How to Go Pro on YouTube! ⌘ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g66Jhxi-gg0
Forum is now open to public (but only YOU know!) ⌘ https://forum.lukesmith.xyz/
How to find minimalist programs ⌘
Merry Christmas to all and a vid from the archives ⌘
Anyone want to redo the CSS for my website? ⌘
Returning to Arizona ⌘ http://lukesmith.xyz
Linguistics Isn’t 60 Years Old!:Pāṇinian Approaches to Language ⌘ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yZ91YUdRfY
How to Get a Domain Name for Cheap or Free ⌘
Note to newfriends: Don’t share my content on 4chan! ⌘
We need to start studying NPCs scientifically ⌘
A Journey to Athens ⌘
An Intro to R Markdown (video) ⌘ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4J5a0JWIF-0
A visit to the Georgia Guidestones ⌘
I’M GOING TO USE THE NNN FILE BROWSER ⌘
Some entry tips to using suckless programs ⌘
Converting Facebook feeds to RSS? ⌘
How to mount and access Android phones on Linux computers ⌘
Don’t document software! (If you want to avoid pain!) ⌘
Check out my dwm and dwmblocks builds (and say goodbye to i3)! ⌘
Full MSMTPRC support added to Mutt Wizard ⌘
Not Related!: When You’re Too Rational to Be Rational! ⌘
From Docker Straight to AWS ⌘ https://www.docker.com/blog/https-docker-com-blog-from-docker-straight-to-aws/
From Docker Straight to AWS ⌘ https://www.docker.com/blog/aws-ecs-docker-compose/
From Docker Straight to AWS ⌘ https://www.docker.com/blog/https-docker-com-blog-from-docker-straight-to-aws/
How Internet came to Sweden ⌘ https://hack.org/mc/blog/how-internet-came-to-sweden.html
Converting a blog from Blosxom to Pelican ⌘ https://hack.org/mc/blog/pelican.html
Patches to racoonctl ⌘ https://hack.org/mc/blog/ipsec-dns9.html
racoonctl talks to racoon ⌘ https://hack.org/mc/blog/ipsec-dns8.html
Fiber to the (weekend) home ⌘ https://hack.org/mc/blog/ftth.html
PEP 616: String methods to remove prefixes and suffixes ⌘ http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0616
PEP 618: Add Optional Length-Checking To zip ⌘ http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0618
How To Setup Your Local Node.js Development Environment Using Docker ⌘ https://www.docker.com/blog/how-to-setup-your-local-node-js-development-environment-using-docker/
Top 5 Questions from “How to become a Docker Power User” session at DockerCon 2020 ⌘ https://www.docker.com/blog/top-5-questions-from-how-to-become-a-docker-power-user-session-at-dockercon-2020/
How to Develop Inside a Container Using Visual Studio Code Remote Containers ⌘ https://www.docker.com/blog/how-to-develop-inside-a-container-using-visual-studio-code-remote-containers/
Because I need another place to post things, right?
Anmol Chaudhary: Settings to Enable/Disable RTT ⌘ https://wolfieanmol.github.io/gsoc-blog/settings/
How to Change the Colour (Color) of Links on a Web Page with BlueGriffon ⌘ https://www.thesitewizard.com/bluegriffon/change-link-colour-bluegriffon.shtml
plot: to beat back a space vampire invasion, the protagonist travels to their home star and bottles up its light
Most of my posts to twtxt are about using twtxt
On the blog: Tweets from 06/29 to 07/03 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/media/2020/07/03/week.html #twitter #week #socialmedia #linkdump
the Stainless Steel law: “the better designed the impact assessment of a social program, the more likely is the resulting estimate of net impact to be zero.” The Iron Law Of Evaluation And Other Metallic Rules · Gwern.net
Great, I just listended so solosaurus #59 and now i want to buy all the board games listed
Great, I just listended so solosaurus #59 and now i want to buy all the board games listed
All infra teams eventually become platforms. All product teams eventually become experiences. When viewed negatively this is called scope creep. I don’t know what it’s called when viewed positively but I expect the word “holistic” to be used unironically. The Rise of Platform Engineering | Hacker News
The past few months, you’ve often found your books to be missing letters, replaced by white space. Cleaning up one day, in one of your notebooks, you find a nest of words, eggshells, a poem about a bird, exiting by a window just as you turn around
XXIIVV: so glad I found this. Subscribed to every RSS feed. Just listened to Josh’s podcast. Wicked.
