I love retailers that sell a variety of werid stuff. Add leevalley.com to sciplus.com and countycomm.com.

My guy, Robert Reich, summing up modern global trade. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yt9rKP85CJk

Arizona-based TEC Accessories have an interesting Kickstarter and write-up on for their refillable titanium marker/highlighter. (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/tecaccessories/hi-markr-titanium)

It's a very dangerous time. The coalition for reason is extremely weak. That's why I really appreciate C.H. Danhauser's entertaining and informative Logical Thinking series. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUqMNVnELzE&list=PLMpofmkxKHBJfta_JzekLbWGHUSLUJoLt)

As I was writing my latest post on conscious consumption (https://www.davebucklin.com/play/2024/06/27/consumption.html), I learned of Dr. Bronner's 5-to-1 cap on executive compensation (https://www.drbronner.com/pages/about).

Some of the dev teams I work with use kanban. I like using cumulative flow diagrams to monitor throughput. Pawel Brodzinski has a terrific write-up on using CFDs here: http://brodzinski.com/2013/07/cumulative-flow-diagram.html

If bandanas are part of your wardrobe, I can recommend banditsbandanas.com, senderopc.com, and misterbandana.com

This was a super fun text adventure. https://pacian.itch.io/superluminal-vagrant-twin

I love the history view in Jira, but changes to long descriptions are hard to find via stare-and-compare. I've been using git diff --word-diff to find the actual changes.

Put a West country whipping on my grips. The grips were really rough on my hands! https://www.davebucklin.com/assets/img/20240525_133944.jpg

I don't pretend to have all the answers. I don't pretend to even know what the questions are. Hey, where am I? - wigums

This is a fun read: https://ploum.net/the-computer-built-to-last-50-years/

@hecanjog I was a programmer for almost 20 years before I figured that out. Never too late.

@bender Seems to be working! I'm using mdom's txtnish and I'm figuring out replies.

@bender Howdy.

Excellent write-up about markdown. https://capiche.com/e/markdown-history

I heard about this eons ago. I've been telling people about it, but never found any official info. https://internetoracle.org/

YAGNI: https://www.martinfowler.com/bliki/Yagni.html

Another example of domestic computing: https://www.robinsloan.com/notes/home-cooked-app/

New album from Phaserland! I discovered Duett along the way.

Now and then I become fascinated by M4, try using it, and then give up.

Awk and roll: https://gitlab.com/snippets/1907701

Added an h-card to my site. https://indieweb.org/h-card

I peeled butternut squash and now my hands are covered in squash film.

I've been reading Minimal Perl by Maher. Fun read.:

Just renewed my FSF membership.

Made a donation to https://joinmobilizon.org

Late-night music archaeology. Listening to Kate Bush, hearing Tori Amos and Allie X.

But also check out http://criticmarkup.com

And if you like that, you should also look at https://draftin.com

This kinda gets back to Ted Nelson's idea of copy and paste: https://speare.com

@metamurks if you like Amazon for used books, try Alibris.

Etegami https://beyond-calligraphy.com/2017/01/10/introduction-art-etegami/

Special counsel calls 'dibs': https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jan/18/michael-cohen-robert-mueller-responds-lying-congress-buzzfeed-report

I came across the idea of a Book of Shadows and, with benefit of ignorance, compared it to the idea of a personal wiki.

History of Unix man pages. http://manpages.bsd.lv/history.html

This is such good advice: https://hbr.org/2015/11/two-things-to-do-after-every-meeting

Asking a computer scientist to build your website is like asking a geologist to pave your driveway.

My favorite flavor is Original.

ttyplot https://virtuallyfun.com/wordpress/2018/10/14/ttyplot-a-real-time-plotting-utility-for-the-terminal/

Ever wake up in the morning, pick up your phone, and find a Wikipedia page that you pulled up while you were half-asleep? This morning it was John Candy.

"...the truth is silent." -Pope Francis. I've never heard a more disturbing turn of phrase, given the source.

Watching rsync output makes me nervous.

Savage. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DlXx11MX0AATr0q.jpg

@freemor re brow.sh: But, muh javascripps!

Another excellent read on Lisp. http://www.defmacro.org/ramblings/lisp.html

I've been learning about Lisp. This was a good read. http://www.paulgraham.com/icad.html

@freemor Thanks! I'm not exactly taking aim at abook, but the name isn't a coincidence, either.

Contact management with bash and recutils. https://gitlab.com/davebucklin/bbook

I'm loving the new CHVRCHES album.

@skingrapher how is the speed on that? I recently tried a Grafitti kb and, while ergonomic, it was slow.

Classic http://tmrc.mit.edu/dictionary.html

Yes, please. https://begriffs.com/posts/2016-07-08-returning-original-social-network.html

Using termux on a 5-inch screen with a graffitti keyboard is a trip. A slow one.

@mdosch Thank you very cool

@kas Proseline reminds me of draftin.com

@freemor I like it. You could optionally segment these lists somehow. It reminds me of how Mastodon instances represent a community of sorts. e.g. weare.txt

@kas @quite I have the same. I make steel cut oats in 5 minutes (+up/down). It's amazing. Chicken stock in about an hour.

Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson.

I've been learning C from the second edition C Programming Language book by Kernighan and Ritchie. Good times.

@tx I've heard that cats like novelty when it comes to drinking water.

@tfurrows pretty sweet!

I'm not leaving twtxt, but I'll also point out my Mastodon URL: https://mastodon.sdf.org/@dbucklin

Obsessed with this track right now https://junodreams.bandcamp.com/track/be-with-me

@freemor that takes me back to the RC5-64 project, though my participation in that was intentional.

