User: anders
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 macro
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
The question of whether computers can think is like the question of whether submarines can swim.
- Edsger W. Dijkstra
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)
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?
daily task/chore tracker (seinfeld style)
password manager app w/ riak backend (GPG encrypt text going in)
checklist builder app:
- start from a template
- make “instance”, customize, add/remove
- simple UI to go through it
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.
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)
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).
- steek = sting, bite
- partij = party
- steekpartij = knifing
The Invention of Concurrent Programming
Nice paper that summarizes the historical papers related to concurrency models.
Antifragile 2015
interesting looking conference on June 2-5 in london
http://www.simplecpu.com/cpu.html
fun interactive CPU component lesson
Well, OK, then.
Went in to the bank with Phoenix when she opened her account to see if they could just attach me to it as well somehow. Sure enough, the woman opening her account said that as long as I had a BSN, there was no reason I couldn’t open my own account, despite what we’d been told earlier. So now we both have Dutch bank accounts and are just waiting to get our chip and pin cards in the mail (along with hardware two-factor authentication devices!).
She also handles insurance and we figured out that (not surprisingly) the insurance that we’d had to take out before we could rent our apartment (Dutch law) was overpriced. Not surprising since we had very few options to pick through that we could get from the US before we had our completed residence permits, BSNs or domestic bank accounts. We’re stuck for a year, but then we can switch to a plan that’s about a quarter the price.
lokalebasen/go-env
pull down environment variables from etcd and run a process with them
Crash-only software: More than meets the eye [LWN.net]
“only way to stop is to crash. only way to start is to recover”
Signals and Microinteractions for Smartwatches
Not interested so much in smartwatches, but the explanations of UX terminology are good.