john
honked back 06 Nov 2024 22:04 +0000
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john
honked back 06 Nov 2024 22:04 +0000
in reply to: https://flipping.rocks/users/nev/statuses/113436809726340309
Daylight savings time is responsible for a great deal of lost productivity as everyone spends the Monday after tweeting fiercely about how a shift of one hour totally destroyed their precision toddler-like sleep schedule.
john
honked back 04 Nov 2024 17:29 +0000
in reply to: https://sfba.social/users/quantsini/statuses/113425552073784204
@quantsini Well for ease on the part of the donator it's hard to beat the donations bin in the parking lot of the Elks lodge near my house, since I can just walk over. Doesn't apply to you so much but there might be a bin near you too?
john
honked back 31 Oct 2024 22:18 +0000
in reply to: https://honk.tedunangst.com/u/tedu/h/3sFPLNk3S93hF44Fq4
Before you decide to structure your blog post as a Socratic dialogue, remember what happened to Socrates when people eventually got sick of that smug-ass technique.
Everybody writes a megabyte of CSS but still uses the most boring fonts possible, screw that
john
honked back 29 Oct 2024 17:21 +0000
in reply to: https://pixelfed.social/p/jbcrawford/756915267844916771
@jbcrawford @PolyWolf "Adirondack chairs aren't even, like, a thing here." yeah the clue's in the name :)
You might think that a sufficiently large open source project could avoid the second-system effect by having developers across a wide spectrum of experience. Seems like in practice, it's the second system for some of the developers so we get second-system effects... but it's also a first system for others, and a third system for others, and we get to enjoy all those problems too.
I first used #emacs in the early 2000s and have used it on and off, sometimes as my primary editor, since then. Today was the first time I ever recorded & used a keyboard macro. I guess I always preferred to do macro-ish things with external tools like sed.
john
honked back 26 Oct 2024 21:23 +0000
in reply to: https://sfba.social/users/14mission/statuses/113374789028787379
@14mission @knapjack Results speak for themselves, I think -- it's fantastic! My favorite cyanotype experiment was a white t-shirt. It works pretty well, my only recommendation would be to do a digital negative and tweak it so it fades to fully transparent around the edges, otherwise you end up with an odd sharp border around the edge of the image.
john
honked back 26 Oct 2024 15:41 +0000
in reply to: https://sfba.social/users/14mission/statuses/113371106898836138
@knapjack @14mission That came out great! Did you print from a film negative, or make a digital negative? I've tried the latter a few times but my laser printer doesn't do a great job. And even 120 film doesn't make especially big images, so I haven't tried using a "real" negative.
"nation-state" is a phrase with a real meaning, it's not just a cooler way to say "country". Say "state actors" if you want to sound smarter when talking about cybersecurity stuff. edit: the cool kids used to call them "APTs" but I haven't really heard that one lately
john
honked back 24 Oct 2024 20:39 +0000
in reply to: https://sfba.social/users/quantsini/statuses/113364114169488603
My employer, Gravwell, just introduced a perpetual no-registration-required free license tier on our data lake product: https://www.gravwell.io/blog/gravwell-5.6.0-new-license-tiers
john
honked back 23 Oct 2024 20:19 +0000
in reply to: https://mastodon.social/users/amszmidt/statuses/113355088368503469
@amszmidt @larsbrinkhoff You're right, I shouldn't have classified it as strictly tiling, rather that it has features for tiling which are prominently available. Makes sense that it was probably inspired at least in part by emacs. I'm not especially familiar with Smalltalk preceding Smalltalk-80, did they have similarly tiling-friendly options? Tiling also just makes sense from the POV of getting maximum use out of the pixels on your screen
john
honked back 23 Oct 2024 03:37 +0000
in reply to: https://hachyderm.io/users/robpike/statuses/113354631562253624
@robpike I use KeePassXC for password storage and TOTP. Works well enough and you just have a DB file you can sync however you prefer
john
honked back 23 Oct 2024 00:02 +0000
in reply to: https://pixelfed.social/p/jbcrawford/754490947446952103
@jbcrawford Glad to hear it's on an upward trajectory again. I went to Two Fools exactly once because it was just too busy every other time. There was a two-story restaurant/bar not too far away that had pretty good wings and you could always get a seat, I preferred that.
