# nick = frogorbits.com # twturl = https://www.frogorbits.com/twtxt.txt 2016-02-12T23:06:41-08:00 this thing on? 2016-02-12T23:15:28-08:00 Apparently this thing — by which I mean “my shell” — has trouble with exclamation marks inside double quotes. Phooey. 2016-02-12T23:19:14-08:00 Now seeing if Ansible is still upset. 2016-03-18T13:28:34-07:00 @ but `sudo !!` is my favorite command… 2016-04-25T17:46:50-07:00 fun make-work project: moving from upstart to systemd 2017-05-30T22:56:59-07:00 accidentally deleted this thing because rsync with ansible is hard 2019-01-18T00:09:11-08:00 “xt” is probably one of the least pleasant key sequences to press 2019-01-19T04:57:31-08:00 I ate banana pancakes and now my burps taste like banana 2019-01-19T20:06:12-08:00 current Saturday-night fun: ensuring that everything I have installed on one machine with Homebrew is also on the other machine 2019-01-20T03:18:42-08:00 today’s `brew cleanup` cleaned up 4 GB of space 2019-01-20T16:59:24-08:00 Using Visual Studio Code in fullscreen on my main monitor while looking at other things on the other monitor. I did not expect to turn into one of John Siracusa’s millenial co-workers. 2019-01-20T19:53:50-08:00 currently considering the relative merits of an 8 pm nap vs. an 8 pm coffee 2019-01-20T20:30:49-08:00 I went for the new thing and chose the coffee. I am not falling asleep in my chair anymore. 2019-01-23T13:46:03-08:00 not sure why a swig or three of kefir kills a post-meal sweet tooth, but it does. unsure if the 12g sugar per quarter bottle plays a part in this or not. 2019-01-23T13:48:38-08:00 @ 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. 2019-01-23T18:04:45-08:00 today’s procrastination tactic: writing a README (pretty much a spec) for an as-yet unwritten command-line tool 2019-01-23T19:08:28-08:00 @ I’m not discouraged at all. I now know to choose sleep at 8 PM instead of coffee. Maybe one day I’ll get lucky and just sleep the whole night through. 2019-01-24T17:07:35-08:00 I kind of want to use SILE () for something, but I need a PDF generator like I need a hole in my head. 2019-01-26T16:00:23-08:00 Odd. 81° in here and I’m slightly chilled. 2019-01-26T16:47:26-08:00 Just now noticed, over an hour later, that I didn’t want a post-dinner sweet something. Guess I finally broke the habit in three days or so. 2019-01-27T13:48:42-08:00 things.reduce((pacman, dot) => {/* … */}); 2019-01-28T03:14:10-08:00 I reduced (sorry (not sorry)) an entire blog post into my previous twtxt post and I’m not sure if I should be happy or not. It might’ve been a perfectly adequate blog post. 2019-01-28T03:16:10-08:00 No Title: A play like No Exit by Sartre, but four strangers have to agree on how to tag a moderately complicated CD in iTunes 2019-01-29T16:54:27-08:00 I did math. The math told me to eat more protein, so I had a whey-and-milk shake with vanilla extract and honey. 2019-01-30T01:43:41-08:00 you can do anything at localhost. the only limit is yourself 2019-01-31T16:32:01-08:00 Used my first webp image today. Took me a bit to figure out that I needed to put width: 100% on the img element, not on its enclosing picture element. 2019-02-02T13:27:44-08:00 I expected all of my leg and foot muscles to be sore after yesterday’s four-hour hike, but I didn’t expect my traps to be sore. 2019-02-03T01:00:54-08:00 Saw a reply to one of my old posts after bypassing goatflare. I’d never heard of Balistos before. At least I don’t remember seeing it the first time around. 2019-02-10T07:44:26-08:00 coffee? 2019-02-10T08:18:16-08:00 coffee. 2019-02-10T08:28:52-08:00 coffee… 2019-02-10T23:56:46-08:00 Finally had cause to break open one of those Panobooks by Studio Neat. It’s so utterly pleasant to touch. 2019-02-15T11:53:47-08:00 IT’S PEANUT BUTTER CODIN’ TIME IT’S PEANUT BUTTER CODIN’ TIME IT’S PEANUT BUTTER CODIN’ TIME IT’S PEANUT BUTTER CODIN’ TIME 2019-02-26T01:24:37-08:00 conundrum of the hour: “why buy one when you could have two for twice the price?” 2019-02-27T20:14:05-08:00 🔀 Siddhartha Barnhoorn — Antichamber 🔁 2019-03-01T11:44:27-08:00 The Champs — Tequila (radio edit) 2019-03-07T15:18:50-08:00 I was too lazy to look up how to write a for-loop in bash so I just ran “find . -name \*.ttf -exec woff2_compress {} \;” 2019-03-07T15:35:48-08:00 That previous post took the total font load for Safari users from 23 MB to a mere 9 MB. Progress! 2019-03-09T11:44:52-08:00 @ I wanted to like Kakoune but I liked having my option key not be an alt key more. Shame, really. 2019-03-18T21:17:16-07:00 “Great repository names are short and memorable. Need inspiration? How about supreme-couscous?” — I hadn’t heard about this particular Supreme collab, but then again I haven’t been subscribed to Hypebeast in a while… 2019-03-20T05:11:59-07:00 today was the day of the triennual trying of the fish shell only to go back to bash within an hour or two 2019-03-21T01:16:00-07:00 I wanted to feel productive this evening, but I didn’t want to do any useful work. In related news, I’ve switched to https://fishshell.com/ from GPLv2 bash. 2019-03-21T01:19:12-07:00 @ now that I understand fish enough to port over the contents of my .bashrc and .bash_profile, I’m starting to get used to it. How’s having different shell preferences for login/interactive treating you? 2019-03-21T15:23:19-07:00 Interestingly enough, Visual Studio Code keeps running bash as its preferred shell, even though it isn’t the login shell anymore. 2019-03-21T15:53:38-07:00 I want to like exa, but its default color choices are hot garbage. Don’t these people who use purple ever try using a terminal with a black background? 2019-03-27T18:50:46-07:00 hmm, twtxt 1.2.3 includes “User-Agent:” in its user-agent string… 2019-03-29T19:14:29-07:00 I art-directed a website. The end boss was finding out how to make the black parts of a black-on-transparent image a light gray after finding out that CSS can’t do this itself yet. 2019-03-30T22:18:14-07:00 https://generative.fm/ is my Spotify 2019-03-31T00:38:47-07:00 @ adiabatic. My insulin levels are self-regulating and not too high. 2019-03-31T21:53:31-07:00 https://www.microsoft.com/ie/ 404s. End of an age, I tell you. 2019-04-10T20:39:54-07:00 If Cthulhu, Chernobyl, and Pripyat all call you at the same time, who gets the busy signal? 2019-04-10T20:44:29-07:00 You know, Desert 2 is probably the best static Mojave wallpaper. It has enough light parts for the daytime, yet it also is generally dark enough to work well in dim lighting. Not many photographs are like that. 2019-04-14T19:15:32-07:00 “Never Gonna Give You Up” by Rick Astley: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ 2019-04-20T17:17:21-07:00 Concept of the day: “Radar Chicken”, whereby two computer nerds encourage the other to file a bug report so the other doesn’t have to 2019-04-23T13:27:18-07:00 Looking for a suitable dip for your peanut-butter cups? Remember that sweetened condensed milk is liquid at fridge temperatures, while bacon fat is solid. 