XXIIVV: so glad I found this. Subscribed to every RSS feed. Just listened to Josh’s podcast. Wicked.
On the blog: Tweets from 06/22 to 06/26 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/media/2020/06/26/week.html #twitter #week #socialmedia #linkdump
I believe trauma instills scientific-type knowledge that is factually false but locally adaptive. False beliefs need more protection to be maintained than true beliefs, so the belief both calcifies, making it unresponsive to new information, and lays a bunch of emotional landmines around itself to punish you for getting too close to it. This cascades into punishing you for learning at all, because you might learn something that corrects your false-but-useful model. Emotional Blocks as Obstacles to Learning | Hacker News
You waste years not being able to waste hours Crossing the ocean of my ignorance
On the blog: Tweets from 06/15 to 06/19 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/media/2020/06/19/week.html #twitter #week #socialmedia #linkdump
Why Can’t I Make Up Any Domain I Want? Is There a Way to Do Away with a Registrar Altogether? ⌘ https://www.thesitewizard.com/domain/get-domain-without-registrar.shtml
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.
How to Leave Facebook ⌘ https://aaronparecki.com/2020/06/14/14/how-to-leave-facebook
Disappointment of the day: Despite what https://frog.tips/#429 says, gopher://frog.tips/GENUINEFROG appears to be non-functional.
On the blog: Tweets from 06/15 to 06/12 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/media/2020/06/12/week.html #twitter #week #socialmedia #linkdump
How to Prevent Two or More Words from Being Split into Separate Lines (HTML/CSS) ⌘ https://www.thesitewizard.com/css/prevent-word-wrapping.shtml
fediverse who to follow - https://communitywiki.org/trunk
Sail to Victoria, Canada | https://wiki.xxiivv.com/canada
On the blog: Free Culture Book Club — Seeds, Chapter 5 to Chapter 6 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2020/06/06/seeds-3.html #freeculture #bookclub
Doing technically brilliant work may be enough for your personal gratification, but you should never think it’s enough. If you lock yourself in a room and do the most marvellous work but don’t tell anyone, then no one will know, no one will benefit, and the work will be lost. You may as well not have bothered. For the world to benefit from your work, and therefore for you to benefit fully from your work, you have to make it known. Sell Yourself Sell Your Work
On the blog: Tweets from 06/01 to 06/05 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/media/2020/06/05/week.html #twitter #week #socialmedia #linkdump
After god died in the big bang, the eldest sun inherited the universe, which is how an otherwise unremarkable but ancient red dwarf is home star to Heaven
Scrum is a way to take a below average or poor developer and turn them into an average developer.It’s also great at taking great developers and turning them into average developers. Leave scrum to rugby, I like getting stuff done | Hacker News
@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
As it seems to be not well known I advertise it again: Please join the (inofficial) #twtxt #XMPP room at xmpp:twtxt@chat.mdosch.de?join
https://t2bot.io/docs/2020-matrix-org-lag/ Some confirmation why I prefer the good ‘ol (actually it’s improving to current demands all the time) #XMPP and don’t switch to the fancy new kids in town like, currently, #MATRIX.
On the blog: Free Culture Book Club — Seeds, Chapter 4 to Chapter 4.5 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2020/05/30/seeds-2.html #freeculture #bookclub
On the blog: Tweets from 05/25 to 05/29 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/media/2020/05/29/week.html #twitter #week #socialmedia #linkdump
How to Add an Audio or Music File to a Web Page with BlueGriffon ⌘ https://www.thesitewizard.com/bluegriffon/insert-audio-music-file.shtml
Sail to Shimoda, Japan | https://wiki.xxiivv.com/japan
Upgraded ubuntu to focal
Who needs games when you can have fun with contributing to open-source!
@mdosch@mdosch.de because its what I have. i don’t have the funds to replace it with something more powerful. Am considering wiping it and slapping a linux on.
