Reading computer history reminds me that there was a time in the 1950s and 1960s when ‘person does thing with computer’ was a standard slow-news-day template item instead of a business plan
📚 Finished reading Never Lost Again: The Google Mapping Revolution That Sparked New Industries and Augmented Our Reality by Bill Kilday
Is Long/Lat within Polygon from GeoJson ⌘ Read more…
📚 Finished reading Never Lost Again: The Google Mapping Revolution That Sparked New Industries and Augmented Our Reality by Bill Kilday
#now-reading ‘Barracoon’ by Zora Neale Hurston
termpub features now start chapter detection, saved reading positions, following of internal and external links and a twice as fast renderer.
termpub features now start chapter detection, saved reading positions, following of internal and external links and a twice as fast renderer.
📚 Finished reading Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold (Stephen Fry’s Great Mythology, #1) by Stephen Fry
Responses to my essay ‘Tech’s Masturbatory Historiography’ make me think that most people reading it don’t know what ‘historiography’ means. (It’s exactly what it sounds like…)
This is math-heavy but the idea that ‘keys are meta-taxonomic dimensions’ reminds me of ZigZag & other elements make me think of parallel prolog-likes like mycroft – should re-read carefully later: http://www.vpri.org/pdf/m2009002_qod.pdf
Convert Interface to Type: Type Assertion ⌘ Read more…
📚 Finished reading Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold (Stephen Fry’s Great Mythology, #1) by Stephen Fry
Why not apply the principles of the jury system to democracy?
Not only do we know that Democracy as we know it doesn’t work, in 1787 the man who gave us democracy here in the USA told us that it would not work, hence the second amendment. They said this is the best we have deal with it. Don’t let it get too big! What did […] ⌘ Read more
Run Code Once on First Load (Concurrency Safe) ⌘ Read more…
Don’t expect too much, it’s rather basic, but already enough to read at least non technical books.
Don’t expect too much, it’s rather basic, but already enough to read at least non technical books.
#now-reading ‘Calexit’ by Matteo Pizzolo et al. http://blackmaskstudios.com/calexit/
I Wrote 100 Terrible Stories That I’m Glad You’ll Never Read https://io9.gizmodo.com/5870146/i-wrote-100-terrible-short-stories-that-im-glad-youll-never-read
📚 Finished reading 21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari
📚 Finished reading 21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari
Disable Log Output During Tests ⌘ Read more…
Lately I’ve been seeing a lot of cold takes by people who think they’re hot. Like, long-form explanations of how “you aren’t required to agree with film criticism” and “reading should be a pleasurable, low-pressure activity”. Am I just disconnected?
currently reading through ‘shit jobs’ by David Graeber. i’ve enjoyed it a ton
Sending a Slack Message (without a library) ⌘ Read more…
So, I’m working on a fediverse client based on https://web.archive.org/web/20190101185657/https://jfm.carcosa.net/blog/computing/usenet/ ; it’s here: https://github.com/enkiv2/misc/blob/master/fern . It is currently read-only, but it has read history.
📚 Finished reading Factfulness: Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think by Hans Rosling
📚 Finished reading Foundation (Foundation, #1) by Isaac Asimov
📚 Finished reading Factfulness: Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think by Hans Rosling
I broke down my new year’s tarot spreads: http://enki2.tumblr.com/post/181624807399/a-tarot-reading-for-the-new-year
📚 Finished reading Foundation (Foundation, #1) by Isaac Asimov
Create a Basic HTTPS Server (using TLS) ⌘ Read more…
Rewriting Pagenode
Today I released Pagenode – a project that I started 14 years ago. Pagenode began its life as a full-fledged Content Management System and now, after countless rewrites, became a simple library. Pagenode’s journey mimics my own as a developer. Its current iteration expresses my desire for simplicity.
In 2004, after dabbling a bit with PHP and finally grasping MySQL I set out to build my own CMS. I previously looked at a lot of different CMSes on the market and found all of them to … ⌘ Read more
📚 Finished reading How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence by Michael Pollan
📚 Finished reading How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics by Michael Pollan
Reading capital politically - Harry Cleaver https://libcom.org/library/reading-capital-politically-cleaver
Hot take: like most things that are good, Cowboy Bebop is mostly good because they stopped making it before it became bad. (If you don’t believe me, watch the movie or read the tie-in manga.)
📚 Finished reading Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
📚 Finished reading Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
Lovecraft is illustrative of the first half of the 20th century because he represents several seemingly mutually exclusive extremes. Recommend reading Sterling’s Pirate Utopia & Stranger Than We Can Imagine together, then Dreams in the Witch House
I keep reading this narrative where tech backlash only really started in 2017, and… guys, do none of you remember 2010? It’s basically been downhill for tech industry PR since 2010, if not 2008.
Wow, you can update jails from the outside in FreeBSD. Wish I had read the man page more closely a year or so ago!
A Manifesto – Evergreen Review https://evergreenreview.com/read/a-manifesto/
squeakland : resources : books : reading list http://www.squeakland.org/resources/books/readingList.jsp
Waiting for Goroutines to Finish with a WaitGroup ⌘ Read more…
For #NaNoGenMo I converted two of Stravinsky’s ballets to tone-poems by converting note frequencies to word frequencies. I dare somebody to do a dramatic reading of these; it’ll sound like an Underworld track: https://github.com/enkiv2/misc/blob/master/nanogenmo-2018/stravinsky.md https://github.com/enkiv2/misc/blob/master/nanogenmo-2018/stravinsky_pg.md
Parsing Dates from a String and Formatting ⌘ Read more…
Why You Should Read Fiction http://nautil.us/issue/65/in-plain-sight/why-doesnt-ancient-fiction-talk-about-feelings-rp
Neal Stephenson demonstrated that people will read (and love) infodumps so long as they’re funny or fun to read. In other words: infodumps in fiction are fine so long as the author is also an essayist.
