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    3 December 2023
  • 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.

    3 December 2023
  • 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.

    2 December 2023
  • 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…

    30 November 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.

    28 November 2023
  • 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. 🎵

    19 November 2023
  • 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. 🎵

    19 November 2023
  • 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.

    19 November 2023
  • Turn Every Page: The Adventures of Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb is fantastic; a great, entertaining, dual biography. 🎥

    19 November 2023
  • Today, mourning the lack of a “nightmare” emoji.

    10 November 2023
  • 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?

    9 November 2023
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    9 November 2023
  • 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.

    9 November 2023
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    7 November 2023
  • Reminder to myself that systemctl list-timers is a thing.

    3 November 2023
  • Reminder that Unix epoch time is a lie because it ignores leap seconds, i.e. seconds do not represent a consistent length of time.

    3 November 2023
  • You go into an Errol Morris documentary with high expectations, and The Pigeon Tunnel meets them. I really liked it.

    25 October 2023
  • 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.

    25 October 2023
  • 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.)

    20 October 2023
  • Slack interprets Mastodon post bodies as “mrkdwn”.

    🤔

    17 October 2023
  • libyaml doesn’t support emitting comments? 😞

    16 October 2023
  • 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.

    9 October 2023
  • 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
    }
    
    8 October 2023
  • 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.

    5 October 2023
  • Make everyone’s life easier and just statically link everything. Including libc.

    3 October 2023

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