Whimsical!
@hackalog @Postlight Whimsical!
➛Ftrain, by Paul Ford
January 2022
let's keep going with onboarding
Utterly wild but also bizarrely rejuvenating to be at this...
many marriage counselors suggest
many marriage counselors suggest
➛remote spontaneous huddling
remote spontaneous huddling
thoughtworks.com/...
➛thoughtworks.com/...
We can combine microservices with data lakes and have...
anything's a real tech concept if you have the nerve
Here's a Venn diagram of Rogan listeners and Covid hub...
“To the mooooooon...with coinbase”
Riley from Inside Out would be in college now.
Riley from Inside Out would be in college now.
➛He owns The Wall though (and I'm guessing Final Cut). I...
@Dougwhelan He owns The Wall though (and I'm guessing Final Cut). I swear to god if Radio KAOS gets pulled I'm switching to Tidal.
➛Who's next?
Who's next?
➛That said I'm pretty sure this is a bad solution.
@rsnous @jamescham That said I'm pretty sure this is a bad solution.
➛Maildir + mime attachments + headers for metadata is a...
@rsnous @jamescham Maildir + mime attachments + headers for metadata is a horrible mess but also a mess with tooling in every programming language, GUIDs, synchronization across servers, provably durable, the atomic unit (message) is inherently social, it scales, free tools, etc.
➛wow i forgot each one of those because i had to mute the...
@kevinmarks wow i forgot each one of those because i had to mute the threads
➛the code for this is here, however it's not what you want...
the code for this is here, however it's not what you want it to be github.com/...
➛sure!
@benlkeith sure! github.com/...
➛The bad thing with this process is you always find that...
The bad thing with this process is you always find that you've been thinking the same thoughts and making the exact same jokes for decades.
having them in email makes them sort of jump out as little...
having them in email makes them sort of jump out as little weird time capsules separate from this giant platform (and they kind of feel like "mine")
published
@ilan_peer published
➛I've been experimenting w/archiving everything as email ...
I've been experimenting w/archiving everything as email (it's filterable, searchable, searchable, handles rich data, lasts forever) and one experiment was to turn my twitter archive (most tweets deleted here) into a Maildir folder with 50k+ messages. It's...very, very surreal.
Searching for "RDF" in Slackmoji brings up 🤓...
Searching for "RDF" in Slackmoji brings up 🤓 (ne[rd-f]ace), which makes perfect sense, but for a moment I thought someone had crafted a really good burn.
➛Tweet
oh yeah this is beautifullll
Nah I'm pretty happy with the MiSTer FPGA minimig core.
Thought I just had: You know how sometimes you keep secrets...
Thought I just had: You know how sometimes you keep secrets from people to protect them—like bad truths about their exes, stuff like that? It makes you wonder what terrible truths your friends are hiding from you, that you'll go to your grave without knowing. Anyway, bedtime!
➛It's exceptionally good.
cc @limi obviously
AMIGA SCALA RAVE DEMO (cw flashing lights)
None really. Elisp is a beast but much config can be...
@waferbaby None really. Elisp is a beast but much config can be handled without it. The doom default keybindings are all the same as vim. A lot of emacs culture is now inside of org-mode, it's sort of the linky wiki-ey twingly code-ey metadocument format we always knew computers should do.
➛My god there isn't.
@younggalaxy My god there isn't.
➛You deserve to have someone else config complex package...
Doom just kinda works as I always wanted emacs to work....
The ability to list 100 files in a buffer and go "record...
@waferbaby The ability to list 100 files in a buffer and go "record macro...open the file...search for 1994...change to 1995...save...close...switch back to file list buffer...cursor down to next file...save macro" then auto-repeat 100x was huge for me before I learned to code.
➛I never took to modal editing. vim was maybe two years old...
@waferbaby I never took to modal editing. vim was maybe two years old when I first tried it; emacs was mature, had good perl/shell support, ran on MacOS 8, and has a great macro tool that was really useful for batch-editing 100s of HTML pages, which was my job AND hobby.
➛Yep, if things work don't worry. Doom is (mostly) a package...
@kjhealy @gtuckerkellogg Yep, if things work don't worry. Doom is (mostly) a package manager, and it does a great job tracking down and including the things you need (elisp AND non-emacs code and utilities) for really messy (i.e. programming) modes, increasing the rate of "that works without tinkering!"
➛I've been using emacs for twentycough years and was about...
