Normalize telling your friends you love them. Tell them a lot. Make it weird.

The chicken is finally done. ✅
We finally got to eat. ✅
Only an hour and a half late. 😬
But we are fed. ✅

#RoastChicken #cooking #NoMoreGnawingOnTheArm

😼 Wowowo ! Tout doux Jolly Jumper !
#Équitation

#MercrediCestConnerie
#CatsOfMastodon

Hilbert Circuit #b3d #geometrynodes

Can we reach 18k? And unlock a stretch goal? :D https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/strangehorizons2019/strange-horizons-2024

For work, I'm working on a custom macOS installer at the moment …

"Why an installer when installing a macOS app is as simple as dragging and dropping into a folder”, you ask? Well, because this is for a macOS login/authorization plugin …

At this point, most people will probably go “Huh?” and I don’t blame you, because this is a dark corner of macOS coding that most probably don’t venture into 😛

A macOS login plugin allows you to customise the macOS login flow so that you can add your own layer of authorization/security or carry out some specific tasks that need to happen during the login process.

Unofrtunately, none of that is very well documented. In fact, I spent months scouring the Internet and going through documentation to get our implementation of a macOS login plugin working correctly.

In fact, somebody at work said that I was one of possibly 10 people in the world who understood this stuff. Honestly, I don’t believe that since I think that if I could figure it out, anybody else could too since the information is all out there 🙂

Whatever the case, our login plugin requires particular authorization rules to be set and what most people seem to do is to use a shell script to do this since that’s fairly widely documented. But in our case, while that’s the option we are using now, I want to actually do this via code because it simplifies a few logistical issues.

So here I am, exploring the macOS documentation again to see how you can do what I want to do in Swift and finding that this is not very well documented at all 😛

I do wish that the Apple documentation was excellent throughout instead of being very informative for the areas that everybody is interested in and then getting rather opaque, terse, or downright non-existent for the areas that people don’t venture into often. But I guess that’s how it works out — afterall, why bother spending the time on documenting something that not many people will use?

#Coding #Apple #macOS #Authorization #Documentation #Security #Login #Swift

If anyone has worried dogs tonight, try popping some popcorn. It's worked for us for the last three years, they get excited about the popcorn and desensitized to loud pops. Hopefully this tip will help someone else.

#fireworks #dogs

#kbin #kbinadmin #fediadmin

Does anyone have an actual setup guide for a kbin instance? I prefer it over lemmy because it federates a lot better, but the documentation barely exists so I have no idea how I'm supposed to actually setup an instance.

Have you ever wondered why the train seats have such complex patterns?

They don't start out like this. Out of the factory, the seats are plain.

With repeated use a fractal pattern develops on the fabric, becoming more and more detailed.

It's not dirt and grime, but the stains of the souls of the passengers who sit on them. Every day they lose a little more of their soul on the commute, until nothing is left but the empty shell of a salaryman.

Old trains have such character.
#microfiction

On this date in 1995 we lost an icon with the passing of Bob Ross. I loved (and still do) watching his episodes on TV. #RIPBobRoss #80s #1980s #BobRoss

cishet techbros think fedi is failing because nobody interacts with their posts

they don't know the secret:

clears throat

meow

Just a friendly reminder that the cheeseburger.social is open for new user registration if anyone needs a new home #mastodon #activitypub #fediverse

Another simple #WaterColor today. My back has been killing me since last week. I haven’t been able to do much at.

#MastoArt #chronicpain

Posting on behalf of @micheleclamp

She can officially do the #oilpainting as well as the #watercolor now.

For many who know me, these are also what I often think about when I think of the commercial #cloud.

The #alttext explains. 🤣

I put the rice on and it's done. ✅
Peeled and sliced the cooked beets. ✅
Assembled the beet salad. ✅
Time for lunch. ✅
Reach for the leftover roast chicken ✅ Wait. ❌ Leftovers are done. No more leftovers. We ate that yesterday. I was supposed to roast chicken today. ❌❌❌❌❌❌❌❌❌❌❌❌❌❌❌❌❌
Put chicken in oven to roast only 1.5 hours late. ✅
Snack on something so I don't gnaw on my arm out of starvation. ✅
Patiently wait for chicken to finish roasting. ❌

#cooking #BrainFail #WhatTheHeckWasIThinking #RoastChicken

Hi hi, if you are a #sff writer, or #yalit or #mglit writer, or writer who write cross-genres and age groups - *waves*. :)

Reddit is always so.. inventive.

Mashable: Reddit's API protest just got even more NSFW
https://mashable.com/article/reddit-api-protest-nsfw

@FediFollows Hi. Newbie here. Would love to connect with other Middle Grade writers. Could you add me under children books? Thanks!

seems like a reasonable way to interact with those peddling conspiracy theories.

I really want to internalize this. I don't owe attractiveness to other people. I don't have to justify my existence outside of the house with prettiness.