*cough* No, I’m not trying to get your attention. I just have green phlegm in my lungs, that’s all.

@lucidiot Hi, back!

@deepend We here in the twtxt universe are too Calm™ for the birdsite. Its dramas — which are neverending — do not concern us. Its madness is not our own. Isn’t it a great feeling to be separate from all that?

ambient kinetic injury

Still making Quake maps? Consider making one titled “feed your vore fetish”, where you fight only vores, the four-legged zero-eyed spider things that fling you-seeking purple exploding boogers

One day, I’ll find out when lunch will make me sleepy and when it won’t. Today is not that day.

TF2 had an achievement called “Ubi concordia, ibi victoria”. After hearing that Eris has a counterpart, I’m wondering what an achivement called “Ubi discordia, ibi victoria” would be like.

Gomess: Infinite Bat Works

help I’m trying to get to sleep and I have hiccups

@niplav if he’s willing to be even more nerdy he could use https://lojban.org/publications/cll/cll_v1.1_xhtml-section-chunks/section-evidentials.html and possibly color-code them in some less important color than red

I seem to have way more ideas for things I want to write when I’m out and about than when I’ve got some time to write at the end of the day. I think this has been going on for months with multiple thoughts I’ve had.

Don’t you hate it when you try to get to Inbox Zero, make it to Inbox Three, and then by week’s end you’ve got even more messages that you can’t get out of your inbox permanently?

Briefly tempted to post here as a simple read-until-this-point marker.

@niplav Do you have a particular meaning in mind for “long site”, or do you mean all the possible meanings for “long site”?

@niplav and I thought evidentials were invented by the Lojban people or maybe North American amerinds, not Eastern Europeans

@niplav I have a favorite line of prose written around here somewhere but it’s only understandable by a tiny slice of gamers with literal-Boomer media sensibilities. Posting it would break the Internet.

Old: losing weight by playing Dance Dance Revolution. Bold: losing weight by dancing to the elevator music in The Stanley Parable.

It’s Earth Day today. Sure they’re not as important, but we should also have days for all the other planets, too.

I added pointlessArgument: 'is a taco a sandwich' to a pile-of-arguments object today

@niplav 3½ hours a week…closing your 30-minute Exercise ring right on the dot, with no extra time?

@sdk not dead yet

plonk length

OK, I’m loosening up. Now I’m listening to tracks number 3–10, too.

It’s a “put Moon Safari’s ‘La Femme D’Argent’ on loop tape” kind of day

Trying to get down to Reading List Zero before I need to go back to work next year. The latest to be removed from the list because I read the thing: https://ngnghm.github.io/

I’m starting to think that calorie counting is more effective as a weight-loss tool if you count the calories before you put them in your mouth, especially when it comes to desserts you may not need.

Someone’s BBQing near me. It smells heavenly.

I haven’t had Taco Bell in years

My BO this morning smells like Taco Bell

Realization of the day: I had no idea CFAR was a pun.

Happy Petrov Day!

To a first approximation, emoji are Lojbanic attitudinals for normal people.

One step forward: skipping the extra quesadilla at lunch. Two steps back: supplementing lunch with the entirety of a milk-chocolate bar (960 calories) that was at the absolutely most perfect temperature, and washing it down with about a cup of milk, maybe more. One step forward: burning 800 calories by walking an hour on a treadmill.

This page I’m writing sure flowed and chunked a lot better when it was keeping me awake for an hour in the middle of the night BEFORE I got out of bed.

The last post notwithstanding, please don’t drink and drive. Or drink and vote. Or drive and vote.

Jokes about Starbucks’ drink-size names are old enough to drink, drive, and vote by now, but calling the 30-oz. size “trenta” is probably the least dumb name in the history of names for sizes

I typed in “trenta” (Starbucks for “XL”) into my iPhone and it didn’t recognize it as a real word. Does Apple not understand its primary audience?

🤔 curl -s https://www.frogorbits.com/ | htmlq -p main | bat -l html

The zoom lens is 3x? Good.

I could use the macro photography sometimes.

ProMotion: Handy, but I don’t need it.

ProMotion: Handy, but I don’t need it.

…“with censorship OAS”? Did I hear that right?

More battery life? Always nice.

Cinematic Mode: not something I need, but super-neat.

Jiggle protection from iPhones Max now migrates down to normal iPhones and iPhones mini. Nice!

So what can we use with more space up top? Showing the “Syncing…” indicator instead of shoving it off to the other screen?

Workouts to get you ready to ski? That’s…interesting. Not something I need, but it’s definitely interesting.

Jeff Williams looks 15 years older than when I last saw him. What happened to the guy?

Nice to see the Touch ID home button isn’t dead in the iPad.

You miss Apple livestream tweeting? DON’T WORRY I GOTCHU AGAIN FAM

The ecstasy of having glasses-free vision is only matched by the complete and total relief that comes with removing rigid gas-permeable contacts. It’s like buying and selling a boat every day of your life.

@niplav artistry, or is this some kind of guitar thing?

One thing that I have to recalculate somewhat frequently is “Do I have any friends in New York?”. New Yorkers tend to drift in and out of my life at a fairly frequent clip and it’s not always easy remembering whom it wouldn’t be weird to say “I’ll be in town for a few days; wanna meet up?” to

Sometimes you’re the good son, sometimes you’re the wicked son, sometimes you’re the simple son, and sometimes you’re the son who doesn’t even know how to ask a question.

