#Trump has ruined tacos for me. I hope he doesn’t start doing a 2 week burrito.
About Non Sequiturs
Non Sequiturs is the personal blog of Michael Argentini.
I'm a software developer and Managing Partner for Fynydd and Blue Sequoyah Technologies, the project lead for Coursabi, and Āthepedia founder. I also have several nerdy open source projects on Github.
I'd describe myself as an Oxford comma advocate, autodidact, aspiring polymath, and boffin, with a mechanical keyboard addiction. You can also find me on Mastodon.
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Your anger with Tim Cook for kowtowing to Trump is misguided. It’s his job to put Apple’s interests first. #Apple is not “better than that” and they don’t care about you the way you care about their products. Even their holy stance on privacy is nothing more than a competitive advantage.
According to CNN in 2002 when accounting firm Arthur Andersen was shut down the judge considered barring them from auditing pubic companies #OMG what the fuck is a pubic company?!
Social media is not a place to get news and information. It’s a place created by Silicon Valley to steal your time and attention by shoving intellectual junk food into your brain.
The term AI is loaded and misinterpreted by most people. AI chatbots only have the appearance of intelligence. We need to change the term to something more like Illusory Intelligence (II) or Intelligent Autocorrect (IA).
It seems like Big Mentor owns the prime time ad slot. I’m not sure what to think about this. I need to ask my mentor.
whereas (wair-ass) — noun — a human-ass hybrid transformation that occurs in rectalthropes when the moon is full (see rectalthropy).
Azure Data Studio Retired, Replaced By VS Code Plugin
You have to ask the question: Is Microsoft doing this to improve the experience for developers?
This reminds me of the deprecation of Visual Studio for Mac. It was “retired” in favor of VS Code last year. Funny, the word “retired” makes the app sound incapable; past its prime, ready for the newer and better solution to take over. In the case of ADS this is not true. For example, it's missing basic functionality like editing row data, and the co-mingled keyboard shortcuts are a disaster. In the case of Visual Studio for Mac, no developer in their right mind would choose a browser-based pile of anemic plugins you control from the status bar and a pop-up menu over a native IDE. After lots of promises and close to a year of waiting VS Code is still an objectively terrible replacement. VS Code appears to be an all-consuming black hole. Stay far away from its event horizon.
So the answer to my initial question appears to be no, they are doing these things to help themselves with regard to maintenance, resourcing, and ultimately cost.
The problem with American political discourse is that you can’t explain the impact of tariffs to people dumb enough to think DEI programs cause plane crashes.
Wife: WTF is this pile of clothes doing on the floor?
Me: I struck down a Jedi.
Wife: I hate you.
Me: Yeeeess, use your hate…
Robitussin Soft Chews, because who wouldn’t want to savor that disgusting Robitussin cough syrup flavor.
The Google Play Store Developer Experience Is Shit
I'm a software developer with decades of experience and apps in both stores and I can tell you that the Google Play Store developer experience is shit.
Here's a recent experience:
- My paid developer account was closed because I did not periodically update my bug-free app, which people were buying weekly; the account cannot be recovered and the associated email can never be used for a developer account again
- I signed up for a new account, paid the developer fee (again), established bank and personal info (again), shared driver's license (again)
- I deployed a new app only to find out that I need 20 testers to actively test it for 14 consecutive days, even though it's already in the iOS App Store
- Since I don't know 20 people with Android phones who can test my app for 14 consecutive days I had to pay a service to do the testing
- After 14 days Google made me answer a demeaning survey that is essentially me begging for access to production; someone at Google has to review and approve my answers before I am deemed worthy of production access
- I later learned that organization developer accounts do not have the testing requirements, which seems like a huge loophole and an inverted policy
I wonder how a 12-year-old version of me would be able to publish his first app given this nonsense. It seems like a horrible (and cheap) way to try and improve app quality. It will more likely reduce app quality through attrition. It feels like Google resents their developer community. And as a developer I can say that the feeling is mutual.
#LuigiMangione looks like half the people trying to connect with me on #LinkedIn which makes me even less likely to accept those invitations.
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About Non Sequiturs
Non Sequiturs is the personal blog of Michael Argentini.
I'm a software developer and Managing Partner for Fynydd and Blue Sequoyah Technologies, the project lead for Coursabi, and Āthepedia founder. I also have several nerdy open source projects on Github.
I'd describe myself as an Oxford comma advocate, autodidact, aspiring polymath, and boffin, with a mechanical keyboard addiction. You can also find me on Mastodon.