2019-04-26T13:46:25-07:00 Saw https://github.com/matteocorti/roll in the updated-formulæ list in Homebrew. I had no idea https://github.com/topics/dice-roller was a thing. 2019-04-29T11:53:31-07:00 Last night’s minor win: moving ~/.gitconfig and ~/.gitignore to ~/.config/git 2019-04-30T06:33:06-07:00 I wish https://generative.fm/ had a clone of Moby’s “Alone” called “Forever Alone” 2019-04-30T06:34:21-07:00 In other news, https://generative.fm/ now has a sleep timer 2019-05-04T16:04:09-07:00 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. 2019-05-06T16:39:14-07:00 Took a long walk earlier today and now I want to take a short nap. 2019-05-06T16:41:26-07:00 @ “best viewed in a rusty nail” just sounds weird to me, though. 2019-05-06T19:36:01-07:00 uni kuru toga party 2019-05-08T20:26:47-07:00 Make your website better in bed. Use @media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) { /* … */ }. 2019-05-09T13:38:18-07:00 @ not dead yet. 2019-05-09T13:42:04-07:00 @ Not too soon, I hope? 2019-05-18T00:27:38-07:00 Cute. `wget --mirror --random-wait` didn’t. 2019-05-20T14:02:45-07:00 all my friends are in agony over the Game of Thrones series end and all I can do to try and understand is remember how utterly confused I was by the nondeominational church at the end of LOST 2019-05-21T09:16:24-07:00 currently humming: “Never Gonna Give You Up” by Rick Astley: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ" 2019-05-21T09:18:39-07:00 not a minute later, currently humming: “Perform This Way” by “Weird Al” Yankovic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ss_BmTGv43M 2019-05-24T14:41:25-07:00 Anyone who says that iPads are bad for gaming is an ignoramus and/or a liar. I beat Picross S’s P060 and I wouldn’t have been able to finish it if I hadn’t been able to take pictures of the TV with my iPad to be able to easily back out of hypohetical block arrangements that turned out to be wrong. 2019-05-25T15:02:40-07:00 In today’s `brew update && brew upgrade`: new bat, harfbuzz, and lsd. Is this the universe’s way of pointing me towards transcendent joy? 2019-05-27T17:02:55-07:00 @ I’ve tried to play games on my phone and iPad but none of the games I’ve ever played on them seem to stick. I’ve had fun — briefly — with Threes and FTL and Really Bad Chess and so forth, but I don’t seem to stick with any one game on my iOS gizmos like I have with, say, FTL-on-Steam, much less TF2 or Dota 2. 2019-05-27T17:12:45-07:00 Tempted to make a “dark motherfucking website” also-satire that has the minimal amount of @media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) to keep people from blowing out their retinas when viewing the site at night. 2019-06-02T17:30:32-07:00 new toy of the day: https://github.com/lotabout/skim 2019-06-03T09:50:40-07:00 Do you miss your Twitter timeline blowing up whenever a WWDC keynote happens? DON’T WORRY I GOTCHU FAM 2019-06-03T09:52:29-07:00 https://www.apple.com/apple-events/livestream/ doesn’t even support dark mode. Sad! 2019-06-03T09:59:31-07:00 Decent music. 2019-06-03T10:00:52-07:00 Cute 3D line-drawn animated icons. 2019-06-03T10:04:13-07:00 Never thought I’d see a night-owl-pride thingo like this. 2019-06-03T10:05:45-07:00 “Beautiflu”. OK, happens to even the best of us. 2019-06-03T10:13:09-07:00 I’d run Oceanhorn 2 on my iMac. Installing a kext for my Switch Pro Controller isn’t something I want to do ever again, though. 2019-06-03T10:15:44-07:00 Rhumba lessons. Does Cuban Pete teach as his day job? 2019-06-03T10:17:21-07:00 But will my Headspace thingo be able to add the mindful minutes back to my iPhone? 2019-06-03T10:20:21-07:00 This is the kind of nerd thing I’d like for my working out, especially since I’m getting into cardio a little bit more. 2019-06-03T10:21:30-07:00 This Noise app is my jam. Decibel meter on my wrist? Yes please. 2019-06-03T10:24:04-07:00 …or encrypted in iCloud 🤔 2019-06-03T10:25:24-07:00 Wonder what the Noise complication does to battery life. 2019-06-03T10:28:18-07:00 No third-party watch faces. Hunh. 2019-06-03T10:29:25-07:00 Only 85% on iOS 12? That’s not as high as it used to be, is it? 2019-06-03T10:31:24-07:00 Faster app downloads/updates? Tell me how! 2019-06-03T10:32:23-07:00 You can tell the Slack users in the audience because they’re the ones with the all-white laptop screens. 2019-06-03T10:33:54-07:00 Swiping keyboard 🤔 2019-06-03T10:35:32-07:00 Totally flat black Now Playing. Hmm. 2019-06-03T10:36:43-07:00 Wow, Reminders got leveled up. 2019-06-03T10:44:01-07:00 OK, Sign In With Apple…almost seems neat. Of course, Apple is relaying e-mail for you… 2019-06-03T10:48:39-07:00 HATS! 2019-06-03T10:53:27-07:00 Diary of your life. Mine’s gonna be more boring than the ones in the WWDC sample… 2019-06-03T10:58:17-07:00 Boots modeled on ski boots? Gotta try everything, I guess. 2019-06-03T11:03:30-07:00 Siri talk to me all day about chemistry plzzzzzzz 2019-06-03T11:05:26-07:00 iPadOS? Damn. 2019-06-03T11:06:45-07:00 Mini iPhone Xs on the slide-in app. Nice. 2019-06-03T11:07:52-07:00 Notes in oodles of different spaces. Nice. 2019-06-03T11:09:50-07:00 Dense iPadOS Springboard is gonna mess up my 1:1 phone:ipad icon correspondence. Boo, hiss. 2019-06-03T11:12:48-07:00 Fonts in the app store? 🤔 2019-06-03T11:16:44-07:00 man, this guy has gesture trouble. 2019-06-03T11:19:13-07:00 What’s that table doing there 🤔 2019-06-03T11:20:50-07:00 A cheese grater with rounded handles. YES PLEASE 2019-06-03T11:23:36-07:00 PCI expansion, back to the Mac 2019-06-03T11:28:19-07:00 as quiet as an iMac pro if it’s under your desk under low loads YESSSSSS 2019-06-03T11:32:11-07:00 neat, casually adding a 100-person orchestra 2019-06-03T11:32:32-07:00 neat, casually adding a 1,000-person orchestra 2019-06-03T11:35:43-07:00 “quiet operation” is something people have to ask for on a fancy monitor? 2019-06-03T11:37:02-07:00 6K? Yeah, I could fit a code sidebar in the extra width. 2019-06-03T11:39:41-07:00 Oh wow, guess Photoshop can really tax your monitor. 2019-06-03T11:39:59-07:00 EXTREEEEEEEEME 2019-06-03T11:41:09-07:00 Portrait mode? Yes please. 2019-06-03T11:42:01-07:00 Nobody going “woo” for portrait-mode coding? Hunh. 2019-06-03T11:43:15-07:00 Wow. Rack-mounted Macs Pro. 2019-06-03T11:43:51-07:00 Wait, the stand costs $1,000? 2019-06-03T11:45:04-07:00 …probably not a homeless guy using his Mac? 2019-06-03T11:45:54-07:00 iTunes, the Katamari Damacy ball 2019-06-03T11:46:34-07:00 PAGING JWZ 2019-06-03T11:47:55-07:00 Finder syncs. Yay. Right? 