On the blog: Free Culture Book Club — The Journey to Thelio https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2020/11/21/thelio.html #freeculture #bookclub

On the blog: Tweets from 11/16 to 11/20 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/media/2020/11/20/week.html #twitter #week #socialmedia #linkdump

Because these are the spiral timezones, and like us you managed to slip under the world’s skin. But stay too long and it’ll heal around you, and good luck ever getting back then, or seeing the old colors again

one time you manage to catch the third day, but the second octave is something else entirely, a dull overexposed white that makes your skin fizz like it’s going to sublimate away and leave only flesh, and the few people(?) you meet there tell you you should really not be here

My account at https://twtxt.net was deleted due to a server malfunction, but sysop @prologic@twtxt.net came to the rescue.

My account at https://twtxt.net was deleted due to a server malfunction, but sysop @prologic@twtxt.net came to the rescue.

Registered to https://twtxt.net and managed to post a reply right before some kind of server error, now my account there is broken 😒

Registered to https://twtxt.net and managed to post a reply right before some kind of server error, now my account there is broken 😒

A command line tool to interact with Gitea servers https://gitea.com/gitea/tea

Updates to our Terms of Service and Privacy Statement now merged ⌘ https://github.blog/2020-11-16-updates-to-our-terms-of-service-and-privacy-statement-now-merged/

Chapter 3: a long detour about how difficult it is to tolerate Ms. Honeycut because she only speaks in annecdotes about people nobody else knows. And then Uncle Jack is as lively as a shaken up bottle of coke when it comes to real estate development. Capitalism! This chapters recipe is lemon cookies. I love that every chapter so far has a recipe. No more waffles this chapter.

wow okay, page 18. Horvath drops this amazing paragraph out of the blue where she succintly and artfully flits from pacifism and violence to family and togetherness: everybody is violent at heart and you can only choose pacifism through actions. And… people are alone at heart, but family is not something you can choose: it just happens to you. i wonder if Primrose will come to reverse her stance on this.

Here we go! She made about a million waffles while I sat there. She had to make about a million every day because at The Girl on the Red Swing they served everything on a waffle e v e r y t h i n g o n a w a f f l e

Actually included a recipe for carrots in apricot glaze, as promised. (Primrose describes this as the color of her hair at the beginning of the chapter.) To be honest though I could do with a little less carrots in apricot glaze and with a little more waffles!

Okay life is rough for Primrose. Her parents are missing, nobody wants to take care of her. She is constantly reminded that she in only worth three dollars per hour. Her life and belongings are distributed between three different houses. I am not in the body of life. I float.

There is likely no media that has not been altered by coronavirus. This is a perfectly clear and convincing argument for living text. Horvath had no intention of this sentence being haunting to the reader because she could not have predicted that the reader would be in the middle of a years long pandemic. The authors intention counts for less than half of the book\s ultimate meaning.

They\’ve all got colds, grumbled Miss Perfidy, turningto look accusingly at me. Big crowd packed into a smallhall. We\’re all going to get sick now.

There is likely no media that has not been altered by coronavirus. This is a perfectly clear and convincing argument for living text. Horvath had no intention of this sentence being haunting to the reader because she could not have predicted that the reader would be in the middle of a years long pandemic

Time out: pausing to go make waffles

The copy I’m reading is from archive.org, and it is archive.org-tastic, complete with OCR defects and weirdness. Good dash of comedy so far to leaven the mood, since the girl just lost her parents and all. Her caretaker is named Perfidy, which means something like unfaithful or disloyal.

it is short, 140 pages, according to the table of contents. First impressions: 4 pages in. It is about a plucky, precocious redhead girl whose parents are lost at sea, and who is definitely NOT Pippi Longstocking. Distinct lack of waffles so far. Am disappoint.

