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ME:: tl-dr-ing; Office time is for socialization, conversation and collaboration but it's not productive solo time and that's fine; office 1 day a week (or more) for those more who have the LUXURY of a nearby office plus remote the rest is probably best and for those who don't have an office nearby how about. a 1 week onboarding with 1 more more colleagues at a nearby office or coworking space within a year of joining?; Harold Jarche:: sleepy subversion

ME:: of course Art can just be words :-) Dan Sinker:: Foundational Texts: Jenny Holzer's Truisms

ME:: In Vancouver (and probably all of BC), 33% whipped containers go in the mixed containers bin and are therefore not eligible to get the 10 cent deposit back ; Return-It:: Milk Container Recycling in British Columbia Frequently Asked Question

Matt Brooks-Green and others:: How to learn to write a language with ChatGPT. Write some text, scan it and then use this prompt: Transcribe what I've written here, provide feedback on my mistakes and tell me what level I am at.

ME:: go coffeegeek go! ; Mark Prince, Natia Simmons, Allison Gainey, Zuzanna Kaminski:: Silence is No Longer an Option: Why Coffee Geeks Must Reject Fascism - CoffeeGeek

Probably Wrong Prediction:: If DJI and Insta360 are successful with their soon to be released 'real cameras' then Sony will definitely exit the camera business by 2030

Volume up button. Volume down button. Press and hold the side button. When the Apple logo appears, release the side button. Had to reboot my phone using Apple's instructions to get the touchscreen working on Saturday

ME:: tl;dr-ing $30 USD metal lever for Hario Switch ; Flip Switch (Metal Lever Upgrade for Hario Switch) – Foundry Coffeeworks

Combating DHS Lies <-- There I fixed it for you Minnesota :-) ; Combating DHS Misinformation / Department of Corrections

Touchscreen buttons on iOS apps eg, Apeman rear video mirror app, don't work on my iPhone16 Pro Max in constant rain

ME: LOL 100% agree with Jessica! ; Jessica Hullman:: Machine learning research is not serious research and therefore hallucinated references are not necessarily a big deal, agrees a prestigious group of machine learning researchers ¦ Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science

OPM:: Paki Sabi, White Toyota, all such great songs by Sunkissed Lola ; SunKissed Lola - Wikipedia

Original Pinoy Music aka OPM:: Raining in Manila by Lola Amour #HighlyRecommended

ME:: How to export a range of a Google Sheet to a CSV file ; Bob Rudis aka hrbrmstr 🇺🇦 🇬🇱 🇨🇦: 'I know you can do this via API…' - Mastodon

ME:: I don't think we live in The Singuarity but I can see how this is useful. See also: The Data Flywheel pattern and Claude Code, not code ; Will Schenk:: How I Use AI in Jan 2026

ME:: I am part of the kagi small web which means that my blog has an Activity Pub feed as well as an RSS feed; September 2023:: Kagi Small Web ¦ Kagi Blog

ME:: The software industry will be regulated completely not just the generative AI industry starting 2026 in the EU and that won't stop innovation. Prepare yourself :-) ; Denis Stetsov:: France vs Grok: AI Creators Face Criminal Charges

ME:: Canadians: the USA will attack our cyber infrastructure if they haven't already as long as the convicted criminal and people like him are in charge; Denis Stetskov via mhoye:: The First Full-Scale Cyber War: 4 Years of Lessons

ME:: tl;dr-ing find a good CLAUDE.md for your type of program and then create a personal ~/.claude/CLAUDE.md for your own coding style Nolan Lawson:: How I use AI agents to write code ¦ Read the Tea Leaves

ME:: tl;dr-ing: 'adversarial poetry functions as a universal single-turn jailbreak technique for large language models (LLMs).' ; Mike Hoye:: The Place Where The Firewall Ends ¦ blarg

ME:: MyTerms aka IEE P7012 coming in January 2026; the web on my terms and your terms and eveybody else's terms not the big companies' terms ; Doc Searls:: Securing the right to be let alone

ME:: Windows oh brother :-) right click > hit any cursor key > move window into your display with the mouse ; Froggypwns:: reddit:: Move How to move a window that is offscreen : r/Windows10

ME:: tl;dr-ing; Manifesto for the people's internet: decentralized, encrypted, slow :-) I empathize with this dream :-) ; markqvist:: MarkReticulum/Zen of Reticulum.md at master · markqvist/Reticulum

ME:: How Julia Evans makes her mostly static websites; Julia Evans:: websites.md · GitHub gist

ME:: fun with unicode :-) ; Nickname Generator 🔥 Online Stylish Nickname Maker 🔥 (◕‿◕) SYMBL

ME:: white, the 'right' asians etc nothing has changed in the tech 'mirrortocracy' since 2014 ; Carlos Bueno:: 2014::Inside the Mirrortocracy

ME:: LOL'Snarfus stagnator ' and 'Klingon troglodyte emulater' so true about developer docs even to other developers ; Annie Mueller:: How I, a non-developer, read the tutorial you, a developer, wrote for me, a beginner - annie's blog

ME:: over the top but i'd buy one if it wasn't plastic. Not a micro-plastic paranoid person but it can't hurt to minimize it! all metal/glass/ceramic is affordable and just as good might as well go for the non plastic! ; MHW-3BOMBER Rain Pour-Over Coffee Splitter

ME:: if these two articles convince 1% of the skeptics it would be a miracle :-) ; GO SCIENCE GO! ; Jake Scott:: CIDRAP Op-Ed: Vaccine myths that won't die and how to counter them—part 1 ¦ CIDRAP

ME:: John Reitano's lightning talk video explains it better not sure if it's internal only ; Mozilla staffer:: johnreitano/spekka: dead simple spec-driven development

ME:: Isn't a web server part of macOS already?!?!? ; BejBej apps:: Personal Web Server

Agree, do not upgrade to macOS 26 ; Daring Fireball: Why It’s Difficult to Resize Windows on MacOS 26 Dyehoe

ME:: tl;dr AI: AGI is more like twitter than jet engines in that it is fed by people and not predictable and not apparent from inside the software industry how others use it. But how general is it? And I agree, where do we go from here? Still skeptical but super thought provoking piece ; Robin Sloan:: AGI is here (and I feel fine)

Things that Work: Hario Tetsuya Kasuya Double Stainless All Metal Pourover Dripper with Aramse Sofi Top and holder. Best pourover coffee ever :-) !

ME:: A 'Marginal Tipping Map' is needed to tell us to do the difficult but obvious :-) ie: 100% renewable energy, 100% non fossil burning transportation and industry, etc :-) ; Unpolitics: From Knowing to Doing

ME:: LLMs reduce typing and the cost of using types so of course typed languages like TypeScript will be come more popular or something :-) ; Cassidy Williams:: Why AI is pushing developers toward typed languages - The GitHub Blog

Recipes that work:: I used smoked sardines and this was delish :-) ; Tori Avey's Mediterranean Sardine Pasta: Zesty Lemon, Capers & Chili

ME:: web app search engine for 159, 801 Unicode characters as of September 9, 2025; Unicode Character Table - Full List of Unicode Symbols (◕‿◕) SYMBL

ME:: i still want to make collages from Thunderbird support questions using Unicode icons and symbols, this along with wikipedia's list will help me figure out what's possible ; Huge List of Unicode Character Symbols

ME:: how to figure out unicode for fun icons and symbols in ruby, see also unibits gem and CLI tool and other related gems ; Jan Lelis, Yauheni Dakuka:: Idiosyncratic Ruby: Ruby has Character

Powerful lnav shortcuts when viewing logs: Control w for wordwrap, / to search, g for line 1, G for end of file, = to pause

It's 2026: Self Driving cars are still not proven safe and we don't need them to reduce cyclist or pedestrian deaths ; David Zipper:: Are Autonomous Vehicles Safer Than Human Drivers? We Don't Know Yet - Bloomberg

SQLite data schema for tab notes (in the profile as tabnotes.sqlite) in Firefox nightly so i can search all the tabs and their notes ; TabNotesStorage.init (TabNotes.sys.mjs - mozsearch)

ME:: Avoid solutions, start with How Might We....? ; Maria Rosala:: 2021:: Using “How Might We” Questions to Ideate on the Right Problems - NN/G

ME:: I want my own personal atmospheric cloud running my own software including 'AI'. It doesn't have to be on my own hardware, could be in a trusted cloud provider(s) ; Paul Frazee:: Atmospheric Computing ¦ Paul's Dev Notes

ME:: I doubt I'll ever go to mainland China but if I do I'd find a hotel in an 'old town' ; Steph+Chris:: Chinese Cooking Demystified:: What's a Chinese City actually like?

ME:: tl;dr-ing: Accept, Time isn't holding up, forget mastery, more developing, droid, new normal to be confused, adventure not ordeal; Joey deVilla::Don’t feel bad; even the inventor of the term “vibe coding” is overwhelmed by all the AI-driven changes

ME::community energy sharing now yes please ; Tamara Kaňuchová:: 🗞️ Sharing is caring

ME:: tl-dr-ing: 'git diff --color-words' is a better way to diff for most situations (red deleted, green added) ; Holloway:: How can I get a side-by-side diff when I do 'git diff'? - Stack Overflow

grep command to get bash script to re-run SUMO AAQ API calls that fail using '-A 2' to get 2 lines after

ME:: tl;dr-ing: Render HTML gist files on github as web pages ; Simon Willison:: Introducing gisthost.github.io

ME:: tl;dr-ing: Groundhog Day , bliss station, noun, gifts, extraordinary, slay, change, tidy, demons, plant ; A book by Austin Kleon:: Keep Going

ME:: gotta try this for beyond CLI interfaces aka TUIs (text user interfaces) in the terminal with ruby! ; Kerrick Long:: ratatui_ruby: 💎 Unofficial Ruby wrapper for Ratatui 👨‍🍳🐀.

ME:: tl;dr-ing: How to make a static website on Codeberg using R and Quarto ; Ken Butler:: Quarto websites and Codeberg pages (part 1)

ME:: Broken Achievement Society Social Scene :-) ; Doug Belshaw:: What promised to liberate us instead helps to control us

ME:: 2023 How to: read/write github gists using the gist API; Github Gist Is Here To Save The Day...Literally! - Resources / Community Tutorials - Developer Forum ¦ Roblox

ME:: tl-dr-ing Coping with the flood of misinformation and the fact that we know less than we think we do (e.g. how do toilets work really?): rigourously maintained factual chronological timelines, critical ignoring, cognitive elaboration ; Erin Kissane:: Landslide; a ghost story

So much for my memory :-). Opening day for me in the 2025/26 season was Dec 21, 2025 about 3 weeks after opening day for the 2024/2025 season ; November 24, 2024: Tag Eins des 2024-25 Langlaufsaisons bei Cypress :-) #FreeTheHeelFreeTheMind #XcSkiing ¦ Nordic Ski ¦ Strava

ME:: the bible is not anti-poor, anti-abortion, anti gay rights and anti-immigrant. Read it completely 'Christians'! ; Nicholas Kristof:: What Would Surprise Jesus About Christmas 2025? - The New York Times

ME:: Podcasts should be 15 minutes or less, prove me wrong :-). Substack is funded by terrible people and supports terrible people on its platform (as well as great people who don't realize that they are helping those terrible people) part 88888 ; Joan Westenberg:: Comfort Food for the Thinking Class: The Great Intellectual Stagnation

ME:: to import a LUT into No Fusion, tap on the multi-photo rectangular icon to import 1 or more LUTs OR Add New Preset > Tick Blank > Import ; LUT Import ¦ No Fusion Camera

ME:: tl;dr-ing: pick from or edit LLM generated regexes or add your own and see relevant examples in VSCode, seems like a practical and safe use of LLMs; Siddhartha Prasad:: LLMs ⭢ Regular Expressions, Responsibly!

ME:: automation makes the bits left over humans more challenging; See also Lisanne Bainbridge's paper: Ironies of Automation from 1983; Tae Selene Sandoval Murgan:: thoughts/on-using-language-models-for-programming.md

ME:: sparklines everythwere :-) Just kidding, only where they make sense ; Andros Fenollosa:: tanrax/quick-weather.el: Sparkline weather forecasts in Emacs

ME:: I didn't grow up with Mechado but I did grow up with Kaldereta and this dish has some overlapping ingredients Billy Parisi:: Mechado:: Cooking (probably) The Most Flavorful Beef Dish in the World - YouTube

ME:: Maple Syrup Curtain example 888888: Rossman doesn't ship to Canada but they ship to Malaysia and India and Laos :-)?!?!?! ; Rossman GPS Mount — gramm tourpacking ¦ bikepacking bags

ME:: tl;dring: ChatBots, Completion coding products like Copiliot, Agentic products like Claude Code. LLM-generated feeds & video games from AI content may work soon ; Sean Goedecke:: Only three kinds of AI products actually work

ME:: so true! 'Connoisseur-ship is, basically, a very elaborate and expensive form of peacocking.' <-- Joan Westenberg:: Don't Become a Connoisseur.

Like the car industry, the bicycle industry doesn't care about safety. If they did they'd lobby for separated bicycle lanes and have turn signals, brake lights, etc as standard equipment on commuter bicycles

ME:: I wonder how many tokens this will burn :-) Again nobody talks about the $$$$$ i.e. the costs; Anand Chowdhary:: continuous-claude CLI tool: Running Claude Code in a loop

ME:: sample Claude.md to decompile a N64 game from assembler to C language source code LOLz that this works but i guess it does :-) ; Chris Lewis:: snowboardkids2-decomp/CLAUDE.md at 852f47a4905a08d5d652387597bc5b47d29582f2

Recommended: Field House de-alcoholized Salted Black Porter

ME:: Recipes that probably work :-) ; Lauren Keating:: Sheet Pan Chicken Thighs With Root Vegetables ¦ Healthy Delicious

The Hepatitis vaccination like all scientifically tested vaccinations saves lives.

Super hilarious when Canadian bloggers, vloggers, etc recommend products that don't ship to Canada #RealFreeTradeWithEntireWorldNotJustSuperLoopholeFilledUSMCAWithTheUSAAndMexico

ME:: All the benefits sound plausible but I still think self driving cars won't work in 2034 and we'd be better improving 'low tech' non self driving trains and buses ; The Economist:: Self-driving cars will transform urban economies

ME:: go 'Te Hiku, Apertus and other smaller models for preserving small languages' go :-) ! ; Ethan Zuckerman:: Gramsci's Nightmare: AI, Platform Power and the Automation of Cultural Hegemony

ME:: tl-dr-ing: substage is a macOS app that makes pandoc, ffmpeg, imagemagick, sips, etc usable for normal people via LLMs (using LLMs via OpenRouter and many LLMs) or something :-) Substage: Command line power, natural language ease.

Hey Canadian Facebook people, post news links to your blog and then link to your blog post in FB. Easy peasy stop whingeing :-)

ME:: part 8888 All software not just games will run on any device. Windows, macOS and linux software will run (or be emulated) on all machines is the future of software ; The Verge:: Steam Machine today, Steam Phones tomorrow

Always be coding in 2025 is always be writing specifications for LLMs to code and for you to verify?

ME:: tl;dr-ing: I 100% agree with my friend :-) Alan! Always be Attributing (TASL-Title, Source, Author, Licence(s) all with links if possible) and Always be Linking; Alan Levine:: Tools for Attribution of Open Content – CogDogBlog

ME:: tl-dr-ing: Courtesy of the oppressive Spanish Empire, Filipinos have been in North America since forever :-) Louisana in the mid-18th century is just one example of many! ; Wikipedia:: Saint Malo, Louisiana

Today is World AIDS day. Bring back the funding Canada, USA, etc We are all one. When so many are sick and funding can help reduce that now and in the future it's 100% common sense. Go science go!

ME:: Be seen plus SEE bicycle Light Rail light from Intrinsic Cycles looks good but how do I install this on my Wald basket (the basket blocks lights mounted on the handlebar)? Not a big deal I guess Wald basket bicyclists are not mainstream yet :-) Light Rail Kit – Intrinsic Cycles

ME:: nobody mentions the considerable cost for LLMs and the considerable amount of time you need to experiment to see if an LLM works for you. Time and money require privilege and wealth; Federico Viticci:: The AI App Experience Matters More Than Benchmarks Now - MacStories

ME:: Specifications can be version controlled much easier than prompts and are therefore the future for AI assisted software development; Marc Brooker:: Kiro and the future of AI spec-driven software development

LLMs are just tools that are part of your problem solving system part 8888 :-) ; Marc Brooker:: LLMs as Parts of Systems

ME:: tl-dr-ing: 100 characters, medium, subject, hints about the meaning of the artwork ; Mibs:: Mibyle: alt text 101 for artists

ME:: tl;dr-ing: LLMs are good at: writing SQL. get datacleaning 95% right and data enrichment running stuff in a loop against 1000s of records. Amazing it's too bad nobody does data journalism like this in the mainstream media in Canada :-) Lots of people doing non mainstream stuff like this in Canada I would guess ; CL Kao, Dori Wilson:: Data Renegades ¦ Ep. #2, Data Journalism Unleashed with Simon Willison ¦ Heavybit

'Twas a beautiful sunny day to enjoy Fish and Chips at Go Fish at Granville Island with Dale and record over 40 in Vancouver #Lucky #Thanks

ME:: Yes please, corporations should pay their fair share for open source software, 100% agree with Erlend; Erlend Sogge Heggen:: Open Source Power

Filipino food isn't just overly sweet spaghetti, Jolibee, adobo etc. It is also kare kare, kaldereta, sinigang, bistek, pancit, nilaga, and thousands of other dishes you and I haven't heard about :-) 7100 islands full of delicious food!

My Lumos Nyxel Helmet USB-C broke, aargh! Glue issue? Weird because my Lumos Ultra's USB-C port has lasted 5 years!

Filipino bread is actually awesome. Read Panaderia: Philippine Bread, Biscuit and Bakery Traditions by Jenny Orillos and Amy Uy to learn the full breadth and depth of it.

3 cars with their daytime running lights off Sunday November 23, 2025 during my 40 minute bicycle ride

ME:: 100% write one clear thought a day even if you don't share it publicly you'll get better at writing. 1 clear thought = 10 minutes IMNSHO :-) And you do have 10 minutes a day I guarantee it :-) ; Joan Westenberg:: Why You Should Write Every Day (Even if You’re Not a Writer)

Broken CFMU podcast scene :-) due to React perhaps?

ME:: Starcloud hides their 'secret compute in space' or something :-) ; Vaclav Vincalek:: Is this SciFi enough?

ME:: pre magellan Philippines was super interesting; Celestino C. Macachor:: Searching for Kali in the Indigenous Chronicles of Jovito Abellana By: Retracing our Past on Pandan Leaves – Pre-colonial Cebu

The Dominant Hegemony (DH) historically & today choose to NOT acknowledge their privilege & value their convenience (for food delivery, mobility etc) over paying non-DH folks a living wage. Cities aren't going away despite pundits and their dreams :-) of self driving cars (which we don't need and won't work; we already have public transit, trains and buses) and food delivery.

It's 2025: could websites, blog posts and newsletters use links to actually link to the restaurant, website, museum, etc that they're referring to pretty please :-) ?

My Apeman R1 Seeker rear view real-time video camera shows lots people illegally driving with their daytime running lights OFF behind me in the city of Vancouver.

ME:: tl;dr-ing Tariffs are justified for two reasons: 1. to pay for international freight emissions 2. social, fiscal and environmental dumping ; Thomas Piketty:: Rethinking world trade

ME:: Recipes that probably work :-) ; Margaret Bose-Johnson:: Pink Pasta - Fettuccine with Beet, Smoked Salmon, & Feta ¦ Kitchen Frau

Panasonic please add the LUT name to the EXIF in S9 JPEGs (and other cameras that support LUTs of course)

The more lenses you look at the world with the better. For example: food, languages, books, sports, hobbies, volunteering etc.

ME:: use this to access all my computers from anywhere ; Tailscale blog:: The Tailscale node you mail to your parents

ME:: there is no man-boy problem, there is an underpaid and under represented problem for all minorities, not men. Grow up and do your share of the housework and childrearing man-boys :-) !; Jessica Winter:: What Did Men Do to Deserve This? ¦ The New Yorker

without-link-blogthis.rb: new ruby script for blog posts that don't reference a link I call this from linkless_blog_all_open.rb.

Revenge of renewables. Despite the USA and Alberta governments (and our former environmentalist PM), renewable i.e. solar and wind is the right side of history

ME:: free websites for folks who know how to use git for how long? Sounds great, except for having enough $. And grebedoc is codeberg spelled backwards LOL ; Catherine 'whitequark' and teammates:: Grebedoc — static site hosting for git forges

Small 'p' political Songs from the 1980s. Shipbuilding is my favourite? What's yours?

Pluribus anti-zombie zombie 1st 2 episodes blew me away. COVID-19 awareness in a denialist world parallels per Julia Doubleday?

ME:: Recipes that probably :-) work:: Gotta try this with cashews since Simon is allergic to peanuts :-) ; Genevieve Ko:: Dan Dan Noodles Recipe

I disagree with the analogue note taking folks. I don't read my old analogue notes. #Ymmv

ME:: LOL Ryan,respectfully I think you are wrong but what do I know :-) ; Ryan Dahl:: Humans Are Just Stochastic Parrots

Canada has lost its measles immunization status because of anti-science lies.

Polish is overrated in Podcasts :-) It's just audio on the internet. Get over yourself just post it :-) !

ME:: And so it begins go Firefox for Enterprise go :-) ! I was involved in the last Firefox Enterprise effort 2018-2020 and it didn't go anywhere; hopefully it will go further this time! ; Brian Smith:: Introducing early access for Firefox Support for Organizations

ME:: tl;dr-ing: fabric is an open-source framework for augmenting humans using AI by an AI maximalist who seems more reasonable than most of them. Daniel Miessler:: February 2024:: Why I Created Fabric

ME:: clearly we know nothing about minds :-) ; Norman, Johnson, van er Linden:: 2024:: Do Minds Have Immune systems?

ME:: so many free LUTs to try on the S9 and in Pearla and not boring iOS Camera Apps so little time :-) l KROLOP und GERST:: Lumix S5II LUT Package

ME:: tidyplots in R looks easier and better for non software developers and software developers than Hadley's older ggplot2. Perhaps use it for art and SUMO data?!?! ; Jan Broder Engler:: Get started • tidyplots

ME:: Seems to me like fancy bidirectional database open source schema converters?!? That can be used to solve the ATProto Lexicon Interop problem among others. What am I missing?!? From 2020, what's the update in 2025?!? Geoffrey Litt, Peter van Hardenberg, Orion Henry:: Ink and Switch:: October 2020:: Project Cambria: Translate your data with lenses

ME:: Ollama is something worth looking into in my copious free time :-) i also need a 64GB RAM computer if I want to run local models it seems still! ; Ivan Palomares Carrascosa:: March 11, 2025:: The Beginner's Guide to Language Models with Python

ME:: I guess I should try the $20/month stuff?!!? I don't really want to though LOL ; Ethan Mollick:: October 19, 2025:: An Opinionated Guide to Using AI Right Now

ME:: I wonder how much further Paolo has taken this since June?!? Paolo Valdemarin:: June 13, 2025:: Building a WordPress MCP Server for Claude: Automating Blog Posts with AI

ME:: Need to explore Flame Graphs for support data and need to read the The Flame Graph ACM Paper ; Brendan Gregg:: Flame Graphs

ME:::most of us who are softwware developers aren't surgeons. We're like those doctors 'before the scientific method became the way' when coding sadly. Not sure LLMs will make us all surgeons magically; Geoffrey Litt:: Code like a surgeon

ME:: We need more excellent contributor documentation for the SUMO Knowledge Base ; Dawn Foster ::Governance Part 3: New Contributors and Pathways to Leadership ¦ Fast Wonder

ME:: Helix is a terminal only editor with built-in R, Python and Ruby language servers so I have to try it to reduce my dependency on Visual Code's LSP servers ; Language Defaults ¦ Helix

ME:: gotta try this as well as vscode-extension-wikiparser for SUMO KB markup which is very close to wikitext. I previously searched for mediawiki not wikitext. Also need to read Julia and Thib's tutorials; wikitext-lsp - npm

Revisionist 80s history is wrong. Reagan, Mulroney, Thatcher and their free trade deals were NOT and ARE NOT good. Global free trade not just 'free' trade between Canada and Mexico and the USA.

There is no normal until TCC and his anti-science, anti-rule of law cronies are out.

ME:: tl;dr-ing The USA became a democracy when Black folks could vote which was in 1965 when the Voting Rights Act was passed; Amanda Taub:: July 5, 2023:: When Did the U.S. Become a Democracy? - The New York Times

I miss the sinigang at Symphonie Filipino Restaurant :-)

When will flickr's API and embeds die or break? Probably wrong guess: 2030 or earlier :-)

ME:: seems like mounting a tripod on bicycle handlebards with zip ties would be unstable?!? ; woofboy111:: The Hands Free Bicycle Camera Tripod : 6 Steps (with Pictures) - Instructables

ME:: find is often easier to use with shell pattern matching instead of regular expressions ; How to randomly open a jpeg or JPG or JPEG or jpg file ; explainshell.com `-iname` to do filename case insensitive pattern matching and `-o` for boolean OR

ME:: yes....and :-) so much to learn from philosophy ; Wikipedia:: Both/and reasoning

ME:: Broken record: until we get a sterilizing vaccine I don't think wearing a mask indoors is unreasonable especially in respiratory season; i also think we should have windows open (as we learned from the 1918 flu pandemic) and HEPA (and far UV-C if there is a central HVAC unit like a heat pump or furnace if it really works) filtered air everywhere ; Julia Doubleday:: Beyond all reason - The Gauntlet

ME:: called my local pharmacy at 1808 Kingsway and got a walk-in appointment and both my 7th COVID vaccine and my yearly flu vaccine today! ; 2025 COVID-19 immunizations - Province of British Columbia

ME:: looks great need to write a github action to generate SUMO KB and Forum reports ; David Keyes:: 2023:: How to Use GitHub Actions with R to Run Code Automatically

ME:: fastmail doesn't appear in this list?! ; The most popular email providers

ME:: Analogical programming by demonstration as opposed to programming with Fregean text ; Ivan Reese, Jimmy Miller, and Lu Wilson:: Pygmalion by David C. Smith - Feeling of Computing - Omny.fm

ME:: Pointless 'drm' gotta pointless or something :-) ; Pixelmelt:: How I Reversed Amazon's Kindle Web Obfuscation Because Their App Sucked

Jo Freeman:: The Tyranny of Stuctureless; ME:: a classic, please read!

ME tl-dr-ing; Computational poetry based on Telegu is cool ; koundinya:: Prāsa Programming Language:: Documentation - poetic computer

ME:: I need to dig deeper into Postmodern criticism, deconstruction, etc ; Brian Marick:: Deconstructing (cruddily) 'How to Deconstruct Almost Everything' // Oddly Influenced

ME:: make everything yellow :-) ; Nick Driftwood:: Goldilocks False Color LUT for Sony S-Log3 Cameras FREE!

ME:: rossandhisjpegs reviews blue night, reglisse, black frost-n and newtro; Gotta check these out! ; Ross:: Testing LUMIX LUTs, So You Don’t Have To - YouTube

ME:: Another LUT to check out :-) ; Camila Ballell:: Cinematic Retro Film Look - Free LUT for video editing ¦ Uppbeat

ME:: more LUTs to check out on my S9 and Pearla and not boring iPhone camera app some day ; True Log Conversion LUTs Free Download (Inc. Rec.709) - Bounce Color®

ME:: gotta check out NEWTRO, Warm Film, Teal Flat-S and of course Leica Monchrome on my S9 ; Comment by Bass Potoo:: Lumix S5ii lut recommendation : r/Lumix

ME:: classic paper about why groupware and social apps fail ; Jonathan Grudin:: 1988:: WHY CSCW APPLICATIONS FAIL: PROBLEMS IN THE DESIGN AND EVALUATION OF ORGANIZATIONAL INTERFACES

ME:: What is the downside to uv? Doesn't seem to be one :-) It does it all, runs python, manages dependencies etc ; Rob Hudson:: From pyenv to uv: Streamlining Python Management ¦ Rob's Cogitations

ME:: if you can break a problem into a series of sub-problems and write that list of sub-problems you have always been capable of being a software developer. Now more than ever with or without LLMs ; Brandon Dixon:: Febuary 16, 2024:: Can you write? Great, you're a developer.

ME tl;dr-ing:: Use Promptbooks to make your interactions with LLMs more effective. Maybe I should do this for support reporting. Would be nice if Brandon actually linked to his 5 actual prompts ; Brandon Dixon:: Prompt Power: Investigation Summarization

ME tl;dr-ing:: The view from Malaysia:: practical applications of green local LLMs are the future ; Elizabeth Tai:: Conversations about AI are different in Asia

ME:: I need to check out Kelvin's LUTS on my S9 and Pearla/notboring Camera ; ANKR.BIO - Kelvin Kurniawan

ME:: tl;dr-ing:: We need to adapt our local and global institutions to work with the internet ; Robin Berjon:: January 13, 2023:: The Internet Transition

ME tl;dr-ing:: investigative skills, Evaluative skills and innovation skills are all things we need to improve to prosper in an LLM enabled world. LLMs have none of these skills ; Chelsea Troy: What can we expect of LLMs as Software Engineers?

ME:: tl;dr-ing: Show up as we want to show up and learn how to divert that negative energy somehow (in a way we feel good about it) ; John Cutler:: 2023:: TBM 254: Self-Gaslighting and the Doubt Loop

ME:: What does Jim Covello of Goldman Sachs think today in late 2025? Still an AI bubble? Is it bursting? LLM Winter? ; Ed Citron:: July 8, 2024 Pop Culture

ME:: is programming with local LLM inference better or worse a year later? My guess is (based on Simon Willison) that it's a wee bit better ; Chris Wellons:: November 10, 2024:: Everything I've learned so far about running local LLMs ; 'I really tried, but never saw LLM output beyond 2–3 lines of code which I would consider acceptable.'

Ben Werdmuller:: Lifelogging under fascism...Imagine a device that lifelogged and stored quantified self data using strong, key-based encryption <-- ME:: I want this yes please!

ME:: Ben, this sounds great, how can I help support this? Ben Werdmuller:: If I started fresh...a private-by-default, federated platform designed for groups that already know each other or are actively building trust

Ben Werdmuller:: If I ran my life, private schools would be banned <-- ME::Amen!

ME:: LLMs are a useful tool to complement your learning and to help construct your meaning; you can use them to replace your labour and get good grades but that's not going to result in learning which is of course NOT about grades ; Soroush Sabbaghan:: AI can be responsibly integrated into classrooms by answering the ‘why’ and ‘when’

GitHub - yotam/PyFlickr: Download Images using the Flickr API via the flickrapi python package

ME:: looks great but sadly deprecated as of November 2024 since the maintainer/author doesn't use the flickr API any more sad face ; Sybren A. Stüvel:: Python Flickr API ¦ dr. Sybren

ME:: AI stuff to code effectively requires time and $ which many minority folks simply don't have ; Dr Cat Hicks:: New research from me: AI Skill Threat & contest cultures on software teams

Fuji Superia, Velvia, Kodak Ektachrome, Gold, Portra, SkyOptiimizer2, SunShadeSharp Luts from falk.wagenknecht- Google Drive

ME:: Go Blacksky go!!! I doubt that Blacksky will be under the 'thumb of Bluesky's moderation service' forever (if this is true, I don't know enough about ATProto to know for sure who is under the thumb of who) ; Bruno Dias,:: Delusions of a Protocol ¦ Azhdarchid

ME tl-dr-ing; lnav, a TUI tool to to colourize, filter and view multiple log files that works with zero configuration out of the box with standard log files like log files generated by ruby's logger gem ; Tim Stack:: lnav v0.13.1

ME:: tl;dr-ing: Attack the ideas and emotions that make The Convicted Criminal worship appealing ; Dave Rahardja:: It is impossible to reason these people out of their unhinged views, because they have a different epistemological system: they believe in divine revelation through authority figures, not collaborative observation ; Matthew Sheffield:: The Convicted Criminal super fans are impossible to argue with because they don’t actually believe in logic

ME: tl;dr-ing Stock firmware works (Unlike Rui, I have no need for low-level control) and so does OpenWRT. Something to consider in 2027 or something but by then there will be something shinier :-) LOL! ; Rui:: The Cudy AX3000 Wi-Fi 6 System (with OpenWRT) - Tao of Mac

ME:: tl;dr-ing: When we write the code to pass the test, it must be failing; Jason Gorman:: Test Driven Development Under The Microscope #1 – Usage-Driven Design

ME:: Zero to working space invaders code in 1 prompt! From Chinese 'frontier' ai company Z.ai way back :-) 2 months ago to July 29, 2025 ; Simon Willison:: My 2.5 year old laptop can write Space Invaders in JavaScript now, using GLM-4.5 Air and MLX

ME:: oh brother yet another governance error (this time by Ruby Central) screws my favourite programming language Jan Lehnardt :couchdb:: 'What the f*ck is going on with Ruby?.... For the moment we have to consider all gems compromised:' - narrativ.es

ME:: We all make sh*tty software as Dave Winer has said so many times! Including Microsoft and Samsung! ; Thom Holwerda:: Dark patterns killed my wife’s Windows 11 installation – OSnews via Mike Hoye

ME:: Does this AI notes thing work :-) ?!? ; Notability note taking startup

ME:: this seems to work on macOS Big Sur 11.7 ; huksley's github gist:: Disabling photoanalysisd on macOS

ME:: Death of a disco dancer er Google Web search :-) Killed by Google AI mode and ChatGPT with GPT-5 search ; Simon Willison:: Google's AI mode is good, actually

ME:: Go science go! Explaining COVID science to privileged folks with 'educations' should NOT be required ; Jess Steier:: I inserted myself into a conversation at a bar about Covid and vaccines. Here’s what happened :: How to talk to strangers at a bar about Covid, dispel misinformation and explain the real science behind vaccines and mRNA vaccines ¦ STAT

ME:: seems like platitudes :-) to baseline, experiment, have a community of practice and read DORA and other's research papers?!?!? ; Amanda Lewis:: August 2024:: DORA:: How to enable your software delivery teams to innovate with generative AI

ME:: Machine learning assisted coding doesn't increase the number of apps part 8888 :-) ?!? ; Mike Judge:: Where's the Shovelware? Why AI Coding Claims Don't Add Up

ME:: Tempted to try this but $CDN40/month for streaming is a lot ; Fedihost:: Create New Peertube Service

ME:: yet another Tailscale HOW TO, i have to try this someday! ; Avush Pande:: I use Tailscale to remotely access my self-hosted services - here's how

ME:: Oh Pharmacy in Coquitlam had unexpired vaccines as of August 11 2025 ; Ducky :: 2025-08-11 oops 13 General – Pandemics in British Columbia

ME:: Not tested on Humans yet but sounds promising go science go; September 2024:: Brigham and Women’s Hospital. PCANS Drug-free nasal spray blocks, neutralizes viruses, bacteria — Harvard Gazette

ME:: Late to the party :-) -> All pieces of ATProto can and are running on non Bluesky servers e.g. Blacksky servers ; May 2, 2025:: Bryan Newbold:: A Full-Network Relay for $34 a Month

ME::tl;dr-ing:: We don't have the mathematics to be able to build real artificial general intelligence ; Django Beatty:: Alchemy 2: Electric Boogaloo

ME:: this looks great! ; Alternative Social Media Network Bibliography

To the #WhitePersonSplainers :-) who tell me extending my right arm is not a valid right turn signal (nobody who's not white has ever mansplained this to me in 17 years of bicycling in Vancouver: It is a valid signal ; See:: BC Motor Vehicle Act:: Bicyclists signal a right turn by doing either of the following ... (ii) extending the person's right hand and arm horizontally from the cycle

I don't care what people who I otherwise respect like Om Malik and Dana Blankenhorn say about network effects blah blah blah :-) . It is wrong to be on a platform that openly allows hate speech. If the Nazi Party's newspaper paid you $USD1000 / month in 1939 to write an op-ed monthly would you do it? No. https://om.co/2025/08/03/the-why-of-substack/ is wrong. sorry not sorry Om et al!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ME:: RAGs are great if you use current (i.e. not months old) data you own since plagiarizing your own data is ok :-) and have permission for but they still make mistakes! ; Marcus Hutchins:: Every Reason Why I Hate AI and You Should Too

ME:: The UN 'black helicopters' should offer free hosting for everybody as I said before :-) ; Drew Lyton:: The Future is NOT Self-Hosted but maybe libraries hosting stuff for us?

ME:: TIL about the macOS Dragging and Selection clipboards ; cricket:: The three different clipboards – Tech Reflect

ME:: It's 2025: everybody is a bad developer using machine learning. Some of us will make the bad software production quality whatever ''quality' means for them, some of us will just blissfully use it even though it's bug ridden (like most 100% human written software sadly) ; Om Malik:: Software is going to be automated badly but good enough for many personal workflows The Satya of Satya’s Layoff Memo (laying off 9000 employees to hire AI experts and buy into the 'GPU compute bubble')

July 1945:: Scanned copy of 'The mother of all demos':: The Atlantic:: Vannevar Bush: As we may think

ME:: How To turn off macOS sequoia's 'control shift enter' shortcut so apps like checkvist.com can use it; Reddit:: MacOs sequoia beta1: Press 'Ctrl' + 'Enter', it became right click

ME:: just say no to JS run times; I want WASM python or ruby in the browser ; Whatever, Jamie:: The many, many, many JavaScript runtimes of the last decade • Buttondown

ME:: The only Kapampangan folk song I learned growing up in Canada was this song. Bahay Kubo was the only Tagalog song I learned ; Atin Cu Pung Singsing ¦ Philippines: KapitBisig.com

Boone Ashworth:: Wired:: How to Delete All of Your Social Media Accounts: Instagram, X, Facebook, TikTok, and More

ME:: anytype is open source, de-centralized and encrypted, sounds too good to be true! What's the catch :-) ? ; Anytype:: The Everything App

ME:: We need separation of compute, data and models and laws targeted toward data protection and sharing ; Jai Vipra & Sarah Myers West September 27, 2023 Computational Power and AI - AI Now Institute

Bob Rudis:: hrbrmstr/go-duckdb-drops: A command-line interface tool for browsing and searching Daily Drops blog posts using DuckDB. This application provides an interactive way to explore blog content with full-text search capabilities and markdown rendering. - Codeberg.org

ME:: Be short, simple and firm; don't be funny; play for the audience; pick your battles; call things what they are; etc ; Greg Wilson:: The Third Bit: Managing Conflict

Matt Dancho:: GitHub - business-science/ai-data-science-team: An AI-powered data science team of agents to help you perform common data science tasks 10X faster.

Felienne Hermans:: A Case for Feminism in Programming Language Design ¦ Proceedings of the 2024 ACM SIGPLAN International Symposium on New Ideas, New Paradigms, and Reflections on Programming and Software

Please donate to my ride up Cypress Mountain on July 27, 2025, the Cypress Challenge. 100% goes to Pancreatic Cancer Research

ME:: We need open source projects like this that anybody can host. At least you can get a json file for a backup but yeah not much good for anything beyond toys but this is similar to how Val Town started ; John Chang and Pontus Granström:: Scrappy: make little apps for you and your friends

ME:: Gotta try this! ; Arnaud Sintès:: Cube

ME:: I don't have a solution other than 'UN black helicopter hosting' :-) (LOL!) with global trust and safety or miraculously :-) hosting becomes easy for everything and everybody runs their own individual server for everything: blogs, chat, forums, vlogs, music, etc etc etc ; Kyle Kingsbury:: The Future of Forums is Lies, I Guess

ME:: Agreed! Make things that you like to make! ; Eevee:: The rise of Whatever / fuzzy notepad

ME:: filter JSON. from the command line using JSON instead of JS like fx ; see also jello in python; Peter Ohler:: ohler55/ojg: Optimized JSON for Go

ME:: $49 course; Probably obsolete soon because of LLM enhanced automation apps like the forthcoming Sky; Keyboard Maestro Field Guide ¦ MacSparky Field Guides

3 Ways to Download and Transfer Kindle eBooks (Yeah, It’s Still Possible)

ME:: SVG w/link to PDF that downloads a ZIP with a JS which downloads and runs a JAR in order to get around corporate firewalls, AV and security ; LLM used to find a vulnerability, and to generate a python script that reproduces it ; Jonathan Bennett:: June 20, 2025:: This Week In Security: That Time I Caused A 9.5 CVE, IOS Spyware, And The Day The Internet Went Down ¦ Hackaday

ME:: $CDN12 USB to Bluetooth Adapter for mice and keyboard good for connecting a usb only mouse via bluetooth e.g. a ploopy trackball ; X2 USB Keyboard Mouse Converter Bluetooth-Compatible 5.1 No Delay Gaming Keyboard Mouse Adapter For Android IPhone System - AliExpress 44

ME:: oh really :-) ?!?! Why do I think all these miraculous folks have help from 'real' developers? Having said that I think everybody has been a programmer since Visicalc and even better Google Sheets and in the near future regardless what happens with Machine Learning, everybody will be a full fledged mobile and desktop app developer; Claire Vo:: How a 91-year-old vibe coded a complex event management system using Claude and Replit ¦ John Blackman

ME:: George Grant was right. Nationalize the things needed in order to keep Canada independent. Work with indigenous folks and the EU and the rest of the world to build our independence from the USA He wasn't right about abortion of course! ; Michael Ignatieff, George Grant's nephew:: Sixty years ago, a philosopher, George Grant, said Canada would be absorbed by America. He could still be right - The Globe and Mail

ME:: WRONG Peter :-) Driving is still an occupation in 2025 and self driving cars don't work in 2025 even though they were predicted in 2025. Maybe in 2035?!? Not holding my breath :-) #Ymmv ; Peter Reinhard:: February 3, 2015:: Replacing Middle Management with APIs

ME:: MCP is USB-C for algorithms/functionality/behaviour which don't have to be machine learning or 'AI'; Scott Werner:: MCP: An (Accidentally) Universal Plugin System

ME:: Software is terrible for everybody but even more terrible for disabled folks but people like fireborn, a blind developer, are heroically fixing it gradually ; I Want to Love Linux. It Doesn’t Love Me Back: Post 1 – Built for Control, But Not for People — fireborn

Gatekeepers gotta gatekeep :-) ; You Don’t Own the Word “Freedom”: A Full-Burn Response to the GNU/Linux Comment That Tried to Gatekeep Me Off My Own Machine — fireborn

Dan aka deeja on github:: Get all file names from a public Github repo through the Github API using git trees- Stack Overflow

ME:: for $20/month for Elixir which is Erlang with a ruby syntax, it's a great way to learn Elixir and in the future other languages and web app stacks; Simon Willison:: Phoenix.new is Fly’s entry into the prompt-driven app development space

Things that make you go hmmm:: Why do people who go to the same cafe get wasteful takeout paper cups every day?

TIL:: Thunderbird release notes are stored in a github repo called thunderbird-notes; I sketched some python code for getting tags, bugs, notes etc ; Release Notes for Thunderbird

ME:: Amanda Wood used pixelsynth in her latest opening, (re)patterning! Gotta try it for my art! ; Olivia Jack:: .::::PIXELSYNTH::::.

