Scroll Through Every Mac Desktop & Laptop Ever Made
The Mac turned 40 this week, and if you’re still on an Apple history kick, there’s a fun website that’s worth exploring called Mac40th. Mac40th.com showcases every desktop and portable Mac ever made by Apple in a continuous stream of Macs, displayed in random order. But it’s not just Macs, interspersed with tons of photos, … Read More ⌘ Read more

On my blog: Toots 🦣 from 01/22 to 01/26 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2024/01/26/week.html #linkdump #mastodon #socialmedia #week

Getting warmer tomorrow and the next week or so, hope most of the snow melts so that I can head out and walk in the forest again - I miss that.

Update on my Fibre to the Premise upgrade (FTTP). NBN installer came out last week to install the NTD and Utility box, after some umming and arring, we figured out the best place to install it. However this mean he wasn’t able to look it up to the Fibre in the pit, and required a 2nd team to come up and trench a new trench and conduit and use that to feed Fibre from the pit to the utility box.

I rang up my ISP to find out when this 2nd team was booked, only to discover to my horror and the horror of my ISP that this was booked a month out on the 2rd Feb 2024! 😱

After a nice small note from my provider to NBN, suddenly I get a phone call and message from an NBN team that do trenching to say it would be done on Saturday (today). That got completed today (despite the heavy rain).

Now all that’s left is a final NBN tech to come and hook the two fibre pieces together and “light it up”! 🥳

On my blog: Toots 🦣 from 01/15 to 01/19 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2024/01/19/week.html #linkdump #mastodon #socialmedia #week

Jetway Unveils 3.5” SBC with Dual 2.5GbE Ports and Triple 4K@60Hz Display Support
Jetway unveiled this week the JF35-ADN1 which is a 3.5” SubCompact single-board computer powered by the Intel Processor N97 CPU. This new embedded device aims at the field of industrial robotics payment systems, machine vision and beyond with its DDR5 memory support and extensive I/O interfaces. The product announcement highlights that the JF35-ADN1 is configurable […] ⌘ Read more

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Moved more snow today than ever before. Terrace is now ready for use. -10c out, tomorrow we’ll sit there with the portable fire pit, make some food on it :) this week has been crazy, but now it’s weekend and time to relax a bit.

** New year **
The last weeks of 2023 have been very enjoyable. Other than having to deal with a cascade of car issues, there’s been a lot of time to hang out with the partner and kids, wander around outside, and poke at fun personal projects…and I mean, work, too, but…you know.

The other evening I pulled together a fun Markov chain toy. It isn’t anything fancy, but I wanted the ability to feed a madlib style script to the program and have it use that as a template to fill in. The resulting program is beak and … ⌘ Read more

Wow, we can get up to a meter of snow in a very short time here, proper snowstorm! Exciting! Also next week the temp drops, cold from siberia comes here, so it’ll probably stick around for a while. :)

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MC in the US: OSFC, SF, Seattle, Microsoft

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I attended the Open Source Firmware Conference (OSFC) on Oct 10-12 in
Sunnyvale, spent a long weekend in San Francisco, took a very long
train ride to Seattle, spent a week in the Seattle area, and held an
intimate talk at Microsoft. Managed to meet friends, drink some nice
beverages, and even see a show but came home with a heavy heart. Then
tried to relax in the cottage.

On my blog: Toots 🦣 from 12/11 to 12/15 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/12/15/week.html #linkdump #mastodon #socialmedia #week

Looking forward to losing the muscle memory in my fingers of entering passwords into forms during my two week vacation.

On my blog: Toots 🦣 from 12/04 to 12/08 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/12/08/week.html #linkdump #mastodon #socialmedia #week

On my blog: Toots 🦣 from 11/27 to 12/01 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/12/01/week.html #linkdump #mastodon #socialmedia #week

Геймдиректор следующего «Ведьмака» о начале второй саги: «Это будет хорошая входная точка для новых игроков»
Геймдиректор четвёртой игры в серии «Ведьмак» Себастьян Калемба посетил итальянский ивент Milan Games Week 2023, на котором поговорил с изданием Lega Nerd о своём проекте.

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Plex Users Fear New Feature Will Leak Porn Habits To Their Friends and Family
Many Plex users were alarmed when they got a “week in review” email last week that showed them what they and their friends had watched on the popular media server software. From a report: Some users are saying that their friends’ softcore porn habits are being revealed to them with the feature, while others are horrified … ⌘ Read more

On my blog: Toots 🦣 from 11/20 to 11/24 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/11/24/week.html #linkdump #mastodon #socialmedia #week

Another work week just flew by.