On the blog: Free Culture Book Club — Seeds, Prologue to Chapter 3 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2020/05/23/seeds.html #freeculture #bookclub
The fundamental problem of communication is that of reproducing at one point either exactly or approximately a message selected at another point. — Claude Shannon, 1948 A brief introduction to the beauty of Information Theory
7 helpful tips on how to be miserable: 1. Stay still. 2. Screw with your sleep. 3. Maximize your screentime. 4. Use your screen to stoke your negative emotions. 5. Set vapid goals. 6. Pursue happiness directly. 7. Follow your instincts. this isn’t happiness™ (7 helpful tips on how to be miserable, Brandon…), Peteski
On the blog: Tweets from 05/18 to 05/22 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/media/2020/05/22/week.html #twitter #week #socialmedia #linkdump
Cities are meant to stop traffic. That is their point. That is why they are there. That is why traders put outposts there, merchants put shops there, hoteliers erected inns there. That is why factories locate there, why warehouses, assembly plants and distribution centers are established there. That is why people settle and cultural institutions grow there. No one wants to operate in a place that people are just passing through; everyone wants to settle where people will stop, and rest, and look around, and talk, and buy, and share. Cities Are Meant to Stop Traffic
It’s bad form to mention money-laundering. Instead, you talk about asset-management structures and tax beneficial schemes. — John Sweeney “Money laundering is a very sophisticated crime and we must be equally sophisticated”*… | (Roughly) Daily
Of course the first thing you do after buying media on DVD is to fire up #Handbrake to make a local copy - those discs are just too fragile!
How to Draw a Rectangular Box Around Your Content in BlueGriffon ⌘ https://www.thesitewizard.com/bluegriffon/draw-rectangular-box-around-content.shtml
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.
Honestly never realized before Beakerbrowser that peer-to-peer could be used to share markdown, JavaScript and html files.
New repository: aquilax/flash-cardon - Flash Cardon - browser extension to help with learning new languages by reading web pages
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.
On the blog: Tweets from 05/11 to 05/15 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/media/2020/05/15/week.html #twitter #week #socialmedia #linkdump
Cows make milk. They milk themselves. Other cows check the milk (for free). Cows - get this - PAY THE FARMER to take the milk away. Then the farmer (you won’t believe this, honestly) sells the milk back to the cows. Sometimes the farmer lets the cow drink a tiny bit of its own milk. The farmer calls it ‘longstanding commitment to Open Access’. What Is a Sustainable Path to Open Access? | Hacker News
The world is an incredibly complex place and everything is changing all the time… trying to plan your career is an exercise in futility that will only serve to frustrate you, and to blind you to the really significant opportunities that life will throw your way. The Embarrassing Problem of Premature Exploitation - LessWrong 2.0
Babies love putting things in their mouths: dirt, insects, bits of grass, their own poo. They have no sense of fear or self-preservation, and come up with endlessly creative ways to place themselves in mortal peril. Once they learn to talk, their constant experimentation with the world transcends the physical to the philosophical. They want to know everything. They are bottomless pits of curiosity, with very little in the way of attention span or self-discipline. Your typical two-year-old can only concentrate on a task for six minutes at a time. Young children are not self-aware enough to feel much in the way of shame, or embarrassment. Nothing is off-limits. The Embarrassing Problem of Premature Exploitation - LessWrong 2.0
Posted to Entropy Arbitrage: Developer Journal, International Nurses Eve https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2020/05/11/nurses.html #programming #project #devjournal #bicker #uxuyu
Posted to Entropy Arbitrage: Advice for Aspiring Career-Hoppers, Part V https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2020/05/10/project.html #quora #career
Always demand a deadline. A deadline weeds out the extraneous and the ordinary. It prevents you from trying to make it perfect, so you have to make it different. Different is better. The Technium: 68 Bits of Unsolicited Advice
Posted to Entropy Arbitrage: Free Culture Book Club - Orang-U https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2020/05/09/orangu.html #freeculture #bookclub
Posted to Entropy Arbitrage: Tweets from 05/04 to 05/08 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/media/2020/05/08/week.html #twitter #week #socialmedia #linkdump
Posted to Entropy Arbitrage: Real Life in Star Trek, The Squire of Gothos https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2020/05/07/squire.html #scifi #startrek #closereading
How to Insert a Bullet Point (Unordered) List with BlueGriffon ⌘ https://www.thesitewizard.com/bluegriffon/unordered-lists.shtml