New favorite German word: Hamsterkäufe. Literally “hamster purchases” but means “hoarding”. Apropos of the panic-buying of supplies that is now occurring in Switzerland.
Statuses
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.)
Play more video games!
One of my New Year’s Resolutions was to play more video games, so I’ve been trying to stick to that. (I often go months without playing anything, which is lame.)
Adventure of Link
I’m playing Adventure of Link on the NES Classic and making extensive (ab)use of the save point feature. This game was hard! I had attempted a play through almost two years ago, but gave up because the combats were so difficult.