ME:: a Python course based on functions powered by Pyodide so no need to install anything like datasette! ; Pamela Fox:: Proficient Python: A free interactive online course

ME:: gotta try this on my 5D Mark 1 aka Classic some day to get time lapse, focus peaking, zebras, and other goodies :-) ; a1ex:: October 2012:: [UNMAINTAINED] Canon 5D Classic Firmware ** Beta 4 **

Recipes that work according to fab colleague Tarandeep :-) ; Julie The Simple Veganista:: Lemony Quinoa + Chickpea Salad -

ME:: I didn't know DateTime was deprecated! Mav Tipi:: Should I Use Date, Time, or DateTime in Ruby and Rails? ¦The Startup ¦ Medium

ME:: Sounds like a great optimistic yet pessimistic retro history book so I ordered the 2019 edition with a new introduction ; Reviewed By Bruce Sterling:: March 24, 2008:: The Shock of the Old by David Edgerton

ME:: Affordable housing is not a puzzle or rocket science. Allow and encourage co-housing, co-ops, 4 storey low rise apartments everywhere in the city of Vancouver and multi-dwellings strata and non strata non single family homes everywhere. The government (municipal, provincial and federal all working together) must build affordable rentals and must keep the rent low and keep building affordable rentals and keep allocating them to folks working locally, the 'market' and private developers are incapable of doing this, follow Vienna's example etc etc :-) ; Emilie K Adin::I Love These Streets. Come Walk with Me - Spacing Vancouver

ME:: I wonder if I could use this for Firefox for Android 'support is the last QA' :-) tests ; Leland Takamine:: August 2022:: Introducing: Maestro — Painless Mobile UI Automation

ME:: I should do this with my toots :-) ! ; Will Richardson:: GIF: The Git Interchange Format

ME:: yay a more intuitive language than jq (which is fab but hard to learn) for filtering JSON ; André Arko:: fx, a language for working with JSON

ME:: Recipes that work:: Jacqui Debono:: Farfalle pasta with smoked salmon & zucchini – The Pasta Project

ME:: love my radar, it's much better than a mirror since it works 140 metres away and you don't have to check, just wait for the beep. Mirrors are fine if you remember to check them :-) ; MuddyTweed.com:: 2023:: Garmin Varia RTL515 – a review

Me:: this is where i found out about utc_to_local ;; date - Ruby local_to_utc returns invalid year - Stack Overflow

Micky McCauley:: May 19, 2020:: New York Times’ Style Guide Substitutions for “The President Lied” - McSweeney’s Internet Tendency

June 3, 2025:: Carlos Greaves:: New York Times’ Style Guide Substitutions for “The President Violated the Constitution” - McSweeney’s Internet Tendency

ME:: love the Pulsar Nextlevel metal filters (search for Pulsar – Stainless Steel Filter Discs at nextlevelbrewer DOT com! almost no fines with the following recipe. 25g coffee; close valve;add 75g water;open valve for 1 second; close valve wait 20s;open valve add 125g of water and wait until almost drained;close valve add 200g water; wait 1 minute 20 seconds;open valve ; DaddyGotCoffee:: Brew Like An Astrophysicist! Pulsar Dripper Review - YouTube

ME:: Recipes that probably :-) work:: Irene Arita:: May 2022:: Adobong Sitaw with Chicharon:: Filipino-Mexican Culinary and Cultural Exchange – My Slice of Mexico

ME:: tl;dr-ing: As always, Lisp and Smalltalk were there first but too early and too much $ ; Mass-produced software is too rigid; Need: A gentle slope from user to creator; Tools not avocado slicers er apps :-) ; Need: communal creation ; June 2025:: Geoffrey Litt, Josh Horowitz, Peter van Hardenberg, Todd Matthews:: ink and switch:: Malleable software: Restoring user agency in a world of locked-down apps

ME:: I did this to mount my Fenix FENIX HM65R-DT headlamp on my bicycle helmet using the ALG-03 V2.0 - Fenix Headlamp mount for Helmet ; Take the battery out, take the O-ring off, lift a tab and slide it out; sweetheart5978:: How to remove main headlamp from headband for FENIX HM645R-T - YouTube

Charles Marohn of Strong Towns on fixing North America's broken zoning:: So let me be clear: when I say we want to “make better decisions inevitable over time,” I don’t mean inevitable like gravity. I mean inevitable like compound interest—tiny, persistent, visible pressure applied in the same direction until the math changes. It’s slow, messy, and often invisible at first.

ME:: read load to generate feeds makes running your own BlueSky instance only affordable to people with lots of $$ ; uniphil:: Can atproto scale down? Write View for back links (i.e. not the full AppView and not the Relay) on a raspberry pi

ME:: Bad for the environment yet good for already privileged experts who have time and energy to experiment seems to be the common thread of this ever evolving ML world ; Thomas Ptacek:: My AI Skeptic Friends Are All Nuts · The Fly Blog

ME: stories have their time and place, sometimes people just want to hear the facts first ; Eliot Peper:: How to Become a Better Conversationalist

PROBABLY WRONG PREDICTION:: ME:: By Jan 1, 2034 Tesla still won't have full self driving cars (unless they add LiDAR and/or humans in the loop :-) !) ; Ben Thompson Oct 15, 2024:: Elon Dreams and Bitter Lessons – Stratechery

forget what Wil said 🙂 LOL. For the real (TM) Vancouver, eat Filipino food at Pampanga's Cuisine or Kulinarya on the Drive, bicycle, run, or walk or electric scouter around stanley park, Special Set Meal B at New Town Bakery with Super Strong hong kong iced milk tea, get an Aquabus ferry pass and stop at all the stops including Granville Island for Pad Thai Sen :-), Saturday Farmer's Market at Trout Lake or Riley Park, Revolver Coffee for a pourover coffee, take the Seabus to Shipyards and enjoy Metro Vancouver's best public space especially Polygon Gallery and Nemesis coffee and if you have time walk up Lonsdale and have Persian food e.g. at Yaas!!!!

ME:: fork this Mediawiki VS Code LSP server and add support for SUMO KB markup extensions and style guide ; bhsd-harry/vscode-extension-wikiparser: VSCode language server for MediaWiki Wikitext

ME:: Supports LUTs, iOS and Android. Is it real time? Better than Pearla, we'll see :-) ; Varlens - DSLR in Phone

Generic Cerave moisture lotion is 5 dollars cheaper at Superstore compared to Shoppers Drug Mart both of which are owned by the same company LOL

ME:: Home pourovers are better than most cafe pourovers example 8888 or something :-) Brandon Dixon:: Beans to Bots: Hacking My Coffee Machine with AI

ME:: This looks great for reverse engineering REST APIs and playing with them! Proxyman · Debug, intercept & mock HTTP with Proxyman

Calder McHugh:: The Canadian Who’s the “short-fingered vᜂlgarian”'s Oldest Enemy - POLITICO

How to Make a Go Make Custom custom tshirt with 128x128 on front and 64x64 patches on back

ME:: 'Tyranny' of default apps that are centralized or something :-) ; seriously though maybe the Blᜂesky app should have settings to get around labelling by the Tᜂrkish government and other bad actors?!?1 READ:: Laurens Hof:: Bluesky, censorship and country-based moderation – The Fediverse Report

How To Make Art of Where tights from 32x32 pixel samples from over 600 3248 by 3248 pixel Panasonic GM-1 Panasonic 25mm f1.4 photos using the flickr API, ruby scripts and imagemagick

ME:: Saving for future reference. I have met Doug! Inspiring person! READ:: What is digital literacy? A Pragmatic investigation. A thesis submitted in 2011 to the Department of Education at Durham University by Douglas Alan Jonathan Belshaw for the degree of Doctor of Education (Ed.D.)

ME:: Also because measles, RSV and other things that could be prevented if we as a society cared about public health ; READ Nicholas Russell:: Why I Keep Masking | Defector

ME:: Everybody is technical in multiple areas no matter what the gatekeepers say :-) ; READ:: Cat Hicks:: Why I Cannot Be Technical

ME:: Twitter-like systems are harmful for the web because there's no links, character limits, etc ; READ Coyote:: Twitterlike is a Bad Shape

ME:: Keep an eye on ActivityPub + OCap the universe that could have been and could still be ; READ BlueSky Proposal from 2019 pre 2025 Bluesky débacle:: Bluesky proposal submitted by Christine Lemmer-Webber and Jay Graber, 2020-07-29 ($2535398) · Snippets · GitLab

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.:: To define much of white America as self-deluded on the commitment to equality and to apprehend the broad base on which it rests are not to enthrone pessimism. The racism of today is real, but the democratic spirit that has always faced it is equally real<- 'Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community?', 1967.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.:: There is a double standard in the enforcement of law, a double standard in the respect for particular laws. <- 'Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community?', 1967.

ME:: We're not the problem, the system is but how do we fix it, I don't know?!? Universal Basic Income?!?? ; READ:: Greg Storey:: LinkedIn is a waiting room of doom: 'It's time to wake the zombies'

ME:: YES... The thing about The Economist is that's it's full of mansplaining Oxbrᜁdge folks who are not calling out the rᜀcism and lᜁes of the current administration of the ӮSA and RЭpublicans in general since Reᜀgan AND... they are right that Europe is the actual land of the free now :-) AND of course the European model is sustainable if you think beyond your narrow worldview :-) ; READ:: The Economist:: The thing about Europe: it’s the actual land of the free now

ME:: There is a world where a truly excellent User Experience for Mastodon and Matrix and other open decentralized networks is funded just like Bluesky and Slack are funded ; READ and LISTEN:: Ethan Zuckerman and Nathan Schneider:: 110. Is there hope for democracy in a social media-driven world? Nathan Schneider sees it every day. - Initiative for Digital Public Infrastructure at UMass Amherst

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.:: The white backlash is an expression of the same vacillations, the same search for rationalizations, the same lack of commitment that have always characterized white America on the question of race <- 'Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community?', 1967.

ME:: for those who are looking to move to Canada ; Helping LGBTQ+ Refugees Resettle in Canada - Rainbow Refugee Vancouver

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.:: It will be power infused with love and justice, that will change dark yesterdays into bright tomorrows, and lift us from the fatigue of despair to the buoyancy of hope <- 'Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community?', 1967.

ME tl;dr-ing:: Ignore history at your peril. Colonialism was bad despite GDP gains. Bostrom's paperclip maximizer is not more important than anti-colonial resistance. We should not ignore current political crises in favor of 'trajectory changes' in the near future ; READ Joan Westenberg:: Why Are All the Smart People So Bad at History?

ME:: I agree. See Christine Lemmer-Webber's Nov 2024 blog post ; READ Dave Winer:: Bluesky is centralized

ME:: divide an array into sub arrays and insert into the first 2 sub arrays plus some magic = faster hash tables, will we see this in Rust, Python, Ruby soon? :-) ; Steve Nadis:: Undergraduate Andrew Krapivin Upends a 40-Year-Old Data Science Conjecture | Quanta Magazine

ME:: it's 2025 can we have a nice WYSIWYG control for simplified Markdown or HTML (don't need collapsible sections or anything fancy)? ; iA Writer Blog:: Markdown and the slow fade of the formatting fetish

Me:: My #ProbablyWrongPrediction :-) --> By July 11, 2044 we will have true Artificial General Intelligence

Me tl;dr-ing Daniel Raffel's #ProbablyWrong Prediction :-) :: By Mar 31, 2028 Daniel Raffel predicts coding models will outperform top software developers. Check back on April 1, 2028 to see if he is right :-), guess it depends on what you mean by 'top' and 'outperform' ; Daniel Raffel :: Learning to Play with the Machines

Me: Rᜂssian misinformation spread 33% of the time by: OpenAI’s ChatGPT-4o, You.com’s Smart Assistant, xAI’s Grok, Inflection’s Pi, Mistral’s le Chat, Microsoft’s Copilot, Meta AI, Anthropic’s Claude, Google’s Gemini, and Perplexity’s answer engine ; Newsgard:: A well-funded M⭕scow-based global ‘news’ network has infected Western artificial intelligence tools worldwide with Rᜂssian propaganda

Me:: switch to Obsidian to support diagrams in Markdown? ; Nicole van der Hoeven:: Visual note templates with Obsidian Excalidraw - YouTube

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.:: Violence has been the inseparable twin of materialism, the hallmark of its grandeur and misery. This is the one thing about modern civilization that I do not care to imitate <- 'Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community?', 1967.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.:: With every ounce of our energy we must continue to rid our nation of the incubus of racial injustice. But we need not in the process relinquish our privilege and obligation to love. <- 'Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community?', 1967.

Me:: this code kickstarted the machine learning 'revolution' :-) computerhistory/AlexNet-Source-Code: This package contains the original 2012 AlexNet code.

Lorenz:: halcy log:: Silly Mastodon apps based on mastondon.py plus other cool mastodon hacks

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.:: Therefore I must oppose any attempt to gain our freedom by the methods of malice, hate, and violence that have characterized our oppressors. Hate is just as injurious to the hater as it is to the hated <- 'Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community?', 1967.

Me tl;dring: In 5 or 10 years we'll look back and say either: ML's a bubble and it will plateau or it will continue to scale up and continue to get better ; Nicholas Carlini:: My Thoughts on the Future of 'AI'

Yes I love Pearla AND bugs:: Viewfinder freeze still happens when loading large LUTs; GPS tagging doesn't work Feature Request:: a UX affordance e.g. button to quickly switch between LUTs ; Pearla Pro Filmic Camera App iOS App Store Release Notes

joeyh:: moreutils is a collection of the unix tools that nobody thought to write long ago when unix was young.

Me:: of course we need a diversity of people! Cambridge: Helen Taylor, PhD, Martin David Vestergaard, PhD:: Developmental dyslexia essential to human adaptive success, study, Developmental Dyslexia: Disorder or Specialization in Exploration?, argues

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.:: In order to ‘be in step with the times,’ in order to ‘keep in touch,’ they yielded to one of the most ignominious evils that history has ever known <- 'Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community?', 1967.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.:: It is simply my way of saying that I would rather be a man of conviction than a man of conformity. Occasionally in life one develops a conviction so precious and meaningful that he will stand on it till the end. That is what I have found in nonviolence. <- 'Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community?', 1967.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.:: But power and morality must go together, implementing, fulfilling, and ennobling each other <- 'Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community?', 1967.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.:: This is no time for romantic illusions and empty philosophical debates about freedom. This is a time for action <- 'Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community?', 1967.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.:: Today's despair is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow's justice <- 'Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community?', 1967.

Me:: finally somebody showing us how this is done, need more examples like this. It's like sample code, we need more sample prompt sessions! Wonder if things have changed in March 2025 ; June 2024:: Simon Willison:: Building search-based RAG using Claude, Datasette and Val Town

Me:: Simon's recommended models as of 2025-03-02: Claude 3.7 Sonnet w/'thinking' on, OpenAI o3-mini-high & GPT-4o with Python Code interpreter Simon Willison:: Hallucinations in code are the least dangerous form of LLM mistakes

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.:: This refusal to be stopped, this 'courage to be,' this determination to go on 'in spite of' is the hallmark of any great movement <- 'Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community?', 1967.

Me:: Sam Davis's kindle-bulk-downloader is the best way to download your Kindle books as .azw3 files (.kfx DeDRM doesn't work but .azw3 works with Calibre) assuming you have a pre 2024 Kindle before 2025-02-26 23:59:59 Jason Snell:: How to bulk download Kindle files, while you can – Six Colors

Tim Cowlishaw:: Who's writing interesting things on the *pedagogy* of creative coding - teaching programming either for the arts, or in the context of studio-based arts programmes? I'm developing quite a lot of trial-and-error reckons on this, and would love to see what's already out there. See: 2015:: Knochel and Patton:: If Art Education Then Critical Digital Making: Computational Thinking and Creative Code

(Before 26 Feb 23:59:59 :-) ) ---> Me::HOW TO: download .azw3 files: in the amazon web app 'More actions' and select 'Download and transfer via USB'. ;couldn't remove DRM from .kfx files epubor:: Kindle DRM Removal Failed and Solution [Updated 2025

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.:: Our most fruitful course is to stand firm, move forward with aggressive nonviolence, accept disappointments and cling to hope. Our determined refusal not to be stopped will eventually thrust open the door to fulfillment <- 'Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community?', 1967.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.:: When hope dies, a revolution degenerates into an undiscriminating catchall for evanescent and futile gestures <- 'Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community?', 1967.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.:: I wept for all the white parents and teachers who are forced to overlook the fact that the wealth of cultural and technological progress in America is a result of the commonwealth of inpouring contributions.<- 'Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community?', 1967.

Me:: How to download all of your Kindle books so you can remove DRM using Calibre On the web: create collection, add all books on 'Manage Content & Devices' 25 at a time On Kindle: 'Sort By' Collections, click on collection > Download all items Play Ball and Fight Fᜀscists:: 'If you have a lot of books you need to download t…' - Mastodon

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.:: Even semantics have conspired to make that which is black seem ugly and degrading. In Roget’s Thesaurus, there are some 120 synonyms for 'blackness' and at least sixty of them are offensive, such words as blot, soot, grim, devil, and foul. And there are some 134 synonyms for 'whiteness' and all are favorable, expressed in such words as purity, cleanliness, chastity, and innocence <- 'Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community?', 1967.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.:: It is precisely this collision of immoral power with powerless morality which constitutes the major crisis of our times<-- 'Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community?', 1967.

Me:: Do this on or before Feb 25, 2025 (USB download removed as of Feb 26, 2025) 2024:: UMA Technology:: How to De-DRM Kindle Books Using Calibre

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.:: Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love. <-- 'Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community?', 1967.

Me:: A bot that runs once a day using Github actions amazing! Thanks for the open source code! I need to run my own bot on my Mastodon server to post art daily! Simon Willison:: 2023:: Building Mastodon bots with GitHub Actions and toot

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.:: It is a disappointment with the Chrᜁstian church that appears to be more whᜁte than Chrᜁstian, and with many whᜁte clergymen who prefer to remain silent behind the security of stained-glass windows. <-- 'Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community?', 1967.

Me:: a quick, fun way to graph and explore datasets with R GitHub:: rolkra/explore:: R package that makes basic data exploration radically simple (interactive data exploration, reproducible data science)

Me:: I didn't know cron was deprecated in macOS! Shinichi Okada:: The Complete Guide to Cron and Launchd on macOS/Linux

23 years+++ of blogging! So long ago! Decentralized blogging is still too hard, centralized blogging via youtube, ig and fb is seductively easy! In reality, I started in 1999 but my Radio Userland blog from 1999 appears to be gone from the internet. The earliest archive of my blog on the internet archive :-) Roland Tanglao's Weblog: Friday, November 30, 2001

Me:: Use Orbstack instead :-) lol Hayk Simonyan:: STOP using Docker Desktop: Faster Alternative Nobody Uses

Joan Westenberg:: Fᜂck the Cult of Productivity

Me:: tab continuation in your terminal, eg Warp, in your programming editor, Cursor, and in your text writing surface, grammarly, is here but is it a bubble?!? Allen Pike:: The Era of Tab Continuation

Me:: Just for fun, generate a random date that I can use to search my flickr archive for posting photos to roland.club Stack Overflow:: Generate random date between two dates and times in Javascript

Me:: I think my telus DSL modem/wifi router is in bridge mode! Need to double check someday :-) eero support article:: How do I bridge my upstream modem/router combo device?

Me tl;dr-ing:: Summarizing using LLMS is good when volume is a good predictor of importance which isn't often the case. Still true in 2025? May 2024:: Gerben Wierda::: When ChatGPT summarises, it actually does nothing of the kind. – R&A IT Strategy & Architecture

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.:: There is also great disappointment with the federal government and its timidity in implementing the civil rights laws on its statute books <-- 'Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community?', 1967.

The OM Systems OM-3 will be a very small 'h' hit simply because of its cool in camera real time while shooting (and post in camera) adjustment of photos and videos. but at $USD2000 it's too pricey for it to be a capital 'H' hit (the X100VI is $USD1600!). People already have a water resistant camera namely their iOS or Android phone and all the other features are already on phones soooo.... #ProbablyWrongPrediction

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.:: If they are ᜀmerica’s angry children today, this anger is not congenital. It is a response to the feeling that a real solution is hopelessly distant because of the inconsistencies, resistance, and faintheartedness of those in power. <-- 'Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community?', 1967.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.:: Like life, rⷶcial understanding is not something that we find but something that we must create <-- 'Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community?', 1967.

HOW TO: to randomly open a jpeg larger than 12MB:: `find . -name '*.JPG' -type f -size +12M -print | sort -R | head -1 | xargs -n 1 open` super user-unix:: How can I find files that are bigger/smaller than x bytes?

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.:: When some members of the dominant group, particularly those in power, are rⷶcist in attitude and practice, bitterness accuses the whole group. <-- 'Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community?', 1967.

Me:: A useful writing assistant that speeds common writing tasks up by 25% ?!? Fred Vogelstein and Om Malik:: Google's NotebookLM AI will change my life-maybe yours too

Me:: I agree! Maybe not tear up the IP laws but just sell all the jailbreak things :-) ! Cory Doctorow:: Canada shouldn’t retaliate with US tariffs; Picks and Shovels Chapter One (Part 6 – CONCLUSION) (15 Jan 2025)

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.:: Constructive social change will bring certain tranquility; evasions will merely encourage turmoil. <-- 'Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community?', 1967.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.:: We forgot what we knew daily in the South: Freedom is not given, it is won. <-- 'Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community?', 1967.

Recipes that work:: Tortang Talong Manyaman/Masarap :-) It's basically a roasted egglant omelette with fish sauce; Barb adds 1 tablespoon of fish sauce and 1/2 tbsp of cornstarch to help the binding Iankewks:: Tortang Talong (Filipino Eggplant Omelette)

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.:: The fight is far from over, because it is neither won, as some assert, nor lost, as the calamity-ridden declare. <-- 'Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community?', 1967.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.:: Until the disproportionate political power of the reactionary South in Congress is ended, progress in the US will always be fitful and uncertain <-- 'Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community?', 1967.

David Crawshaw's sketch.dev LLM hello world gets into a loop abut deleting duplicate files

Me:: 'Hyperchrome' is just a fun filter LOL Pearla:: Professional Camera App with Film Simulations

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.:: the alliance of Southern r⒜cism and Northern reaction has been the major roadblock to all social advancement, 'Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community?', 1967.

Gitingest:: Turn any Git repository into a simple text digest of its codebase. This is useful for feeding a codebase into any LLM.

Me:: Centralized APIs will break see also ᜁG Dave Winer:: Twᜁtter had an API too. It didn't make a difference. And AT Proto won't either unless there are proven systems that people are actually using that peer with Bl🧲esky's servers, so those users can't be sold to the billionaire.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.:: The great majority of Americans are suspended between these opposing attitudes. They are, uneasy with injustice but unwilling yet to pay a significant price to eradicate it.”, 'Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community?', 1967.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.:: The segregationist goal is the total reversal of all reforms, with reestablishment of naked oppression and if need be a native form of f⒜scism.”, 'Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community?', 1967.

Mariann Edgar Budde:: ‘Contempt is a dangerous way to lead a country’ | The Guardian

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.:: Significant progress has effectively been barred by the cunning obstruction of segregationists”, 'Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community?', 1967.

Me:: Yes please :-) Eines Tages! 292 grams so pretty light? $CDN 157 on sale! HOKA Women's Speedgoat 5 Mid GORE-TEX Trail Running Shoes. | SportChek

Me:: I find browser extension development problematic because they require a lot of implicit knowledge, there's no simple 1 file hello world for example! 2023:: Geoffrey Litt:: For your next side project, make a browser extension

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.:: The legal structures have in practise proved to be neither structures nor law. ... Legislation that is evaded, substantially nullified and unenforced is a mockery of the law. 'Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community?', 1967.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.:: Wh⒤tes, it must frankly be said, are not putting in a similar mass effort to reeducate themselves out of their their sense of superiority that the wh⒤te people of America believe they so little to learn <- 'Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community?', 1967.

Recipes that work:: I used Barb's home made chili oil instead of chili crisp and it was also good! tl;dr Marinate cut up chicken in 6 Tbsp Chii Oil, 1 Tbsp honey , 1Tbsp Mirin and then 30 min at 400 Robin Miller:: Honey-Chili Crisp Chicken

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.:: Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

Things that work:: I've been using RNI Films iOS app for at least 6 years for black and white conversion of iPhone, Android and 'real camera' photos! Love the Tri X High Contrast Filter! RNI Films: Photo & RAW Editor on the App Store

Me:: Komoot doesn't know about the Dunsmuir viaduct bicycling path instead it directs me to use the Central Valley Greenway which is better than Google Maps but not optimal Bike ride from Revolver to St. Joseph’s | Komoot

Me:: use flexoki's high contrast colour scheme for future data visualizations?!? Flexoki — Steph Ango

Me:: Everybody is 'technical' in one or more domains and provides 'value' (value and productivity are bogus concepts since they are so arbitrary) and can learn more domains Sasha Laundy:: 'Technical' skills

Me:: it's family background and luck more than 'meritocracy'. The authors' proposed 'moderated causal model' makes sense Ian R. Hadden, Céline Darnon, Lewis Doyle, Matthew J., Sébastien Goudeau, Andrei Cimpian :: Why the belief in meritocracy is so pervasive - ScienceDirect

Me:: The entshᜁttification rot is everywhere because software is everywhere! Ed Zitron:: Never Forgive Them

Graydon Hoare:: 50 Years in Formal World: Mainstream Computing's Mirror Universe

'Cotton' she said to him 'I am Satoshi Nakaoto' <-- LOL quote from Steve Berry's Novel The Atlas Maneuver, page 70

Me:: Trʊdeau Derangement Syndrome (because irrational?!?!) victims: D🄐nielle Smᜁth, St🄞ckwell D🄐y and all the usual C🄞nservative suspects Max Fawcett:: Trʊmp’s threats expose the tr🄐itors in our midst | Canada's National Observer: Climate News

I am really going to have to try another app for bicycle route finding. Not impressed by Google Maps and Transit app. Google Maps once more steers me wrong (recommended Nanaimo and Victoria instead of Lakewood - Strava:: Zum Pho Dundas :-)

Me:: Will H5N1 or mpox go pandemic? We don't know at the moment. Donald G. McNeil Jr. :: My book: The Wisdom of Plagues is out in paperback. It has a new chapter with a few things…

Me:: Nvidia GPUs don't work currently on Raspbery PI and you need a Linux kernel patch for AMD GPUs 2024-11-19:: Jeff Geerling:: AMD Radeon PRO W7700 running on Raspberry Pi

Me:: Secular Monks is a scary but accurate phrase for many men Derek Thompson:: The Anti-Social Century - The Atlantic

Me:: while it lasts :-) add cooked,wiki in front of an recipe url to get a no fluff reader mode style recipe Recipes that work:: Elise Bauer:: Pasta Carbonara

Me:: we have great conversations but no way of truly capturing them I agree 2020:: Max Krieger:: Chapter 1 | Chatting with Glue

ahmed-musallam:: How to compress a PDF with ghostscript

Me: Spreadsheets are the number 1 programming language. HTML is number 2 because not everybody can code in HTML unlike spreadsheets Tim Carmody:: HTML Is Actually a Programming Language. Fight Me | WIRED

Manton Reece:: no agents & unattended algorithms - AI prompts vs. agents

Recipes that will probably work :-) :: Pailin Chongchitnant:: Vegan Pad Thai Recipe (that Thai people actually eat)

Recipes that work:: Caroline's Cooking:: German red cabbage with apples (Rotkohl)

Me:: ja1lbreaking is still a thing?!?!? checkra1n: run linux on your iOS 14 or lower iPhone currently iPhone 6 and older

Transit app didn't realize I was on 10th; GPS issue on my old phone?)& kept telling me I needed to do a right on 10th and Google Maps steered me to non safe routes like Clark Drive Strava:: Zum Telus :-) #Trocken

Me:: We can suppress any viral disease if we have the will via: multiple vaccinations, clean air, Five years of the COVID-19 pandemic: An interview with Dr. Arijit Chakravarty

Me: He's a c⭕n man, r🅐cist and lᜁar. Those 3 things should be linked at the top of every story. 3 links to 3 3 web pages of one liners with every c⭕n and lᜁe and r🅐cist statement. Dan Froomkin: President 45 and elect 47 coverage needs to change and here’s how | Press Watch

'If you make the decision to automate, still ask the questions and seek the friction.' Fred Hebert:: Local Optimizations Don't Lead to Global Optimums

Me:: Value is in the action triggered by a metric or alert not the metric or alert itself, agreed! 2021:: Fred Hebert:: Plato's Dashboards

Me:: tl;dr Natural Language Processing-based test automation strategy is best for web apps Leotta, Ricca, Marchetto, Olianas:: An empirical study to compare three web test automation approaches: NLP‐based, programmable, and capture&replay - 2024 - Journal of Software: Evolution and Process - Wiley Online Library

Me:: Support and maintenance people like Brienna Hall make the world go round :-) (and of course I'm not naive enough to think that all the other non support people are not just as important. Everything and Everybody in a team counts). I am glad this article glorifies the support staff because most of the time they receive 0 glory and 100% aggro :-) despite playing a vital role! Ben Cohen:: WSJ:: It’s the Most Indispensable Machine in the World—and It Depends on This Woman Support Engineer

Me:: For once I'd love to see a movie that #FlipsTheSwitchThatsInTheHouse e.g. 🇺SA Spєcial Forces go rogue and dєtonate a nuke in Mⓐnila and a Fᜁlipina played by Dolly De Leon saves the world or something :-) Jemar Tisby, PhD:: 'H⭕mestead' is a disturbing and not great movie

Anselm Eickhoff:: Hello World! Software is too hard. Distributed state is too hard. Software is places, not apps. Humanity needs simulation. | garden computing

Me:: Belated condolences to the family of the creator of wood s lot, the best literary blog ever!!! February 2017:: Steve Dodson:: Mark Woods, RIP. : languagehat.com

Me:: 20 best overproduced npr-style shows er podcasts :-) Marnie Shure:: The 20 Best Podcasts of 2024 - The Atlantic

Me:: Dave's blogroll from scripting.com is on bluesky, go dave-feedmaster go! @scripting.com on Bluesky:: My 'little feed reader' on bluesky is ready for you to follow. @feediverse.bsky.social

Me:: like everything else the language of climate change is too often defined by those in power in the global North far away from places most affected by climate change which currently are less developed countries Sanzida Alam Lisa:: The language of climate change: Can global terms capture local realities? | The Business Standard

Me:: HowTo disable Enhanced Visual Search off on your iPhone/iPad: Settings > Apps > Photos > slide 'Enhanced Visual Search' to the left to disable it Jeff Johnson:: Apple Photos phones home on iOS 18 and macOS 15

What kinds of quality don't you care about? Me:: I don't care about pixel quality. I often don't notice teeny tiny pixel level details in software that make others go bonkers Terence Eden:: Most people don’t care about quality

Me:: file this under d⭕minant hegemony gotta d⭕minant hegemony :-) Yes, 🇦mericans are much richer when it comes to stuff than Japanese people (according to rich 🇦mericans like N⭕ah Sm🇮th LOL), easy for N⭕ah to say from his position of privilege, stuff and the ability to 'innovate' is priority 1. Doesn't health, safety and quality of life and less inequality for all matter to entitled, wealthy 🇦mericans :-) ? Evidently not ?!?!

A: use backslash K in a regular expression (regex) to remove any text matched before it CRandER:: How to replace the last occurrence of a substring in ruby? - Stack Overflow

my ruby script that's responsible for my flurry of recent blog posts is called blog_all_open.rb.. It calls blogthis.rb to create blog posts in jekyll format with a nice slug from my all open list items in my 'blog this' checkvist list 74286 after you type 'y' to approve it

Me:: The link is everything :-) and AI summaries lose this everything-ness Dec 6, 2024 Collin Jennings:: When AI summaries replace hyperlinks, thought itself is flattened | Aeon Essays

Me: It would be wonderful if we all could write and modify software that's better than today's world of mass software development which is spreadsheets and things like Hypercard Geoffrey Litt:: Malleable software in the age of LLMs

Me:: Hoooray for easy to deploy matrix servers! June Clementine Strawberry:: Introduction - conduwuit 🏳️‍⚧️ 💜 🦴

Me:: Mathematica + Machine Learning is better than other systems?!? Not convinced but willing to be proven wrong :-)! Stephen Wolfram 2024-12-09:: Writings Useful to the Point of Being Revolutionary: Introducing Wolfram Notebook Assistant

Loaded the Ontario anti-bicycling Bill 212 comments (most of which are against the bill ie for bicycling) CSV file into SQLite using the amazing #datasette ! This means you can use SQL to make queries if that's your jam. Hope it's helpful!

Me:: I believe Typora on Windows erroneously changes unicode characters to US-ASCII or so it seems to me :-) Normalize Unicode github: issues/2443

Ryan Broderick: If you want to be part of a c⭕nservative social network fine ....You're giving them 10% of your revenue to fund their culture w🇦r and they're going to keep locking your audience behind their walled garden. There are many alternatives and they're all fine Kottke:: “S🇺bstack Is At It Again”

Me:: A r🇦pist is a r🇦pist is a r🇦pist and should not hold public office Anna Wharton who should leave s🇺bstack:: What Would A Woman Do To An Unconscious Man If She Thought No-One Would Find Out?

Me:: So how do traditional media stay relevant? Provide their own 'AI' 'agent'? OM:: Musings on Media in the Age of AI

Me:: yes please I want this for our balcony, I too want to save 30% in energy! Kottke: Balkonkraftwerk: a German word meaning “balcony power plant”...

Hardly any snow at Cypress this winter so far (and in 2014 and last year) is yet another sign of climate change - Cypress Nummer Fünf des 2024-25 Langlaufsaisons :-) #FreeTheHeelFreeTheMind #XcSkiing #Skate... ¦ Nordic Ski ¦ Strava

Me:: uv run allows you to run python scripts without requirements.txt Simon Willison:: Building Python tools with a one-shot prompt using uv run and Claude Projects

Me:: there is no safe crossing of Clark at E. Georgia, use Frances instead! Transit app wrong again :-) (Transit app war falsch :-) Kein SafeCrossing bei E. Georgia, safe crossing ist bei Frances!) Zum... ¦ Ride ¦ Strava

Rui Carmo:: 'portable no iPadOS restrictions :-)' computing via a single board Radxa Zero Computer using bluetooth to an iPad

Me:: Kai Cenat, Adin Ross, Jynxzi, and Sketch on Twitch, Kick, and Rumble <-- The fringe, no desire to be part of this because I fear they might be rɨght-wing-like-alternative Twɨtters?!?!? Ted Gioia:: Mainstream Is Now Fringe, and Fringe Is Mainstream

Me tl;dr-ing:: Filipino tech enabled Acapulco-Manila trade starting in the 1500s until the 1800s aka Philippines<->Mexico Spanish empire was built with Filipino tech as well as the usual colonial oppression :-) Andrew Christian Petersen for his PhD in 2014:: Making the first global trade route : the southeast Asian foundations of the Acapulco-Manila galleon trade, 1519-1650

Riding through Winston at the end of the Central Valley Greenway is still terrible because of construction for the last 2 plus years!- Zum Moodswing gift card dropoff :-) ¦ Ride ¦ Strava

Me:: Everybody can and should prototype: Simon Willison:: Preferring throwaway code over design docs

Tantek post from 2018:: Post Positive things Promptly PPTP :-)

Me:: 2030 is when folks don't realize they're browsing a fake internet using GenAI generated pages raganwald 🍓:: 'How long before G⭕ogle goes back to showing you search results, but every result on the front page is generated in real-time by GenAI? How long before a large population of users think that they're browsing `the web`, but it's all fake pages written just for them at that moment?' - [email protected]

microsoft/markitdown: Python tool for converting files and office documents e.g. PDF, Word, Excel, Images, Audio, speech transcription, html including Wikipedia, csv, json, json, xml to Markdown.

Me:: ML should belong to governments like nuclear fission and fusion Alexander Hartley:: To Whom Does the World Belong? - Boston Review

Me:: Centralized social media are like Mainframes and Malls I agree Ted Gioia:: Are Social Media Platforms the Next Dying Malls

$ycophants gotta $ychophant :-) or something

Charlie Stross: quoting Scitechdaily: 'Needle-Free: New Nano-Vaccine Effective Against All COVID-19 variants' - The Wandering Shop

Me:: DHGDH :-) The revolt against experts has been very calculated and very R🇪publican – Kevin Drum

Ducky Sherwood:: oral minocycline significantly helped 89% of long COVID patients 2024-12-07 General – Pandemics in British Columbia

Me:: Generative AI is hard to use (Super subtle nuance: Code Interpreter can't make API requests; Canvas can't access uploaded files) like Excel but you only need to use a small portion of their features to benefit Simon Willison:: ChatGPT Canvas can make API requests now, but it’s complicated

Alex Samuel:: Should You Write with Gen AI? Me tl;dring: yes but don't use it for the first draft, instead ask it to give you an outline or better yet revise your first rough draft

Me:: what's the cheapest 64GB laptop that will run Llama 3.3 70B ? #AskingForAFriend :-) Simon Willison:: I can now run a GPT-4 class model on my laptop

There is no safe crossing at 20th and Clark/Knight. Transit app's Vancouver bicycle directions still steer you into dangerous situations.

Guangchuang Yu:: How to use ggimage to plot PNGs instead of points in ggplot2

Rclone: command-line program to manage files on cloud storage.

Michael Nielsen: How to be a wise optimist about science and technology? Do work on non-market safety. Do work on differential technology development, especially how to better align civilization with DTD. There's a hubris in pessimism, agreed!

Om Malik and the other guy :-):: Will A.I. Eat The Browser?

Tablecruncher – Lightweight CSV editor for your Mac via a toot from Alex Samuel

Greg Wilson:: The Third Bit: Afraid of Change

Nic Morales:: Cost of Convenience, a Wireless Shifting Review - BIKEPACKING.com

Dead Internet Souls | ★❤✰ Vicki Boykis ★❤✰

Jason Velaquez:: Bluesky may have the juice, but we don't have to drink the Kool-Aid

Fred's ImageMagick Scripts: SHUFFLE Randomly shuffles positions of square sized tiles in an image.

c - How to add spacing between characters in text using VIPS? - Stack Overflow

Add full colour mode to vips_text using pango · Issue #2194 github libvips/libvips

github libvips issue: Changing color of background on vips_text · Issue #1119

How vips_text support unicode characters like (๑S . Y๑) and (⁎⁍̴̛ᴗ⁍̴̛⁎) #1231

s427/MARL: Mastodon Archive Reader Lite - a lightweight single-page app to explore the contents of your Mastodon archive file

Best Instant Tonkotsu? : r/ramen

Greg Wilson:: gvwilson/lanimret: Record ASCII terminal session with audio and then play back

Elena Rossini:: If Big Tech social platforms are junk food and the Fediverse is a healthy home-cooked meal, then what is Bluesky?

Joel Tjintjelaar:: Art, the Artist, and AI - BWVision

How to Convert Audio to Video for Youtube Upload Using FFmpeg - Bannerbear

Tanya Reilly:: Being Glue — No Idea Blog

Yes, That Viral LinkedIn Post You Read Was Probably AI-Generated ¦ WIRED

Irene Y. Zhang: The Moral Implications of Being a Moderately Successful Computer Scientist and a Woman

John Johnston in Scotland: AppleScript Fun with Claude

Information patterns and narrative structures in content ¦ Lauren Pope: La Pope Ltd

VCR pytest

When will the long voice interface winter end? I say 2030! Why Speech to Intent is so Vital for Voice « Pete Warden's blog

Inala, Wang, Drucker, Ramos, Dibia, Riche, Brown, Marshall, Gao: Data Analysis in the Era of Generative AI

Rising Tides: Wendy Nather on Resilience, Leadership, and Building a Stronger Cybersecurity Community Today we don’t have a manufacturing model of software development; we have a literary model

OSF preprint: Hicks and Hevesi: A Cumulative Culture Theory for Developer Problem-Solving

Social media users probably won’t read beyond this headline, researchers say ¦ Penn State University

Escape the Algorithm: Meet Social Reader, Your Personal Feed ¦ Distributed Press

Christine Lemmer-Webber: How decentralized is Bluesky really? -- Dustycloud Brainstorms

Erin Kissane: against the dark forest

Ianiv Schweber: How to turn on hearing aid mode in airpods2

Howard Rheingold from 1993: Disinformocracy and Disinfotainment ¦ Patreon

Pinggy - Simple Localhost Tunnels Share your websites and apps in seconds!

Men and Women Perform - by Timothy Snyder

Interactive Dashboards with Shiny - R for the Rest of Us

Guide to Linux jq Command for JSON Processing ¦ Baeldung on Linux

Transit app is now a bike app, too

Matt Dancho: tidyplots better than ggpllot2? An example: free_r_tips/091_tidyplots/091_tidyplots.R

Textrank for summarizing text

Programmer’s Survival Guide for a Zombie Apocalypse ¦ by Aleena ¦ Code Like A Girl

Chris Wellons, Nov 10, 2024: Everything I've learned so far about running local LLMs

Pelicans on a bicycle generated using various LLMs

Glossary

How I ship projects at big tech companies ¦ sean goedecke

How to Add Drop Down List in Google Sheets - Coefficient

The Department of Everything ¦ The Varieties of Travel Experience ¦ Issues ¦ The Hedgehog Review

How computers got shockingly good at recognizing images - Ars Technica

typora-community-plugin/typora-plugin-note-snippets: Use slash command to autocomplete note snippets

MDN Browser Support Timelines

r - How to assign geom_point colors based on string values by creating a colour column with a logical vector - Stack Overflow

r - How to: Label points in geom_point with a text string like a player's name - Stack Overflow

The 3 AI Use Cases: Gods, Interns, and Cogs ¦ Drew Breunig

Against Disruption: On the Bulletpointization of Books ‹ Literary Hub

Clear Is Kind. Unclear Is Unkind. - Brené Brown

How to convert Lumix GM5 / GM1 / GF7 from Japanese to English (2024 guide!) — Micro Four Nerds

Language Education Is Broken

Checkvist: How To Split one item into two items - Questions / Suggestions / Feedback - Checkvist Friends

ggplot2 Facets in R using facet_wrap, facet_grid, & geom_bar ¦ DataCamp

Collapsible Sections work in jekyll github.com blogs and github pages but you need a markdown="1" attribute in the details tag and markdown="span" in the summary tag

What is Pydantic and how can it help your next python project? ¦ by Bryson Meiling ¦ Oct, 2024 ¦ Python in Plain English

‘The data on extreme human ageing is rotten from the inside out’ – Ig Nobel winner Saul Justin Newman

Matt Dancho's ggalign example R script has some fun colours and graphs

Bodensee / Lake Constance circumnavigation / ride around the lake Strava routes & GPX files for anybody riding around the Bodensee in the future! Do not follow, for planning only! To help make up for the lack of GPX files from Radweg Reisen and my lack of map / wayfinding skills

Cycle the Camino de Santiago ¦ Leon to Santiago Bike tour

Smarter than 'Ctrl+F': Linking Directly to Web Page Content

Got my 6th COVID and yearly flu vaccination text message at 3:05p.m., made an appointment for 5:05 p.m.. All done! Yay! #GoScienceGo!

Revolt of the NYC Delivery Workers

Homepage - Access Guide

Extract Month and Year from timestamp in BigQuery using SQL EXTRACT, YEAR, MONTH, CONCAT, CAST, LPAD

Count Thunderbird SUMO questions by week using a CSV file using mlr aka miller by 1st creating a unix time column w/strptime and then creating an iso_week column from the unix aka epoch time w/strftime (bonus: create a SQLite file using sqlite-utils)

statuses API methods - Mastodon documentation

We are all pure bloggers or at least we could be :-)

Safe Vancouver Bicycle crossings

Constructive conflict is a superpower.