@prologic@twtxt.net the new product was GPTs. A way to create tailored bots for specific use cases. https://openai.com/blog/introducing-gpts (fun fact: I did an internal hackathon where we made something like this for $work onboarding. And I won a prize!)

The competed project is poe https://quorablog.quora.com/Introducing-creator-monetization-for-Poe which is basically the same idea. Make a AI bot tailored to a specific domain of knowledge. And monitize it.

The timing fits very well as openAI announced it just a few weeks ago.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de I lasted for a long time.. Not sure where or when it was “got”. We had been having a cold go around with the kiddos for about a week when the wife started getting sicker than normal. Did a test and she was positive. We tested the rest of the fam and got nothing. Till about 2 days later and myself and the others were positive. It largely hasn’t been too bad a little feaver and stuffy noses.

But whatever it was that hit a few days ago was horrible. Like whatever switch in my head that goes to sleep mode was shut off. I would lay down and even though I felt sleepy, I couldn’t actually go to sleep. The anxiety hit soon after and I was just awake with no relief. And it persisted that way for three nights. I got some meds from the clinic that seemed to finally get me to sleep.

Now the morning after I realized for all that time a part of me was missing. I would close my eyes and it would just go dark. No imagination, no pictures, nothing. Normally I can visualize things as I read or think about stuff.. But for the last few days it was just nothing. The waking up to it was quite shocking.

Though its just the first night.. I guess I’ll have to see if it persists. 🤞

On my blog: Toots 🦣 from 11/13 to 11/17 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/11/17/week.html #linkdump #mastodon #socialmedia #week

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My daughter started with indoor sand volleyball yesterday, she is now going to go there 2x a week, so happy that she found something she likes, her best friend started too - so they will go together there :)

On my blog: Toots 🦣 from 10/30 to 11/03 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/11/03/week.html #linkdump #mastodon #socialmedia #week

Been working for two weeks straight, so now Im going to relax and enjoy the weekend. What are you all up to this weekend?

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@mckinley@twtxt.net Dog walking, and my son started with organized football this week, so he’s going on a tournament tomorrow (3 matches).
Been working a lot as well (from home).. So busy weekend for sure. How about you?

On my blog: Toots 🐘 from 09/04 to 09/08 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/09/08/week.html #linkdump #mastodon #socialmedia #week

** Updates from the end of summer **
Today was the last real day of summer for us. Tomorrow the kids go back to school.

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You know those last few weeks before the dark of autumn — the ones that hold the last bursts of summer? Those days where you try to squeeze in as many chill summer vibes as humanly possible?

I’ve bee … ⌘ Read more

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On my blog: Toots 🐘 from 08/14 to 08/18 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/08/18/week.html #linkdump #mastodon #socialmedia #week

On my blog: Toots 🐘 from 08/07 to 08/11 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/08/11/week.html #linkdump #mastodon #socialmedia #week

I need to get influxdb up on my router. But I do about .5TB per week. So seems pretty on par to you with all that streaming the family does.

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Finally the rain and wind stopped, now we’ll have nice weather for the rest of the week it seems. Happy to see that! :)

On my blog: Toots 🐘 from 07/10 to 07/14 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/07/14/week.html #linkdump #mastodon #socialmedia #week

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On my blog: Toots 🐘 from 06/26 to 06/30 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/06/30/week.html #linkdump #mastodon #socialmedia #week

my stress level has gone down 10x today. been stressed a lot lately, but now Im much better. nothing has been wrong or anything øike that, just been stressed out. and now its only two weeks until I start my 4 week vacation, that will be super nice.

On my blog: Toots 🐘 from 06/19 to 06/23 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/06/23/week.html #linkdump #mastodon #socialmedia #week

7b7c7 here from another IP, yeah, it’s been storming on and off the last week and it looks like it’s about to do it for a second one in a row. Got stormed out of where we were set up. Oh well

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Yeah, same here, been no rain here. But honestly - I do not mind warm weather and such, but I also appreciate a bit colder. We’ll have some rain next week I think.

On my blog: Toots 🐘 from 06/12 to 06/16 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/06/16/week.html #linkdump #mastodon #socialmedia #week

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On my blog: Toots 🐘 from 05/29 to 06/02 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/06/02/week.html #linkdump #mastodon #socialmedia #week

** week notes **
Last year I set out to rekindle my reading habit. That went well. This year’s reading has been enjoyable, but I’m not cozy with the ratio of non-fiction to fiction I’ve read this year…non-fiction (especially of the computing persuasion) far out balances the fiction I’ve read. I think this is mostly because I’ve been mired amidst a fiction book that I’ve found to be a slog…but enjoyable, too. I’d have abandoned it and moved on, elsewise. Onward!

