Dave's Microblog
Mon, 02 Sep 2024 19:45:46 -0500
I love retailers that sell a variety of werid stuff. Add leevalley.com to sciplus.com and countycomm.com.
Wed, 07 Aug 2024 17:52:12 -0500
My guy, Robert Reich, summing up modern global trade. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yt9rKP85CJk
Tue, 09 Jul 2024 12:50:43 -0500
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)
Sat, 06 Jul 2024 13:05:58 -0500
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)
Sat, 29 Jun 2024 13:43:18 -0500
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).
Thu, 20 Jun 2024 14:24:49 -0500
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
Tue, 11 Jun 2024 21:29:49 -0500
If bandanas are part of your wardrobe, I can recommend banditsbandanas.com, senderopc.com, and misterbandana.com
Sun, 09 Jun 2024 12:17:41 -0500
This was a super fun text adventure. https://pacian.itch.io/superluminal-vagrant-twin
Fri, 07 Jun 2024 14:43:35 -0500
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.
Sat, 25 May 2024 19:18:35 -0500
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
Tue, 07 May 2024 23:26:29 -0500
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
Fri, 03 May 2024 17:53:53 -0500
This is a fun read: https://ploum.net/the-computer-built-to-last-50-years/
Thu, 02 May 2024 17:41:10 -0500
@<hecanjog https://hecanjog.com/twtxt.txt> I was a programmer for almost 20 years before I figured that out. Never too late.
Thu, 02 May 2024 16:39:56 -0500
@<bender https://twtxt.net/user/bender/twtxt.txt> Seems to be working! I'm using mdom's txtnish and I'm figuring out replies.
Thu, 02 May 2024 15:08:24 -0500
@<bender https://twtxt.net/user/bender/twtxt.txt> Howdy.
Sun, 25 Oct 2020 10:13:24 -0500
Excellent write-up about markdown. https://capiche.com/e/markdown-history
Sun, 15 Mar 2020 20:04:20 -0500
I heard about this eons ago. I've been telling people about it, but never found any official info. https://internetoracle.org/
Sun, 08 Mar 2020 12:03:55 -0500
YAGNI: https://www.martinfowler.com/bliki/Yagni.html
Tue, 18 Feb 2020 10:31:20 -0600
Another example of domestic computing: https://www.robinsloan.com/notes/home-cooked-app/
Tue, 12 Nov 2019 17:52:34 -0600
New album from Phaserland! I discovered Duett along the way.
Sat, 09 Nov 2019 21:44:44 -0600
Now and then I become fascinated by M4, try using it, and then give up.
Sat, 26 Oct 2019 17:16:27 -0500
Awk and roll: https://gitlab.com/snippets/1907701
Sun, 29 Sep 2019 07:55:08 -0500
Added an h-card to my site. https://indieweb.org/h-card
Sat, 28 Sep 2019 19:40:12 -0500
I peeled butternut squash and now my hands are covered in squash film.
Sat, 24 Aug 2019 16:20:38 -0500
I've been reading Minimal Perl by Maher. Fun read.:
Wed, 26 Jun 2019 18:27:47 -0500
Just renewed my FSF membership.
Wed, 12 Jun 2019 17:00:40 -0500
Made a donation to https://joinmobilizon.org
Fri, 10 May 2019 04:15:33 -0500
Late-night music archaeology. Listening to Kate Bush, hearing Tori Amos and Allie X.
Tue, 26 Mar 2019 13:07:33 -0500
But also check out http://criticmarkup.com
Tue, 26 Mar 2019 13:05:46 -0500
And if you like that, you should also look at https://draftin.com
Tue, 26 Mar 2019 13:04:07 -0500
This kinda gets back to Ted Nelson's idea of copy and paste: https://speare.com
Sun, 10 Feb 2019 10:59:37 -0600
@<metamurks https://www.metamurks.org/twtxt.txt> if you like Amazon for used books, try Alibris.