Pressed C-t (transpose) for the second time ever today.

new toy: xhs https://website.example/ | prettier --parser html | bat

Idea for a bio: “I like good things and dislike bad things. Also, I dislike some good things and like some bad things.”

In case you were wondering, AirPods Pro are unable to cancel noise that comes from inside your head, like from an electric toothbrush.

. o O (cat /usr/share/dict/words | egrep "^f.{2}k\$") @niplav so…you like to fink?

Today’s best friend: {/ eslint-disable-next-line prettier/prettier, react/jsx-one-expression-per-line /}

halp i want to listen to music but my ears are tired what do

@niplav interesting, it seems like you uploaded at least two weeks worth of posts sometime between yesterday and right now

Wanted to eat, didn’t eat, got distracted, now I don’t want to eat anymore. Win!

Calm-computing tip: While ⌥⌘H may clear off a lot of clutter, sometimes you want just one non-full-screened window. Consider making a new Space, moving that window into it, and enjoying its unclutteredness. Spaces are easy to create, re-order, and destroy.

~/Downloads zero.

Finally got to e-mail inbox zero. Now for my other inboxen.

Tired: Inbox Zero. Inspired: Tot Zero.

Just tried looking at some of my site’s pages’ HTML after they’ve been run through Prettier. It sure looks nice in bat(1), but the extra build step would take entire seconds to complete.

Send even more help. I’m having the most millenial of midlife crises — I’m not sure Donatello is my spirit-animal ninja turtle anymore.

send help I’m working on a website with no dark mode and there’s no good way to turn on only some lights in the room I’m in

Free meme: “Shub-mergerrath, the eater of code“

Follow-up question to follow-up thought: “What does it mean if someone replies with a number on [1, 7)?”

Random follow-up thought: “On a scale from 7 to 14, how basic am I?”

@niplav “Markov” sounds more like meaningless babble (maybe from a political opponent). See also: “duckspeak”.

Realization: One day, the only people who say “the future is now, old man” will themselves be old.

I used a computer today. I think that may have been a mistake.

Xcode Cloud 🤔

If I never have to hold three rulers perpendicular to each other to find out how big an object is if I buy one, that’ll be great.

”Probably shoud’ve just taken the car.”

Is this woman teeny, or is that a 27″ iMac next to her?

Nope, don’t like the changes for Safari. Not one bit.

Sounds like they’re trying to move Automator things into Shortcuts things.

AirPlay? One fewer thing I keep in the top right.

Universal Control? I could use this.

Monterey? Good name.

Yes, let’s talk about macOS.

Listing Taiwan as a country for HomePod mini? Bold.

Walking Steadiness 🤔

iCloud+: Not just a VPN. Interesting.

So voice processing is back on-device after a decade or so? Finally.

How does Mail Privacy cloak my location? Does it proxy my e-mail through Apple?

Oh, Translate is a thing?

Quick Note: aping features from LiquidText. Not Sherlocked, but still.

Multitasking in the double-tap-Home screen? Finally.

Shelf 🤔

Proper two-app multitasking? Finally.

App Library in the Dock? I think that might solve my “I want to open an arbitrary second app on this screen without a keyboard” problem.

App Library? Yawn.

Widgets anywhere? Yawn.

Man, these maps sure are detailed. It’s like one could have a car navigate around with all this information.

idc i use dark sky

IDs in Wallet 🤔

“You’ll hear irrelevant, personalized music…” wait, what?

Live Text? I could use that occasionally.

Focus changes: useful for people who let themselves get inundated with junk notifications like what’s trending on Reddit. Me? Eh.

SharePlay: we want to eat away at one of Discord’s niche

“wide spectrum” sounds like a neat spin on “noise cancellation off”.

WWDC 2021: Oops All Heads

I wonder how much use 🧮 (abacus) gets. I think there’s a page that describes emoji usage, but I’d need to look it up.

There are three ninja emojis in this post.

And now I sit myself down to a pleasant afternoon of nervously wondering how similar liquid-at-room-temperature coconut oil is to coconut-derived MCT oil.

I put my mouse on my Mac on the right side for reasons. My Windows machine always has the mouse on the right. Wanted to go Back on my Mac and…pressed mouse4, just like I’d do on Windows. Muscle-memory prompts are…interesting.

I wrote “I don’t think price exists.” in a text document and predicted that later on I would be totally and utterly mystified what I meant by it originally. Turns out, that prediction was entirely correct.

One of the problems with trying to get to inbox zero is that some of the older messages deserve to be saved but don’t really belong in any kind of final resting place…

@niplav Re: Liber Augmen: Not a whole lot of it is new to me either, but I thought the method of delivery (a single page full of short descriptions of things) is super interesting as a mindspace-delivery device

@niplav I like it, but you probably shouldn’t take only my word for it. I suspect it’s piggybacking a lot off of how much I liked its SNES predecessor and know/like the vibe of * Mana games. Also, the last three JRPGs I’ve played were Dragon’s Dogma, NieR:Automata, and…Chrono Trigger. I don’t know what’s good and new in JRPGs ever since Square left Nintendo. I’m just glad they’re back.

