Finch

The Effect of Topical Arnica on Muscle Pain

Rather than decreasing leg pain, arnica was found to increase leg pain 24 hours after eccentric calf exercises.

medicine

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.

netherlands

The Future of Meat Is Plant-Based Burgers

Roughly three-fifths of all farmland is used to grow beef, although it accounts for just 5 percent of our protein.

spokehub

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.

ideas

Backblaze finds only a few particular SMART metrics useful for predicting and detecting hard drive failure

Backblaze uses SMART 5, 187, 188, 197 and 198 for determining the failure or potential failure of a hard drive.

devops linux sysadmin

quote from Harold Speed’s book from 1924 where he’s ranting about how modern art is fueled by art critics:

Art Criticism is a branch of literature, and I do not see why one should expect more than one could if literary criticism were a branch of painting.

quotes spokehub

gofmt like tool (can you plugin to gofmt?) that rewrites ignored returns to explicitly set ‘_‘.

fmt.Println("hi")

gets rewritten to:

_err := fmt.Println("hi")

or something similar.

Preempts the complaint that Go lets you ignore errors.

golang ideas

emacs macro commands

  • C-u C-x ( - append to the last macro
  • C-x C-k r - apply macro to region lines
  • M-j 0 C-x e - apply macro infinitely
  • C-x C-k C-i - insert counter
  • C-x C-k C-c - set counter
  • C-x C-k n - bind macro to name
  • M-x insert-kbd-macro - gives you elisp for the macro (must already be bound to a name)
  • C-x C-k C-e - edit macro

linux

One 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.

  • Sophia Dembling, The Introvert’s Way

quotes

The question of whether computers can think is like the question of whether submarines can swim.

  • Edsger W. Dijkstra

quotes

don’t fight stupid; make more awesome

-Jesse Robbins

quotes

dialectic view of software engineering

  • starts out ad hoc/informal (thesis)
  • everyone gets burned
  • react by moving to extreme formalism, waterfall model (antithesis)
  • result is slow and cumbersome, inflexible
  • move to agile processes where flexibility is formalized (synthesis)

ideas

simple dist file store app

  • essentially Tahoe w/out encryption, reticulum w/out resize
  • N nodes, no master
  • immutable only (no delete)
  • POST file
    • calculates hash
    • chunks file, calc hash of each chunk
    • make manifest listing chunks
    • write manifest + chunks to nodes by DHT w/ desired replication (copy manifest to all nodes?)
    • return hash as location
  • GET file
    • retrieve manifest
    • get all chunks + reassemble
    • return file
  • stick with HTTP for retrieval or try btsync?

ideas

daily task/chore tracker (seinfeld style)

ideas

password manager app w/ riak backend (GPG encrypt text going in)

ideas

checklist builder app:

  • start from a template
  • make “instance”, customize, add/remove
  • simple UI to go through it

ideas

commandline tool for PMT

ideas

“Don’t be afraid of making mistakes; just be afraid of not learning from them.” - Thomas Edison

quotes

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.

https://github.com/tychofreeman/go-gherkin

ideas

tickler app: textbox and date picker. enter some text, pick a date. when that date comes up, it emails the text back to you. (ie, based on GTD tickler file)

ideas

ping -a produces an audible ping

linux sysadmin

Got our ABN AMRO chip and pin debit cards, which come with USB 2-factor auth devices. Of course, it’s a little anticlimactic since there’s no money in my account yet (have to do an international wire transfer next week to top it up).

netherlands