Exploring an Idea With Midjourney I haven’t seen anyone talk about what it’s like to try and work with Midjourney, or any of the other Image AIs. No-one has shown just how much work it takes to get from an idea, to the beautiful output we keep seeing.
This post will take you through the journey, from a spark of colorful and strong Native American imagery, depressed cyborgs, to visions of Muslim women, in a dry and trying future.
Summary While leaving "private comments" on a repo can be incredibly useful, it can get you into trouble if the wrong person sees them and disagrees with what they see. This post goes into the problems, consequences, and things that tools that provide this functionality need to do to protect their users from accidental harm.
Some Context A while ago I wrote a tool called "Private Comments", which allows you to leave "private comments" on a codebase that aren't actually in the codebase.
This post describes how to make high quality recordings of terminal sessions that can be replayed in the terminal, or shared on the web. I'm defining high quality as recordings with zero typos, and relatively controlled timing between commands.
Jump to the end to see an example of the type of output I'm talking about.
Why? Videos and gifs take up a lot of disk space, don't age well as display technology improves, and are problematic for folks low vision requirements.
A quick post to help future Raku geeks understand a couple of confusing error messages:
expected Positional[Array] but got Array
and
expected Associative[Hash] but got Hash
These are conceptually the same problem. If you've received one of these errors it means you've double-specified your parameter by using the @ or % and Array or Hash.
A parameter of Hash %foo says "I would like to be passed something that implements Associative and has a Hash in it.
Table of Contents Overview The Goal The Process The Learnings Overview Following on the heels of my last post on why you should (not) self host your git repos, I went ahead and used Gitea to set up a local mirror of all my repositories, and all the repositories I don’t want to loose access to.
The results were surprising, and after reading this, you might want to do the same.
Table of Contents Why You Should Self-Host ➠What about GitLab and other Competitors? Why You Shouldn’t Self-Host So what’s a geek to do? What am I going to do? Once upon a time, GitHub was a successful geek enterprise. Then Microsoft bought it, and folks started arguing that you should abandon ship. You should self-host your repos they say.
I 100% agree, and 100% disagree. Let me explain.
GitHub’s been a benevolent host.
Those of us who love the command line, have a tendency to install a lot of useful utilities, and want them available on all our computers. On macOS we tend to use Homebrew. This document serves to describe three ways to generate a useful file to solve that problem.
As I see it there are 3 basic approaches to syncing your homebrew utilities across machines.
I don’t care about the details, just make it work.
There has been a lot of uproar about the “ethics” of AI generated art from tools like MidJourney, Stable Diffusion, and Dall-E. People talking about “theft” and “copyright infringement” and how artists should be paid for “stealing” their styles.
This blog post intends to break down the ridiculousness of those claims with simple logic, and historical counterarguments. I’ll show how the uproar is ultimately just an emotional knee-jerk reaction by people ignorant of the reality of art, illustration, and these AI systems.
The Problem For the past decade or so, I’ve noticed a trend amongst my coworkers. When they need to look at the contents of a file that they’re not currently editing, they will go to GitHub, and click their way down through the folder structure until they eventually find the file they want to see the contents of.
On a related note, I believe that most of my coworkers don’t know how to take a relative path in a repo, and tell their text editors to open it.
GitHub recently announced GitHub achievements. It’s a great idea, but I’m really left scratching my head by what the achievements are.
The “Pull Shark” is open pull requests that have been merged. I’ve got a “4x” version. 4x makes NO sense to me given the number of repos I’ve contributed to, but… ok. Maybe it just maxes out at 4x.
That’s it, though, except for “Arctic Code Vault Contributor” which … is more chance than anything else.