Been playing Trials of Mana on the weekend, but for some reason I’ve been humming music from Secret of Mana during the rest of the week.

@niplav Speaking of ontologies, you’ve heard of https://www.liberaugmen.com/, right?

@niplav Re: … < sharing ontologies: There’s an idea. If I want to write something, anything, documenting the words and concepts I use isn’t the dumbest idea.

That said, I wouldn’t buy orange-blossom water just to dump into my tea. It’s much more useful as a cheesecake-batter addition, but in order to draw it down in a timely fashion I’d have to bake two cheesecakes a week.

Discovery of the day: if you have some extra orange-blossom water lying around that you want to use up before it goes bad, you could do worse than to splash some in your cup of black tea.

@mox welcome back!

old, bold, foretold

@niplav Ah, that clears it up.

Current earworms: Secret of Evermore music

@niplav “adrationalism” is probably better. “irrationalism” sounds like a pie-appreciation club for math nerds.

I love it when an app comes together

According to my fish history, the previous post was not the first one of mine that started with “In case you were wondering…” and I’m not sure how to feel about that.

In case you were wondering, taking a couple pairs of damp shorts fresh from the washing machine into a room and pointing a fan at them will raise the room’s humidity.

@niplav I wouldn’t disagree with your characterization of people who’re interested in radical life extension, but their messaging, generally, seems to not mention “adding life to your years” at all. “Live to be 150” doesn’t sound all that great if you’re going to have 15 years of being in your 80s, so to speak.

@niplav yeah, normal signatures suck, too. I’m just not convinced the change in tradeoffs is worth it. Oh, and no, it didn’t come off as too mean.

@niplav I sign a lot less stuff these days now that my phone can pretend to be a credit card. Also: an impostor with a quantum computer can’t pretend to sign documents on my behalf…

@niplav Seems like most of the (radical) life extension people are interested in adding years to their lives, but agnostic about adding life to their years. “Be old longer” doesn’t appeal to a lot of people.

Currently imagining Lady Gaga retrieving her French bulldogs the John Wick way.

Unexpected benefit of going from Mojave to Big Sur on my main machine: being able to see the sun rise over Big Sur in glorious 5K

the longer my teammates and I bang our heads on this Stupid Error™, the less bad I feel for not having been able to solve it myself

All I wanna do / is go to bed / I got a feelin’ / I’d just rather be dead…

@niplav ah, ty

I want to listen to music, but quite honestly the silence sounds better.

@niplav Re: selection pressure against meditation: go on…

@niplav Re: not guaranteed to see it: I wouldn’t have bothered waving hi across the Internet if I hadn’t gotten bored one day and grepped my webserver logs for twtxt users.

Never thought I’d want a 6K monitor, but I’m running VS Code and it sure would be nice to have a little bit more width. The proper layout for the task I’ve been doing is four editors wide, plus some more space on the left for a file picker.

@niplav Re: rats: YOU ARE NOT ALONE

Did a 20-minute meditation session. Didn’t achieve enlightenment, but I managed to think up the kernel of a moderately interesting blog post.

Sure, you can make a bunch of predictions at the beginning of the year and calculate the Brier score for last year’s predictions, but all you need to do to feel that kind of cloud-dispelling mental work is this: go pants shopping, think of how good you’ll be at losing fat in light of all your previous new-year fat-loss attempts, and choose between pants with a 34″ inseam and pants with a 35″ inseam.

In case you’re reading my twtxt.txt file directly or are otherwise paying close attention to tweet dates, it’s absolutely true: I haven’t been funny in two months.

sneeze

pls send help i’m using micro in visual studio code on windows and ^e and ^q are being gobbled up by vscode and i can’t quit

When you take stretch breaks every hour it’s a good idea to get up and step away from the keyboard. It is less obvious what you should do when the stretch-break notification comes and you’ve been using a standing desk the entire time.

And by “iOS”, I meant “iPadOS”. Scribble (the handwriting recognition) is good enough to be interesting, but none of the other features called to me.

In case you had any doubts, iOS 14 was shipped according to the hardware release schedule, not according to when the P1 bug count got to a tolerably-low level.

@hjertnes There was. New watches and non-pro iPads.

Wait, removing the power adapter from Apple Watch? How do you charge the thing? Someone else’s Qi charger?

Apple Watch and iPad today. OK, one out of two ain’t bad.

It works better if you start up its database first.

A collaboration never made: Simon and Garfunkel with Sam Harris, “It’s All Happening Within the Consciousness”

@reednj still alive!

Bought some new pants and washed them. They’re hang-dry only, so I took them into my bedroom and pointed a fan at them to hurry the process along. Several hours later, my bedroom still smells like new pants.

OmniFocus/iOS screenshot. Originally 40 KB. OxiPNG: 30 KB. avifenc -l (lossless): 89 KB. 🤔

Getting around my current phone’s lack of a 3.5mm jack by…listening to music on my SIMless old phone. I feel like I’m cheating somehow.

@hjertnes What are you doing to have wikilinks in Hugo?

Old and busted: screenshots of source code. New hotness: https://github.com/Aloxaf/silicon/

ra ra rasputin / lover of the demoscene

Six programmers, seven preferred Git workflows.