Bodensee Bicycle Ride with Radweg Reisen tours: Fabulous except for bad wayfinding

Online playground - marimo

Re-projection of fish-eye images (aka 'defishing') using Hugin ¦ Mu-43

S27:E2 - The Journey from Sound Engineer to Software Engineer (Alejandro Aspinwall) ¦ CodeNewbie Podcast

The Climate Has a Posse: On the Power and Peril of the New Greenwashing Emoji

Thoughts on 'generative AI Art'

Know your (documentation) audience ¦ Another Rodeo

OAuth from First Principles - Stack Auth

How to insert a CSV into a SQLite database

leplatrem/stickers

Ben Pobjoy's Tips for Long Walks — Ridgeline issue 187

The Silicon Valley Canon: On the Paıdeía of the American Tech Elite – The Scholar's Stage

Create an internal CLI | blog.chay.dev

The most underrated book in software engineering management

A dataframe is a bad abstraction. Trading away robustness for simplicity… | by Niels Cautaerts | Medium

Readability: The Optimal Line Length – Articles – Baymard Institute

The Case of Metro Vancouver’s Lost Electric Railway | The Tyee

No More Blue Fridays

TBM 302: Why Reflexive Thinkers Need to Take More Breaks

The July 19th CrowdStrike Windows Glitch Explained | by Dinah Davis | Jul, 2024 | Code Like A Girl

What I learned from the ‘Microsoft global IT outage’ | by Kevin Beaumont | Jul, 2024 | DoublePulsar

The serious science of trolling LLMs - lcamtuf’s thing

Dungeons & Dragons taught me how to write alt text – Eric Bailey

December 2020: Ventilation made easy | Max-Planck-Gesellschaft

GitHub - h2non/imaginary: Fast, simple, scalable, Docker-ready HTTP microservice for high-level image processing

“Tokyo Riddim” and the Legacy of Japanese Reggae | Bandcamp Daily

Make better documents. - Anil Dash

Andrew Odlyzko: The decline of unfettered research from Oct 1995

Why Learning GA4 Is So Hard – And What To Do About It

The advent of robotic hall monitors - lcamtuf’s thing

(the software crisis)

GitHub - medialab/minet: A webmining CLI tool & library for python.

Hydro Moc AT GORE-TEXÃ® 1TRL X Burton Mine77 Shoes- Merrell

Bicycle science - how bikes work and the physics behind them

Notes on Scaling Social Media Data Collection | DAIR

Data Hacks - Learn How to Handle Data

The Death of the Junior Developer

Tamales, adobo, leche flan – Spanish, Mexican dishes Filipinos took as their own, along with New World fruits such as tomato, avocado, and papaya | South China Morning Post

GitHub - charmbracelet/freeze: Generate images of code and terminal output 📸

How to run a 100% local, fully private LLM with llama.cpp 🔥 | LinkedIn

Lessons learned: Flickr API limit of 1 API request / second means running 12 threads in parallel then I need to delay at least 1 second between API requests (assuming my code needs 1 second to do its thing) and get the bare minimum metadata & flickr ids are larger than ruby max int which breaks ruby sorting

2008 smuglispweeny: 'We Can Live With the Way You Handled That' aka sometimes the software you get is actually what you wrote in your spec :-)

EchoFeed

Ambient Co-presence

feh --randomize is great for viewing random images; not great for making collages, use imagemagick instead

Tested positive for COVID 19 on May 3, tested negative on May 10, 2024, fever for one day, headache and sore throat 4 days, gone after 5

How to find old threads in outbox.json from your Mastodon archive using jq (lo-tech solution is better again i.e. always faster to edit and search using emacs or visual code)

How to get links to images and audio files using wget on a Wordpress blog: barbandroland.com aka a tale of trial and error and httrack was better in this case :-)

How I used httrack to backup my Wordpress blog barbandroland.com

Pipe characters aka 'or symbol' aka '|' must be escaped with a backslash to prevent being interpreted as a table in Markdown

The Trap of Soulless Productivity: Hazel Weakly: instead humans are wired to be productive by sharing, loving, growing

The Trap of Soulless Productivity | Hazel Weakly: instead humans are wired to be productive by sharing, loving, growing

Bobby Tables but with LLM Apps - Google NotebookLM Data Exfiltration · Embrace The Red

They're Looting The Internet

knqyf263/pet: Simple command-line snippet manager

August 2008: The importance of Exuberance in User Experience at Commonsense Design

The Life and Death of Hollywood, by Daniel Bessner

'PIG' Community Search Engines: Event & Chat Artifacts as Research Building Block - SoP 2024 RFC - Summer of Protocols:

The Brazilianization of the Internet - by Drew Austin

Kobold letters, aka phishing links that are only visible in forwarded emails – Lutra Security

How To: Remove non Thunderbird Knowledge Base Articles From Google Analytics page view report CSV using 2 Kitsune API calls to get en-US TB URLs and scraping using Mechanize to get the localized URLs

Working code :-) get-localized-sumo-kb-urls.rb

How To: Get all links with a CSS class and open them to find out redirects for translations of Thunderbird Knowledge Base articles using Ruby and Nokogiri

USB Spellcraft: It appears that macOS Sonoma14.4.1 fixes the 14.4 USB-A issues with myDell Thunderbolt 4 WD22TB4 hub

How to use cURL to send HTML email with Gmail | Change(b)log

USB Spellcraft: magic spell from March 20 no longer works; plugged in USB-A devices into old Anker USB 3 hub and plugged Anker hub into USB-C port of the Dell Thunderbolt 4 WD22TB4 hub

How To: Bicycling Clark Park to Dami Korean Restaurant

Open-source is a chainsaw

USB Spellcraft (formerly v**doo): Thunderbolt dock USB ports stop working after macOS Sonoma 14.4 update: WORKAROUND: unplug USB-C cable, power down dock and Monitor with USB-A hub, power up re-attach USB-C cable

Is there a command line utility for rendering GitHub flavored Markdown? - Stack Overflow

Remembering what you Read (using: progressive summarization) Zettelkasten vs P.A.R.A.

Simon Willison:: Interesting ideas in Observable Framework

Probably Wrong Prediction: (stolen :-) from Asa Dotzler) Apple will sell less than 6 million Vision Pros before March 11, 2029

Lenny Rachitsky:: Gmail - My podcast tech stack, workflows, and lessons—plus a giveaway!

Managing Class Data in Google Sheets using QUERY

Open sourcing our server

How To: Bicycling Clark Park to 88 Supermarket

Carlos Fenollosa - Blog

Happy belated 20th Birthday Flickr :-) Thanks for the excellent API and storing my 500,000 photos

Moderate people, not code | snarfed.org

Copy of Covid for Therapists presentation for MFTs

Who are knowmads? - Education Futures

Angelos Keromytis: Characterizing Self-Healing Software Systems

jsvine/waybackpack: Download the entire Wayback Machine archive for a given URL.

The Pulse #75: Will US companies hire fewer engineers due to Section 174?

Why We Can't Have Nice Software - Andrew Kelley

Stowe Boyd: Wired: June 2015: What Will a Corporation Look Like in 2050? | WIRED

Mike Hoye: Echoes Of The I | blarg

Rebecca Solnit · In the Shadow of Silicon Valley: Losing San Francisco

Vision Pro — Benedict Evans

Social rules - Recurse Center

Have Clojure UIs Taken the Wrong Path? Part 1 - Thomas Cothran, Software Developer

3 ways to send emails with only few lines of code and Gmail - Ruby - Part 2 - DEV Community

2024: More humility, more facts, less broad judgment, less speculation aka lessons from Julia Evans

yonder/python-musical-midi: Python tools for procedural music generation with MIDI. - Codeberg.org

The Best Method of Defishing a Fisheye Photo – Lonely Speck

missing the point of webassembly — wingolog

SQLite Date and Time Functions – explained | Random Neurons Firing

Magic Lantern Nightly Builds

Format pretty reports

It's All About Repetition, Repetition, Repetition: How Lies Work

What is supertokenism and how can organizations avoid it?

liam_on_linux | 'A Plea for Lean Software' by Prof. Niklaus Wirth

Meghan Markle And Prince Harry UK Royal Reporters Coverage Compared To Kate Middleton And Prince William

Julia Doubleday January 2023: Billionaires at Davos don't think COVID is a cold

Julia Doubleday - How the press manufactured consent for never-ending COVID reinfections

Cabel Sasser in Elk: 'Wordpress advertises that you can cust...' | Elk

roland in Elk: 'More Julia in '24!->'my approach to criticism is to try to stick as closely as possible to Facts About My Personal Experience...' | Elk

Nobody cares about your blog.

S*bstack Has A N*zi Opportunity - by Ken White

Largest Dataset Powering AI Images Removed After Discovery of Child Sexual Abuse Material

How to Analyze Large Text Datasets with LangChain and Python

Opinion | My Life With Long Covid - The New York Times

Online Depth of Field Calculator

Venkatesh Rao: Camera not an Engine aka intelligence is a function of big data plus very small code; modern 'AI' versus Good Old Fashioned AI aka 'GOFAI' Will we look back on this like we do Prolog and the Japanese 5th generation AI project?

Living at the speed of spiders - Relevant Information

Why millennials are dreading becoming mothers - Vox

A Coder Considers the Waning Days of the Craft | The New Yorker

I hereby pardon all junior engineers

roadrunnertwice | Why Git is hard

New talk: Making Hard Things Easy

iMessage, explained - JJTech

The Beatles Are Still Charting the Future of Pop. It Looks Bleak. - The New York Times

Review: Documentary ‘Menus-Plaisirs — Les Troisgros’ Is Worth Watching - Eater

Getting Started with Sentiment Analysis using Python

Why Navajo is one of the most difficult languages on Earth - Big Think

The Best Way to Reheat Pizza (and Some Things You Should Never Do)

Mirrorshades: The Cyberpunk Anthology

Emily F. Gorcenski: Making God The millenarianism and manifest destiny of AI and techno-futurism

Tim Smith in Elk: 'it turns out all that you have to do to g...' | Elk

Nick Cave - The Red Hand Files - Issue #248 - I work in the music industry and there is a lot of excitement around ChatGPT. I was talking to a songwriter in a band that was using ChatGPT to write his lyrics, because it was so much 'faster and easier.' I couldn't really argue against that. I know you've talked about ChatGPT before, but what's wrong with making things faster and easier? The Red Hand Files : The Red Hand Files

Opinion | Why Aren’t More People Getting Married? Ask Women What Dating Is Like. - The New York Times

Manifesto for posting online in 2023

Who Controls OpenAI? - Bloomberg

AI Technology Guzzles Water: Enough to Fill 2,500 Olympic-Sized Pools

Intro to text classification with Keras: automatically tagging Stack Overflow posts | Google Cloud Blog

The Women Who Saw 9/11 Coming - The Atlantic

Accessibility training will not save you

dergachev/csv2sqlite: Ruby script to parse CSV file(s) into a database.

100R — computing and sustainability

Consumer data protection and privacy | McK*nsey

We are drowning in Google's magnanimity - kpassa.me

Demystifying the Kubernetes Iceberg: Part 1 | Anton Sankov's Blog

How Close Is That Photo to the Truth? What to Know in the Age of AI - CNET

David Fincher's new movie 'The Killer' is sigma cinema

Debt, Depreciation, and Sustaining Engineering Work

a lot of things are true. - by Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg

The forbidden topics

Fast and Portable Llama2 Inference on the Heterogeneous Edge

Scripting News: Saturday, November 11, 2023

I Chased the Ghosts of the Army's Forgotten Black Bicycle Troop - Men's Journal

Metaprogramming in ruby - DEV Community

scripts/set_display_name_in_matrix_space.py at main · babolivier/scripts

My 12 Favorite Problems - by Ted Gioia - The Honest Broker

Dept of Thomas - Am I doing this right? Three factors that make learning with and about LLMs difficult

Quartz Hosting

Will We Kill the Humanities? - by John Warner

How OpenAI is building a path toward AI agents

Ian Betteridge - On Steven S🇮nosky's post on regulating AI

Is Tr*mp’s 'Brave New World' Coming Soon?

Why WebAssembly Will Disrupt the Operating System - The New Stack

Indian Ocean has world's largest gravity hole. Now we know why - Big Think

Obsidian Importer now converts Apple Notes to portable, durable files - Obsidian

G.M.’s Cruise Moved Fast in the Driverless Race. It Got Ugly. - The New York Times

tl;dr: The Trad office is dead!: The secret experiment behind the Expensify Lounge

How recursion got into programming: a tale of intrigue, betrayal, and advanced programming-language semantics | A Programmers Place

Utilitarian philosophy considered harmful aka Ted Gioia: Why I Ran Away from Philosophy Because of Sam Bankman-Fried

Ubiquitous connectivity and duplex applications – Alarming Development

bruno is a non evil Postman :-)

Visual Studio Code is designed to fracture

AI generated images are biased, showing the world through stereotypes - Washington Post

When AI doesn’t speak your language - Coda Story

Introducing anomalize for timetk in R (For Time Series Anomaly Detection)

Embeddings: What they are and why they matter

research!rsc: Running the “Reflections on Trusting Trust” Compiler

Julian Oliver in Elk: 'Very useful list, The Eight Stages of...' | Elk

Charts.css

How do you even web dev without node? A quick introduction to test-driven web development using just the browser – Baldur Bjarnason

Introduction - The Rustonomicon

Introduction to Debugging - The Debugging Book

It’s the Algorithm: A Large-Scale Comparative Field Study of Misinformation Interventions | Knight First Amendment Institute

The People in Your PKM - Wild Rye

Software Heritage Statement on Large Language Models for Code – Software Heritage

New Statistics Tutorial | Mad (Data) Scientist

order questions by increasing id instead of decreasing id using +created #1

To get csvs-to-sqlite to work, hardcode pandas dependency to 1.4.0

Inject My PDF: Prompt Injection for your Resume

Child Safety on Federated Social Media

My E-Reader Setup - videah's blog

The Third Bit · Concept Maps

Community Tech/SVG translation - Meta

Build an image search engine with llm-clip, chat with models with llm chat

archaeCLIP: or building a visual search engine for archaeology - X-Lab

Steve Wart in Elk: '@roland okay I figured it out ;-)The dot...' | Elk

Got my 5th vaccination today: Moderna bivalent booster for 2023 plus the 2023 flu vaccine, go science go! #VaccinateThePlanet

Talk at Sunday Assembly Silicon Valley: “What could go wrong?” - decomposition ∘ al

Centaurs and Cyborgs on the Jagged Frontier

The 11 biggest myths about Israel-Palestine - Vox

Understanding Discourse Trust Levels

Cozy Community Software — Open Indie

Prefixing the World - by Jonathan Rowson and Perspectiva

Scheme in the browser: A Hoot of a tale -- Spritely Institute

I prefer not to admire problems • Buttondown

McKinsey Developer Productivity Review - Dan North & Associates Ltd

Cynthia (Arty) in Elk: '#SDExpo #Presentation: A Public #Handbook: Building trust with the team, customers, and beyond #CustomerSupport #GitLab' | Elk

An Exploration of the Twitter to Mastodon Migration | by Matthew N. Nicholson | CUInfoScience | Oct, 2023 | Medium

Running Vicuna locally: the complete idiot's guide to basically running ChatGPT on your own laptop for free - unique hazards may exist

Josh Simmons in Elk: 'Stop defining people by what they’re n...' | Elk

Sol: bb.q Chicken or Ajuker Fried Chicken, both by lougheed stn; mia's reco: rib & chicken in marpole

Can browser choice screens be effective? - Mozilla Research

Evaluating LLMs is a minefield

ruby/ruby.wasm: ruby.wasm is a collection of WebAssembly ports of the CRuby.

Rob Campbell 🐳 in Elk: 'rebooted my windows machine this morning and was treated to a brand new horror on my taskbar, Copilot (Preview)! I killed it with fire and you can too.' | Elk

The future of Offpunk: UNIX command-line heaven and packaging hell

jmorganca/ollama: Get up and running with Llama 2 and other large language models locally

Now is the time for grimoires - by Ethan Mollick

Thunderbird Support 'barcode' based on Operating System, antivirus, if any, email provider and userChrome customizations if any

The death of unity

Bricolage | Some notes on Local-First Development

The Feedback Wizard by Steamclock

Mike 🏴‍☠️🎈 in Elk: 'Decker, HyperCard rebornhttp://beyondl...' | Elk

GPT4All

Jessamyn: 'Important tech tip for Slack u…' - glammr.us Mastodon

Open Interpreter running locally:

How to create a 2 second fps video using ffmpeg from lots of JPEGs e.g. from Canon EOS RP

RMagick doesn't support smush to align horizontal images at the bottom but MiniMagick does; you need gravity set to `south` to anchor images to the bottom ie. `south`

bash - Renaming files in a folder to sequential numbers - Stack Overflow

Today's Large Language Models are Essentially BS Machines - Ryan McGreal

Zola

GitHub - phosphor-icons/homepage: The homepage of Phosphor Icons, a flexible icon family for everyone

How To convert all the Grafista glyphs to 101px X 101 px images: by running a script from fontforge (from Stack Overflow: How do I convert a TTF into individual PNG character images?

Running my own LLM | Nelson's log

ChatGPT gets code questions wrong 52% of the time • The Register

Grafista has glyphs with codepoints that are invalid Unicode codepoints e.g. Hex B0001 but which can't be rendered (they render as black boxes) by imagemagick using the pango renderer. Help please!

A jargon-free explanation of how AI large language models work | Ars Technica

Advanced Ruby: Behind the Magic

In-Depth Guide :: RMagick - Add Text To An Image (With Word Wrap)

Why Women Volunteer for Tasks That Don’t Lead to Promotions

Reviewing ways of running 'that script' - jreyesr's blog

A jargon-free explanation of how AI large language models work | Ars Technica

What's New in Emacs 29.1? - Mastering Emacs

Beautiful Right to Left example of pango

April 1 - June 30, 2023 infographic of Thunderbird SUMO Support Questions using the imagemagick 7.x ashlar best fit option

Thanks to all of you for the over $3000 in donations to the Cypress Challenge Pancreatic Cancer ride

rush:: a cross-platform command-line tool for executing jobs in parallel

`git config --local http.postBuffer 524288000` appears to have fixed my macOS Ventura `git push` hang, see Git push hangs when pushing to Github?

Please donate to my ride up Cypress Mountain on July 30, 2023, the Cypress Challenge. 100% goes to Pancreatic Cancer Research

NixOS Explained

64 Types of Dark Pink - Simplicable

How to use SQLite to search all the Firefox and Thunderbird kb articles including the HTML (sadly Markdown not available)

Plotting Points on a Map Using a Spreadsheet | mattcen's mumblings

How to schedule Python scripts with GitHub Actions - Python Engineer

RUST tests in comments: doc tests and doc comments

ChatGPT and other 'AI' models representational bias: misrepresentation, underrepresentation and overrepresentation; extrinsic harms: representational, performance disparities from 'On the Opportunities and Risks of Foundation Models' (2021)

sample code for the SUMO Kitsune API

Leonid Rozenblit and Frank Keil: The misunderstood limits of folk science: an illusion of explanatory depth: Expertise takes time and energy and feedbadk otherwise we suffer the: illusion of explanatory depth (IOED)

Pandas Killers

(1) Drop #249: Of Course I Talk To Myself…Sometimes I Need An Expert Opinion

What is CodePen, and how to use it?

WSL systemd kluge no longer needed in Windows 11 because systemd is built-in

May Wong:The Myth of Maintenance Mode:We don’t build organizations that support the culture of maintenance...I wonder if this is also why Support is chronically undervalued and underfunded.

Samantha Slade: Difficult Conversations and Talking Circles: A response for those longing for healthy team dynamics

The age of average aka kinfolk, airspace, five over ones, people's choice, wind tunnel cars, same type in media, same clothing everythere, etc everywhere

Simon Willison: ChatGPT lies. Me: so how can we trust its output to truly be helpful even if we are experts in the domain of discourse? And therefore know how to fact check it?

Install ImageMagick with JPG, PNG and TIFF Delegates - Ubuntu (20.04)

Emily Bender: you are not a stochastic parrot / Judith Butler, are we more actualized with AI? from: NY Magazine you are not a parrot

I have rejoined Thunderbird

Paul Kedrosky and Eric Norlin: Society's Technical Debt and Software's Gutenberg Moment

Misidentifying talent

Introducing the Enhance Blog Template — Begin Blog

Why I Will Never Use Alpine Linux Ever Again | by Martin Heinz | Mar, 2023 | Better Programming

The Waluigi Effect (mega-post) - LessWrong

Frieda – Alarming Development

The surprising ease and effectiveness of AI in a loop

rud.is'In God we trust. All others must bring data'Almost Bare Bones WebR Starter App

How real-time data can unlock revenue streams, limit churn and build rich digital front-end CX

Matt Birchler: The Shocking State of Enthusiast Apps eg for Mastodon on Android

Noosphere, a protocol for thought - by Gordon Brander

Payak 2023: I thought I was fastest evah but I wasn't. The cold (-8) and unwisely stopping just before the end for a drink (oops) made me slower

The Friedman Archives Blog: AI: The Alarmists are Worried about the Wrong Thing

Large language models are having their Stable Diffusion moment

Rust - Tao of Mac

Doc Searls Weblog · Is Mastodon a commons?

Collections: On ChatGPT – A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry

How things are made – Music for Deckchairs

Stephen's Web ~ Redesigning higher education in the spirit of donut economics ~ Stephen Downes

GPT-4 Technical Report (PDF)

Small is Beautiful End-to-end encrypted Kitten Chat - Feb 16, 2023 on Vimeo

The 14 most important data science skills (To get a $50,000 increase in salary)

On POSSE and IndieWeb | Joel Auterson

How the COVID 'lab leak theory' lost me - Los Angeles Times

Building a Rust service with Nix

Darren, thank you for your creating compellingly constantly!

People don’t change their minds, regardless of evidence – mathewingram.com/work

Jason Eckert:The Ultimate Linux ARM64 Workstation (spoiler: Mac Studio with a 20-core M1 Ultra processor and 128GB of RAM)

Steph's french fry recipe! yum!

sips: Scriptable image processing system | Simon Willison’s TILs

Awesome Mastodon | awesome-mastodon

david-mccullars/text_rank: Ruby implementation of TextRank solution to ranked keyword extraction

Don't Panic: Against The Butlerian Jihad on AI - by Rohit

chat-gpt/bookmark.js at master · jcubic/chat-gpt

What the Mastodon ecosystem needs to scale | by David Slifka | Mar, 2023 | Medium

2022-12-26 Programmers who write code with AI helpers make more mistakes, a new study says • Mezha.Media

The Fediverse is Already Dead | Nora Codes

Console #145 -- An Interview With Marc Scholten of IHP - batteries-included web framework

Kevin Marks: 'Instead of using the terms “A…' - say something like “tech companies use massive data sets to train algorithms to match images of human faces.”

Waffle Plot | Kwan Lin

TheFox/flickr-cli: A command-line interface to Flickr. Upload and download photos, photo sets, directories via shell.

Good conversations have lots of doorknobs

Let's build a Chrome extension that steals everything

DvorakDwarf/Infinite-Storage-Glitch: ISG lets you use YouTube as cloud storage for ANY files, not just video

Ray Nayler: Don't be afraid of your own depth

A CRITICAL FIELD GUIDE FOR WORKING WITH MACHINE LEARNING DATASETS

How to Write Essays That Spread - Divinations - Every

Social threat modeling and quote boosts on Mastodon

How To label an image with an emoji using ruby rmagick with imagemagick? A: Use an XML entity escape e.g. &x1234; with the pango text renderer

March 2, 2019: has the current podcast boom busted yet? Fast forward to February 13, 2023 and yes it has!

ME :-) 'It's March 2, 2019: has the current podcast boom busted yet?

Install X11 on MacOS X; and, using gtk+

Santiago on Twitter: '11 ways ChatGPT saves me hours of work every day, and why you'll never outcompete those who use AI effectively. A list for those who write code: 1 of 16' / Twitter

13 February 2023. Canteens | Land - by Andrew Curry

<3 Deno

Inside the Heart of ChatGPT’s Darkness

circle/README.md at master · seanbaxter/circle

The Specter of 2016 - by Timothy Snyder - Thinking about...

'Pandemic-Proof' Architecture: Vancouver Symphony Orchestra Orpheum - A Rich Life

The Four Horsemen of the Tech Recession – Stratechery by Ben Thompson

Scientists discover receptor that blocks COVID-19 infection

Inspired by Darren and Derek, I created a real-time daily flickr worldwide barcode website using ruby, a rust static web server and ngrok

Dave Winer: Mapping port 80 to 1339 on ubuntu

How To refresh an image in place on a web page using JavaScript

Cantonese Lessons and Community | Cantonese Connection

SoftCreatR's Imagemagick Easy install for Ubuntu and Debian aka 'imei' worked for me on my Raspberry Pi 400 running Debian bullseye

Software and its Discontents, Part 2: An Explosion of Complexity | Kellan Elliott-McCrea <-- we build custom, complex software stacks which makes it unnecessarily hard for new developers

How I use ngrok to put datasette for my flickr 2020 photo metadata on the internet

How I use ngrok over SSH on my MacBook Air to edit my blog on my Surface Book 2

mhoye: 'Whenever I hear about M*sk losing 200 billion dollars I remind myself that there are people in the world who could simply end global hunger outright, on a whim, people who would be revered as our highest saints until the end of human history, who just decide they can't be bothered to do that, and that's why we need a wealth tax.' - Mastodon

How To get ngrok working with SSH on WSL

Stop feeding the hype and start resisting – Iris van Rooij

On Analogy-Making in Large Language Models

The Internet Transition

They Whiteboarded Me | List of companies that use whiteboarding, live-coding or other high-pressure interview tactics for evaluating software engineering candidates.

Invasive Diffusion: How one unwilling illustrator found herself turned into an AI model - Waxy.org

OpenAssistant Roadmap - Google Slides

There is no secure software supply-chain. - by John McBride

Ruby & (Ampersand) Parameter Demystified - Skorks

Software and its Discontents, January 2023, Part 1 | Kellan Elliott-McCrea: Blog

There’s no going back, let’s adapt to our pandemic present and future – Words by Josh Simmons

Lazy Person's Guide to being a NewsMaster Part 1 REVISED: Use PubSub to track your URL, name and keywords | Bryght

iO-808 Tutorial

The Third Bit · Software Design by Example 15: Code Generator

Illustrated Introduction to Cross License Collaboratives

Deploy your own Shiny app server with debian | R-bloggers

Command Line Awesome

The tab programming language.

The Last Word On Nothing | Happy 10th Birthday Finkbeiner Test!

Principles over Process - Silicon Valley Product Group : Silicon Valley Product Group

🎙️ MacWhisper

The Fediverse unlocks a world of composable distributed apps - Voices of Open Source

Fed chair Powell on the U.S. labor shortage: COVID (400K working age USA-ins died), retirements, missing immigrants

Browsh

Lights Out. ephemeral nature of our work | by David August | Dec, 2022 | DataDrivenInvestor

Deciphering Glyph :: Potato Programming

ChatGPT and Knowledge Strategy. Building low-cost cognitive assistants | by Dan McCreary | Jan, 2023 | Better Programming

archive.org of Bryght's corporate site: Brave new Web 2.0 is about expression and remixing | Bryght

Archetypes Revisited — Roden Newsletter Archive

2021:Some opinionated thoughts on SQL databases - Made of Bugs

FAQs (includes “rage-inducing simplifications”) - Teri Kanefield

We Need a Revolution in Clean Indoor Air | The Tyee

Vintage Apple's Byte magazine PDF archives

12 resolutions for programmers [2023 update

Reverse Prompt Voodoo – OUseful.Info, the blog…

Ten Facts About ChatGPT | Welcome to TeachOnline via Stephen Downes

The slab and the permacomputer

Permacomputing | viznut

Scaling Mastodon: The Compendium | Hazel Weakly

Deductive vs. big-bang book structures - without bullshit

LLMs: a bleak future ahead? - lcamtuf’s thing

Travellers crave getaways but now weigh risks of lost baggage, poor weather, illness | The Star

Howard Rheingold Mind Amplifier - Can our digital tools make us smarter?

The WELL: State of the World 2023: Bruce Sterling and Jon Lebkowsky

platform collapse

The rise and fall of peer review - by Adam Mastroianni

Mobile Phone Security for Activists and Agitators | RM: OpSec

Customize Mastodon to Change Your Post Character Limit — sweetmeat

Computational Art: 2022 Wolfram Language Winners—Wolfram Blog

Starship: Cross-Shell Prompt

Use Cases · ngs-lang/ngs Wiki

Console #88 -- Kitty, MVT, and React Spectrum

Lefsetz Letter » Blog Archive » The Escape Artist

The Accidental Taxonomist: Taxonomy Definition

The Kubernetes Handbook: A Comprehensive guide of 100 Q&A | by AceTheCloud.com by Abhishek Gupta | Dec, 2022 | Medium

Thank you Element! Leaving after being laid off after 2 years #ElementLifeboat

10 cool Apple Watch tricks you’ll wish you knew earlier | by Nikhil Vemu | Mac O’Clock | Medium

Hiring and the market for lemons

The tragedy of the commons is a false and dangerous myth | Aeon Essays

Tim Smith: 'My particular favourite undera…' - Mastodon

Maslow's Hierarchy is Bullshit - by patty krawec

Dec 27, 2018: Hopepunk, explained: the storytelling trend that weaponizes optimism - Vox

The Fourth Tradition is the humanist tradition · The Third Bit

Happy New Year 2023 / Einen guten Rutsch ins neue Jahr :-)!

Two great Adobe audio tools – vowe dot net

Aaron Parecki

Journalism is a public good. Let the public make it. - Columbia Journalism Review <- We are all journalists and software developers

Lite XL, a Super Fast Editor Written in Lua

Writing Is Magic - Marc's Blog

Interfacing Huginn with Mastodon. | by The Doctor | Medium

Richard Corsi, PhD, PE (Texas) on Twitter: '1/ If we'd only take inhalation dose of virus-laden aerosols seriously. In Canada - COVID-19 funding/person in 2020 was $770/person (much lower now). COVID-19 fatalities nearly doubled between Oct '21 and Oct '22. Wait for it ....' / Twitter

Boris Mann: '@roland the instructions fit i…' - Tools For Thought Rocks!

My Year Of The Linux Desktop - Tao of Mac

Lessons in empathy: How to respond to someone with cancer - without bullshit

Why it breaks your brain to take a compliment - The Oatmeal

The Verge: Why Signal won’t compromise on encryption, with president Meredith Whittaker

Stop Talking to Each Other and Start Buying Things: Three Decades of Survival in the Desert of Social Media

mhoye: 'The stochastic-parrot brainworms have gotten to the ACM. ' - Mastodon

User Generated Content and the Fediverse: A Legal Primer | Electronic Frontier Foundation

Harold Jarche: GPT-3 through a glass darkly

How much I’ve spent so far running my own Mastodon server on AWS

Do not buy three decades of loo paper, nor depart today for Barnard’s Star (Interconnected)

Participatory Governance and the Fediverse

With 'Immunity Debt,' Democrats are Having their Ivermectin Moment

A simple Twitter archiver

A Bloomberg terminal for Mastodon – Jon Udell

The Compassionate Programmer · The Third Bit

Start, test, then stop a localhost web server in a Bash script | Simon Willison’s TILs

Greg Wilson: Sessioncasting: Teaching Programming with Replay, Voiceover, and Branching

Matthew Saunders: 'The first in this series is an…' - Roland's Mastodon

Interconnected.org: Let’s use spreadsheets to rewire apps and make new ones (Interconnected)

Idyll Documentation | An overview.

Shakedown Complete: The Story Behind Bill C-18’s Shameful Legislative Review Process and the Race to Mandate Payment for Links - Michael Geist

Over-engineering Secret Santa with Python cryptography and Datasette

Rebroadcast: Social psychologist Jonathan Haidt on democracy, social media and how to fix America's 'ailing' institutions | On Point

Adactio: Journal—Declarative design

How to Setup and Use Logseq Sync

reading-activitypub

Disillusioned With Democracy - Teri Kanefield

Tailscale Funnel is a reverse proxy service complete with TLS cert, DNS, public IP address and HTTPS server that seems perfect for small, experimental software on the internet like snac2

Playing with ActivityPub - macwright.com

When your database is an HTTP client – Jon Udell

The cloudy layers of modern-day programming | ★❤✰ Vicki Boykis ★❤✰

Overview | Introduction to the Mastodon API using CircuitPython | Adafruit Learning System

Understanding a Protocol

What if failure is the plan?. I’ve been thinking a lot about failure… | by danah boyd | Dec, 2022 | Medium

AI Homework – Stratechery by Ben Thompson

denise | A guide to potential liability pitfalls for people running a Mastodon instance

I Want a Memory Diagram Generator · The Third Bit

Christine Lemmer-Webber:The Heart of Spritely: Distributed Objects and Capability Security

The architecture of Mastodon

jenn schiffer: 'these kids are so used to bots…' - pixel.kitchen aka 'the cool babe zone™'

How To: Make libffi6 work with Github actions and Ubuntu 22.04 and Ubuntu 20.04

Datasette Client - with SQL Cells / Observable Ambassadors | Observable

What I Want for Code in Textbooks · The Third Bit

The Feast House

Make artofwhere tights with gray patches and pink aka adventures in issue oriented development

Basic scatterplots in Threlte | Saaientist

grunfink/snac2: A simple, minimalistic ActivityPub instance (2.x, C) - snac2 - Codeberg.org

rhysd/actionlint: Static checker for GitHub Actions workflow files

Knowing and Doing: November 2022 Archives

Experimenting with Federation and Migrating Accounts | by Kris Nóva | Nov, 2022 | Medium

Simon Willison: Massively increase your productivity on personal projects with comprehensive documentation and automated tests aka issue oriented development including tests for documentation!

Massively increase your productivity on personal projects with comprehensive documentation and automated tests

A Scheme Primer

andygrove/bdt: Boring Data Tool

Mark Bernstein on Tinderbox – The Informed Life

Beautiful Racket: Why language-oriented programming? Why Racket?

Dell UltraSharp 38-Inch Curved USB-C Hub Monitor – U3821DW | Dell USA

Rahul Gopinath: Hosting your own ActivityPub instance for free

The Underlying Technology Shibboleth

My bio: November 2022 for Mastodon

Embedding Web Examples using Jotted | Thejesh GN

Export a Mastodon timeline to SQLite | Simon Willison’s TILs

Why I Stopped Using Bullet Graphs (and What I Now Use Instead) | Nightingale

Time is an illusion, Unix time doubly so...

GitHub Pages: The Missing Manual | Simon Willison’s TILs

Milky Eggs » Blog Archive » What happened at Alameda Research

Scaling Mastodon in the Face of an Exodus | Nora Codes

The Distributed Computing Manifesto | All Things Distributed

What is YunoHost? | Yunohost Documentation

Datasette Powered Investigative Journalism | bxroberts.org

ToolsForThoughtLogSeq/publish.yml at master · ToolsForThoughtRocks/ToolsForThoughtLogSeq

Mastodon migration FROM @[email protected] TO @[email protected] was smooth, thanks developers!

Robin Wieruch: Web Applications 101

Generating artwork with Haskell - Ben Kovach

Tailscale - Pop22

android - SQLite group by/count hours, days, weeks, year - Stack Overflow

I've set up my own personal mastodon instance at devdilettante.com, @[email protected] is my handle

Linux Ubuntu Installation Steps on Old MacBook Air Mid- 2012 | by Carla Martins | Code Like A Girl

microblogpub's microblog

The IndieWeb for Everyone | Max Böck

Anthchirp/mastodon-defederate: Aiding small Mastodon instance admins by tracking larger instances' server blocklists

timhutton/twitter-archive-parser: Python code to parse a Twitter archive and output in various ways

Creating Terminal Based Screencast Movies With VHS – OUseful.Info, the blog…

Dynamic DNS (DDNS)? -How it Works and Why Use It?

Honk If You Like The Fediverse! | rud.is

Running the numbers on the journey to insight - McGee's Musings

How to upgrade from Ubuntu 20.04 LTS to 22.04 LTS - nixCraft

Installed Ubuntu 22.04? Do These Things Next! - OMG! Ubuntu!

AppImage incompatibility in Ubuntu 22.04 - Development - Joplin Forum

foundational history and basic truth of Micromobility in 10 commandments. | LinkedIn

Home invasion

val town

Geoffrey Litt on Twitter: '1/ 'Build an app with a spreadsheet' is a mainstream idea now (Airtable, Glide, Coda, Notion, etc) but I believe there's still so much room to push this model further. Quick list of some (lesser-known??) projects that I find thought-provoking in this space:' / Twitter

Pluralistic: 09 Nov 2022 Delegating trust is really, really, really hard (infosec edition) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

Notes on Fediverse Protcols and Implementation: frotz.net/misc/fediverse.txt

Sanju Sinha on Twitter: 'A lot of Machine Learning (ML) I learned during my Ph.D. was from youtube. I didn't have a guide to do this effectively and thus here it is: A complete guide to studying ML from youtube: 13 best and most recent ML courses available on YouTube. 👩‍🏫🧵⤵️' / Twitter

A Scheme Primer

A Quick Fix For The Verified Status for Github on your Mastodon Profile - Jan Wildeboer’s Blog

Laurie Garrett on Twitter: 'There's a cottage industry is tearing apart the @ProPublica + @VanityFair 'expose' of the origins of #SARSCoV2 -- so many reports on the inaccuracies &amp; failures in the story, it seems hard to imagine more. But @janeqiuchina is a Chinese-speaking writer, &amp; this thread is intense.' / Twitter

My 'leaving' Twitter update as if it matters really or anybody cares :-)

Feta

github: issues/92

gh: Update API usage to Tweepy 4.x · Issue #92 · micahflee/semiphemeral

Roland Tanglao 猪肉面 on Twitter: 'i am in love with PureScript because of the awesome book 'Functional Programming made easier': https://t.co/Oz3tcd3oSf What am I missing? Is this going to be like learning Ruby where I learned something that was briefly super popular but is no longer mainstream?' / Twitter

pengx17/logseq-publish: Logseq Publish Action

Documenting the Now

Install ImageMagick with JPG, PNG and TIFF Delegates - Ubuntu (20.04)

My current 'leaving' Twitter plan as if it matters really or anybody cares :-)

Loading Twitter Birdwatch into SQLite for analysis with Datasette | Simon Willison’s TILs

imagemagick How To make a montage of images from average colour: 1st get average colour by downsizing to 1x1 ; 2nd upscale with a fixed size; this results in images in this case with 20x20 which at 80x24 leads to 1600x480

The Socialist Case for Blockchain

How To fix WSL ubuntu 22.204.1 error `nsenter: cannot open /proc/27/ns/time: No such file or directory` DamionGans/ubuntu-wsl2-system-script issues/36

Donate A Mask

cmdr2/stable-diffusion-ui: Easiest 1-click way to install and use Stable Diffusion on your own computer. Provides a browser UI for generating images from text prompts and images. Just enter your text prompt, and see the generated image.

A guide to slow looking | Tate

How to create a heatmap in R - Data Science Tutorials

Support Driven Expo 2022: Day 1 Notes – Learning (Lib)Tech

Easily automate deleting your old tweets, likes, and DMs with Semiphemeral

Marc Hedlund on Twitter: 'I found it easy to set up @GoHugoIO on @render. One benefit of this is that Render will publish a build after every commit, so you can easily publish from an iOS device using @WorkingCopyApp. https://t.co/DCT9Z6QDFj' / Twitter

Clothing and the colonial culture of appearances in nineteenth century Spanish Philippines (1820-1896)

jennybc/debugging: Talk about general debugging strategies. How to be less confused and frustrated.

Access Google Sheets using the Sheets API V4 • googlesheets4

r-lib/asciicast: Turn R scripts into terminal screencasts

Regular Expression Matching with a Trigram Index

How to set up Python in 2022

How to install ruby 3.1.2 on raspberry pi

Brent Victor from 2012: Learnable Programming

Thoughts from a Not-So-Influential Educator · The Third Bit

How to resize images and make an animated GIF in one step using imagemagick

TfT Hacker - Exploring Tools for Thought and PKM on Twitter: '1/ Tana is.... Tana is not... What is Tana to me? A lot of buzz about @tana_inc &amp; people patiently (impatiently) waiting for their invite for early access. Many compare Tana to Notion and Roam, but Tana is its own thing and in its own class. #TfT https://t.co/0JPlkDOkAn' / Twitter

Lazarus Long on Twitter: '@TheAtlantic @jdkstern13 Regarding elastomerics...they fit extremely well, even with no fit testing. Optimal to have it, but way better than N95s at fit. 26 yearsof elastos. No infections. https://t.co/oYiH1Y5IFP https://t.co/o5vogODuYw' / Twitter

From Imagemagick fonts not found in OSX

WSL fonts:: How to install fonts for all users using WSL?

imagemagick montage issues on macOS and WSL

How To:: resize and make animated gif with imagemagick in 1 step

Clerk – Nextjournal

Cleaning data with sqlite-utils and Datasette - Tutorial

I wish my web server were in the corner of my room (Interconnected)

Probably Wrong Prediction: Autonomous Vehicle 'winter' is coming in less than 5 years for G*link and other AV companies

Omar Rizwan on Twitter: 'something weird about how old-school Xanadu/hypertext concepts seem to dramatically /privilege/ 'plain text', as this well-understood basic layer that all your links and transclusions sit on top of and interconnect' / Twitter

Defining Dashboards with Metrics | Rill

How to resize images to Twitter animated GIF dimensions and then make an animated GIF using imagemagick

How to use gganimate We are R-Ladies on Twitter:: Here is some sample code to generate a random walk, create a line plot, and layer in the animation. I love how it's simple to layer within the #ggplot2 framework.

How to Draw and Use Polygons in R | FlowingData

X ONE | ERGO-HealthTech

August 2022 How to Run Stable Diffusion Locally to Generate Images

Beginner's TypeScript Tutorial | Total TypeScript

We love to hate Clippy — but what if Clippy was right? | by tash keuneman | Sep, 2022 | UX Collective

Use Super Collider to make music from photo geodata and average colour?

Got my 4th vaccination today: Moderna bivalent booster, go science go! #VaccinateThePlanet

WIP: q, xsv, graphext, dirtylittlesql, Tools for handling large CSV files from Simon Willison's mega replied to thread; CSV the universal data structure

skimpy

Tad: A fast viewer for CSV and Parquet files and SQLite and DuckDb databases that supports large files. <-- Nice alternative to (in no order) dirtylittlesql.com, graphext, knime, visidata, datasette, xsv, csvkit, R tidyverse with arrow, python pandas / dask, as well as the traditional grep / uniq / cut / sed / awk / sort / uniq etc

J. K. G. Hopster, C. Arora, C. Blunden, C. Eriksen, L. E. Frank, J. S. Hermann, M.B. O. T. Klenk, E. R. H. O’Neill & S. Steinert:Pistols, pills, pork and ploughs: the structure oftechnomoral revolutions

Introduction - Counterexamples in Type Systems

Build a Bike Patch and Flat Kit in 2022 | Reviews by Wirecutter

Sticker Drop on the App Store for iOS 16 - lift your fav part of an image and turn it into a digital sticker

Russell A. Poldrack: Statistical Thinking for the 21st Century

Learn Kubernetes using Red Hat Developer Sandbox for OpenShift | Red Hat Developer

Me:: I don't believe in this propaganda nor do I believe in `S🇾stemic ⒜ltruism`! Meditations On M*loch | Slate Star Codex

Leah Elliott: Contra Chr*me – a webcomic – How G*ogle's browser became a threat to privacy and democracy, a 2019 re-do of Scott McCloud‘s 2008: G*ogle-commissioned Chr*me comic

Replit - GhostWriter Beta and AI Mode

The travesty of liberalism — Crooked Timber

Who Can It Be Now — Real Life

Me:: 2022: Nope, wrong in 2022 and 2024 2015:: The Electric Car is going to take over the world soon - Geoff's Blog

(...) — USB, Thunderbolt, Displayport & docks

The Datasette Ecosystem — Datasette documentation

Zack Scholl: croc Fast, simple, and e2e encrypted file transfer between any two computers. <- so many great CLI tools so little time. See 'Previously'

Why This Computer Scientist Says All Cryptocurrency Should “Die in a Fire” ❧ Current Affairs

Stephen's Web ~ Dog Whistles, Covertly Coded Speech, and the Practices that Enable Them ~ Stephen Downes

Basic Cantonese A grammer and Workbook, Yip and Matthews

I have 3 laptops and 2 Raspberry Pis: one or more of them is always online, couldn't I use them as my own CDN to serve a static website?