john
honked back 22 Oct 2024 19:25 +0000
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@jbcrawford Nob Hill area can be pretty
a e s t h e t i c
but it's a shame to see those presumably broken windows. My brother tells me it's gotten pretty rough again down there.
john
honked back 22 Oct 2024 17:55 +0000
in reply to: https://hachyderm.io/users/jbcrawford/statuses/113351870941780554
@larsbrinkhoff You know as much about ITS as anybody I know... Can you point me at a manual for the Knight TV? I'm trying to figure out why the CADR machines used a tiling-style window manager, and I wondered if there was any sort of multi-window capability in the Knight TV.
john
honked back 20 Oct 2024 19:58 +0000
in reply to: https://social.9grid.net/u/john/h/2XGWdtVphT3t6Zs513
There's no Javascript in the whole thing, by the way. That means the page might show the wrong song for a bit until it autorefreshes (every 60s, for now) but it keeps everything real simple. Working with just basic HTML and CSS means it does fine on very limited browsers, too.
john
honked back 20 Oct 2024 19:50 +0000
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A small weekend #lisp project: hacking a web UI into the Shuffletron (http://vintage-digital.com/hefner/software/shuffletron/) #commonlisp music player. I'm not particularly adept at HTML or CSS, but think I came up with something that's reasonably usable. I thought setting I used Eitaro Fukamachi's ningle/lack/clack libraries to build the web stuff, and djula for templating.
font-family: cursive
was kind of a fun nod to the seemingly wider variety of fonts you'd see in regular use on Lisp machines. The colors, on the other hand, are largely derived from Plan 9's acme editor.
I keep thinking about the first date conversation I overheard at a cafe in Burlingame, where the guy was bragging about how he corrected his mom for referring to "Mexican music" on the radio: "Mom, it's called folklorico!"
Based on what I'm seeing in online parenting discussions, I think there's a niche for a book publishing company that caters to parents whose social anxiety is so severe they can only communicate with their kids via picture books. This stems from how often I see posts like "My second cousin's podiatrist has giardiasis, can anybody recommend a book to help my child understand this???" Like, you could also just talk to your kid, you don't have to mediate it with ten pages of low-effort rhymes and illustrations.
john
honked back 17 Oct 2024 21:47 +0000
in reply to: https://mastodon.social/users/cks/statuses/113324681829129399
@cks It's absolutely trivial to whip up a little wrapper around https://github.com/pquerna/otp. You could even just hardcode the secret into your source if you prefer.
john
honked back 16 Oct 2024 19:39 +0000
in reply to: https://bonk.cozysumo.space/u/knapjack/h/9Q76WZ7BVk8fb7dwQ8
@knapjack I think so. It's not magic, but it is good and worthwhile. The tools are different and can be obtuse for someone coming from another language. It took me quite a while to figure out how to get any value out of the debugger, for example. Programming Go in my day job, I find Quicklisp kinda lacking when compared to the go modules tooling. Documentation for libraries, even widely-used libraries, can sometimes be so sparse (just a list of function names, go read the source if you want to know what they mean) as to be essentially useless. And maybe McCLIM is extremely obvious to those deeply steeped in Lisp, but goddamn if it's not a challenge for plebs like myself. Despite those gripes, I try to write Common Lisp code for little side projects when I can. I recently tried making a website with caveman2 and found it really easy to build a JSON API w/ a database backend plus templates to populate HTML. That's a big part of my day job in Go, and I'd rate the two options at a very similar level of ease and effort.
john
honked back 14 Oct 2024 16:38 +0000
in reply to: https://mastodon.social/users/cks/statuses/113306750109424409
Spice cake, from the Michigan City, North Dakota Centennial Cookbook: https://jfloren.net/b/2024/10/11/0
john
honked back 11 Oct 2024 16:07 +0000
in reply to: https://mastodon.ozioso.online/users/DorotheaLange/statuses/113286855631652389
@knapjack @DorotheaLange You'll still see a scene much like that outside the Baughman's in Livermore to this day. Here's a photo I took circa 2012.
I've just learned that my parents wash out and re-use paper coffee cups. I called them "pretty eco" to tease them about it... apparently my dad prefers to drink from a paper cup rather than a travel mug, and my mom likes to use them as a receptacle for cooking grease.
john
honked back 09 Oct 2024 22:21 +0000
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