On the blog: Tweets from 08/17 to 08/21 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/media/2020/08/21/week.html #twitter #week #socialmedia #linkdump

@lukem@twtxt.net Nice. As I don’t know how to create an android app I just wrote an xmpp bot for using twtxt. It’s probably very hacky as I am no programmer at all.

Trying to get a grasp and take back control over my family’s digital assets.

Erlang Solutions: Applying Scrum to a system of fluid teams working on an open-source product ⌘ http://erlang-solutions.com/blog/applying-scrum-to-a-system-of-fluid-teams-working-on-an-open-source-product.html

Testing to see if I’ve fixed my issue with twtxt

Ready to explore the gemini protocol as it looks awesome so far

I have a really long todo list but I am so tired I will just go to sleep and think about it tomorrow

Deploying a Minecraft Docker Server to the cloud ⌘ https://www.docker.com/blog/deploying-a-minecraft-docker-server-to-the-cloud/

This demo Vault cluster is brought to you by Sabbath. (He says with confidence.) SU-PER-NAAAUT!

This demo Vault cluster is brought to you by Sabbath. (He says with confidence.) SU-PER-NAAAUT!

Checking out Todo.txt because it literally is all text files. But will probably still move back to TaskWarrior because I will miss annotations and other features.

I finally got to watch The VVitch

@coma@tilde.town hello! good to see you on twtxt again!

On the blog: Free Culture Book Club — Prelude to Whitespace https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2020/08/15/white.html #freeculture #bookclub

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.

On the blog: Tweets from 08/10 to 08/14 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/media/2020/08/14/week.html #twitter #week #socialmedia #linkdump

How to Change the Colour (Color) of Links on a Website with Expression Web ⌘ https://www.thesitewizard.com/expression-web/change-link-colour.shtml

How To Use the Official NGINX Docker Image ⌘ https://www.docker.com/blog/how-to-use-the-official-nginx-docker-image/

Secure at every step: A guide to DevSecOps, shifting left, and GitOps ⌘ https://github.blog/2020-08-13-secure-at-every-step-a-guide-to-devsecops-shifting-left-and-gitops/

@Leo@www.gkbrk.com Sorry to disappoint. I think I have Finger running on my Raspberrypi but didn’t make it public.

What devotees of sadomasochism do to their bodies is nothing compared to the torments that those addicted to the news and political commentary inflict on their minds almost every hour of the day. Ask HN: Is it just me? why is “news” so addictive? | Hacker News

Very few people tend to look at the mind as a system, and also seem to ignore that depression, anxiety, panic disorders, etc. happen for a reason. The reason why modern humanity have increased risk of these symptoms is because they know, given their perhaps wrongly learned models of the world or otherwise, that even when they achieve their so-called life goals, that they wouldn’t achieve philosophical nor psychological satisfaction that they seek. Their mind has predicted the conclusion of their efforts, and the conclusion lies far below what they seek. Thus the mind desperately attempts to re-understand, re-configure, and re-model the world to achieve its goals. Perseverance Toward Life Goals Can Fend Off Depression, Anxiety, Panic Disorders | Hacker News

Deploying WordPress to the Cloud ⌘ https://www.docker.com/blog/deploying-wordpress-to-the-cloud/

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

Are employees paid a proportional amount to the value they bring to their organization? I would say no. I do not believe every talented European is 40% as capable as the average developer in the US. I do not believe that the same software engineer that made $10k in India, suddenly brings 10x as much value due to a 1 year masters, once they move to the US. Ask HN: Should a remote employee’s salary be tied to their physical location? | Hacker News

⌘ https://eli.li/2020/08/10/it-took-a-while-to-come-to-a-compromise-of-sorts

here is how to build a classic table-lookup oscillator: !osc

Belgium : When Covid-19 Hit, Many Elderly Were Left to Die - The New York Times ⌘ https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/08/world/europe/coronavirus-nursing-homes-elderly.html

being able to render TeX math equations to PNG files is pretty empowering, because it allows me to write about more technical things here that would otherwise be more difficult to communicate in plaintext.

figured out how to render a single TeX equation to a PNG file today: !render_one_equation

New repository: aquilax/renamed - Renamed - use your favorite text editor to mass rename files

USA : The biggest risk of electoral warfare and disruption will come from domestic forces, Trump first. ⌘ https://www.the-american-interest.com/2020/08/06/getting-from-november-to-january/?s=09

When people are born, they all start good, but even though they all start out about the same, you ought to see them after they have had time to become different from one another by picking up habits here and there!“. Translation Dr. Linebarger, aka Cordwainer Smith Ask HN: Which book helped you understand the world? | Hacker News

When in challenging or sad situations it’s only reasonable to be grumpy, or pessimistic or what have you. Negative emotions or feelings are part of our natural range and appropriate depending on the cirumstances. Forced positivy to me always has something ghoulish, Truman-show like. It pays to be grumpy and bad-tempered (2016) | Hacker News

