Scroll Through Every Mac Desktop & Laptop Ever Made
The Mac turned 40 this week, and if you’re still on an Apple history kick, there’s a fun website that’s worth exploring called Mac40th. Mac40th.com showcases every desktop and portable Mac ever made by Apple in a continuous stream of Macs, displayed in random order. But it’s not just Macs, interspersed with tons of photos, … Read More ⌘ Read more

On my blog: Toots 🦣 from 01/22 to 01/26 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2024/01/26/week.html #linkdump #mastodon #socialmedia #week

Another tea party: how a US chemist’s salty theory sparked a diplomatic row between the US and UK
Professor Michelle Francl stirred the pot this week when she asserted that, scientifically, tea should have salt in it. ⌘ Read more

Getting warmer tomorrow and the next week or so, hope most of the snow melts so that I can head out and walk in the forest again - I miss that.

Update on my Fibre to the Premise upgrade (FTTP). NBN installer came out last week to install the NTD and Utility box, after some umming and arring, we figured out the best place to install it. However this mean he wasn’t able to look it up to the Fibre in the pit, and required a 2nd team to come up and trench a new trench and conduit and use that to feed Fibre from the pit to the utility box.

I rang up my ISP to find out when this 2nd team was booked, only to discover to my horror and the horror of my ISP that this was booked a month out on the 2rd Feb 2024! 😱

After a nice small note from my provider to NBN, suddenly I get a phone call and message from an NBN team that do trenching to say it would be done on Saturday (today). That got completed today (despite the heavy rain).

Now all that’s left is a final NBN tech to come and hook the two fibre pieces together and “light it up”! 🥳

On my blog: Toots 🦣 from 01/15 to 01/19 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2024/01/19/week.html #linkdump #mastodon #socialmedia #week

Jetway Unveils 3.5” SBC with Dual 2.5GbE Ports and Triple 4K@60Hz Display Support
Jetway unveiled this week the JF35-ADN1 which is a 3.5” SubCompact single-board computer powered by the Intel Processor N97 CPU. This new embedded device aims at the field of industrial robotics payment systems, machine vision and beyond with its DDR5 memory support and extensive I/O interfaces. The product announcement highlights that the JF35-ADN1 is configurable […] ⌘ Read more

On my blog: Toots 🦣 from 01/08 to 01/12 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2024/01/12/week.html #linkdump #mastodon #socialmedia #week

Muscles are made in the kitchen
This Christmas, I got a cool gift – a door pull-up bar. I wanted it because I do (Freeletics) workouts two or three times per week without any equipment (except some resistance bands I got a while ago), and I thought pull-ups would add some variety. Plus, I heard they’re good for working out different muscles like the back, arms, and grip. ⌘ Read more

On my blog: Toots 🦣 from 01/01 to 01/05 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2024/01/05/week.html #linkdump #mastodon #socialmedia #week

Moved more snow today than ever before. Terrace is now ready for use. -10c out, tomorrow we’ll sit there with the portable fire pit, make some food on it :) this week has been crazy, but now it’s weekend and time to relax a bit.

** New year **
The last weeks of 2023 have been very enjoyable. Other than having to deal with a cascade of car issues, there’s been a lot of time to hang out with the partner and kids, wander around outside, and poke at fun personal projects…and I mean, work, too, but…you know.

The other evening I pulled together a fun Markov chain toy. It isn’t anything fancy, but I wanted the ability to feed a madlib style script to the program and have it use that as a template to fill in. The resulting program is beak and … ⌘ Read more

Wow, we can get up to a meter of snow in a very short time here, proper snowstorm! Exciting! Also next week the temp drops, cold from siberia comes here, so it’ll probably stick around for a while. :)

On my blog: Toots 🦣 from 12/25 to 12/29 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/12/29/week.html #linkdump #mastodon #socialmedia #week

After losing crops to floods, banana famers now face an even greater risk
Queensland growers are on high alert this week with devastating floods increasing the possible spread of Panama TR4 fungal disease — the greatest threat to banana production worldwide. ⌘ Read more

On my blog: Toots 🦣 from 12/18 to 12/22 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/12/22/week.html #linkdump #mastodon #socialmedia #week

MC in the US: OSFC, SF, Seattle, Microsoft

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I attended the Open Source Firmware Conference (OSFC) on Oct 10-12 in
Sunnyvale, spent a long weekend in San Francisco, took a very long
train ride to Seattle, spent a week in the Seattle area, and held an
intimate talk at Microsoft. Managed to meet friends, drink some nice
beverages, and even see a show but came home with a heavy heart. Then
tried to relax in the cottage.