Free hosting from for profit companies like Heroku, Slack etc doesn't work. Don't depend on it! Only viable long term solution is for the UN Black Helicopters :-) i.e. the government needs to offer hosting

War and Industrial Policy Zltan Pozsar - Credit Suisse Plus

Simon Willison:: Scraping web pages from the command line with shot-scraper

ME:: really :-) ?!? Latacora:: Stop Using Encrypted Email

Vanbikes: Vancouver's Bicycle People & the Fight for Transportation Change, 1986-2011 - Highly Recommended

GPS – Bartosz Ciechanowski

Mechanical Watch – Bartosz Ciechanowski

Cypress Challenge 2022: a few minutes slower than the last 'real' one in 2019 but happy!

20 GREAT OPEN QUESTIONS

Airmega AP-1512HH

Outside Looking In Approaches to Content Moderation in End-to-End Encrypted Systems

Paranoia on Parade | Washington Spectator

GitHub - adbar/trafilatura: Python & command-line tool to gather text on the Web: web crawling/scraping, extraction of text, metadata, comments

New tools for thought are a wee step forward from wikis and mindmapping because they are open source, easier to host and share unlike past tools like wikis

(1) boB Rudis 🇺🇦 on Twitter: 'I've been playing w/Quarto for abt as long as I noticed it in my daily git-stalking ages ago. I still marvel at what's in this super-condensed ex: using python for some bits, passing data to R, then R passing munged data to Observable for charting/displaying. It's pure magic. https://t.co/9jE3ExwoRW' / Twitter

Pacman game written in R with {nara} and {eventloop} - coolbutuseless

(1) Danielle Navarro on Twitter: 'Um. So. I wrote a thing. Should anyone out there happen to be interested in the fairly extensive notes on generative art in R written to accompany my #RStudioConf2022 workshop, here they are! A little #rtistry love for today 💕 https://t.co/hLqSeI2OCr' / Twitter

Revisiting 'The Power of Context' | Synesthesia

Averting Cambridge Analytica in the Metaverse: Identity, Privacy… — Anastasia

What skills shortage? <- There is no vocational skills shortage, just a leadership and real aka soft skills shortage

Robot 31 dash N aka Test Driven Development in Lua on an iPad using Codea

(2) Harold Jarche on Twitter: 'Hierarchical power, which has informed most of our organizational design for the past century is actually debilitating. Not only does power corrupt, it causes brain damage. https://t.co/sbBmD93eg7' / Twitter

C3049 doorway to the Lufthansa office at C4100 (who handle lost luggage) is NOT in a secure area and it is to the right of the oversized baggage counter in international at YVR

Why Minimal Guidance During Instruction Does Not Work: An Analysis of the Failure of Constructivist, Discovery, Problem-Based, Experiential, and Inquiry-Based Teaching: Educational Psychologist: Vol 41, No 2

How many languages do we need The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Responsible Machine Learning to be translated to in order to learn about responsible machine learning? useR! 2022 Conference | by Anna Kozak | ResponsibleML | Jul, 2022 | Medium

Extreme Beliefs Are the Hardest to Quit ::

Being Nice vs Kind - What's The Difference? (8 Experts Explain)

NISTIR 8202, Blockchain Technology Overview | CSRC

Megan Carpenter via Tara Robertson via Nancy White: Stop Assuming Good Intent; instead: I’ll give you grace if you give me effort

How to mount an iPhone webcam: which mount is best

Feed Firefox Support Questions to GPT-3 by following Simon Willison's HowTo and see what 'answers' it comes up with?

Tested positive for COVID 19 on May 16, tested negative on May 27, 2022, no fever, just headache and sore throat day 1, headache was gone day 2, sore throat took a week to go, felt tired

Open a debugging shell in GitHub Actions with tmate | Simon Willison’s TILs

The Evolutionary Search for Our Perfect Past

How to to Clean Our Indoor Air Properly Against COVID-19 | Time

(1) Hugh McGuire on Twitter: 'Just published something over at Medium, 'What are different book formats good at?' https://t.co/CCreMWgdCG' / Twitter

Interactive Multiple File Search and Replace using fd aka fdfind and sad instead of sed; use sd for just stdin replacement; also check out diff-so-fancy

(2) Actually, on Twitter: 'Via @cwarzel’s Galaxy Brain newsletter this morning: “Morally Motivated Networked Harassment as Normative Reinforcement.” https://t.co/mfEEL3cUK4 Fascinating research paper about an important dynamic in social networks both online and off.' / Twitter

missing concepts in link culture? | maya.land

Interview: Ramez Naam, futurist, author, and investor

How to Walk (12 miles a day) - by Chris Arnade

Optimizing PNGs in GitHub Actions using Oxipng | Simon Willison’s TILs

Open a debugging shell in GitHub Actions with tmate | Simon Willison’s TILs

Comby

Using SQLite and Datasette with Fly Volumes

Fly.io: the Reclaimer of Heroku's Magic - Xe

robocadey: Shitposting as a Service - Xe

(1) chica marx on Twitter: 'a lot of current discussiosn of 'the male gaze' seem less useful or interesting than Laura Mulvey's 1975 formulation of it: https://t.co/yIGSAU5DSi' / Twitter

Etsy Engineering | How the 2020 Mask Surge Reshaped Etsy’s Taxonomy Capabilities

What Is a Major Chord?

Supercharging GitHub Actions with Job Summaries

Using Leonardo SVG Palettes in R | rud.is

Write good Alt Text to describe images | Digital Accessibility

We need a definitive exit from our Covid-19 pandemic. Here’s the roadmap

How to recover lost Python source code if it's still resident in-memory

City of Vancouver accident data on Datasette lite at lite.datasette.io

The NFT creation user journey

My Tweet: How to host large SQLite files >50MB with CORS headers (since github won't allow >50MB files)

Drum Machine in R

Greatly Revised Edition of Tidyverse Skeptic

Thanks to Simon Willison's lite.datasette.io you can now query any SQLite data with CORS headers anywhere and share the query URL with others so it can spread virally :-)! (e.g. 2021 Firefox SUMO Support questions) on any web browser including desktop, iOS and Android

Learning to Read, Again David Kolb Winter 2020

How to blog

Visidata

Notes on Changing from Rmarkdown/Bookdown to Quarto

On The Origins Of Hypertext In The Disasters Of The Short 20th Century

jq Language Description

Programmable Notes

Uncurled

Matt Webb: Interconnected:Apps are too complex so maybe features should be ownable and tradable <-- give the people want they want: apps made out of secure composable configurable components

Drummer by Dave Winer is my current favourite for twitter threads

The Best Toolbox

The trouble with sentiment analysis

Map and Nested Lists

Baby's First AWS

Presentation tips to look more prepared and organized <-- tl;dr Put up title slide before beginning; post slides online; have one photograph ready beautiful tl;dr slide; have a hashtag for your talk; post/tweet about just beforehand

Look before you leap The Different Types of Situational awareness

On anti-crypto toxicity

Presentation tips to look more prepared and organized

Building a Covid sewage Twitter bot (and other weeknotes)

JavaScript Needs Blocks

On the Unhappy Consciousness of Neoreactionaries

Pearl Leff: In Praise of Memorization <-- YES I mostly agree AND instead of memorization I would say deeply learning something (which often involves some sort of memorization) and then writing it down, filing in a place you can remember and then forgetting it :-)

In Praise of Memorization

Pangur

The Untold Story of SQLite with Richard Hipp <- with billions of tests

The Complete Argument Against Crypto

Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee Meeting

Returning To The Office Is Creating The Great Reckoning

Font Awesome in R, loaded but not found by waffle

Modern Unix

Stack Overflow: Can't use font awesome in R aka 'extra step to get fontawesome 4.7 to work', my previous blog post from January 9, 2022 about 4.7 won't work without it

Steampipe: select * from cloud;

HTTPS – a (huge!) simplification

Firefox users should be able to keep the pre-Firefox 89 UI if they want but the reality is this isn't possible since we don't have proper layering and abstraction in all software not just Firefox

The Sunday Show: A Conversation with evelyn douek

2021 SUMO Firefox Desktop Support Questions in a SQLite file: 317 questions on June 4, 2021 about Firefox look and feel changes in Firefox 89 (used DB Browser for SQLite, csvstack, csvs-to-sqlite)

How can I add a column to a CSV file?

Metastable Failures in Distributed Systems

Deep Learning Is Hitting a Wall

The Edited Latecomer's Guide to Crypto

Confessions of an Information Hoarder

Build a Temporal'Hello World!' app from scratch in Go

Masks Off, Back in Office: Why Ventilation Becomes More Important

How does Ethereum work, anyway ?

The Time Trap of Productivity

ABCD framework for feedback

The Billionaire’s Bard

Free computing e.g. at github actions isn't free; free cloud computing considered harmful (because environment: see Steven Gonzalez Monserrate January 27, 2022: The Cloud Is Material: On the Environmental Impacts of Computation and Data Storage via The Staggering Ecological Impacts of Computation and the Cloud via Kottke

How Russians think, and why they do what they do

An Engineering Argument for Basic Income

What Deters Russia

Steven Gonzalez Monserrate January 27, 2022: The Cloud Is Material: On the Environmental Impacts of Computation and Data Storage

Know Your Team’s Guide to Rethinking Performance Reviews

Okuda Hiroko: The Casio Employee Behind the “Sleng Teng” Riddim that Revolutionized Reggae

Very Abstract Pixel Art

P*tin s*cks and War s*cks!

Heather Hedden on Taxonomies: Taxonomy helps level the field and make more people good at searching (got to read her blog and book, The Accidental Taxonomist!)

Debugging Certificate Errors

Why We Hate Your Security Reports aka Why your support questions are not detailed enough and written clearly enough for us to fix the problem quickly together

Covid-19 Was a Dry Run . . . We Still Aren’t Ready

The Myth of the Equal Opportunity A*shole

The Atlantic: The Plan to Stop Every Respiratory Virus at Once: 6 air changes / hour in every room

Don't Look Up is my pick for movie of the year 2021

Boring crypto definitions

Awesome critique of crypto/web3

Cryptocurrency Is a Giant Ponzi Scheme

AI note garden: link suggestions

Fifty cognitive biases

Modern Text Features in R

Networked Orgs and tooling

Paul Virilio: Inventing the Shipwreck - what future disasters are inherent in today's technologies? (e.g. the shipwreck was inherent in the invention of the ship)

Robin Wong's OM-D Cheat Sheet - Updated 2019 Version

Fragments – Fuzzy Search, Pattern Matching and Retrieval Using Python and SQLite

SQLime: SQLite Playground

json_extract() path syntax in SQLite

Use fontawesome to display awesome characters for Firefox support tags (antivirus, operating system, certificates, addons, etc) but currently the R fontawesome package only supports fontawesome 4.7 even though the current version is version 5 and 6 is in beta

Using unicode characters as shape

Firefox Support Question Art: Stack images for operating system, anti-virus, sync,email, gmail, cookies, certificates. bookmarks, javascript, addons, youtube, facebook, chrome, chromium, webrtc, zoom, duckduckgo, microsoft, google

Gina Apostol's Bibliolepsy - got to read this

RPi 4 WordPress server with Cloudflare Free via Dynamic WAN IP

Datatypes in SQLite

flickr.photos.search API change? woe_id is now woeid?

What art should I make from the 25000 Firefox Support questions from 2021?

This Bear’s For You! (Or, Is It?) Can Companies Use Copyright and Trademark To Claim Rights to Public Domain Works?

Server(shiny)-less dashboards with R, {htmlwidgets} and {crosstalk}

Up and running with officedown

Happy Holidays 2021-22 Got my 3rd shot (Pfizer) on Dec 9 2021 #vaccinatetheplanet

Thej: Extract Data from HTML/XML/JSON using Xidel

Ton

Zettelkasten — How One German Scholar Was So Freakishly Productive: One idea per post, and link to a previous post with context

Max Read: Is web3 bullshit? And is that even the right question?

Vancouver: The Good Parts

morals in the machine

#279: Houdini Is Not as Scary as You Think

100 years of whatever this will be

27-Nov-2021: Logseq Releases, Mobile Preview, Plugins, Workflows, Videos

The Handwavy Technobabble Nothingburger

Pedagogy and the Logic of Platforms

What is a Wildcard Person?

How to perform well under pressure

City of Vancouver Places to Eat Outside in the winter when it's not raining and when it IS raining

Labour Poetry

Metabase as a lightweight app server

Jake Archibald: How to win at CORS

2019 SUMMER GEAR GUIDE - CLOTHING

Coordination Headwind - How organizations are like slime molds

Peter Welch from 2014: Programming Sucks<--- it does until it doesn't :-) i.e. we get secure verified software for all layers and components and something better than spreadsheets for so-called 'non programmers'

How to Make Print-ready Graphics in R, with ggplot2

Generative art resources in R

The Jump to Hyperspace, Brooklyn Zelenka, ElixirConf Keynote

Greg Wilson: A Critical History of Logo and Constructionist Learning - 'I believe very strongly that we will only get through the next fifty years if we start to care about each other and our collective future more than we do right now'

Stand-up Meetings Are Dead (and What To Do Instead

Should You Respond To Questions Before Your Members?

Photography Off the Scale (edited by Tomáš Dvořák, Jussi Parikka) calls for a reconsideration of both scholarly and artistic approaches and concepts in the face of our contemporary image excess.

spyder ide for python is like rstudio for R

I made artofwhere leggings from my red-ish and pink-ish flickr photos 2019-2020

Dave Winer's Drummer proves that the best way to blog is through an outliner

Make the legs for artofwhere tights using red pink flickr 2019-2020

Introducing {facetious} - alternate facets for ggplot2

Rainbow Parentheses in RStudio

New informal rules: name the R script the same as the output graphic, post it to flickr and use a small dataset using red pink average colour example from 2019-2020 flickr average colour

R Studio Primers

Final volume of Recursions: Hardwired Temporalities

A Succinct Intro to R

The Best Software For Every Need

Blockchain, Explained

How to create an ggrepel plot of R's 657 plotrix colours of the average colour of my 2019-2020 flickr photos, x axis is time in unix seconds since 1970 using R, y axis is the average colour using the plotrix colours

My Personal Blockers on Getting Started With JupyterLab

The present needs files

Photography Off the Scale Technologies and Theories of the Mass Image

Screencasting technical guide

Demystifying Public Speaking

Visualization Mnemonics for Software Principles

DIY Air Filters For Classrooms? Experts Are Enthusiastic — And A Citizen Scientist Makes It Easy

Command Line Interface Guide

Introducing 3D ggplots with rayshader

How to create a smaller dataset with just a flag to indicate whether average colour is present, plotrix average colour, date taken in unix time, yyyy-mm-dd

How to create an encircled plot of R's 657 plotrix colours of the average colour of my 2019-2020 flickr photos, x axis is time in unix seconds since 1970 using ggalt and ggplot in R, y axis is the average colour using the plotrix colours

Easy multi-panel plots in R using facet_wrap() and facet_grid() from ggplot2

Moments savoured over many courses in Vancouver

How To: Parse Times from flickr and how to Use a specific timezone with R and lubridate e.g. `America/Vancouver` (broken in lubridate 1.7.4 to 1.7.9)

Documentation unit tests

ggplot2 ggalt geom_encircle() sample plot of average colour

Can't add geom_point to line plot with stat_count <-- how to plot points by summing the number of occurrences instead of using the value literally whi

Bruno Rodrigues The quest for fast(er?) row-oriented workflows

Cypress Challenge 2021 - Tour de Cure 2021 160km 'century ride' formerly known as the Ride to Conquer Cancer - Bicycling as therapy and to fund cancer research

aRtsy: Generative Art with R and ggplot2

Cory Doctorow :: August 25, 2020 :: How to destroy surveillance capitalism ; tl;dr break up the monopolies

009 - Boris Mann on Fission and the Webnative SDK

More DIY COVID fan plus filter from @DavidElfstrom $CDN55 plus tax! We are all E12Ts now part 8888 or something :-) Bonus link: Michael Kalus's DIY fan setup

DIY Air Filters For Classrooms? Experts Are Enthusiastic — And A Citizen Scientist Makes It Easy <--- we are all epidemiologists e12ts:-) now via this tweet: Great article with Dean Richard Corsi @CorsIAQ on how to build a cheap, effective air purifier. Included are instructions on how to build an air purifier yourself. <-- not sure this will be the most effective but I bet something cheap and cheerful like this will work well!

CyberChef The Cyber Swiss Army Knife - a web app for encryption, encoding, compression and data analysis

DIY Air Filters For Classrooms? Experts Are Enthusiastic — And A Citizen Scientist Makes It Easy

Computer Scientist Hilary Mason Explains Machine Learning in 5 Levels of Difficulty

Fragment: Tools of Production – ggalt and encircling scatterplot points in R, ggplot2 and Python <--- geom_encircle() looks great to circle photos average colour?!? also geom_lollipop and dumbell! both look useful

Read color hex codes

Deploy Interactive Real-Time Data Visualizations on Flask With Bokeh

2017-12-13::apenwarr.ca::An epic treatise on scheduling, bug tracking, and triage

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wsl2 not supported on c630 because of firmware issues?

Black Software: The Internet & Racial Justice, from the Afronet to Black Lives Matter

Tiffani Bell : It’s Time We Dealt With White Supremacy in Tech

jstor:: Institutionalized Racism: A Syllabus

Clapback chest:: a search engine for all things social and political (within the context of the U.S.), centered mostly (though not exclusively) on common talking points we'd deem uninformed (or ignorant) as it relates to race

Black Organizations And Anti-Racist Groups Canadians Can Support Now

Urgent message from Peter Corning, basis 4 for Synthecracy = shared values for Cooperation

afro.ca vancouver black owned restaurants, groceries, etc

Planning for Coexistence? Recognizing Indigenous Rights Through Land-use Planning in Canada and Australia, by the Australian academic Libby Porter and Canadian Janice Barry

send emails with gmail api

Downes:: Where do Blog posts come from?

Black lives matter

How I made Art of Where Tights aka leggings and mask from Vancouver 2020 Pink Petal photos

adventure cycling podcast

Mac apps for recording of podcasts: piezo for simple, audio hijack for complicated, what are the Windows equivalents?

deno is a browser for code

Practical Python Programming

HTML parsing for pup - Using the pup tool to more sanely extract data from HTML files (Stanford Journalism Computational Methods in the Civic Sphere)

HowTo: Open support questions tagged escalate

10 Mind-Bending Hard Science Fiction Books by Women

a short history of bi-directional links

HowTo: Open a random 25% of support questions using shuf and awk and wsl-open

Ajit Joakar: AI superpowers – for people and jobs

The Persistence of Anti-Asian Racism in Vancouver ¦ Part I

HowTo: SQLite SQL query to get all May 1-25, 2020 Firefox desktop en-us questions that contain sync in title, content or tags columns

HowTo: Datasette on Glitch for Firefox Desktop support questions January 1 to May 25, 2020

i hate hybrid meetings

Cúagilákv Jess Housty: Find Your Pod in in The Tyee

Maarten Lambrechts: How to Make Animated Histograms in R, with ggplot and gganimate

hauntsaninja via simon willison: pyp: Easily run Python at the shell

Dave Pollard: There must be a better way

To get a better programming job, explain your problem-solving skills

Create a SQLite database from a kitsune question CSV file

carbon

Carbon.now.sh beautiful code formatting for twitter and moar

Captura

Twitter images can embed 1K in alt text like R code or a PGP Key

Matt Webb: How about hyperlocal pandemic forecasting

20,000 Roam Tags with Spacy

How To get all Firefox Desktop SUMO KB Articles using pup WITHOUT using grep by using 'attr{href}'

How To get all Firefox Desktop SUMO KB Articles using pup

How to Make Animated Histograms in R, with ggplot and gganimate

Chris Corrigan: Constraints that enable emergence

Windows Subsystem for Linux Installation Guide for Windows 10

jackywinter: introducing replier.app for basecamp, slack and gmail

OpenDataCam

brave new waves

Can't wait for Lev Manovich's Cultural Analytics which should be 100% applicable to my hobby of making tshirts and leggings from flickr data

Life during the Pandemic #3. @dale42 Tests Negative For COVID-19

Revised workflow for rollingroland.com

om: Productivity: what is it good for? Me: Absolutely nothing. Being kind and useful and creative and helping the world move forward is much better

Michael L. Forman: Kapampangan Dictionary and Kapampangan Grammar Notes - Two books I'll probably never read :-)

mentoring: Social Distancing Doesn’t Have to Disrupt Mentorship

We Need a New Science of Progress - Humanity needs to get better at knowing how to get better

Das gläserne Fahrrad

Post Corona: The Cosmic Opportunity - Be a better person

Losing Lena is well worth watching! A doc which discusses the exclusion of women from tech through the story of a woman whose Playboy centerfold became the basis of the modern JPEG

iPad + arm mount + Beats Pro or AirPods = awesome Zoom combo

Matt Webb: Domestic telepresence at scale: some notes

parveen:: : It is the responsibility of a manager to give direct, timely, actionable feedback

Hugo vs Jekyll: an epic battle of static site generator themes

structured text tools

A History of the Bicycle in the American City

Apparently socks work as microphone pop filters?!?

Adrian Daub: There Is No Alternativelessness - What's been hiding Germany's hidden crisis?

How to import JSON data into Google Sheets to create a live COVID-19 chart "in 5 minutes without code" well actually :-) there is some code and it's called: importJSON

Venkatesh Rao: How What and Where to Build

Let's Build a Simple Database - Writing a sqlite clone from scratch in C

let's build a browser engine!

Over 40 In Vancouver: Life during the Pandemic #2 Mundanity For @sillygwailo Artichokes in Burnaby @bigheadtaco ?

Use hugo server --renderToDisk to force your Hugo posts to be rendered to disk instead of RAM which is the current default

ben congdon: switching from jekyll to hugo

What's the first self indulgent thing you're going to do after things go "back to normal"? I'm going to @revolver_coffee. You?

how to record voice chats in zoom, imessage, skype etc using audio hijack

Glean:chutten: How much does that data cost

Die Kurve ist flacher geworden. Go Germany Go! Go Germany Helping The Rest Of Europe Go!

Free ebook: Crafting Interpreters by Robert Nystrom sounds great

Garret's rebuttal to chuq's blogging is dead

vowe:Comeback der Woche :: Skype <--- really?!? wirklich?!? Meet Now is awesome?!?

Vancouver physically distanced bicycle rides during the pandemic: stay away from popular routes, beware of intersections with pedestrian paths

Emma Humphries: WONTFIX

RR: Record and Replay Go Backwards in Time in C++ on Linux with GDB

Against Waldenponding II

Agree with Chuq! The blog is dead and so is RSS but since i'm not trying to sell you anything (yet) i will continue to blog, generate RSS & not have an email newsletter #ymmv #doWhatMakesYouHappyAndGivesYouThe'Engagement'YouSeek :-)

David Crawshaw: Remembering the LAN <- Amen! Programming should be fun, not combat against dark forces on the internet :-)

Thank you to all front line workers

Margo Aaron: Coronavirus Is Serious, But Panic Is Optional

REMINDER: rolandmicroblog.com is my truly random podcast with no ads and no bumpers and hopefully will make you smile always :-)

recent iPad + Airpods + mount = best combo for Zoom? <- From Several grumpy opinions about remote work at Tailscale

Over 40 In Vancouver Life During The Pandemic #1

Ribbonfarm: Against waldenponding aka against unplugging for self-care aka instead become part of the giant social computer in the cloud (GSCITC)

Take Firefox questions in CSV and convert to SQL lite using Simon Willison's csvs-to-sqlite which I guess uses the sqlite3 import command underneath?

Everest Pipkin: Open source, experimental, and tiny tools roundup

Kieran Healy - A COVID Small Multiple in R with ggplot2

jscher's Printable Extension for Firefox

That Discomfort You’re Feeling Is Grief - Elisabeth Kübler-Ross's five stages of grief updated with a sixth: find meaning

Jens von Bergmann: Canada COVID-19 interactive growth rate explorer

Kieran Healy: Get Your Epidemiology from Epidemiologists <--- awesome documented R code

COVID-19 checkvist list of links

The Books We Can Use to Rebuild Civilization, Selected by Neal Stephenson, Brian Eno, Tim O’Reilly & More

Glitch for remote work and gratuitous :-) WFH advice from me to you

The Friday Cover: Coronavirus Will Change the World Permanently. Here’s How.

Litt and Jackson: Wildcard: Spreadsheet-Driven Customization of Web Applications

Chris Corrigan: Sense-making in real time: Observe; look for patterns; inquire; what keeps the patterns in place?

Peace and Love from Vancouver. Wash your hands. Socially isolate if you can. Be kind

The Basecamp Guide to Internal Communication

Josh Bernoff: You’re sharing essential content. Here’s how to get colleagues to read it.

I fully endorse the use of they

Will we have to go through the Kübler-Ross five stages of grief for our pre-pandemic lifestyle? I am an optimist therefore I don't think so!

Day 2 of working at home! Really miss the office and most importantly my colleagues

Daily updates from COVD-19 in British Columbia from Vancouver Coastal Health

Howard and Gugger: Deep Learning for Coders with fastai and PyTorch: AI Applications Without a PhD <--- sounds too good to be true :-) but the jupyter notebooks sound great

Firefox:The Product-Details JSON API, need to call this in my Firefox support questions scripts

Is there a word for missing-hanging-in-the-office-with-my-fab-colleagues-due-to-being-heavily-encouraged-to-work-at-home? :-) How about "corona'd" or "so 2020"?

How to install python 3.7 into a python virtualenv on WSL

Firefox Support Question to CSV for tagging by Mechanical Turk Workflow

How to: retain selected fields and remove the rest in a CSV file using mlr aka miller

I want off Mr. Golang's Wild Ride: 'Go is a Bell Labs fantasy, and not a very good one at that' (kind of like C++ before it, am I right :-) ?)

Use Transfer Learning from prior image models to generate tshirt graphics?

Fastpages from fastai I don't fully understand: you still need a server to render python notebooks for testing purposes, right? Altair Python Visualizations seem excellent & Blogging via Word files is great though

How To: Fact Check the corona virus aka Covid-19 crisis

The good ole days at Bryght :-) 'Web 1.0' versus 'Web 2.0'

SQLite, JSON, CSV :-) the eternal golden braid of formats? so many tools for normal folks to grok them without programming e.g. sqlitebrowser

Payak 2020: 1:40 oops fell 3 times in the first 5km, but mountain view climb was fast because of the klaebo running up hill diagonal stride technique

Eugene Wallingford: Programming feels like home. <-- To me it feels like a comfortable chesterfield :-) Ton's got a great take on it too #ymmv

Imagemagick v7 is much faster than OilyPNG or VIPS for creating images, cropping them and montaging i.e. collaging them

How I made Art of Where Tights from Berlin photos

pup for HTML is like jq for JSON

Robin Sloan: An app can be a home-cooked meal

Max Woolf: How To Make Custom AI-Generated Text With GPT-2

Parasite is a deeply disturbing yet great film

Visualizing Google Trends using ggplot2 and geom_area instead of ggridges

Execute Program is also excellent

You Don't Know JS is excellent

Building The Analytics Team At Wish: Great insights about data pipelines, data warehouses and visualizations

a most perfect union: just in time compilers

SQL Murder Mystery - learn SQL by solving a murder

Jon Ippolito: The Art of Misuse <-- creative misuse is thinking outside of the box to stretch our minds to accommodate what's outside the box

hey.com - email reinvented by the Basecamp folks

Eleventy Love - Building a blog with tags

jenny offill novel weather via nytimes:: how to write fiction when the planet is falling apart

Stowe Boyd Building A Zettelkasten (notes that are: atomic, autonomous, linked, explain why, your own words, links to references) In Typora

CHI2020 paper, "What is Wrong with Computational Notebooks? Pain Points, Needs, and Design Opportunities" <--- Difficult to use with Version control, crashes, difficult to reproduce and reuse, etc

Federico Pereiro: 'S3 cost can be very significant; downloading a GB once currently costs 3-4x the cost of storing it for an entire month' - also cool stuff about backends using nginx, SSL, redis, node, etc

I'm in Zurich until Monday morning then Berlin until Saturday morning

Anca Dumitrache: Truth in Disagreement: Crowdsourcing Labeled Data for Natural Language Processing

How to clear a field in a CSV file using miller aka mlr

Working with 4 University of Alberta Computer Science Students in the CANOSP program on a machine learning project to auto-tag Firefox desktop support questions based on a human trained dataset

Week 1 of Firefox 72 Firefox Support Questions: same rolling total as Firefox 70 and 71 so far

Rudy Rucker: The Lifebox, the Seashell, and the Soul

Christoph Molnar: Interpretable Machine Learning A Guide for Making Black Box Models Explainable.

Daniel Shiffman: ml5.js Pose Estimation with PoseNet aka Machine Learning: Photos to skeletons

Allen Holub: What is Agile? The elevator pitch.

Can bicycles save the world? -> Nikolaeva and Nello-Deakin: Exploring velotopian urban imaginaries: where Le Corbusier meets Constant?

Ivan Lokhov of datawrapper.de: Let’s eat our way through Berlin

Vowe: A personal Kanban board needs four columns:Do, Doing, Do Not, Done

Outrageous opinion: Government should take over transport starting with cities, then suburbs then the countryside then planes and replace with zero emission vehicles

Howard Rheingold:: Crap Detection Resources

2010s lookback: Total user experience rules! Proof is in the iPhone, AirPods and Apple Watch

NPR: It's 2050 And This Is How We Stopped Climate Change

Probably Wrong Prediction: Zero non Zero Emission Vehicles in cities by 2029

Happy New Year 2020 / Einen guten Rutsch ins neue Jahr :-)!

Happy Holidays and Happy New Year. See you in 2020!

Raul: Granular Planning and Rule of Threes strategy: Break into thirds, do 3 things per day, budget 3 times the amount needed

Operation Elop: The final years of Nokia's mobile phones

You are in a maze of twisty proprietary :-) email gmail silos all alike aka Create a mail merge using Gmail and Google Sheets

Ivy Lee Method: Write down 6 tasks at end of day, then do the 1st one first, 2nd one second, etc

Satellite Studio: OpenStreetMap Haiku <-- 'tis fabulous

scrcpy: Display and control your Android device

OpenAPI to GraphQL looks great

Greg Wilson: Allocating Responsibilities (rotating decomposition is my favourite)

Simon Willison: Better presentations through story telling: AIM, Star (and bonus: sparklines)

Tomas Petricek: Analyzing and visualizing data with F#

Greg Wilson: Cutting Corners

textpipe: clean and extract metadata from text

Aaron Parecki: Tools and apps for home automation without relying on cloud services

Carolyn Stransky: Life is hard and so is learning GraphQL at ReactJS Girls Conference

Windows 10 keyboard shortcut: Control Shift End to select to end of line (and then delete to delete it)

Inessential: The best time to start a blog is 20 years ago. The second-best time is today :-)

Enjoying my bluetooth SmartMike+ from Kickstarter for recording podcasts to rolandmicroblog wirelessly

Inessential: This Feature Should Be Easy

Carolyn Stransky: How to remove condescending language from documentation

Zazzle infographic from Berlin July 2019 - 75 pixel circular thumbnail from 168 thumbnails (24x28 = 1800px2100px) (spot yesterday's bug: 'ls -1tr' instead of 'ls -1')

Zazzle infographic from Berlin July 2019 - 150px circular thumbnail from 168 thumbnails (12x14 = 1800px2100px)

Emma Humphries: Extracting a list from a webpage

What is your happy non tech place? Mine is cross-country skiing, taking photos (not editing them), bicycling and walking with my family

Ink and Switch - Local First Software

Kitsune Questions and Answers API to CSV with tests

NICE TO HAVE: Kitsune questions and answers API tester

Ilya Kreymer's Client-Side Replay Technology: using service workers to emulate web servers in web browsers

Hannah Howard: Why do we only care about programmers?

Backed Bangle.js: the hackable Smart Watch

Possible Berlin 2020 Mozilla All Hands Swag: Berlin circular cropped photos on the back, contributor infographic on the front

HowTo: Concat multiple CSV Files into one using head and sed

In 2004 We In The Blogging World Didn’t Have Cynicism

Congrats Miss 604 on 15 years of blogging!

Someday I'll wear an open source watch running my own software on my wrist perhaps a future version of DSTIKE ESP32 Watch DevKit

I must drop my own CSV into this bar chart race d3.js tutorial

In 2019, unlike 2004, we write defensively and attenuate for the search and newsfeed algorithms

Timezone math is not my friend :-)

It's 2019: Windows is a viable choice for non developers and developers who can develop in the cloud or don't mind WSL's slowness; WSL is the gateway to Linux laptops

What is the Strava endgame? Acquisition?

Pinboard -> SQLite -> datasette -> glitch

Hey Tyee Commenters! Scholars Studied You. Here’s What They Found <-- leads me to believe there's something to 'de-ranting' i.e. only displaying ranting language to the 'original ranter', everybody else only sees the constructive language

Simon Willison: Google Cloud Shell is a web-based terminal providing access to a VM with a persistent 5GB home directory. I believe anyone with a Google account who clicks this link will get a terminal

Firefox 70 Desktop looks to be a quiet release compared to FF65-69 based on the cumulative sum of the SUMO Forum questions in the first two weeks

R base graphics to audio: devoutaudio

My new 1 pager restaurant reviews site hosted on glitch using eleventy

HOWTO: turn off clipping in R plots with ggpot2

Firefox 65-69 Cumulative Sum Day 1-28 of Firefox Support Questions on support.mozilla.org

Do you remember you first photo on instagram? Mine was launch day October 6, 2010

StaSh - Shell Like an Expert in Pythonista - will probably help me with GPS driven music on the iPhone

How to Help Someone Use a Computer by Phil Agre

How to make PCTV USB TV Stick 800e and 801e from 2010 work on Windows 10

Sara Alspaugh and Nava Zokaei and Andrea Liu and Cindy Jin and Marti A. Hearst: Futzing and Moseying:Interviews with Professional Data Analysts on Exploration Practices

R Studio: Reminder that you will get obscure error messages because R Studio saves and restores all your variables

I do not support F*cbook news and I do not support FB's partnership with Br*itbart

James Tyack: Why Your Engineering Teams Need Incident Commanders

Jill Wetzler: Disrupting Bias in Feedback

Torie Bosch: The lines of code that changed everything

R and Lubridate: How to add week number starting with Firefox release date i.e. Tuesday instead of Sunday or Monday to a dataframe so Tuesday October 22, 2019 - Monday October 28, 2019 is Firefox 70 week 1 and 29Oct-4Nov2019 is FF70 Week 2

Got my Fido Samsung Note 8 Android Security Update for October 2019 on October 21, 2019 - 20 days after Google released it on October 1, 2019

A tale of 2 plots: Most Firefox desktop SUMO questions come in the first two weeks based on data from Firefox 65 to 69

windows 10 aarch64 lenovo c630 crash 20191020_182618 last crash October 5

More than 100 Firefox support questions in the SUMO Forum in a single day means something meaningful like the add-ons outage is going on

Firefox 65-68: Number of desktop questions on support.mozilla.org by release week for the first 4 weeks of a release

Also Highly Recommended: Getting Clojure

Highly Recommended: Clojure for the brave and true

How to make cider work in project.clj: install lein 2.9.1, set dependencies to nrepl 0.6.0 and plugins for cider-nrepl to 0.21.1

RStudio build script changes: changed from JDK7 to JDK 8, bionic from debian

Successfully compiled ARM64 Windows 10 R Studio Server v1.2.5001 on Lenovo C630

No ARM64 version of RStudio for Windows 10

Gene Kim: Love Letter To Clojure (Part 1) & Ruby's chevron operator, '<<' mutates

Brooklyn Zelenka: Haskell for Typescript Developers

I'll get a Surface Book X in late 2020 or early 2021 for work if it runs Zoom and WSL2 well and the reviews are good (assume printer drivers will work by then)

Anecdotal review of Lenovo C630 Yoga ARM64 / AARCH 64 Windows 10 laptop: great except for WSL2 not working, USB not working with Zoom

How to type angstrom i.e.'a' with 'o' aka a with ring on top in Windows 10: switch to international keyboard and then type RightAlt W

sweetmeat: How to Automatically Reindent Code With Sublime Text (and add a keyboard shortcut)

The Microsoft Surface X is like a Dynabook: tablet, stylus, great battery life, always connected via LTE, just missing Smalltalk

Github flavoured markdown and most markdown implementations cannot handle newlines in tables: ruby solution: tr("\n", "")

windows 10 aarch64 lenovo c630 crash 20191005_020848 last crash September 29

Beautiful News Daily is Beautiful

Create CSV file from API Ruby Lessons learned: multiple line regular expressions and sort arrays with sort_by()

Glitch is everywhere: tone.js demos

Why JavaScript Tooling Sucks <--- really isn't that truth that all our software tooling sucks in general not just JS?

thomasp85: Palettes for R based on the Scientific Colour-Maps

Windows 10 ARM64 AARCH64 Lenovo C630 Insider Build Fast Ring crashed today at 8pm like September 25 with VIDEO_SCHEDULER_INTERNAL_ERROR Version 10.0.18990.1

Thomas Lin Pedersen ggforce - utilities for custom ggplot2 plots

How to connect a Raspberry Pi Zero to a Mac for both power and WiFi <--- how to do this on Windows?

For Kristina: Scott Hanselman: Good, Better, Best - creating the ultimate remote worker webcam setup on a budget

Windows 10 ARM64 AARCH64 Lenovo C630 Insider Build Fast Ring crashed twice today: 7am and 6pm both times with VIDEO_SCHEDULER_INTERNAL_ERROR Version 10.0.18990.1

In case you were wondering, I am not some random Roland :-) haha! I am the number one 'Roland Tanglao' on Google, google it :-)

It ain't easy to be a software platform vendor: just ask Apple, Twitter, Relive, Garmin and Strava

How to ask a question: what you did, what you expected, what happened, your requirements

Another great explainer from Victoria Drake: Knapsack problem algorithms for my real-life carry-on knapsack

Job Interview Questions boil down to three: 1. are you curious? 2. can you use your knowledge when you need it? 3. can you admit what you need to learn?

Victoria Drake: How users and applications stay safe on the Internet: it's proxy servers all the way down

MUST READ: Dave Demers: Vancouver's urban forest—a canary in the gold mine

Of course there are sample 11ty projects on glitch

Running jekyll serve broke my RSS feed; solution use ruby bundler in production mode

eleventy static site generator in node and javascript is faster than jekyll?!?

WSL2 doesn't work on ARM 64 Windows 10 because you can't enable the hypervisor in the BIOS

Upgraded this blog to jekyll 4

RSS club makes me laugh :-) Also WSL2 max_user_watches is hilarious

True experts are authors i.e. they can write down explanations and explain it to non experts

Javascript and the DOM are too complicated for beginners

Where was I on September 11, 2001?

WSL1 runs fine from cmd.exe, the windows command line, but not from the Windows 10 GUI(tap the Windows key, type 'u' and click on Ubuntu)

Windows 10 build 18975 on the Fast Insider Ring on ARM64 Windows 10 Lenovo C630 broke WSL1 and I cannot install WSL2

Got my Samsung Note 8 Update for August on September 6- one month delayed

Learning ethics (the real ethics not the STV100) version should be mandatory for all starting high school

The 2 Erics are at it again with pixaver: Google Photos backups made easy, reminds me of shoeboxapp

ggpointdensity would probably make some awesome tshirt graphics

Eugene Wallingford: Learn the Basics, Struggle a Bit, Then Ask Questions

Last week I met up with super smart 'Mathemagenic' Lilia Effimova and her lovely family

Welcome Back Kotter er Om :-)

BC Ride to Conquer Cancer 2019: moving and humbling just like 2017, ride the 1946 Schwinn bicycle aka Mildred in 2020?!?

Value others’ time. Limit instant messages to two a day among all colleagues.

Probably Wrong Prediction:-) : WeWork will be gone before 2029

Kevin Kwok: The Arc of Collaboration/Slack as Else Statement

How to: Use Imagemagick vignette to circular crop

Use Sampler to build terminal-based-dashboards?

HowTo: Circular Crop with ImageMagick

Rolling to Redmond (inspired by the Ride to Conquer Cancer 2017)

Climbing to You

Anybody try Notion (notion.so)?

When will the Android 8 Security Update of August 5, 2019 come out on Note 8 on Fido in Canada? End of August? September?

Computing Education Research Blog:Task-specific programming languages: People aren’t dumb. Programming is hard.

If you can learn when you're going down a rabbit hole, automation is beneficial! Problem is you don't always know until you've wasted a lot of time

Great software teams ship regularly (every 10 weeks or less) and have a process for iteratively shaping their software

McGee's Musings: Leading self-managed experts: 'collaborate with your experts to articulate and explore questions you have not thought to ask.'

Stowe Boyd: Feedback about Feedback

Read Stephen Rees's The Last Post

As I predicted in 2015 :-) computational photography has arrived

craigmod: Fast Software, the Best Software - which is why I use phone apps to edit photos

Just came back from Berlin where beer is actually legal :-)

Dan McKinley: Causal Inference for Fun and Profit

Retired and happy, I'd be the super enthusiastic and welcoming true expert in an online open source community

Please support my Ride to Conquer Cancer 2019

Windows Insider Fast Ring Build 18932.1000 fixed my issues accessing \\wsl$ as well as running explorer.exe on Lenovo Yoga C630 ARM64. Thanks to WSL issue 4016

My Samsung Note 8 received the May and June Android security update on July 6, 2019, when will I get the July update :-) ?!? Thanks Fido

IA Writer 1.1.7121.15952 still hangs when opening WSL files

Love the New Westminster New Media Gallery

Knowledge Frameworks Matter: Lists, Cycles, Hierarchies

Dan McKinley: Choose Boring Technology

Need to cherry pick the most relevant stuff from these four great examples of Support Reporting from helpscout

Happy Canada Day 2019

Come celebrate my birthday Friday July 12, 2019: 730 Breakfast at Livia, 930ish Coffee at Nusa, 1130ish Lunch at Kulinarya, after lunch beers at Port Moody Ales

static HTML pages and links is all you need in the end; everything else is icing on the cake

Maybe all those people who would've learned scripting languages on OS X are instead hacking those same scripting languages on Linux e.g. a $35 Raspberry PI and/or writing javascript/node.js apps in glitch or jsbin or jsfiddle or Android apps or IOS apps?

Yes; it does require lots of tech skills that are constantly changing so you have to be in the (software) field basically to keep up (with the Open Web and Indie Web)

Use Ferrite or AUM to record two microphone podcasts?

Kip made a Mozilla Whistler All Hands badge for the e-ink board that rotates between 1 of 16 Kennedy Space Centre photos

Vancouver 2019 Restaurant Recommendations near the Mozilla office

GNU Parallel replacement string for filename without path and filetype is '{/.}'

Use Tag Wranglers on SUMO like Archive of Our Own?!?