2019-06-03T11:48:41-07:00 Machine learning to analyze podcast contents. Interesting. 2019-06-03T11:49:30-07:00 4K TV on Apple computers? _Finally_. 2019-06-03T11:50:05-07:00 iPad as a second display? Yes please. 2019-06-03T11:51:39-07:00 SHOW NUMBERS WOOOOOOOOOOOOO 2019-06-03T11:52:46-07:00 iOS and macOS get to Windows Vista levels of voice recognition. _Finally_. 2019-06-03T11:55:48-07:00 “based on their existing iPad apps” 🤔 2019-06-03T11:56:10-07:00 Craig, quit hypercorrecting “Mojave” plzkthx 2019-06-03T11:59:31-07:00 “make the logo bigger” 2019-06-03T11:59:51-07:00 This Jira app doesn’t look awful. 2019-06-03T12:02:11-07:00 Where’s the teapot for this AR tester? 2019-06-03T12:05:39-07:00 Ever wanted to walk through your own Barbie house? Now you can. Or should be able to. 2019-06-03T12:08:49-07:00 450k apps using Swift…what’s that as a percentage? 2019-06-03T12:09:33-07:00 SwiftUI 🤔 2019-06-03T12:14:08-07:00 macOS Goat Rock 2019-06-03T12:15:03-07:00 That looks like my local Apple Store. I wonder how similar the normal ones are to each other. 2019-06-03T12:16:54-07:00 “Available in the fall” 2019-06-03T19:17:24-07:00 65 WWDC ’19 lines in twtxt.txt, 140 total lines. WWDC ’19 accounts for 46% of all my twtxt output. 🤔 2019-06-05T17:29:02-07:00 let the quote marks hit the floor / let the quote marks hit the floor / let the quote marks hit the floor / let the quote marks hit the floor … 2019-06-06T10:42:55-07:00 Turns out that `color-scheme` support only works in the Safari Technology Preview beta. 2019-06-07T14:44:33-07:00 fun phrase learned today: “de haut en bas” 2019-06-13T12:43:42-07:00 @ ganbatte 2019-06-24T14:09:19-07:00 block elephant modifier 2019-06-25T15:41:12-07:00 Looking for a reason to use Firefox more when developing sites? on macOS it’s the browser that smashes into the least horizontal space. Good if you like having a browser window running all the time. Doubly good if you like running it in Split View. 2019-06-28T12:52:42-07:00 Dear lazytwtxt, I just saw someone say hi to a few new people. How can I check the accounts of these new-to-me people so I can figure out whether to add them to my own following list? Their URLs are snipped out in the main client (for good reason). 2019-07-04T17:12:11-07:00 🇺🇸 🎆 🇺🇸 🎇 🇺🇸 🧨 🇺🇸 2019-07-10T11:15:41-07:00 @ @ He ought to switch to one-line fortunes if he can. I don’t want to have to wait a day to get the punch line to a joke. 2019-07-13T09:59:30-07:00 @ oh, that’s good. 2019-08-04T10:33:02-07:00 When Wikipedia and Wikiquote disagree, which is right? 2019-08-06T20:57:51-07:00 Found out that Terminal will switch from light to dark themes if background color is unset. One catch: “background color” includes transparency and blur settings. 2019-08-08T12:25:35-07:00 I think it’s kind of cute that Siri is suggesting I set a timer for five minutes, even though it hasn’t realized I only do that at the gym. 2019-08-09T00:44:27-07:00 Today’s fish fun: set -l color_host $fish_color_host; if command -qs shasum; set color_host (printf (prompt_hostname) | shasum -pa 256 - | cut -c 59-64 | tr -d '\n'); end 2019-08-09T19:41:39-07:00 Can one use nerd tools to live-blog an internet outage (without tethering)? Let’s find out. 2019-08-09T23:46:09-07:00 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. 2019-08-11T19:14:54-07:00 How can you tell when an Apple fan is dead tired? He blanks out when prompted for his Apple ID. 2019-08-13T20:46:02-07:00 There is spider food flying around in my bedroom. I am most displeased. 2019-08-15T00:18:16-07:00 wait, gcc is a run-time dependency for dungeon in Homebrew? 2019-08-15T00:22:10-07:00 Unexpected `prefers-color-scheme`-using website of the day: openbsd.org 2019-08-15T21:51:37-07:00 Cut a 228-column line down to a mere 185. Progress! 2019-08-22T09:50:01-07:00 If it’s called a ‘twoosh’ when one tweets exactly 280 characters without editing, what’s it called when one writes an exactly-50-character Git commit message? 2019-08-23T14:47:33-07:00 At the gym in the morning. Full parking lot. ♫ All the morning people / Where do they all come from? / All the morning people / Where do they all belong? ♫ 2019-08-23T14:55:37-07:00 “Thinkfluencer” might be one of the most pompous nouns invented in the last five years but at least it isn’t as confusing as using “clerk” as a translation of “_clerc_”. 2019-08-29T01:42:29-07:00 Saw `pokerstove` in the new-formulae list in Homebrew. Installed it and ran `ps-eval -g d AsAcAdAh2d`, and after a few moments it told me that this particular hand has 99.998% equity. Turns out, “a pair of ones…and another pair of ones” is a better hand than Bugs’ tone of voice indicates. 2019-08-30T00:05:43-07:00 8 PM naps: They’re the naps that you need, even though they’re not the naps that you want. 2019-09-10T19:20:52-07:00 ran-as-root command of the day: `pkg delete python27` 2019-09-11T20:55:45-07:00 new toy of the day: https://github.com/variadico/noti 2019-09-12T16:17:36-07:00 I _just_ got the tauthon pun. Well done, whoever named it. 2019-09-13T13:18:51-07:00 WebP is kind of disappointing. Not because there’s anything wrong with it, but because I tend to not really need it, even though I’d like to use it. 2019-09-14T12:03:31-07:00 cheap entertainment of the day: running https://github.com/boyter/scc/ and chuckling at the cost and manpower estimates of my one-man projects 2019-09-14T16:22:43-07:00 Programming thought of the hour: “if everything knew about everything else, I wouldn’t have this problem.” Of course, I’d have different problems later… 2019-09-14T16:24:41-07:00 Non-programming thought of the hour: “I want pancakes”. Also the non-programming thought of the previous hour, and the hour before that. 2019-09-17T22:26:56-07:00 @ no worries, I have days/weeks/years like that 2019-09-17T22:27:44-07:00 What’s the wettest food that the Wicked Witch of the West can safely eat? 2019-09-17T22:29:38-07:00 This _almost_ makes me want to bother changing to a 24-bit-color terminal as my main: https://github.com/sharkdp/pastel 2019-09-19T11:55:57-07:00 I tried `cwebp -preset photo -o foo.webp foo.jpeg` on a preview image and it was imperceptibly worse at the sizes I expected to show it. Then again, I don’t really care that you can’t read the nutrition labels on a jar in the background of the subject. 2019-09-19T16:16:17-07:00 Day 0 of not installing the new iOS because everyone says it’s buggy. Pulse normal. Heart rate normal. 2019-09-21T00:50:08-07:00 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. 2019-09-21T00:53:29-07:00 @ is pretty great, but there’s no equivalent widely-available functionality for background images, which is a real pity. Just imagine — hero images that take up half the space! 