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is the barometric pressure migraine thing real? because like ehhh come on. but also now that I think about it my migraines have that I can recall all been during rainstorms. also why is the covid vaccine time also the fall storm time this fucking sucks I don't want it to get triggered by that again but if I'm going to be traveling I definitely want to be up to date on those

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I think a thing that is true about me is that... the amount of interaction that I need is less than that of anyone I know? Which is, I mean, presumably normal, at least insofar as if you select a group of people and order them by that (or, I guess, any) metric, someone is going to be at the bottom. But I guess it's by a large enough margin that... I have 0 experience with—never developed the habit of—being the one to initiate anything, with anyone. Which is bad! I mean, I don't think it's fundamentally bad, but I imagine it doesn't make the people I like feel good, and making the people I like feel good is, like, the only thing I actually want to do, really, so that's a problem.

Because, obviously, I'm sure it's rather indistinguishable from a scenario where I didn't need/didn't want/didn't benefit from my relationships. Which isn't the case. It's just, like—I'm lucky, in a weird way, you know? I've had three decades of—I get what I want without looking for it. But, yeah, it's—you have to say you're grateful, I guess, more intentionally, when it's not something you lacked, because that would make it intrinsically obvious, and why would you have to say anything then.

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me: hm. do you think it says anything that one of my best friends is—

my brain: well, hold on, now. you only have two friends.

me: I totally have more than two friends.

my brain: proposal: for the duration of this discussion, friends only include people you talk to, and github pull request comment threads don't count unless they, like... are not just about the pull request.

me: okay, yes. I have two friends. but that doesn't, technically, make it incorrect for someone to be one of my two best—

my brain: other things that are technically correct are that they are one of your two worst friends.

me: well.

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sometimes I feel like code review policies are a bimodal... something

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I probably shouldn't go in to what they are but. I have such unhealthy coping mechanisms and I don't know how to start. not.

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downgrading macos on an apple silicon macbook:

get another mac

set "allow accessories to connect: always" (optional)

download the right ipsw file for the OS version you want to restore from... somewhere

install and open Apple Configurator

I sure hope you have a reliable data capable usb-c cable

plug the target machine's back left usb-c port into the source machine

turn off the target machine

tap the target machine's power button, then release it, then immediately press and hold power+leftalt+leftcommand+rightshift for 10 seconds, then release everything except power and hold power until Apple Configurator shows the target machine in DFW mode

drag the ispw file into the Apple Configurator window

wait like 15 minutes

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hm. I suppose the thing I just posted about is less noticeable/less of a problem on most windows laptops, which have relatively weak, power-sipping integrated graphics and separate power-hungry discrete GPUs that are only enabled during 3d rendering workloads. the apple silicon "I only have one graphics processor and it's huge" setup ensures class-leading 2d ui rendering performance at all times... and also means a runaway overly-expensive 2d ui animation is free to use the entire power budget of the system, an amount you would normally only encounter in a gaming/compute setting where the user would reasonably expect the battery drain and heat output associated with those tasks.

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ah, fun: the "spotlights" animation on the tumblr premium popup, run at 120fps, increases my M1's power draw by one order of magnitude if any pixels of the webpage are visible

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...Hmm. That's an interesting design problem. Trying to think how I would have done it. In a web app I was working on I made a grid of checkboxes along with one that would toggle them all on or all off, which fixed the "click all but the one you want" problem, but that only really makes sense when "no boxes are checked" is a valid input, which it isn't here.

One option is to have all of the boxes default to unchecked and make "all boxes are unchecked" functionally mean "no filtering," but that's not particularly clear and also means the (probably much rarer, but still) case where one does want most of the boxes checked annoying. Or one could have a mode switch for an advanced filter mode with the checkboxes, but that's not clear either and doesn't help the worst case click count.

Huh. Yeah. I can't think of a natural way to do it. Oh, well. We can probably add "uncheck all" and "check all" buttons to it in XKit Rewritten or something. There's an expectation there that some UI elements are convenient but don't feel fully natural.

Has there been a fix to make the search go back to the old way? Like on XKit or something? Because when I'm looking for only a gif and have to uncheck 9 boxes, instead of just checking the one I was looking for, it makes me want to scream. /hyperbole /sort

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wow apple time machine restores are way worse now. I guess the new architecture used for apple silicon really fundamentally does not allow for "restore this disk image and get a bootable operating system identical in function to the system it was taken from" or anything even slightly close to that.

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me: "I'm going to review my own changes, wait a day, and look at them again before merging them. that'll give me two independent shots at catching anything I forgot."

me: *does so*

me: *still forgets a thing*

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bad:

rare graphical issue occurs with xkit rewritten's vanilla video feature, almost certainly stemming from race condition with tumblr code complexities

good:

chrome dev tools let you override website code for testing purposes, allowing the investigation of tumblr code bugs, so long as you disable browser cache

bad:

issue is only easily reproducible with browser cache enabled

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I can't reply/send you an ask/message you, so sorry for the random reblog. But uninstall Tumblr Savior to fix the first thing. Possibly also the second; I'm not sure? I can x out mine so I know it's not something removed from the site, but I don't know for sure if Tumblr Savior fucks with that too or if it could be another extension like an ad blocker.

So I'm just noticing something, but did tumblr change their post layout? I just read a post with 2500 notes on it and instead of seeing who wrote the comments there's just lines?

Edit: also, I can't X out recent searches??

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hm. I think I've officially gotten bored of trying to treat other developers as charitably as possible as a rule

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okay so on the bright side: if trump picks the entire house freedom caucus for cabinet positions, and then they all get rejected by the senate, they'll all still have resigned from the house.

(on the not bright side of this joke scenario: replacing the house freedom caucus with more moderate republicans, a not-unlikely result of the elections in this scenario, would probably make the republican trifecta of the next two years notably more effective at getting things done. but it would at least be momentarily rather funny.)