“Don’t be prideful with any excellence that is not your own” - Epictetus
My bike lock is hopelessly stuck and my bike is locked to a rack across town. Looks like I’m going to have to buy some bolt cutters and conduct a brazen mid-day theft of my own bike. I hope Dutch prison isn’t too bad…
tabstore: very simple program to store URLs just by title and date. Finch but even simpler. Intended just for letting me clear out browser tabs quickly.
Rather than decreasing leg pain, arnica was found to increase leg pain 24 hours after eccentric calf exercises.
Finally, I have a fully functional dutch bank account with money in it transferred over from the US! Now I can use the “pinnen alleen” lines at the grocery store like a big boy.
Roughly three-fifths of all farmland is used to grow beef, although it accounts for just 5 percent of our protein.
simple android app (now I can write one in Go) that has examples of my artwork compiled in. Just a basic interface to swipe through them. Solves the problem of how do I explain to someone I’ve just met at a bar or conference what kind of art I do without having them pull up a web browser.
Backblaze uses SMART 5, 187, 188, 197 and 198 for determining the failure or potential failure of a hard drive.
emacs macro commands
C-u C-x ( - append to the last macroC-x C-k r - apply macro to region linesM-j 0 C-x e - apply macro infinitelyC-x C-k C-i - insert counterC-x C-k C-c - set counterC-x C-k n - bind macro to nameM-x insert-kbd-macro - gives you elisp for the macro (must already be bound to a name)C-x C-k C-e - edit macroOne of the risks of being quiet is that other people can fill your silence with their own interpretation: You’re bored. You’re depressed. You’re shy. You’re stuck up. You’re judgmental. When others can’t read us, they write their own story—not always one we choose or that’s true to who we are.
The question of whether computers can think is like the question of whether submarines can swim.
dialectic view of software engineering
simple dist file store app
daily task/chore tracker (seinfeld style)
password manager app w/ riak backend (GPG encrypt text going in)
checklist builder app:
commandline tool for PMT
“Don’t be afraid of making mistakes; just be afraid of not learning from them.” - Thomas Edison
go-based BDD/acceptance testing tool. gherkin syntax + selenium.
done as web app. one database of scenarios, one database of rules for processing those rules.