Sun, 27 Jan 2019 04:37:14 -0600
Etegami https://beyond-calligraphy.com/2017/01/10/introduction-art-etegami/
Sat, 19 Jan 2019 09:28:49 -0600
Special counsel calls 'dibs': https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jan/18/michael-cohen-robert-mueller-responds-lying-congress-buzzfeed-report
Wed, 26 Dec 2018 01:23:04 -0600
I came across the idea of a Book of Shadows and, with benefit of ignorance, compared it to the idea of a personal wiki.
Sat, 01 Dec 2018 06:45:08 -0600
History of Unix man pages. http://manpages.bsd.lv/history.html
Fri, 30 Nov 2018 02:49:18 -0600
This is such good advice: https://hbr.org/2015/11/two-things-to-do-after-every-meeting
Tue, 27 Nov 2018 10:04:29 -0600
Asking a computer scientist to build your website is like asking a geologist to pave your driveway.
Thu, 25 Oct 2018 12:58:53 -0500
My favorite flavor is Original.
Tue, 16 Oct 2018 20:39:46 -0500
ttyplot https://virtuallyfun.com/wordpress/2018/10/14/ttyplot-a-real-time-plotting-utility-for-the-terminal/
Thu, 27 Sep 2018 14:33:38 -0500
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.
Tue, 04 Sep 2018 06:47:23 -0500
"...the truth is silent." -Pope Francis. I've never heard a more disturbing turn of phrase, given the source.
Tue, 04 Sep 2018 06:29:17 -0500
Watching rsync output makes me nervous.
Sun, 26 Aug 2018 16:06:43 -0500
Savage. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DlXx11MX0AATr0q.jpg
Wed, 11 Jul 2018 15:38:09 -0500
@<freemor https://freemor.homelinux.net/~freemor/twtxt.txt> re brow.sh: But, muh javascripps!
Fri, 06 Jul 2018 20:06:25 -0500
Another excellent read on Lisp. http://www.defmacro.org/ramblings/lisp.html
Wed, 04 Jul 2018 11:51:08 -0500
I've been learning about Lisp. This was a good read. http://www.paulgraham.com/icad.html
Wed, 20 Jun 2018 18:40:21 -0500
@<freemor https://freemor.homelinux.net/~freemor/twtxt.txt> Thanks! I'm not exactly taking aim at abook, but the name isn't a coincidence, either.
Mon, 18 Jun 2018 17:32:47 -0500
Contact management with bash and recutils. https://gitlab.com/davebucklin/bbook
Sat, 26 May 2018 18:47:47 -0500
I'm loving the new CHVRCHES album.
Sat, 19 May 2018 11:56:15 -0500
@<skingrapher https://skingrapher.com/t/tw.txt> how is the speed on that? I recently tried a Grafitti kb and, while ergonomic, it was slow.
Thu, 26 Apr 2018 14:36:15 -0500
Classic http://tmrc.mit.edu/dictionary.html
Wed, 25 Apr 2018 14:55:49 -0500
Yes, please. https://begriffs.com/posts/2016-07-08-returning-original-social-network.html
Sat, 14 Apr 2018 23:12:07 -0500
Using termux on a 5-inch screen with a graffitti keyboard is a trip. A slow one.
Thu, 29 Mar 2018 17:06:26 -0500
@<mdosch https://mdosch.de/twtxt.txt> Thank you very cool
Thu, 08 Mar 2018 20:20:49 -0600
@<kas https://enotty.dk/twtxt.txt> Proseline reminds me of draftin.com
Wed, 31 Jan 2018 22:01:05 -0600
@<freemor http://freemor.homelinux.net:16019/~freemor/twtxt.txt> 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<something>.txt
Tue, 16 Jan 2018 18:49:28 -0600
@<kas https://enotty.dk/twtxt.txt> @<quite https://lublin.se/twtxt.txt> I have the same. I make steel cut oats in 5 minutes (+up/down). It's amazing. Chicken stock in about an hour.
Sat, 13 Jan 2018 18:25:34 -0600
Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson.
Mon, 11 Dec 2017 07:44:17 -0600
I've been learning C from the second edition C Programming Language book by Kernighan and Ritchie. Good times.
