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Paul Mison

paulmison@sfba.social

<p>batteries not included. was @blech and <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://sfba.social/@paulmison" class="u-url mention">@<span>paulmison</span></a></span> on twitter. he/him. most likely to post threads of links about how bad cars are. San Francisco.</p>

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    A few months ago I knocked up a trivial extension to `gh`, the GitHub command line utility: https://github.com/blech/gh-show-url `gh show-url` shows the URL to visit the current PR. That&amp;#39;s it. It might be useful if you like context-clicking URLs in Terminal, and/or have too many PRs on the go.

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    Hypothesis: people used to public transport make better air passengers. They’re used to ceding control and trusting the process. In contrast, people who mostly (or only) drive find the same process difficult, albeit probably subconsciously.

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    I watched a BBC Archive video on mobile internet from 2000 - https://youtu.be/NedkJwn28jw - featuring at one point the &amp;quot;Matrix phone&amp;quot;, the Nokia 8110, which was described as &amp;quot;a mobile phone on steroids&amp;quot;. I thought it had to be smaller than a modern iPhone; it&amp;#39;s a little shorter and a lot less wide, but it turns out it was 25mm deep, so the iPhone is actually more like 60% of its volume, despite the face size. Huh.

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    “developing a game in Assembler was not considered to be relevant work experience” - Veronika Megler, developer of Th Hobbit (1982), on starting work at IBM https://web.archive.org/web/20141010063858/http://playitagainproject.org/ruminations-on-the-hobbit-fandom/

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    WhatCable tells you what cables connected to your Mac can actually do. I wrote about it, my coding-agent assisted contributions, and discovering there&amp;#39;s Swift tooling outside XCode. https://notes.husk.org/post/817063155663568896/whatcable

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    It’s been a while since I’ve been told off for taking photos but I suppose PG&amp;amp;E is really twitchy about substations these days.

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    I think my existing iTunes purchase of Speed Racer got quietly upgraded to the 4K, with extras, version that Warner Bros just released. Which is very nice.

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    “Regret is weaponised selectively, deployed only where it serves a patriarchal purpose.” https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/may/26/abortion-trauma-myth-irish-women-patriarchy