Computers Reading Computers’ Writing http://zachwhalen.net/pg/pres/elo18/
Run System Commands & Binary Files ⌘ Read more…
NixOS 18.09 released
NixOS 18.09 “Jellyfish” has been released, the tenth stable release branch.
See the release notes
for details. You can get NixOS 18.09 ISOs and VirtualBox appliances
from the download page.
For information on how to upgrade from older release branches
… ⌘ Read more
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
Moderan reads like if dril was a battle-cyborg & tried to write his autobiography but kept on getting distracted by how COOL it is to PLASTIC-WRAP THE EARTH.
Read some excepts from a book I randomly found yesterday. While the writing was a little dry, I thought it could be an interesting read. However when I looked on Amazon, found out the book was 80 USD. I’m sorry but it was not that interesting.
Underrun – Making Of
I participated in this year’s js13kGames, a JavaScript game development competition with a file size limit of 13kb, including code, assets and everything else. My entry was Underrun, a twin stick shooter using WebGL.
Play Underrun – A WebGL shooter in 13kb of JavaScript
For this competition I set out to produce something with a dense atmosphere – which is inherently difficult to do with so little … ⌘ Read more
TFW you’re trying to balance your desire to recommend a long list of books on some subject with your distaste for the concept of a canon, and then realize that it’s probably OK because you don’t have enough power to impact what people actually read
I mean, you could update with cron and then read the timeline with -U, does anybody do that?
I mean, you could update with cron and then read the timeline with -U, does anybody do that?
@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?
@sdk@codevoid.de I see as I am reading your tweet. Just tried to add you and it works. 😃
@sdk@codevoid.de as for the 140 character limit. I swear I read somewhere that the limit was really more of a suggestion than anything else. I don’t think any of the clients I’ve looked out enforce it. As long as it’s on a single line, no one seems to care too much.
I just read that more than 140 chars are prohibited per twtxt specification. Oops.
Why Read the Classics? | by Italo Calvino | The New York Review of Books https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1986/10/09/why-read-the-classics/
Mastodon and the challenges of abuse in a federated system | Read the Tea Leaves https://nolanlawson.com/2018/08/31/mastodon-and-the-challenges-of-abuse-in-a-federated-system/
Nix 2.1 released
Nix 2.1
has been released. See the release\
notes for a list of changes and new features. ⌘ Read more
Migration successful. My page (http version) is now running on gopherproxy-c. Unfortunately not without functionality loss. If you used my site as search engine, you need to replace the smiley with “q”. The redirect is now handled by nginx and nginx can not read emoji variables.
On Not Being Able to Read https://longreads.com/2018/08/14/on-not-being-able-to-read/
On Reading Hypertext : JMax : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive https://archive.org/details/hypercard_on-reading-hypertext
📚 Finished reading Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics by Tim Marshall
NixOS Discourse forum
The nix-devel mailing list is now replaced by our discourse forum instance which is also usable by email:
discourse.nixos.org. ⌘ Read more
📚 Finished reading Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics by Tim Marshall
📚 Finished reading Great Music of the 20th Century by Robert Greenberg
📚 Finished reading Great Music of the 20th Century by Robert Greenberg
Sorting an Array of Numbered String Values ⌘ Read more…
mnot’s blog: How to Read an RFC https://www.mnot.net/blog/2018/07/31/read_rfc
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.)
“After Posadas’s death, Minazzoli began to focus exclusively on political readings of the great scientific Ufologists like Hynek and Vallee.” Yesss
Memoir in a Melody: The Tragic Disappearance Behind Fastball’s ‘The Way’ http://www.signature-reads.com/2014/04/memoir-in-a-melody-the-tragic-disappearance-behind-fastballs-the-way/
squeakland : resources : books : reading list http://www.squeakland.org/resources/books/readingList.jsp
Creating & Writing to Temp Files ⌘ Read more…
How to read | Robert Heaton https://robertheaton.com/2018/06/25/how-to-read/
Encode and Decode Strings using Base 64 ⌘ Read more…
hot take: to respond to a post without first reading all other responses is impolite. spend the small mental effort to assimilate other people’s reactions before spending the larger effort of having your own, or expect OP to be angry with you
HTTP Get Request with Timeout ⌘ Read more…
Reading about Web Prolog & it reminds me a lot of the work I did on Mycroft. I wonder: how will routing work here? If fully-qualified predicates have an explicit hostname component, Web Prolog can go fuk.
Bad idea of the day: Distort text so that, from a distance, it will be read as a QR code containing the same text – a typographical pseudo-quine
Get the HTTP Method from a Request ⌘ Read more…
Have you tried reading the manual? Have you tried writing the manual?
Ted reads COMPUTOPIA AND CYBERCRUD, published in 1970 - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hf_cSTt1hmk
📚 Finished reading The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
📚 Finished reading The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
AWS Lambda PDF Generator ⌘ Read more…
📚 Finished reading The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable by Patrick Lencioni
📚 Finished reading The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable by Patrick Lencioni
📚 Finished reading Mastery by Robert Greene
📚 Finished reading Mastery by Robert Greene
Thread by @GalaxyKate: “Do you know this book (grapefruit, by Yoko Ono)? I’ve been reading it and profoundly affecting my bot-making. Art appreciation and bot-makin […]” https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/999110758305882112.html?refreshed=yes
Thread by @GalaxyKate: "Do you know this book (grapefruit, by Yoko Ono)? I‘ve been reading it and profoundly affecting my bot-making. Art appreciation and bot-makin […]" https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/999110758305882112.html?refreshed=yes
📚 Finished reading Rationality: From AI to Zombies by Eliezer Yudkowsky