Sat, 14 Oct 2017 10:40:06 -0500
@<tx https://0x1a4.1337.cx/twtxt.txt> I've heard that cats like novelty when it comes to drinking water.
Thu, 12 Oct 2017 18:38:52 -0500
@<tfurrows http://grex.org/~tfurrows/twtxt.txt> pretty sweet!
Sat, 07 Oct 2017 11:17:47 -0500
I'm not leaving twtxt, but I'll also point out my Mastodon URL: https://mastodon.sdf.org/@dbucklin
Tue, 03 Oct 2017 23:29:51 -0500
Obsessed with this track right now https://junodreams.bandcamp.com/track/be-with-me
Sun, 01 Oct 2017 18:59:26 -0500
@<freemor http://freemor.homelinux.net:16019/~freemor/twtxt.txt> that takes me back to the RC5-64 project, though my participation in that was intentional.
Sun, 01 Oct 2017 18:52:21 -0500
Nice article on cognitive bias in business analysis https://www.batimes.com/articles/stuck-in-the-middle.html
Fri, 22 Sep 2017 19:21:11 -0500
@<benaiah https://benaiah.me/twtxt.txt> I spy i3-gaps!
Fri, 22 Sep 2017 19:18:14 -0500
@<tdemin https://tdemin.github.io/blog.txt> @<benaiah https://benaiah.me/twtxt.txt> I second Jekyll.
Tue, 19 Sep 2017 19:08:31 -0500
A short-and-sweet article on principles of successful teams: https://blog.brunomiranda.com/principles-of-successful-software-engineering-teams-41a65bfd56b3
Sun, 17 Sep 2017 19:37:52 -0500
@beniah I like the content and people on here. Isn't twtxt a distributed pub/sub model? Have these problems already been solved?
Sat, 16 Sep 2017 11:32:34 -0500
@<freemor http://freemor.homelinux.net:16019/~freemor/twtxt.txt> Why you gotta say it like that? ;) https://macross82-99.bandcamp.com/
Thu, 14 Sep 2017 18:24:00 -0500
@<freemor http://freemor.homelinux.net:16019/~freemor/twtxt.txt> That explains the origin of the names of SDF.org and a certain vaporwave artist.
Thu, 14 Sep 2017 17:16:48 -0500
I put up my collection of IC documents at davebucklin.com/ic/. Maybe I should add a transfer cap to my AWS account.
Tue, 12 Sep 2017 14:54:55 -0500
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.
Fri, 08 Sep 2017 06:54:05 -0500
Amazing collection of computer science and information technology papers: http://ceur-ws.org
Wed, 06 Sep 2017 19:34:59 -0500
Does experimenting with LaTeX lead to hardcore PostScript use, or is it the other way around?
Sun, 03 Sep 2017 20:55:10 -0500
It seems that adding Pusheen stickers to a Chromebook will cause it to stop booting. *The more you know...*
Tue, 29 Aug 2017 14:26:00 -0500
Successfully used xargs today... to prune my twtxt follow list :(
Thu, 15 Jun 2017 14:10:48 -0500
@<freemor http://freemor.homelinux.net:16019/~freemor/twtxt.txt> It's summer in the Northern hemisphere. Everyone is playing outside.
Thu, 08 Jun 2017 16:53:38 -0500
Learning a lot about QMK firmware today.
Fri, 02 Jun 2017 20:26:01 -0500
Congrats, @<mdom https://domgoergen.com/twtxt/mdom.txt>! Sounds like you will be pretty busy for the next couple decades. :D
Fri, 02 Jun 2017 09:26:06 -0500
Relevant to my circumstances: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCO8eoDWqHQ
Tue, 30 May 2017 12:10:47 -0500
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/
Thu, 25 May 2017 10:37:57 -0500
Doing all of this on MacOS adds an extra layer of challenge.
Thu, 25 May 2017 10:36:33 -0500
Been keeping myself busy installing and configuring vim-airline and geeknote.