I've been using emacs for twentycough years and was about to give up on it for an IDE until I found doom-emacs. Now I write prose, mess with Lisp, mail with notmuch, and produce docs in org wired up to R+ESS. It all...works. I donated! github.com/...
➛This is orthogonal to your thesis but I keep getting Elbow...
@younggalaxy This is orthogonal to your thesis but I keep getting Elbow and Bicep confused even though they're very different bands.
➛Congratulations!
@clockwerks Congratulations!
➛After you sign up for someone's newsletter they can no...
After you sign up for someone's newsletter they can no longer be your friend. You're a subscriber. Just how it is.
➛Whoops I meant @audubonsociety SORRY SORRY.
Whoops I meant @audubonsociety SORRY SORRY.
➛Yes, it was a rough week for the beenz, but our friend...
Climate! Nature! Birds! Webapps! Our friends at @audubon...
Climate! Nature! Birds! Webapps! Our friends at @audubon work with @postlight and they are smart, good bird people. (Meaning they love birds not that they are half-human half-bird archaeopterapeople, at least not the team we work with.) Work for them! careers-audubon.icims.com/...
➛Have done exactly this! Also good is "woman crying" or "man...
@parismartineau Have done exactly this! Also good is "woman crying" or "man crying."
➛extreme sickos t-shirt in the window
Argh it's too real
@PonchoRebound Argh it's too real
➛Neil Young got serious about Covid symptoms when his voice...
HOURS
Time to boot up the Pono.
I hate when they talk about “Lorne” as if anyone outside of...
@PonchoRebound I hate when they talk about “Lorne” as if anyone outside of comedy could ever give a shit.
➛It's weird to live in a panaudicon but you can also stop...
It's weird to live in a panaudicon but you can also stop nearly every family argument by yelling “okay Google play bagpipe songs!”
➛Oh that's a great idea, I'll be able to do some really...
Oh also pdf-tools-install, really something else to have...
I don't know if everyone knows this but Doom Emacs has...
"Just head to the VT320 workstation labelled HEALY, I've...
Actually I think I would be able to derail you from...
Fine, then you can help me understand logistic regression.
I know I can be annoying on here with my dumb puns and I...
I know I can be annoying on here with my dumb puns and I want to thank you all for your 🐻🐻🐻🐻🐜🐜.
➛Goodnight stocks. Goodnight boom. Goodnight to the charts...
Goodnight stocks. Goodnight boom. Goodnight to the charts jumping over the moon.
➛more and more people are saying this
@chrisalbon more and more people are saying this
➛You know I never heard this once in my life and this is...
And a long-dormant neural cluster lights up super bright.
Also maybe the kids' most-worn t-shirts.
@jfeckstein Also maybe the kids' most-worn t-shirts.
➛5.0 has the new dream codec so share it.
What
@richziade @Choire What
➛Great idea!
@skybondsor Great idea!
➛Tweet
At times my brain cannot calm down until I make up lyrics...
At times my brain cannot calm down until I make up lyrics for instrumental 70s TV themes. I finally solved "Angela (Theme from Taxi)," which is:
Gonna drive this cab all over in New York tonight.
Gonna drive this cab all over 'til I get it right.
youtube.com/...
➛Gonna drive this cab all over in New York tonight.
Gonna drive this cab all over 'til I get it right.
youtube.com/...
Also if you know someone who wants to come to a six-person...
Also if you know someone who wants to come to a six-person startup and synthesize feedback from early partners into product requirements, as our first customer success person, DM away.
➛Different product.
Testing out the new brand voice in public, feedback welcome.
Glad to see you posting through it.
Oh boy. Hang in there!
@waferbaby Oh boy. Hang in there!
➛I did share that picture with my wife with the words “guess...
I did share that picture with my wife with the words “guess what?”
➛Scanwell
@noahfeehan @avram Scanwell
➛Scanwell
@Brooklyn_Events Scanwell
➛At work! A big, normal mass-produced brand.
Took a rapid test today where you need to download an app,...
Took a rapid test today where you need to download an app, watch 5 mins of videos, and then wait through a 15-minute countdown before it “scans” the test. It also uses TWO pink lines for the control but doesn't warn you at all or document this anywhere. This is a negative test.
Barely three years.
@lastnightsdinnr Barely three years.
➛You really only get asymptote in a dek once per career.
@stevenbjohnson @billwasik You really only get asymptote in a dek once per career.
