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.
( A guide for English speakers as of May, 2022)
I’m going to assume that this isn’t terrible if you speak a language which doesn’t look anything like English. I’m going to assume that your domain name registrar’s don’t have their heads up their butts.
Over here in the English speaking world they’re too anglocentric to notice anything that goes on in languages that have non-ascii characters. Since you’re reading this, you probably use a lot of software that was written by American companies.
The goal of this post is to give you the information you’ll need to start using Mastodon before Twitter becomes even more of a dumpster fire than it currently is. It assumes that you’re familiar with Twitter and that you’d like to see if you can continue your twitter-like postings over on Mastodon.
I’m going to cover the following topics:
what the deal is with all the different servers / instances instances as communities moderation choosing an instance how you use Mastodon what’s different Before that, I’d like to recommend you watch this 6 minute intro to Mastodon.
org-roam supports multiple directories and it should work fine if you start that way, but if you’ve already got an org-roam project that you need to split up, it’s a pain in the butt.
Here’s how I managed to divide my org-roam project into multiple directories after much trial and error and googling.
A note before continuing: If you’re googling around for this you’re going to find a bunch of old commands from when people were upgrading from v1 to v2.
You’ve been lied to about the Newline Character The humble newline character: \n.
You’ve seen it in countless code examples. Usually something like
foo\n bar\n \n You look at that and probably think, it represents the end of a line. Or maybe you think it represents the start of a line. If you believe either of those things, I’m sorry to inform you that you’re wrong.
Fortunately, by the end of this post you’ll have a much better mental model of \n.
Once upon a time a group of friends gathered at a restaurant. We passed the time trying to devise the worst phonetic alphabet. One that, when heard, would do the best possible job of not successfully conveying the letters you were trying to communicate. This is what we came up with.
A aye
B bdellium (the b is silent)
C cent
D djin
E eye
F fore
G gnu
H heir
That sounds pretty obvious. It is pretty obvious. Anyone with any familiarity with older humans knows that they generally have trouble reading small text, or making out fine details. Every drug store has a rack of magnifying glasses. Everyone’s seen an older person doing the thing where they lift up their bifocals and start moving a thing closer and farther with their arm trying to find a spot where it both large enough to be readable but far away enough to be in focus.