On the blog: Tweets from 08/03 to 08/07 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/media/2020/08/07/week.html #twitter #week #socialmedia #linkdump

It was satisfying to make and to eat

How To Setup Your Local Node.js Development Environment Using Docker – Part 2 ⌘ https://www.docker.com/blog/how-to-setup-your-local-node-js-development-environment-using-docker-part-2/

Pesos Instagram to Known ⌘ https://github.com/jeremycherfas/pesos-instagram-to-withknown

an extendable text editor inside of a Blit that tries really hard not to edit text. #halfbakedideas

at the end of the day, I do like the stiffness of the tactile grey switches, even if it means I don’t get to type as fast, or as long. they just feel great to me. #mk

I rotate out my !planck keyboards weekly. going from brown switches to tactile grey switches is always a bit of an adjustment! #mk #thumpthumpthump

Just installed a Chrome extension on the work laptop to stop all the stupid animations on the intranet. Ah, relief.

Just installed a Chrome extension on the work laptop to stop all the stupid animations on the intranet. Ah, relief.

The master plan is to export the !worgle bits of !monolith to a !weewiki, then begin adding user-level documentation that is able to dynamically reference bits of source code as another wiki page.

while eventually I hope to get all of literate org parts of !monolith posted online as a self contained !weewiki, I’ve decided to post little pieces as self-contained documents. here is a copy of !trigvm, the toy VM used to power a rhythmic computer-sequencer controlled entirely from the !monome_grid

this rhythm machine I’m working on for !monolith has finally given me an opportunity to crack open and use Hacker’s Delight. This morning I needed to find a way to count the number of active bits, and there’s a whole chapter dedicated to it :)

On the blog: Tweets from 07/27 to 07/31 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/media/2020/07/31/week.html #twitter #week #socialmedia #linkdump

a microblogging creative coding platform like dwitter, but for sound. users would be encouraged to remix, the output of one persons code would become the input of the new code. only text would be stored on the server, with audio rendered client-side. to save on time, there could be caches of frozen audio for remixes. #halfbakedideas

Maintainer spotlight: How to secure your project with one of the world’s top open source tools ⌘ https://github.blog/2020-07-30-maintainer-spotlight-how-to-secure-your-project-with-one-of-the-worlds-top-open-source-tools/

Using GitHub Actions to deploy applications to IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service ⌘ https://github.blog/2020-07-29-use-github-actions-to-deploy-your-application-to-ibm-cloud-kubernetes-service/

!txtvm, a text-based toy VM, used to run tiny domain-specific bytecode programs using only printable ascii characters. #halfbakedideas

Migrated to Plan9 | https://wiki.xxiivv.com/computer

⌘ https://eli.li/2020/07/28/so-the-most-effective-way-to-increase-our-chances-of-survival-is-to-shift-focus-from-extreme-self

I really want !btprnt to be integrated into !weewiki somehow. Both can speak !janet, and I already figured how to embed PNG images inside of an HTML document. In small doses, it could be fun. #halfbakedideas

Welcome Malta and Cyprus to GitHub Sponsors—plus updates! ⌘ https://github.blog/2020-07-28-welcome-malta-and-cyprus-to-github-sponsors-plus-updates/

the idea would be to build and share tiny 6.5 bit programs encoded as printable ascii characters. this could then in turn be read by a virtual computer to do things like paint a picture or compose a piece of music. #halfbakedideas

a 6.5 bit fantasy computer, whose bytecode representation can be represented entirely as printable ascii characters. The first 6 contain standard data space, with the 7th bit used to represent one of 32 values. #halfbakedideas

Since a couple of months on peer-to-peer Web and I’m really convinced that as long as isps do not start messing with firewalls, this could really be the next step in a real Internet of humans.

built a little script for looking up IDs in twtxt tweets: !twtxt_search. Going to use it as a way to look up and reference specific tweets in my wiki.

I’m so close to being able to get my literate programs written in !worgle converted into a self-contained !weewiki. #literateprogramming #worgle #weewiki

I’ve been actually thinking about introducing a ‘#+RELAX’ tag in !worgle that would explicity turn off strict mode, allowing literate programs to be written more casually.

weewiki uses a custom org markup parser written in ANSI C to render the HTML. No emacs needed! my hope is to introduce a user-defined callback that can process these to allow for custom meta-commands.

a new fix to !weewiki will ignore all org-mode command strings by default. Now things like PROPERTY tags won’t show up in the output.

@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?