➛Oh yeah you're safe. Not alike at all.
God that's true
@hahajohnx God that's true
➛We've been working out what the most boring version of...
We've been working out what the most boring version of Fortnite could be and my son has the best one so far: You parachute onto the island and are required to grow a tree to 125 meters.
➛is moon big dangerous moon so big risks huge moon how bad
is moon big dangerous
moon so big risks
huge moon how bad
➛moon so big risks
huge moon how bad
Those are also strengths.
yeah it's a mental mess. inside emacs there's been...
@doriantaylor yeah it's a mental mess. inside emacs there's been strokes-mode and but I admit that mouse gestures are too far down the engelbertian tunnel for text-based me
➛Oh yeah that one is truly very tempting but I worry about...
@doriantaylor Oh yeah that one is truly very tempting but I worry about going in so deep on emacs that I lose the ability to communicate with humans.
➛I mean it's one of life's true pleasures, it's just that...
@shakespeherian @markpopham I mean it's one of life's true pleasures, it's just that sometimes you don't want to debug your fonts in order to get the modeline to show the volume icon.
➛I was just about to bail on Linux for a Mac Mini but I...
@markpopham I was just about to bail on Linux for a Mac Mini but I think this tipped me back the other way.
➛Yeah me too. I really appreciate its little cheatsheet and...
@markpopham Yeah me too. I really appreciate its little cheatsheet and its sense of calm, but also it keeps enough of Gnome around that you're able to just like, fix sound when it breaks or take a screenshot without contorting, so it becomes invisible really quickly.
➛Wow not even 9am first day back and look where we are.
My work these days post-CEOhood is more goal-focused (but...
My work these days post-CEOhood is more goal-focused (but with some different goals) and less reactive so I find myself setting up little workspaces and notebooks to finish things. Thus a tiling WM where alt-tab takes me to a workspace instead of flopping between apps is nice.
➛I know no one cares but Regolith on Ubuntu + nord theme is...
I know no one cares but Regolith on Ubuntu + nord theme is a nice way to do a tiling window manager without plowing through a pile of Arch wiki pages where no one will tell you the default modifier key because you should set that yourself. regolith-linux.org
➛I'm sure it's great! I just have a deadline.
@RachelFersh @toomuchnick I'm sure it's great! I just have a deadline.
➛FINALLY Warcraft characters can have LinkedIn profiles.
Welcome! We're glad you're here.
Let's gooooo!
@phyllisstein Let's gooooo!
➛Depends on the kid but personally I would blast this...
@ClaraJeffery Depends on the kid but personally I would blast this through the car stereo Bluetooth and bet they come fully awake within three seconds.
youtu.be/...
➛youtu.be/...
You can also download everything I think. It's a maximum...
@brianjoseff @jamescham You can also download everything I think. It's a maximum amount of pure “huh” kind of project.
➛You get a qr code that you upload that is just for you.
@brianjoseff @jamescham You get a qr code that you upload that is just for you.
➛So you could just have one regular unixy file somewhere and...
@jamescham So you could just have one regular unixy file somewhere and everyone could talk to it using regular unixy apps but compiled to wasm, and then you can just...skip 99% of the cloud.
➛Not business model exactly but going beyond "rich client"...
@jamescham Not business model exactly but going beyond "rich client" stuff—this is a publishing platform with loose crypto aspects that uses WASM sqlite in the browser to access remote sqlite files using range requests in HTTP to fake the filesystem. ansiwave.net/...
➛This is a fascinating look into the vast, ad-hoc,...
This is a fascinating look into the vast, ad-hoc, completely bananas world of Japanese arcade cabinet imports by @cecianasta.
wired.com/...
➛wired.com/...
Eternal refers to the running time.
@maureenflaherty @livlab Eternal refers to the running time.
➛Not to brag but I want everyone to know that I scored this...
it is harder at first but once you are perfect, ultimately...
Not much to say besides, There's a lot going on here.
God it does keep unrolling right?
@chadchabot God it does keep unrolling right?
➛Hope he doesn't have a criminal record.
Hope he doesn't have a criminal record.
➛Important people are waiting, friends.
@aboard @waxpancake Important people are waiting, friends.
➛Hmmm.
Been a few weeks.
Congratulations! That was a great run!
@gabrielroth Congratulations! That was a great run!
➛Tossup for me between the McGraw-Hill bookstore or the...
Tossup for me between the McGraw-Hill bookstore or the Dover Books Bookstore. reddit.com/...
