Man, these maps sure are detailed. It’s like one could have a car navigate around with all this information.

idc i use dark sky

IDs in Wallet 🤔

“You’ll hear irrelevant, personalized music…” wait, what?

Live Text? I could use that occasionally.

Focus changes: useful for people who let themselves get inundated with junk notifications like what’s trending on Reddit. Me? Eh.

SharePlay: we want to eat away at one of Discord’s niche

“wide spectrum” sounds like a neat spin on “noise cancellation off”.

WWDC 2021: Oops All Heads

I wonder how much use 🧮 (abacus) gets. I think there’s a page that describes emoji usage, but I’d need to look it up.

There are three ninja emojis in this post.

And now I sit myself down to a pleasant afternoon of nervously wondering how similar liquid-at-room-temperature coconut oil is to coconut-derived MCT oil.

I put my mouse on my Mac on the right side for reasons. My Windows machine always has the mouse on the right. Wanted to go Back on my Mac and…pressed mouse4, just like I’d do on Windows. Muscle-memory prompts are…interesting.

I wrote “I don’t think price exists.” in a text document and predicted that later on I would be totally and utterly mystified what I meant by it originally. Turns out, that prediction was entirely correct.

One of the problems with trying to get to inbox zero is that some of the older messages deserve to be saved but don’t really belong in any kind of final resting place…

@niplav@niplav.github.io Re: Liber Augmen: Not a whole lot of it is new to me either, but I thought the method of delivery (a single page full of short descriptions of things) is super interesting as a mindspace-delivery device

@niplav@niplav.github.io I like it, but you probably shouldn’t take only my word for it. I suspect it’s piggybacking a lot off of how much I liked its SNES predecessor and know/like the vibe of * Mana games. Also, the last three JRPGs I’ve played were Dragon’s Dogma, NieR:Automata, and…Chrono Trigger. I don’t know what’s good and new in JRPGs ever since Square left Nintendo. I’m just glad they’re back.

Been playing Trials of Mana on the weekend, but for some reason I’ve been humming music from Secret of Mana during the rest of the week.

@niplav@niplav.github.io Speaking of ontologies, you’ve heard of https://www.liberaugmen.com/, right?

@niplav@niplav.github.io Re: … < sharing ontologies: There’s an idea. If I want to write something, anything, documenting the words and concepts I use isn’t the dumbest idea.

That said, I wouldn’t buy orange-blossom water just to dump into my tea. It’s much more useful as a cheesecake-batter addition, but in order to draw it down in a timely fashion I’d have to bake two cheesecakes a week.

Discovery of the day: if you have some extra orange-blossom water lying around that you want to use up before it goes bad, you could do worse than to splash some in your cup of black tea.

@mox@tilde.town welcome back!

old, bold, foretold

@niplav@niplav.github.io Ah, that clears it up.

Current earworms: Secret of Evermore music

@niplav@niplav.github.io “adrationalism” is probably better. “irrationalism” sounds like a pie-appreciation club for math nerds.

I love it when an app comes together

According to my fish history, the previous post was not the first one of mine that started with “In case you were wondering…” and I’m not sure how to feel about that.

In case you were wondering, taking a couple pairs of damp shorts fresh from the washing machine into a room and pointing a fan at them will raise the room’s humidity.

@niplav@niplav.github.io I wouldn’t disagree with your characterization of people who’re interested in radical life extension, but their messaging, generally, seems to not mention “adding life to your years” at all. “Live to be 150” doesn’t sound all that great if you’re going to have 15 years of being in your 80s, so to speak.

@niplav@niplav.github.io yeah, normal signatures suck, too. I’m just not convinced the change in tradeoffs is worth it. Oh, and no, it didn’t come off as too mean.

@niplav@niplav.github.io I sign a lot less stuff these days now that my phone can pretend to be a credit card. Also: an impostor with a quantum computer can’t pretend to sign documents on my behalf…

@niplav@niplav.github.io Seems like most of the (radical) life extension people are interested in adding years to their lives, but agnostic about adding life to their years. “Be old longer” doesn’t appeal to a lot of people.