@mdosch Oh wow. I thought Apple was the only org out there shipping zsh by default. What was their rationale for not defaulting to bash?

@hjertnes rebel.

Unexpectedly amusing: my 24-line .zsh_history. (chsh is near the end.)

@mdosch Right. I can only last about 15–25 minutes in a 80°C sauna. An ambient temperature of 90°F (32°C) is also unpleasant, but not nearly as bad. I’ll use my iPad indoors when it’s 90°F during the peak of the heat of the day, but I wouldn’t want to take it into a 90°C sauna.

@mdosch I’m American. All I know about 90°C is that it‘s a reasonable sauna temperature; the literature tends to focus on saunas at 80°C and 100°C. I haven’t been in a sauna in months, and my body misses it.

iPads under moderate load (streaming video) get surprisingly warm to the touch when ambient is 90°.

Second achievement of the hour: Ulysses Inbox Zero.

Achievement of the hour: https://tot.rocks/-dots Zero.

I want to like https://amp.rs/, but both its color schemes look horribad on a 256-color terminal (the most Terminal.app supports). The only terminal I have installed that supports lots of colors is…Visual Studio Code.

Intrusive bad idea of the day: installing the iPadOS beta so I can use Scribble.

Woke up after six hours of uneasy dreams and thought “at least I haven’t been transformed into a giant bug.”

Are we back? Probably not forever and ever, but we’re back for now.

Bumpy ride in the webhosting universe, here. Hang on, folks.

Previous best: plugging a USB foot switch into the iPad to make it turn the page.

Best setup yet: Books on iPad with voice control on; typing notes in a text editor on a separate device. Say “swipe left” to turn the page, with no command-tabbing needed.

Disappointment of the day: Despite what <https://frog.tips/#429> says, gopher://frog.tips/GENUINEFROG appears to be non-functional.

@lahvak I use this tiling WM for macOS that also works on Windows: https://code.visualstudio.com/

@johanbove I can’t listen to podcasts and contribute to open source at the same time.

I brushed my hand against my laptop’s touchpad at the wrong time, in the wrong way, and moved some icon around in the Dock but didn’t catch which. I had to stare at the icons and try and figure out which one was out of place immediately because I hate having perma-pinned Dock icons in the wrong place

Of all the updates in today’s brew update && brew upgrade, the last one I expected was an update to a game originally implemented in the late ’70s. And yet, GOFAI/dungeon is now at 4.1.

My USB power brick says to cycle the charge in it every so often, so I had it keep my iPad powered up away from any outlet. Fully drained it and plugged it in to a powered-off computer to recharge. Overnight, it’s only recharged…halfway. Didn’t expect the recharge to be this slow.

Imagine the world when we have old, gray-bearded Millenials managing old legacy JavaScript-based systems. They shall sing “Den-o! The last dinosaur…” when griping about them. Their younger co-workers will not understand.

Surprise of the day: the “you sent an e-mail” sound in Outlook for iOS really benefits from a decent amount of stereo separation. Kind of a pity that its separatedness will kind of be like an easter egg.

Today, I’m enjoying how I’m not craving cheesecake, unlike yesterday.

Evidence against “Apple wants to position the iPad as a proper computer”: ⌘⌫ does not delete a currently-being-viewed message.

Achievement of the weekend: Ulysses Inbox Zero.

@lahvak Maybe the exact answer is, like, something divided by 7.

In case you were wondering, using a mouse on iPadOS is fun for about five minutes.

Wise choice of the evening: deciding to pause Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol when sipping my can of La Croix.

@tux0r (1) holy moly, ed? I thought I’d be the only ed user I’d ever hear about. (2) http://www.catb.org/esr/src/ should be fine in Dropbox, too, right?

@von (re: ed) once I read the manual and found out that the current line was the last line, all I needed to do was type «d\nw\nq\n». So glad I took the vim path instead of the emacs path.

I’m using Blink SSH on my iPad and I have an entry in known_hosts that I need to get rid of. I do not have vi available. I do have ed available. This will be fun.

Why you should use monotonic clocks and timestamps to calculate durations: https://imgur.com/gallery/InD4qLv

@freemor ok, that sounds suspicious.

@freemor Freenode has been doing this for over a decade. The next time you connect, check your server messages. They explain this.

@kas micro (https://micro-editor.github.io/) and kakoune (https://kakoune.org/).

I want to use more newfangled non-vi(m) console-based text editors, but they all seem to assume that the alt key is as easy to press as the ctrl key. Meanwhile, I use my Option key too much to be willing to change its function.

Just learned that a guy I know of has an impressive beard. I wouldn’t have figured he had an impressive beard. Now I wonder who else I know who has an impressive beard that I don’t know about.

@von sleeping works. how long do you need?

Tonight’s burps taste like raspberries.

@johanbove gratz!

Massive piles of implementation bugs notwithstanding, See (on Apple TV+) is pretty neat if you’re into worldbuilding like I am.

Bride of boo, hiss: Hovering over an Edge icon in the Taskbar doesn’t give you a preview of every tab.

Hmm. The new Blink-powered Edge doesn’t let you change the new-tab searchbox off Bing’s. Boo, hiss.