➛I hate when the little puffs of smoke come out the USB...
I hate when the little puffs of smoke come out the USB ports.
➛Because I wanted to check out one last thing before I went...
Because I wanted to check out one last thing before I went to bed, I plugged a 12v adapter into a 5v thing, and now I am an idiot who no longer has a 5v thing.
➛Ah man that's good. Gmail's imap is...something else.
@waferbaby Ah man that's good. Gmail's imap is...something else.
➛"Hey if you're Mr. Burial I'm really sorry but the truck...
"Hey if you're Mr. Burial I'm really sorry but the truck with all your albums caught fire and we could only salvage this this one incredibly scratched album of a person singing two lines from a song, soft coughing, and rain."
"NOT a problem."
➛"NOT a problem."
gmaileer is pretty good at pulling gmail into usable...
@waferbaby gmaileer is pretty good at pulling gmail into usable maildir folders and then syncing back to gmail if you like mutt or want to search with notmuch (which is GREAT)
➛(I retweeted this because the new Burial is out.)
(I retweeted this because the new Burial is out.)
➛I like Syncthing, have used it in the past with friends....
@waferbaby I like Syncthing, have used it in the past with friends. Curious to see it again. Usually organize files over Christmas holiday, and in general have been doing more hybrid cloud/local stuff: Mirroring gmail and reading it locally, downloading photos, etc.
➛dropbox got better at it. syncthing seems okay although i...
My entire life was 90% JavaScript.
My entire life was 90% JavaScript.
➛I've been migrating from cloud services to Syncthing and it...
I've been migrating from cloud services to Syncthing and it takes a while to sync all my archived code projects. Today I removed all the "node_modules" dirs, which saved only a few gigs, but took me from 1.5 million files (slow, inotify limits) to having 150k files (faaaaast).
➛i'm afraid to rewatch this show because the bagpipe scene...
@halkyardo @kevinbaker i'm afraid to rewatch this show because the bagpipe scene was so unbelievably funny in my brain that i just feel utter joy whenever i think of it and i don't want to risk changing that
➛your wordle tweets make me want to murdle
your wordle tweets make me want to murdle
➛when i went back this morning and re-read that i couldn't...
@ColinTBrowne when i went back this morning and re-read that i couldn't believe the cruelty
➛but should it
can ezmlm even send html
Thank you!!!!
@marigolds Thank you!!!!
➛I am ready to do a murdle.
@toomuchnick I am ready to do a murdle.
➛I am once again grateful to editor @anthonylydgate for just...
I am once again grateful to editor @anthonylydgate for just going in and throwing away so many trash paragraphs and to illustrator @miss_eleneous for making the baby smartphone's diaper so big and squishy.
➛Tweet
The Object did not give me the Experience I wanted, despite...
The Object did not give me the Experience I wanted, despite all the Enhancements. wired.com/...
➛That sounds like an undergraduate thesis classic.
@additionaltext That sounds like an undergraduate thesis classic.
➛I once got on a flight and all of the passengers seemed,...
I once got on a flight and all of the passengers seemed, well...unusual to me—until I figured out that they were each actually constructing their own identities in opposition to a culture—mine!—that devalued them. That's when I realized that we were flying on a Diane Airbus.
➛I should finish writing a draft for Wired. But first I...
I should finish writing a draft for Wired. But first I should see if the Internet Archive has a dataset that is just *other* Internet archives. (It does.) archive.org/...
➛What are the best introductory videos to complicated...
What are the best introductory videos to complicated things/disciplines/subjects you've found online? The more animated and goofy the better.
➛Steele dossier dropped midline, what a night.
The abyss just asked me if I had a staring problem.
The abyss just asked me if I had a staring problem.
➛Bobby it's freaking Barbra Streisand
@xxbobbyzxx Bobby it's freaking Barbra Streisand
➛But *I* havent
@mariabustillos @phyllisstein But *I* havent
➛Okay first of all that's art and second or all...
@livlab Okay first of all that's art and second or all @maureenflaherty and I gonna look at that photo together and talk about our life goals
➛You're the babysitter now Daniel.
@phyllisstein You're the babysitter now Daniel.
➛See that's the thing to just utterly succumb to ones own...
@mariabustillos @phyllisstein See that's the thing to just utterly succumb to ones own talent WHILE SOBER can you even imagine?
➛Listen I love Maria, she is my sister, but if I could have...
