Jessica @cat@awoo.space

I spent a couple hours thinking I was writing a “react native” app but it turned out I was actually tricked into writing an app for the “expo” platform which can’t be turned into a “react native” app or used with non-“expo platform” apis without significant changes, cool, thanks.

in case you’re wondering what’s going on in Australian politics they’re trying to pass a corporate tax cut but that’s not important what’s important is our national cricket team got caught on cam trying to cheat and this is all anyone in Australia may legally talk about this week

click here for an instantaneous dose of dopamine

(cf. https://twitter.com/DeddoRain/status/891468428783038464)

me for the next 72 hours (it’s the salmon run theme)

remember when the iTunes mini player was, like, small and unobtrusive?

about 99% sure the Splatoon 2 “victory” track’s lyrics are “hey, hey, hey we fucking won [repeat]”

(the real answer is PROBABLY just to move both over to JP)

This raises an odd canonicalisation question in my iTunes library; do I leave this with the Japanese titles and attributions, use the Nintendo of America names, or make it match my Splatune 1 tags (which tried to follow Nintendo of Europe’s titles exc. where they deleted puns)?

WTF, they said the first pressing was sold out but I got the first pressing bonus (a guitar pick lol - it’s SIGNIFICANTLY pinker than JPEG gamut will permit it to appear FWIW) anyway???? weird

awwww yeahhhh

reminder: your Angular website makes you look incompetent on slow connections

GNU plus Be Nice

I love schemes to protect against unauthorised devices and accessories by requiring things to have a trademark burned into them, like the GameBoy startup logo, Saturn’s “produced by or under license from Sega enterprises,” or the Microsoft logo in Xbox 360 hard drives’ firmware

folks now would be a great time to spruik your actually-good iOS Mastodon client since none appear to exist that aren’t acting in bad faith, abandoned or just poorly put together

hey stupid question but why doesn’t running something like `echo $(exit 1) hey this shouldnt succeed` cancel when the subprocess fails?

getting very flustered over phone plan terms and prices

Little-known fact: “van city” is short for “vatican city” yes I will say hi to the pope for you

Hiding Easter eggs in your app behind the rounded corners and notch on the iPhone X

(I’m fine I just need more oestrogen on hand since I’m going to be here longer than I anticipated; getting it out if the way)