Posts from January 2024
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Well, what started off as an icy mess turned into an absolute banger of a day up at Sunshine! Just gotta wait for that snow to thaw. Ngl, though, spring skiing conditions in Alberta on January 30th is weird…
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Stories like this are why, despite being in tech for decades, I tend to avoid closed smart devices:
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/01/fossil-smartwatches-go-extinct-company-quits-wear-os-ecosystem/
An analog or old school digital watches can work for decades, but remotely updatable, closed digital devices can be subject to rug pulls at the whim of their controling corporations. We’ve seen this repeatedly with IoT devices and it was only a matter of time before a major wearable went the same route.
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So I’ve been plugging away at a little side project for kicks. I haven’t written code for a month, now, due to other issues and distractions but I have been thinking about it, and it occurs to me how novel that is: without the pressure of deadlines I can actually spend time thinking about the problem, ensuring I build the right thing first, without the pressure to deliver the fast wrong answer.