statistically insignificant study of blog post length vs. number of children here on I Thought He Came With You. )
Download a Sharepoint File with GraphServiceClient (Microsoft Graph API)
Export Google Fit Daily Steps, Weight and Distance to a Google Sheet
Which PG&E rate plan works best for EV charging?
Monitor page index status with Google Sheets, Apps Script and the Google Search Console API
Accessing Printer Press ESC to cancel
Google Photos killed my Aura Frame
International Date Line Longitude, Latitude Coordinates
Animation of US PM2.5 Air Pollution in 2023
Is it safe to open securedoc.html (Cisco Registered Envelope)?
