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Sunday reading

5/21/23

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If you ever find yourself relaying messages from one group chat to another then you've implicitly implemented the Broadcaster protocol. #TerribleProgrammingJoke

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I made a useless Mastodon Client in <80 lines of code!

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Tonight I built a simple Mastodon client (complete with live refresh) in 64 lines of vanilla Javascript. Very cool.

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Server Sent Events are so cool.

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That moment in baking where you realize things are not going to look like you planned and think to yourself: "Well, at least they'll still taste good."

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The New York Times describing Pythagoras.

5/13/23

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My life these days:

  1. Write 3-10 lines of code
  2. Commit and push
  3. SSH into server
  4. Run deploy script
  5. "Does it look ok now?"

This is not a complaint, it's just an observation.

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You should probably be following this btw. No reason (glances side to side)

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I’ve gotten way too invested in this story. Goodbye Freeway the Sea Lion you will be missed.

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An important takeaway.

Link →

4/20/23

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I said something like this a few weeks ago, but I think (through all the doom and gloom) the Web truly has gotten better in the past decade.

  • Mastodon gaining real traction as decentralized social media
  • Blogging & RSS still thrive, though more niche (substack, patreon, etc)
  • Signal provides encrypted messaging and is open source & non-profit

And that's not even mentioning new tech like CRDTs that will make the Web even better. #optimism

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Adventurer's Codex is live on Mastodon!

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A perfect day in San Diego.

It’s clear, sunny, 70F, and green.

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Git is magic.

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This is a week I will remember the rest of my life.

More context later in the week.

(Yes it’s a good thing, don’t worry)

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Just had coffee.

Want more coffee. ☕️

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Life hack: How to quickly list the counts of unique items in a column in excel/numbers:

  1. Select column
  2. Cmd+C
  3. Open terminal
  4. pbpaste | sort | uniq -c | sort -n -r
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Tipped

3/24/23

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It is 2023 and I'm over here emailing git patch files like an old-schooler.

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Looks like Disk Utility was able to fix it!

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Checking the fsroot tree.

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Not so much worried about the data (it’s backed up in multiple places) it’s more the inconvenience of my primary being out of commission for an indeterminate amount of time.

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My primary computer has data corruption issues. Lovely.

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Waterfront

3/18/23