Are Mac developers actually adopting the menu item icons in macOS 26? I’m torn… I think this design change was unnecessary and adds clutter. But also, it feels incomplete if I don’t add my own icons.
John Berger could have written a book called ‘Ways of Listening’. He listened with his whole body. As though my words were rain, and he was the earth. He absorbed everything, gathered every drop, missed absolutely nothing. His listening eyes were lakes in the high mountains. It was love, there’s no other word for it. I don’t think that stillness, that quality of attention, is even possible in digital-age humans, who suckle on mobile phones from the moment they’re born. It’s a generational thing. Lost forever, I believe.
Book Review NY Times: “She Raged. She Terrified. And She Shape Arundhati Roy. The prizewinning novelist’s unsparing memoir, “Mother Mary Comes to Me,” captures the eventful life and times of her mother, a driven educator and imperfect inspiration.”
Post Title & Inspiration: Aldous Huxley: “It’s dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly. Yes, feel lightly even though you’re feeling deeply. Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them.
I’m coming up on 20 years of professional web development and I still don’t get it sometimes. I tend to measure myself or view work productivity through the lens of “How much code did I write?” and that does a great disservice to myself and what I do.
There’s a lot more to the job:
Checking email
Scheduling calls
Writing release notes
Contributing to newsletters
Documentation (code and otherwise)
Making spreadsheets
Demystifying the work I do to teammates
Clarifying decisions
Having technical conversations with teammates
Having non-technical conversations with teammates
Investigating weird browser behaviors
Babysitting servers and build processes
Reviewing PRs
Manual QA on branch deploys
Attending meetings
Attending talks (internal/external)
Cross-org contributions
Learning
Planning
Dreaming
Scheming
Community Ops
Moving cards across a board
Reading thru backlogs
Associating tickets to PRs
Closing out old tickets
Reading specs
Giving feedback on web standards
Eating lunch
Taking walks
Cleaning my home office
These are all aspects of becoming a better web developer. It’s not always about lines-of-code or hours-in-chair. Ideally, we’re all shipping our creations, but sometimes you’re the lead role and sometimes you’re a supporting role. A lot of the work is immeasurable, but it all counts towards something. So… self, don’t be so hard on yourself.
When our doggo carries around her chew toy like this, I always think she looks a little like Winston Churchill with his cigar. If Churchill also wasn’t able to stop blepping, that is!
Happy Eleventh of Bleptember! (This one’s not going out on Mastodon, at least not immediately, because I’m having some Internet difficulties at home right now!)
📰 Using a feed reader is the best way to read my blog posts. How clever you are to know that! 🚀
As an example, I recently wanted to subscribe to the RawTools newsletter. When I went to their newsletter subscription page, I noticed that their URL looked like this: https://rawtools.us11.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=00722345fc94fb4d4b323edc3&id=4ff553ba3e
If you can find a URL from a Mailchimp email campaign in a format like this, you can usually use it to get its respective RSS feed.
There are 3 pieces we need in order to find this list’s RSS feed, and all of them we can find in this URL: us11 - This appears to be the Mailchimp server location associated with the mailing list’s account u=00722345fc94fb4d4b323edc3 - I think this is a user identification code? Not sure. We need it, though!
id=4ff553ba3e - Again, not 100% sure what this is; possibly a list id? We need it too, regardless ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Once we’ve got those pieces, we can use them to construct our RSS feed.
A Mailchimp list’s RSS feed looks like this: https://[SERVER LOCATION CODE].campaign-archive.com/feed?u=["u" CODE]&id=["id" CODE]
The campaign-archive and /feed parts are the important parts that need to be switched out here.
So, we put all those pieces together, and end up with the following feed URL:
https://us11.campaign-archive.com/feed?u=00722345fc94fb4d4b323edc3&id=4ff553ba3e
Then, adding that into an RSS reader app gives us the last few campaign emails that were sent out from that list, as well as allows us to be notified of future emails without it cluttering up our email inbox.
I thought I’d found one of these before but there are none currently sitting in my blogroll. Hope it’s useful to someone!