2019-09-21T00:54:11-07:00 @ Battery-life preservation is a harsh mistress. 2019-09-21T00:55:36-07:00 Day 1 of not installing the latest iOS release. Pulse still normal. Heart rate normal. Sleep moderately disturbed. 2019-09-21T04:06:41-07:00 @ I probably get a slightly-suboptimal lossily-compressed image. Or maybe I get the same image that I would have had I not bothered to give it a preset hint. 2019-09-23T23:26:00-07:00 Petrov Day is coming up this Thursday, September 26. What, if anything, is a suitable thing to do in his honor? 2019-09-27T14:26:36-07:00 This won’t get me a “Dear Mr. Cook” mention in an Apple event, but I thought it was pretty cool to be able to use my iPad in the kitchen without touching it. Voice Control is pretty good. 2019-09-28T19:06:05-07:00 My idea of a fun Saturday night: achieving Camera Roll Zero. 2019-09-28T19:07:03-07:00 @ Did you type that out with your knuckles, or did you use voice recognition, or…? ;) 2019-10-01T22:35:32-07:00 @ gl 2019-10-02T13:58:02-07:00 A bumper sticker, from a distance: “usetrojans”. Seen closer up: “usctrojans”. 2019-10-02T13:59:23-07:00 Expired: squatting in the squat rack. Tired: curling in the squat rack. Wired: Running curl(1) from your phone while in the squat rack 2019-10-09T01:31:06-07:00 Just installed Catalina (my recommendation: don’t.). zsh is a fine shell…for downloading and installing other shells. 2019-10-09T20:07:53-07:00 @ @ was right. The latest (but not the greatest) macOS. 2019-10-09T20:14:22-07:00 @ Apple refuses to ship GPLv3 software. bash has security bugs that Apple doesn’t want to backport. So they’ve switched default shells again, this time to zsh. (bash and the previous default, tcsh, still ship with the OS.) 2019-10-10T16:13:55-07:00 Just took a raw photo with Halide for the first time. It looks pretty awful compared to its companion JPEG because it’s horribly noisy. Not sure what magic turns awful raws into better-than-JPEG images. Probably lots of know-how. 2019-10-11T15:51:58-07:00 Today’s fun: `pastel random -n 2 | pastel gradient - -` 2019-10-18T19:16:15-07:00 @ Did it try to POST any pills? 2019-10-19T17:55:12-07:00 @ Those things you swallow when you have a headache. (It’s a The Matrix reference.) 2019-10-21T11:09:31-07:00 My Chrome uptime has been so long that I got a notification in it to restart it so it could update itself. Do I get some sort of award for this? 2019-10-29T11:58:40-07:00 @ doesn’t seem like a _bad_ idea. I suppose I should do that one day too eventually, but I haven’t livetweeted enough Apple events to bloat my file to where I’d want to bother. 2019-10-29T12:00:26-07:00 @ that said, I have no idea who bothers looking at the commented-out portions of others’ twtxt files. I only bother on rare occasions. Sometimes, there are interesting easter-eggy things to see. 2019-10-29T12:01:24-07:00 @ re: hidden twtxt: I’ve done this. It was fun. 2019-10-29T12:11:04-07:00 @ a random question from someone who’s used Gopher clients a little bit recently but doesn’t quite understand all the memes: Why are numbered directories like “/0/” common on Gopher holes (but not websites)? 2019-10-31T22:41:07-07:00 @ yeah, I stopped posting to it eventually. 2019-10-31T22:41:51-07:00 @ oh, that helps. Thanks! 2019-10-31T22:43:13-07:00 @ An iPhone XR as opposed to…? 2019-10-31T22:44:36-07:00 @ I’m tempted to split my file once per decade. 2019-11-03T19:55:39-08:00 @ there’s also the extended battery life (an unambiguous plus) and FaceID (probably a plus for most people). Me, I miss my hand-sized SE. 2019-11-06T15:03:26-08:00 @ You’ll probably want a separate BuJo if you have a bunch of work-only tasks. One of the nice things about OmniFocus is that it can be really good at hiding tasks you can’t make headway on at the moment for one reason or another, assuming you tag things appropriately. 2019-11-21T19:34:57-08:00 I moved all windows off my second monitor and…it just looks so peaceful. Nothing on it but a zoomed-in picture of a sand dune with a very dim menu bar on top. 2019-11-21T22:21:00-08:00 Just saw the Cybertruck unveiling. Elon Musk is the best spectator sport available today. 2019-11-22T11:59:08-08:00 Hm. My phone doesn’t reliably recognize me when I’m wearing wet glasses, but so far it seems to recognize me well enough when I’m wearing no glasses. 2019-11-23T22:23:16-08:00 Interesting photo compression numbers: 2.1 MB HEIC original, 13.8 MB PNG, 3.8 MB JPEG, 790 KB WebP. 2019-11-26T09:11:24-08:00 My text editor failed to autocomplete like it usually does and now I’m left wondering if I introduced a syntax error or something that it can’t cope with. 2019-11-28T13:48:02-08:00 Phew. Searching DuckDuckGo for “blackfriday markdown” gives me what I want even though it’s the day before Black Friday. 2019-11-28T13:59:49-08:00 Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! 2019-12-01T16:19:26-08:00 An object with one UUID knows what it is; an object with two is never sure. 2019-12-02T11:01:43-08:00 I get slightly nervous when my backup program does full uploads of FLAC files that shouldn’t have changed at all and should only be a checksum match 2019-12-03T19:54:49-08:00 @ Sounds like yet another reason to never buy a smart TV, or at least to never depend on any functionality that requires it to be connected to the Internet. 2019-12-08T18:38:03-08:00 I just wrote a Rick-and-Morty-copypasta snowclone and now I need a shower. 2019-12-10T16:12:51-08:00 @ A better question: Are you real enough for yourself? 2019-12-11T20:35:26-08:00 @ I aliased ls to exa and nothing broke. With any luck, nothing’ll break for you, either. 2019-12-15T14:26:36-08:00 @ it’s not obviously broken if you ask me… 2019-12-15T14:28:31-08:00 @ if I didn’t livetxt Apple presentations, one-per-decade would probably be enough for me. However…I might just get lazy and chop them up into one-per-decade things anyway. 2019-12-18T12:40:20-08:00 darndest thing I’ll see today: “goimports, but for FORTRAN”: https://www.ratrabbit.nl/ratrabbit/content/findent/introduction 2019-12-26T16:28:42-08:00 @ also, if you can find out how to get your desktop environment to tell your browser “I prefer dark mode”, that’s also an option 2020-01-07T17:21:03-08:00 I sniffed my hand after washing it and it smelled like crème brûlée. 2020-01-13T04:41:44-08:00 I think part of what’s killing emacs for me is what killed kakoune for me — I don’t have a good Meta key on my Mac and I’m not about to give up my Option key for it. 2020-01-13T04:51:19-08:00 You see these proper quotes/apostrophes in my posts? They’re not curling themselves. 2020-01-16T09:43:05-08:00 30 minutes of scrubbing and washing later, my monitor’s solid-color background looks solid-colored. 