All I need to do to get this to work in all major browsers is to wait for Safari to get a major version bump…

@kas @freemor I doubt many want to browser-sniff. Unfortunately, I see browser sniffing used to work around a particular browser’s bugs, so browser sniffing isn’t going away anytime soon.

@freemor @kas I’m not seeing how this is worse for privacy than the current mess that is the User-Agent string, though. What am I missing?

30 minutes of scrubbing and washing later, my monitor’s solid-color background looks solid-colored.

You see these proper quotes/apostrophes in my posts? They’re not curling themselves.

I think part of what’s killing emacs for me is what killed kakoune for me — I don’t have a good Meta key on my Mac and I’m not about to give up my Option key for it.

I sniffed my hand after washing it and it smelled like crème brûlée.

@sdk also, if you can find out how to get your desktop environment to tell your browser “I prefer dark mode”, that’s also an option

darndest thing I’ll see today: “goimports, but for FORTRAN”: https://www.ratrabbit.nl/ratrabbit/content/findent/introduction

@sixbitproxywax if I didn’t livetxt Apple presentations, one-per-decade would probably be enough for me. However…I might just get lazy and chop them up into one-per-decade things anyway.

@sixbitproxywax it’s not obviously broken if you ask me…

@kas I aliased ls to exa and nothing broke. With any luck, nothing’ll break for you, either.

@johanbove A better question: Are you real enough for yourself?

I just wrote a Rick-and-Morty-copypasta snowclone and now I need a shower.

@freemor Sounds like yet another reason to never buy a smart TV, or at least to never depend on any functionality that requires it to be connected to the Internet.

I get slightly nervous when my backup program does full uploads of FLAC files that shouldn’t have changed at all and should only be a checksum match

An object with one UUID knows what it is; an object with two is never sure.

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!

Phew. Searching DuckDuckGo for “blackfriday markdown” gives me what I want even though it’s the day before Black Friday.

My text editor failed to autocomplete like it usually does and now I’m left wondering if I introduced a syntax error or something that it can’t cope with.

Interesting photo compression numbers: 2.1 MB HEIC original, 13.8 MB PNG, 3.8 MB JPEG, 790 KB WebP.

Hm. My phone doesn’t reliably recognize me when I’m wearing wet glasses, but so far it seems to recognize me well enough when I’m wearing no glasses.

Just saw the Cybertruck unveiling. Elon Musk is the best spectator sport available today.

I moved all windows off my second monitor and…it just looks so peaceful. Nothing on it but a zoomed-in picture of a sand dune with a very dim menu bar on top.

@von You’ll probably want a separate BuJo if you have a bunch of work-only tasks. One of the nice things about OmniFocus is that it can be really good at hiding tasks you can’t make headway on at the moment for one reason or another, assuming you tag things appropriately.

@johanbove there’s also the extended battery life (an unambiguous plus) and FaceID (probably a plus for most people). Me, I miss my hand-sized SE.

@kas I’m tempted to split my file once per decade.

@johanbove An iPhone XR as opposed to…?

@johanbove oh, that helps. Thanks!

@von yeah, I stopped posting to it eventually.

@johanbove a random question from someone who’s used Gopher clients a little bit recently but doesn’t quite understand all the memes: Why are numbered directories like “/0/” common on Gopher holes (but not websites)?

@von re: hidden twtxt: I’ve done this. It was fun.

@kas that said, I have no idea who bothers looking at the commented-out portions of others’ twtxt files. I only bother on rare occasions. Sometimes, there are interesting easter-eggy things to see.

@kas doesn’t seem like a bad idea. I suppose I should do that one day too eventually, but I haven’t livetweeted enough Apple events to bloat my file to where I’d want to bother.

My Chrome uptime has been so long that I got a notification in it to restart it so it could update itself. Do I get some sort of award for this?

@freemor Those things you swallow when you have a headache. (It’s a The Matrix reference.)

@freemor Did it try to POST any pills?

Today’s fun: pastel random -n 2 | pastel gradient - -

Just took a raw photo with Halide for the first time. It looks pretty awful compared to its companion JPEG because it’s horribly noisy. Not sure what magic turns awful raws into better-than-JPEG images. Probably lots of know-how.

@mdosch Apple refuses to ship GPLv3 software. bash has security bugs that Apple doesn’t want to backport. So they’ve switched default shells again, this time to zsh. (bash and the previous default, tcsh, still ship with the OS.)

@mdosch @freemor was right. The latest (but not the greatest) macOS.

Just installed Catalina (my recommendation: don’t.). zsh is a fine shell…for downloading and installing other shells.

Expired: squatting in the squat rack. Tired: curling in the squat rack. Wired: Running curl(1) from your phone while in the squat rack

A bumper sticker, from a distance: “usetrojans”. Seen closer up: “usctrojans”.

@von gl

@dave Did you type that out with your knuckles, or did you use voice recognition, or…? ;)

My idea of a fun Saturday night: achieving Camera Roll Zero.

This won’t get me a “Dear Mr. Cook” mention in an Apple event, but I thought it was pretty cool to be able to use my iPad in the kitchen without touching it. Voice Control is pretty good.