Gotta try Andy McKay's create issue on Github as a ToDo list

Fido APN settings for Lenovo C630 Yoga since autodetect doesn't work probably because this computer was never sold in Canada

Open Multiple URLs Firefox Add-on by Firefox user 12363525

The Launchy Ruby gem doesn't launch Firefox on Windows 10 build 1903 ARM64

rt-kits-api2 second version of my SUMO API code, now with daily CSV :-)

New SUMO Kitsune questions API: created and updated less than and greater than for created and updated fields

When in doubt go to bed! <--- gleaned from Microcosmographia lv: The Discipline

The Art of Command Line

Firefox Nightly is working great on Lenovo C630 Yogo ARM64 with Windows 10

Accessing WSL files from File Explorer using \\wsl$\Ubuntu appears to be broken in ARM64 Windows 10 Builds on Windows 10 Build 1903

Hello world from Windows 10 ARM64 Lenovo C630 Yoga

recode is a handy linux command line utility to convert text with html escaped entites like & lt to <

Maybe Fido is delaying Samsung Note 8 Updates not Samsung (since Note 8 is on the list of phones that get a monthly update and the Samsung S10 got an update already)?

Omar Shehata: Unravelling the JPEG

Interplanetary Gatsby: The Complete Beginner's Guide to Deploying Your First Static Website to IPFS: another cool thing I should try!

Make a tshirt or sticker or some such swag from the thumbnails of a pdf of bugzilla text contributions (e.g. new bugs, comments, metadata changes) or kitsune text contributions (e.g. SUMO KB article edits)

Reinstalling the Realtek audio drivers fixed the 'audio not working when switching from USB to builtin Surface Book 2 speakers' problem, could this also explain my May 27, 2019 audio issue?

May 17, 2019: USB Audio didn't work but USB microphone did. Vidyo problem? Hardware problem with Surface Book 2 USB?

McGuckian Shane: Scraping Reddit with PRAW

Tom MacWright's Big Presentation system looks great and it works on glitch

OutlinerSoftware.com is an old skool forum for outliners, PIMs and Knowledge management software

On May 9, 2019, my Surface Book 2 Keyboard and Touchpad stopped working

S*msung Note 8 on F*do received the Google April Security Patch on May 11, 2019

Dan Hill: Avo, Stadia, Arcade, Bandersnatch, and the New Grammar of Television (and Games) — Part 1: Form is substance

Mathics looks cool although why bother when Mathematica is still free for Raspberry Pi?!?

Classic Byte August 1981: Design Principles Behind Smalltalk

WSL2 is great!

empathy is a choice!

cert2019: excellent teamwork and problem solving over the weekend

Way Spurr-Chen: When correcting others on the Internet do not confuse firmness with harshness

You can also use the English International Keyboard (switch to this keyboard using Windows + Space Bar) to type accented characters "+ a vowel to get German umlauts for example

Enjoying using freecompose on Windows to type accented characters e.g. German vowels with umlauts like 'ä'

Richard Gabriel: Nevertheless, the spreadsheet was something never seen before. A chart indicating the 64 greatest events in accounting and business history contains VisiCalc.

Kapampangan and Tagalog: Jenny Odell: When you think something is one thing but it's actually two things due to your duration and quality of attention

Use glideapps.com to make an app from Google Sheets to recommend Vancouver restaurants?!?

Victoria.dev How to make changes to a private github repo result in a deployment of a public github site? Two Ways: 1) Travis CI 2) Netlify and Make

Probably Wrong Prediction :-) : No gas or diesel cars for sale in 2030

Probably Wrong Prediction :-) : No x86 laptops for sale in 10 years

Orff's AppleWatchFaces: Create your own faces for watchOS. Customize the watch hands, layout, colors, and images. Edit faces on your phone and switch them on the watch. <-- sounds great

Loving the Typora Markdown Editor

Windows 10 insider build slow run build crashed with win32k_power_watchdog_timeout

Datasette on glitch seems more future proof but more complicated than datasette on Zeit Now

How to use mlr (miller) to create an id, url CSV file from a file of ids by concatenating 'support.mozilla.org/questions/' to the id

Idea: make a tshirt with the m*eller report r*dacted with 50% of the thumbnails on front and 50% on back and call it of course 'mrstardacted'

MakeVancouver allover tshirt using Kennedy Space Center photos with hatched graphic algorithm from Jean Fan

Jan 1, 2019 - April 18, 2019 - 22 (out of 5539 i.e. 0.4%) SUMO Firefox desktop Forum questions about losing two factor authentication codes

Carnets - Standlone Jupyter notebooks for iOS!

Quantum computing for the very curious via nicky <-- amazing

Today I learned that SQLite doesn't have array types

Checkvist Firefox analyst notes and tags -> API -> SQLite -> Datasette -> allow people to do sql queries?

S*msung Note 8 got the Android 9 Pie Update April 1st, when will it get the April 5, 2019 Android security patches?

e-ink/epaper red, white and black badge with: TTGO-T5s-V1-9-ESP32-2-7-EPaper-Plus-Module-for-Alexa-I2S-DAC-MAX98357A-MEMS

Nikon 1 GPS GP-N100 erroneously sets the EXIF in photos to 2099 instead of 2019 due to a GPS Week rollover bug starting April 6, 2019

I really like Jean Fan's Flickr: color distribution of publicly available images, adapt it to my tags: bicycling, xcskiing, food, rainy?

White pseudo-camo 'art of where' tights using Mozlando 2018 Kennedy Space Center photos processed through Jean Fan's hatching function

Windows 10 taskbar doesn't autohide 2 solutions: 1. restart windows explorer 2. click on search and then click on desktop to close the search window

Machine Learning in the cloud from a Browser using Tensor Flow, Keras and Jupyter Notebooks

Prediction: Artificial General Intelligence won't be written in Software 2.0

Tried Jean Fan's R function on Mozlando KSC 200x200px, maybe I should have started with a black and white image?

Use Hatching, shape-based tonal or shading, to create fun infographics for tshirts in R (code by Jean Fan)

Boris Mann: Chunks of text, not too large, connected with links.

07January2019 how to calculate time differences for support using R and lubridate

Russell and Vinsel: Hail the maintainers (innovation is over-rated)

Had to Reboot my Surface Book 2 again to get WiFi working, just like April 12, 2018

NVIDIA Jetson Nano - Good machine learning starter system; more flexible than google's Coral TFLite board?!?

Eric Rice: Please start podcasting again, I'd love to hear your voice again!

Memories of University of Waterloo CS240:Learn Rust With Entirely Too Many Linked Lists

everybody thinks they're an expert on fixing web browser bugs and how easy it is to add web browser features because they use a web browser daily. I bicycle every day but don't consider myself an expert on bicycle design, repair and maintenance #ymmv

Kitsune 'products' are defined in the django admin backend

Kitsune Questions aka AAQ API, product == 'firefox' is desktop, 'mobile' is Firefox for android

Learning not learning Tagalog and Kapampangan by podcasting

There's nothing special about voice or podcasts, everybody should be able to publish what they: voice, audio, text, video whatever whenever they want to whomever they want

It's March 15, 2019: My $USD900 Note 8 is still at January Android security patch level i.e. more than 2 months behind: Thanks but no thanks S*msung and F*do

Downloaded Stephanie's neon and neon2 flickr galleries before the big flickr March 12, 2019 deletion

How to move files newer than 60 minutes ago to another directory

I'm sure I've overanalyzed this but I'm going to back to my Windows Surface Charger Theory because Windows Explorer crashed and my battery was at 6%

Use Martin Krzywinski's colorsnap utility to create green, black, white, and pink camo from multiple images?!?

The Windows black screen of death is a sleep screen? Maybe not a power issue?!

The Windows black screen of death is due to a known problem with the Surface power adapter I believe: it can't supply 60W so it can't charge enough to charge and run the Surfacebook simultaneously when the battery is < 10%

Perhaps the Windows black screen of death was due to a dead battery

Again! Weird Windows 10 Black Screen of Death after signin fixed by resetting network in Windows 10 safe mode

It's March 2, 2019: has the current podcast boom busted yet?

Weird Windows 10 Black Screen of Death after signin fixed by resetting network in Windows 10 safe mode

Anybody want to help document the undocumented Kitsune aka 'the system that powers support.mozilla.org' REST APIs on readthedocs?

When you get a flickr photo using the search API or the photoset API, you can't determine which photoset it is in by setting a field in extras

backup-originals.rb - I have written flickr backup programs like this at least twice :-) How about you :-) ?

get-set-photo-metadata.rb - Ruby code to download metadata from a flickr set of photos i.e an album

Payak 2019: 1 hour 29 minutes (skate), Payak 2018: 1:40 (skate) Payak 2017: 1:25 (classic)

Teaching Digital Ladders February 25-26, 2019 to Arts folks

Make a tshirt from Kjetil Golid's fabulous Noisify (via Flowing Data)?

Don't be selfish folks, cafes are not designed for customers to take up more than one person width

Using mlr aka miller to combine selected fields from multiple CSV files

R Studio Conf Keynote Day 2 - Explicit Direct Instruction in Programming Education - Felienne aka 'It's 2019 read code out loud to teach coding'

Prediction: Current Podcast 'boom' :-) will end before the end of 2020

Laura Schenck: CSS is a Declarative, Domain-Specific Programming Language

Users don't know when their antivirus breaks Firefox and it's not obvious to them so they don't mention it in their support requests

Installed ruby 2.6.1 on WSL with readline support so irb cursor keys work, here's how

Magic Community Management Phrase: We don't do that here

We know nothing about personal publishing on the web, the best is yet to come

Got my Make Vancouver #mozlando2018 Kennedy Space Center shirt yesterday and it's fab

Photomosaic Image Builder: codebox/mosaic in python

Make Vancouver print all over shirt idea: left: 100px right 200 px

Buy my Mozlando 2018 Kennedy Space Center Tshirt from zazzle.ca

We are all: Analytical, Intuitive, Functional and Personal depending on the context

One leg 200px, one leg 100px

Citizen's assembly instead of philosophers and computer scientists deciding who lives who dies?!!

Today's idea: green, tan and white camoflage from Vancouver flickr pictures

To get more of a patchwork quilt effect I'm trying 200x200px

First successful Kennedy Space Center 'patchwork quilt' suitable for tights

The 'patchwork quilt' effect that I'm looking for is better with 100 pixel by 100 pixel patches

my ruby vips code crashed my surface book 2 when running Ubuntu on Windows Subsystem for Linux!

Did you catch the bug in yesterday's vips code? I've coded an oily_png version that is at least twice as fast!

Which is faster at creating 5x5 pixel patches and combining them into an image: ruby-vips, oily_png, imagemagick::convert? I am guessing ruby-vips

The Unschedule: Schedule your leisure time, breaks and errands not your work stuff!

Creating one leg for Zazzle / Art of Where tights using random 5x5 pixel patches from Kennedy Space Center Photos

There's no place like (blogging) home (Medium was never my home megamix :-) ).

Azure Key Phrase Extraction API looks useful for Firefox Support Requests

Flowing data animated gif heatmaps with Base R and ImageMagick

Stratechery's tl;dr: Open Source infrastructure software like MongoDB is doomed to being disrupted by AWS or other big company unless the OSS has a hosted service or other business model?

2019 Things to (re)learn: CSS, SQL, infoviz using web tech not Python, R and Ruby, Tagalog and Kapampangan

R: you can source files you pass as command line arguments at run time!

India Innenga: Toward a More Radical Selfie

Next Art of Where Tights 3325px x 6358px for one leg : 5x5 random pixels from Space Shuttle Atlantis photos

R and R Studio: How to debug R command line scripts with R Studio: mock commandArgs and use debugSource()

Thanks to Jenny Bryan's gmailr tutorial, got emailing of my 3 week Firefox anti-virus mention graph working but flickr ignores the body

R and Lubridate: How to add daynumber starting with Firefox release date i.e. Tuesday instead of Sunday or Monday to a dataframe

R and Lubridate: Calculating Time Differences in R using intervals aka a better way to compute daynumber starting from arbitrary day of the week

R and Lubridate: How do I get daynumber starting at arbitrary day of the week? e.g. Firefox day 1 of a release week usually starts on Tuesday

Volker Weber: How to delete Windows 10 'crapware' using 'remove-appxpackage'

John Battelle: 'they built a new architecture of governance over our economy and our culture a brutalist ecosystem that repels innovation.'

withoutboats: How do we create a culture of two way empathy in open source software?

How to make Firefox work on Windows Subsystem for Linux

Aaron Turon:Thank-you for these terms: 'Critique Gauntlet, Groundhog Day, & Stochastic Criticism': We face them every day on the SUMO forums indeed any user feedback forum for any popular open source project!

Happy Holidays 2018-2019 / Merry Christmas / Happy New Year - Consider blogging regularly in 2019

Mac->Windows->Mac->Windows Lessons: rely on Linux/Posix, version control everything, store everything in the cloud

Re-installing latest ruby, mongodb, node, surge, jekyll on WSL

Windows 10 hasn't crashed since Naz reinstalled it on December 12, 2018

How to rotate videos with ffmpeg

Grateful that I have the time,money and health to cross-country ski

Andy Abramson on Nokia Blogger Relations: The Age of Influence Online

For the record, Naz re-installed Windows 10 today on the second Surface Book 2, fingers crossed

The Effects of Group Size and Time on the Formation of Online Communities: Evidence From Reddit

How I designed my geeky Zazzle T-shirt from Kennedy Space Centre pics

How To: Use imagemagick montage command to concate images

Blown away again by Kennedy Space Center

In Florida for a Mozilla All Hands, back to blogging on December 9, 2018

Switching to a Chromebook or iPad from Windows or Mac laptop, what would it take?

Feverbee: Accepted Solutions & Featured Answers

checkvist has a nice open api for making expandible/collapsible html from checkvist outlines

Google's Crash Course in Machine Learning with Tensor Flow APIs -- any good?

HTML tags <details> and <summary> can be used for expand/collapse with disclosure triangles for 'collapsible HTML'

Checkvist seems like a great omnioutliner on the web cross platform replacment except for html export which doesn't implement expand and collapse unlike omnioutliner

1990 not 1990 :-) Justin Falcone: The Origin of HyperCard in the Breakdown of the Bicycle for the Mind

Michael Arntzenius: Against Software Development

Logic Magazine: The Smart, the Stupid, and the Catastrophically Scary: An Interview with an Anonymous Data Scientist

sparklines in ggplot2, the source for: Firefox 62 and 63 First 3 weeks Tufte Sparklines: anti-virus versus bookmarks

Firefox 62 and 63 First 3 weeks Tufte Sparklines: anti-virus versus bookmarks

Updated with Firefox 63: No surprise in Firefox Support Questions by Operating System: Windows 10 is dominant, followed by Windows 7; Windows 8, Mac and Linux are used by a minority of Users

Cleaning the data to make it work with your data visualization toolkit is 90% of the work; to learn a new plotting technique take the sample code, print out the dataset and and write your code to you create the identically structured dataset

No surprise in Firefox Support Questions by Operating System: Windows 10 is dominant, followed by Windows 7; Windows 8, Mac and Linux are used by a minority of Users

John Battelle: Tech must get over itself and solve problems that really matter!

Ton points to Bryan Alexander's excellent post on how World War I actually continued until 1923

Remembrance Day 2018: Centum Corpora - 100 brass instruments 100 repeats of a musical phrase for 100 WWI soldiers

Remember 2006 when we used our own websites for own media like Dave's podcast with Ross Rebagliati gold medal winner

Katharine Bailey: 'AI' leads to more jobs for humans

More fun with sparklines: use ggplot and remove facet wrap labels

Creating Sparklines for Blog Post with R and Plumber: REST API in R, sparklines, calling the google analytics API in R!

Looking for recommendations: OmniOutliner for Windows or as a cross platform webapp? Checkvist seems close!

gwern.net - bitcoin is worse is better

Some posts about Sparklines and microplots in R and ggplot2

Gaugeplots using R and ggplot2 look cool, use them for operating system percentages in SUMO questions?

Steve Burr's fascinating behind the messy scenes of a data science workflow:Replicating Flowingdata Population Charts in R

Or maybe use Google Bert for machine learning on SUMO support questions and support tweets?

Maybe we can use UMLFiT for machine learning on SUMO support questions and support tweets?

Strava App updated to version 70.0 and it appears to work on Apple Watch Series 0, thanks!

The Strava app no longer works (it crashes) on my Apple Watch Series 0 aka the original Apple Watch after last week's Strava Watch app update, time to buy a new watch?!?

nice r notebook by Fisseha Berhane showing mongodb and python driver and how to make a heatmap

Of course R has a Keras package called Keras

Anybody have any case studies about machine learning for supporting consumer software and state of the art consumer software support in 2018?

TIL: how to search and replace in a R, how to read MongoDB from R and how to make a wordcloud in R

hunspell de-stemmer run on SUMO Firefox 60-62 Desktop SUMO Support Forum question titles and question content

Prepare now for github breaking github pages, links to gists and links to code: backup your git repos and paste important code snippets into a blog post

R tidyverse function unite() concatenates two columns

Mr Data Converter converts CSV to JSON, HTML, JSON, XML, Python, ruby, etc

I was at BloggerCon in October 2003 and it was glorious an everybody blogs now and Terry Heaton is right:the web connects people doesn't merely extend old brand-oriented value propositions

Prohibition Ends Again 2.0 :-)

I would like to think that my thinking is solidly reality-based based on Jay Owens' The Age of Post-Authenticity and the Ironic Truths of Meme Culture

ruk on clique busting at events: Take the number of years you’ve been in the group and help and meet that number of people at each event

Our own groups, our own stuff, our own rules within socialized contextual limits! <- inspired by Ton's Disintegration of Discourse and Decentralised Tools

We cannot break free from legacy

I'm a 1 issue voter, I guess I'll vote for the strongest supporters of expanding the bike lanes!?!

It's 2018, can we enable normal people to create their content and share it with whoever they want without large companies bombarding them with ads and snooping?

It's 2018, can we get rid of the awkward and horrible bluetooth paring dance?

Maybe 2019 is the year I learn a functional programming language like Haskell or Elm

R textclean package looks to be an excellent way to clean text including removing HTML and whitespace

Thanksgiving 2018 Thanks

Dmitry Shkolnik: A look at the Vancouver mayoral race twitter picture using R packages: textfeatures, Text Mining with R's tidytext, syuzhet, rtweet: 200 lines of code

Steve Yelvington: The marriage of convenience that has existed between journalism and advertising has been broken.

Jessica Powell: The Big Disruption aka Microserfs 2018 :-)

Blogging for over 17 years, you should try it!

Variety, a tool to traverse mongodb i.e. reverse engineer schemas

R Package directlabels allows you to label end of lines, group_by() allows you to group by multiple variables; krazy idea: watch for spikes in FF questions by operating system

Cars in 2018 are just apps on Wheels!

colorbrewer 2.0: color advice for cartography makes nice colour palettes for maps

randomcoloR: random colour package for R

R ggplot2 line graph of the first 3 weeks of Firefox 62 desktop SUMO support questions operating systems

R ggplot2 bar graph of the first 3 weeks of Firefox 62 desktop SUMO support questions operating systems

You can launch Firefox using Geckodriver from WSL, here's Hal Wine's code, thanks Hal!

Is auto-tagging (like flickr) possible with SUMO Firefox Desktop Support Forum posts? e.g. using Keras?

Blown away by the power of surveys during last week's Mozilla course on the Culture of Experimentation

Launching Windows Firefox from WSL works, just set the BROWSER environment variable

Just Operating System bar graph of yesterday's Firefox 62 Desktop SUMO Support Forums Week 1 tags - September 5-11, 2018

Operating System removed Graph of yesterday's Firefox 62 Desktop SUMO Support Forums Week 1 tags - September 5-11, 2018

Graph of yesterday's Firefox 62 Desktop SUMO Support Forums Week 1 tags - September 5-11, 2018

Firefox 62 Desktop SUMO Support Forums Week 1 tags - September 5-11, 2018

Métis Mutt - highly recommended!

Kitsune aka support.mozilla.org question API

Kitsune aka support.mozilla.org answer API

August 10, 2018: Dale and I podcast about rebooting Over 40 in Vancouver

Still can't launch Firefox from Windows Subystem From Linux without a Selenium server and some hacks that nobody has working (Chrome works though)

Anchored Coffee / Two if by Sea Cafe / Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, highly recommended

UC Berkeley deploys Jupyter notebooks campus wide! Bravo! Better and cheaper in terms of server costs with Iodide right?

Brent Cannon: Pay for open source with kindness

Shame and Prejudice: A Story of Resilience, A project by Kent Monkman : Highly Recommended

Waze bugs noticed in our PEI/NS trip: a couple of crashes and getting lost at the beginning of a journey

Thanks for the excellent Receiver Coffee recommendation Peter!

Not sure what happened but iA Writer 1.0.4 is working after I deleted C:\Users\{your user name}\AppData\Roaming\iA Writer

Stepping away from the laptop for a few weeks!

Instamic: does an all iOS workflow exist (instead of using a OS X or Windows machine)?

record on instaMic -> plug into Windows -> convert to mp3 with ffmpeg -> upload with website to micro.blog aka how i recorded this one's for pat

Steve Pemberton: The 100 Year Web (In Praise of XML)! (and declarative versus procedural)

Cypress Challenge for Pancreatic Cancer Research 2018 Sunday August 12, 2018 raised $429,000, yay! See you next year!

Cypress Challenge for Pancreatic Cancer Research 2018 Sunday August 12, 2018 - Riding for my Mom

We all need to take courses and learn more about bias in particular confirmation bias and System 1 twitch versus System 2 slow thinking analytic

RØDE Rec iOS app works great too with the same setup as Voice Record Pro: iPhone, 2 microphones, Roland Duo Capture EX

Robert Ouimet meets Judy Witts aka Divina Cucina recorded with iOS App Voice Record Pro and Roland Duo Capture EX

RØDE Rec also appears to record in stereo from the lightning port on iOS i.e. iPhone and iPad

Podcasts on micro.blog using the iOS App Wavelength are maximum 25MB and can only be in MP3 format

Programming should be easier (and secure and reliable)

Wavelength the micro.blog podcasting app doesn't support stereo recording through the lightning port

Voice Record Pro on iOS seems to record In stereo through lightning port

Throwback Tuesday: Remember 2006 when I taught podcasting with Robert Ouimet at Vancouver Film School :-) ?

IA Writer Windows doesn't startup since 29 July 2018

DrivingToXCSki.com will be my blog about buying an electric car

Prediction: Over 75% of both bicycles and cars sold in BC by 2030 will be electric

What's behind/underneath a web browser i.e. how does the internet work?

I grew up in the Smithville library: it was my version of the Internet in the 1980s

Things I must do: Daily Blogging and Frequent Writing of Software for fun!

Small multiples are fun and useful

Do we even need non zero EV cars and trucks and anything else?

We can fix this

roland-cars a dataset for electric cars in Canada

Rough Notes: How to install apps (like Firefox Reality) on the Occulus Go using ADB on Windows 10

I'm testing Firefox Reality Alpha builds on the Oculus Go

It's my birthday Wednesday! Very light blogging and very thankful for family, friends and computers

At what point does an Electric Car for trips to Cypress to go cross country skiing make economic sense? Now or when gas is $2/litre?

Could you decentralize everything? YES....AND...!

DuckDuckGo Blog - How To Protect Your Privacy On Windows 10

What are the top 5 Windows 10 Anti-virus software solutions? (still don't understand why folks don't use Windows Defender?)

The replacement Epson Ecotank ET-2750 is working well so far

Slack bot chat interface for replying to Google Play Store reviews?!?!

MongoDB: When comparing dates of type DateTime you need to convert strings to ISODate

The People's Internet: Good stuff as well as bad stuff of course!

The People's Internet: Slow, decentralized and not subject to takedown

Mikeysax: How to install MongoDB 3.6 on Windows 10 Subsystem for Linux

Potential TensorFlow project: Use Human in the loop to train on 50 or less Firefox for Android Google Play Store reviews for positive and negative sentiment and keyword extraction?!?

De-ranting: Making non constructive feedback visible only to the person who posted it

Stephen Downes: There's no one best way to learn computer programming

How difficult is it to write an Android app that works with Android 4.1, 5, 6,7, 8 and the Android 9 which will be released by September?

Twitter smytes customers and its 3 out of 5 spam comments encapsulates today's internet, central control and entropy and power distibution

iodide is just another example of everything in your browser, what's next R? Ruby? Yes Please!

iodide: Python notebooks in your browser using Web Assembly - no server required

Am I crazy? I don't want software controlled critical subsystems on my non electric bicycles

Second Surface Book 2: No WiFi or USB issues after 2 weeks, fingers crossed!

Allow blog comments or just use ping back, trackback and Web Mentions?

It's that wonderful time of the year: Mozilla All Hands San Francisco 2018 - meetings meetings meetings and most importantly meeting fabulous volunteers and fellow staff

Disqus over-run by racists and other bad folks, when will this happen to github issues?

Four Filipino Epson Printer Call Agents named Nathan :-)

PICOs aka 'persistent compute objects' programmed reactively so we can have our own personal clouds

The google play store reviewing app is open source on github

How to make Hugo work on WSL aka Windows Subystem for Linux

Like 2009 the future of coding is social and github is the first harbinger of it

rt-making-wsl-and-windows-work-for-me: a github repo for those 'transitioning' to windows

How to turn off Windows Defender for Windows Subystem for Linux from @leandrw

How to install ruby 2.5.1, jekyll and surge on surface book 2, Windows 10 WSL as of June 1, 2018

My new Surface Book 2 has a French Canadian keyboard layout

Every few weeks my pinned sites & bookmarks disappear into thin air replaced with Amazon links -- Firefox doesn't do this nor does Chrome

Surface Book 2 came back, let's see if I still have USB and WiFi issues

Epson 'Ecotank' ET-2750 stopped printing, jams every time and a spring fell out

I'm enjoying using Dropbox Paper on my own without collaborating

Firefox on OS X is slower than Firefox on Windows

Self Driving Cars and Uber's software: Decisions made by engineers and managers to prioritize comfort of passengers over unreliable false positive detection algorithms

Periodic reminder: Computer software is full of bugs and hard to create and modify

Hugo has an import from jekyll command

Speed is a feature! I forgot how fast hugo is compared to jekyll

You can use euro-roaming if you have a European address

Know Roaming Sim Sticker for Canadians - highly recommended

Whitey on the Moon: 1970 but still accurate!

Back on the mac for now!

Returning the Surface Book 2 because of WiFi and USB issues (Mozilla colleague Asa Dotzler doesn't have these issues with his Surface Book 2)

Remember the last two times twitter wrecked their API? Neither do I :-)

R in the Windows 10 WSL Windows Subsystem for Linux

eusebeia:So if you are running Linux (I'm using Debian) and are having trouble with the printer functions of the MFC-7220, try installing it as a HL-2060 instead. It might just be the thing you need.

Bash keyboard shortcuts to move forward a word (Alt F), move backward (Alt B) and delete word forward (Alt D)

Google to demand regular Android security patches from OEMs: Dave Kleidermacher who leads mobile security at Google:this will really lead to a massive increase in the number of devices, and users, receiving regular security patches

Eero WiFi router with 2 beacons has seemingly solved our WiFi issues in our 1600 square foot 3 story flat

Geforce 397.55 hotfix drivers works on Surface Book 2

Gemini Keyboard PDA keyboard is amazing (and better than the keyboard on the GPD Pocket!)

Surface Book 2 Drivers were re-installed by Hamilton again Monday May 7, 2018

The Augmented Social Network: Building identity and trust into the next-generation Internet by Ken Jordan, Jan Hauser, and Steven Foster: nothing has changed, the internet is still at a cross roads

Pythonista script to get GPS and text adapt to make music like my 2010 N900 gpsgamelan.py script?

Kieran Healy, “The Plain Person’s Guide to Plain Text Social Science

padr - an R language package to time based data more coarse grained e.g. by day or by hour instead of by second

Hamilton uninstalled and re-installed my wifi drivers on May 1, 2018: let's see if this fixes the wifi not working after about 1-2 weeks problem on my surface book 2

How to invoke Chromedriver from Windows Subsystem for Linux for Selenium (should work with Firefox too) from Stack Overflow: Using BashOnWindows with Selenium? #1169

R Tips: How to force the Y Axis breaks in ggplot2 to be integers from Stack Overflow: How to display only integer values on an axis using ggplot2

How to use group_by to create a data frame in R suitable for ggplot2 and tidyverse

GeForce Drivers don't support Surface Book 2 as of April 27, 2018 but they will be supported in a future update

Email doesn't alway get sent or get received and you will never know

Everybody who writes formulas and/or uses pivot tables in a spreadsheet is a programmer

Bought an Epson 'Ecotank' ET-2750 printer, it does save ink and is fast and works with wireless

alialmossawi: Visualizing in VR using A-Frame and D3

No correlation between Samsung S8 Devices in bug 1450793 (crashing after Oreo update) and Google Play Store 1 and 2 star reviews for those same S8 devices

R Code to plot unanswered google play reviews using ggplot2 including code to rotate x axis labels so they are readable

SmugMug Buys Flickr and pledges to continue with flickr's fab API, yay!

Like WiFi, the USB gets into a funky state every so often on the Microsoft Surface Book 2 and the only way to fix it is to reboot

MongoDB queries showing less than, greater than resulting in: Number of English only, 1 and 2 star: Non replied to Firefox for Android reviews November 14, 2017 - April 18, 2018 is: 3962

Staticman: Static site comments by pushing comments to Github and using post commit hook with Pelican Static Site Generator and jekyll

How to convert MongoDB cursor or result iterator to an array in Ruby: use 'to_a()'

MongoDB upsert doesn't return updatedExisting boolean instead it returns nModified: 1 for update, 0 for insert

How to turn off MongoDB logging in the ruby driver

Google Play Review Gameplan: devices trend and then history

MongoDB query to find all Samsung S8s in the devices MongoDB collection

NoSQL Manager for MongoDB Professional seems cool but expensive but Windows only, another one to try is RazorSQL any free MongoDB GUI tools on Windows that allow export to CSV?

Had to Reboot my Surface Book 2 again (twice in two weeks) to get WiFi working, ipconfig dance didn't work

Bookdown Tutorials for making books in R via hrbrmstr's posts on twitter in R

Only a strong and democratic world government and strong regulation by that government will save us from climate change and digital malfeasance

No unique identifier in Google Play's CSV file of supported devices

Mongodb query in javascript showing '$or' syntax

Google's official document for Google Play device name to marketing name mapping e.g. 'SM-N950W' to 'Samsung Note 8'

Nathan Yau:How to Make Chord Diagrams in R

I disagree with: 'Alexis Madrigal:The Atlantic:The Most Important Self-Driving Car Announcement Yet--Autonomous vehicles will transform urban life by 2020, if Waymo’s time line is correct' yes it will transform dense urban core life by 2029 not 2020 but it won't transform the suburbs

ChatOps - chat as the collaborative operating system for a team

6 months after Pixel devices and 2 weeks after Samsung S8, Oreo update aka Android 8 finally comes out for the Note 8

In 3 slides visualize your thesis/story inspired by Kieran Healy's Making Slides

Probably Wrong 2029 Prediction :-) : No self-driving cars and vehicles outside city cores

Probably Wrong 2029 Prediction :-) : No conversational speech recognition with a bot in a restaurant server situation

Software development isn't easy, adding features is hard with current software technology #brokenRecord

Google Play Store Review spreadsheets are UTF-16 not UTF-8, best to convert to UTF-8 using iconv

Windows files are UTF-16 NOT UTF8, how to read them in ruby: 'rb:bom|utf-16'

Installed ruby 2.5.0 on Windows 10, couldn't get rvm or rbenv to work

Altair is ggplot2 for python and vega? Yes please!

Having Surface Book 2 WiFi 802.11ac issues: ipconfig /release and then ipconfig /renew seems to fix it

Post hoc ergo propter hoc logical fallacy in the context of software

Reply by Buffer might integrate Google Play Store Review replying

Google Play Store Review Reply limit: 350 characters, iOS App Store Reply Limit: 5970 characters

Installed MongoDB on Windows Subsystem for Linux

IA Writer for Windows: Control K for links doesn't work

Ehsan Akhgari: An overview of online ad fraud

The Guardian: Carole Cadwalladr writing about Canadian Christopher Wylie: 'The Facebook data is out in the wild. And for all Wylie’s efforts, there’s no turning the clock back.'

Stack Overflow doesn't incentivize being nice; it incentivizes marking questions as duplicates or as poor questions as quickly as possible and answering questions as tersely as possible without emotion

What's your personal transit utopia in your town? Mine is autonomous, self guided transit i.e. buses supplemented by autonomous taxis

Throwback: October 28, 2005 with @mtippett @supersusie @willpate Did we get it right on Flock and BitTorrent 12 years ago :-) ?

Throwback: Friday December 9, 2005 with @mtippett @cbrumelle @bryanrieger @ddonat Did we get that 'next version' of music we talked about 12 years ago :-) ?

Prediction: Artificial General Intelligence won't happen before 2029

More thoughts on switching to Windows from OS X: preview and QuickTime replacements?

The Atlantic: Adam Grant: You don't know yourself as well as your colleagues and friends do

xiaowei: Nevertheless she coded - What does it mean to be a feminist coder in 2018?

Fixed jekyll default theme font-weight bug by changing from 300 to 400 in _sass/_base.scss, still might be a Firefox bug

Possible font-weight bug in Windows and Linux?!?

MSDN blog post from 2016: DO NOT, under ANY circumstances, create and/or modify Linux files using Windows apps, tools, scripts, consoles, etc.

Mikhail Popov: Plotting a course through charted waters: A website workshop on data visualization literacy aka introduction to the many different types of graphical charts

icetigris: github is just code deviantart

Emil Hvitfeldt's fantastic summary of R colour palettes

How to setup github credential caching on Windows Linux subsystem

Google Play Store has a Review Reply API!

Zendesk has a Google Play Store Review Reply Integration

Writing this from IA Writer Windows Beta

Getting X11, emacs, etc to work on Windows Linux Subsystem

Getting jekyll, surge etc to work on Windows Linux Subsystem

Moving blogging to old MacBook Air in preparation for move to new Windows Machine

Payak 2018: 1 hour 40 minutes instead of 1:25, -4 degrees, not as fast, skate skiing uphill technique needs work

Chris Dixon: Why decentralization matters

First couple of days Microsoft Surface Book impressions

Polling users is great but not enough;you need to find a purpose for what you are building

Don't assume anything, be humble, and remember people are people

VoodooPad acquired by Toronto's Primate Labs in December

Zcash just a flash in the 2018 bitcoin pan or something real that will last to 2020?

Maha Bali: 'Where is the Humanity in the Computer Science Curriculum?' Me: 'Where is the Enlightenment in the Liberal Arts?'

Sheila MacNeill: Not knowing how to code is a privilege for me and a reflection of a sexist-and-not-knowing-how-teach-math-properly-culture when growing up

Need to read and add to my mythical wiki: A16Z crypto Reading Resources

OMG it ain't hard, just create compelling content constantly on your blog, people can always unsubscribe if it's too frequent or they don't find it compelling

Switching to a Microsoft Surface Book 2 for Mozilla work! Wish me luck :-) !

Never in a million years would I have imagined back in the 80s that software would be used for so much evil

Google Maps backwards compatibility - at what point does this become an albatross?

agalmics (uh-GAL-miks), n. [Gr. 'agalma', 'a pleasing gift'] - The study and practice of the production and allocation of non-scarce goods

My modest-but-not-easy-and-unencumbered-by-knowledge :-) vision for Thunderbird: Reuse Andrew Sutherland et al's Firefox OS mail client for desktop and mobile, IMAP only

John Ganz and Steven Klein: A Serious Man

Mike Caulfield on computational propaganda: This is Arendt’s propaganda machine, automated.

Ian Bicking: '(Firefox) Screenshots makes Mozilla part of the web not just a window onto the web'

Mike Bostock's observablehq formerly known as d3.express looks great! Much better than d3.js

Remember when Lightroom was new and fast and it didn't require a $USD5900 machine to run it fast for 'hobbyist' photographers? Neither do I :-)

Why don't I attend conferences or listen to podcasts? Answer: too homogeneous and too long

Anybody have a corpus of Software Support questions I can use for sentiment training for Firefox support or do I have to develop my own?

Douglas Hofstadter in the Atlantic: The Shallowness of Google Translate (because computers don't really have any understanding)

Internet disrupts industry after industry but that industry edifice lasts far longer than technologists think, only to one day collapse far quicker than anyone expected e.g. Nokia, Nortel and Blackberry

Amazing orange measles plot using r, ggpplot

We are the problem, NOT technology. Adtech technology is a fraud we refuse to admit!

Part 2B Got NLTK working with Firefox 55 SUMO support questions! Now what? Sentiment?

2018 reminder: Email will fail! Don't depend on it. Archive it by year, convert to wikis, blogs todos, calendar, etc. and then delete

Part 2A Get Firefox 55 first 3weeks' words in preparation for NLTK -ngram-analysis

Steven Johnson: The open web can only be revived with new protocols and code like Blockchain

Claus O. Wilke-Fundamentals of Data Visualization aka the great series of R and data visualization books just keep on coming - bring 'em on!

Take more breaks (even schedule them) and give the bad news first so you end with the good news. Good endings are much more helpful so bad news first! (from Daniel Pink's When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing)

Ruby tip: no need to iterate over an array to print it, ruby does the right thing, just call puts

Querying MongodDB in 2018 using ruby and the ruby driver by date and by integer scalar value

Microsoft Surface Book 2 Meets all the requirements and doesn't have WiFi driver issues

hypercast p2p broadcasting for dat:// enabled web browsers

Recommendations for a Windows 10 touchscreen work laptop w/16gb RAM, USB-C power?

Part 1: Getting SUMO ngrams for Firefox releases: first update the question title and description

Software that makes replying to Google Play Store and iOS App Store reviews as easy as Reply by Buffer makes it easy to reply to Facebook and Twitter?

Learn the basics of Computer Science with BaseCS

Another great Nathan Yau Flowing Data members only tutorial:Compact Ways to Visualize Distributions in R

Understanding and Writing your first Text Mining Script with R is an amazing tutorial about tm, an alternative/complement to tidytext

Building in isolation dumb things that wreck the future instead of working with our sisters and brothers to make a better future aka Dude, you broke the future! by Charlie Stross

emacs for science - the scimax package

How does Automattic handle 2000 support requests/day? With communication and respect for customers and respect for support folks

From 2012 by David Deutsch: We need a breakthrough in philosophy about how brains create explanatory knowledge in order to create true Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)

Gary Marcus: deep learning a critical appraisal

Hilarious and insightful and helpful Meltdown and Spectre comic from xkcd: Phantom Trolleys

More on Meltdown and Spectre, Branch Prediction and Out of Order Execution by Martin Sauter at Wireless moves and others

Hardware is hard, software is soft part 888: Meltdown and Spectre

n grams, bigrams, trigrams, removing stop words using Python and NLTK

2018 reflections

2017 is a wrap - see you in 2018. Happy Holidays and Happy New Year

How To: Make Word Clouds in Ruby

Blogging pause until December 19, 2017

cvss-to-sqlite Prequel to blog post about Datasette: Convert CSV files into a SQLite database. Browse and publish that SQLite database with Datasette

Future of Journalism and Media: Erin Millar and Discourse (fund them now for $250 by Dec 21, 2017), Jay Rosen of PressThink and The Correspondent (future USA arm of Dutch De Correspondent)

Beeswarm charts in R, Interactive Beeswarm charts in R and d3.js <--- need to try this!

What's the worst that can happen if Karoo's Android 6 gets hacked? Navigation is off? Never trust navigation

BinderHub to run federated Jupyter notebooks in the cloud?

Karoo #iWantToBelieve But You are Based on Android 6.0 which was introduced in October 2015 which means monthly security updates will cease on October 2019 or earlier so if I buy a Karoo in late 2017 I can only use it for a year or two until it's vulnerable forever right? What am I missing?

David Robinson: DataCamp course: Introduction to the R package: Tidyverse

Feverbee's analysis of the Apple community

Simon Willison - Datasette: instantly create and publish a read-only API for your SQLite databases

Used ruby watir gem instead of capybara maybe try capybara next time?

Narrate all your work including your software work with Mathematica and Jupyter notebooks aka 'computational essays'

Run Firefox with Selenium Web Extensions and how to develop a simple Firefox WebExtension

An App to automatically commit this blog to git and upload to github

SUMO aka support.mozilla.org Kitsune search api

Stephen Downes: Consciousness

emma humphries' node.js script to find the top bugs in a component by number of new comments since a given date - good example of node.js

Added url of photoset and photoset name command line parameters to London Drugs Scraping photo downloads script

Click on next photo and then download instead of scrolling is how I scraped the photos from London Drugs

TIL Scraping websites like London Drug's photowebsite to download all photos instead of laboriously one at a time with Ruby and Watir using Selenium is too hard.

My former colleague at Raincity, Katherine Bailey, is doing great things at Acquia with Machine Learning

Everything built on insecure non verified software layers will break at some point because you will be forced to refactor or modify those insecure non verified layers in a non backwards compatible way

Aaron Klotz: Legacy extensions are like kernel modules

I agree with Rex Hammock - No You Can’t Contribute a Guest Post to this Blog

How to leave a comment on this blog? Why are you using github?

Finally got my Note 8 August-October 2017 update, thanks! How long until November 2017 update?

Added RolandTanglao.com to github

DaveO is back! With a Remembrance Day 2017 Podcast, YES!

2011 versus 2017: much the same but social media is omnipresent and not so subtly powerful

Constructive online activities instead of mindless consumption and critical thinking and self care to cope with the weaponized Internet

It's November 8, 2017 - My flagship Note 8 is still stuck at security patch level: August 1, 2017, Thanks S*msung and F*do, NOT :-)

tend-and-befriend instead of fight-or-flight in video games and life! yes please!

Periodic Reminder: http://21stcenturycam.com/ is my blog on 21st century cameras: digital cameras and cameraphones

Looks like my rotunde instance doesn't work, firewall issues? Time to try Jim Pick's pipette dat blogging system?!?!

ggplot2 r bar graph of unanswered after 72 hours of Firefox desktop questions

MongoDB query to export Firefox unanswered questions into a CSV file

How to upsert a single mongodb field using the ruby 2 driver

Lessons from writing add-answers-to-questions-mongodb.rb, next time use smarter_csv and Value Converters?!?!

Added a link to my RSS feed to my about page for Mike

My perfect software documentation: text with lots of examples and screenshots plus tightly edited short video, what's yours?

Why can't universities be more integrated into the community and distributed like libraries?

Things I might understand someday: The amazing power of word vectors

Modern JavaScript Explained For Dinosaurs :-) Still seems lacking in developer usability

Need to read for my infoviz work: Using MongoDB with R

Who needs an API or an RSS feed or any feed when you have proper logs? aka The Log: What every software engineer should know about real-time data's unifying abstraction

How Hey Siri works

Setup rotonde, is this thing on? dat://94be4dfdf9bc81ecbb66d96df3e620b1e1207798b7448249ef432ee3964ef3be

Here’s how I built a private blockchain network, and you can too aka your own personal blockchain

Decentralized apps and orgs, great cryptocurrency, bitcoin, ethereum, block chain explainer with some honesty about whether all this tech and infra is actually useful

GOTTA TRY IT! --> Install instructions for Rotunde on top of Beaker / dat - a p2p social network

SystemML: Cloud scale Machine Learning with R or Python syntax and Jupyter Notebooks

What's the best way to mount a flic bluetooth button on a bicycle?

Fixed Chinatown by manually deleting 4 rows that were in NYC Chinatown

Trying to fix Chinatown map that is only two points by removing outlier points that are in the Chinatown woeid that's a subclass of Strathcona

Maps of Vancouver Neighourhoods average colour over plotted

Gentlest Introduction to Tensorflow #1 (in Python)

Step 2 - Remove non Vancouver Neighbourhoods using tidyverse filter()

Step 1 of cleaning instagram vancouver 2015 neighbourhood dataset is to count the occurrences of each neighborhood using add_count() and filter()

One CSV File with instagram Vancouver 2015 neighborhood using lapply() to read the CSV file and then bind_rows() to combine the rows of the CSV files

Instagram Vancouver 2015 lat lon neighborhood CSV files done!