On my blog: Toots 🦣 from 12/11 to 12/15 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/12/15/week.html #linkdump #mastodon #socialmedia #week

Looking forward to losing the muscle memory in my fingers of entering passwords into forms during my two week vacation.

On my blog: Toots 🦣 from 12/04 to 12/08 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/12/08/week.html #linkdump #mastodon #socialmedia #week

The Untitled Nerdy Chat Show kicks off next week! Be a part of it!
Buckle up, Buttercup. The Lunduke Journal has one heck of an announcement for you: Starting one week from today (Wednesday, December 13th at 12pm Central Time) a new, weekly, live chat show will kick off — the aptly named “Untitled Nerdy Chat Show”. ⌘ Read more

Beyond the deadline: What I learned from a recent taskforce experience
The taskforce I was part of the last weeks is finally done! The deadline for the production deployment was met and today also a knowledge transfer took place. I’m happy to not have to fear weekend work or do overtime in the evening anymore, and hopefully return to a more regular workload again. ⌘ Read more

Amiga Week Begins!
Lunduke’s Big Tech Show - Dec 6, 2023 ⌘ Read more

On my blog: Toots 🦣 from 11/27 to 12/01 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/12/01/week.html #linkdump #mastodon #socialmedia #week

Геймдиректор следующего «Ведьмака» о начале второй саги: «Это будет хорошая входная точка для новых игроков»
Геймдиректор четвёртой игры в серии «Ведьмак» Себастьян Калемба посетил итальянский ивент Milan Games Week 2023, на котором поговорил с изданием Lega Nerd о своём проекте.

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Ignite Realtime Blog: More Openfire plugin maintenance releases!
Following the initial batch of Openfire plugin releases that we did last week, another few have been made available!

Version 1.0.1 of the Spam Blacklist plugin was released. This plugin uses an external blocklist to reject traffic from specif … ⌘ Read more

Plex Users Fear New Feature Will Leak Porn Habits To Their Friends and Family
Many Plex users were alarmed when they got a “week in review” email last week that showed them what they and their friends had watched on the popular media server software. From a report: Some users are saying that their friends’ softcore porn habits are being revealed to them with the feature, while others are horrified … ⌘ Read more

On my blog: Toots 🦣 from 11/20 to 11/24 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/11/24/week.html #linkdump #mastodon #socialmedia #week

Another work week just flew by.

@prologic@twtxt.net the new product was GPTs. A way to create tailored bots for specific use cases. https://openai.com/blog/introducing-gpts (fun fact: I did an internal hackathon where we made something like this for $work onboarding. And I won a prize!)

The competed project is poe https://quorablog.quora.com/Introducing-creator-monetization-for-Poe which is basically the same idea. Make a AI bot tailored to a specific domain of knowledge. And monitize it.

The timing fits very well as openAI announced it just a few weeks ago.

@prologic@twtxt.net the new product was GPTs. A way to create tailored bots for specific use cases. https://openai.com/blog/introducing-gpts (fun fact: I did an internal hackathon where we made something like this for $work onboarding. And I won a prize!)

The competed project is poe https://quorablog.quora.com/Introducing-creator-monetization-for-Poe which is basically the same idea. Make a AI bot tailored to a specific domain of knowledge. And monitize it.

The timing fits very well as openAI announced it just a few weeks ago.

Starlink and Natural Monopolies
A couple of weeks ago Elon Musk tweeted (or Xed, or whatever it’s called today) that Starlink has broken even and congratulated its team. The company has been offering fast satellite internet access through its own Low Earth Orbit (LEO) constellation of more than 5000 satellites. As part of SpaceX, it’s the first company of […] ⌘ Read more

@movq@www.uninformativ.de I lasted for a long time.. Not sure where or when it was “got”. We had been having a cold go around with the kiddos for about a week when the wife started getting sicker than normal. Did a test and she was positive. We tested the rest of the fam and got nothing. Till about 2 days later and myself and the others were positive. It largely hasn’t been too bad a little feaver and stuffy noses.

