Angela Brett
@angelastic.com
macOS/iOS/sometimes web dev, mathematician, linguist, poet, former Cernoise, JoCo Cruiser, two-time fancy pants champion, three-time international mover (not shaker)
https://angelastic.com
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https://angelastic.com
🇳🇿(not 🇦🇺)→🇨🇭(not 🇸🇪)→🇦🇹(not 🇦🇺)→WA (🇺🇸, not 🇦🇺)
It’s the eighth day of Christmas! You get a break efrom birds, but only after a retrospective of some previous birds. Here’s a golden-crowned sparrow, some house finches, some dark-eyed juncos, and a squirrel. Happy New Year!
January 1, 2026 at 5:37 PM
It’s the eighth day of Christmas! You get a break efrom birds, but only after a retrospective of some previous birds. Here’s a golden-crowned sparrow, some house finches, some dark-eyed juncos, and a squirrel. Happy New Year!
It's the seventh day of Christmas! Have some more birds. This time there is some twitter drama between dark-eyed juncos and chickadees.
December 31, 2025 at 8:19 PM
It's the seventh day of Christmas! Have some more birds. This time there is some twitter drama between dark-eyed juncos and chickadees.
It’s the sixth day of Christmas! Have another bird. It’s a common starling, but it’s probably not named for the fact that much of its plumage looks like bright stars against a dark sky! In fact, ‘starling’ is probably cognate with another bird, ‘tern’.
I had no idea they looked like that. Neat!
I had no idea they looked like that. Neat!
December 30, 2025 at 8:05 AM
It’s the sixth day of Christmas! Have another bird. It’s a common starling, but it’s probably not named for the fact that much of its plumage looks like bright stars against a dark sky! In fact, ‘starling’ is probably cognate with another bird, ‘tern’.
I had no idea they looked like that. Neat!
I had no idea they looked like that. Neat!
It’s the fifth day of Christmas! There is some debate over whether the gifts on this day were actually birds. Anyway, have a squirrel’s ring.
December 29, 2025 at 9:15 AM
It’s the fifth day of Christmas! There is some debate over whether the gifts on this day were actually birds. Anyway, have a squirrel’s ring.
It’s the fourth day of Christmas! Have some more birds. (Two or three different Steller’s jays, a dark-eyed junco, and a golden-crowned sparrow)
December 28, 2025 at 8:40 AM
It’s the fourth day of Christmas! Have some more birds. (Two or three different Steller’s jays, a dark-eyed junco, and a golden-crowned sparrow)
It’s the third day of Christmas! Have some birds (a suspected house finch and a dark-eyed junco). I know you might have been expecting six birds today, but I’m not made of birds, you know.
December 27, 2025 at 10:01 AM
It’s the third day of Christmas! Have some birds (a suspected house finch and a dark-eyed junco). I know you might have been expecting six birds today, but I’m not made of birds, you know.
It’s the second day of Christmas! Have three birds of two different species (dark-eyed juncos and I think a chickadee) It might be the same junco twice; I haven’t had time to look for one that definitely has two.
December 26, 2025 at 8:03 PM
It’s the second day of Christmas! Have three birds of two different species (dark-eyed juncos and I think a chickadee) It might be the same junco twice; I haven’t had time to look for one that definitely has two.
According to this song: youtu.be/p_KCe-gdvE0, if you sleep on Christmas, those hours of sleep are worth thousands.
December 26, 2025 at 1:12 AM
According to this song: youtu.be/p_KCe-gdvE0, if you sleep on Christmas, those hours of sleep are worth thousands.
It’s the first day of Christmas. Have a bird. (I think this one is a golden-crowned sparrow.)
December 25, 2025 at 9:12 AM
It’s the first day of Christmas. Have a bird. (I think this one is a golden-crowned sparrow.)
Well here’s a relationship with Jesus I wasn’t expecting this Christmas.
December 24, 2025 at 4:05 AM
Well here’s a relationship with Jesus I wasn’t expecting this Christmas.
I’ve known these existed for ages, but didn’t see the point of having a stand for my Apple Watch charger until recently, when my charger fell off the narrow end table one too many times. It looks so cute! I think the watch band in the colours of the original Apple logo (but wrong order) adds to it.
October 20, 2025 at 1:18 AM
I’ve known these existed for ages, but didn’t see the point of having a stand for my Apple Watch charger until recently, when my charger fell off the narrow end table one too many times. It looks so cute! I think the watch band in the colours of the original Apple logo (but wrong order) adds to it.
