Mark McCaigue

@DeanTTraining What’s your rough sense of the sweet spot? 6 working sets per major muscle group per week? As few as 4?

A LOTTTT of people currently using higher volumes (10+ sets per major muscle group per week) are afraid to experiment with lower volume (< 10 sets per major muscle group per week) but here’s my plea: GIVE IT A SHOT Best case scenario: Lower volume actually ends up working out better for you and your training is far more productive going forward now that you’ve figured it out! Worst case scenario: Lower training volumes stall you out and you only end up MAINTAINING all existing skeletal muscle for as long as the experiment lasts (you should probably give it at least 10 weeks IMO) The risk:reward obviously says running this experiment is worth it because you could end up wasting YEARS/DECADES by not doing so!

@awesomekling @ladybirdbrowser What a remarkable achievement, congratulations!

Looks like LibJS from @ladybirdbrowser is currently the most complete implementation of the JavaScript language according to test262 🤓

@awesomekling @ladybirdbrowser @SwiftLang I’d be really interested to know your thoughts on C#, and if it was one of the contenders under consideration?

We've been evaluating a number of C++ successor languages for @ladybirdbrowser, and the one best suited to our needs appears to be @SwiftLang 🪶 Over the last few months, I've asked a bunch of folks to pick some little part of our project and try rewriting it in the different languages we were evaluating. The feedback was very clear: everyone preferred Swift! Why do we like Swift? First off, Swift has both memory & data race safety (as of v6). It's also a modern language with solid ergonomics. Something that matters to us a lot is OO. Web specs & browser internals tend to be highly object-oriented, and life is easier when you can model specs closely in your code. Swift has first-class OO support, in many ways even nicer than C++. The Swift team is also investing heavily in C++ interop, which means there's a real path to incremental adoption, not just gigantic rewrites. Strong ties to Apple? Swift has historically been strongly tied to Apple and their platforms, but in the last year, there's been a push for "swiftlang" to become more independent. (It's now in a separate GitHub org, no longer in "apple", for example). Support for non-Apple platforms is also improving, as is the support for other, LSP-based development environments. What happens next? We aren't able to start using it just yet, as the current release of Swift ships with a version of Clang that's too old to grok our existing C++ codebase. But when Swift 6 comes out of beta this fall, we will begin using it! No language is perfect, and there are a lot of things here that we don't know yet. I'm not aware of anyone doing browser engine stuff in Swift before, so we'll probably end up with feedback for the Swift team as well. I'm super excited about this! We must steer Ladybird towards memory safety, and the first step is selecting a successor language that we can begin adopting very soon. 🤓🐞

@ugmonk My favourite is "Your desk, simplified," as it's the most concise whilst still retaining an emotional draw. "Messy" can raise negative emotion, 3rd is slightly more vague than "simplified", 4th lacks emotional appeal. Detail from 2, but "streamlines your desk". Button from 1.

WIP copy ideas for Gather landing page. Thoughts?

@markjdouglas Hahaha that’s bound to happen 🙈 fair play for trying

@trymarkcatch I did! Only one person took immense offence.

Jan 2nd in the weights room - so far I’ve watched a man overbalance a barbell on a squat rack causing it to fall and narrowly miss someone, a woman try to load a barbell on a windowsill (next to a window), and 3 people walk away from weighed without deloading. HNY!

@markjdouglas Nice one! Just picked it up on Audible, cheers

@trymarkcatch This book suggests yes, and it’s what I’ve been trading off for a while now! amazon.co.uk/Range-Generali…

2 every time, great generalists move mountains.

@iamjustincscott I’d suggest that the doubt will lessen as they turn themselves into someone they can trust. To embody the actions of someone trustworthy, to start with making and keeping small self-commitments. The self-perception will soon shift.

If someone said: "I'm tired of where I am in life, I constantly doubt myself" What would you tell them?

@_JonDouglas “No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.”

Perception can feel profound at times. The same books I read when I was 20 have a completely different meaning at 30. The movies I loved as a kid had me re-visiting them with my kids and understanding why I appreciate them. Reminds me that "things don't change, we change".

@Pete_McM Underrated tweet

Going to be a serious amount of leaving parties in the Downing Street area this weekend...

@keithbelfast March looks OK

2022 not off to a fantastic start...

@PaulieBroughall @KeizGoesBoom Finally the sloth obsession makes sense 🤣

6. Down - Is a sloth

As it’s the end of the year, here is a thread of my Irish counties painted like things they look like 1. Kildare - A rich woman from a Disney movie

@Pete_McM It’s beyond belief this still works

@trymarkcatch 6pm so that the evening news gets bumped and other stories can't be reported on to the few people that still only get their news via the scheduled broadcasts

There's going to be a dead cat on the table later, isn't there...

@davidfowl I read it as “goes to”

OK we’re doing terminology today. What do you call “=>”?

Are we the first life to appreciate this alien beauty? Incredible.

Immediately thinking of the video as I spot the typo in the tweet

I’m going to remember this video whenever I make a mistake 😅 Don’t panic! Take a breath and asses, otherwise your next decision is going to kinda suck...

“If you know the way broadly you will see it in all things.” — Miyamoto Musashi