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prediction: Taylor and Travis have 2 kids, and go through a messy divorce in 5-8 years. Travis' career will be over, Taylor will write an album or two about him and make millions. All will be right in the world again.
That's the last you'll ever see me write about this topic.
This is not a photo of an old CRT screen, it's cool-retro-term! It's such a convincing emulation of a CRT display, after a few days of using it, I'm amazed at how good modern LCDs are! I also enjoy how the retro look takes me back to the 90s and makes me enjoy text-based programs a whole lot more. #nostalgia #retro #terminal
https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term
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I have a bit of good news to share, but for once I'm sitting on it, telling nobody, and enjoying the presence of it. I never let things truly sink in, so I'm trying something new.
As the weather is getting a bit colder now, don't forget that laptops easily double up as portable radiators. Just fire off enough background "yes > /dev/null &" processes until your legs are nice and toasty, then "killall yes". You're welcome.
Speaking of vlogs: I just uploaded another! Here's what I got up to in Valencia and Barcelona last week: https://youtu.be/A-2fu2JAhMw
Downside of going from 1080p to 4k in my vlogs: now I desperately want a better laptop. Upside: I'm a bit warmer.
I sometimes go to a fast food chain restaurant near my work for lunch. out of curiosity I looked up their nutritional information. big mistake - sodium content for even the most basic items was crazy. I may never eat here again. currently chugging water.
2023 is 84% complete. Who feels like they achieved their goal(s) so far this year?
What are the best rules of the dialogue with unknown person to follow?
Table grapes that I can't eat in one bite are freaks of nature.
As noticed on the Mastodon
isn't available in App Store despite its installed on my device. It's sad, because Elaho is good and stable software, even not being developed for long time. There is of course Lagrange in Test Flight. But it's a totally different approach and goals. Sometimes I've been choosing Elaho for a purpose and sometimes it has been superior to Lagrange at a certain point. Elaho was built on top of a Firefox fork so maybe it will be easy to continue development on a current iOS version in the same manner.
Last night I was at Barcelona's monthly Esperanto social event (in a bar) and a 10 year old boy came along with his Mum. He'd started learning on Duo a few months back and could already speak well enough to us to tell us about himself and how he discovered Esperanto. Really cool.
I had dinner with my friend and her Mum last night. Her Mum (80) speaks only Spanish and my friend and I only have Esperanto in common. It was amazing. Absolute chaos... y creo que mi español mejoró al menos un poquito por eso!
I hope everyone's having a great start to the week. I've taken a little break to hang out in Barcelona and make some progress on some personal projects. What's everyone else up to?
New vlog! This was a fun one to make. Hugely impressed with the quality of the video captured by the DJI Mini 4. https://youtu.be/QK4wTZM0-24?si=e_93-d3GWscSQkmX
Neal.fun - a bunch of absolutely delightful interactive apps. Be sure to check out Space Elevator!
Neal.fun
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Mechanical Watch - an incredible interactive blog post detailing the mechanisms and workings of a mechanical pocket watch. Simply mind-blowing.
Bartosz Ciechanowski
https://ciechanow.ski/mechanical-watch/
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More photos from a recent trip to Kerala, India. #photo
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Podcast recommendation: The Art of Manliness. Interesting topics, awesome guests, and great production. #podcast #recommendation
AoM Podcast
https://www.artofmanliness.com/podcast/
Photos from a recent trip to Kerala, India. #photo
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any recursive function can be reimplemented as an iterative function?
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/531668
I find the explanation of "tracking your own callstack like the compiler does" mesmerizing
This is what happens when you have too much free time. Creative Writing Systems for Esperanto: https://martinrue.com/esperanto-writing-systems
It seems like every house in the suburbs around here was built in 1950 or newer. I know there was a baby boom but did all the older houses just get demolished?
Also it seems like new housing developments are going up all the time yet COVID curbed population growth. Are we building just for building? I assume not since these homes are being bought.
Yesterday I made several comments in response to question about the small web. We will probably have a new Gemlog in the Geminispace.
Today while logging here I've had a thought how the small web is different from the big one.
I'm visiting big net for a certain scope of action. The most cases are connected with e-commerce. I'd like to buy a thing, or to navigate to a shop, or to buy entertainment (video, music from streaming services). So we are clicking on a option menu rather than acting independently.
I'm on the small net to communicate with people, and to learn, or to make DIY computer things. The only e-mail I'm sending to real people outside my job is here. The most use cases of my real computer usage (creating files, transferring or transforming data, automating on a high level) is also here.
I feel like humans have paused their own natural evolution due to modern medicine and will replace it with self-defined "upgrades"
Today's shower thought: creativity is a muscle https://martinrue.com/creativity-muscle
I looked at a box of diapers for my kid. it says "up to 100%" leakproof.
