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?

One of my favorite things about *nix is that stdin, stdout, and stderr are nothing more than user-space conventions supported by open(2) and dup(2) using the lowest numbered unused filehandle.

C++ is such a pain in terms of having to continually think of storage and object lifetime.

I pay 3 podcast networks and 1 individual podcast to openly share their work. I hope the walled-off networks shrivel up and die. twitter.com/marcoarme…

Cherry Cola Oreos are horrid.

Different ways of venting political anger: overcast.fm/+Mala3UcW…

If you are an Amazon customer (and who isn’t these days), you should listen to this week’s Reply All: overcast.fm/+DzGWWaMx…

Finally deleted the 40+ GB of apps in ~/Music/iTunes/iTunes Media/Mobile Applications. Sad that app syncing in iTunes is gone; all that wasted bandwidth for getting the same thing on multiple devices.

I love Inconceivable!. The amount of work that Dan Moren puts into the show is incredible. “Cheese or Polearm?" forever.

Today’s lesson: On systemd systems, override the postgresql-10 service’s idea of the value of PGDATA before running postgresql-10-setup initdb.

Even if initdb succeeds, postgresql-10-setup will fail if the service’s PGDATA does not look like a database directory.

Email needs emoji reactions.

Clever of @TurbocastApp to use chapter markers for ads. Dynamically added ads preclude chapters and mean that they’re not at fixed points in the podcast.