Hello please be advised that I will be using this space for the next couple of whiles to live tweet me reading the Newberry Honor winning Everything On a Waffle by Polly Horvath, 2012

On the blog: Tweets from 11/09 to 11/13 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/media/2020/11/13/week.html #twitter #week #socialmedia #linkdump

GNU Stow, symlnk trees of dotfiles for the win: http://brandon.invergo.net/news/2012-05-26-using-gnu-stow-to-manage-your-dotfiles.html

Visualizing programs with side-effects, such as printing to a screen: https://merveilles.town/@akkartik/105201366581271961

@lucididiot@tilde.town thank you for the backup! i agree that wiki is in dire need of some maintenance but that hardly seems like a reason to just up and delete it…

@vain@www.uninformativ.de NOICE. I’m gonna read it later today when i get out of work. also Re: bilingual blogging, i do english and spanish but i mostly try to keep the contents separated

@xandkar@xandkar.net I’m going to give it a shot. always interested in trying new clients

Useful writeup on git submodules http://blog.davidecoppola.com/2015/02/how-to-create-git-submodule-from-repository-subdirectory/

!weewiki is now MIT licensed! can’t believe I forgot to add it, considering the fact that it already has !janet in there. #updates #weewiki

Internet Safety for Kids – How to Keep Your Children Safe Online | Hacker Noon ⌘ https://hackernoon.com/internet-safety-for-kids-how-to-keep-your-children-safe-online-f11y3wzx

Combining Snyk Scans in Docker Desktop and Docker Hub to Deploy Secure Containers ⌘ https://www.docker.com/blog/combining-snyk-scans-in-docker-desktop-and-docker-hub-to-deploy-secure-containers/

thought it might be interested to post some of the code used to produce one of my !breathing_cards: !waigel

I’ve been caught up on some freelance stuff i got last week, and playing doom in between. having to work sucks :(

How to Plan A Science Project Ft. Gabriel Licina - Biohack Chat #13 ⌘ Read more…

On the blog: Free Culture Book Club — Nothing to Hide https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2020/11/07/hide.html #freeculture #bookclub

On the blog: Tweets from 11/02 to 11/06 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/media/2020/11/06/week.html #twitter #week #socialmedia #linkdump

To paraprashe Mr. Engelbart: it’s a failed tool if you use it exactly the same way the day you bought it and a year after. Re-Thinking the Desktop OS | Hacker News

@vain@www.uninformativ.de your twtxt setup looks nice. It looks like what i’d like to do in some time when i’m better at Go

hatching is a monochrome system traditionally used in woodcuts and engravings to denote tinctures (colors) [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatching_(heraldry)]] #1bit #links

the concept of literally typed languages. as in, languages designed to be satisfying to type. #halfbakedideas

Video: C Programming on System 6 - Adding a GUI to diff(1) ⌘ Read more…

How to Create a Website Free of Charge ⌘ https://www.thesitewizard.com/gettingstarted/create-website-for-free.shtml

I’ve recently been reading up on zettelkastens again, since it is very closely related to the ethos of a personal wiki system like !weewiki. The thing that interests me is the emergent patterns that come from linking things to things. Which is exactly the sort of solution I’m looking for !sample_curation. #halfbakedideas

not to mention there’s lots of interesting transformations one can apply to the linear ramp of a phasor signal. movable midpoint as seen in phase distortion synthesis and !phasewarp. exponential and @!(sndkitref “bezier”)!@ mappings. Not to mention all the trig functions and waveshaping synthesis techniques. All these things would warp tempo in interesting periodic ways. #halfbakedideas

it’s also easy to use scaling and wrap operations to transform a phasor signal into smaller/larger phasor signals, allowing for interesting rhythmic microcosms that stay in sync #halfbakedideas

I’m hoping to build a phasor-to-clock signal generator, which divides up a phasor into an arbitrary number of ticks. Using a global phasor as a global clock would allow for interesting polyrhythms, as well more flexible precision in sequencers. It’s also closer to how human-based conducting works. #halfbakedideas

What you need to know about upcoming Docker Hub rate limiting ⌘ https://www.docker.com/blog/what-you-need-to-know-about-upcoming-docker-hub-rate-limiting/

