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pgib | 1 month ago | on: Why is the Gmail app 700 MB?

This may finally drive me to just use Apple Mail for my Google Workspace account. I know it's not a fair comparison, but an app I made that's in the App Store is only 8MB.

pgib | 9 months ago | on: Omnimax

We had an Omnimax theatre in Vancouver, BC, and I always loved going to it as a kid. The little introduction before any feature was a highlight where they showed off the capabilities and turned on the lights behind the screen at each speaker so the audience could actually see where the sound was coming from.

pgib | 1 year ago | on: Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting

"All those decades of the arms race, and it turned out there was no greater damage you could inflict on a state than ensure it was led by an idiot." –Mick Herron, Bad Actors (from the Slough House/Slow Horses series)

pgib | 1 year ago | on: AWS Deprecates CodeCommit

I have some personal projects for which I use a Terraform stack to build out a CodeBuild-based pipeline. It was very convenient to create a CodeCommit repo because all of the access could be defined via IAM without the need for any Github Personal Access Tokens. Doesn't seem like I'm in any immediate threat of having to change that, but I guess I'll have to adopt a different strategy for new projects.

pgib | 1 year ago | on: BlackHole: macOS Audio Loopback Driver

Over the pandemic, I used this and OBS with a USB HDMI capture dongle attached to my Nintendo Switch to host Jackbox Party Pack nights with friends over Zoom. Such a great tool!

pgib | 2 years ago | on: Ruby 3.3

Very much looking forward to upgrading our application to ensure 3.3 compatibility.

pgib | 2 years ago | on: The Timer in WatchOS 10

I have an Amazon Echo Wall Clock, and I got it for its integration with timers set by Alexa. It works great and lets me see the status of multiple timers. But I believe they discontinued it. I know this will never happen, but I would love an Apple-made clock that made timer display a primary feature. Setting timers using my voice and giving them names solves the interface issue, but being able to glance at the status of everything still needs a wonderful solution.

pgib | 2 years ago | on: DSLs are a waste of time

This is where Chef got it right over Puppet, but of which were written in Ruby. But Chef recipes are just Ruby files, and they make use of the Ruby language to do the same thing because it's perfectly capable of describing things that way.

pgib | 2 years ago | on: mRNA COVID vaccine in children alters immune response to heterologous stimulants

I asked ChatGPT to translate the results, and here's what it said:

This study looks at how the immune system responds to various infections and stimulants after receiving the BNT162b2 COVID-19 vaccine (commonly known as the Pfizer vaccine).

Before vs. After Vaccination: After getting vaccinated (at a time point labeled "V2 + 28"), the immune system showed a weaker response in terms of specific immune-signaling chemicals (interferon-γ and monocyte chemoattractant protein-1) when exposed to various bacteria and viruses, compared to before getting vaccinated.

Cytokine Changes: Other immune-signaling chemicals (IL-6, IL-15, IL-17) were also generally decreased when the body was exposed to most of these stimulants after vaccination.

Viral vs. Bacterial: Interestingly, these weaker responses in immune-signaling chemicals (cytokines) remained lower for viruses but not for bacteria, six months after vaccination.

COVID-Specific Response: On the other hand, the immune response specifically to COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2 and its spike proteins) was stronger at "V2 + 28" and remained stronger six months after vaccination.

No Correlation with Antibodies: The levels of COVID-specific antibodies in the blood (measured at "V2 + 28") did not relate to these changes in cytokine responses.

In plain English, the study suggests that after receiving the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine, the immune system's general ability to signal and react to various infections decreases somewhat, at least in the short term. However, the ability to respond specifically to COVID-19 improves and remains strong for at least six months. These changes in the immune system's signaling ability don't seem to be connected to the level of COVID-specific antibodies in your blood.

pgib | 2 years ago | on: 1Password 8 has been formatting dates incorrectly for over a year

I've been holding out on 7 for reasons like this. The native macOS version seems to honour my system locale settings. I don't see myself moving to an Electron-based app, and am really hoping that the updated keychain stuff in Sonoma will be such that I can just say goodbye, despite how much I've enjoyed 1Password for the _many_ years I've been a loyal customer.
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