Notices by Sean Heber (bigzaphod@mastodon.social)

Comedies are tricky, but this looks good. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8-N8IIq_8I

Crap. I cracked my phone screen. Dropped it on tile. I never use a case - this is the FIRST TIME that I've ever cracked a screen and I've had an iPhone since the original one.

It's not a bad crack - just a line across the bottom right corner radius. I think probably only cracked the top layer? It seems to be still in there pretty firmly. Can hardly even see it.

Still though. Annoying. I'm still rocking an iPhone 14 Pro and feel no need to upgrade. BUT NOW IT HAS A CRACK... so now I'm not sure.

It's been about a month since Tapestry 1.0 was released and we're up to version 1.0.3 now and working on 1.1.

Time flies when you're shippin' updates: https://usetapestry.com/history

#TapestryApp

Sonic The Hedgehog 3 was chaotic fun. Jim Carrey easily stole the show - I swear he was born to play Doctor Robotnik. I'm pretty sure there were a lot of references or callbacks to the previous two movies and/or Sonic lore from cartoons and whatnot but since we can't remember the other movies and know basically zero lore, they all went totally over our heads. I definitely enjoyed the gag about blowing on the USB stick the same way we used to blow on video game cartridges back in the day. lol

Tonight's movie night movie will be, "Sonic The Hedgehog 3 (2024)." I remember enjoying the first two movies, but that's all I remember about them. Oh, and Jim Carrey. That's good enough for me.

We watched @TechConnectify's video (https://youtu.be/QEJpZjg8GuA?si=66Ta4COQo1wMhFCo) tonight with the kids and spent an hour talking about it with them afterward - longer than the video itself! I think it's important to discuss this sort of stuff with them. Their world is going to be a lot different than ours was.

Baahubali: The Beginning is amazing. It's so over the top and ridiculous while being totally engrossing. It's like a video game cutscene come to life. The whole thing. It's like watching a dream of a comic book. Part Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, part 300, part low budget early 2000s straight to home video fantasy adventure, part big budget summer blockbuster, part Lord of the Rings.

I don't really know how to describe this movie. It's great. I mean, how could you not love a scene like this?

Tonight's movie night movie will be, "Baahubali: The Beginning (2015)." This is something new and different for us - we've not tried any Indian movies before. I ran across some clips of this (and its sequel) online and it looked like a totally over the top action movie kind of vibe with some terrifically good reviews so we're all looking forward to some action fun. It's a long one, though - nearly 3 hours!

Happy Iconfactory Tapestry release day! https://usetapestry.com

#TapestryApp

So... I mean, if they're not gonna follow the rules, why should any of us pay taxes?

Lots of people angry at Zuck about the fact checker thing but I haven't EVER seen anyone impressed with their prior fact checking so, like... is this even gonna change anything?

Tonight’s movie night movie will be, “The Wild Robot (2024).” The trailers look absolutely stunning and give me serious Iron Giant vibes. Looking forward to it!

2025 is gonna be an odd year.

In other "trying to make a website is hard" news, dealing with email continues to suck.

I believe I have https://indiestorygeek.com's email stuff correctly configured for SPF, DKIM, and DMARC and yet we still started getting a bunch of bounces recently.

Since people have to click a link in the welcome email to activate their user account, if they don't get that email they can obviously never do that. Which is a problem.

I spent much of yesterday on this problem trying to figure it out.

Pushing a big refactor less than hour before quitting time on a Friday. As you do.

Sometimes I run across lists or discussions along the lines of, “what is a movie that’s perfect and should never be remade” and I scroll until I find “The Fifth Element” because it’s always there. As it should be.

We finished Slow Horses. Now we have to wait almost a year for the next season.?! That’s a crime. It’s criminal. There should be a continuous stream of nothing but new Slow Horses episodes from now until the end of time. I want a live stream of Slow Horses. Come on Apple! Get on it! Make it happen!

I'd love to see someone put a number on the lost productivity and cost to health of constant cycles of worry and stress that trump has caused since 2016 or so. Seriously, it's gotta be astronomical.

Some estimates suggest the Voyager crafts might survive (for some definition of "survive") all the way until Andromeda and Milky Way collide. That's around 4.5-5 billion years from now. For reference, our estimate is that life on earth is only about 4.5 billion years old.

The Voyagers could survive long enough for life itself to die out completely and see it re-evolve again.

The scale is boggling.

The Voyager probes are so cool. One of the coolest things humanity has ever done, IMO. They'll eventually stop functioning, but as an artifact they'll probably outlive our whole species. If they don't hit anything, they might someday make a complete orbit of the entire galaxy.