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Hi Marco,

Best LED lights please? 5200K and a refresh rate that doesn't make me want to vomit?

-Tim

I've been extremely impressed with Waveform Lighting's A21 bulbs and linear tube fixtures.

I don't notice the refresh rate on most good LEDs (only on half-wave-rectified garbage, like cheap holiday lights), so I can't really report anything there.

Where Waveform really stands out is ridiculously high-quality light color, with very impressive CRI performance and a very natural look. I go 4000K for my office.

judiciousimprecation

Elon wyd

I genuinely wish I could see inside Musk’s head or at least get an explanation for how he was thinking his plans would work out.

Like it’s clear now he is fantastically out of touch with reality but I still really wanna know like, to what degree. Did he think people would accept his ultimatum? Did he genuinely think it would only take like 300 people to keep Twitter running?

numberonecatwinner

I was an intern at SpaceX years ago, back it when it was a much smaller company — after Elon got hair plugs, but before his cult of personality was in full swing. I have some insight to offer here.

Back when I was at SpaceX, Elon was basically a child king. He was an important figurehead who provided the company with the money, power, and PR, but he didn’t have the knowledge or (frankly) maturity to handle day-to-day decision making and everyone knew that. He was surrounded by people whose job was, essentially, to manipulate him into making good decisions.

How's it feel being on Tumblr again?

My peak-Tumblr era was 2007–2010. When most people think back to their good old days on Tumblr, the time period they’re thinking of is mostly or entirely after that.

Whatever Tumblr is or was, to most people, happened long after I left.

The people I followed back then are mostly gone now, and the people I’ve followed since then (mostly on Twitter) aren’t here. I don’t know who my community is here, or even if I’ll find one.

I no longer know what works here and what doesn’t. I don’t get any of the jokes or references. I feel like the oldest person in the room.

This doesn’t really feel like going “back” to an old hangout — it feels like starting over.

And I don’t know if it’ll stick or not. It depends on where I find my people. If “we” congregate here, or I find a new community here, that’ll be great — and if not, I’ll probably go wherever they end up.

Do you have any plans to allow Overcast users to view their starred episodes? I’d really enjoy that view for revisiting old favorites.

You already can!

Tap the Add Playlist button, then tap Starred.

You now have a special playlist that shows all of your starred episodes.

How does your local debug log work in Overcast? Do you have a single log file that you truncate to some particular size (what size)? Multiple files that you age out by time (what time)? Just let it grow and don't worry about it because it's small in the grand scheme of things? Something else more clever I haven't thought of?

It's pretty low-tech — it's a single file that I read into a "lines" array, split by newlines, limited to the last ~1000 lines, and written out to the file every time anything is logged.

It would be FAR more performant if I did file-append operations and something more sophisticated for managing length, but in practice, this log is low-volume enough for the difference not to matter.

azspot

Will he go through with it? PLUS: Botched layoffs, how the new Blue could lose money, and more

But all of that could be a prelude to the biggest change of all: charging most or all users a subscription fee to use Twitter.

Both Musk and Sacks have discussed the idea in recent meetings, according to a person familiar with the matter. One such plan might allow everyone to use Twitter for a limited amount of time each month but require a subscription to continue browsing, the person said.

It could not be learned how serious Musk and Sacks are about the paywall; Twitter did not respond to a request for comment. It also does not appear imminent, as the Blue team is wholly occupied with the launch of expanded verification.

Still, given Twitter’s huge debt burden, the backward economics of Blue, and the recent pause in spending by major advertisers, it’s clear that Musk and his brain trust will have to do something to significantly increase revenue. And whatever they choose, it seems increasingly clear that Twitter will never be the same.

marco

This is not his worst idea.

I know everyone sees the same copy here, but damn. You have no idea, generic text. Apt.

topherchris

Welcome to Tumblr, former Twitter users who couldn’t figure out Mastodon.

My Tumblr drafts folder after 8 years away, with drafts written between 2010–2011.

Over a decade ago, I wrote a line of code to block anyone from ever resetting my password, which would have looked something like this:

public function reset_password() { if ($this->id == 1 || $this->id == 2) return false; // ... }

…which made it hard to log in since they invalidated all Tumblr passwords many years ago. Someone must have finally removed that in the last year or two.

A lot has changed since I left. But I still see some familiar faces and features. It feels a lot like going back and visiting your school a decade after you've graduated.

I don't know if I have a place for this in my life right now, but it's nice to have the option again.

First time seeing a kid watch, he turns it over and immediately asks, "Where are the gears?"

Cake. Decorating is hard, but it tastes great. Happy birthday @tiffanyarment!

I had some cake scraps from cutting @tiffanyarment's cakes into smaller cakes to stack into a bigger cake so I cut the scraps into smaller tiny cakes and stacked them into a bigger tiny cake.

Happy birthday, @tiffanyarment! (at River City Grille)

Many lemons gave their lives (and skins) to make @tiffanyarment's birthday cake this year.

He had a good day.

Roped him into testing some sencha.

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