rlamacraft @rlamacraft@social.cleverlibre.org

The most autumnal smell is, without doubt, radiator-baked dust

So Feedly has ads now… just great.

Smartphones are objectively badly designed. Name another product that we all near universally agree needs protecting in plastic and leather, but the companies continue to sell made from metal and glass

The best one I’ve ever seen done is on the benefits of polished concrete

Am just listening to the Soft Skills Engineering podcast and a game I recommend is Slideshow Karoke — which I’ve played at hackathons — where people have to present a random PowerPoint found online as if they’ve spent hours preparing.

If anyone wants to share this on the birdsite, then feel free

Someone in the Harry Potter universe really needs to invent a pair of enchanted notebooks to allow for instantaneous communication — it’s absurd that people can literally teleport but can’t communicate faster than a flying owl

I know it’s “yank”, but I can’t help but think “yoink” instead when copying text with Vim key bindings

The triple-locked pension has to go. It’s simply not fair. Young people’s livelihoods are being decimated at the moment to keep the retired alive, the least of which they can do is not also take a 2.5% pay rise from the taxpayer too!

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2020/oct/21/scrap-pensions-triple-lock-to-help-save-uk-finances-says-influential-thinktank

If anyone who enjoys educational content on YouTube but hasn’t heard of Nebular then it’s absolutely worth checking out. It’s what the funding for entertainment in the 21st century should look like, and I really hope it continues despite the track record of such ventures

https://watchnebula.com/

How did I go more than 8 years of writing code without being introduced to the powerful capability of vim key bindings‽ How is this not just the standard way of interacting with all text on all computers??

I’m starting to wonder if this is the year the history books will mark as the decline of Western hegemony. I have no doubt China aren’t being entirely transparent about their COVID response but you can’t not be impressed by how they started the year by building a hospital in a week and are ending it by testing an entire city https://www.nytimes.com/live/2020/10/12/world/coronavirus-covid/a-chinese-city-will-test-all-9-5-million-of-its-residents

Strip all console.debug statements from new and modified staged files in a git repo with this nice script: git diff --cached --name-only --diff-filter=M --diff-filter=A | xargs sed -i '' "/console.debug/d"

TIL Genes are purposefully named to avoid similarities with dates because of Excel. How completely and utterly stupid. Why do we have such a low bar for functional software‽ https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/6/21355674/human-genes-rename-microsoft-excel-misreading-dates

Org-mode heading bullets, but as Roman numerals: (setq org-bullets-bullet-list '("−" "=" "≡" "⋜" "<" "≤" "≦"))

“Algorithms are a tool for mathematicians, not politicians,” — and computer literacy problem…

“Analysis of the algorithm has alarmed many Tory MPs and councillors after it suggested that many of the homes needed for an annual target of 333,000 would be built in Conservative heartlands such as Kent and Surrey.”[1] — and people wonder why the south east has a housing problem…

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/oct/08/theresa-may-leads-tory-rebellion-against-planning-reforms

I know I’m 30 years late, but the fact that with just a little fiddling with port forwarding and DNS records is enough for me to share what’s on my little server with the world is nothing short of magic. Just straight up voodoo witchcraft.