Today’s Vim digraph is .M, for middle dot: ·
In the realm of “just plain fun” podcasts, the recent discovery is The Pretzel Podcast. 🥨🥨🥨
Frustrated by ssh smashing together its command arguments so that you can’t get whitespace through the command.
> ssh user@host bash -cx "printf \$'>%s<\\n' 'a b c'"
+ printf
printf: usage: printf [-v var] format [arguments]
And TIL about sshpass(1).
The William S. Burroughs / Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy collaboration “Spare Ass Annie and Other Tales” is so, so good.
Today’s Ruby silliness: To get a current Date in UTC, you’ve got to Time.new.utc and extract the year, month, and day from that.
Today I am grateful for Zsh’s *(*) patterns.
Blrg. Burnt again looking for File.glob in Ruby.
Whoever thought that Dir.glob was the right place for it was wrong.
Still no ennui or schadenfreude emojis: blog.emojipedia.org/service-d…
time(2) lies! It’s all lies!
TIL that POSIX epoch time does not allow for leap seconds. Mind blown.
These are Zsh functions, but you can change them to Bash via the liberal application of quotation marks.
Fans of The Incomparable’s Old Movie Club should know that Get Carter (1971) and The Taking of Pelham One Two Three are on sale on iTunes for $5 each.
Hey, @chetcast, why don’t you add yourself to microcast.club
The current season’s most accurate name would be “cicada madness”.
This traffic cone has been here for years
2018/7/12
East side of Olgilvie Station @ Washington & Canal
“Computer, enhance.”
OMFSM, the disco balls were used.
“Chechov’s disco ball”
Why is there no “head desk" emoji?