On the blog: Tweets from 10/26 to 10/30 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/media/2020/10/30/week.html #twitter #week #socialmedia #linkdump

13 ghoulish games to play, hack and slash this weekend 👻 ⌘ https://github.blog/2020-10-30-13-ghoulish-games-to-play-hack-and-slash-this-weekend/

@prologic@twtxt.net I don’t automate anything but I have sensors in every room to warn me if the humidity is too high and one in the fridge to warn if it’s too warm/cold via xmpp message. It’s working pretty well and was not expensive. I have fhem running on a raspberry pi which also serves other services.

i played doom, surprising no one. and i forgot to stream it too. back to hugo then

bashblog’s innards are interesting. it will take me a bit, but i’m sure i can reassemble it to my liking

@vain@www.uninformativ.de huh, i guess i still fully haven’t figured out followings yet. also hi, nice to see a familiar face around here.

i just realized i have no idea how to tag/mention someone else on this thing. i tried but i don’t think it worked?

Erlang Solutions: The complete guide to Instant Messaging and in-application chat. ⌘ http://erlang-solutions.com/blog/the-complete-guide-to-instant-messaging-and-in-application-chat.html

i just closed a whole bunch of browser tabs. like over 20. i need to high 5 someone

@prologic@twtxt.net to answer some of your previous questions, i’m using txtnish for my timeline and user controls, and plain twtxt for posting. the alternative to that would be setting up a bunch of shell aliases or small scripts. or making my own client in Go. There’s a thought… ;)

now i need to integrate this into my website. i missed having a proper website, it feels good after all the horrible stuff

@prologic@twtxt.net hello. i didn’t realize you had written to me, i didn’t have you on my follow list yet.

aside from the date thing, the scp feature seems to be lacking the location of the file, or i don’t know where to specify it

interesting challenged to remaining decentralized: Challenges in the Decentralised Web: The Mastodon Case http://www.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/~tysong/files/Mastodon.pdf

why am i getting so many errors when i try to follow people?

On the blog: Tweets from 10/19 to 10/23 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/media/2020/10/23/week.html #twitter #week #socialmedia #linkdump

the rain pouring down on the roof sounded like a dialup modem connected to the internet

Vote, and contribute to democracy through open source ⌘ https://github.blog/2020-10-22-vote-and-contribute-to-democracy-through-open-source/

Coop Exchange | One of the world’s most cited computer scientists wants cooperatives to be the future of how data is owned (Oct 2020) ⌘ https://coop.exchange/blog/e1803df3-0e40-11eb-b74d-06ceb0bf34bd/one-of-the-world-s-most-cited-computer-scientists-wants-cooperatives-to-be-the-future-of-how-data-is-owned

Docker and Snyk Extend Partnership to Docker Official and Certified Images ⌘ https://www.docker.com/blog/docker-and-snyk-extend-partnership-to-docker-official-and-certified-images/

Erlang Solutions: The complete guide to Instant Messaging and in-application chat. ⌘ http://erlang-solutions.com/blog/the-complete-guide-to-instant-messaging-and-in-application-chat.html

Erlang Solutions: The complete guide to Instant Messaging and in-application chat. ⌘ http://erlang-solutions.com/blog/the-complete-guide-to-instant-messaging-and-in-application-chat.html

not only is the Earth hollow, nestled in it are further spheres settled by ever more ancient civilizations and species, all trying to escape the sky and what lives in it

getting back in to https://notmuchmail.org/ for mail. It’s pretty slick.

Someone had to do it ⌘ https://blog.rmendes.net/2020/someone-had-to-do-it

in the original twtxt your URL is your identity. No need for anyone outside your control to do account managment. One reason I’ll likely be sticking with command line. But, great work

What flavor or regexp? I tried here https://regexr.com/ with both PCRE and JavaScript and neither seems quite right. I’m relatively good with regexps, but they tend to be write-only :-/

@prologic@twtxt.net I tried to sign up @gmj@www.port111.com on twtxt.net, but it said it was already signed up … maybe beause of my command line posts? Any way I can claim gmj?