Ruby script using flickr API flickr.places.findByLatLon to get neighborhood name from lat/long of instagram photos is almost done after 10 days, next: remove non-Vancouver neighourhoods

Use bind_rows() in R lang to combine/concatenate dataframes and tibbles

Mel Robbins -- buffering: top 3 things/day 50% more time; every 15 minutes of meetings, 5mins to process; create space between you and people who deplete you; make 1 decision that will help future you; consider dropping those things you wouldn't try to get involved in if you weren't already doing them

The instagram 2015 lat/lon ruby script to woe_name aka neighborhood name is still running after 1 week - currently at october 2015 - 3 months to go!

Deep Learning with Python by Chollet looks to be a great way to learn Python and Machine Learning

Real Skills Not Soft Skills: Productivity, Wisdom, Perception, Influence

Mike Hoye: Free As In Health Care, Liability, analogies with the car industry, beyond FOSS licenses, etc

How does Ethereum work, anyway?

Longterm Future of support at Mozilla? My ideas: easier markup, support from within mobile products, easier L10N, interactive chat

The instagram 2015 lat/lon ruby script to woe_name aka neighborhood name is still running after 72 hours - currently at june 2015 - 6 months to go!

SUMO Volunteer contribution Metadata Database for infographics

GPD Pocket is chugging away and getting the neighbourhood names of instagram Vancouver 2015 photos, all 1 million of them

TRUE and FALSE deprecated in ruby 2.4, so use true and false instead?!!?

Installing Ruby 2.4.2 on GPD Pocket Running Ubuntu 16.04

Running lat/lon on GPD pocket on Ubuntu

Null array error check added to: Ruby version of getting neighbourhood aka woe_name from lat/lon of instagram 2015 data

Ruby version of getting neighbourhood aka woe_name from lat/lon of instagram 2015 data

Ruby or R for flickr API for Vancouver Latitude and Longitude -> WOEID-> neighborhood name e.g. 'West End'?

Trying out YQL and flickr API for Vancouver Latitude and Longitude -> WOEID-> neighborhood name e.g. 'West End'

Photo Metadata Database for flickr and instagram

R ggmap faceted by vancouver neighborhoods, just need lat/lon to Vancouver neighborhood function

R ggmap faceted by vancouver neighborhoods

8x zoom option to webshot - R - streamgraph of instagram vancouver january 2016 average colour by 600 plotrix integer colours on y axis, x axis is jan 1,2,3,...31

R - streamgraph of instagram vancouver january 2016 average colour by 600 plotrix integer colours on y axis, x axis is jan 1,2,3,...31

R - ggjoy() - Successful joyplot with fill colours and colours and faceted by integer version of 600 string colourames

Rolling to Redmond

R - ggjoy() - Successful joyplot with fill colours and colours and faceted by string colourname

R - ggjoy() - Successful joyplot with fill colours and colours

R - ggjoy() - First successful joyplot

R - Group_by() and tally() error message: Grouping rowwise data frame strips rowwise nature

HOW TO: Make bluetooth work on a GPD Pocket running ubuntu

R faceted geom_density ggplot2 fixed by removing any colour that only happens <= 5 times

R faceted geom_density ggplot2 corrupted is a mess aka learning experience :-)

y axis scaled to 0.0012: R geom_density ggplot2 corrupted to make joy division like awesomeness

R geom_density ggplot2 corrupted to make joy division like awesomeness

Kamyar told me that density plots only apply to continuous variables not variables like string colournames which are discrete variables, oops!

To plot geom_density() using the colours from your data you need a colour vector and scale_colour_manual

AES maps to levels which map to the default colour palette, geom SETS

21000 px wide, theme_void(), Simple Density Plot of colournames of Instagram 2017 Average Colour January 2016

Simple Density Plot of colournames of Instagram 2017 Average Colour January 2016

Thanks to everybody for the fabulous Ride To Conquer Cancer fundraisers softball game and BBQ today in Deep Cove

Stats 101 :-) ! Density functions use the plot variable count/(sum of all variable count)

Changing colours of ggplot2 density plots

R cookbook density plot examples and ggplot2 geom_density official docs

Hitchhiker's guide to ggplot2 in R - free ebook on Leanpub

Interesting scatterplots with too many points using ggplot2 and R

Hypercard, the first programming tool for everybody, turned 30 on August 11, 2017

Cleaning dates and removing outliers with R using lubridate and other R packages using the Kaggle Taxis dataset

Ride To Conquer Fundraiser in Deep Cove 19 August 2017, call for Mozillian Softball players, fab bike ride before and fun BBQ after!

Temperature anomalies arranged by country 1900 - 2016 circular animation video complete with Python source code to just do one circle

Animated GIFs in R using saveGIF from the animation package, gganimate and online animated gif maker

Which @yoshirtinc custom instagram vancouver jan 2016 average colour tshirt should I buy #1, #2, #3, or #4? #yoshirt?

How to call a function on each row of a tibble using the tidyverse and dplyr

Part 5 - mpg scatterplot - applied to average colour instagram by hour jan 1-31, 2016 - remove the chrome and make the dots BIG

Part 4 - mpg scatterplot - applied to average colour instagram by hour jan 1-31, 2016 - colour the dots correctly instead of making them all black

Part 3 - mpg scatterplot - applied to average colour instagram by hour jan 1-31, 2016 - create naive colourname visualization with black dots

Part 2 - mpg scatterplot - applied to average colour instagram by hour jan 1-31, 2016 - add colourname column

Part 1 - mpg scatterplot - applied to average colour instagram by hour jan 1-31, 2016 - chapter 1 of R for Data Science

Hadley Wickham's original tidy data paper: Wickham, Hadley. 2014. “Tidy Data.” Journal of Statistical Software Volume 59 (Issue 10).

Really enjoying: Modern Dive - An Introduction to Statistical and Data Sciences via R - really is a modern introduction to statistics, modern R programming, ggplot2 and the tidyverse

Why do mediocre software developers think they are experts in sociology and psychology?

cancensus R package beta from the fab Jens von Bergmann for accessing Canadian Census Data from R - yes! Thanks!

ModernDive An Introduction to Statistical and Data Sciences via R using modern R data tidying and visualization packages Chester Ismay and Albert Y. Kim

Rust in Action 50% off code until August 3, 2017 Use code: mlmcnamara

How to deal with introverts and extraverts based on Jennifer Selby's talk at Mozilla

How To Setup Wifi on a headless Raspberry PI 3

Awesome idea from Kip - Fill Hilbert Curve square with average colour from instagram photos from 365 days or flickr photos and random spanning trees

How to enable ssh on raspbian on a Raspberry PI

Turn Vancouver Instagram 31January2016 average colour dataset into a Kandinsky-like image using R

ggjoy() plot for instagram january 2016 average colour, average-colour-by-hour-ggjoy-from-csv.R,not working

ggjoy() plot for instagram january 2016 average colour counts

ggjoy() was named for Joy Division's 1979 Unknown Pleasures's album cover which came from pulsar data visualizations!

Lincoln Nebraska temperature ggjoy() code is what i want (just need fill colour to be set to the month)

Docs for ggjoy ggplot2 joyplot package

use curl -O url[1-455].jpg to get multiple JPGs from a website and then convert to a PDF with preview

Animated BBC Microbit 'badge' with selectable happy or sad face

There's an R library for that: ggjoy for joyplots YES AND THANK-YOU!!

R transmute() creates new columns and deletes old columns unlike mutate() which add the columns at the end

R tidyverse and pipe operator defined in Hadley Wickham and Garret Grolemund's R for Data Science (which I promised to read back in January 2017)

Reverse Engineering R joyplot code part 4 - Need to figure out what "%>%" really means and what tidyverse and transmute() do

Reverse Engineering R joyplot code part 3 - atussum.csv, atusact.csv

Visualizing Geographic Data in R is awesome but USA-centric, Canadian version?

Reverse Engineering R joyplot code part 2 -1_gen_data.R generates the activity.tsv file

Reverse Engineering R joyplot code part 1 - What is p? Percentage of peak time?

How do I get 6 or more hours of battery life when using original Apple Watch with Strava?

Instagram or Flickr "joyplot" using the average colour?

Experimenting with Hashbase.io and DAT, P2P blockchain hosting, a fungible hosting service for the peer-to-peer Web

PNG Writer - a great new 1.0 product from Dave Winer to make PNGs with >140 characters for twitter

Publishing to gh-pages from Travis CI using ssh deploy keys, good for GitBook!

If I had a million dollars left over after taking care of my family it would go to charity and worthy startups - wouldn't become a VC or Angel investor

Building a neural network in 9 lines of Python code in 2017, not much better than 1989 -- except for better libraries, more RAM, more CPUs, more data but the same algorithms, what am I missing?

Belated Happy Canada Day

Won't be blogging next week -- Mozilla All Hands in San Francisco 2017

Prynt printable area is 2 inches by 3 inches not 620 pixels by 1120 pixels

Another fab Recurse Center Tutorial -- Image Processing 101 by Sher Minn Chong

Must try r-fiddle.com (which I found through Liz Sander's amazing ggplot2 tutorial -- Telling stories with data using the grammar of graphics )

ICYMI -- Please support my ride to conquer cancer

How to minify JSON using jq

Android processing Hello World works but Geo-location example from Rapid Android Development failed initially because of permissions and sketch location and now it works!

WTF Is Ethereum? aka Ethereum Primer from Vice Motherboard - will this be updated? Can it be updated? Knowledge accretes over time!

Can we banish passive aggressiveness and be blunt like the Germans?

Happy to report that I received the Fido version of the June2017 Google Security update for the Pixel XL this week

Use GNU Parallel instead of xargs to run a script on wildcards and a file that is a list of files

anchor.fm is much better now! But will it last another year?

How to update Lithium SUMO showfor.json programmatically (you have to do it one at a time, can't 100% automate it without javascript)

My Watch workouts are in the iOS Activity app d'oh! Thanks Michael Kalus

Text Face aka the power of compelling examples

Volunteering at Vancouver Mini Maker Faire 2017 - Come say hi and try Mozilla's Thimble

tl;dr tech stuff - Going to summarize tech stuff on my future wiki

UPDATE--Login to Lithium as Admin, paste in showfor.json

Login to Lithium as Admin, paste in showfor.json

Blockchain, bitcoin, ethereum "river news" style aggregator

ARKit in iOS 11 points to eventual AR hardware support in iPhone? AR Sensor? AR processor?

The web is only dead if you exclusively post at places you don't control

Just support Markdown in Facebook and Roland and Dave are happy

Transit App is accurate with Vancouver bus routes, thanks!

Every year since the Raspberry Pi (2012) is the year of Linux on the Desktop

Mogrify works better to convert TIFF to PNG or use 'convert' one at a time with a for loop

How to convert all TIFFs to PNGs in a separate sub directory using ImageMagick / GraphicsMagick

rubular - Ruby regular expression checker highly recommended

A-Frame Virtual Reality School -- yet another thing to try !

foragoodstrftime.com online string from time checker

Going to have to disagree with The Wirecutter -- Buy an Android flagship when it comes out and buy one every 2 years (if you can't afford every 2 years then buy an iPhone every 4 years)

Be humble, make things daily and learn from others daily

I'm crazy :-) so I use Firefox 99% of the time for both work and fun

Steve Yegge endorses Kotlin so maybe I should try it?

How difficult is it to make Kotlin CLI or UI-less apps for Android?

When to use regexes aka regular expressions

Alienware 2014 Windows Desktop with Windows 10 doesn't work with bluetooth headphones yet the headphones work with iOS, Android and OS X

The Windows XP débacle is a failure of the software industry and capitalism

Cory Doctorow at SFU Woodwards -- YA you have to explain context, adults you don't, science fiction helps explain the present rather than explain the future

Sports Tracker still works but it doesn't measure your heartbeat and the watch app doesn't work. watch app + heartbeat + map fitness tracker recommendations?

How To Enable geolocation with camera apps in Android N aka Nougat

We all make sh*tty software including M$crosoft part 8888 -- www.iuqerfsodp9ifjaposdfjhgosurijfaewrwergwea.com

How to add a bluetooth keyboard to the PocketCHIP

320x240 LCD Badge using the Espressif ESP32 with SD Card and LiPO power from microwavemont

VeloCity automatically changes iOS volume - higher speed = higher volume using the GPS to sense speed

What role did bots and hacking play in the 2017 BC election if any?

Programming is Terrible 03May2017 edition -- A tale of Alexa, Lambda, python and iftt.com

By April 30, 2018, the flickr API will be broken --- my bet with cog dog

Small Android & iOS Apps using React & expo.io and expo snacks

Please support my Ride to Conquer Cancer

It looks like 100s (or is it 1000s?!?) of Fido subscribers with Pixels were stuck at an insecure Feb 2017 Android security update because Fido messed up when they tried and failed to add a VOLTE update to the Pixel March 2017 update

imoji, momento and stickerbot - more iOS sticker apps to try in addition to assembly and sticker boost

Fixed Fido unlocked vanilla Pixel XL stuck at Feb 2017 ROM bug by manually flashing April 2017 ROM

Change Agent review aka CRISPR-maggedon is the latest apocalypse

$CDN 300/year for secure, up to date iPhone, $CDN 450/year for secure, up to date Android phone - Apple wins on cost which is unbelievable

Somebody please make me Filipino food emojis and chat stickers for slack, iMessage, signal, Telegram et al :-) I'd like emojis for ma po tofu, mohnkuchen, masala dosa and my other fav foods while we are at it :-) (there are plenty of dim sum emoji)

My ruby scripts log errors to standard err aka stderr and output to standard output aka stdout

Python 2.7 versus 3 in 2017 - seems like version 3 is the winner

Spreadsheet developers are "real" developers too

Use semi-colon to separate multiple statements in a block on a single line in ruby

Beautiful presentations in Markdown using Ulysses and Deckset

How do you keep transitioning to the next set of tools?

Merkle computing - something to keep an eye on

Link Blog medium command line tool -- url, title, link text

Still don't like medium.com but I'll make it my link blog for rolandtanglao.com

Three desktop Firefox prefs for in-product links

Mozilla Marionette to test in-product URLs from Firefox chrome

Again no email list, no targeted broadcasts, no income, party like it's 2002

How to deploy mastodon on heroku - use the deploy button?!?

Deep Learning in 7 lines of code?!?

Ruby '..' aka "2 dot" range operator is inclusive, '...' aka "3 dot" range operator is exclusive

Scraping a scrolling Ajaxy log page with Python, Beautiful Soup, and Selenium

Pry instead of ruby irb?

sed to print selected lines, cut to get second field, open to open in web browser like Firefox

Scraping web pages with ruby, mechanize and nokogiri -- How To Log in, get URL of a link and get link title

Why do you write software? I write it because I must.

What is the best open source tool to test HTTP redirects on 6000 URLs?

How to Check 6000 URLS version 2.0

How to Check 6000 URLS

Public Suffix ruby gem by Simone Carletti gets me the Domain Name

Spreadsheet Limitations -- no revision control, no debugger, no map reduce, no exceptions

Programming for normal people beyond Google Docs and Google Sheets?

More Content Security Policy aka CsP and Regular Expression Fun

Machine Learning -- use open source ML and python

When is the ML "AI Winter" :-) ?

Elm tames the browser, the DOM, CSS and javascript

Blogs are great, but like anything in life in moderation! 500 words a day! Or if you are coder code until you have made some progress and then leave something simple to start the next day.

How to record 4 microphones to a Mac using Zoom H6 and Audio Hijack. What's the equivalent in iOS?

Preinstalled malware on Google Nexus 5X and Samsung Galaxy S7 == yet another reason to buy iPhone over Android

Mac users tweet storm your little hearts out with Dave Winer's Electric Pork!

Firefox in-product URLs support.mozilla.org/1/firefox/%VERSION%/%OS%/%LOCALE% get filled in at run-time

Over time the framework gets assimilated by the application and then you can't evolve the application or the framework fast enough to keep up with newer more agile apps

No I don't need'unsafe-eval' in the CSP Header for Google Analytics? But maybe for angular.js?

What does the CIDR slash notation mean in IP addresses e.g. 63.245.214.128/26 ?

Do I need 'unsafe-eval' in the CSP Header for Google Analytics?

Anybody got a mobile wireless two microphone podcast recording solution that doesn't require AC power?

Read Eric Kim's blog for life lessons (and in the process you might learn about photography too LOL)

How could "true" in a JSON file be changed to "!0"?

Software Themes like UIs will not be user controllable until we have secure components at all layers that users can mix and match

Mozilla bought pocket yay! Maybe I should use the Pocket extension or bookmarklet?!?

2017 The Year of Sleep

Payak 2017 - 1:25 instead of 1:49 Why? Better skis, better wax, faster track, better snow

What's the best thing we can do as geeks? Get away from our screens go outdoors and exercise!

Inspired by Graydon's sub-Turing ideas for a language that can produce networks of reliable components

Two ways to get Average Colour Using ImageMagick convert command

Bose will lose big sales once Apple Airpods have noise reduction

How To Plot radial lines in R using base graphics

Bret Victor-like programming environments-- Smalltalk, Lamdu, Eve, et al which ones should I try?

Been using theoldreader.com to replace Google Reader for 4 years, it's better now yay!

Software development is stupid--either dumbed down like Excel or 1950s like R

Vim doesn't change because editing text doesn't change for software developers

For the paranoid -- If Android buy the latest Nexus/Pixel device every 3 years, if iPhone every 4 years

Android 4.1.2 has Heartbleed fix but it's vulnerable to everything discovered after that right?

Using the OS X "find" command and avoiding "not a file" errors

YES to introversion AND yes to extroversion, yes to solitary work and yes to group work, not mutually exclusive

Snapchat's informality & non-polished nature makes it more fun than Instagram

Podo charges but doesn't turn on, help please!

Away until Wednesday

The biggest, the brightest, the best ideals if far from the best execution of those ideals

What are you going to miss when Barbara-jo's Books to Cooks closes in 25 days? I'll miss Barbara-jo's genteel presence and watchful eye

Finally got my PiJuice 2 years later! What should I do with it?

Dropbox regularly takes up too much OS X CPU? Any viable alternatives besides OneDrive?

We can write a letter to the PM and our MP

Other than donating to the ACLU monthly, what can Canadians do?

What should I do with my Jewelbot?

Arduino driven colour 320x240 LCD Badge using the Espressif ESP32 WROVER Kit?

My next Make Vancouver T-shirt -- 31 Instagram strips made from 1-31 January "square pie charts"

Reading Hadley Wickham and Garret Grolemund's R for Data Science, how should we approach it?

seL4 kernel was formally verified in 2014, what if all layers were verified? Shouldn't they be?

2006-2017 time slider map of Vancouver tax density/square meter - ours is $14/^2 what's yours?

Crazy Thoughts after seeing Rennie's Crazy Wing Sang Collection

Fernando Link Scraper -- Silly Software I won't write

Actual Make Vancouver Tshirt from Jens von Bergmann's fab maps of Vancouver real estate tax assessment data

Tshirt from Jens von Bergmann's fab maps of Vancouver real estate tax assessment data

Top 10 albums of my teenage years

How to make buttons at The Regional Assembly of Text on Main

Words to avoid in 2017

Augmented reality, virtual reality and mixed reality 2017 predictions - no killer apps like instagram, snapchat or Facebook, just Symbian-era-like unpolished experiences

Everybody should learn to program enough to solve one simple problem in their real life

JS Static Site Generator in your browser that renders to S3 or cloud storage that offers web hosting = easy self hosted web site for the 21st century

Email will fail! Don't depend on it. Archive it by year, convert to wikis, blogs todos, calendar and then delete

January 9, 2007 iPhone was announced, today is 10th anniversary

Microcopy matters -- Siri should be Apple and Alexa should be Amazon

What Augmented Reality App should I write in 2017?

Snowmaggedon Day 33 City of Vancouver miscommunication continues aka blog updates daily

Day 32 of snowmaggedeon 2016-17 -- Vancouver living through real-life mini Kim Stanley Robinson's Fifty Degrees Below?

Square-Mile Street Network Visualization with python and Geoff Boeing's OSMNx

2017 Prediction -- 2004's "nobody will take pictures with their phone" is 2017's "it will take decades for EVs to take >50% market share"

2016 Prediction -- wrong about mobile RAW editors

Things I loved in 2016

Make Vancouver Shirt thrilling conclusion

How I made my Make Vancouver Shirt

Happy Holidays and Happy end of 2016 and start of 2017

Mike Hoye -- Are programmers automating blue collar work away?

The difference between AR and MR according to Boris Mann

Boris wrote about URLs in the real world like Stanley Park in 2005 and it's now becoming a reality with AR/MR and Bluetooth beacons

signl.fm -- semi-automated podcast transcriptions and more!

iOS phones and tablets have at least 1 year more of software updates and the updates are more timely than Android phones

Software is hard and won't be what users want until there is security and real layers and components

Software Folks Thanks for your superb code!

If you do quality, peer reviewed research that debunks science then you're entitled to your opinion otherwise be quiet about your "non science" "opinion"

Pixel skating to where Apple's and Samsung's puck has already been

Mark Busse's Vancouver creative angst Part 6 - appeal and potential

Mark Busse's Vancouver creative angst Part 5 - Solutions -- payitforward, indigenous ingenuity, tackle global warming

information wants to be free + “Yes, but people want to get paid.” ! = military javascript industrial complex

Twitter Tactics -- First class platform support for tweetstorms

We should be mindful of crispr and self driving vehicles

In Hawaii for work so light posting

Zazzle T-shirt from 40000 flickr 2004-2012 photos using square pie chart aka waffle chart

Mark Busse's Vancouver creative angst Part 4 - We are all "creative people"!

Mark Busse's Vancouver creative angst Part 3 - Indigenous Inspiration

Mark Busse's Vancouver creative angst Part 2 - Affordability anecdotes.

Mark Busse's Vancouver creative angst Part 1 - my bubbles

Make Vancouver visit TIL -- Embroidery files are .dst, .emb and .ofm

How To -- Get the width and height of an image using imagemagick

Make Vancouver is a viable custom t-shirt alternative to yoshirt?

yoshirt.com custom t-shirt graphic size is 1500x1500, CMYK JPEG

Zazzle.com custom t-shirt graphic size is 2100x1800, sRGB

ggplot2 - For negative y values in a bar graph use position="identity"

How we record over 40 in Vancouver

How To -- R ggplot2 faceted plot with custom colors, no legend and no facet labels

Prynt Zink 2x3 inches - Is printable area 620x1120 or something smaller?

My 175K flickr photos are now CC0 aka public domain

My issues with web apps - victory+react any good with large datasets?

Firefox Focus - a great private browser!

How to narrate your work using a github repo, emacs and README.md

Animated GIF of first 360 photos average colour flickr 2004

ImageMagick Compositing only works with transparent PNGs

Software Error Messages don't often help (e.g. R - single value instead of array value error message)

How to make an Animated Circular Graph in R

Some generative art I curated for MozFest

What can geeks do? Part 2 -- Document your work and your facts using HTML and markdown

What can geeks do? Be nice, be present IRL, write software for good

This is not America

There won't be short links but there will be tags

There won't be an email newsletter, NASCAR and other crazy :-) things

How To -- Linux core utilities instead of OS X BSD style utilities specifically split and grep

How To -- Animated GIF average colour 'Barcode' from lots of photos

want to split text files into chunks? gsplit on OS X split on linux!

Slack is the ultimate stream tool but you need HowTos to go beyond 1980s chat and it's not a garden

MacBook Pro kerfuffle part 800

What should the Open IOT Device World do?

What should twitter do?

Roland's podcast posit -- Any podcast over 5 minutes is probably too long

Apple is out of touch with Unix-centric pros! Solution -- our own laptops, our own software

How I created RollingRoland.com using hugo, hover.com DNS and surge.sh

My new bicycling to work blog will be rollingroland.com

Coffee date w/Stewart Marshall, CPA, and old friend from the Bryght days

Vanmoof "Boncho" aka Bike Poncho - first impressions

CFNY for 20cents/day - What is radio worth to you?

animated GIF of piecharts of average colour instagram-vancouver 1-31January2016

Samsung left the camera business with a whimper not a bang

How to update all my websites and blogs with hugo and jekyll and omni outliner

iPhone 7 Plus first impressions - like the button, camera is as good as reviewers said

Unblocked Haskell learning by starting an outline in OmniOutliner

Met old friend Jeremy Baker (Hubert) and new pal Nagib Tharani of TailorCV.com

Haskell Programming from first principles - mental block

5D "classic" + 40mm "pancake" + eye-fi card = 21st century camera fun!

Beloved Symbian App Gravity, now on Android and called Gravity Forever!

Coffee with Stephen Rees - retired Planner and global warming realist

Highly Recommended - Beyond Bullshit by Josh Bernoff

animated GIF of First 3000photos average colour instagram-vancouver 1-31January2016

How to make twitter animated GIFs (1024x512)

Thanksgiving 2016 Thanks

Why no comments?

My iPhone 6S plus died

My Samsung S7 Edge died

The Google Pixel phones are not good enough to beat the iPhone YET

Met Simon Goring, an open data open science, scientist

Dreadnet rediscovered thanks to No More 604s, archive.org and waybackmachine

Met Alex, a hardware engineer, at Revolver

Minimum Perceptible Difference Brooch, should I build it?

More Generative Art for MozFest 2016 aka pixel sorting part 2

Generative Art for MozFest 2016

It's 2016 why are we still stuck w/keyboards and printing recognition isn't working?

Infographic from 1-31 Jan 2016 Vancouver Instagram 1 average colour square / hour

watchOS3 much better - Siri, button, speed

The screen on my Samsung S7 Edge has died

Personal Climate Modelling

rolandex.com for my personal wiki

Every citizen should learn computational thinking

It's 2016, can I please debug Javascript, R, Julia and Haskell like a 1987 Xerox Lisp Machine?

What personal wiki should I use? VoodooPad has always seemed fab. I don't want to run a server so MediaWiki is out.

24 hours in Vancouver what would you recommend?

What kind of API should mobi bikes have?

What kind of iMessage stickers should I make from Instagram and support.mozilla.org information visualizations?

If you want integers don't use strftime

Current Plan for the R Tshirt book

Haskell Programming from first principles - Review of Chapter 1

Combinator, Normal Form or Diverge and Beta Form Exercises

Equivalence Exercises page 45 lessons

GNU Parallel to use all your CPU cores

Arbitrary Unicode doesn't work in iOS and Android, works on Mac (and I guess Windows)

Alpha Equivalence in Lambda Calculus from the Haskell book by Allen And Moronuki

Learning me a Haskell from Haskell Programming from first Principles by Christopher Allen and Julie Moronuki

24 squares 1 per hour

Train a neural network using likes and comments from instagram vancouver photos 2014-2016?

Get the data right, lessons from R

My version of the waffle() function can handle all 657 r colours

Fixed waffle function that handles more than 25 levels

Simplest possible R square pie chart aka waffle chart

How to sort by a column using order() in R

How to compute counts using count() in R

Using sapply() to get colour as colour names aka calling a function on a column and adding the result as a new column to data table

Dominant colour using imagemagick (and graphicsmagick)

How to make a named character vector in R

How to make the simplest possible literal colour as value piechart with a legend

Simplest ggplot2 Pie Chart using colours as literal bar values

Simplest ggplot2 Bar Chart using colours as bar values

Learnings from R, ggmap and ggplot2: I() the as is/inhibit/insulate function

I love surge.sh the static site hosting service

Curly Bracket inconsistency in Mongod DB aggregation?!?

How to make a PNG file from an RGB file of ASCII Hex Colours made using xxd

How to make a RAW file from a file of ASCII Hex Colours using xxd

Using identify in ruby to determine if a JPEG is valid

Captin Nod aka Bhautik Joshi’s excellent wordspew title creation script

upsert using ruby 2.3, mongodb 3 and driver 2

Using Python’s Folium library to generate leaflet map pages

Setting up hugo on el capitan part 1

Setting up a new Mac Book Pro on el capitan part 1

I love Hugo the static site generator

I love IA Writer for writing in Markdown

October 2015 Apple Watch Thoughts

August 2015 Apple Watch Thoughts

Garmin GPS nuvi 2559LMT thoughts

First thoughts on the Apple Watch

How to correctly install jupyter

R Language Jupyter notebook to load my instagram 2014 top colour dataset

How to get R 3.2 working with iPython aka Jupyter and Yosemite

ggplot2: working histogram plot with labels - TOP 50

ggplot2: working histogram plot with labels

ggplot2: aes MAPS geom SETS

tc a function to get the top colour name in R

FIXED ig-van-2014-top-colour i.e. a factor != a character

My instagram vancouver 2014 top colour dataset is now on CRAN

How to make a bar graph from a CSV file using colours in the CSV file itself

Get the closest colour in R from the plotrix package using color.id

R package names can’t have underscores or hyphens:citation found

R package names can’t have underscores or hyphens

Now that I have an electric bicycle I’m going to have start another blog

RethinkDB seems to be much better supported on Raspberry PI than Mongo

Trying out the atom editor

Numbers crashed with a 240000 line csv file

Google Spreadsheet crashed with a 240000 line csv file

Instagram Vancouver 2014 arranged by top colour count with 1 pixel per occurrence of the colour with most frequently occurring at top left, less frequent bottom right. The most frequently occurring colours are white-ish

CSV dataset for Instagram 2014 top colour image

How to use bash to operate on groups of files using GraphicsMagick?

Anybody using G’Mic? Is it better or a complement to ImageMagick and GraphicsMagick?

How to use graphicsmagick and xargs to crop top left most pixel

How do I concatenate images vertically using GraphicsMagick?

Instagram 2014 Vancouver Voice of Fire

How to create a sparse array in Ruby and sort by value

How to use graphicsmagick to make an HD image from 10x1px JPEGs

MongoDB sub-field search queries

Meerkat Qik Kyte An Eternal Golden Braid aka Om never forgets!

Yosemite RMagick magic

Hello Jekyll World

Thanks for 20 years of Blogging Dave

Hardware project: FlickrBicyclePi

How to debug video playback issues on Firefox for Android

Colophon: Create your own personal Map tiles (from July 2013)

Reading the web in your way is the future even if RSS readers fail

Always available Personal Algorithms + Personal Data = Programs that matter

Email will inevitably fail so if you foolishly depend on it, learn to back it up and restore it

The Old Reader is where I am sharing RSS items; also on tumblr via IFTTT

Email is not an archival system, file system, knowledge management system or a to-do system

Stop whingeing about how you used to take great photos w/your DSLR but are now mired in a morass of bad cameraphone photos - get a cheap point & shoot and an Eye-Fi card & you will have great photos again w/out the DSLR weight

Nikon V1 might as well be free at $299 w/lens aka redonkulous price cuts mean desperate camera makers! One or more of Sony, Olympus, Ricoh, Pentax, or Samsung will exit the camera business in the next ten years

Thom Hogan: the camera industry has started teaching customers that big discounts are the norm.

Change your life light your bike - My CBC interview on bicycle lights

Best MongoDB to CSV tool to generate CSV files for graphing using a JS toolkit, Excel, etc?

Thunderbird - Get Satisfaction Answer Rate - A tale of tools; this shouldn't require programming

Single Purpose Server Apps on multiple Raspberry Pis to overcome tyranny of the cloud & tyranny of hosted services

Another reason to turn off the touchscreen on the N8: I have often switched WiFi & 3G off by accident

Nokia NOT Apple set the mobile phone industry back by not shipping a mass market phone until the N8 w/enough RAM to multi-task ShoZu and other apps

If it's about flipping the switch rather than quality of the product, you will lose; it's just a matter of time

Bicycle Commuting Picture Workflow - N8 in lanyard around my neck, take a shot, drop the phone

WANTED: Two N8 Cameraphone apps with settings locked: default + hyperfocal street photography

Nokia Pureview 808 - 41 Megapixel sensor downsamples to superior 5 Megapixel images

Backup your public Flickr photo metadata to MongoDB using backupPublicPhotoMetadataByDateAndUser

This week's hot camera is the Olympus OM-D

If you trust just one site like TechMeme or Reddit or YCombinator News or Slashdot for your tech news you are doing it wrong

Fuji X-Pro 1 is seriously tempting

I can't believe I have been using Lightroom for 6 years! - Lightroom 4 Beta introduced

16GB class 10 eye.fi SD card that works w/my Fuji X10 is all I want for 2012 from eye.fi :-) !

Less with the "Fan Boys", "should", "obviously", "embarrassing", etc. more with the awesome making of good in 2012

mongohq + GS API + mongoPoll.rb on my VPS + emailReport2.rb + cron = awesome twice daily Thunderbird support report

I didn't buy the Panasonic GX1 because I was blown away by the X100 hybrid viewfinder

Lovin' the FujiX10 so far especially the super macro mode

Kalv since you refuse to charge me for RSS Hero, I would like to buy you lunch before Christmas or in Mid January 2012

"sudo gem install SystemTimer" fixed my mongodb timeout issues after time machine restore

What is the best Bluetooth headset to buy for recording podcasts while bicycling? Jawbone Era?

Galaxy Tab 10.1 + Zagg Folio + Browser = Awesomely light blogging and note taking machine

PostgreSQL + hstore +hashes = interesting way to store non tabular data

hello world from Android Galaxy Tab 10.1 using Zagg Folio bluetooth keyboard

Best Text Editor for Android Phones and Tablets

Small groups that have high signal to share can move forward

Which Micro 4/3 camera should I buy? Panasonic GX1?

Switched shared items from Google Reader to RSSHero.com

Speakout Wireless no catches, unlimited but slow 3G data for $10/month, no voice plan required

Speakout Wireless Nokia N8 Internet access setup details

Speakout Wireless pay as you go unlimited data for $10/month works for A-GPS & uploading photos to flickr on my N8

Is Speakout Wireless's $10/a month pay as you go data plan good enough for A-GPS?

Nokia is behind Apple in overall cameraphone user experience and that's what matters - A response to cameraphone expert Damian Dinning's great comment

iPhone4S overall beats the N8 & N9. Unbelievable but true that Nokia the cameraphone leader in 2007 is behind Apple in all fronts except the Zeiss lens

Samsung Android Galaxy Tab 10.1 first impressions - looking for a good case

There is no substitute for a hardware shutter button for "real" cameraphones

Round 3 - Nokia's App store requires a Valid SIM card to work

Round 2 - Can't buy Apps from Nokia's store even with a valid credit card - I guess I'll need to pop a Valid SIM card in

Is there a N8 equivalent of the iPhone Slow Shutter app that will allow me to take 0.5 to 15 second photos?

Android built-in keyboard like Symbian's is unusable

Design Thinking, Grow Conference, HackVan, Design Nerd REFAB Jam - an amazing weekend of Vancouver tech & design events

X7 review: It's hard to use another cameraphone after you have used the N8

Better Support Living through Software Presentation

Better Support Living through Software aka Support Forum Browsing is a waste of time

Ovi store purchase of CameraFX failed I believe because there's no SIM card & it's trying to do carrier billing

Couldn't buy CameraFX from the Canadian Nokia Ovi Store - Why?

Still don't have real time geotagged photo web in 2011! Proof: lack of geotagged Vancouver photos on flickr after Vancouver Canucks beat the San Jose Sharks

Das Blinkenlights - Vancouver and San Francisco Video Style!

Das Blinkenlights w/CloudMade APIs of Vancouver & San Francisco real-time geotagged flickr photos: use map.removeOverlay()

Improve my MongoDB query to get the number of Thunderbird support topics created or replied to within a given time period please

Developers need to be on GitHub, period. - It's the Social Coding Era - Fork, branch, pull request or die :-) !

Fare thee well Derek

How to find Get Satisfaction topics by tag using the Get Satisfaction JSON REST-like API

N8 video & flickr not working - symptomatic of both Flickr & Nokia irrelevance?

I have Nokia Cameraphone Stockholm syndrome, the N8 continues to rule!

Changing Firefox msgstr to Thunderbird - Is there a built in way to do this in Mac OS X or Linux?

shades of darkness barcode

penmachine dodging buses barcode video & HTML5 Web App

Everything by subscription including computers and bicycles

iPhone Google Reader web app is faster and smoother than the Google Reader App on the Nexus S - Android Stuff Part 1

Penmachine barcode 1.1

Penmachine barcode

ImageMagick montage on 4600 photos running for 36 hours! Alternatives?

Yelp, Gowalla, foursquare, Urban Spoon etc. are walled garden data silos of Doom that don't provide useful recommendations

Blackberry Playbook Mania

Cisco Flip débacle: Social Cameras must have wireless connectivity & magic fairy dust won't turn Enterprise companies into consumer companies

Northern Voice 2011 Lightning Talk - Why and how anybody can use flickr + HTML5 to quickly and easily write compelling mashups

Symbian Anna is the kind of revision that we needed to see about 1.5 years ago.

Mozilla happenings: Firefox 4 + Spaces party on April 15th + Thunderbird team now part of Mozilla Corp

Android is everything Nokia phones could have been

Real-time business critical metrics graphing for everybody

MongoDB is my current persistent data structure store of choice aka "how to slurp your Get Satisfaction data into MongoDB"

Our French immersion kid hilariously calls the N8, l'iPhone de Nokia

We need to be honest with ourselves about traditional publishing & our entire society

My Quantified Bicycling Life

N8's camera continues to amaze me - especially macro mode

Color's idea for co-locative co-temporal automatic social network is great but Color's execution merits a D

Upgraded to Drupal 7 courtesy of the super skilled Richard Eriksson

We are the network: Local, live video, curation, aggregation - How I would have covered the Vancouver 2010 Olympics

Nokia execs believed it couldn't do 21st century mobile phone experience hence Nokmsft & the move to Windows Phone 7

February 11, 2011 shall henceforth be known as #Nokia #Microsoft Co-Dependence Day :-)

N8 Review - Nice Camera, Shame about the Total Experience which hasn't progressed since the N80 of April 2006

This is the golden age of computing, not the 1970s

DemoCampVancouver 12 was fab but my N900 Qik Videos weren't :-)

The Revolution is not YET geo-tagged camera blogged aka In search of Das Blinkenlights

HD size with Street Chrome Version of 2010 Men's Gold Medal Hockey Day Geotagged Pics from Flickr

Interesting Vancouver 2010 Stream of Consciousness thoughts

Happy Thanksgiving 2010 - What I am always thankful for!

Real time Mozilla Thunderbird Support Dashboard written by Protz using the Get Satisfaction API

Does N900 Pixelpipe support flickr uploads that are visible only to your contacts who are "family" on flickr like ShoZu does?

Hostmaster is dead! Long Live Hostmaster! Go Aegir go!

Why I have stopped using ShoZu, Sports Tracker and the N82 and use N900 + PixelPipe + RunKeeper on iPhone 3G

N900 Camera App Nits

User generated web aggregation aka Russell Beattie is right again!

Create your own custom daily Get Satisfaction email report with emailReport.rb

N900 Pixelpipe allows unlimited photo upload but doesn't retry

Ruby code to send email using gmail

FCamera is great except there is no EXIF and no GPS coordinates, bright side:music plays!

Why do I continue to use the N82 instead of the N900 for my cameraphone photos? A: ShoZu

Python code to post photos and videos to a blog using APP or XML-RPC?

Foodtree video from my N900 at DCV11 is shakey - need a portable steadicam

N900 finally gets some fun photo apps

Emacs over SSH - How I develop python programs directly on the N900

PyMaemo is Python 2.5.4 and uses Numeric instead of Numpy

50000 photos & 6 years with a Camera Phone

gpsgamelan.py is ok, but i want real music - use 12 major keys with 10 chords

Random GPS driven sounds from an N900 in python

Nokia could win big with a social camera

How to turn off Data Roaming on the N900

Wind Mobile software billing bug says I was data roaming when I wasn't

iPhone4 HD Video is a killer app - James Burland's HD video's proof of the awesome sound & video quality - Game on N8 :-) !

N900 PyMaemo - How to synthesize sounds & read the GPS simultaneously?

iPhone 4 camera better than every Nokia phone except the N8 which I remain optimistic about

6 years of Northern Voice 2005,2006,2007,2008,2009,2010

N900 Review Part 1 - Great potential but Maemo 5 still a work in progress

E75 Review Part 5 - Cost reduced E75 w/built in Qik, ShoZu & Gravity would be a killer multi-media creator phone aka buy the C6

E75 Review Part 4 - Streaming via Qik uses lots of bandwidth

Boris & Roland pontificate on iPhone 4.0, Meego, qik, Drupal,Aegir, Acquia, etc. aka "Mobile and Web Pontifications w/o borders"

E75 Review Part 3 - I'm a fan of the future - High Speed always on always available connectivity w/great video & still cameras

E75 Review Part 2 - E75-1 compatible with Fido Rogers 3.5G

E75 Review Part 1 - Gravity Rocks, still the same old frustrating S60 issues like "Create WLAN connection in offline mode"

2010 Social Media Predictions aka Know your rights, aggregate & own your stuff and back it up

2010 Mobile Tech Predictions

My ideal mobile mad scientist language

Technical Support Lead for Mozilla Messaging - c'est moi

REAL - Read, Evaluate, Art, Loop - N900 is the closest thing to a "REAL" machine

IPositionSubscriber is the Bug Labs asychronous API that is broken in 1.4.2

Belated Nokia N999 er N900 Congrats

Bug Labs Release 1.4.2 - asynchronous GPS API broken, synchronous works but requires polling

Social Media Ice Cream at BarCamp Vancouver 2009

Nokia Sports Tracker being spun out as Sports Tracking Technologies

Bug Labs Release 1.4.1 fixes my GPS issues

N97 Review - Can't recommend it to others but I would buy one with my own money

We choose to go the moon - I still want to go to space but w/o being rich, being in the military or going to grad school

N97 Review Penultimate Installment - Camera forgets its GPS setting, etc

N97 Review Day 10 and 11 - Pixelpipe and Share Online woes continue

I want my Newton Life back

N97 Review Day 8 and 9 - No Keyguard lock issues but not impressed by pixelpipe and share online

N97 Review Day 7 - Return of the Keyguard / Lock Switch Problem

N97 Review Day 6 - DemoCamp Vancouver 7 Video Test

N97 Review Day 5 - Camera app crashed & Lock Switch wouldn't unlock so I did a hard reset

N97 Review Day 4 - Random Reboots and USB Charging flakiness

N97 Review Day 3 - GPS lock is faster and more reliable then before

N97 Review Day 2 - Photos photos photos

N97 Review Day 1 Stream of Consciousness

The N97 ain't my N999 concept but it's closer

RimuHosting.com is my new post-Bryght Host

CrowdTrust - My New Job

End of my Bryght Era

Nokia viNe tutorial in pictures

Gravity S60 Twitter client is the exception that proves the rule

DRAFT Nokia Sports Tracker Tutorial in pictures

BUG Adventures - GPS still not getting a fix, need another antenna perhaps or is GPSConfig not working?

Upgraded Kernel and then Root FS of my BUG from R1.3 to R1.4, GPS still doesn't get a FIX

Tried to upgrade Bug Labs Bug Root FS to R1.4 but now my BUG is borked

Mobile Open Lab 2009 - A proposal

Git for Drupalers in 2 Minutes

Upgraded my Bryght VPS to Acquia 1.2.4, Drupal 6.10, tinymce 3.2.2 and WYSIWYG 6.x-1.1

Nokia Beautiful Connections Text Art - what if it were GPS based?

