Since you cannot go back in time to change the past, forgiveness is about giving up the hope of a different or better yesterday. It relates to forgiving actions that were taken, that gave you the feelings of loss of control over your happiness. It’s about acknowledging those things that another did or said that caused pain and making the decision that you are not going to let that hurt or control you anymore. Forgiveness can be very empowering. It can give you the chance to be free of another person’s emotional control. It has nothing to do with the other person. As was said before, it is something that is for you and you alone.” Why forgiving someone else is about you | Hacker News

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

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

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.

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

Go and xmpp-client ⌘ https://hack.org/mc/blog/xmpp-client.html

mub - a minimalist IRC client in Go ⌘ https://hack.org/mc/blog/mub.html

Going native on a Chromebook ⌘ https://hack.org/mc/blog/native-chromebook.html

Containerize Your Go Developer Environment – Part 1 ⌘ https://www.docker.com/blog/containerize-your-go-developer-environment-part-1/

Containerize Your Go Developer Environment – Part 3 ⌘ https://www.docker.com/blog/containerize-your-go-developer-environment-part-3/

Containerize Your Go Developer Environment – Part 2 ⌘ https://www.docker.com/blog/containerize-your-go-developer-environment-part-2/

Still locked down. Going slightly around the bend. All is well

Need to fix the infraestructure that lets me serve content via gopher and http. Sometimes https calls go to my gopher server.

Need to fix the infraestructure that lets me serve content via gopher and http. Sometimes https calls go to my gopher server.

Not that I am asking any #twtxt developer to give me that, I am just saying that I am going to build those tools that I want

Not that I am asking any #twtxt developer to give me that, I am just saying that I am going to build those tools that I want

I can tweet and twtxt from the command line, now I want a popup text area, a simple local Web interface and an Albert/Alfred action to do it without going to the terminal.

I can tweet and twtxt from the command line, now I want a popup text area, a simple local Web interface and an Albert/Alfred action to do it without going to the terminal.

Shutting down computers and packing my backpack to take the metro and go home

Shutting down computers and packing my backpack to take the metro and go home

Mock S3 Uploads in Go Tests ⌘ Read more…

Am on the way to a Munich white sausage breakfast before we go to the stadium for an icehockey match. Great Sunday!

@von@tilde.town: ah dang… i’m wondering if bandcamp is going to get it.. the last time i checked she didn’t have it on her page

New repository: aquilax/nano-neuron-go - Go adaptation of nano-neuron

@kas@enotty.dk @freemor@freemor.homelinux.net I doubt many want to browser-sniff. Unfortunately, I see browser sniffing used to work around a particular browser’s bugs, so browser sniffing isn’t going away anytime soon.

New repository: aquilax/go-stemmer - Bulgarian language stemmer library in go for the BULSTEM rules

It would be up to the user to decide how granular to chunk things. Monthly? Yearly? Anyway, seems downloading bulk feeds over and over is going to be problematic.

Going to have to read Life 3.0 by Max Tegmark - Being human in the age of Artificial Intelligence

Foreach Loops: The Go Way ⌘ Read more…

I’m going to call all “apps” programs again as part of my retro-computing experience.

so glad USB phone tethering exists. no way am I going to stumble through wpa_supplicant and wpa_cli to connect to coffeeshop wifi

New repository: aquilax/truncate - Go library for truncating strings

@frogotbits.com Well actually I don’t have that much to right down (I think) so a bujo might be overkill. Actually I’m good with Taskwarrior for now, I find it faster to manage tasks, but having a place where I can put tasks and thoughts on paper is nice. That’s why i’m gonna go with dash-plus as @lucidiot@tilde.town showed me :)

New repository: aquilax/grafana-ledger-data-source-server - Grafana server for ledger data written in Go

@johanbove@johanbove.info I mean, I’d keep this one, but also create another one just to let go thoughts. But yeah, the more I think about it the sillier it gets.

Going to see Terminator Dark Fate next tuesday - somewhat big expectations

New repository: aquilax/hash-identifier - Go package to identify different hashes

Build a Basic Web Scraper in Go ⌘ Read more…

I have the feeling that this is going to be a looooong week

@kas@enotty.dk Your link made it into the libraries test. 😂 https://github.com/FluuxIO/go-xmpp/commit/005c8823d9a3d57c133737f1f889658c3ddb869b

@kas@enotty.dk See https://github.com/FluuxIO/go-xmpp/blob/master/component.go#L157

I’m not sure I like how homebrew will try to build a package if the download fails. I don’t need a second go binary, really.