Spring is quickly making way to summer h … ⌘ Read more

On my blog: Toots 🐘 from 05/22 to 05/26 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/05/26/week.html #linkdump #mastodon #socialmedia #week

On my blog: Toots 🐘 from 05/15 to 05/19 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/05/19/week.html #linkdump #mastodon #socialmedia #week

Been some busy days this week, even though I have some time off now. Today me and Marlyn had some time for ourselves - and her mother watched our kids, so we went out to eat at a resturant, which we very rarely do, was nice to do that. I had some nachos, was really nice. Also bought one of those popcorn machines for our kids, because they always burn the microwave popcorn (not their fault - its the microwave thas weird), so now they can safely make popcorn :)

My internet is down until these people repave the driveway which could take weeks due to rain. I don’t have unlimited data, either.

Just 2 days at the office this week, then rest of the week is free time :) woho!

On my blog: Toots 🐘 from 05/08 to 05/12 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/05/12/week.html #linkdump #mastodon #socialmedia #week

On my blog: Toots 🐘 from 05/01 to 05/05 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/05/05/week.html #linkdump #mastodon #socialmedia #week

An early bird & night owl swap lives for a week ⌘ Read more

More than meets the pull request: maintainers talk contributions
Creating an open source project can feel a bit like sending out an open invite to a party—will it be a roaring good time, or will you unbegrudginly dine on leftover junk food for the following week after nobody shows? When the first guest arrives, you breathe a sigh of relief. The party’s a success, […] ⌘ Read more

@prologic@twtxt.net Always nice to get a day off and a short week 😀

On my blog: Toots 🐘 from 04/24 to 04/28 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/04/28/week.html #linkdump #mastodon #socialmedia #week

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** of array programming, lightsabers and some thoughts on permacomputing **
A bit of this and that, some kind of mishmosh.

Over the last few weeks I’ve been reading a lot about array programming systems like J, K, Q, APL, and BQN. I’ve been intending to add a page to the wiki about them, but havent gotten to that yet. Consider this a little promise that I’ll do that sometime soon. I’m interested in array programming less because I think it’s particularl … ⌘ Read more

On my blog: Toots 🐘 from 04/10 to 04/14 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/04/14/week.html #linkdump #mastodon #socialmedia #week

@movq@www.uninformativ.de I love ‘exotic’ computers, especially riscv. But one of the most prized computers I have is the Lemote Yeeloong, Loongson mipsel laptop - http://web.archive.org/web/20151220055337/http://www.lemote.com:80/en/products/Notebook/2010/0310/112.html , very cool machine, I cannot part with that one, gonna put in in my coffin when I die. Got a hold of it about 10 years ago, cost a lot, but it was worth it. I run openbsd on it, and have to compile everything on it. took over 2 weeks to compile sylpheed email client on it LOL.

@prologic@twtxt.net it’s mostly ready now I feel, got a lot done, so I’ll focus on getting it out there this week, A bit busy the next days, but I’m sure I’ll find time to get it uploaded and hosted on my VPS so that others can use it as well.

On my blog: Toots 🐘 from 04/03 to 04/07 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/04/07/week.html #linkdump #mastodon #socialmedia #week

Building GitHub with Ruby and Rails
Since the beginning, GitHub.com has been a Ruby on Rails monolith. Today, the application is nearly two million lines of code and more than 1,000 engineers collaborate on it daily. We deploy as often as 20 times a day, and nearly every week one of those deploys is a Rails upgrade. Upgrading Rails weekly Every […] ⌘ Read more

@funbreaker@yn.vern.cc Hi! I have attached the current screenshot, as you see it’s not done yet, I need to add some things, but a lot of work is already done.
I will fix the remaining things and try to make it usable enough this week so that I can upload the source.
Need to add the remaining reply button, image loading and width of the text etc first.
I had that in the FLTK client, so I just need to add it to this new GTK gui.

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Here is what I had with FLTK
https://yarn.stigatle.no/twt/4nuoc7q

I did not have time to work on those things today, ran out of time. But I’ll resume tomorrow.

** week notes **
Some things of note, links mostly:

First and foremost, I found a suitable pinboard replacement in link hut! Shout outs to my buddy Bruno for the tip.