Thu, 18 May 2017 07:58:42 -0500
Sad to hear that Chris Cornell has passed. The uniqe timbre of his voice was a defining part of the 90s for me.
Wed, 17 May 2017 17:03:52 -0500
About 25% of women and 19% of men report being 'filled with rage' by the sound of others eating.
Thu, 04 May 2017 10:44:18 -0500
Some pretty cool stuff going on here: https://standardsmanual.com
Tue, 02 May 2017 13:34:47 -0500
Cooking shows really warp your expectations around the time and effort needed to make something happen.
Sun, 30 Apr 2017 14:55:35 -0500
Loving this font I discovered via r/unixporn: https://github.com/be5invis/iosevka
Wed, 26 Apr 2017 10:48:35 -0500
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/
Mon, 24 Apr 2017 10:34:02 -0500
If you want to experience an almost empty social network, you can check out https://mastodon.sdf.org.
Sun, 23 Apr 2017 20:24:00 -0500
@<reednj http://twtxt.reednj.com/user/8c2b4bbfa328944ba.txt> @<mdom https://domgoergen.com/twtxt/mdom.txt> @<durcheinandr https://durcheinandr.de/twtxt.txt> gopher doesn't have zombo.com
Sun, 23 Apr 2017 17:10:18 -0500
I mean, why not, right? https://www.billsgs.com/limo-services
Wed, 19 Apr 2017 09:25:21 -0500
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.
Tue, 18 Apr 2017 21:23:14 -0500
@<mdom https://domgoergen.com/twtxt/mdom.txt> Haha. I'm honored.
Tue, 18 Apr 2017 21:22:53 -0500
@<kas https://enotty.dk/twtxt.txt> re:formulapot That is really cool. I'll have to try some of those.
Tue, 18 Apr 2017 08:58:10 -0500
Kano Analysis. This is pretty great. https://medium.muz.li/the-kano-analysis-c16e7d681158
Tue, 18 Apr 2017 08:38:02 -0500
Totally copying @<mdom https://domgoergen.com/twtxt/mdom.txt>'s twtxt banner.
Sun, 16 Apr 2017 17:20:59 -0500
@<mdom https://domgoergen.com/twtxt/mdom.txt> Buku came up in my research, but I'll take a closer look on your reccommendation.
Sat, 15 Apr 2017 20:42:22 -0500
Looking for a CLI bookmark manager, I found this: https://zachholman.com/boom/
Wed, 05 Apr 2017 00:04:32 -0500
Is it just me or do plist files used by launchctl look like they are not really XML?
Mon, 03 Apr 2017 11:58:41 -0500
@<webi http://twtxt.opstack.info/twtxt.txt> I'm glad you are enjoying it.
Mon, 03 Apr 2017 07:48:18 -0500
I wrote a perl script over the weeked that parses my todo.txt end emails the tasks that are due this week.
Mon, 03 Apr 2017 07:44:15 -0500
Follow @<dave http://davebucklin.com/twtxt.txt> if you want 10,000 twtxt followers!
Sat, 01 Apr 2017 16:34:02 -0500
Successfully configured postfix on MacOS El Capitan. AMA
Sat, 01 Apr 2017 15:26:24 -0500
@<tux0r https://rosaelefanten.org/twtxt.txt> I hear Turbo Pascal is making a comeback.
Fri, 31 Mar 2017 08:00:55 -0500
Content Strategy: https://www.xkcd.com/773/
Tue, 28 Mar 2017 16:20:47 -0500
So AWS is basically giving away the thing that GitHub sells with CodeCommit.
Mon, 27 Mar 2017 15:58:04 -0500
@<kas https://enotty.dk/twtxt.txt> I'm going to make that part of my prompt.
Mon, 27 Mar 2017 15:49:55 -0500
@<tx https://0x1A4.1337.cx/twtxt.txt> thats gotta be a head trip.
Mon, 27 Mar 2017 15:41:56 -0500
@<mdom https://domgoergen.com/twtxt/mdom.txt> its just here in my apartment for the time being. Im going to bring it to a hackathon next month.