2020-01-16T09:47:50-08:00 @ @ I’m not seeing how this is _worse_ for privacy than the current mess that is the User-Agent string, though. What am I missing? 2020-01-17T02:48:08-08:00 @ @ 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. 2020-01-19T22:20:47-08:00 All I need to do to get this to work in all major browsers is to wait for Safari to get a major version bump… 2020-01-20T20:53:55-08:00 Hmm. The new Blink-powered Edge doesn’t let you change the new-tab searchbox off Bing’s. Boo, hiss. 2020-01-20T20:54:52-08:00 Bride of boo, hiss: Hovering over an Edge icon in the Taskbar doesn’t give you a preview of every tab. 2020-02-01T14:38:27-08:00 Massive piles of implementation bugs notwithstanding, See (on Apple TV+) is pretty neat if you’re into worldbuilding like I am. 2020-02-05T19:39:50-08:00 @ gratz! 2020-02-08T00:51:19-08:00 Tonight’s burps taste like raspberries. 2020-02-11T12:21:45-08:00 @ sleeping works. how long do you need? 2020-02-18T01:15:50-08:00 Just learned that a guy I know of has an impressive beard. I wouldn’t have figured he had an impressive beard. Now I wonder who else I know who has an impressive beard that I don’t know about. 2020-02-21T01:05:50-08:00 I _want_ to use more newfangled non-vi(m) console-based text editors, but they all seem to assume that the alt key is as easy to press as the ctrl key. Meanwhile, I use my Option key too much to be willing to change its function. 2020-02-25T21:00:54-08:00 @ micro () and kakoune (). 2020-03-04T00:49:11-08:00 @ Freenode has been doing this for over a decade. The next time you connect, check your server messages. They explain this. 2020-03-05T11:44:59-08:00 @ ok, that sounds suspicious. 2020-03-08T14:59:20-07:00 Why you should use monotonic clocks and timestamps to calculate durations: https://imgur.com/gallery/InD4qLv 2020-03-10T19:47:36-07:00 I’m using Blink SSH on my iPad and I have an entry in known_hosts that I need to get rid of. I do not have vi available. I do have ed available. This will be fun. 2020-03-12T13:41:50-07:00 @ (re: ed) once I read the manual and found out that the current line was the last line, all I needed to do was type «d\nw\nq\n». So glad I took the vim path instead of the emacs path. 2020-03-25T23:30:56-07:00 @ (1) holy moly, ed? I thought I’d be the only ed user I’d ever hear about. (2) http://www.catb.org/esr/src/ should be fine in Dropbox, too, right? 2020-03-27T20:18:05-07:00 Wise choice of the evening: deciding to pause Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol when sipping my can of La Croix. 2020-03-27T22:08:52-07:00 In case you were wondering, using a mouse on iPadOS is fun for about five minutes. 2020-03-29T21:59:21-07:00 @ Maybe the exact answer is, like, something divided by 7. 2020-04-06T00:36:39-07:00 Achievement of the weekend: Ulysses Inbox Zero. 2020-04-17T01:54:11-07:00 Evidence against “Apple wants to position the iPad as a proper computer”: ⌘⌫ does not delete a currently-being-viewed message. 2020-05-02T12:01:07-07:00 Today, I’m enjoying how I’m not craving cheesecake, unlike yesterday. 2020-05-04T19:34:41-07:00 Surprise of the day: the “you sent an e-mail” sound in Outlook for iOS really benefits from a decent amount of stereo separation. Kind of a pity that its separatedness will kind of be like an easter egg. 2020-05-14T19:58:54-07:00 Imagine the world when we have old, gray-bearded Millenials managing old legacy JavaScript-based systems. They shall sing “Den-o! The last dinosaur…” when griping about them. Their younger co-workers will not understand. 2020-05-16T13:57:31-07:00 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. 2020-05-18T19:17:25-07:00 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. 2020-06-02T23:12:41-07:00 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 2020-06-02T23:13:48-07:00 @ I can’t listen to podcasts and contribute to open source at the same time. 2020-06-02T23:15:04-07:00 @ I use this tiling WM for macOS that also works on Windows: https://code.visualstudio.com/ 2020-06-13T18:50:52-07:00 Disappointment of the day: Despite what says, gopher://frog.tips/GENUINEFROG appears to be non-functional. 2020-06-15T00:29:03-07:00 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. 2020-06-15T00:29:59-07:00 Previous best: plugging a USB foot switch into the iPad to make it turn the page. 2020-06-16T16:01:29-07:00 Bumpy ride in the webhosting universe, here. Hang on, folks. 2020-06-17T20:58:41-07:00 Are we back? Probably not forever and ever, but we’re back for now. 2020-06-19T10:17:35-07:00 Woke up after six hours of uneasy dreams and thought “at least I haven’t been transformed into a giant bug.” 2020-07-03T01:56:16-07:00 Intrusive bad idea of the day: installing the iPadOS beta so I can use Scribble. 2020-07-10T12:24:18-07:00 I want to like , but both its color schemes look horribad on a 256-color terminal (the most Terminal.app supports). The only terminal I have installed that supports lots of colors is…Visual Studio Code. 2020-07-11T17:13:51-07:00 Achievement of the hour: -dots Zero. 2020-07-11T17:19:59-07:00 Second achievement of the hour: Ulysses Inbox Zero. 2020-07-12T20:55:44-07:00 iPads under moderate load (streaming video) get surprisingly warm to the touch when ambient is 90°. 2020-07-13T20:13:41-07:00 @ I’m American. All I know about 90°C is that it‘s a reasonable sauna temperature; the literature tends to focus on saunas at 80°C and 100°C. I haven’t been in a sauna in _months_, and my body misses it. 2020-07-14T14:28:41-07:00 @ Right. I can only last about 15–25 minutes in a 80°C sauna. An ambient temperature of 90°F (32°C) is also unpleasant, but not nearly as bad. I’ll use my iPad indoors when it’s 90°F during the peak of the heat of the day, but I wouldn’t want to take it into a 90°C sauna. 2020-07-21T19:39:27-07:00 Unexpectedly amusing: my 24-line .zsh_history. (chsh is near the end.) 2020-07-25T15:54:29-07:00 @ rebel. 2020-07-25T15:59:06-07:00 @ Oh wow. I thought Apple was the only org out there shipping zsh by default. What was their rationale for not defaulting to bash? 2020-07-27T12:57:32-07:00 Six programmers, seven preferred Git workflows. 2020-08-05T11:32:10-07:00 ra ra rasputin / lover of the demoscene 2020-08-05T21:03:20-07:00 Old and busted: screenshots of source code. New hotness: https://github.com/Aloxaf/silicon/ 2020-08-10T17:36:56-07:00 @ What are you doing to have wikilinks in Hugo? 2020-08-14T19:16:06-07:00 Getting around my current phone’s lack of a 3.5mm jack by…listening to music on my SIMless old phone. I feel like I’m cheating somehow. 2020-08-16T21:35:06-07:00 OmniFocus/iOS screenshot. Originally 40 KB. OxiPNG: 30 KB. `avifenc -l` (lossless): 89 KB. 