What relief I didn't buy the ones that topped out at 70%.
I think highways should be called fastways instead.
Or maybe trafficways.
Or roadconstructionways.
good to see regular users of DSN Antenna. much thanks to @Idiomdrottning for also posting there.
spread the word if you think other folks would be interested.
took some time off from work to work on the house. been doing some electrical - replacing old lights and switches. it's nice not being in front of a screen all day.
bought six new fish for the aquarium last weekend. two are just simply missing. I have no idea where they are. I have a cap so they didn't jump.
Considering Big 5 personality traits I'm mostly two things: neurotic and open. And as openness is mostly why I'm a creative person, neuroticism is what blocks and eats my creativeness. There's so many reasons to work towards less neurotic, this is just another one.
I've been working full-time for the past year and a half saving every penny I can so I can escape the working world (well, at least the version where I work on other people's shit) and go live in SE Asia. I'm getting really close now and it's an unbeliavably freeing feeling. I'm curious... is anyone else doing something similar?
I make my own popcorn on the stove with peanut oil. I wonder how many other people do this. my dad showed me and it was a staple of ours growing up.
"A life well lived is a series of personal obsessions shared without expectation of an audience." 👏
Sketching more lately after a long break, feels good.
I’m pretty sure I wrote something after Aug 17 but there’s no entries. hmm
I saw a place of worship that housed 3 different religions. it got me wondering... how does this work? I guess the place /really/ doesn't matter all that much.
So, what's everyone doing this weekend? Anyone got anything interesting planned?
I hardly ever read fiction books, but I just finished reading The Shadow of the Wind (in English as my Spanish isn't good enough yet) and I absolutely loved it. Lots of unexpected references to parts of Barcelona I know, too, which added to the experience. Anyone else read it?
I'm going to demo Station in a training session in an hour. Say hello if you see this :)
I've been doing a lot of teaching recently and it's a great reminder of: if you think you know something, try teaching it. Teaching is learning in disguise.
“You may delay, but time will not.” – Benjamin Franklin
This is an excellent breakdown of the UK ATC meltdown the other week and what caused it. I'm sure it'll surprise no experienced programmer at all to learn of the various issues that led to it. https://jameshaydon.github.io/nats-fail
I just found out that wikitionary offers full database dumps in json format. time to update my dictionary with more words.
I didn't write here for a some time. I didn't have any special Gemini information to note here. Simultaneously I'm exploring every day Phlog challenge on my Gopherhole.
gopher://sdf.org/1/users/szczezuja/personal
I'm calling it /Personal Soap Opera Phlog/ and there are mainly about weather, my daily activities and other normal/boring topics.
The second thing which is worth noted is the announcement of ROOPHLOCH 2023!
gopher://zaibatsu.circumlunar.space/0/~solderpunk/phlog/announcing-roophloch-2023.txt
Been watching Invasion on Apple. pretty engrossing show. There are some areas of the plot that I don't agree with but overall I like it.
Some random observations: https://gist.github.com/martinrue/ccc773de83be694683edbaef23a9ecc8
Here is something I am working on: a solar powered UPS for routers (for my friends). Uses original router power adapter as 'pass-thru' while falling back to LiFePO4 battery during loadshedding. #solar #diy #ups
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If you live in the UK and want to get into Esperanto, this free weekend event in October will be great. You can even play Homlupo (Werewolf) with me in the international language. Aimed at every level, even possible to ask for help for hotel costs if you need it. More info: https://esperanto.org.uk/studa-semajnfino
words I learned from yesterday's spellbinding:
ABACA ABBE ABELE CABALA CABBALA CABBALAH HEBE LABLAB LEACHABLE
I've never heard of hebe, which is apparently a derogatory name against Jews.
cabala and cabbala are variants of each other meaning
abbe is French and has an accent on the e, making me wonder if this should even be in spellbinding.
My capsule Setup HOWTO is finally finished v1 and is linked on the official Gemini FAQ (section 2.5.4)
Here's an old gemlog I came across today on discogem. I, too, went with a dumb phone for a while but it was years back. I wish I could do it again without my partner being really upset with me, mostly because we have a family and need that connection.
gemini://caolan.uk/desk/2021-02-04_re_the_dumbphone_experience.gmi
I wrote some thoughts on the idea of "getting into motion": https://martinrue.com/get-into-motion
Even though my brain thinks in Esperanto at this point, I occasionally realise I don’t have a word for something. I was chatting to a friend this morning and I needed to say treadmill. To my delight, turns out it’s “kurtapiŝo”, or running carpet.
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