This may sound boring at first, but it is short. Stay through the ABBA anecdote. overcast.fm/+LGq5Afqy…
Since I’m on this weird protocol trail, it turns out there’s a /dev/null protocol, the Discard protocol on TCP port 9.
Correction: QOTD protocol is TCP port 17. Port 13 is the Daytime protocol, which isn’t any more useful.
TIL about the QOTD protocol, which takes up TCP port 13.
Still no ennui or schadenfreude emoji. twitter.com/Emojipedi…
Perl: ( {} ) x 5 produces 5 references to the same hash, not 5 separate hashes. Grrr.
It’s one of the best kinds of days that only happens on rare occasions.
It’s code deletion day!
Looks like with Vim v8, you can no longer «:call SetFileTypeSH(‘bash’)» to override the shell variant.
Instead you need to invoke «:call dist#ft#SetFileTypeSH(‘bash’)».
New Meat Beat Manifesto album is mostly a pleasant rehash of past material, but is lacking in new ideas. (Bought it anyway, of course.) 🎵
Apparently, uploads to Overcast with quotes in the file name silently fail. Removed quotes, upload succeeded.
International statistic of the year: 69 Americans killed by lawnmowers per year: overcast.fm IPMapwVzM
My entry for the micro.blog bookathon: The Making of the Atomic Bomb.
The first third of the book is a history of early 20th century physics.
Also, from this book, I learned that Neils Bohr was a badass. 📚
I do not like the Firefox v57 theme on macOS. The sharp angled tabs drive me nuts.
For me, High Sierra is better than Sierra, though I held out for the .1 release.
Use the inspector in your browser to turn off .container { width: 980px } in Github and everything is so much better.
Dang. IBM mainframes and PowerPC processors are vulnerable. access.redhat.com/security/…
I think that for the first time since 2006, I won’t be attending OSCON. Thinking of one of the Big Nerd Ranch iOS bootcamps, instead.
What does one test out a new music playing app with but some BMC: soundcloud.com/breakmast…
Time again to listen to what the Puritans tried to do with Christmas: overcast.fm/+BFNpj_67… (8m42s)