Currently imagining Lady Gaga retrieving her French bulldogs the John Wick way.

Unexpected benefit of going from Mojave to Big Sur on my main machine: being able to see the sun rise over Big Sur in glorious 5K

the longer my teammates and I bang our heads on this Stupid Error™, the less bad I feel for not having been able to solve it myself

All I wanna do / is go to bed / I got a feelin’ / I’d just rather be dead…

@niplav@niplav.github.io ah, ty

I want to listen to music, but quite honestly the silence sounds better.

@niplav@niplav.github.io Re: selection pressure against meditation: go on…

@niplav@niplav.github.io Re: not guaranteed to see it: I wouldn’t have bothered waving hi across the Internet if I hadn’t gotten bored one day and grepped my webserver logs for twtxt users.

Never thought I’d want a 6K monitor, but I’m running VS Code and it sure would be nice to have a little bit more width. The proper layout for the task I’ve been doing is four editors wide, plus some more space on the left for a file picker.

@niplav@niplav.github.io Re: rats: YOU ARE NOT ALONE

Did a 20-minute meditation session. Didn’t achieve enlightenment, but I managed to think up the kernel of a moderately interesting blog post.

Sure, you can make a bunch of predictions at the beginning of the year and calculate the Brier score for last year’s predictions, but all you need to do to feel that kind of cloud-dispelling mental work is this: go pants shopping, think of how good you’ll be at losing fat in light of all your previous new-year fat-loss attempts, and choose between pants with a 34″ inseam and pants with a 35″ inseam.

In case you’re reading my twtxt.txt file directly or are otherwise paying close attention to tweet dates, it’s absolutely true: I haven’t been funny in two months.

sneeze

pls send help i’m using micro in visual studio code on windows and ^e and ^q are being gobbled up by vscode and i can’t quit

When you take stretch breaks every hour it’s a good idea to get up and step away from the keyboard. It is less obvious what you should do when the stretch-break notification comes and you’ve been using a standing desk the entire time.

And by “iOS”, I meant “iPadOS”. Scribble (the handwriting recognition) is good enough to be interesting, but none of the other features called to me.

In case you had any doubts, iOS 14 was shipped according to the hardware release schedule, not according to when the P1 bug count got to a tolerably-low level.

@hjertnes@hjertnes.social There was. New watches and non-pro iPads.

Wait, removing the power adapter from Apple Watch? How do you charge the thing? Someone else’s Qi charger?

Apple Watch and iPad today. OK, one out of two ain’t bad.

It works better if you start up its database first.

A collaboration never made: Simon and Garfunkel with Sam Harris, “It’s All Happening Within the Consciousness”

@reednj@twtxt.xyz still alive!

Bought some new pants and washed them. They’re hang-dry only, so I took them into my bedroom and pointed a fan at them to hurry the process along. Several hours later, my bedroom still smells like new pants.

OmniFocus/iOS screenshot. Originally 40 KB. OxiPNG: 30 KB. avifenc -l (lossless): 89 KB. 🤔

Getting around my current phone’s lack of a 3.5mm jack by…listening to music on my SIMless old phone. I feel like I’m cheating somehow.

@hjertnes@hjertnes.social What are you doing to have wikilinks in Hugo?

Old and busted: screenshots of source code. New hotness: https://github.com/Aloxaf/silicon/

ra ra rasputin / lover of the demoscene

Six programmers, seven preferred Git workflows.

@mdosch@mdosch.de Oh wow. I thought Apple was the only org out there shipping zsh by default. What was their rationale for not defaulting to bash?

@hjertnes@hjertnes.social rebel.

Unexpectedly amusing: my 24-line .zsh_history. (chsh is near the end.)

@mdosch@mdosch.de Right. I can only last about 15–25 minutes in a 80°C sauna. An ambient temperature of 90°F (32°C) is also unpleasant, but not nearly as bad. I’ll use my iPad indoors when it’s 90°F during the peak of the heat of the day, but I wouldn’t want to take it into a 90°C sauna.

