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My Telegram posts on 2020’s weeks 30 & 31

Robert — Thu, 30 Jul 2020 14:22:20 +0500

Telegram is socialist. What’s worse, it filed suit against Apple for “antitrust” violations. I can’t stand this anymore, so I will stop posting to my Telegram channel. This is its last archive.

Week 28 ←

Tuesday, July 21

The International Space Station passed by:

Sunday, July 26

Telegram now shows a preview of the actual image sent rather than a useless emoji. This is what good design is all about.

Monday, July 27

Good suggestion:

Tuesday, July 28

No it’s not:

My Telegram posts on 2020’s week 28

Robert — Mon, 13 Jul 2020 13:27:59 +0500

Robert:

Week 26 ←→ Weeks 30 & 31

Tuesday, July 7

When reading boustrophedon, eyes don’t have to jump from one side to the other after each line.

Thursday, July 9

2020: the year when the word “positive” gained a negative connotation.

Sunday, July 12

A speed bump for motorcycles in Sanremo, Italy:

John Stossel on good causes and cults:

Some people are offended by the hilarious term “kung flu”. John Stossel:

My Telegram posts on 2020’s week 26

Robert — Mon, 29 Jun 2020 13:10:29 +0500

Robert:

Week 25 ←→ Week 28

Live-commenting WWDC 2020 on Monday, June 22

The icons are jelly and that’s annoying:

Oh, there’s a portal in the fountain at Apple Park.

The Mac is moving to Apple-made processors for top performance. This is good news.

iOS & iPadOS apps run on the Mac without any changes needed. Catalyst was a short-term thing.

Instead of credits at the end there’s an assurance that Apple took care so nobody would get infected. Sign of the times:

Tuesday, June 23

These tiles have a nice look:

Wednesday, June 24

Wow:

Also, inconsistent use of articles.

Friday, June 26

The empty-space-to-the-right issue has been solved. My project illustrations now take up almost the entire screen width. Looks stunning:

My Telegram posts on 2020’s week 25

Robert — Mon, 22 Jun 2020 18:19:43 +0500

Robert:

Week 24 ←→ Week 26

Thursday, June 18

What happened to your heads, people?

Friday, June 19

Netflix’s interface is excellent: when starting watching a new season, it gives me a recap of the previous one.

Oh, and best of all, Netflix lets me skip the useless intros of movies and series.

Saturday, June 20

One of my favorite things about the UK is the unique scent of bread coming from bakeries. It goes along fantastically with the industrial smell of London.

My Telegram posts during 2020’s week 24

Robert — Mon, 15 Jun 2020 14:10:54 +0500

Robert:

Week 23 ←→ Week 25

Thursday, June 11

The Burundian coat of arms is beautiful:

Friday, June 12

I decided to move some emails from one folder to another. Guess what? Mail can’t sync anymore.

This bug was spotted back in January and it is yet to be fixed.

I might just move to OpenBSD at this point.

Saturday, June 13

I find it funny how Bologna has an investigative group called Ponzi.

My Telegram posts during 2020’s week 23

Robert — Mon, 08 Jun 2020 22:37:22 +0500

Robert:

Week 22 ←→ Week 24

Thursday, June 4

Elbow bumps were fantastic while they lasted.

Friday, June 5

I’m deeply saddened by the reality of affirmative action in the United States. I will do everything possible to make sure that this never happens in the countries I live in.

I do not trust Elon Musk. And I didn’t even mention the overpriced Tesla stock tweets.

Beautiful:

Saturday, June 6

Just updated my website. Each project now has a stunning image:

The next step is filling the empty space to the right.

My Telegram posts during 2020’s week 22

Robert — Mon, 01 Jun 2020 23:16:21 +0500

Robert:

Week 21 ←→ Week 23

Tuesday, May 26

Leap years are indeed worse than regular years: there’s an extra day for bad events to happen.

Interesting clock you have, Ros Atkins:

I never understood this sort of infographic. If it’s impossible to compare differently-colored areas to each other, what’s the point of the whole thing?

Friday, May 29

Just updated my post about train door buttons with better photos and a mention of the pandemic.

I hate topiary.

Saturday, May 30

In January, I wrote the following:

As much as airlines want to make money, humans will continue being humans and change seats with each other. This is, of course, splendid.

Well, I’m afraid this won’t be true for the next few years.

One of the best things about watching movies at home is being able to pause it and think about what’s going on.

The words month and Moon share a common root because a month is a period related to the Moon’s motion.

My Telegram posts on 2020’s week 21

Robert — Mon, 25 May 2020 15:47:16 +0500

Robert:

Weeks 16...20 ←→ Week 22

Tuesday, May 19

Made myself a standing workplace outside:

Wednesday, May 20

From President Zelensky’s NYT op-ed: “Ukraine remains a good partner and friend of the United States. We received the military assistance we needed to continue to ensure our country’s independence.”

Independence, you say? Needing something = being dependent on that something’s provider.

Thursday, May 21

I love drinking tea with ice cream.

Friday, May 22

I always click Submit instead of the arrows. Stupid design:

I’m writing a program that will help me write another program.

People should not be working towards 1TB/s internet, but towards files that take up less space.

Saturday, May 23

Evil doesn’t exist. Interests do.

It’s a good thing that English got rid of the long s. If we ſtill had it today, reading would be much ſlower and ſlippier.

Sunday, May 24

Government bureaucracy is not always bad: it’s a strong filter that stops all extreme initiatives.

My Telegram posts from April 16 till May 16, 2020

Robert — Sat, 23 May 2020 23:46:06 +0500

Robert:

→ Week 21

This is everything published to my Telegram channel in the last month.

April 16

Since January, Twitter has the rights to do whatever it wants to with published content. This is contrary to my world view in which I own and control everything that is a product of my mind.

The blog format doesn’t suit everything I’d like to say, so I started this Telegram channel.

April 20

Apple Notes on the Mac is absolutely unresponsive, especially to two-finger clicks. Keep in mind that this software is made in-house...

April 21

Elevator operators now have a job again.

April 26

FIGMA IS FANTASTIC

April 28

The Japanese know what pleasure is: they have Boneless Fish!

Mac bugs keep getting worse and worse. Apple should release another Snow Leopard this year.

May 2

Sometimes I want to do an image search with the picture I have in mind.

May 8

Just saying: I don’t care about trends. I always act out of my own will.

P. S. I hope these words won’t come back to haunt me.

May 14

It always surprises me how Disney makes ugly animals look cute.

Room 104 is the dumbest yet most brilliant show. It proves that any nonsensical artistic idea should be experimented with.

The voice actor impersonating Trump never sounds like Trump, but he does create a metaphor.

May 15

In the past few weeks I really fell in love with jasmine tea.

May 16

The slogan for the 2020 Eurovision would have been “Open Up”. Hahaha