Petrov Day is coming up this Thursday, September 26. What, if anything, is a suitable thing to do in his honor?

@kas I probably get a slightly-suboptimal lossily-compressed image. Or maybe I get the same image that I would have had I not bothered to give it a preset hint.

Day 1 of not installing the latest iOS release. Pulse still normal. Heart rate normal. Sleep moderately disturbed.

@mdosch Battery-life preservation is a harsh mistress.

@kas is pretty great, but there’s no equivalent widely-available functionality for background images, which is a real pity. Just imagine — hero images that take up half the space!

I’m not sure I like how homebrew will try to build a package if the download fails. I don’t need a second go binary, really.

Day 0 of not installing the new iOS because everyone says it’s buggy. Pulse normal. Heart rate normal.

I tried cwebp -preset photo -o foo.webp foo.jpeg on a preview image and it was imperceptibly worse at the sizes I expected to show it. Then again, I don’t really care that you can’t read the nutrition labels on a jar in the background of the subject.

This almost makes me want to bother changing to a 24-bit-color terminal as my main: https://github.com/sharkdp/pastel

What’s the wettest food that the Wicked Witch of the West can safely eat?

@von no worries, I have days/weeks/years like that

Non-programming thought of the hour: “I want pancakes”. Also the non-programming thought of the previous hour, and the hour before that.

Programming thought of the hour: “if everything knew about everything else, I wouldn’t have this problem.” Of course, I’d have different problems later…

cheap entertainment of the day: running https://github.com/boyter/scc/ and chuckling at the cost and manpower estimates of my one-man projects

WebP is kind of disappointing. Not because there’s anything wrong with it, but because I tend to not really need it, even though I’d like to use it.

I just got the tauthon pun. Well done, whoever named it.

new toy of the day: https://github.com/variadico/noti

ran-as-root command of the day: pkg delete python27

8 PM naps: They’re the naps that you need, even though they’re not the naps that you want.

Saw pokerstove in the new-formulae list in Homebrew. Installed it and ran ps-eval -g d AsAcAdAh2d, and after a few moments it told me that this particular hand has 99.998% equity. Turns out, “a pair of ones…and another pair of ones” is a better hand than Bugs’ tone of voice indicates.

“Thinkfluencer” might be one of the most pompous nouns invented in the last five years but at least it isn’t as confusing as using “clerk” as a translation of “clerc”.

At the gym in the morning. Full parking lot. ♫ All the morning people / Where do they all come from? / All the morning people / Where do they all belong? ♫

If it’s called a ‘twoosh’ when one tweets exactly 280 characters without editing, what’s it called when one writes an exactly-50-character Git commit message?

Cut a 228-column line down to a mere 185. Progress!

Unexpected prefers-color-scheme-using website of the day: openbsd.org

wait, gcc is a run-time dependency for dungeon in Homebrew?

There is spider food flying around in my bedroom. I am most displeased.

How can you tell when an Apple fan is dead tired? He blanks out when prompted for his Apple ID.

Oh, right. If my main computer is tethered to my phone’s LTE connection, it’s not going to be accessible from my tablet, will it? Darn.

Can one use nerd tools to live-blog an internet outage (without tethering)? Let’s find out.

Today’s fish fun: set -l color_host $fish_color_host; if command -qs shasum; set color_host (printf (prompt_hostname) | shasum -pa 256 - | cut -c 59-64 | tr -d '\n'); end

I think it’s kind of cute that Siri is suggesting I set a timer for five minutes, even though it hasn’t realized I only do that at the gym.

Found out that Terminal will switch from light to dark themes if background color is unset. One catch: “background color” includes transparency and blur settings.

When Wikipedia and Wikiquote disagree, which is right?

@mdosch oh, that’s good.

@kas @mdosch He ought to switch to one-line fortunes if he can. I don’t want to have to wait a day to get the punch line to a joke.

🇺🇸 🎆 🇺🇸 🎇 🇺🇸 🧨 🇺🇸

Dear lazytwtxt, I just saw someone say hi to a few new people. How can I check the accounts of these new-to-me people so I can figure out whether to add them to my own following list? Their URLs are snipped out in the main client (for good reason).

Looking for a reason to use Firefox more when developing sites? on macOS it’s the browser that smashes into the least horizontal space. Good if you like having a browser window running all the time. Doubly good if you like running it in Split View.

block elephant modifier

@von ganbatte

fun phrase learned today: “de haut en bas”

Turns out that color-scheme support only works in the Safari Technology Preview beta.

let the quote marks hit the floor / let the quote marks hit the floor / let the quote marks hit the floor / let the quote marks hit the floor …

65 WWDC ’19 lines in twtxt.txt, 140 total lines. WWDC ’19 accounts for 46% of all my twtxt output. 🤔

“Available in the fall”

That looks like my local Apple Store. I wonder how similar the normal ones are to each other.

macOS Goat Rock

SwiftUI 🤔

450k apps using Swift…what’s that as a percentage?

Ever wanted to walk through your own Barbie house? Now you can. Or should be able to.

Where’s the teapot for this AR tester?

This Jira app doesn’t look awful.

“make the logo bigger”

Craig, quit hypercorrecting “Mojave” plzkthx

“based on their existing iPad apps” 🤔

iOS and macOS get to Windows Vista levels of voice recognition. Finally.