On: Dancing, Northern Voice and Federico's & 10000 hours

Mobile Video Streaming 2009 - Northern Voice 2009

VIDEO CONTEST - What is one way that the Internet has changed my life? Possible Northern Voice 2009 Moosecamp Session

Identicons, Yarn Bombing and Mobile - Possible Northern Voice 2009 Moosecamp Session

Updated to Drupal 6 using Acquia Drupal 1.2.1 that I checked into GitHub.com

Free Nokia viNe and Sports Tracker tutorials for Vancouverites in exchange for coffee

Nokia Software Updater won't let me update my European N95-1 and N82-1 to the latest firmware even with Fido SIM installed

Skyte 1796 - In Phase One

"Bug Adventures" III - How to use Eclipse

My first ruby program - a program to animate my 1796 Skytrain Photos from flickr

7 things you should know about mobile - Presentation to UBC LFS

"Bug Adventures" II - Why doesn't my GPS work?

Please donate your mobiles to Fearless, see you tomorrow!

"Bug Adventures" Personal Wiki started

We don't have free movement of goods between Canada and the USA

Real Artists Ship! My Bug Bundle Arrives

ShoZu Grand Master Roland Tanglao am I!

Nokia N97- finally a decent looking competitor to the iPhone!

Nokia to reveal insanely great device at Nokia World on Wednesday Dec 3, 2008!?!

Almost free ShoZu help for Vancouverites - Helping the ShoZu MIR Campaign

Nokia viNe fun mobile app, shame about the website

Nokia Bicycle Cradle is a nifty tool for taking bicycle wheel POV photos and videos

Hello EtherPad! - Let's do the "Cross Platform SubEthaEdit thing" together!

Eye-Fi’s Wireless Memory Cards for Digital Cameras Come to Canada | Best way to get your family photos to flickr!

I am on the list of Vancouver's Top 10 Twitterers!?!

Vote for Paul Hilsdon today Surrey folks!

Bug Labs resumes shipping on November 17th!

Open Hardware + Open Software = telcos that can be setup easily like blogs

Nokia Sports Tracker - I want to believe but I can't because it's flakey

$6K per gigabyte for Rogers Data Roaming in the USA - r*poff continues

N82 - 2300 photos since August 26, 2008 - going back to N95-1

N96 World Tour will come to Vancouver where it was designed (fingers crossed!)

Bug Labs delays shipments because of worldwide credit crunch

Q&A Knight Foundation's News Challenge Last Night Oct 6, 2008 w/Susan Mernit

I no longer customize my S60 devices or my Mac except in cosmetic ways

Knight Foundation's News Challenge Last Night Oct 6, 2008 w/Susan Mernit

Newspaper 2.0 - embracing the the socialness of "readers"

Knight Foundation's NewsChallenge event at Raincity tomorrow night!

The Future of Mobility is Linux (and iPhone) RussellBeattie.com from September 2005

It's all about the usability, not the features - Nokia unveils S60 5th Edition and DRMed Comes with Music

Blogging Has Gone Nuts because people have tried to game it and make money thru SEO rather than passion

Nokia Open Lab 2008 - Video Wrapup

#5 on Now Public's Most Public List for Vancouver - Let's Rock it!

Open Mobile 2008 - Movino rocks

Mobile Camp Vancouver 2 is this Saturday at WorkSpace

Transport Hero Camp Redux 2008

Going to Nokia WOMWorld Workshop in Helsinki September 10-14

Trying Out MarsEdit 2.2 - still doesn't have category/tag search/auto-complete

FutureShop redux - how about an "All Genius" Staff?

Bug Labs Bug Bundle Shipment delayed until September, switch to Poky, more Funding

AirMe no longer works with GPS after 2.01 firmware upgrade

FutureShop and other Canadian Retailers - Why don't you sell the fabulous Eye-Fi SD card?

test story

test story with tinymce off

test story with drupal 5.9 logged in as roland

Test Drupal 5.9 story

story with drupal 5.8 and tinymce on

iPhone 3G arrives - google reader faster, browser crashes, camera s*cks, apps are great but limited by Apple's SDK and p*ranoia

drupal 5.7 story with tinymce on

Ordered my 16GB iPhone 3G today from Fido, will receive it in August

Streaming Video Vancouver June 2008 Critical Mass

iPhone Pricing in Canada - Rogers' American PR firm, MS&L Digital, sends bloggers identical unhelpful emails - import iPhone?

N78 Review - If you are a multimedia creator get an N95, else get iPhone

Nokia Acquires Symbian; S60 to go Open Source!?!

Rogers iPhone pricing plans revealed: 3years $3440 but appears to be no explicit bandwidth cap and no 3rd party app ban

Car Free Vancouver Day 2008 Mobile Streaming Video Post Mortem Part 1

BareBonesCafe - Fun Business Ideas Part 1

Fido (and Rogers) raise SMS rates to the USA by 66% from 15 cents to 25 cents

Bicycling With Amy Walker to all Car Free Vancouver 2008 Venues on June 15, 2008 and streaming video from my bike

"These are my Kid"s / Kinzin's world wide shipped 10 photos / month for 2.50 is fantastic

Maura Rodgers on her Rogers N95 8GB NAM and S60 - S60 Ambassadors Video

iPhone in Canada Rogers Data Plan Bingo

Car Free Vancouver Live Streaming Video from my N95 on my bicycle

Nokia N78 and S60 3rd Edition FP2 Blink Reactions plus bonus N78 Unboxing Video

Rogers 1 GB Data Plan is now $100/month instead of $65, price raised 54%

Tylor Sherman Video on S60 N81 8GB - S60 Ambassadors

Lively Kernel is clever! - Notes from the Forum and Mailing List

Eye-Fi WiFi functionality should be built into every memory card

12 hours with Rogers N95 8GB NAM - Get an unlocked one instead!

Cecily Walker Video on S60 Interface - S60 Ambassadors

Rogers implements kludgey SMS "you are now getting r*pped off" alert system instead of reasonable data plans

Rogers uses deep packet inspection? Rogers charging extra for data for built-in email app? Data plans "incredibly limiting"

MoMoVan May 2008 - Mobile Social Networking Panel Discussion that I moderated

Rogers Unlimited Plan is restricted to Rogers' apps, 3rd party apps pay r*poff tax. Buy unlocked N95 8GB instead

Nokia N95 8GB on Rogers has WiFi but no mention on Rogers site, appears you can't use 3rd party apps

iPhone coming to Rogers

Grassroots Open Mobile Web at Open Web Vancouver 2008

I love/hate both my Nokia N95-1 and my iPhone but the N95 is the phone I use daily

Flickr adds video - interesting that most of my videos are family videos

BUG Labs - Canadian Credit Card with US Shipping Address doesn't work

Adobe Light Room 2.0 Public Beta - Great 2nd monitor support & keyboard shortcuts but needs localized adjustment preview

Running N95-1 Firmware V21 and ShoZu 4.0 but can't update Facebook Status

AT&T GoPhone + unlocked iPhone = cheapest way to keep in touch for Canadians travelling in the USA who aren't gadget gurus

Hardware Mashups - The Long Tail of Gadgets

SXSW 2008 Bound on Friday! See you there!

Bus Challenged for NV08 Opening Party? Meet me at Blenz at 5:15p.m. at 508 West Hastings and we'll go together

Broke my GorillaPod - what next buy an SLR GorillaPod or buy proper camera bicycle mount?

Presenting VideoBlogging 101 part of Internet BootCamp at Northern Voice 2008 MooseCamp Feb 22, 2008

Drupal 6.0 released | drupal.org

N96 is growing on me - the N81 heritage is a wee bit disturbing though

DemoCampVancouver05 Videos - Scannerfly and Localiti intrigue

Olinda social radio with WiFi and API - I want one

Bambuser is another live videocast from your phone competitor

Another way to crash ShoZu - try to upload 150 photos at once

Qik Alpha Version 0.26 appears to have solved the hanging problem

First Carcast with Flixwagon - Qik versus Flixwagon shootout

Qik alpha bug - hangs forever if WiFi access point not available

As long as Microsoft doesn't neuter flickr, I am fine with them buying Yahoo

1st Qik bicyclecast live from my bicycle over EDGE

Qik is killer app for mobile phones with unlimited data

ShoZu - please work around the S60 "Create WLAN connection in offline mode?"

No Rogers iPhone at Macworld, I was right, RBC was wrong

N81 8GB Review Part 4 - fun walkman for my bicycle commute

N81 8GB Review Part 3 - Navi wheel doesn't work well

N81 8GB Review Part 2 - Multimedia key not intuitive

MacBook Air needs wireless monitors and automagic CPU task delegation

Joby GorillaPod + DT-22 adapter + N95 + Qik = Bikecast

I need 2 SIM Cards: 1 for N95 and 1 for iPhone

2008 Random Predictions

How to modify your 1.1.2 iPhone to work with Rogers and Fido

Roland's Christmas 2007 Social Geek 'Get A Life' List

Roland's Christmas 2007 Social Geek Gadget List

TransitCampVancouver Session Pitch Videos

TransitCamp Vancouver was fab! Thanks Karen

ConceptShare grows and grows and partners with Corel

N81 8GB Review Part 1 - Solid but shame about the camera

How to Tether an N95-1 to Fido over EDGE via Bluetooth on Mac OS X Tiger

N95-1 with 20.0.015 firmware appears to pass the Roland ShoZu Challenge!!

Raincity Studios acquires Bryght

Upgraded to Lightroom 1.3 and Mac OS 10.4.11

N82 has cool Xenon flash but will it pass the Roland Shozu Challenge?

Drupal and LAMP running on S60!

Northern Voice 2008 Speaker Submissions and Call for Ideas

Can't record video from S60 Python on an N93, how do I record video at 640x480?

N95-1 from Nokia Blogger Relations, looking for 4 GB micro SD SDHC card

Now running sweet Drupal 5.3

N95-3 for crafty creators + N810 hacker's delight + iPhone for consuming content = My Mobile Dream Team

How Do I record a Video using S60 Python 1.4.1?

S60 Python Success - Got Sample code to work, Nokia camera.py doesn't work

Nitobi Hack Day - desperately seeking S60 python help

Mobile Report Card - my new site for mobile media reviews

Globe and Mail finally realizes that Canadian Data Rates are a r*poff

Google Buys Jaiku

N95-1 for a week - Day 4, 5,6,7 thoughts - N95-3 sounds great!

N95-1 DemoCampVancouver03 Videos

N95-1 for a week - Day 3 thoughts

N95-1 for a week - Day 2 thoughts

N95-1 for a week -blink reaction

Igor is MoMoVan face - MoMoVan October 2007 Wrapup

N800 successor has a keyboard !?!

Amber, Leo and Tod rock - HD and Broadcast TV do not

Mark Pesce loves his Meraki mesh

Won a Sun Server at Launch Party at Section 3 - what to do?

Mystery photo turns B&E into a high-tech whodunit

Mobile Monday Vancouver re-launches October 2007 in a more informal style

All cameras will have built in ShoZu-like connectivity

ShoZu Slideshow Beta for Consumers - about to launch

Free Ringtones in exchange for Steak Frites at Jules Bistro

iMovie08 much easier than previous iMovie for quick and dirty movies

DrupalCamp LA 2007 and California Final Thoughts

502 N93 photos + Flickr Backup + CocoViewX + QuickTimePro + ccMixtr = Vancity Bike Share 502 movie

DrupalCamp LA Session - Install Profiles or how to share your awesome Drupal Webapp

Open Komodo is cool open source web app development environment

Iotum's Facebook conference call looks excellent

Nokia's Music store based on WMA DRM will fail

Nokia will ship S60 with Touch interface - Real Artists Steal

Nokia N81 & N95 8GB finally have adequate RAM

Nokia sells 11 phones per second and has history of re-invention

how about 'looseo' for the 'loose' versus 'lose' confusion?

FeedM8, make money off your RSS Feed - [FM8327-55]

The internet does not revolve around the telcos' billing engine

N800 + Skype + WiFi = Great telco long distance route around

ecto3 alpha - doesn't recognize new categories

Social Media For Parents session from BarCamp Vancouver 2007

BarCamp Vancouver 2007 Three Word Introductions Video

Social Media for Parents - BarCampVancouver2007

I'll be Photowalking Friday August 17th and PhotoCamping Saturday August 18th

Facebook's RSS feeds leak confidential data! Fix it by using basic auth over SSL and flickr style revokable URLs

Everybody on the wait list please come to BarCamp Vancouver 2007!!!

Up4 from ActiveState

PubSub returns as Something Simpler

BarCamp Vancouver 2007 is this Friday and Saturday

BarCamp, BarCamp Amsterdam and BarCamp Vancouver: looking back and looking forward

Allowing CDMA and GSM in North America is like allowing left and right hand drive cars simultaneously

US 3G Nokia N95 has 128MB RAM and Battery Upgrade!

Create Compelling Content Constantly or Consistently?

Lazy Web - Give me unlimited mobile uploads to a video service of my choice over WiFi

Microsoft cloud not for me or Stowe Boyd

Russ Beattie Agrees that Nokia should adopt open source core

Nokia: Buy ShoZu and be done with it :-) !

iPhone like Keyboard available for N800

Rui on how Nokia can beat the iPhone

TAAC 2007 Part 1 - Impressions

AT&T's iPhone plan s*cks

Jon Arnold's long term usage Nokia N93 Review

"The ecstasy of influence: A plagiarism" by Jonathan Lethem (Harper's Magazine)

Drupal site NowPublic rated one of the 50 best websites of 2007

Lightroom 1.1 has two new Sharpen presets

iPhone h*cking commences, quelle surprise!

Check "Make new virtual copies" when creating collections - Lightroom tip

DemoCampVancouver02 is tomorrow at 5:30p.m. at WorkSpace

TalkPlus Beta works great on my N93 to my sister's Toronto cellphone

Lifeblog good for SMS archiving but not much else - still Windows only and mobile client is still not very good

How to fix ShoZu

Competing with iPhone: Plan A and Plan B for Nokia

Great user experience, touch and magical interfaces IN. Hard to use, Stylus and menus OUT

Skype on the Nokia N800: it's alive, it's ALIVE!

Lightroom 1.1 list of changes

Ian Lyons' review of Lightroom 1.1 is the best I've found so far

LightroomNews 1.1 Ships - Catalogs replace libraries

iPhone has regular GSM SIM card thank goodness

iPhone has hardwired SIM?!?

GK VanPatter on Design 3.0 at Microsoft Expression Launch

Sydney Fels - Multi camera tagging for the 2010 Olympics and the Ikea Digital Lifestyle June 6, 2007

Phillip Jeffrey on Facebook and flickr tagging June 6, 2007

David Vogt on CrowdTrust, his tagging startup

Jaiku beta mobile client shows how IP trumps SMS (eventually)

Nokia Media Transfer works on my N93 even though the setup app crashed

Hugin and Mugin source - Java flickr midlet uploader

Facebook: I've seen this movie before but this sequel is different & better because it's a blockbuster and everybody's doing it

Zurfer zloooow on N93 over Canadian GPRS

Apple Tablet coming soon if not at WWDC 2007

Dang! Nokia Media Transfer beta doesn't work with my N800

MarsEdit 1.2 - Still no WYSIWYG mode and no way to elegantly handle 100s of tags

Dreaming in Code - get it to explain the crazy software business to others

Use Mac OS X built-in JPEG Conversion - Lightroom Fan Part 3

N93 Review Part 11 - Never underestimate a 3x optical zoom camera with always on connectivity

N800 makes fine car MP3 player - N800 Review Part 3

How I got into Technology

Give Me Real Broadband without port blocking and a comfortable, quiet and clean room

Open source doesn't do camels

Common-Space Peer Production - Is it good for more than code and blogs and wikis?

SMSes don't have a standard way to insert line breaks

DemoCampVancouver01 Rocked

N800 + GSM 850 phone = perfect price checker - N800 Review Part 2

Digital SLR + 50mm lens + Lightroom = awesome kid photos - Lightroom Fan Part 2

SMS is dead redux - IP juggernaut continues

Printing to jpg from Lightroom's print module - Lightroom Fan Part 1

SMS is dead - Twitter proves it

BUZmob is a great way to read RSS on your mobile devices

DemoCamp Vancouver01 May 24, 2007 5:30p.m. at WorkSpace

Social Software "Manifesto" - Super Happy Dev House Redux Part 1

Love Lightroom, hate Photoshop

Globe and Mail Survey May 2007 - My comments

Couldn't get Bluetooth console working with Python on my N93 - Super Happy Dev House Redux Part 2

Nokia N800 Hacking at Vancouver Super Happy Dev House?

Nokia, how about a Vancouver Evening like Evening with S60 Helsinki: June 14, 2007

Vancouver Super Happy Dev House at Bryght sponsored by Socialtext Fri 11 May 07 1p.m.-1a.m. Sat 12 May

Nokia: please build Christian Lindholm's Transformer Mobile OS around an open source core

Cultivation = Motivation divided by Moderation

Nokia S60 3rd Edition Devices Need to run Positioning app to activate external GPS?!?

Canucks Outsider Live Game 5 is here starting at 5:30p.m.-ish Pacific 3 May 07

RAZR and KRZR technologically behind

Nokia N800 Review Part 1 - Linux is surprisingly usable, S60 on Linux in the future?

Motorola KRZR K1 Review Part 7 - Works great as a modem for the Nokia N800

Removable User Identity Module proves that CDMA is the Betamax of mobile technology

Kyte.tv is great for sharing mobile pics with chat, doesn't do live video YET

Canucks Outsider Live Game 7 is here starting at 5:45p.m. Pacific 23 Apr 07

CRTC should Mandate CDMA Portability using R-UIMs (CDMA version of SIM Cards) ?!?

Canucks Outsider Live will videocast live Game 6 using ustream.tv

Why I should get a free upcoming.org tshirt

Vancouver PHP Free Geek and Lucene Search Engine Talk will be videocasted live using ustream.tv

In Vancouver Sun last Saturday about The Blogger Code of Conduct

Canucks Outsider Live Videocast with ustream.tv on Saturday at 5p.m.

ustream.tv doesn't stream video with PPC Macs and iSight?

Tony Tang on wall and table displays at UBC Large Displays Workshop - VIDEO

Rogers hypes video shot on N series Nokia phones that they don't sell

Rodger Lea's UBC Large Display Workshop Video

Right click on flash movie to make ustream.tv work on your PPC Mac and iSight

Nicole Arksey on Family Blog at UBC Large Displays workshop - Video

Got ustream.tv to work with my Canon DV camera over Firewire

Adrian Friday's talk on Large Screen Deployment at Lancaster University - VIDEO

N800 received from Nokia Blogger Relations - looking forward to using it for GTalk video and Skype

My Symbian History - 7610 with my own money, rest from Nokia Blogger Relations

Canadian telco r*poffs irrelevant to savvy, geeky users

ShoZu still the best way to quickly flickr photos, Lifeblog & Gallery require too many clicks

Fido data comes down in price, $4000 now buys 1GB of data not 200MB

Nokia DT-22 Tripod is fab

Super Happy Grow-Op Dev House at Bryght 1 Alexander Suite 400 May 11, 2007

Large Display Workshop - UBC - Tony Tang - How and why wall and table displays will be used

e-Campus Large Display at Lancaster - Adrian Friday

Large Display Workshop UBC Nicole Arksey - Family Blog

Nokia DT-22 Tripod - will use it to videoblog at Massive

Motorola KRZR K1 Review Part 6 - Can only hold 50 SMSes

Motorola KRZR K1 Review Part 5 - Hold up or down volume key & then hit camera key to change ring style

Motorola KRZR K1 Review Part 4 - Hold down the # key to toggle between silent and normal ring

Automatic Live Conference Photo Blogging with ShoZu and your Nokia N series phone

URLs with question marks, ampersands, etc should be banished to the Web 1.0 h*ll where they belong

Motorola KRZR K1 Review Part 3 - Photos as good as two year old N70 except no flash

Motorola KRZR K1 Review Part 2 - Video as good as 2 year old Nokia N70

Adobe Lightroom Locale hacks - let the hacking begin

Motorola KRZR K1 Review Part 1 - Not the portable multimedia computer I am looking for

Cellphones are a r*poff in Canada - why is this news?

YouTube Mobile Demo works great on my N93, not on N80i

N93 + Tom Tom + ShoZu works 100% of the time if Nokia Maps has initialized the GPS

m.YouTube.com doesn't work on my N80i or N93

N80i + ShoZu + Tom Tom GPS works 50% of the time -N80i, S60, ShoZu, or Tom Tom bug?

N80i not supported by ShoZu Geotagging feature

Unlocking the Mobile Phone: Why we need to go SIM-Free

Northern Voice 2007 Redux Part 2 - We're all learners now

Northern Voice 2007 Redux Part 1 - Adobe Lightroom really is that good!

FON router works - some Mac quirks

Video.ca's transcoding of my Drupal 5 logo screencast seems pretty legible too

Lulop's video transcoding of my Drupal 5 logo screencast is all open source and legible too

Andy recommends N93 upgrade, Steve says it has video bugs

This is a test of IMIFIED.com from jabber

Please improve memory management and thumbnail generation in S60 Feature Pack 2

Email is the place where knowledge goes to die Boris!

Current fring unusable for me due to constant beeping and group chat not fully functional

ShoZu + Nokia N Series phone + flickr + WiFi = least painful way to get photos online today

Flash video encoding shootout - Brightcove Consumer wins

Symbian "bad" OS from developer point of view?!?

N73 Review Part 5 - Steven Wittens reviews the N73

N80i Review Part 6 - fring initial impressions - thumbs up!

Nortel finally starts blogging - yay!

N93 Review Part 10 - N93 hardware does allow ego videblogging - proved by ComVu's software

N800 killer feature is see-me calls today with SIP tomorrow with Skype

Pocket Cine uploader doesn't work with 148 MB MPEG 4 from N93

Introductions at Vancouver League of Drupalers January 2007

Contec, Drupal and mobile - Vancouver League of Drupalers Jan 2007

Six travel scholarships of CAN $500 to come to Northern Voice 2007

Vox offers video upload via Atom Publishing Protocol direct from N93

iPhone and N999 - I want both

N93 Review Part 9 - S60 Browser runs out of memory with flickr and wirelesskeyboard

Vancouver Open ID Mashpit Jan 17, 2006 - calling all technical creatives!

N800 looks great

"Instant Journalists" and citizen journalists often have the real story when it comes to technology

David Drucker's MacWorld 2007 Predictions

David Ayre Reviews the Blackberry Pearl - Smartphone Reviews by Real People Part 2

Boris Mann's MacWorld 2007 predictions - no iPhone but tablet-like thingie!

YouTube is NOT the flickr of video

Stefan's magnificent Nokia rant

2007 - The year of the blogaphone - The Nokia N999

Zak Greant Reviews the Sony Ericsson W810i - Smartphone Reviews by Real People Part 1

Networks of networks of dynamic websites

N80i Review Part 5 - Truphone to South Africa success but then it "crashed" the phone

N80i Review Part 4 - Truphone crystal clear to Holland

N80i Review Part 3 - Truphone easy to setup

Paul Lima starts to blog and rebuts my post about his article "Hit Me"

N80i Review Part 2 - Camera good but not as good as the N73

N80i review part 1 - Nokia charger with adapter doesn't work on N80i, works on N93

Trial N80i has arrived courtesy of Nokia and the Blogger Relations Program

Social Media Club Vancouver Intro Roundtable Video

Testing Windows Live Writer

ShoZu-like technology with suspend/resume uploading in the background will be in all cameras

N93 Review Part 8 - I can upload to blip.tv directly from the N93!

N93 Review Part 7 - 850Mhz absence is painful

N73 Review Part 4 - N73 versus N93 Photos

N73 Review Part 3 - Camera app - Text label feature is there

Get your Moose on - Northern Voice 2007

Northern Voice 2007 Speaker Submissions Deadline extended to December 1, 2006

Sxipper Preview - A few minutes with Weston Triemstra

N93 Review Part 6 - Lens Cap Strap is awesome but hard to figure out

myfabrik can't handle N93 MPEG 4 files

N73 Review Part 2 - After 40 photos, ShoZu has hung medmanshozu processes

N73 Review Part 1 - N73 supports 850 Mhz and EDGE - ShoZu is faster!

N93 Review Part 6 - Camera app - Text label feature removed

N91 Review Part 18 - Great iPod Phone for power users not a blogaphone

Blogaphone - I want it! N95 plus keyboard!

Google Video Uploader can't handle 691MB video !?!

N93 Review Part 5 - Can't swivel screen so I can take High Res Videos of myself

N93 Review Part 4 - Need standard interfaces - tripod, USB and headphone

N91 Review Part 17 - Great music phone if you are a power user

N93 Review Part 3 - Video continues to impress but files are too big

N93 Review Part 2 - Video is awesome but files are huge and Brightcove can't handle them

N93 Review Part 1 - Nokia Web Browser works with flickr!

N91 Review Part 16 - Volume keys spontaneously stopped working today

N91 Review Part 15 - After Opera Mini installed, spontaneous phone reboots

Nokia N93 and N73 arrive, N91 review not complete

N91 Review Part 14 - ShoZu still rocks but is not stable on my N91

N91 Review Part 13 - Love the keyboard lock switch and the standard headphone jacks

N91 Review Part 12 - Love the joystick

Sony Mylo or Nokia 770?

Web 2.0 companies cost too much to be profitable in Canada - Another misguided Globe and Mail Technology article

N91 Review Part 11 - Nokia Software Updater saga V 2.00.052 25-07-06 RM43 N91 (01.01)

Blackberry Pearl launched - but does it run ShoZu?

BarCamp Vancouver Redux Part 5 - Notes

BarCamp Vancouver Redux Part 4 - More camps?

BarCamp Vancouver Redux Part 3 - Let's do a longer PhotoCamp!

BarCamp Vancouver Redux Part 2 - Thanks to my fellow organizers

BarCamp Vancouver Redux Part 1 - Crystal Williams rocks

BarCamp Vancouver opening Video

BarCamp Vancouver sponsors - thanks!

Why CDMA will die! - As if !

Snakes on a Plane and Blogs - Kris to discuss on CBC today at 5:30ish

BarCamp Vancouver - 120 is our final number!

Nokia 770 Internet Tablet - I want one

Matchstick - Give Canadian bloggers up to date phones like the N80 not last year's phones like the 6682

BarCamp Vancouver is full but no worries sign up for the wait list

CMS + FFMpeg + FLVtools2 + FlowPlayer + S3 = your own personal YouTube!

Mundane post to get free Zooomr pro account

N91 Review Part 10 - Great 21st Century Transistor Radio

BarCamp Vancouver will be at 1 Alexander at the new Bryght office

N91 Review Part 9 - V1.10.030 05-05-06 RM-43 N91 (17.01) Firmware first impressions

N91 Review Part 8 - Firmware blues hit me in the ShoZu

Smartphone interview on Citytv Breakfast Television today

N91 Review Part 7: Firmware blues cured by reformatting hard disk?!?

N91 Review Part 6: Walled Garden not 850Mhz

N91 Review Part 5 - No 850Mhz support means no GPRS data in San Francisco

BloggerCon IV starts

Safely in San Francisco at the Adante Hotel

BloggerCon Nostalgia

N91 Review Part 4 - Nokia Podcasting App cool way to automagically get video and audio podcasts

RolandVideoVerite on ShoZu [N91 Video]

Filipino carrier offers phones with Lifeblog pre-configured to work with G-Blogs blogging service

N91 Review Part 3 - Nokia Wireless Keyboard SU-8W does work! N80 driver works for all Series 60 v3

N91 Review - Part 2 - Nokia Wireless Keyboard SU-8W doesn't work - no driver

ShoZu 2.0 withi ZuCasts - automagically download Rocketboom and other selected videoblogs

N91 review part 1 - WiFi good

Robert Scoble leaving Microsoft

Free ringtone in MP3 format

Free N70 Ringtone from Jeff's vintage Mini Moog Synth

N70, PuTTY and the Nokia Wireless Keyboard SU-8W a great trio

My N70 runs raccoon, Nokia's port of Apache

DrupalCamp Seattle June 28-29, 2006 at Richard Hugo House

Mobile Monday Vancouver: Multimedia and User-Generated Content is tonight!

Flying to NetSquared in San Jose tomorrow

BarCampVancouver August 25-27, 2006 will be part of BarCamp Earth

BarCamp Tdot redux Part 3 - Miriam Verburg rocking DrupalCamp and BarCamp

BarCamp Tdot redux Part 2 - David Crow rocks the Innovation Commons

BarCamp Tdot redux Part 1 - Jay Goldman rocks

A backpack is not the optimal way to carry your gear for a photo shoot

Ivan Kuznetsov: Lifeblog adds organization, context and search- Me: it's not "good enough"

Mesh Conference missing thread - Open Source, broadband, RSS, people, Silicon Valley everywhere

HTCE - "What Citizen Journalism Means to Corporate Communications" Wrapup

Ecto instead of MarsEdit because it can't handle 100s of categories

1 Minute DrupalCamp Toronto Part 1 - Khalid Baheyeldin on building a community site with Drupal

DrupalCamp Toronto - The night before at Pearson Airport

DrupalCamp Toronto - The day before the day before

YouTube Mobile Uploading doesn't work in Canada

Sakura Sakura - Poetry and Cherry Blossoms from Yiibu for your mobile device

Figuring out Web 2.0 - Another misguided article from Backbone Magazine - another Globe and Mail tech magazine

The RIAA needs to sell online music with no DRM just like they sell offline music with no DRM

CDMA is the Betamax of Mobile Phones

May 2006 Event - SMS, Search, Music, Nokia 770, Vidfest, Organizational

Apache ported to Symbian Series 60

Mobile Monday Vancouver Tonight Tuesday May 2 at Take 5 at 6p.m.

PubSub, Technorati better than Nstein and Brandimensions for SMBs - Fact Checking Globe and Mail's TQ Part 2

Paul Lima's confessions of a search-engine optimizer is still wrong - Fact checking the Globe and Mail's TQ Part 1

Get Funded By Google to Work on Drupal With Bryght

Canadian musicians rock and so does Derek Miller

Nokia N93 - ideal phone to run ShoZu and shows that GSM and UMTS phones rule!

Flickr rocks but what about hot startups like EQO and Dabble DB?

ShoZu - the best cameraphone uploader

Antony Pranata, Nokia Vancouver developer is blogging! More please!

MySpace Killer is the new "Flickr of..."

30 Second Vancouver Part 5 - New House in East Van finished

Vancouver PHP on CMS Systems or Bridge to Asia?

Zimmer Twins - powered by Drupal and up for a Webby

Opera Web Browser is free for N70 and other Series 60 phones

Series 60 Backup Restore Utility for MMC cards on an N70?

EQO on Mac OS X (Skype for your mobile phone) finally available

N70 needs a tripod mount

USRobotics USR 9610 Skype Speakerphone vs. ActionTec vs. Chatterbox

Nokia N70 cameraphone review

Canada Cellular data is an example of resentment-based pricing

FOSS Business model - give FOSS developers stock in their customers?

Easy PABX - create your own virtual online PABX in minutes

RSS Real Time Enterprise Console = Management by Feed

Meaning flickr uploader sounds great except for its unreliability

Emory's N90 apps - must try them on the N70

Rocketboom not coming to Vancouver

Rocketboom-like site is looking for a Vancouver Amanda Congdon

Lowepro - CompuTrekker AW backpack is what Kris and I carry all our photo, video and computer gear

Intention Economy H*ll: Renting a Car - sh*tty software and no digital identity

Piratopian and High Street Hedonist - is that what I am?

BarCamp TDot and Mesh Conference in Toronto May 2006

ajaxWrite is cheesy looking but it gets the job done

Paypal Mobile Debuts and disrupts the mobile payment space

Navteq Videos in Flash on YouTube for Windows people

An immodest proposal aka Doc and Chris nail it

N70 hangs after taking photos and videos seemingly randomly

Navteq visits WinBC

100% Ajax Login - Look Ma, no Cookies

March 2006 Vancouver Drupal User Group meeting Thursday at Take 5

Kitakits Stephen Downes!

Mobile Carriers are all about "Assuring Scarcity of Connectivity"

Podcasting on CityTV Breakfast Television

Google please don't break Writely

CanadaCamp before or after Toronto Web 2.0 traditional conference?

Endo - crashed with my OPML file with over 1000 subscriptions

Dabble DB wins "I'd pay for that" award at Under the Radar

Andy Smith's flickrUp up ported to Symbian Series 60 Python by WhiteTiger

Hire Will Pate

Tomorrow is Mobile Monday Vancouver for March

I would use ZoomClouds if it linked to my tags page not ZoomCloud's

Fido mobile data is a ripoff if you aren't grandfathered with an unlimited dataplan

Does ZoneTag have suspend/resume functionality like Shozu?

REPOST: Hugin/Mugin 1.0 - J2ME Flickr uploader for Series 60 Nokia cameraphones

Podcast Hotel Seattle 2006 - even better, still grassroots and vital

Steve Litchfield's cool Nokia Series 60 Python tutorial

Canon S400 - How to fix memory card errors

Recording Skype on Mac OS X: WireTap Pro + LineIn is easiest

It's all about the apps; PHP has them, Java never will

Port 80 is not good enough for Web 2.0

The secret to mobile photo uploading is Shozu

Skype on Symbian not released

Movamail - need to blog or at least de-cloak

Skype on Symbian to be released today at 3GSM?!?

Mobile Monday Vancouver Feb 2006 - Eqo demo was great

Demoing Shozu tonight at MoMoVan at Take 5 at 6:30p.m.

OSCMS has begun - Feb is conference madness!

Join OSCMS people for our snow event at Cypress Mountain

Send me links to Attribution or Attribution Non Commercial photos for MooseCamp Movie

nova media's unofficial iSync plugins for newer Nokia, Sony, Siemens phones

Angel Investors - Amazing peek behind the curtain

Another N70 cool feature - hold # to toggle between Silent and General Profiles

JuiceCaster - unsucessfully registered

N70 strap is useless because it obstructs the back camera

Blip.tv upgrades software to support Nokia N70 MP4 videos

VFS DIY Podcasting and Blogs and Wikis at VPL

Comvu - LIVE Mobile video broadcast from your mobile device

Shozu working, blip.tv and Now Public not taking the email from Shozu

Dries, Dan Gillmor, JD Lasica become advisors to Now Public - Leonard Brody is co-CEO

Shozu has stopped working on my new N70!

N70 cool feature - if phone is locked, opening camera launches camera app

Again, I love Diego's stuff but Ning's lock-in will make it unsuccessful

Bowen Blogging Intro Presentation 21 January 2006

N70 and Shozu just work except for error code 5005

Got N70 - Hack iSync, transfer phone numbers, install Shozu

Getting Started with Blogging Panel Ideas at Northern Voice 2006

Yahoo mobile bundle doesn't install on my Nokia 7610

The PubSub Era of the web is now

PubSub's speed unmatched on the Internet

Move Vancouver Podcasters Meetup from Beatty Street Bar and Grill to a place with WiFi?

There *is* an open source community

Intro to Blogging on Bowen Island this Sat January 21, 2006 at BICS

Canadian Election 2006 Election blogging live from Library Square Pub

My Bluetooth has re-appeared after resetting the power manager

Susan Mernit joins Yahoo! - a great coup for Yahoo!

Adobe Lightroom Beta 1 Test finished - can't wait for Beta 2

LifeBlog good, Shozu much better IMHO

Podcasting and Video podcasting support built into iLife 06

Mobile Monday Vancouver Meeting #1 - 3 words

Lightroom - 40% written in Lua to enable quick Windows port?!?

Google Earth for Mac available

Adobe Lightroom Beta doesn't suck

eqo mobile internet phone service team will be at Mobile Monday Vancouver January 9th

My Personal technology Resolutions for 2006

The Year of Personal Video for Power users and Geeks - Roland's 2006 Predictions Part 6

No Flickr of video emerges - Roland's 2006 Predictions Part 5

Mobile Mondays Vancouver will be a success - Roland's 2006 Predictions Part 7

Mobile market stagnates in Canada - Roland's 2006 Predictions Part 4

Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas - on hiatus until January 4th

Apple will introduce wide screen video iPod - Roland's 2006 Predictions Part 3

No recording iPod for podcasters and videobloggers - Roland's 2006 Predictions Part 2

Mobile Voice Over WiFi - Roland's 2006 Predictions Part 1

Paul Kedrosky wants Real Broadband to the home too

Chris Messina responds to the Flock anti-hype

Canada will get Mobile Number Portability in March 2007 - Too little too late from the CRTC

Tags are useful abstractions because they are gritty, human and get the job done

Paid for Derek's cool CD

Don't need personal relationship with every webservice hence need for digital identity

Jabber matters and so does RSS and Atom

Drupal has a database and ain't afraid to use it to support structured blogging or whatever becomes popular

ComVu mobile webcasting - interesting idea but only works on M$crosoft

Rhonda Fast's Photography Opening @ Wicked Cafe in Vancouver | static photography

Test video direct from my mobile to Blip via Shozu

Wireless data in Canada is ridiculously expensive | Boris is right

Nokia Canada Online Store - Great idea, disappointing phones

Canada.com's tech team gives web 2 lumps of coal for Christmas

ContentVote.com - let visitors vote on your content

Nokia N90 Blog from Nokia run by Andy Abramson

Goodbye Lee - I want more Seattle BBQs when you get back

del.icio.us acquired by Yahoo! - Tagging becomes mainstream

Aussie blog isambard uses one of my Creative Commons licensed photos

Blogsledding at Blogs and Dogs - fabulous!

Blogs n Dogs - weather will be cold but the conversation will be great

HabitatJAM rocked - suggestions to keep the conversation going

Yahoo is RSS-ifying everything

I'll be at the ICANN geek dinner at Steamworks tomorrow for an hour

Vlogging is breaking courtesy of the iPod Video and our video culture

Satellite Radio s*cks - I want Radio over IP

RSS is the real convergence medium

Rocketboom has 10 RSS feeds including ones with proprietary extensions for Apple, Sony and Microsoft

P2P WiFi allows users to share bandwidth - no cableco or telco required!

IMG Assist fun 2 - Blurry Skyte

Drupal IMG assist - Chili House Picture

Creative Commons license does not equal an open standard

Writely allows you to create new docs from Word but not insert into docs

Why Vancouver needs an Innovation Commons

Roller and Plone folks wanted for Open Source CMS and Blogging Tools Summit, Vancouver, February 7 - 9, 2006

Canada.com to introduce RSS, comments and clean URLs?!?

How do I upload Word documents into Writely?

Everything will generate RSS - humans and machines!

Smart phones will tip when there actually is a software platform

New Paradigm = streaming attention gestures to trusted clouds?

It worked!

wikiCalc - one more very tiny nail in the Office coffin

SuprGlu - Drupal's aggregator2 module already does this

PixPulse - Didn't mean to be so harsh -it's just that I hate email

Migrating this site to Drupal - things may break

links for 2005-11-11

Memo to Microsoft - Cannibalize everything including Office

Sharkle, DailyMotion, JussPress, eVideoShare, CastPost, vSocial, Vobbo, vMix, Flukies, Yashi, varsistyTV - More Videoblogging

Phoenix Audio Duet PCS sounds great - Is it Mac OS X and Skype compatible?

Millions of J2ME and Series 60 phones all slightly different does not a platform make

Google's Map App for J2ME is pretty cool

Blogging is ongoing and doesn't presume to tell the whole story forever unlike journalism

Looking for speakers for Northern Voice 2006 - Deadline is Tuesday 15 November

Idiom of the day "flickr of..."

There is only one editor and its name is Emacs

MacDevCenter.com: How to Record a Podcast Interview

Flickr of video doesn't exist -my video upload experience

ClipShack - 50 MB limit makes it unusable for me

Chatterbox - USB speaker phone for Skype from Actiontec

BarCamp Amsterdam 2005 People - Audioblog.com Version

Yet another bogus DRM system from Sony

Wish I could go to Mind Camp

More bogus DRM from the MPAA

Microsoft Office: cannibalize yourself or die!

links for 2005-11-05

Adam Bosworth - Database vendors haven't learned from CORBA

My first look at PixPulse

The age of webapps only working in IE is over

Shozu - how it works (and how J2ME still can't take full res pictures)

Java *is* dead

IMDB for the BBC coming soon

Daring Fireball: Membership: Renewed

Best inexpensive 19 inch LCD monitors for Macs?

Steve Gillmor - Links are dead, Long live attention and reputation!

Riya should read photos from your flickr account

Producing Open Source Software sounds great!

Multiple Large Monitors Prevent Context Switches

Chris Pirillo - Web 2.0 = Renaissance

BBC Annotatable Audio - Bookmarkable, Taggable Video

Aperture points to the lack of imagination and vision from Adobe et al

Microsoft to offer Hosted Office?!?

links for 2005-10-30

VEF Web 2.0 Photos

Put down the term sheet and step away slowly...

links for 2005-10-28

My VEF Web 2.0 Blogging Presentation

MobHappy: If Car Companies Employed People from Telecoms

Innovation Commons Second Meeting is tonight at 6:30p.m. at Take 5 at 429 Granville

Hello ShoZu, Goodbye Lifeblog

According to the Tristan Louis Algorithm, this blog is worth $143K

Speaking at Web 2.0 Vancouver Enterprise Forum tonight

It's about expression - Evan Williams finally "gets it"

BarCamp Amsterdam Unprogram

Drupal Con AMS 2005 - Check out my Bryght blog

Pre Bar Camp Amsterdam / Euro OSCON / Drupal Con drink Cafe de Jaren 9p.m. Sunday

Chris Pirillo sponsors Bar Camp Amsterdam!

The World is Not Flat - Check it out

Mediamatic will host Bar Camp Amsterdam 2005

BT WiFi is a r*poff at Heathrow

Brent Holliday's anti Web 2.0 hype dissed by Boris

Vote for Troy's "Succeed with Web 2.0 or Become irrelevant" Manifesto

links for 2005-10-13

Apple October 2005 Event Predictions 1 for 3

Speed Bumped PowerMacs, Powerbooks, Movies on iTunes store + surprise

[FACTCHECKING] The battle for your home phone - another clueless Globe and Mail article

Content Owners publish your content online with an open format with minimal DRM and easy ways for people to pay

links for 2005-10-11

Teenagers - stop getting ripped off by the ringtone man

Verisign buys weblogs.com - The year of making money off blogs and RSS continues

Sxore 0.2 - sxip's comment system with digital identity and reputation keeps getting better

SocialText releases open source SubEthaEdit for Perl and PHP

Mark Pilgrim's cool microcontent aggregator Grease Monkey Scripts

If it's public on the web, it's public to the entire world

AOL buys Weblogs Inc!?!

Ads On Blogs - BLOG SEARCH 500 - I am number 488

Stewart Butterfield becomes head of Mergers and Acquisitions at Yahoo!

Ning - I don't get it - Is it Drupal lite? Hypercard for webapps?

Ning - Diego and I will have to disagree

Innovation Commons First Meeting was tonight and it was fantastic

Skype Video means the loneliness of iSight Users will soon be over

NewsGator buys NetNewsWire - Year of making Money off Blogs and RSS continues

Writely rocks as long as you don't use nested lists

Work the Pond - a book to read

Permalinks and namespaces will prevent blogs and RSS from going the way of Usenet

Deploy every 30 minutes: One secret behind Flickr time development

Web 2.0 = People as Computing Power

ROLLYO needs to generate combined, filtered RSS feeds

Warner record executive unbelievably clueless

My 565 page, 11300 photo Qoop Flickr book rocks!

Blu Ray and HD DVD are irrelevant

2007 - Video calls for the masses arrive courtesy of Skype NOT from the oligopoly telcos

links for 2005-09-28

Bar Camp Amsterdam - help us find a venue

Steve Gillmor may be crazy - but he's my kind of crazy!