Sun, 26 Mar 2017 18:44:41 -0500
Setting up Piratebox on the RP3 was super easy. Now to leave it running and see what happens.
Sat, 25 Mar 2017 18:31:10 -0500
In other news, I got miniircd running on the pi: https://github.com/jrosdahl/miniircd
Sat, 25 Mar 2017 18:28:28 -0500
Backing up dotfiles with stow and git. http://davebucklin.com/play/2017/03/24/backing-up-dotfiles-with-stow-and-git.html
Fri, 24 Mar 2017 16:37:21 -0500
Finished organizing my dotfiles with stow and git. Feels good.
Wed, 22 Mar 2017 15:18:38 -0500
I think Im going to give up on RaspBSD for now and just get this thing working with Debian.
Wed, 22 Mar 2017 13:31:46 -0500
I just installed vimium for chrome. Tons of fun.
Tue, 21 Mar 2017 10:04:43 -0500
Me explaining my business strategy coursework to my friends. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jw36ivnRHRQ
Mon, 20 Mar 2017 11:17:04 -0500
Ah, but if less is more, just think how much more more could be.
Sat, 18 Mar 2017 21:07:15 -0500
@<kas https://enotty.dk/twtxt.txt> Yeah, I loved my Nokias.
Sat, 18 Mar 2017 13:40:08 -0500
@<freemor http://freemor.homelinux.net:16019/~freemor/twtxt.txt> Imma let you finish but the Motorola RAZR was the best feature phone of all time!
Sat, 18 Mar 2017 12:36:06 -0500
@<freemor http://freemor.homelinux.net:16019/~freemor/twtxt.txt> you heard about the Nokia 3310 reissue, right? I feel so much 90s nostalgia, like, all the time.
Fri, 17 Mar 2017 16:17:09 -0500
Resist the Internet. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/11/opinion/sunday/resist-the-internet.html?_r=0
Tue, 14 Mar 2017 15:10:29 -0500
I just orderd a Pi 3 from Adafruit. Im going to run a tiny, headless FreeBSD box.
Mon, 13 Mar 2017 13:57:41 -0500
@<kas https://enotty.dk/twtxt.txt> I love that quote.
Mon, 13 Mar 2017 12:27:27 -0500
@<kas https://enotty.dk/twtxt.txt> I liked the idea that the reader's client should enforce the length limit.
Mon, 13 Mar 2017 07:41:46 -0500
@<mdom https://domgoergen.com/twtxt/mdom.txt> I think we need to focus on giving users better alternatives. I feel that frustration, though.
Mon, 13 Mar 2017 07:23:05 -0500
@<mdom https://domgoergen.com/twtxt/mdom.txt> Reminds me of the Stallman/Raymond debates in the 90s.
Sat, 11 Mar 2017 13:33:20 -0600
I love this channel. Restrained tech-house. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNZETNQDnrKu6hvggNHzZcA
Wed, 08 Mar 2017 15:43:39 -0600
Installing GNU awk seems to have (mostly) fixed my problems.
Wed, 08 Mar 2017 09:43:43 -0600
@<mdom https://domgoergen.com/twtxt/mdom.txt> Also, yes, I get " f o o "
Wed, 08 Mar 2017 09:17:20 -0600
@<mdom https://domgoergen.com/twtxt/mdom.txt> and Im on OSX 10.11.5, for the record. Thank you.
Wed, 08 Mar 2017 09:13:18 -0600
@<mdom https://domgoergen.com/twtxt/mdom.txt> Though now neither twtxt nor txtnish are displaying timelines or individual feeds. Investigating.
Wed, 08 Mar 2017 09:11:05 -0600
@<mdom https://domgoergen.com/twtxt/mdom.txt> That fixed it.
Sun, 05 Mar 2017 18:15:35 -0600
testing my post-tweet hook
Sun, 05 Mar 2017 17:44:24 -0600
something about invalid option d for xargs and invalid option v for awk
Sun, 05 Mar 2017 17:29:44 -0600
txtnish does not work so well on OSX.
Sun, 05 Mar 2017 16:49:28 -0600
test!