@mdosch@mdosch.de I’m American. All I know about 90°C is that it‘s a reasonable sauna temperature; the literature tends to focus on saunas at 80°C and 100°C. I haven’t been in a sauna in months, and my body misses it.

iPads under moderate load (streaming video) get surprisingly warm to the touch when ambient is 90°.

Second achievement of the hour: Ulysses Inbox Zero.

Achievement of the hour: https://tot.rocks/-dots Zero.

I want to like https://amp.rs/, but both its color schemes look horribad on a 256-color terminal (the most Terminal.app supports). The only terminal I have installed that supports lots of colors is…Visual Studio Code.

Intrusive bad idea of the day: installing the iPadOS beta so I can use Scribble.

Woke up after six hours of uneasy dreams and thought “at least I haven’t been transformed into a giant bug.”

Are we back? Probably not forever and ever, but we’re back for now.

Bumpy ride in the webhosting universe, here. Hang on, folks.

Previous best: plugging a USB foot switch into the iPad to make it turn the page.

Best setup yet: Books on iPad with voice control on; typing notes in a text editor on a separate device. Say “swipe left” to turn the page, with no command-tabbing needed.

Disappointment of the day: Despite what https://frog.tips/#429 says, gopher://frog.tips/GENUINEFROG appears to be non-functional.

@lahvak@lahvak.github.io I use this tiling WM for macOS that also works on Windows: https://code.visualstudio.com/

@johanbove@johanbove.info I can’t listen to podcasts and contribute to open source at the same time.

I brushed my hand against my laptop’s touchpad at the wrong time, in the wrong way, and moved some icon around in the Dock but didn’t catch which. I had to stare at the icons and try and figure out which one was out of place immediately because I hate having perma-pinned Dock icons in the wrong place

Of all the updates in today’s brew update && brew upgrade, the last one I expected was an update to a game originally implemented in the late ’70s. And yet, GOFAI/dungeon is now at 4.1.

My USB power brick says to cycle the charge in it every so often, so I had it keep my iPad powered up away from any outlet. Fully drained it and plugged it in to a powered-off computer to recharge. Overnight, it’s only recharged…halfway. Didn’t expect the recharge to be this slow.

Imagine the world when we have old, gray-bearded Millenials managing old legacy JavaScript-based systems. They shall sing “Den-o! The last dinosaur…” when griping about them. Their younger co-workers will not understand.

Surprise of the day: the “you sent an e-mail” sound in Outlook for iOS really benefits from a decent amount of stereo separation. Kind of a pity that its separatedness will kind of be like an easter egg.

Today, I’m enjoying how I’m not craving cheesecake, unlike yesterday.

Evidence against “Apple wants to position the iPad as a proper computer”: ⌘⌫ does not delete a currently-being-viewed message.

Achievement of the weekend: Ulysses Inbox Zero.

@lahvak@lahvak.github.io Maybe the exact answer is, like, something divided by 7.

In case you were wondering, using a mouse on iPadOS is fun for about five minutes.

Wise choice of the evening: deciding to pause Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol when sipping my can of La Croix.

@tux0r@rosaelefanten.org holy moly, ed? I thought I’d be the only ed user I’d ever hear about. (2) http://www.catb.org/esr/src/ should be fine in Dropbox, too, right?

@von@tilde.town once I read the manual and found out that the current line was the last line, all I needed to do was type «d\nw\nq\n». So glad I took the vim path instead of the emacs path.

I’m using Blink SSH on my iPad and I have an entry in known_hosts that I need to get rid of. I do not have vi available. I do have ed available. This will be fun.

Why you should use monotonic clocks and timestamps to calculate durations: https://imgur.com/gallery/InD4qLv

@freemor@freemor.homelinux.net ok, that sounds suspicious.

@freemor@freemor.homelinux.net Freenode has been doing this for over a decade. The next time you connect, check your server messages. They explain this.