Generate a PDF in Go ⌘ Read more…

Oh, right. If my main computer is tethered to my phone’s LTE connection, it’s not going to be accessible from my tablet, will it? Darn.

i just started using i3 (i3-gaps) on my laptop and holy shit this is so wonderful… i had no idea tiling WMs were so amazing but i’m never going back

Go Get: Install All Packages ⌘ Read more…

Nobody going “woo” for portrait-mode coding? Hunh.

Sublime Text Workflow: Auto Build & Format ⌘ Read more…

i wanna go camping

Today I learned that onions are a sulfur-rich food. You can experience this yourself if you caramelize down roughly seven onions and eat half the batch in one sitting. Try not to do this if you’re going to be around people with functioning noses.

Finally reinstalled twtxt. Hope all is going well

Finally reinstalled twtxt. Hope all is going well

The Spectacle vs Capitalism (Snowpiercer vs Go West) - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opMAQzMEkGg

Go Left Dems, The ‘Center’ Is Just GOP-Lite https://peterdaou.com/go-left-dems/

Apparently, not only is Netflix making more FMV VNs, but Youtube Red is going to produce some too? As a VN author I can’t complain too much but jesus are we in 1993 again? The return to forgotten history in the tech industry gives me whiplash

going without was fun and all, but i’m glad to have something to use again

despite the temporary break of last weekend, i still feel like i’ve been going at full power

my no-laptop experiment is still going alright… although i’m kind of just excited to start messing around with my new one when it comes

holy shit did the domekano anime cut like most of the literature club shit? i don’t remember them going camping & hina getting stung by a wasp

i’ve been insanely productive this week… usually my manic states don’t go on for this long but we’re pushing three days

today was the day of the triennual trying of the fish shell only to go back to bash within an hour or two

i’m going without a laptop for a week… i’m really excited about it and day 1 was great so far

We ought to be suspicious of business plans that resemble manifest destiny: expansion into supposedly-unclaimed regions, turning inhabitants into tools & discarding the resistant (who now have nowhere to go) or worse.

Why Conspiracy Videos Go Viral on YouTube - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/02/reason-conspiracy-videos-work-so-well-youtube/583282/

A lot of people are going to start watching Magical Girl Spec-Ops Asuka, and then say ‘this looks like trash’ and stop watching it. They’re right, and it’s a shame. Higurashi had the same problem.

Bad idea of the day: Do a free machine-generated text class at a library (using tracery or something), self-publish the course materials as a book (with proceeds going to the library as donations), & get a couple copies for the stacks.

Notes on structured concurrency, or: Go statement considered harmful — njs blog https://vorpus.org/blog/notes-on-structured-concurrency-or-go-statement-considered-harmful/

Bitcoin, Snapchat, Drugs And Death: How A Woman Followed Two “UGNazi” Hackers’ Lies To Her Tragic Killing https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/josephbernstein/tomi-masters-down-the-rabbit-hole-i-go

Unusual core features for a dream language for small computing: MUMPS-style disk persistence of otherwise normal variables indicated by sigils, go-style piping between coroutines or greenthreads, message passing & guards like erlang, parsing backtracking like icon, constraint solving like prolog

i think it’s going to take some time before i can actually Do School again…

One of the ideas I was playing with in MfoM was the distinction between player & player character with a ‘possession’ metaphor, & how that relates to the time loop. I didn’t go so far with it. Maybe in Book of the Damned I’ll have the player be a possessing-spirit.

@kas@enotty.dk I should have gone for the two-hour nap (to a first approximation, I can’t powernap). Ended up going to bed at 5 without having had a two-hour nap previously. Failed experiments are the price of knowledge, I guess.

My furnace broke & the furnace repair guy is snowed in, & it’ll be going below zero tonight. So, I had to run to walmart & buy a bunch of space heaters, & I’ll be up all night making sure nothing catches on fire :(

We all know about social constructs vs reality, but there are levels of spookiness (and no upper bound). We can define them as how far a lie can go before the truth gets its boots on. Spookiness level one – money – already goes basically perpetually.