Thanks, iOS 26, for screening this call from a weirdo. 😂
(It was actually someone I’d just talked to from a recruiting firm whose name sounds a little like weirdo, I guess)
(It was actually someone I’d just talked to from a recruiting firm whose name sounds a little like weirdo, I guess)
October 9, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Thanks, iOS 26, for screening this call from a weirdo. 😂
(It was actually someone I’d just talked to from a recruiting firm whose name sounds a little like weirdo, I guess)
(It was actually someone I’d just talked to from a recruiting firm whose name sounds a little like weirdo, I guess)
The new macOS/iOS version of Seddit is out! In this version, if you have voices in multiple languages selected, it will detect the language of the first post or comment by each user and give them a voice that speaks that language. So they’ll be pronounced correctly. apps.apple.com/us/app/seddi...
October 9, 2025 at 12:57 AM
The new macOS/iOS version of Seddit is out! In this version, if you have voices in multiple languages selected, it will detect the language of the first post or comment by each user and give them a voice that speaks that language. So they’ll be pronounced correctly. apps.apple.com/us/app/seddi...
Yesterday we went to an event with Mary Roach for the second time this year. Her new book, Replaceable You, is about replacing various body parts. At the signing table afterwards, she was giving out little packets of tissues, saying, “I’m a tissue donor”. 😆
October 2, 2025 at 6:46 AM
Yesterday we went to an event with Mary Roach for the second time this year. Her new book, Replaceable You, is about replacing various body parts. At the signing table afterwards, she was giving out little packets of tissues, saying, “I’m a tissue donor”. 😆
They’re coming to take me away, ha-haa! 🎶
September 11, 2025 at 8:28 PM
They’re coming to take me away, ha-haa! 🎶
We saw James Dempsey live last night (my third time since moving to the US — that’s a perk I didn’t expect! Before then I only saw him at WWDC 2004) and tonight Joey (who has never even done Apple development) was rocking out to his album while cooking dinner. 😃
August 23, 2025 at 3:22 AM
We saw James Dempsey live last night (my third time since moving to the US — that’s a perk I didn’t expect! Before then I only saw him at WWDC 2004) and tonight Joey (who has never even done Apple development) was rocking out to his album while cooking dinner. 😃
Well that was quick! The new iOS version is still in review, but a new macOS version of Seddit, 1.1, is available now, with new sounds settings, a setting to not read out URLs, and a ‘random from previous subreddits’ setting for automatically loading more posts. apps.apple.com/us/app/seddi...
August 18, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Well that was quick! The new iOS version is still in review, but a new macOS version of Seddit, 1.1, is available now, with new sounds settings, a setting to not read out URLs, and a ‘random from previous subreddits’ setting for automatically loading more posts. apps.apple.com/us/app/seddi...
Just released a new version of my iOS/macOS app Lifetiler, with pinch-to-zoom and improved large text and VoiceOver support. 😊 apps.apple.com/us/app/lifet...
August 13, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Just released a new version of my iOS/macOS app Lifetiler, with pinch-to-zoom and improved large text and VoiceOver support. 😊 apps.apple.com/us/app/lifet...
Yesterday I went to Chihuly Garden and Glass, where I saw a demo of how to enable tinted mode in liquid glass.
July 23, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Yesterday I went to Chihuly Garden and Glass, where I saw a demo of how to enable tinted mode in liquid glass.
Anyway I was at Microsoft again today and was happy to see they at least have a Swift room.
July 19, 2025 at 4:35 AM
Anyway I was at Microsoft again today and was happy to see they at least have a Swift room.
Just noticed that the App Store Connect app can make cute little promotional animations. apps.apple.com/us/app/lifet...
July 3, 2025 at 6:19 AM
Just noticed that the App Store Connect app can make cute little promotional animations. apps.apple.com/us/app/lifet...
Oh gosh, I have seen this in race dropdowns all over the place, but this particular site also has (United States of America) after only the Nonbinary gender option. Only Americans can be nonbinary? This should be on genders.wtf
June 11, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Oh gosh, I have seen this in race dropdowns all over the place, but this particular site also has (United States of America) after only the Nonbinary gender option. Only Americans can be nonbinary? This should be on genders.wtf
Does anyone know why the race dropdowns on many job application sites say (United States of America) after each race? I get that sometimes such terms mean different things in different countries, but I can't even decline to answer without also identifying as (United States of America).
June 11, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Does anyone know why the race dropdowns on many job application sites say (United States of America) after each race? I get that sometimes such terms mean different things in different countries, but I can't even decline to answer without also identifying as (United States of America).
May the fourth be with you!
May 5, 2025 at 12:59 AM
May the fourth be with you!