@lucidiot@tilde.town very cool idea! may have to try something like that at some point…

https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/is-it-time-to-defund-the-department-of-homeland-security

https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/the-dhs-was-destined-to-become-a-secret-police-force

It turns out that fts5 is enabled by default on SQLite! My twtxt2sqlite generator has been updated to use fts5. Now I can do full text search on all my twtxt tweets. I have implemented a related-tweets box in the !twtxt_playground as a proof-of-concept. More info on fts5 can be found at [[https://www.sqlite.org/fts5.html]].

updating my wiki index, so some pages are not going to be featured there anymore: !MIDI_sucks !sample_curation !howyousay !sixtycolumnrule

Inline Janet means I should be able to make calls to functions defined in the config file. For example, the =ref= function is how I usually make wiki reference links. This @!(ref “wiki_index” “link right here”)!@ should take you to my automatically generated weewiki index of all the wiki pages.

Technically not org, but weewiki org. So this means that I might be able to run inline Janet code? @!(prin “Hello from Janet.”)!@

here is the script I use to convert my twtxt feed into a SQLite database: !twtxt_sqlite

I’m using a wrapper around txtnish called !say to make it easer to tweet stuff.

a new twtxt/weewiki feature: any word starting with ‘!’ will translate to an internal weewiki reference in my HTML renderer. Example: here is my !wiki_index

On the blog: Tweets from 07/20 to 07/24 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/media/2020/07/24/week.html #twitter #week #socialmedia #linkdump

a unique thing I do with my twtxt feed is convert it to a SQLite database. This, combined with the Janet + SQLite scripting abilities available in SQLite, could provide interesting metrics and insights over time.

there are also things like using #hashtags, which could be a useful tool to coordinate with weewiki somehow.

in particular, twtxt provides timestamps. weewiki doesn’t really track the passage of time. it only wants to be a key/value database with org markup.

all I have to do is hit “say”, write a few bits of things, and then hit ENTER. much easier than using txtnish directly.

How to secure your GitHub organization and enterprise account ⌘ https://github.blog/2020-07-23-how-to-secure-your-github-organization-and-enterprise-account/

You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can and will be used to construct the next level of language AI. In fact, why not get on it early, you can now shape how those prompts will turn out in the next generation

@freemor@freemor.homelinux.net Doing everything in the browser is indeed terrible. But I have to admit that e.g. jitsi-meet for a/v conferences is pretty neat. You just share the link and password and everybody can join without installing and configuring a new software.

Learning How to Use My New Bio Robot! Opentrons OT-2 ⌘ Read more…

Just used xsetwacom to set an undo button on my Huion H950P tablet. Giggled.

Just used xsetwacom to set an undo button on my Huion H950P tablet. Giggled.

On the blog: Tweets from 07/13 to 07/17 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/media/2020/07/17/week.html #twitter #week #socialmedia #linkdump

We had to move the nice birdfeeder on our balcony because the birds were making too much of a mess and now I feel bad.

That Twitter admin hack shows how important it is to own our own online content and even our own platforms for posting on the Web. Want to learn more? Make yourself a cup of your favorite drink and have a look at https://indieweb.org/Getting_Started

GitHub Archive Program: the journey of the world’s open source code to the Arctic ⌘ https://github.blog/2020-07-16-github-archive-program-the-journey-of-the-worlds-open-source-code-to-the-arctic/

Erlang Solutions: Add value to your app with Instant Messaging. Here’s where to start. ⌘ http://erlang-solutions.com/blog/add-value-to-your-app-with-instant-messaging-here-s-where-to-start.html

Peertube migration is done! No obvious errors. Full video sync to happen soon! ⌘

@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.

I’ll be migrating to a superior server for Peertube ⌘

This is one of the major life-lessons I’ve taken away from card games, summarized by Captain Jean Luc Picard: ““It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not a weakness; that is life.” Recruiting Is Poker – Not Chess | Hacker News

Have we forgotten what a “degree” actually means? When you receive a diploma, it just means some institution is willing to attest that you have achieved some sort of qualification. A 28-year-old with no degree becomes a must read on the economy | Hacker News

@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.

How To Deploy Containers to Azure ACI using Docker CLI and Compose ⌘ https://www.docker.com/blog/how-to-deploy-containers-to-azure-aci-using-docker-cli-and-compose/

You are angry about the Marxist movement of the left?
Hey you thinker, here are some thoughts for you to ponder. STOP trying! We are preprogrammed not to trust anything that doesn’t look, feel, or smell like us. The more someone looks like us, and talks like us, the more trustworthy they appear to us. The second we meet someone we judge them. We judge […] ⌘ Read more

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

Part of the wisdom of meditation lies in the following: There is baggage we all carry, the self, this belief we’re the center of it all, the author of (and subservient to) our own thoughts. How do I stop doing what makes me unhappy, if that’s “who I am”? But, in reality, I can abandon “who I am” and find new processes of living and new ways of thinking about the world. A researcher on how to live a happy life | Hacker News