Broken Chain Restaurants: When Fast Food Franchises Go Solo https://tedium.co/2018/12/04/broken-chains-fast-food-restaurants/

Remember: unless your turkey sees its shadow, you must go back underground and avoid buying anything until halloween of next year.

Oh no… The Alita movie is going to try to cover the rollerball arc in addition to the first arc.

I’m going to be periodically posting research resources for the new book here, as I find them: http://www.lord-enki.net/resources-survey-of-alternatives.html

Bunny-Girl Senpai is an interesting show. It seems to be going for a theme with the various arcs: each one seems to be about how communications media change our behavior & self-image by exerting social pressure with expectations.

Because of the use of ‘rune’ to refer to unicode codepoints in go, a fulthark transliteration program might have somewhat confusing source…

Lexical Scanning in Go - Rob Pike - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxaD_trXwRE

At work for only 70 min and I already want to go home.

New repository: aquilax/time66 - Go library to get the 6/6 time. Based on https://xkcd.com/2050/

Is there already a term for going into a piece of media with the expectation that it won’t be a waste of time / there’s something to be gained by paying attention & thinking? (Like ‘good-faith viewership’?)

I love it. I have a program that needs to processing about half a million records, which will take 3 days. The database that all those records are suppose to go to is acting up after I’ve just done 140K records.

Pet peeve: on my work computer, 80% of my lobste.rs comments double-post because of some kind of missing deduplication logic. Then, I have to periodically go through all my threads to delete the duplicates. Sometimes one copy of the post will have 2 upvotes & the other 3.

On free will: Daniel Dennett and Gregg Caruso go head to head | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/on-free-will-daniel-dennett-and-gregg-caruso-go-head-to-head

If imports from China suddenly dropped substantially (say, due to tariffs), would enough manufacturing business go back to S. Korea & Japan to affect Japan’s almost-30-year economic stagnation?

Fastly supports NixOS
We are happy to announce that we have moved our binary cache to Fastly. Fastly
is a big supporter of open source projects and now NixOS is one of them! Fastly provides us with CDN capability,
which previously was running on AWS CloudFront. Big thanks go to Fastly, in particular Tom Denniston and Elaine
Greenberg, our friends at Infor and Packet.com
and Graham Christensen for making this possible. ⌘ Read more

Tell Me It’s Going to be OK | Miya Tokumitsu https://thebaffler.com/salvos/tell-me-its-going-to-be-ok-tokumitsu

When Will Security Go Back to Normal? | Philosophy Tube - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyzd_a6vLWY

@mdom@domgoergen.com That’s interesting. So does txtnish read that metadata? or would an end user just look at the file to see it? Is the meta data going to be the standard?

Evil Bobs brand new gopherproxy-c is double as fast as gopherproxy-go. Amazing! (migration is in progress)

My feed will be deader than usual for a while so I’m going to be automatically posting a medium story I clapped for every 4 hours. Set your filters accordingly.

This Fred Turner book really makes me wish we had good hypertext integrated into publishing. Hard to go more than a sentence or two in From Counterculture to Cyberculture without wanting to link it to Rise of the Machines, or Encountering America, or What the Dormouse Said, or Fire in the Valley

Bad idea of the day: ‘twitch writes a novel’: the previous ~15 words are shown & the top ~20 next words based on a markov model of some corpus are voted on over a 2 minute period (going to the first item, if no votes are cast) until 50k words are written.

I’m always amazed at how many people I work with go out to eat each day. I don’t know how they afford to that.

This is a very hot take and also not a new one but here we go: the goal of a properly functioning software engineer is to obviate themselves, not by solving the customer’s specific problems but by blurring the line between using a computer and programming one to the point where users can solve their own problems.

Anyone using sendxmpp wants to try go-sendxmpp. It should already cover the most important use cases and I would be interested if it was compatible in your use case. https://salsa.debian.org/mdosch-guest/go-sendxmpp #xmpp #golang

Re: https://www.fastcompany.com/90208681/the-myth-of-human-centered-design – good design encourages symbiosis, while bad design encourages parasitism. (Go read your Engelbart & Licklider again.)