@prologic@twtxt.net what is the exact syntax neeed for threads to work in the subject, e.g. will (#tsvhqdq) do it? The whole … (#tsvhqdq) thing seems like a bit of overkill. Too many characters.

One very real problem to be aware of is “Eternal September” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September

@prologic@twtxt.net I will probably stick with command line client just to make sure it keeps working

I keep meaning to post using twtxt but I tend to forget. Not sure why, because it’s easy and fun

There is a palpable difference between the universe described by many religions and the universe described by science. The former is all built from concepts rooted in human society such as father, son, judgment, commandment, obedience, sacrifice, punishment etc. The latter is built from eerie ideas such as force field, wavefunction, observable, reference frame, superposition etc. The former feels small, ordinary, familiar and manmade. The latter feels like we’re fumbling for words to describe something that fundamentally transcends ordinary human experience. 100k Stars | Hacker News

@prologic@twtxt.net and the fact that I just used /bin/ed to fix spelling before pushing :-)

Decided to get back into MUDding. Went and made myself an account on BatMud. Thrilled with results thus far

On the blog: Tweets from 10/12 to 10/16 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/media/2020/10/16/week.html #twitter #week #socialmedia #linkdump

been adopting a document-as-you go approach to the !monolith wiki. as I dogfood my software to make pieces an etudes like !breathing_cards, I write about it in a wiki stub. #workflow #documentation

added channels page to !monolith wiki: [[/proj/monolith/wiki/channels]]. #updates

Updates to our Terms of Service and Privacy Statement ⌘ https://github.blog/2020-10-15-updates-to-our-terms-of-service-and-our-privacy-statement/

sitelen telo v1.01, a japanese logographic script for toki pona. might want to try to make a #1bit version of this for !btprnt [[https://www.reddit.com/r/tokipona/comments/jax1x2/sitelen_telo_v101_a_japaneseinspired_logographic/]] #links #tokipona

On the blog: Real Life in Star Trek, Journey to Babel https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2020/10/15/babel.html #scifi #startrek #closereading

How to get your organization started with containerized deployments ⌘ https://github.blog/2020-10-15-how-to-get-your-organization-started-with-containerized-deployments/

I wish I could do this with @withKnown - A New Way to Publish Your Blog Posts Simultaneously as Twitter Threads ⌘ https://wordpress.com/blog/2020/10/13/a-new-way-to-publish-your-blog-posts-simultaneously-as-twitter-threads/

now that !txtvm is no longer !halfbaked, I decided to update the wiki page on it. #updates

introducing the #loom, a collection a small literate programs woven to HTML: [[/loom]] #links #updates #literateprogramming

Erlang Solutions: The complete guide to instant messaging and in-application chat. ⌘ http://erlang-solutions.com/blog/the-complete-guide-to-instant-messaging-and-in-application-chat.html

a 1-bit delay line? basically could be used to store audio-rate impulses, clocks, and triggers. the buffer would be a bitbuffer, so it would be a very memory-efficient. the notion of feedback some kind of feedback could be compelling too… #halfbakedideas #1bit

On the blog: Tweets from 10/05 to 10/09 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/media/2020/10/09/week.html #twitter #week #socialmedia #linkdump

saw this great writeup once on how somebody visualized data by drawing faces with them, and letting our brain’s natural face feature-extraction algorithms interpret the data. Kinda want to try to do that with some of these samples and waveforms I’m curating. #halfbakedideas

This morning I had this really weird notion of building a generative podcast complete with musical interludes and asemic speech using a speech synthesizer. It’d be interesting to have “interviews” with two distinct vocal characters. #halfbakedideas

added @!(sndkitref “bezier”)!@ to !sndkit today. coupled with @!(sndkitref “oscf”)!@, it is capable of making some really weird wet FM-y sounds. Me like! #updates #sndkit

The Citizens - @facebook is trying to censor/takedown “the real #Facebook Oversight Board” - We have to stop @finkd from harming the Internet. ⌘ https://the-citizens.com/real-facebook-oversight/