SHOW NUMBERS WOOOOOOOOOOOOO

iPad as a second display? Yes please.

4K TV on Apple computers? Finally.

Machine learning to analyze podcast contents. Interesting.

Finder syncs. Yay. Right?

PAGING JWZ

iTunes, the Katamari Damacy ball

…probably not a homeless guy using his Mac?

Wait, the stand costs $1,000?

Wow. Rack-mounted Macs Pro.

Nobody going “woo” for portrait-mode coding? Hunh.

Portrait mode? Yes please.

EXTREEEEEEEEME

Oh wow, guess Photoshop can really tax your monitor.

6K? Yeah, I could fit a code sidebar in the extra width.

“quiet operation” is something people have to ask for on a fancy monitor?

neat, casually adding a 1,000-person orchestra

neat, casually adding a 100-person orchestra

as quiet as an iMac pro if it’s under your desk under low loads YESSSSSS

PCI expansion, back to the Mac

A cheese grater with rounded handles. YES PLEASE

What’s that table doing there 🤔

man, this guy has gesture trouble.

Fonts in the app store? 🤔

Dense iPadOS Springboard is gonna mess up my 1:1 phone:ipad icon correspondence. Boo, hiss.

Notes in oodles of different spaces. Nice.

Mini iPhone Xs on the slide-in app. Nice.

iPadOS? Damn.

Siri talk to me all day about chemistry plzzzzzzz

Boots modeled on ski boots? Gotta try everything, I guess.

Diary of your life. Mine’s gonna be more boring than the ones in the WWDC sample…

HATS!

OK, Sign In With Apple…almost seems neat. Of course, Apple is relaying e-mail for you…

Wow, Reminders got leveled up.

Totally flat black Now Playing. Hmm.

Swiping keyboard 🤔

You can tell the Slack users in the audience because they’re the ones with the all-white laptop screens.

Faster app downloads/updates? Tell me how!

Only 85% on iOS 12? That’s not as high as it used to be, is it?

No third-party watch faces. Hunh.

Wonder what the Noise complication does to battery life.

…or encrypted in iCloud 🤔

This Noise app is my jam. Decibel meter on my wrist? Yes please.

This is the kind of nerd thing I’d like for my working out, especially since I’m getting into cardio a little bit more.

But will my Headspace thingo be able to add the mindful minutes back to my iPhone?

Rhumba lessons. Does Cuban Pete teach as his day job?

I’d run Oceanhorn 2 on my iMac. Installing a kext for my Switch Pro Controller isn’t something I want to do ever again, though.

“Beautiflu”. OK, happens to even the best of us.

Never thought I’d see a night-owl-pride thingo like this.

Cute 3D line-drawn animated icons.

Decent music.

https://www.apple.com/apple-events/livestream/ doesn’t even support dark mode. Sad!

Do you miss your Twitter timeline blowing up whenever a WWDC keynote happens? DON’T WORRY I GOTCHU FAM

new toy of the day: https://github.com/lotabout/skim

Tempted to make a “dark motherfucking website” also-satire that has the minimal amount of @media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) to keep people from blowing out their retinas when viewing the site at night.

@mdosch I’ve tried to play games on my phone and iPad but none of the games I’ve ever played on them seem to stick. I’ve had fun — briefly — with Threes and FTL and Really Bad Chess and so forth, but I don’t seem to stick with any one game on my iOS gizmos like I have with, say, FTL-on-Steam, much less TF2 or Dota 2.

In today’s brew update && brew upgrade: new bat, harfbuzz, and lsd. Is this the universe’s way of pointing me towards transcendent joy?

Anyone who says that iPads are bad for gaming is an ignoramus and/or a liar. I beat Picross S’s P060 and I wouldn’t have been able to finish it if I hadn’t been able to take pictures of the TV with my iPad to be able to easily back out of hypohetical block arrangements that turned out to be wrong.

not a minute later, currently humming: “Perform This Way” by “Weird Al” Yankovic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ss_BmTGv43M

currently humming: “Never Gonna Give You Up” by Rick Astley: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ"

all my friends are in agony over the Game of Thrones series end and all I can do to try and understand is remember how utterly confused I was by the nondeominational church at the end of LOST

Cute. wget --mirror --random-wait didn’t.

@lahvak Not too soon, I hope?

@mdosch not dead yet.

Make your website better in bed. Use @media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) { / … / }.

uni kuru toga party

@tux0r “best viewed in a rusty nail” just sounds weird to me, though.

Took a long walk earlier today and now I want to take a short nap.

Today I learned that onions are a sulfur-rich food. You can experience this yourself if you caramelize down roughly seven onions and eat half the batch in one sitting. Try not to do this if you’re going to be around people with functioning noses.

In other news, https://generative.fm/ now has a sleep timer

I wish https://generative.fm/ had a clone of Moby’s “Alone” called “Forever Alone”

Last night’s minor win: moving ~/.gitconfig and ~/.gitignore to ~/.config/git

Saw https://github.com/matteocorti/roll in the updated-formulæ list in Homebrew. I had no idea https://github.com/topics/dice-roller was a thing.

Looking for a suitable dip for your peanut-butter cups? Remember that sweetened condensed milk is liquid at fridge temperatures, while bacon fat is solid.