🤔 2020-08-24T22:30:11-07:00 Bought some new pants and washed them. They’re hang-dry only, so I took them into my bedroom and pointed a fan at them to hurry the process along. Several hours later, my bedroom still smells like new pants. 2020-08-24T22:32:19-07:00 @ still alive! 2020-09-09T22:50:46-07:00 A collaboration never made: Simon and Garfunkel with Sam Harris, “It’s All Happening Within the Consciousness” 2020-09-14T14:24:41-07:00 It works better if you start up its database first. 2020-09-15T10:03:27-07:00 Apple Watch and iPad today. OK, one out of two ain’t bad. 2020-09-15T10:27:12-07:00 Wait, removing the power adapter from Apple Watch? How do you charge the thing? Someone else’s Qi charger? 2020-09-18T01:54:06-07:00 @ There was. New watches and non-pro iPads. 2020-09-18T01:55:56-07:00 In case you had any doubts, iOS 14 was shipped according to the hardware release schedule, not according to when the P1 bug count got to a tolerably-low level. 2020-09-18T02:05:32-07:00 And by “iOS”, I meant “iPadOS”. Scribble (the handwriting recognition) is good enough to be interesting, but none of the other features called to me. 2020-09-21T22:25:41-07:00 When you take stretch breaks every hour it’s a good idea to get up and step away from the keyboard. It is less obvious what you should do when the stretch-break notification comes and you’ve been using a standing desk the entire time. 2020-10-09T19:28:34-07:00 pls send help i’m using micro in visual studio code on windows and ^e and ^q are being gobbled up by vscode and i can’t quit 2020-11-08T21:13:20-08:00 *sneeze* 2021-01-03T02:28:40-08:00 In case you’re reading my twtxt.txt file directly or are otherwise paying close attention to tweet dates, it’s absolutely true: I haven’t been funny in two months. 2021-01-03T22:53:32-08:00 Sure, you can make a bunch of predictions at the beginning of the year and calculate the Brier score for last year’s predictions, but all you need to do to feel that kind of cloud-dispelling mental work is this: go pants shopping, think of how good you’ll be at losing fat in light of all your previous new-year fat-loss attempts, and choose between pants with a 34″ inseam and pants with a 35″ inseam. 2021-01-07T17:12:35-08:00 Did a 20-minute meditation session. Didn’t achieve enlightenment, but I managed to think up the kernel of a moderately interesting blog post. 2021-01-07T17:17:50-08:00 @ Re: rats: YOU ARE NOT ALONE 2021-01-08T11:44:22-08:00 Never thought I’d want a 6K monitor, but I’m running VS Code and it sure would be nice to have a little bit more width. The proper layout for the task I’ve been doing is four editors wide, plus some more space on the left for a file picker. 2021-01-18T23:08:22-08:00 @ Re: not guaranteed to see it: I wouldn’t have bothered waving hi across the Internet if I hadn’t gotten bored one day and grepped my webserver logs for twtxt users. 2021-01-18T23:10:20-08:00 @ Re: selection pressure against meditation: go on… 2021-01-22T00:54:17-08:00 I want to listen to music, but quite honestly the silence sounds better. 2021-01-24T21:17:36-08:00 @ ah, ty 2021-01-30T21:49:18-08:00 All I wanna do / is go to bed / I got a feelin’ / I’d just rather be dead… 2021-02-19T20:22:56-08:00 the longer my teammates and I bang our heads on this Stupid Error™, the less bad I feel for not having been able to solve it myself 2021-02-25T05:03:14-08:00 Unexpected benefit of going from Mojave to Big Sur on my main machine: being able to see the sun rise over Big Sur in glorious 5K 2021-02-27T19:01:01-08:00 Currently imagining Lady Gaga retrieving her French bulldogs the John Wick way. 2021-03-05T02:17:20-08:00 @ Seems like most of the (radical) life extension people are interested in adding years to their lives, but agnostic about adding life to their years. “Be old longer” doesn’t appeal to a lot of people. 2021-03-05T02:20:38-08:00 @ I sign a lot less stuff these days now that my phone can pretend to be a credit card. Also: an impostor with a quantum computer can’t pretend to sign documents on my behalf… 2021-03-07T03:09:47-08:00 @ yeah, normal signatures suck, too. I’m just not convinced the change in tradeoffs is worth it. Oh, and no, it didn’t come off as too mean. 2021-03-07T03:12:52-08:00 @ I wouldn’t disagree with your characterization of people who’re interested in radical life extension, but their **messaging**, generally, seems to not mention “adding life to your years” at all. “Live to be 150” doesn’t sound all that great if you’re going to have 15 years of being in your 80s, so to speak. 2021-03-19T01:31:23-07:00 In case you were wondering, taking a couple pairs of damp shorts fresh from the washing machine into a room and pointing a fan at them will raise the room’s humidity. 2021-03-19T01:34:07-07:00 According to my fish history, the previous post was not the first one of mine that started with “In case you were wondering…” and I’m not sure how to feel about that. 2021-03-25T18:35:11-07:00 I love it when an app comes together 2021-03-26T23:19:55-07:00 @ “adrationalism” is probably better. “irrationalism” sounds like a pie-appreciation club for math nerds. 2021-03-28T23:05:25-07:00 Current earworms: Secret of Evermore music 2021-04-03T02:52:18-07:00 @ Ah, that clears it up. 2021-04-05T19:47:51-07:00 old, bold, foretold 2021-04-05T19:48:40-07:00 @ welcome back! 2021-04-08T16:46:54-07:00 Discovery of the day: if you have some extra orange-blossom water lying around that you want to use up before it goes bad, you could do worse than to splash some in your cup of black tea. 2021-04-08T16:49:40-07:00 That said, I wouldn’t buy orange-blossom water just to dump into my tea. It’s much more useful as a cheesecake-batter addition, but in order to draw it down in a timely fashion I’d have to bake two cheesecakes a week. 2021-05-10T00:48:35-07:00 @ Re: … < sharing ontologies: There’s an idea. If I want to write something, _anything_, documenting the words and concepts I use isn’t the dumbest idea. 2021-05-10T00:49:07-07:00 @ Speaking of ontologies, you’ve heard of , right? 2021-05-11T12:30:38-07:00 Been playing Trials of Mana on the weekend, but for some reason I’ve been humming music from Secret of Mana during the rest of the week. 2021-05-13T21:51:46-07:00 @ I like it, but you probably shouldn’t take only my word for it. I suspect it’s piggybacking a lot off of how much I liked its SNES predecessor and know/like the vibe of * Mana games. Also, the last three JRPGs I’ve played were Dragon’s Dogma, NieR:Automata, and…Chrono Trigger. I don’t know what’s good and new in JRPGs ever since Square left Nintendo. I’m just glad they’re back. 2021-05-15T13:05:15-07:00 @ Re: Liber Augmen: Not a whole lot of it is new to me either, but I thought the method of delivery (a single page full of short descriptions of things) is super interesting as a mindspace-delivery device 2021-05-19T23:34:05-07:00 One of the problems with trying to get to inbox zero is that some of the older messages deserve to be saved but don’t really belong in any kind of final resting place… 2021-05-24T16:59:11-07:00 I wrote “I don’t think price exists.” in a text document and predicted that later on I would be totally and utterly mystified what I meant by it originally. Turns out, that prediction was entirely correct. 