Pigeon in the convention center. #OSCON
Watching @manton do a nice job on presenting Micro.blog at Refresh Austin.
If you’re posting messages to Slack, don’t count on response headers being 7-bit clean. 😖
When your error-reporting mechanism runs into an error so that you lose all information about the original error… ARGHHH!
Listen.
🔊 [the memory palace: Notes on a Plaque, Still Imagined](https://overcast.fm/ M8y4bx4)
Discovered that I had an old executable of HTML Tidy in my PATH that would not run because it was a PPC binary. 😳
Just donated to the Lavabit defense fund. https://rally.org/lavabit
Warning: Tonight’s performance of thecrownlessking.com features FOG, SMOKE, LOUD NOISES, and EPIC DRAGONS.
Awesome WiFi SID: “FBI Monitoring Van #3032”.
Semi-annual reminder to read http://www.ftrain.com/wwic.html
Kill the blinky parts of the Web: set image.animation_mode to “none” in #Firefox.
Anyone have a script for maintaining a list of #git repos and SHA1s and directories, kinda like submodules, but without a supermodule repo?
Awesome story, if you’re at all into #animation: http://99percentinvisible.org/post/56808849827/episode-85-noble-effort
More Instantly Better Vim #vim #damianconway #oscon #tarball http:/is.gd/IBV2013
The Department of Defense’s Encyclopedia of Ethical Failure [www.dod.mil]
Piping into cat is useful for disabling tty behavior of commands, e.g. «ps | cat» to stop ps from paying attention to $COLUMNS. #shell #unix
Thanks to @dalton for saying on the ADN podcast that URL shorteners break the Web.
Getting a Canadian work visa is a lot more work than getting an Australian one was a decade ago.
If you’re to the point of using «set -e» in your #bash script, you probably want to also use «set -o pipefail», otherwise your script won’t die if you run «false | cat».
I love Little Snitch. GoogleSoftwareUpdateAgent isn’t allowed network access of any kind.