Concept of the day: “Radar Chicken”, whereby two computer nerds encourage the other to file a bug report so the other doesn’t have to

“Never Gonna Give You Up” by Rick Astley: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

You know, Desert 2 is probably the best static Mojave wallpaper. It has enough light parts for the daytime, yet it also is generally dark enough to work well in dim lighting. Not many photographs are like that.

If Cthulhu, Chernobyl, and Pripyat all call you at the same time, who gets the busy signal?

https://www.microsoft.com/ie/ 404s. End of an age, I tell you.

@kas adiabatic. My insulin levels are self-regulating and not too high.

https://generative.fm/ is my Spotify

I art-directed a website. The end boss was finding out how to make the black parts of a black-on-transparent image a light gray after finding out that CSS can’t do this itself yet.

hmm, twtxt 1.2.3 includes “User-Agent:” in its user-agent string…

I want to like exa, but its default color choices are hot garbage. Don’t these people who use purple ever try using a terminal with a black background?

Interestingly enough, Visual Studio Code keeps running bash as its preferred shell, even though it isn’t the login shell anymore.

@kas now that I understand fish enough to port over the contents of my .bashrc and .bash_profile, I’m starting to get used to it. How’s having different shell preferences for login/interactive treating you?

I wanted to feel productive this evening, but I didn’t want to do any useful work. In related news, I’ve switched to https://fishshell.com/ from GPLv2 bash.

today was the day of the triennual trying of the fish shell only to go back to bash within an hour or two

“Great repository names are short and memorable. Need inspiration? How about supreme-couscous?” — I hadn’t heard about this particular Supreme collab, but then again I haven’t been subscribed to Hypebeast in a while…

@kas I wanted to like Kakoune but I liked having my option key not be an alt key more. Shame, really.

That previous post took the total font load for Safari users from 23 MB to a mere 9 MB. Progress!

I was too lazy to look up how to write a for-loop in bash so I just ran “find . -name *.ttf -exec woff2_compress {} \;”

The Champs — Tequila (radio edit)

🔀 Siddhartha Barnhoorn — Antichamber 🔁

conundrum of the hour: “why buy one when you could have two for twice the price?”

IT’S PEANUT BUTTER CODIN’ TIME IT’S PEANUT BUTTER CODIN’ TIME IT’S PEANUT BUTTER CODIN’ TIME IT’S PEANUT BUTTER CODIN’ TIME

Finally had cause to break open one of those Panobooks by Studio Neat. It’s so utterly pleasant to touch.

coffee…

coffee.

coffee?

Saw a reply to one of my old posts after bypassing goatflare. I’d never heard of Balistos before. At least I don’t remember seeing it the first time around.

I expected all of my leg and foot muscles to be sore after yesterday’s four-hour hike, but I didn’t expect my traps to be sore.

Used my first webp image today. Took me a bit to figure out that I needed to put width: 100% on the img element, not on its enclosing picture element.

you can do anything at localhost. the only limit is yourself

I did math. The math told me to eat more protein, so I had a whey-and-milk shake with vanilla extract and honey.

No Title: A play like No Exit by Sartre, but four strangers have to agree on how to tag a moderately complicated CD in iTunes

I reduced (sorry (not sorry)) an entire blog post into my previous twtxt post and I’m not sure if I should be happy or not. It might’ve been a perfectly adequate blog post.

things.reduce((pacman, dot) => {/ … /});

Just now noticed, over an hour later, that I didn’t want a post-dinner sweet something. Guess I finally broke the habit in three days or so.

Odd. 81° in here and I’m slightly chilled.

I kind of want to use SILE (http://sile-typesetter.org/) for something, but I need a PDF generator like I need a hole in my head.

@kas I’m not discouraged at all. I now know to choose sleep at 8 PM instead of coffee. Maybe one day I’ll get lucky and just sleep the whole night through.

today’s procrastination tactic: writing a README (pretty much a spec) for an as-yet unwritten command-line tool

@kas I should have gone for the two-hour nap (to a first approximation, I can’t powernap). Ended up going to bed at 5 without having had a two-hour nap previously. Failed experiments are the price of knowledge, I guess.

not sure why a swig or three of kefir kills a post-meal sweet tooth, but it does. unsure if the 12g sugar per quarter bottle plays a part in this or not.

I went for the new thing and chose the coffee. I am not falling asleep in my chair anymore.

currently considering the relative merits of an 8 pm nap vs. an 8 pm coffee

Using Visual Studio Code in fullscreen on my main monitor while looking at other things on the other monitor. I did not expect to turn into one of John Siracusa’s millenial co-workers.

today’s brew cleanup cleaned up 4 GB of space

current Saturday-night fun: ensuring that everything I have installed on one machine with Homebrew is also on the other machine

I ate banana pancakes and now my burps taste like banana

“xt” is probably one of the least pleasant key sequences to press

accidentally deleted this thing because rsync with ansible is hard

fun make-work project: moving from upstart to systemd

@quite but sudo !! is my favorite command…

Now seeing if Ansible is still upset.

Apparently this thing — by which I mean “my shell” — has trouble with exclamation marks inside double quotes. Phooey.

this thing on?