2021-05-28T16:03:31-07:00 I put my mouse on my Mac on the right side for reasons. My Windows machine always has the mouse on the right. Wanted to go Back on my Mac and…pressed mouse4, just like I’d do on Windows. Muscle-memory prompts are…interesting. 2021-05-29T18:13:12-07:00 And now I sit myself down to a pleasant afternoon of nervously wondering how similar liquid-at-room-temperature coconut oil is to coconut-derived MCT oil. 2021-06-01T14:59:03-07:00 There are three ninja emojis in this post. 2021-06-05T21:38:35-07:00 I wonder how much use 🧮 (abacus) gets. I think there’s a page that describes emoji usage, but I’d need to look it up. 2021-06-07T10:04:06-07:00 WWDC 2021: Oops All Heads 2021-06-07T10:09:50-07:00 “wide spectrum” sounds like a neat spin on “noise cancellation off”. 2021-06-07T10:13:38-07:00 SharePlay: we want to eat away at one of Discord’s niche 2021-06-07T10:22:03-07:00 Focus changes: useful for people who let themselves get inundated with junk notifications like what’s trending on Reddit. Me? Eh. 2021-06-07T10:22:47-07:00 Live Text? I could use that occasionally. 2021-06-07T10:25:14-07:00 “You’ll hear irrelevant, personalized music…” wait, what? 2021-06-07T10:29:49-07:00 IDs in Wallet 🤔 2021-06-07T10:30:44-07:00 idc i use dark sky 2021-06-07T10:33:37-07:00 Man, these maps sure are detailed. It’s like one could have a car navigate around with all this information. 2021-06-07T10:40:10-07:00 Widgets anywhere? Yawn. 2021-06-07T10:41:19-07:00 App Library? Yawn. 2021-06-07T10:41:59-07:00 App Library _in the Dock_? I think that might solve my “I want to open an arbitrary second app on this screen without a keyboard” problem. 2021-06-07T10:42:53-07:00 Proper two-app multitasking? _Finally_. 2021-06-07T10:43:24-07:00 Shelf 🤔 2021-06-07T10:44:12-07:00 Multitasking in the double-tap-Home screen? _Finally_. 2021-06-07T10:46:42-07:00 Quick Note: aping features from LiquidText. Not Sherlocked, but still. 2021-06-07T10:47:44-07:00 Oh, Translate is a thing? 2021-06-07T10:51:38-07:00 How does Mail Privacy cloak my location? Does it proxy my e-mail through Apple? 2021-06-07T10:53:34-07:00 So voice processing is _back_ on-device after a decade or so? _Finally_. 2021-06-07T10:57:11-07:00 iCloud+: Not _just_ a VPN. Interesting. 2021-06-07T11:02:57-07:00 Walking Steadiness 🤔 2021-06-07T11:18:47-07:00 Listing Taiwan as a country for HomePod mini? Bold. 2021-06-07T11:21:02-07:00 Yes, let’s talk about macOS. 2021-06-07T11:22:02-07:00 Monterey? Good name. 2021-06-07T11:24:34-07:00 Universal Control? I could use this. 2021-06-07T11:27:02-07:00 AirPlay? One fewer thing I keep in the top right. 2021-06-07T11:28:32-07:00 Sounds like they’re trying to move Automator things into Shortcuts things. 2021-06-07T11:30:00-07:00 Nope, don’t like the changes for Safari. Not one bit. 2021-06-07T11:31:33-07:00 Is this woman teeny, or is that a 27″ iMac next to her? 2021-06-07T11:34:47-07:00 ”Probably shoud’ve just taken the car.” 2021-06-07T11:38:13-07:00 If I never have to hold three rulers perpendicular to each other to find out how big an object is if I buy one, that’ll be great. 2021-06-07T11:43:17-07:00 Xcode Cloud 🤔 2021-06-12T20:13:14-07:00 I used a computer today. I think that may have been a mistake. 2021-06-14T22:35:34-07:00 Realization: One day, the only people who say “the future is now, old man” will themselves be old. 2021-06-16T17:55:05-07:00 @ “Markov” sounds more like meaningless babble (maybe from a political opponent). See also: “duckspeak”. 2021-06-19T15:59:05-07:00 Random follow-up thought: “On a scale from 7 to 14, how basic am I?” 2021-06-19T15:59:49-07:00 Follow-up question to follow-up thought: “What does it mean if someone replies with a number on [1, 7)?” 2021-06-21T13:57:18-07:00 Free meme: “Shub-mergerrath, the eater of code“ 2021-06-26T21:34:00-07:00 send help I’m working on a website with no dark mode and there’s no good way to turn on only some lights in the room I’m in 2021-06-29T13:52:40-07:00 Send even more help. I’m having the most millenial of midlife crises — I’m not sure Donatello is my spirit-animal ninja turtle anymore. 2021-07-03T02:02:03-07:00 Just tried looking at some of my site’s pages’ HTML after they’ve been run through Prettier. It sure looks nice in bat(1), but the extra build step would take entire seconds to complete. 2021-07-05T06:24:17-07:00 Tired: Inbox Zero. Inspired: Tot Zero. 2021-07-06T09:07:28-07:00 Finally got to e-mail inbox zero. Now for my other inboxen. 2021-07-06T10:16:55-07:00 ~/Downloads zero. 2021-07-09T12:24:43-07:00 Calm-computing tip: While ⌥⌘H may clear off a lot of clutter, sometimes you want just one non-full-screened window. Consider making a new Space, moving that window into it, and enjoying its unclutteredness. Spaces are easy to create, re-order, and destroy. 2021-07-15T22:30:11-07:00 Wanted to eat, didn’t eat, got distracted, now I don’t want to eat anymore. Win! 2021-07-17T17:07:16-07:00 @ interesting, it seems like you uploaded at least two weeks worth of posts sometime between yesterday and right now 2021-07-20T01:21:15-07:00 halp i want to listen to music but my ears are tired what do 2021-07-21T12:28:31-07:00 Today’s best friend: {/* eslint-disable-next-line prettier/prettier, react/jsx-one-expression-per-line */} 2021-07-25T15:38:01-07:00 . o O (cat /usr/share/dict/words | egrep "^f.{2}k\$") @niplav so…you like to fink? 2021-07-29T19:10:13-07:00 In case you were wondering, AirPods Pro are unable to cancel noise that comes from inside your head, like from an electric toothbrush. 2021-08-04T20:25:57-07:00 Idea for a bio: “I like good things and dislike bad things. Also, I dislike some good things and like some bad things.” 2021-08-08T15:36:28-07:00 new toy: xhs https://website.example/ | prettier --parser html | bat 2021-08-10T18:38:55-07:00 Pressed C-t (transpose) for the second time ever today. 2021-08-11T18:14:08-07:00 Sometimes you’re the good son, sometimes you’re the wicked son, sometimes you’re the simple son, and sometimes you’re the son who doesn’t even know how to ask a question. 2021-09-06T20:41:17-07:00 One thing that I have to recalculate somewhat frequently is “Do I have any friends in New York?”