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If you have an iPhone and you haven’t explored the settings in the Magnifier app, you should spend five minutes playing around with them, just to know what is available. You may not need any of them usually, but they’re good to have available when you get your eyes dilated or misplace your glasses.

Getting back into Last.fm after 11 years and, yeah, my tastes appear to be as esoteric as ever. I understand power law applies, but, dang, so many people listen to the same stuff.

Bring on the weird music.

Fairly good explanation of why I am disappointed in @manton every time he mentions DHH or any of the other 37S-related products or people: blogs.library.duke.edu/blog/2023…

Schema design win of the day: splatting “description” and “notes” columns over even the most trivial of entities so that unexpected ad hoc data can be associated with things and we could track the history of some bad hardware inventory.

Pigface had many times the number of members of This Mortal Coil and twice the output, but was way more chaotic and hit-or-miss. Grateful for both. 🎵

Still find the output of This Mortal Coil to have been miraculous. How such an amalgamation of a large number of artists, even under the direction of a couple of people, put out so much lasting music is beyond me. 🎵

I’m saddened every time I see anyone use alias; it should be considered a deprecated relic of ancient times. Any time you think you should create a shell alias, use a function instead. Aliases are just weird macros and functions are so much more sane.

Turn Every Page: The Adventures of Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb is fantastic; a great, entertaining, dual biography. 🎥

Today, mourning the lack of a “nightmare” emoji.

You need to laugh at all the bros complaining about the newness of “cis”; were they not paying attention to all the mentions of cis-Alpine Gaul in their ancient Roman history?

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I dislike when there are new credentials or other environment-specific configuration added to a system because you can’t test that your production setup is fully correct until you actually deploy, and so you need to do emergency fixes if anything is wrong.

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Reminder to myself that systemctl list-timers is a thing.

Reminder that Unix epoch time is a lie because it ignores leap seconds, i.e. seconds do not represent a consistent length of time.

You go into an Errol Morris documentary with high expectations, and The Pigeon Tunnel meets them. I really liked it.

I thought my web app’s date/time display functionality was broken. Went chasing things down, and it turns out that, if you turn on Firefox’s fingerprinting resistance, it forces Intl.DateTimeFormat().resolvedOptions().timeZone to UTC.

Roger Ebert - Night of the Living Dead (1969) audience review

Interesting observation of the state of movies and matinee audiences at the end of the 1960s.

(Read due to the The Incomparable episode on Night of the Living Dead.)

Slack interprets Mastodon post bodies as “mrkdwn”.

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libyaml doesn’t support emitting comments? 😞

Sonoma apparently breaks wallpaper settings in all kinds of ways. I was able to mostly get things back the way that I want, but you apparently cannot have two different shuffled images on separate monitors.

Simple little zsh function that makes my life easier every day:

function newdir {
    if [[ $# != 1 ]]
    then
        emit-warning usage: newdir directory

        return 1
    fi

    mkdir -p $1 && cd $1
}

There’s nothing in the JSON specification that says that Graham’s number is an invalid value, although finding a computer that could do anything with that would be challenging.

Make everyone’s life easier and just statically link everything. Including libc.