@phyllisstein @mariabustillos Listen I love Maria, she is my sister, but if I could have a red room with my awards and red books I would do it in five seconds.
➛I just showed the children how her house is a mall. And...
@phyllisstein I just showed the children how her house is a mall. And explained that she lived on Newkirk Ave, just like us! They were confused until I said, “have you ever heard the term, ‘extra’?“
➛I know the soundtrack and the bashevis singer story
@phyllisstein I know the soundtrack and the bashevis singer story
➛You know I've never seen it.
@phyllisstein You know I've never seen it.
➛Tweet
Five Emmys. Four Grammys (of ten total). One Oscar in a...
Five Emmys. Four Grammys (of ten total). One Oscar in a lucite case (of 2). Don't see the Tony? IDK.
➛I've been looking at this photo for *10 years*. It...
Some evenings you clean the kitchen top to bottom and you...
Some evenings you clean the kitchen top to bottom and you deserve to listen to the album "Guilty" (1980) w/Barry Gibb and just enjoy this photo.
Meanwhile the stuff on the console was pretty good?
I just rewatched it too and this melted the whole of my...
Oh I know those pages VERY well.
@ShortFormErnie Oh I know those pages VERY well.
➛!!!
This is a gift
You're going to see a CV, a dithered photo of someone...
You're going to see a CV, a dithered photo of someone hiking, an unpublished book with unusual pagination, a list of PhD students that concludes in 2002, and a section called “Ramblings” abandoned in 1999 and picked up for six weeks in November 2016.
➛When a professor's URL is like, that's how you know it's...
When a professor's URL is like, foxkeller.philosophy.saintnormanscollege.edu/... that's how you know it's going to be good.
➛Helpful words from @kjhealy from DATA VISUALIZATION: A...
Complain all you want but you node what this was.
Complain all you want but you node what this was.
➛I'd love to tell some knowledge graph jokes but they're way...
I'd love to tell some knowledge graph jokes but they're way too edgy.
➛Whenever I use ggplot2 I find there is some facet I have...
Whenever I use ggplot2 I find there is some facet I have not considered.
➛one thing emacs is, is MUCH EASIER to use because of a...
MiSTer FPGA Doom Emacs + org-mode + ESS + R + tidyverse +...
Transit maps used to be so cool.
That was a great run. Congrats and thanks!
Man @mathowie quits and THE NEXT DAY attachments and...
He did such good foundational work in our misbegotten...
@avantgame @tomcoates He did such good foundational work in our misbegotten industry, and was also such a fearless advocate for human rights during the Trump years, I respect him so! He also owns a dancing electronic llama.
➛Boo hoo Swinburne didn't want to be your friend, what a...
Boo hoo Swinburne didn't want to be your friend, what a tragedy. 80% of people I've known for years think I'm named Mark.
➛I'm 1/2way through the Education of Henry Adams and getting...
I'm 1/2way through the Education of Henry Adams and getting a little tired of his bullshit.
➛TOM I AM NOT MOCKING
@tomcoates TOM I AM NOT MOCKING
➛look we ALL owe a big debt of gratitude to @tomcoates
look we ALL owe a big debt of gratitude to @tomcoates wired.com/...
➛Happy almost birthday!
@JessicaFKane Happy almost birthday!
➛oh my
People are saying we should get a dog like Jack.
@maureenflaherty People are saying we should get a dog like Jack.
➛Yah for that one the cropping isn't enough. Up to about...
Sorry
@ChappellTracker Sorry
➛Are you in the UFO zine collection? I have found some...
@ChappellTracker Are you in the archive.org UFO zine collection? I have found some treasures.
➛Objectively better for accessibility and readability across...
Whitney...I love to laugh.
@whitneymcn Whitney...I love to laugh.
➛Also: Everything should be ePub ASAP especially everything...
Also: Everything should be ePub ASAP especially everything scholarly.
➛If extremely dense letter-sized PDFs are messing you up on...
If extremely dense letter-sized PDFs are messing you up on a Remarkable2 or other ePaper tool, you can use mupdf and go:
$ mutool poster -y2 IPCC.pdf split.pdf
And it will split every page into two. Now the IPCC report is 8,000 readable pages instead of 4,000 miniscule pages.
$ mutool poster -y2 IPCC.pdf split.pdf
And it will split every page into two. Now the IPCC report is 8,000 readable pages instead of 4,000 miniscule pages.