But whatever it was that hit a few days ago was horrible. Like whatever switch in my head that goes to sleep mode was shut off. I would lay down and even though I felt sleepy, I couldn’t actually go to sleep. The anxiety hit soon after and I was just awake with no relief. And it persisted that way for three nights. I got some meds from the clinic that seemed to finally get me to sleep.

Now the morning after I realized for all that time a part of me was missing. I would close my eyes and it would just go dark. No imagination, no pictures, nothing. Normally I can visualize things as I read or think about stuff.. But for the last few days it was just nothing. The waking up to it was quite shocking.

Though its just the first night.. I guess I’ll have to see if it persists. 🤞

@movq@www.uninformativ.de I lasted for a long time.. Not sure where or when it was “got”. We had been having a cold go around with the kiddos for about a week when the wife started getting sicker than normal. Did a test and she was positive. We tested the rest of the fam and got nothing. Till about 2 days later and myself and the others were positive. It largely hasn’t been too bad a little feaver and stuffy noses.

But whatever it was that hit a few days ago was horrible. Like whatever switch in my head that goes to sleep mode was shut off. I would lay down and even though I felt sleepy, I couldn’t actually go to sleep. The anxiety hit soon after and I was just awake with no relief. And it persisted that way for three nights. I got some meds from the clinic that seemed to finally get me to sleep.

Now the morning after I realized for all that time a part of me was missing. I would close my eyes and it would just go dark. No imagination, no pictures, nothing. Normally I can visualize things as I read or think about stuff.. But for the last few days it was just nothing. The waking up to it was quite shocking.

Though its just the first night.. I guess I’ll have to see if it persists. 🤞

At $14 each, price is ‘no barrier’ for Aussie mangoes in the US
It takes two weeks for these Aussie mangoes to go from a farm to a US supermarket shelf. But for Manbulloo Mangoes it’s been worth it. ⌘ Read more

On my blog: Toots 🦣 from 11/13 to 11/17 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/11/17/week.html #linkdump #mastodon #socialmedia #week

Completed my second Freeletics Hell Week and with it my second training journey! 💪 ⌘ Read more

On my blog: Toots 🦣 from 11/06 to 11/10 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/11/10/week.html #linkdump #mastodon #socialmedia #week

My daughter started with indoor sand volleyball yesterday, she is now going to go there 2x a week, so happy that she found something she likes, her best friend started too - so they will go together there :)

On my blog: Toots 🦣 from 10/30 to 11/03 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/11/03/week.html #linkdump #mastodon #socialmedia #week

Been working for two weeks straight, so now Im going to relax and enjoy the weekend. What are you all up to this weekend?

The last week was really rainy, so I didn’t leave the flat much. And now walking at sunset time, everything looks so pretty. ⌘ Read more

Fancy fungi business takes off for tradie still learning the secrets of edible mushrooms
A Pemberton electrician is supplying up to 20 kilograms of fungi a week to shops and restaurants in a mushroom-growing side hustle that has been a process of trial and error. ⌘ Read more

On my blog: Toots 🦣 from 10/23 to 10/27 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/10/27/week.html #linkdump #mastodon #socialmedia #week

Highlights from DockerCon 2023: New Docker Local, Cloud, and AI/ML Innovations
DockerCon 2023 celebrated 10 years of Docker. We round up event announcements, including Docker Scout for the software supply chain, Docker Build, Debug, Docker AI, GenAI stack, OpenPubkey, a Udemy partnership, and more. Videos are available on-demand now on the DockerCon site and will be added to YouTube in the coming weeks. ⌘ Read more

On my blog: Toots 🦣 from 10/16 to 10/20 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/10/20/week.html #linkdump #mastodon #socialmedia #week

Text Adventure Week Begins!
Listen now (8 mins) | (Because Text Adventures are cool.) ⌘ Read more

On my blog: Toots 🦣 from 10/09 to 10/13 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/10/13/week.html #linkdump #mastodon #socialmedia #week

On my blog: Toots 🦣 from 10/02 to 10/06 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/10/06/week.html #linkdump #mastodon #socialmedia #week

On my blog: Toots 🦣 from 09/25 to 09/29 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/09/29/week.html #linkdump #mastodon #socialmedia #week

On my blog: Toots 🐘 from 09/18 to 09/22 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/09/22/week.html #linkdump #mastodon #socialmedia #week

