Spring hike from Raten to St Jost: 5.9km, 170m ascent, 2h15m, 7°C. Quite muddy as the snows melt.
Category: Micro
Coronavirus preparedness
Judging by local supermarket shelves, ice cream and chips form key components of coronavirus preparedness here in Switzerland.
Hamsterkäufe
New favorite German word: Hamsterkäufe. Literally “hamster purchases” but means “hoarding”. Apropos of the panic-buying of supplies that is now occurring in Switzerland.
On encryption backdoors
Q: “Can you provide end-to-end encryption but on an exceptional basis – exceptional basis – where there is a legal warrant and a compelling case to do it, provide access to stop the most serious forms of harm happening?”
A: No (low key fuck off)
The hose again
It does not set translatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints = false on a UIView being assigned to tableView.tableFooterView or else it gets the hose again. Yes, it will, Precious, won’t it? It will get the hose!
Happy Friday!
Happy Friday! A client let the certificate on their QA endpoint expire overnight. Now if their Production certificate had expired then I would be in for a fun weekend! 🤠
Unsubscribe
It’s some serious next level bullshit when a company demands a phone number or another email address just so you can unsubscribe from unsolicited emails. Looking at you, Microsoft.
Adventure of Link finished
I finished Adventure of Link yesterday. I think next up I will play Link’s Awakening…
Most Powerful Magic
“I can give you most powerful magic.” I love the dialog in old NES games. Also the CRT-mimicking filter (left, obviously) is uncannily accurate.
Mostly Zelda or Mario
(And by video games I mostly mean Legend of Zelda or Mario games.)