Nice article on cognitive bias in business analysis https://www.batimes.com/articles/stuck-in-the-middle.html

@benaiah I spy i3-gaps!

@tdemin @benaiah I second Jekyll.

A short-and-sweet article on principles of successful teams: https://blog.brunomiranda.com/principles-of-successful-software-engineering-teams-41a65bfd56b3

@beniah I like the content and people on here. Isn't twtxt a distributed pub/sub model? Have these problems already been solved?

@freemor Why you gotta say it like that? ;) https://macross82-99.bandcamp.com/

@freemor That explains the origin of the names of SDF.org and a certain vaporwave artist.

I put up my collection of IC documents at davebucklin.com/ic/. Maybe I should add a transfer cap to my AWS account.

I usually tell people to read The Goal by Eli Goldratt. It's weird in a lot of ways, but it really helped me understand the roots of modern agile development process.

Amazing collection of computer science and information technology papers: http://ceur-ws.org

Does experimenting with LaTeX lead to hardcore PostScript use, or is it the other way around?

It seems that adding Pusheen stickers to a Chromebook will cause it to stop booting. The more you know...

Successfully used xargs today... to prune my twtxt follow list :(

@freemor It's summer in the Northern hemisphere. Everyone is playing outside.

Learning a lot about QMK firmware today.

Congrats, @mdom! Sounds like you will be pretty busy for the next couple decades. :D

Relevant to my circumstances: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCO8eoDWqHQ

I've probably shared bits of this before, but I'm really enjoying these 8-bit computer build and demo videos. https://eater.net/category/8-bit-computer/

Doing all of this on MacOS adds an extra layer of challenge.

Been keeping myself busy installing and configuring vim-airline and geeknote.

Sad to hear that Chris Cornell has passed. The uniqe timbre of his voice was a defining part of the 90s for me.

About 25% of women and 19% of men report being 'filled with rage' by the sound of others eating.

Some pretty cool stuff going on here: https://standardsmanual.com

Cooking shows really warp your expectations around the time and effort needed to make something happen.

Loving this font I discovered via r/unixporn: https://github.com/be5invis/iosevka

A peek into something I spend way too much time and money on: http://www.tested.com/tech/606152-everything-you-need-know-about-custom-mechanical-keyboards/

If you want to experience an almost empty social network, you can check out https://mastodon.sdf.org.

@reednj @mdom @durcheinandr gopher doesn't have zombo.com

I mean, why not, right? https://www.billsgs.com/limo-services

Over the course of my life up to this point, I've not spent as much time using and thinking about gopher as I have today.

@mdom Haha. I'm honored.

@kas re:formulapot That is really cool. I'll have to try some of those.

Kano Analysis. This is pretty great. https://medium.muz.li/the-kano-analysis-c16e7d681158

Totally copying @mdom's twtxt banner.

@mdom Buku came up in my research, but I'll take a closer look on your reccommendation.

Looking for a CLI bookmark manager, I found this: https://zachholman.com/boom/

Is it just me or do plist files used by launchctl look like they are not really XML?

@webi I'm glad you are enjoying it.

I wrote a perl script over the weeked that parses my todo.txt end emails the tasks that are due this week.

Follow @dave if you want 10,000 twtxt followers!

Successfully configured postfix on MacOS El Capitan. AMA

@tux0r I hear Turbo Pascal is making a comeback.

Content Strategy: https://www.xkcd.com/773/

So AWS is basically giving away the thing that GitHub sells with CodeCommit.

@kas I'm going to make that part of my prompt.

@tx thats gotta be a head trip.

@mdom its just here in my apartment for the time being. Im going to bring it to a hackathon next month.

Setting up Piratebox on the RP3 was super easy. Now to leave it running and see what happens.

In other news, I got miniircd running on the pi: https://github.com/jrosdahl/miniircd

Backing up dotfiles with stow and git. http://davebucklin.com/play/2017/03/24/backing-up-dotfiles-with-stow-and-git.html

Finished organizing my dotfiles with stow and git. Feels good.

I think Im going to give up on RaspBSD for now and just get this thing working with Debian.

I just installed vimium for chrome. Tons of fun.

Me explaining my business strategy coursework to my friends. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jw36ivnRHRQ

Ah, but if less is more, just think how much more more could be.

@kas Yeah, I loved my Nokias.

@freemor Imma let you finish but the Motorola RAZR was the best feature phone of all time!

@freemor you heard about the Nokia 3310 reissue, right? I feel so much 90s nostalgia, like, all the time.

Resist the Internet. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/11/opinion/sunday/resist-the-internet.html?_r=0

I just orderd a Pi 3 from Adafruit. Im going to run a tiny, headless FreeBSD box.

@kas I love that quote.

@kas I liked the idea that the reader's client should enforce the length limit.

@mdom I think we need to focus on giving users better alternatives. I feel that frustration, though.

@mdom Reminds me of the Stallman/Raymond debates in the 90s.

I love this channel. Restrained tech-house. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNZETNQDnrKu6hvggNHzZcA

Installing GNU awk seems to have (mostly) fixed my problems.

@mdom Also, yes, I get " f o o "

@mdom and Im on OSX 10.11.5, for the record. Thank you.

@mdom Though now neither twtxt nor txtnish are displaying timelines or individual feeds. Investigating.

@mdom That fixed it.

testing my post-tweet hook

something about invalid option d for xargs and invalid option v for awk

txtnish does not work so well on OSX.

test!