On my blog: Toots 🐘 from 09/11 to 09/15 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/09/15/week.html #linkdump #mastodon #socialmedia #week

West Highland Way
With a backpack full of stuff for two weeks, we managed to walk 11km on the West Highland Way in 2:35h. I feel it in my legs, but the views and the experience are worth it. ⌘ Read more

West Highland Way
With a backpack full of stuff for two weeks, we managed to walk 11km on the West Highland Way in 2:35h. I feel it in my legs, but the views and the experience are worth it. ⌘ Read more

@mckinley@twtxt.net Dog walking, and my son started with organized football this week, so he’s going on a tournament tomorrow (3 matches).
Been working a lot as well (from home).. So busy weekend for sure. How about you?

On my blog: Toots 🐘 from 09/04 to 09/08 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/09/08/week.html #linkdump #mastodon #socialmedia #week

** Updates from the end of summer **
Today was the last real day of summer for us. Tomorrow the kids go back to school.

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You know those last few weeks before the dark of autumn — the ones that hold the last bursts of summer? Those days where you try to squeeze in as many chill summer vibes as humanly possible?

I’ve bee … ⌘ Read more

After some cold and rainy weeks, it’s a quite warm and sunny again, but probably for the last time this year. ⌘ Read more

Murray’s 100 million bees are finally on the move after an ‘anxious’ week stuck in a varroa mite surveillance zone
After playing a crucial role in pollinating Victorian almond orchards and a week caught in a varroa mite surveillance zone, Queensland’s Murray Arkadieff and his 1,000 beehives are finally heading home. ⌘ Read more

On my blog: Toots 🐘 from 08/28 to 09/01 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/09/01/week.html #linkdump #mastodon #socialmedia #week

On my blog: Toots 🐘 from 08/21 to 08/25 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/08/25/week.html #linkdump #mastodon #socialmedia #week

Beekeeper says eradication ‘impossible’ as varroa mite spreads through coastal region
The number of varroa mite detections in the Kempsey area of the NSW Mid North Coast has grown to 13 in just over a week. ⌘ Read more

Nerdy things you might have missed this week
Podcasts, articles, comics, musings… good times were had. ⌘ Read more

On my blog: Toots 🐘 from 08/14 to 08/18 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/08/18/week.html #linkdump #mastodon #socialmedia #week

Profanity: Profanity 0.14.0
Apologies for the late blog post.
We have good news though! Two weeks ago we released Profanity 0.14.0!

13 people contributed to this release: Daniel Santos, @DebXWoody, @H3rnand3zzz, @ike08, @MarcoPolo-PasTonMolo, @mdosch, @pasis, @paulfertser, @shahab-vahedi, @sjaeckel, @techmetx11, @thexhr and @jubalh.

Also a big thanks to our sponsors: @mdosch, @LeSpocky, @jamesponddotco and one anonymous sponsor!

We introduced a new /privacy command which should make it easier to find all pri … ⌘ Read more

On my blog: Toots 🐘 from 08/07 to 08/11 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/08/11/week.html #linkdump #mastodon #socialmedia #week

Growers warn ‘unworkable’ Pacific Islander worker changes lack critical flexibility required for horticulture
Changes to the Pacific Islander labour scheme mean workers must be guaranteed a minimum of 30 hours of work each week, but the horticulture industry says the seasonal nature of the work and weather events make that unworkable. ⌘ Read more

I need to get influxdb up on my router. But I do about .5TB per week. So seems pretty on par to you with all that streaming the family does.

I need to get influxdb up on my router. But I do about .5TB per week. So seems pretty on par to you with all that streaming the family does.

On my blog: Toots 🐘 from 07/31 to 08/04 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/08/04/week.html #linkdump #mastodon #socialmedia #week

After two weeks of traveling by train at a maximum speed of about 120 km/h, sitting in a 230 km/h train is mind-blowing. 🤯 ⌘ Read more

On my blog: Toots 🐘 from 07/24 to 07/28 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/07/28/week.html #linkdump #mastodon #socialmedia #week

On my blog: Toots 🐘 from 07/17 to 07/21 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/07/21/week.html #linkdump #mastodon #socialmedia #week

Finally the rain and wind stopped, now we’ll have nice weather for the rest of the week it seems. Happy to see that! :)

