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I'm testing out a comment system on two of my more recent gemlogs: gemlikes. I tried nimlike but couldn't get it to work.
let's see if I regret my decision and end up removing it.
Finally watched the Barbie movie last night. I'm not sure what to think of it. It was good overall.
I had some breakfast food that was so tasteless I thought I might have COVID.
Merry Christmas from the UK to those who celebrate. Hope everyone is taking some time to rest and recharge regardless. 🎄
I'm going to try and leave my phone in my room most of the weekend. let's see how this goes.
I successfully posted a gemlog to my capsule from my phone using Titan for the first time today. Worked out well. I just need to modify my Atom feed script to limit it to my user cert and post a link to my capsule.
Watched the cartoon movie Klaus tonight - nice feel-good film.
Podcast recommendation: Late Night Linux. If you are into Linux and open source, this family of podcast shows has awesome content, humour, and hosts. #podcast #recommendation
Late Night Linux
https://latenightlinux.com/about/
Her: What's your ideal date?
Me: DD/MM/YYYY
Who remembers the first place 64k demo winner Heaven 7? I think I still have "heaven7.exe" on a drive somewhere. Somehow it just came back onto my radar. It's still impressive now, but to think it was released in 2000.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNqpD3Mg9hY
It's Esperanto day! Here's a little post about why I think it's cool (and useful) https://martinrue.com/zamenhofa-tago-18
An underrated kid's movie that's also for adults:
Ron's Gone Wrong
I've watched it at least 3 times without my kids.
Random observation: I've seen far more women coding in the various Brooklyn coffee shops I've been working from this week. 👏
Hello from 37001ft above the ocean. I'm on a flight to NYC and wanted to see if I could make it to Gemini :)
played racquetball today after not playing for two weeks. pitiful games on my part against two other players: 3, 6, and 2 points across three games. they are ten years younger than me but I was holding my own before I took a break. I'll just mark it up to a bad day.
need to start running more.
Today I'm launching my new business called Nextcloud Hosting. It is for those looking to move their private data away from Big Tech and onto their own server, as well as those who have sensitive customer data or PII that needs to be kept within country borders for POPI-compliance. It's a great open source alternative to Dropbox, Google Drive, Microsoft 365, etc. at an affordable price. Perfect for families (shared grocery lists, calendars, photos), companies (HR data, employee webmail/chat/file sharing, customer data) and other organizations like schools or NGOs.
Nextcloud Hosting
https://nextcloudhosting.co.za/
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"As a principal engineer, how do you make sure your company stays at the forefront of innovation?"
"I don't. I make sure we don't."
https://www.ntietz.com/blog/forefront-of-innovation
I wrote a little post about my top 5 good-energy feelings doing the work I do.
1: When you fix a hard bug
2: When you find your voice in writing
3: When you break through creative resistance
4: When you receive good feedback
5: When you see traction
https://martinrue.com/creativity-top-5
I'm very curious to hear others' additions. This is definitely not an exhaustive list. 🙏
“People respect you more when you’re chasing something than when you have it.”
What are you chasing?
spent the afternoon removing wallpaper.
it's quite satisfying when a huge piece rips off, kind of like that feeling you get from popping bubble wrap. #oddlysatisfying
Happy capitalism day
Black Friday: The perfect opportunity, whether you like it or not, to discover who has your email address.
The real question among all the recent news is "which filing cabinet at OpenAI contains the USB stick labelled 'AGI code'?" Silicon Valley nailed it.
I've spotted today a CLI tool I hadn't been aware of.
Here you are.
$ curl dict://dict.org/define:minimal 220 dict.dict.org dictd 1.12.1/rf on Linux 4.19.0-10-amd64 <auth.mime> <228140592.19502.1700389895@dict.dict.org> 250 ok 150 1 definitions retrieved 151 "Minimal" gcide "The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48" Minimal \Min"i*mal\, a. Of, pertaining to, or having a character of, a minim or minimum; least; smallest; as, a minimal amount or value. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] . 250 ok [d/m/c = 1/0/17; 0.000r 0.000u 0.000s] 221 bye [d/m/c = 0/0/0; 0.000r 0.000u 0.000s]
It's my last day at my job today. Some exciting changes for me coming up. Wrote about it here: https://martinrue.com/carving-my-own-path
Cool to see @marginalia on HN number one spot repping Gemini (a little). https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38276951
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
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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Neal.fun - a bunch of absolutely delightful interactive apps. Be sure to check out Space Elevator!
Neal.fun
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More photos from a recent trip to Kerala, India. #photo
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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/
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.
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