TIL: With iOS 18 a new feature was added to lock or hide apps.
Apps can be locked so that they require the passcode or FaceID to be opened.
And they also can be hidden so that they no longer appear on the homescreen.
Lock or hide an app on iPhone - Apple Support
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zkbro discovered the nice Blanket web version of the Blanket Gnome/Linux app. Provides you with a selection of ambient sounds. Ranging from Nature over Travel, Interiors to Pink/White Noise.
50 ways to rest – Nicola Jane Hobbs
For anyone else who is in a season of their life where naps and hot baths and yoga classes are inaccessible, we can still rest. We might not be able to get the rest we truly need, but we can find little pockets of respite among the demands and responsibilities of our lives.
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Hubble explores the universe 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. That means it has observed some fascinating cosmic wonder every day of the year, including on your birthday.
What did Hubble look at on your birthday? Enter the month and date below to find out! What Did Hubble See on Your Birthday? - NASA Science
My birthday picture is of the Whirlpool Galaxy:
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no hello - please don't say just hello in chat
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Saw this Blog Questions Challenge about Travel Adventures and it piqued my interest.
What's the silliest souvenir you've ever brought back from a trip?
More stupid than silly. On my way to Australia, I bought some very nice honey in Mauritius.
It promptly got confiscated by the Australian Border Force as their biosecurity does not allow the import of honey.
If you could teleport anywhere right now, for a day trip, where would you go?
Off the top of my head this would be Île des Pins in New Caledonia.
I spent two very nice days there in 2018 while doing an extended New Caledonia weekend trip during my last rotation in Sydney.
What's the weirdest food you've ever tried while traveling?
Probably crocodile. This was in 2013 while traveling in Australia.
There was a australian game meat BBQ organized for us tourists, and various meats could be tasted.
Didn't particularly like the crocodile, it tasted a lot like chicken.
The hosts explained that crocodile usually tastes like the thing it eats, and these ones were fed with chicken, cue them tasting like chicken.
What's the most memorable "wrong turn" you've taken on an adventure?
While traveling by train to Amsterdam, somewhere outside Frankfurt there was a problem with the tracks.
The ICE I was on, returned halfway to Frankfurt and then used a very long but scenic route along the Rhine river to reach Koeln.
Overall the journey to Amsterdam took 4 hours longer than planned, but we got to see some very pitoresque villages along the river.
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How to write exceptional documentation
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I recently tried out Claude Code for both some personal project as well as some work project.
Was very impressed how far the AI coding assistants have come already.
Looks like a powerful tool when used by an experienced software engineer.
I've been using Claude Code for a couple of days, and it has been absolutely ruthless in chewing through legacy bugs in my gnarly old code base. It's like a wood chipper fueled by dollars. It can power through shockingly impressive tasks, using nothing but chat. [...]
Claude Code's form factor is clunky as hell, it has no multimodal support, and it's hard to juggle with other tools. But it doesn't matter. It might look antiquated but it makes Cursor, Windsurf, Augment and the rest of the lot (yeah, ours too, and Copilot, let's be honest) FEEL antiquated.
— Steve Yegge, who works on Cody at Sourcegraph
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