On my blog: Toots 🐘 from 07/10 to 07/14 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/07/14/week.html #linkdump #mastodon #socialmedia #week

On my blog: Toots 🐘 from 07/03 to 07/07 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/07/07/week.html #linkdump #mastodon #socialmedia #week

“The Great Myths of Computer History”, BASIC Week, & Amiga Week
July is gonna be friggin’ awesome. ⌘ Read more

On my blog: Toots 🐘 from 06/26 to 06/30 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/06/30/week.html #linkdump #mastodon #socialmedia #week

my stress level has gone down 10x today. been stressed a lot lately, but now Im much better. nothing has been wrong or anything øike that, just been stressed out. and now its only two weeks until I start my 4 week vacation, that will be super nice.

On my blog: Toots 🐘 from 06/19 to 06/23 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/06/23/week.html #linkdump #mastodon #socialmedia #week

Are Australian consumers ready for imported ‘Manila mangoes’?
Australia’s first consignments of famously sweet carabao mangoes imported from the Philippines are reportedly due within weeks. ⌘ Read more

7b7c7 here from another IP, yeah, it’s been storming on and off the last week and it looks like it’s about to do it for a second one in a row. Got stormed out of where we were set up. Oh well

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Yeah, same here, been no rain here. But honestly - I do not mind warm weather and such, but I also appreciate a bit colder. We’ll have some rain next week I think.

On my blog: Toots 🐘 from 06/12 to 06/16 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/06/16/week.html #linkdump #mastodon #socialmedia #week

On my blog: Toots 🐘 from 06/05 to 06/09 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/06/09/week.html #linkdump #mastodon #socialmedia #week

On my blog: Toots 🐘 from 05/29 to 06/02 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/06/02/week.html #linkdump #mastodon #socialmedia #week

** week notes **
Last year I set out to rekindle my reading habit. That went well. This year’s reading has been enjoyable, but I’m not cozy with the ratio of non-fiction to fiction I’ve read this year…non-fiction (especially of the computing persuasion) far out balances the fiction I’ve read. I think this is mostly because I’ve been mired amidst a fiction book that I’ve found to be a slog…but enjoyable, too. I’d have abandoned it and moved on, elsewise. Onward!

Spring is quickly making way to summer h … ⌘ Read more

On my blog: Toots 🐘 from 05/22 to 05/26 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/05/26/week.html #linkdump #mastodon #socialmedia #week

On my blog: Toots 🐘 from 05/15 to 05/19 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/05/19/week.html #linkdump #mastodon #socialmedia #week

Been some busy days this week, even though I have some time off now. Today me and Marlyn had some time for ourselves - and her mother watched our kids, so we went out to eat at a resturant, which we very rarely do, was nice to do that. I had some nachos, was really nice. Also bought one of those popcorn machines for our kids, because they always burn the microwave popcorn (not their fault - its the microwave thas weird), so now they can safely make popcorn :)

My internet is down until these people repave the driveway which could take weeks due to rain. I don’t have unlimited data, either.

Just 2 days at the office this week, then rest of the week is free time :) woho!

On my blog: Toots 🐘 from 05/08 to 05/12 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/05/12/week.html #linkdump #mastodon #socialmedia #week

Serenity OS Week Begins at The Lunduke Journal!
Listen now (9 min) | The Lunduke Journal of Technology Podcast – May 10, 2023 ⌘ Read more

On my blog: Toots 🐘 from 05/01 to 05/05 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/05/05/week.html #linkdump #mastodon #socialmedia #week

An early bird & night owl swap lives for a week ⌘ Read more

More than meets the pull request: maintainers talk contributions
Creating an open source project can feel a bit like sending out an open invite to a party—will it be a roaring good time, or will you unbegrudginly dine on leftover junk food for the following week after nobody shows? When the first guest arrives, you breathe a sigh of relief. The party’s a success, […] ⌘ Read more

@prologic@twtxt.net Always nice to get a day off and a short week 😀

On my blog: Toots 🐘 from 04/24 to 04/28 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/04/28/week.html #linkdump #mastodon #socialmedia #week

I miss running
I’ve talked about this a few times and posted some of the pictures OneDrive shows me every day. Photos taken on the same day, week or month in previous years. It always gives me a “throwback” and I think about the situation at the time I took the photo. ⌘ Read more