Here’s a bookmarklet I wrote to make it a bit more ergonomic for how I like to roll,

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javascript:(<span class="hljs-function"><span class="hljs-keyword">function</span> (<span class="hljs-params"></span>) </span>{
  <span class="hljs-keyword">const</span> tags = prompt(<span class="hljs-string">'A space separated list of tags.' ... ⌘ [Read more](https://eli.li/2023/03/31/week-notes)

On my blog: Toots 🐘 from 03/27 to 03/31 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/03/31/week.html #linkdump #mastodon #socialmedia #week

@prologic@twtxt.net no, not ice, just really wet and really slick. Been raining a lot the last weeks. If it was dry it would be no problem.

On my blog: Toots 🐘 from 03/20 to 03/24 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/03/24/week.html #linkdump #mastodon #socialmedia #week

Good morning to you all! Rain is still poring down, tired of getting wet each time I go outside. heh.
Going to rain all weekend it seems, but then next week it’ll get better. Hoped the rain would stop this weekend, but it seems like it wont.

On my blog: Toots 🐘 from 03/13 to 03/17 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/03/17/week.html #linkdump #mastodon #socialmedia #week

And mostly whether it’s even a good idea at al, and if we should continue or not?

I think that activitypub in yarn is a great feature! And also one of the easier ones to set up and get going.
And as I said last week - I think it’s a important features - and will drive adoption.
It is optional as well - so if one does not want it - just not turn that feature on.

I personally was missing the fact that I could not easily follow others before you added activitypub, but now I can choose to follow them, which is great.

On my blog: Toots 🐘 from 03/06 to 03/10 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/03/10/week.html #linkdump #mastodon #socialmedia #week

On my blog: Toots 🐘 from 02/27 to 03/03 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/03/03/week.html #linkdump #mastodon #socialmedia #week

The company I work work added a hybrid solution after covid restrictions lifted, we can work x amount of days a week from home.
Which was a great solution. Covid proved that everyone could work from home and still meet the project demands.
Personally I prefer the office, even if I have to be there alone (I worked for months alone there). But I also like the flexibility when I need it.

** week notes **
I’ve been experimenting. I’ve been concocting a recipe for vegan kugel, and rediscovering little features and edges of my website I’d forgotten I baked in. Like chocolate chips hidden in an oatmeal raisin cookie.

One chip most recently re-discovered: support for per-page custom styles?! All I gotta do is include an optional bit of meta data, bespoke-css, that points to a style sheet. I may play with this feature more. I do love myself some css. I can tell exactly when in my life I added this feature because th … ⌘ Read more

Started my day with a 10km hike with the dog this morning, was nice and quiet outside today, about 0c out, but sun was shining, so was really nice. Kids are busy today, so now I’m spending some time on my computer, which is nice. Been a very busy week, so I’m glad it’s weekend now.

On my blog: Toots 🐘 from 02/20 to 02/24 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/02/24/week.html #linkdump #mastodon #socialmedia #week

Good morning to you all!
The weather forecast says it’ll be sunny for a week now, damn I’m looking forward to that, we’ve had a lot of rain this week.

On my blog: Toots 🐘 from 02/13 to 02/17 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/02/17/week.html #linkdump #mastodon #socialmedia #week

** Accessibility updates **
I’m feeling pretty chuffed! Last week I wrote about my intention to make this website more accessible. My motivations were many-fold, but, primarily, mostly shame. I’ve worked as an accessibility specialist in the past, and now spend a bunch of my days at work looking for ways to make public infrastructure online more accessible. It seemed fitting to at least make sure the little bit I contribute to the web here is also accessible.

I thought it was going t … ⌘ Read more

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In reply to: Oatmeal - week notes

The worst kind of blogging is blogging about blogging, so, I’ll keep this blogging about blogging short!

I’ve made some minor updates to the design of the website that have improved it’s usability a wee bit, and are a step in the right direction toward upping my accessibility game. The major remaining accessibility issues are around color contrast and some structura … ⌘ Read more

I bought a 256GB usb a couple of weeks ago, I now want a OS on it with persistent storage.
I only have 1 drive on my newest laptop at the moment, so I do not want to dualboot and such, so a os on the usb stick is a nice option.
Tonight I’m testing NomadBSD - https://nomadbsd.org/index.html
Will flash it in a couple of minutes, hope it boots fine with my hardware.

** week notes **
It got a wee bit cold here in Maine this weekend. It was thankfully uneventful for us. We hung around inside and watched it get real cold outside. Our home faired pretty well, too. Honestly pleasantly surprised about that!

We picked this weekend to go all in on potty training — pantsless days, treats, rousing bouts of encouragement sung, and a lot of spot cleaning. Fueled by hubris, I thought we had this potty trainin … ⌘ Read more

On my blog: Toots 🐘 from 01/30 to 02/03 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/02/03/week.html #linkdump #mastodon #socialmedia #week

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