. New Yorkers tend to drift in and out of my life at a fairly frequent clip and it’s not always easy remembering whom it wouldn’t be weird to say “I’ll be in town for a few days; wanna meet up?” to 2021-09-11T18:32:35-07:00 @ artistry, or is this some kind of guitar thing? 2021-09-13T19:43:44-07:00 The ecstasy of having glasses-free vision is only matched by the complete and total relief that comes with removing rigid gas-permeable contacts. It’s like buying and selling a boat every day of your life. 2021-09-14T10:10:08-07:00 You miss Apple livestream tweeting? DON’T WORRY I GOTCHU AGAIN FAM 2021-09-14T10:10:19-07:00 Nice to see the Touch ID home button isn’t dead in the iPad. 2021-09-14T10:24:17-07:00 Jeff Williams looks 15 years older than when I last saw him. What happened to the guy? 2021-09-14T10:35:50-07:00 Workouts to get you ready to ski? That’s…interesting. Not something I need, but it’s definitely interesting. 2021-09-14T10:44:11-07:00 So what can we use with more space up top? Showing the “Syncing…” indicator instead of shoving it off to the other screen? 2021-09-14T10:48:38-07:00 Jiggle protection from iPhones Max now migrates down to normal iPhones and iPhones mini. Nice! 2021-09-14T10:51:42-07:00 Cinematic Mode: not something I need, but super-neat. 2021-09-14T10:54:29-07:00 More battery life? Always nice. 2021-09-14T10:56:15-07:00 …“with censorship OAS”? Did I hear that right? 2021-09-14T11:04:46-07:00 ProMotion: Handy, but I don’t need it. 2021-09-14T11:05:24-07:00 ProMotion: Handy, but I don’t need it. 2021-09-14T11:07:11-07:00 I could use the macro photography sometimes. 2021-09-14T11:12:39-07:00 The zoom lens is 3x? Good. 2021-09-18T02:01:37-07:00 🤔 curl -s https://www.frogorbits.com/ | htmlq -p main | bat -l html 2021-09-19T15:53:47-07:00 I typed in “trenta” (Starbucks for “XL”) into my iPhone and it didn’t recognize it as a real word. Does Apple not understand its primary audience? 2021-09-19T17:40:36-07:00 Jokes about Starbucks’ drink-size names are old enough to drink, drive, and vote by now, but calling the 30-oz. size “trenta” is probably the least dumb name in the history of names for sizes 2021-09-19T17:41:33-07:00 The last post notwithstanding, please don’t drink and drive. Or drink and vote. Or drive and vote. 2021-09-22T06:17:30-07:00 This page I’m writing sure flowed and chunked a lot better when it was keeping me awake for an hour in the middle of the night BEFORE I got out of bed. 2021-09-24T20:59:54-07:00 One step forward: skipping the extra quesadilla at lunch. Two steps back: supplementing lunch with the entirety of a milk-chocolate bar (960 calories) that was at the absolutely most perfect temperature, and washing it down with about a cup of milk, maybe more. One step forward: burning 800 calories by walking an hour on a treadmill. 2021-09-25T21:12:04-07:00 To a first approximation, emoji are Lojbanic attitudinals for normal people. 2021-09-26T09:52:40-07:00 Happy Petrov Day! 2021-09-29T21:43:19-07:00 Realization of the day: I had no idea CFAR was a pun. 2021-10-17T12:18:31-07:00 My BO this morning smells like Taco Bell 2021-10-17T12:19:08-07:00 I haven’t had Taco Bell in years 2021-10-19T18:37:29-07:00 Someone’s BBQing near me. It smells heavenly. 2021-12-16T12:24:04-08:00 I’m starting to think that calorie counting is more effective as a weight-loss tool if you count the calories _before_ you put them in your mouth, especially when it comes to desserts you may not need. 2021-12-27T22:46:42-08:00 Trying to get down to Reading List Zero before I need to go back to work next year. The latest to be removed from the list because I read the thing: https://ngnghm.github.io/ 2022-01-03T17:49:28-08:00 It’s a “put Moon Safari’s ‘La Femme D’Argent’ on loop tape” kind of day 2022-01-03T20:29:17-08:00 OK, I’m loosening up. Now I’m listening to tracks number 3–10, too. 2022-01-31T22:07:41-08:00 plonk length 2022-02-28T00:04:19-08:00 @ not dead yet 2022-02-28T00:07:39-08:00 @ 3½ hours a week…closing your 30-minute Exercise ring right on the dot, with no extra time? 2022-04-11T00:04:08-07:00 I added `pointlessArgument: 'is a taco a sandwich'` to a pile-of-arguments object today 2022-04-22T00:57:24-07:00 It’s Earth Day today. Sure they’re not as important, but we should also have days for all the other planets, too. 2022-05-01T17:26:27-07:00 Old: losing weight by playing Dance Dance Revolution. Bold: losing weight by dancing to the elevator music in The Stanley Parable. 2022-05-10T01:40:29-07:00 @ I have a favorite line of prose written around here somewhere but it’s only understandable by a tiny slice of gamers with literal-Boomer media sensibilities. Posting it would break the Internet. 2022-05-10T01:41:46-07:00 @ and I thought evidentials were invented by the Lojban people or maybe North American amerinds, not Eastern Europeans 2022-05-10T01:42:52-07:00 @ Do you have a particular meaning in mind for “long site”, or do you mean all the possible meanings for “long site”? 2022-06-20T22:55:59-07:00 Briefly tempted to post here as a simple read-until-this-point marker. 2022-07-08T14:20:53-07:00 Don’t you hate it when you try to get to Inbox Zero, make it to Inbox Three, and then by week’s end you’ve got even more messages that you can’t get out of your inbox permanently? 2022-07-18T02:59:26-07:00 I seem to have way more ideas for things I want to write when I’m out and about than when I’ve got some time to write at the end of the day. I think this has been going on for months with multiple thoughts I’ve had. 2022-07-27T16:04:06-07:00 @ if he’s willing to be even more nerdy he could use and possibly color-code them in some less important color than red 2022-08-08T00:27:16-07:00 help I’m trying to get to sleep and I have hiccups 2022-08-12T23:28:06-07:00 Gomess: Infinite Bat Works 2022-08-17T22:33:06-07:00 TF2 had an achievement called “Ubi concordia, ibi victoria”. After hearing that Eris has a counterpart, I’m wondering what an achivement called “Ubi discordia, ibi victoria” would be like. 2022-10-04T16:40:18-07:00 One day, I’ll find out when lunch will make me sleepy and when it won’t. Today is not that day. 2022-10-22T23:19:52-07:00 Still making Quake maps? Consider making one titled “feed your vore fetish”, where you fight only vores, the four-legged zero-eyed spider things that fling you-seeking purple exploding boogers 2022-12-21T17:34:20-08:00 ambient kinetic injury 2022-12-21T17:48:26-08:00 @ We here in the twtxt universe are too Calm™ for the birdsite. Its dramas — which are neverending — do not concern us. Its madness is not our own. Isn’t it a great feeling to be separate from all that? 2022-12-21T17:48:38-08:00 @ Hi, back! 2023-05-09T02:23:34-07:00 \*cough\* No, I’m not trying to get your attention. I just have green phlegm in my lungs, that’s all.