Northern Voice 2006 - Speakers wanted - Friday February 10 and Saturday February 11, 2006

links for 2005-09-27

Jon Udell remixes Bloglines to create river of news RSS aggregator

BananaRap and FabFlickrFun - Northern Voice 2006 Moose Camp on Fri Feb 10, 2006

RSS Remixing - Podcast, Presentation and Links

I is for Iyengar

Web 2.0 Meme Map from O'Reilly

Podcasting the Do it yourself guide by Todd Cochrane - highly recommended

links for 2005-09-22

Remixing RSS - My Vancouver Web 2.0 Talk September 22, 2005 6:30p.m.

The New York Times needs Identity 2.0 so they don't have to worry about identity

Meeting the Bird in Atlanta at XML Conference 2005!

Test of Audio Blog's Video blog service

APEX 162 - This is the microphone I use for my mobile Podcasts

Qoops rocks! - 13x19 poster of the kid's 1120 photos is great

flock = Social Web 2.0 Office?

Audioblog's video blog feature is a free beta and here's a tutorial

Recording your life when you choose to and sharing it with whomever you want is the the future

Podcast your elevator pitch directly to a VC's iPod

Drupal + Aggregator2 + Algorithms = Memeorandum

Welcome to the Post Factoid Era

eBay buys Skype - has eBay jumped the shark?

The Future of Mobility is Linux!?! - Is Series 60 Symbian the Apple II of phones?

Meet the Web 2.0 new boss - Just the same as the old boss

Rupert to buy AudioBlog

Record, Annotate, Upload, Blog - Podcaster and Video Blogger Manifesto

Seattle and Vancouver musicians - Podcast Hotel is for you

At Podcast Hotel with JD Lasica, Kris, Eric, lots of cool folks

Podcasting and Videoblogging Portland NOLA reaction without creating a circus

Survivors need a way to get survivor information - how to stay alive and what happened to their loved ones and their stuff

links for 2005-09-06

Learning books are more needed and more profitable long term than reference books

How to detect bias

Eric Rice gets funding to launch podcast and videoblog service and portal in Japan, Korea and China

Black Box Flight Recorder for human beings

Blogs as Virtual Playgrounds

links for 2005-09-02

Qoop is cool but very beta - needs tag support and be faster with larger than 1000 photos

links for 2005-09-01

BlogWalk Seattle - I'll be there

links for 2005-08-31

Julie Leung on Foo Camp 2005

flickr id move from Flickr id to Yahoo id was not communicated well

links for 2005-08-30

Auto-generated 1 minute movies from interesting Flickr pictures

PR is still dead in 2005 and Dave Taylor agrees with me

La blogosphère Britanno-Colombienne est branché

Global Audio and Video collaboration is a work in progress

1 Minute VanDigiCam Film for VIFF contest - Crazy flickr idea #89

links for 2005-08-25

Portable Print Party - Crazy Flickr Idea #88

links for 2005-08-24

Conversation is the kingdom - Value is in relationships and Trust

links for 2005-08-23

The web is built on the "electricity of participation"

links for 2005-08-21

Blogging shows humanity at its best and worst - from narcissism to noble and altruistic

links for 2005-08-20

Kumbaya or Foo and Bar Camps rock

Flock 0.2 - Hands on review

The difference between Vancouver and Silicon Valley

links for 2005-08-19

links for 2005-08-18

Blogtronix CEO living in 1999 - loosely coupled integration is the future

links for 2005-08-17

Journalism is a practice in which pros and amateurs both participate - Jay Rosen

Blogger for Word builds on Radio Userland (and others) prior art

#474 in Feedster August 2005 Top 500

Qoop.com is Flickr's print service!?!

links for 2005-08-16

links for 2005-08-15

Windows Vista is the first OS to be compromised by Hollywood!?!

Testing out posting Flickr photos from Flock 0.2

links for 2005-08-14

Blurry Skytrain at night - 3rd Flock 0.2 test

Remixed Granville Island Skateboarder - 2nd Flock 0.2 test

Cisco Skype VoIP phone designed in Vancouver

links for 2005-08-12

Flock rocks (or Chris Messina is a demo god)!

links for 2005-08-11

OSCON and Portland 2005 Drupal Conference Cool People

links for 2005-08-10

Young hackers: mortgageless and kidless but have a cool idea? Start your own web startup

The real power of Web 2.0 is automatic stigmeric communications

links for 2005-08-09

Brave new Web 2.0 is about expression and remixing

OSCON 2005 Thoughts Part 1

links for 2005-08-06

I won't be buying the Apple Mighty Mouse until it's wireless

links for 2005-08-03

links for 2005-07-31

There is no mobile platform even in Asia

Blogging is Camp Fire Talk

Yahoo Buys Konfabulator and makes it free!

MSN Virtual Earth is u*ly - aesthetics count

links for 2005-07-25

Like HuginAndMugin, games should be able to access camera

Beware of bogus 'long tail and 'Just Like Flickr' pitches

links for 2005-07-24

links for 2005-07-23

links for 2005-07-22

EventsRSS - Business Model and Web Site S*ck

Charlie Schick - help us fix HuginAndMugin to take 1 megapixel pics and I will praise Java

Why Drupal bought Dell servers instead of HP and Sun (in addition to using the fab server that Sun donated

Open Source Community and Citizen Journalism Communities with Drupal

links for 2005-07-21

Forget Java on mobile phones - it's too crippled to do anything worthwhile

links for 2005-07-20

Hire Seb Paquet - you won't regret it

The interesting stuff comes from those who have time and energy to focus

Nokia 6680 J2ME still doesn't allow photos larger than 640x480?!?

links for 2005-07-18

links for 2005-07-16

Don't put confidential data in non password protected RSS feeds

links for 2005-07-15

Page Views are dead - it's about attention

links for 2005-07-14

Susan Kitchens is live-blogging the development of the atomic bomb, time-shifted by 60 years

links for 2005-07-12

links for 2005-07-09

Podcasting is the New Voicemail

links for 2005-06-30

Full-focus attention is the next aphrodisiac - Linda Stone

Eric Rice's Videoblog and Audioblog Roadshow Report plus Garageband Tutorial

links for 2005-06-29

Let's work together to make iTunes RSS, Simple List Extensions and Media RSS rock harder!

links for 2005-06-28

Eric Rice's Podcast and Videoblog Roadshow at Bryght - Today!

Shifting from Mass Culture to Massively parallel culture?!?

Welcome, let's have fun and have users and developers party together | Simple List Extensions Community

links for 2005-06-22

I'm on the AO/Technorati Open Media 100

links for 2005-06-21

Fun quick podcast with Marc Canter and Boris at microformat dim sum at Victoria Restaurant

RSS is the only way to keep your online presence, revenue and relevance

links for 2005-06-20

Mark Fletcher - Embrace short app dev cycles and have great customer support

It's about attention NOT platform

Read/Write Web: Yes, I will go to the Web 2.0 Conference

Jon Udell's How to Screencast using inexpensive tools

DittyBot - SMS your Mac and play iTunes through Skype

Flackster exposes NetModular's "blogging" at AlwaysOn

Blogging Vidfest June 15-17

Thanks Dave, thanks Richard

Family oriented micro-content dim sum brunch at Victoria Restaurant (Sunday, June 19, 2005)

Darren Barefoot's Vocal Warmup - How To Do Stuff Podcast

Web apps - start with interface rather than functional spec

links for 2005-06-14

I also used the awesome Instant Outliner

We Don't Have the Tools is OUT as an Excuse

links for 2005-06-13

FlickIt a Tiger dashboard widget for flickr

Vancouver invades Gnomedex 2005

links for 2005-06-10

Lunch with Bryght, Lee LeFever and some cool Bryght resellers June 9, 2005 noon at Guu

links for 2005-06-09

A decade of PHP, Thanks Rasmus

Apple to use built-in DRM on Intel Pentium D to appease Hollywood

Apple goes intel, not intel Power PC and no tablet 0 for 2

Intel will produce PowerPC chips and Apple will unveil a tablet

Intel remove the hardware DRM!

Tod Maffin uses the iRiver H140 for his mobile podcasts, I want one

Tod Maffin also gave us free copies of his From Idea to Air: The Podcaster’s Edition

links for 2005-06-05

New Office XML Formats are open !?!

Media remixers not media regurgitators bloggers are

Dan Bricklin's Podcasting Setup

Tiger - everything just works except WireTap Pro's Play Through Feature

James Governor's MonkChips: SpikeSource Burnrate: 1999-style

Hugo Schotman: "Recording A Podcast" from the creators of Audio Hijack Pro

Flickr leaving do at the Alibi Room tonight

Duncan Rawlinson - The Last Minute

Cyprien Lomas - Director of the Learning Centre, faculty of Agricultural Sciences, UBC

Alexandra Samuel - Angus Reid Dialogue Networks

A Whole Features: Why adsense for feeds is a bad idea (at least for now)

links for 2005-05-25

Paid Fraser Speirs 20 pounds for Flickr iPhoto Export plugin

links for 2005-05-24

To get a 'Flickr for maps' we first need a 'digital camera for location.'

links for 2005-05-22

Quest for a mobile podcasting setup part 1 iRiver ifP-7xxx or iRiver H320?

Pink is the new black - Go Richard and RCS go

links for 2005-05-19

NewsGator buys FeedDemon - year of making money off of blogs and RSS continues

New York Times to charge non print subscribers to access their "distinct voice"

Immerse, learn, vision and code - how to develop software

Use a desktop RSS aggregator not a hosted service for confidential subscriptions

Cringely's Inflection Point - Xbox 360 is PC killer, Google Web Accelerator could put MSN and Earthlink out of biz, Apple takes

Blogging, podcasting, etc. are about expression not high production values

Ajax = using sub-page information transfer to support a rich interface freed from constraints of conventional stateless http

Make it easier to access your content, not harder

Milk Factory: yet another business enriched by blogging

links for 2005-05-12

Laszlo (in fact everybody) should have been invited to Ajax summit

Flickr allows up to 10MB uploads and now reads IPTC data

bbum's blog-o-mat: Updated Flickr Saver & a challenge... | Quartz Composer based Flickr photo feed Screen Saver

27 million Soviets died in World War 2

Toshiba DVD SD-V280 DVD player is kaput - not recommended

links for 2005-05-09

Seth Godin - ignore the digerati and their tools at your peril

I never even noticed the "Founding Fathers" bit!

Vote for me :-) and I'll set you free - AO / Technorati Open Media 100 Nominations

links for 2005-05-07

Don't price for a loss

Journalists get their authority from their publication, bloggers earn post by post

Bought a Canon 20D with EF 28-135mm f3.5-5.6 IS USM from Lens and Shutter

links for 2005-05-05

Goodbye Flickr team! - We miss you back in Vancouver

Deutsch fuer Andreas - for those who want to learn German

My Backpack Home Page

links for 2005-05-04

Your own personal Urban Vancouver hyper-local citizen journalism site in hours not weeks

Trackback really is dead - Sorry Elliott et al

links for 2005-05-02

it all boils down to accountability, integrity, humility, transparency, honesty and a genuine deep concern for your customer.

Happy Birthday, Dave!

A review of Tiger by somebody who actually paid their own money for it - Todd Sieling does it again

Trackback is dead. Comments aren't dead if we have a ubiquitous digital identity system

links for 2005-05-01

Google jumps the shark by offering ads not tied to keywords?

The Ping-o-sphere continues to get bigger and more intelligent

Lens and Shutter Canon 20D with 17-85mm IS lens for $CAN 2549 - good deal

Is the Canon 20D camera the only prosumer Digital SLR with ISO 3200?

I don't want your DRM - I only buy music direct from artists not from iTunes or record stores

links for 2005-04-28

links for 2005-04-27

Blogger Relations - A normal part of Internet Marketing

Ads in RSS feeds - don't mark old items as updated

links for 2005-04-26

Desperately seeking Headphone amp for Podcasting and Skype Conference calls?

The Home Page is dead - Every page is a hub and portal to all others

links for 2005-04-25

Beercasting commercialization?

links for 2005-04-21

Adobe + Macromedia = Web 1.0 dinosaur - Web 2.0 mammals are appearing

Russell Beattie - Mobile Phone Manufacturers' customers are carriers, not consumers

Monkenhurst, Hadley Common, Barnet, London - now on Goggle Maps

Everybody will have a blog just like "everybody" has email

Safari now supports WYSIWYG HTML editing in Mac OX 10.3.9

Mitch Radcliffe - RSS ventures are worth funding because they contribute to increased precision in audience targeting

links for 2005-04-19

Adobe buys Macromedia - Billion dollar acquisitions don't work

links for 2005-04-18

Infectious Greed: The Collected Works of Daniel Loeb, Part I

links for 2005-04-17

links for 2005-04-16

Cameraphones will replace low end point and shoot cameras

VIDFEST Phonecam Challenge now allows more than one photo

links for 2005-04-15

Lifeblog works great as a Flickr uploadr, please remove 4 photo upload restriction

links for 2005-04-13

Jim Udall of MobileMUSE.ca - 1st Web 2.0 Radio podcast

Christian Lindholm and Charlie Schick - Lifeblog: I want to believe!

Charlie Schick replies to my Lifeblog and 7610 upgrade plea

VIDFEST Phonecam Challenge - why not allow people to enter via Flickr?

links for 2005-04-12

The Blogosphere is dead - long live the Syndisphere

Only 1/3 of a percent contributed to kottke.org

links for 2005-04-11

Downloading is not killing music - the music industry is

Unexpected products and services will be powered by Web 2.0 APIs

links for 2005-04-09

Matt Mullenweg apologizes and doesn't pull a John Roth

links for 2005-04-08

Cross platform Social usability + Open APIs + open data = Web ecosystem

typo - Yet another blogging system - This time in Ruby on Rails

Michael Cohen - Don't forget the Vancouver bloggers who are making an impact globally as well as locally

links for 2005-04-06

GoLive CS2 support MovableType and TypePad Template tags

Flickr is more social than blogging - it's a social photo blog

links for 2005-04-05

Guy Kawasaki’s Top 10 Rules for Evangelism

BeOS Ready for a Comeback as Zeta OS - scary blast from the past

links for 2005-04-04

Please help me organize regular Web 2.0 Meetups

Matt Mullenweg please don't pull a John Roth

links for 2005-04-03

How design really gets done

2010 Vancouver Olympics Blogging Vision and Community Site

Yahoo! 360 is the GeoCities of DLAs? Or will it improve in FlickrTime?

Waxy.org: Daily Log: Wordpress Followup

Using DNS for your service like Mail Channels and Sxip is like aspect-oriented prgramming for the web

Massive 2005 coverage

links for 2005-04-02

You need to use realtime search engines like PubSub and Feedster to do your investment due diligence

links for 2005-03-31

Yahoo! 360 looks less lame than MSN Spaces was at the start

Say hi at Booth 229 at Massive 2005 tomorrow

Navarik is hiring and they have a jobs RSS feed!

Dave Shea - 5th Podcast on Dogma Radio

The Weblog Project - no A-Listers in the top 20

The revolution is being blogged

Steve Gillmor's attention.xml sounds complicated - can't wait to see some running code

links for 2005-03-29

10044 photos in Flickr - It's been a blast, many more to come!

TheWeblogProject a movie about blogs is a good idea except for the top 20 thing!

Rentzsh - Great programmers are humble and egoless

My Brain is Having A Massage

links for 2005-03-28

Tags are sloppy and worse is better

Proposed Canadian Copyright reform not as bad as I thought?

Alan Kay's got Meta and he's not afraid to use it

Structured Blogging - please reveal yourself and link more

Ottawa moves to restrict music sharing with proposed copyright reform

links for 2005-03-26

4 mystery sounds - 4th Podcast | Dogma Radio

Moore's law is enabling software as a service companies

links for 2005-03-25

markallerton.com: FeedShuffle

links for 2005-03-24

Anil Dash: The Blog Cycle

Yahoo buys flickr - flickrTime rules for Web 2.0 apps!

NowPublic is now public

links for 2005-03-23

How to use GoDaddy's unfriendly and hard to enable and find DNS for your domain

links for 2005-03-22

Spell with flickr: Roland

links for 2005-03-20

links for 2005-03-19

Apple should buy Flickr but they won't because they already have iTunes

Zero install, cross platform apps are the future, Odeo, Flickr, Audioblog, etc. point the way

Post to Flickr From LifeBlog

Odeo looks great, can't wait for more podcasting services

links for 2005-03-18

How do I upgrade my 7610 Firmware so I can run LifeBlog 1.5 and post to Flickr

links for 2005-03-17

links for 2005-03-16

Beercasting tomorrow night at 6p.m. at Subeez

links for 2005-03-15

Windows users need the equivalent of Fraser Speirs amazing iPhoto Flickr Export plugin

links for 2005-03-14

Having a high Google rank doesn't help a realtor in Indianopolis in 2005

Structuredblogging.org - a good idea which seems to have forgotten about the prior art

Reformatting my Compact Flash card using Apple's Disk Utility worked

links for 2005-03-13

Globe and Mail now has RSS Feeds - make them full text for subscribers please!

Thanks for mentioning me in your podcast, Steve Gillmor and Chris Pirillo

My Blurry HuginAndMugin photos are tagged with YVR and not Vancouver

links for 2005-03-12

JotSpot is a Web 2.0 Web apps company?!? - I thought it was a wiki :-) !

How to Start a Startup

Flickr Selects EZ Prints to Provide Fulfillment of Photo Printing

NetNewsWire has 1 million users which conservatively means Brent and Sheila have made $300K

Microsoft to buy Groove Networks - Groove still doesn't play nice with non Windows machines

Blogging for Dollars My Presentation to the IIMA - Wednesday March 9, 2005

Time to support the Bird, as well as Kottke and Daring Fireball

Speaking at IIMAOnline.org's Blogging for Dollars TODAY

links for 2005-03-10

Shelley rocks the AutoLink house

Penmachine.com: Three suggestions to improve the iPod shuffle | Derek K. Miller, Writer & Editor, Vancouver, Canada

Net routes around Lifeblog TypePad lockin

links for 2005-03-09

Can't reformat my Lexar 1GB 40x Compact Flash Card - error E50

links for 2005-03-08

Entertainment cartel crony to be next Sony president - continues its long shuffle into irrelevancy

Steve Gillmore - Google please do AutoLink right by providing clean APIs and interfaces otherwise you are doing e*il

Moving away from thirty-second pitches to dropping the burden of a facade

links for 2005-03-06

links for 2005-03-05

What the digital camera sites don't tell you - Sony point and shoots have the best combination of non blurry and compact and th

NYTimes.com content wall starts to fall down

links for 2005-03-04

We need more cultural and linguistic diversity at blogging conferences - Northern Voice Redux Part 5

Oui, Karl if the truck was invented in 1998 we would have conferences in 2005 on how to drive them - Northern Voice Redux Part

links for 2005-03-03

Want formal Friday and Saturday night dinners next time - Northern Voice Redux Part 3

Phil Wolff is everywhere - Northern Voice Redux Part 1

Need to do Lightning Talks when I am healthy - Northern Voice Redux Part 2

iPod Shuffle - yep i bought one!

E-xact's looking for a senior Delphi developer

Ruby to take over from PHP as a web app language

Odeo: promising Podcasting service from the makers of Blogger

Odeo developed in Ruby!?!

Nick Bradbury: How to use FeedDemon like RSS and not email

Today's Links

Kris Krug's Flickr Acquisition Poll

Today's Links

Thursday 24 February 2005 Bloggers dinner in Downtown Chicago

Scoble: You should be fired if you do a marketing site without an RSS feed

Julie Leung and Nancy White were the best of Northern Voice

grassy shadow

Today's Links

Peggy Noonan nails what blogging is and how it works with MSM

Groupware Bad - classic rant from JWZ

Firefox people respond to vaporware IE 7

Bryght goes open beta

Been trying to rest up for Northern Voice

Today's Links

FeedBurner to provide RSS feed owners a %age of the advertising revenue from sites that syndicate their content?!?

Today's Links

Lightning Tool Talks at Northern Voice

Today's Links

I love my Flickr friends

HuginMugin 1.0 Source Release

Today's Links

Milk Factory starts business blog and has blog only specials

Hugin/Mugin 1.0 - J2ME Flickr uploader for Series 60 Nokia cameraphones

Today's Links

NewsGator's new enterprise RSS aggregator codenamed Dino sounds great!

Flickr is 1 year old, congrats!

Why Lifeblog should support the MetaWeblog API

Today's Links

How To Make Money With Your Blog Site - Robin Good' Sharewood Tidings

Today's Links

Google becomes Bigco and terminates blogger for being too transparent and exposing what could be viewed as their "evil"

Dave Winer and Adam Curry are not pursuing a podcasting business together

Bloglines is cool and ASK will not do evil things to it :-) but we already have world class blog search - it's called Feedster

Today's Links

RSS feeds for Salesforce.com leads

Trackback is dead, Use PubSub

Today's Links

O'Reilly Network: Stewart Butterfield on Flickr

Just like VoIP will be part of every app so will Post To Blog

I love what Mud's Test writes but could somebody please break it into multiple posts and re-phrase it so non techies could unde

Hugo Schotman's very cool but complicated Podcasting setup

Gruber debunks the 'Napster To Go' FUD

Ask Jeeves buys Bloglines - Year of making money off blogs continues on course

Vive la global text, audio et video conversation!

Today's Links

Don't defend mistakes, correct and move on

Today's Links

Tips for Flickr beginners : Mac + iPhoto + Keyword Assistant + Fraser Speir's FlickrExport = Flickr heaven!

Today's Links

Smithsonian locks blues, bluegrass, jazz classics in M*crosoft trunk

GlennLog: Blog Business Summit Speech in QuickTime with Slides

Flickr adds easy way to edit existing tags

All DRM s*cks including Apple DVD DRM

Today's Links

ENT Tags were slow because it analyzed the text to suggest tags and because it was beta

Today's Links

Fraser Speirs' Flickr Export for iPhoto and Flickr's "Edit this batch" functionality greatly reduce the pain of tagging Flickr

Today's Links

Stuart documents it again - How to 'Uni-Podcast' with Skype and Windows XP

Michael Butler's Podcasting recipe actually works for me

You have to explain what you have forgotten you've learned to those without that experience

Today's Links

Newspapers open your archives and become an authority!

How to Record a Podcast with a live Skype call and your microphone in the mix

ANT - Video iPodder for Mac OS X that is desperately seeking a portable device that can display Quicktime

Today's Links

Solution Spheres was one of the first Mac Mini home theatre and PVR sites and he covers much much more - Victor Agreda

Flickr Vancouver collaborative photo map

Today's Links

The unintended consequences of Craig's List

Lawsuits are killing innovation

DRM s*cks because it helps the bad guys

Business blogging is about being part of the global conversation in the market!

Today's Links

We need a way for people to make money off blogging, podcasting and vlogging without working for traditional media companies

Today's Links

How To Be Notified When Google Indexes Your Site: GIN Google Index Notification Tool - Robin Good's Latest News

Get an SMS everytime an RSS feed updates from feedbeep

Engage or go home

1st podcast on Dogma Radio - The Lady in the Lake - The Black Tories

Today's Links

David Berlind has the same Fan noise problem in his podcasts

Today's Links

Rules for remixing - Rael Dornfest

A blog, you see, is a little First Amendment machine. - Jay Rosen

Rasmus Lerdorf - latest rockstar of the computing world that I have met

Don't use Windows for email and web browsing if you can afford not to

Converting Manila to Drupal via MovableType

Technorati Tags great feature: please remove the Technorati specific URL, add ENT, TopicExchange and universal category support

Securely Syndicate everything!

Tags are different this time because we have RSS

del.icio.us + feedburner + free web space = free podcasting, but we really need Podcastr!

Chuqui - Using Windows is computer equivalent of Stockholm Syndrome

Blogs and RSS result in high Google Rank in less than 48 hours

Belated Happy Birthday, Marc!

Andy Kessler's theses from Running Money

Yahoo! Finance RSS Feeds Return (by Jeremy Zawodny)

Rationally want a Mac Mini

Lessons learned from the triumph of tags and blog website design - Users don't need what designers think they do

Irrationally want an iPod Shuffle

Why Folksonomies Work - Robin Good

MediaMax DRM s*cks and breaks CD playback

TKPal = TypeKey + PayPal for PHP, I want SxipPal

FotoNotes is a cool royalty-free framework for managing and anotating photos

Web site users ignore top and bottom and sidebars so put more links with user relevant keywords in the middle

Technorati Keyword Searches - PubSub, Feedster have had this from the beginning and they are still better

Dave Sifry's rebuttal to my Technorati criticism

Mena's explanation of the LiveJournal acquisition

Jon Udell: Interactive Demo first, marketing later

flickr is my favourite game du jour!

Current infrastructure and tools s*ck for sharing experiences from mobile phones

OM Malik - Six Apart to buy Live Journal !?!

Suprnova and BitTorrent Sequels are the MPAA's worst nightmare

Semantic Web vision is missing filters for unstructured data

Krzysztof Kowalczyk's everybody's evil with open source rant

Cory Doctorow's masterful anti-DRM rant

ccPublisher 1.0 - for power users and techies only

My Merry Christmas Publicast - and some predictions for 2005

Andy Kessler: If we make an order of magnitude more money per widget, then trade deficits don't matter

Whoops I already have a Rojo account

Python available for Series 60 - flickrUp port in progress

Lifeblog is yet another app that gratuitously uses the Atom API

Flickr is a social photo blogging service invented from the outside in

Vote for Troy's Technology Buyer's Manifesto

There are far fewer regrets once you have chosen Macintosh

Switch to Firefox, Tim; it's better than Safari at the moment

People's blogs are the best filters and agents for information

2005 - the year enterprises realize that they must syndicate and aggregate everything that matters using RSS

Register for Northern Voice between December 17 and January 7, 2005 and you could win an MP3 player!

Reflections on 950 Photos taken with FlickrLIVE! and my Nokia 7610 at 640x480

J2ME doesn't support the full resolution of the Nokia 7610 and other cameraphones

unmediated: The person has become the portal

TinyP2P - Very cool hack in 15 lines of code

Flickr has proven that Rich Desktop UniPlatform Web Apps are obsolete for photo sharing

WebOutliner is cool but it doesn't do the MetaWeblogAPI

Code from a business requirements spec is a perpetual motion machine - Joel Spolsky

A 21st Century Broadcaster's Christmas Carol - TV News in a Postmodern World, Part XXXIV

I want an outliner that outputs the MetaWeblogAPI

Nokia 6630 - Yet another Nokia phone one run short of a grand slam

How developers and users should party together

Paul Lima's rebuttal to Hit Me! by Paul Lima in Backbone magazine is wrong and misguided

I am NOT blogging for Marqui

Eric Rice's recipe for podcasting for MSN Spaces will work for other blog systems too

Le Monde offers blogs for readers AND journalists

MSN Spaces - please support the MetaWeblog API over SSL or Atom over SSL

MSN Spaces implements IE only Blog it Bookmarklet, why?

Kudos to the MSN Spaces team for implementing RSS 2.0 and pinging weblogs.com

If Flickr can support 10MB of photos/month for free accounts, why can't MSN Spaces?

How to be a NewsMaster Parts 1-3

Disk space is not free even for MSN Spaces

No MetaWeblog API and no post via IM support yet in MSN Spaces

MSN Spaces like all MS products s*cks during beta

Gmail works fine on my 7610 with Profimail and the standard email client

Due Diligence: Why old media bundles are breaking down

WikalongExtension - Wikalong Firefox Extension

Most under 40s don't pay for news

Innovation trumps litigation - Craig Burton

Blog Torrent - Simplified bittorrent by Downhill Battle

Why Adam Smith prefers flash free photography

Another bogus software patent - this one from Microsoft

Videoblogging with Blogger

Stephen Downes - Blogging is about engaging with content and its authors

Sites without RSS are dead!

Signs Never Sleep - The business blog for the Signs that I mentioned last week

RSS is the semantic web - Stephen Downes

Why do I blog? Let me count the ways?

Web designers it's not 1999 - tables are only for tabular data!

RSS 1.0 is dead - Adam Bosworth's Weblog: ISCOC04 Talk

Tonight's dinner with Dave Winer

Idle Words Audioblogging Manifesto

Tod Maffin's miraculous blog conversion, is there hope for the rest of the Vancouver media ? - Dogma Radio - Friday 19 November

M-AUDIO - MobilePre USB - Good for Podcasts?

Web surfing is dead!

Building 21st Century Websites with Weblogs and RSS with Darren Barefoot

Blog time commitment pays off in high search rankings

PubSub rocks harder! - You no longer need to use your email address

How do I get the hard disk hum out of my podcast?

Hit Me! by Paul Lima in Backbone magazine is wrong and misguided

Dinner with Dave Winer at Phnom Penh Fri19Nov2004

Dave's cool idea - a Beatle music appliance and unlimited podcasting licence for $US 600

People still use OSI and the Q3 stack?

Seth Godin - Big brands are dying

Flickr please allow me to pay you more to store more photos when I upload more than a gigabyte a month

My RSS Overload Strategy that I developed after the BloggerCon III Overload Session

BloggerCon III Redux

The story of Audion, SoundJam, iTunes and Panic

Blogs are not evil no matter what a $1000 dollar report says

Your domains are NOT at risk unless you lock them down

The BloggerCon Tempest in a teapot - Both Vendor and Developer talk not allowed

Susan Kitchens - Another person I was lucky to have met at BloggerCon III

Russell Beattie - Another person I was lucky to have met at BloggerCon III

My thinking out loud ideas for future BloggerCons

Julie Leung - Another person I was lucky to have met at BloggerCon III

Enoch Choi - A person I was lucky to have met at BloggerCon III

Brendon Wilson - Another person I was lucky to have met at BloggerCon III

Scott Loftesness: Another person I should have met at BloggerCon III

My blogosphere includes text, video, auto, photo blogging from any device, anywhere, anytime

Mobile Blogging - BloggerCon III

Making Money - BloggerCon III

Information Overload - BloggerCon III

Bloggercon III - Podcasting

BloggerCon III - National Anthem

San Francisco first impressions 2004

Speaker Submission Deadline for NorthernVoice, our Vancouver blogging conference, is November 15th

Paul Wells is wrong - blogs are here to stay

Everything Is Dead - sablog.com

H is for Habseligkeiten - My first podcast

Random stream of consciousness post Drupal, Dries and CivicSpace dinner thoughts

Must have Spicy Noodles at Jing Jing at BloggerCon

Drupal/Bryght BOF at BloggerCon?

The Social Customer Manifesto :: AO

Text is not the be all and end all of the web - Ross Rader

Fire Dancers - 8 - yet another cool photo from 1001

Dear enlightened technology companies - Hire Troy and profit from his insight

Amazing graphic summaries of PopTech talks like David Bornstein's

1001 - Adding photos to your P-Time life

I have exceeded my Flickr Pro upload bandwidth of 1 Gigabyte for October 2004

D is for Dries

PubSub is an essential Real Time Public Relations Tool

Opera on my 7610 occasionally decides that I have no license

CubeBlog launched in the Philippines with photo, video and audio "connectivities"

Overzealous use of MT-BlackList

My life live on Flickr courtesy of Simon's Java Midlet and my 7610

Branding is Dead because Doc and Hugh of Gaping Void say so :-) !

1/8000th second shutter speed and ISO 3200 - must buy digital SLR in 2005!

Nokia is not growing their mobile internet developer ecosystem and they are therefore threatened by Microsoft

BlackBerry 7270 to support VOIP via Wi-Fi

Corrupted iPhoto library

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Blogfather's meetup yesterday was fun

Happy Belated BlogACatMas

Google Desktop Search builds on path blazed by Clarity/Six Degrees and Zoe

S5 - the PowerPoint killer

Jonas Galvez: A feed aggregator in 40 lines of code

How to run a site with free and paid content

Flickr iPhoto upload Plugin with Keyword Assistant rocks!

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JaimeClub

Drupal dinner with Dries Buytaert and the CivicSpace developers | Bryght

Canadian GPRS mobile internet s*cks in 2004

The link is everything

Testy Maris

test post from kablog account

Pole1

Generation C - C is for Content

Bunny bird

Test post to ensure that photo upload using NewMediaObject of the MetaWeblogAPI still works with ecto 2

Kablog doesn't work with my Blogware or MovableType blog, I get error 899

PR is dead part 711

Bring on the rich cross platform internet apps, Laszlo Goes Open Source

Microsoft insults iPod owners by calling them thieves

Blogs appear on Jeaopardy

One-to-One Marketing is dead!

Google to provide Audio search

Flickr Pro - I signed up for 2 years

Ecto now works with Manila blogs, Radio users please test

Joi Ito invests in Flickr as well

Esther Dyson invests in Flickr

If you are feeling forgetful get this gadget (the 7610 and Lifeblog)

7610 Uploader Public Beta is coming

Qumana launches - the rest is blood, sweat and code

Dick Hardt's cool apprentice-style event to pick a web producer for sxip

[7610] Random observations after using Simon's 7610 Flickr uploader to upload 80 photos

Until security is built-in to all layers of software from the app down to the operating system, DIY IT is at the mercy of the I

Dave Pentecost's definition of a moblog is cool

[7610] Simon Lewis's "one step upload to Flickr" midlet works

Hire Russell Beattie or better yet finance his mobile related company

[7610] Videos of Cal's Flickr presentation to Vancouver PHP

[7610] - Battery life is not so good

WANTED: Manila and Radio users who use ecto

Telepocalypse: All product and service development should be transparent and embrace power users and early adopters and geeks

Yet another discussion provoking rant from Dare on RSS

Another way to save RSS bandwidth - use Vary and ETags to tradeoff server CPU time for bandwidth

[FlickrBugs] Any text after a period in an email subject line is truncated

[FlickrBugs] Flickr Slideshows don't support groups?!?

DRM s*cks and so do software patents

The answer to MSDN's RSS bandwidth problems is to use the same techniques you would use with any fast changing and popular web

Atom is a fixed point that enables loosely coupled blog systems

Andy's script works - now need Amaretto so I can upload a directory of photos on my 7610 in one step to Flickr

Lifeblog to actually blog (yes, now it is worth of its name!)

Christian Lindholm:Lifeblog will blog to TypePad using Atom API!?! - Lifeblog should support MetaWeblog API

WANTED: one button photo taking and posting to blog app for my 7610

Joel on Software - It's Not Just Usability

7610/Series 60 Post to blog app baby steps

Web 2.0 Websites - 1.0 just say NO! : Bryght

HowTo: Nokia 7610 as a GPRS modem for Mac OS X and Fido

Two Weeks with a 7610

Second test post from Ecto 2

My Nokia 7610 is my Olympus D500 of the 21st Century

First post from Ecto 2 beta - Drink at Artigiano

Brian Ingerson on programming, Kwiki and collaboration

Web Services are the new CORBA.

European Mobile Data is a rip off - flat rate mobile data like Fido's is the future

Blurry photos from Blogger Meetup at Morrissey

HistoryAgent - yet another del.icio.us clone

Feed readers don't have features 'humans' want like rating, interlinking, filtering, auto-correlation because only programmers

I'm a Bryght guy too

Ecto implements pseduo WYSIWYG for blog writers including seamless, integrated image upload support

Technorati about to get 6.5 million in first round of funding !?!

Bought a Nokia 7610

IOC bans free speech by banning blogs

We need to be able to filter and, link and annotate all media including TV, audio and video

Google.rss - yet another Google to RSS service - how long until this one gets taken down by Google Legal?

Flickr's Organizr enables easy grouping of photos

Flickr API clearly documented and available in REST, XML-RPC and SOAP flavours

An options trader's diary - another Trader Blog

Not linking to the Globe and Mail until they add "registration required" to all their links

The Smartphone Primer

Multifaceted taxonomies needed to help make sense of a complex world

Ecto Version 2 rocks my world!

Blogs are diaries that can be read by the public; bulletin boards are town hall meetings where all issues can be discussed equa

Added Chatango

Ben Hyde - Cool idea! Now go away

Registration is false advertising unless all links are clearly labeled "Registration Required" - Stephen Downes

PictureM - yet another Flickr competitor

PictureM is rough around the edges but Filmstrips and Slideshows are cool

Camino has improved but I still can't use it because it doesn't work with Ecto

Print to Blog is good enough for now - Every App should have a save to blog function Redux

Guu with Otokomae with Marc Canter et al

Real Time Enterprise Book

The Sky is not falling - Young people are still literate but in a new media stylee!

Rails - cool new web application framework in Ruby

Jon Udell explains how to blog audio and video

GUI Bloopers

Adam Bosworth - SOAP is too complicated

Nunavut Tourism fires web-logging staffer

Mark Lemmons et al re-acquire Six Degrees from Creo, restart their startup and rename it to Clarity

Nokia 7610 looks awesome, my strategy to wait for the 6630 appears to be correct

LifeBlogger, the awesome Erik Thauvin hack, sounds more interesting than Lifeblog

Joel Spolsky - Forget marcom blah blah and PR

Jeff Jarvis - Fragmentation is people getting what they want

Steve Kirks hired as Radio UserLand product manager

OpenSource is a viable business model

Joey's doing a masterful job of blogging the Toronto Public & Participatory Journalism Conference

Jeff Jarvis - blogging is the new remote control

Flickr's new "edit as a batch" feature rocks - WANT to be able to send them to a group in batch mode too

All wikis and blogs should be SubEthaEdit enabled

RSS Calendar - yet another indication that RSS will emerge as a universal transport protocol

Google's IPO video points to a world of ubiquitous video

Google building a real network computer

Fortress - shock and impact resistant USB 2.0 and Fireware drives

Blogs are about the people not about the technology

Blogging is gonzo journalism (amongst others)

All politics is RSS

Anil - it's not about SEO; it's about creating compelling content constantly

NorthernVoice.ca - official Feb 2005 Vancouver Blogging conference site

Motorola A780 looks good except for the bogus TransFlash memory card

Going to Robert Scoble's Geek dinner tomorrow in Bellevue to catch up with Anita, meet Scoble, Gentile and many more

Every app should have a Save to blog function

The Apple Product Cycle

Dave Shea's stunning redesign of UrbanVancouver

Yahoo Launches Photo Upload for Camera Phones

File sharing is NOT killing music

Show Me Your Context, Baby: My Love Affair with Blogs - Kate Baggott

Photoblogging ElectionPhotos04 very cool photoblogging service for American Political Convention Bloggers and Flickr Competito

Picasa, photo sharing and post photo to blog app, is now free but of course it's Windows only

Mozilla is the best platform for web applications

Mozilla hack around All Music Guide's brain damaged site

Flickr to work with Manila

We don't need architects who produce verbose, incomprehensible documents and who can't code prototypes

OpenCroquet - programming environment and user interface of the future?

Linking, Sharing, Remixing and Creating - BlogTalk 2.0 Takeaway Part 1

Gmail's DHTML interface points to the future of "good enough" - BlogTalk 2.0 takeaway Part 3

Current Social Software is "good enough" as long as there is an evangelist to nurture a community - BlogTalk 2.0 Takeaway Part

Pseduo-blog - word of the week

Jim Thompson - DIY-IT is about finding new ways of exploiting technology to overcome enslavement at the hands of the corporate

Bill Day: Nokia 7610 has optional flash and takes decent 1 mega pixel images and 10 minute videos

Xoduszero

Sebastian Fiedler: "Seeding conversational learning environments: Running a course on personal Webpublishing and Weblog authori

Peter Praschl: "After midnight. Weblogs and jam sessions" - BlogTalk 2.0

Mena and Ben Trott: "Blogs, Bandwidth, and Banjos: Tightly Knit Bonds in Weblogging" - BlogTalk 2.0

Martin Röll: "Distributed KM - Improving Knowledge Workers' Productivity and Organisational Knowledge Sharing with Weblog-

Lee Bryant: "Informal, joined up knowledge sharing using connected weblogs in pursuit of Mental Health service improvement" - B

Jane Perrone: "Blog to work? Blogging and journalism" - BlogTalk 2.0

Horst Prillinger: "'Are You Serious?' - the potential and the reality of weblogs as mass media, and why they matter" - BlogTalk

Deutsche Welle - Best of Blogs - BlogTalk 2.0

Barbara Ganley: "Blogging as a Dynamic, Transformative Medium in the Writing Classroom of an American Liberals Arts College" -

Anjo Anjewierden / Rogier Brussee / Lilia Efimova: "Shared Conceptualizations in Weblogs" - BlogTalk 2.0

Torill Elvira Mortensen: "Dialogue in slow motion  –  the pleasure of writing and reading across the web" BlogT

Panel 1 Discussion BlogTalk 2.0 - SubEthaEdit notes

Moblogging Jokkmokk2004 - BlogTalk 2.0

Markus Oswald / Brigitte Roemmer-Nossek / Erich Gstrein / Markus F. Peschl: "Enhancing Blogs with a Dual Interaction Design"

Mark Bernstein - The Social Physics of Weblogs - BlogTalk 2.0

Lisbeth Klastrup: "'Live'-writing: weblogs and the coverage of reality" - BlogTalk 2.0

Juan J. Merelo / Fernando Tricas / (Beatriz Prieto) - Blogosphere community formation, structure and visualization - BlogTalk 2

Elmine Wijnia: "Understanding blogs: a communicative perspective" - BlogTalk 2.0

BlogTalk 2.0 - Panel 1 SnipSnap, Zoomblox, Radio, Videoblogs

Azeem Azhar / Stefan Glänzer / Max Niederhofer: "Does blogging suck?"

Syndicate everything that matters

Het Blauwe Hart - Flickr Note bug doesn't allow long URLs

Photos of my vacation and BlogTalk available on Flickr

Apple to include iChat, Jabber and Blog server in Mac OS X Server v10.4 Tiger

2004 Canadian Federal Election Candidates fail to take advantage of the Internet

Steve Gillmor on Triangulation - multiple trusted bloggers linking to the same thing means PAY ATTENTION

Away in Rotterdam and Vienna, pre-Blogtalk dinner on July 4th

Cory Doctorow on why DRM doesn't work

Microsoft has the guts to have 800 public blogs! Where are yours?

Stephen Downes - 4 Semantic Web Gospels

NMC 2004 - Carole Barone Closing Keynote

NMC 2004 Students tell it like it is with Murray Goldberg

NMC 2004 5 minutes of fame

Soren Kaplan, Julia Ashley NMC 2004 - Learning Communities and Social Computing - Tools and Techniques for Fostering Collaborat

[NMC2004] I don't get iCohere - it seems to be an island/ghetto/closed social networking system

NMC 2004 - Vancouver Restaurants recommendations on VanEats

NMC 2004 Small pieces wrapup

NMC 2004 Small pieces loosely joined

NMC 2004 Opening Address

Matt Yedlin, Cyprien Lomas, Ulrich Rauch- P2P in the virtual classroom

John Chalfa, Sydney Chalfa, Kelly Jones, NMC 2004 Digital Storytelling

Henry Jenkins of MIT - -bloggers, modders, spoilers and thieves - NMC 2004 Opening Keynote

Why newspapers should be more like blogs

[NMC 2004] Why I don't like PDFs - There are no links and therefore you can't share it or blog it

Lessons learned from Weblogs.com fiasco posted on NMC 2004 Decentralist blog

Joel Spolsky - Microsoft is losing developers because of the web and because it lost backwards compatibility

Another manifesto/rant for UrbanVancouver and how newspaper should be using RSS, blogs, etc.

Small Pieces Loosely Joined NMC 2004 Manifesto/Rant from Levine, Norman and Lamb

Decentralists rule (in 10 years or so) aka I am an NMC 2004 Fencesitter!

Should I wait for the Nokia 6630?

Don't use Domain Registry of Canada or Domain Registry of America

Blogging via Instant Messenger with XML-RPC

More reasons why I don't like mailing lists - quoted emails and HTML emails

Jevon MacDonald and Rob Patterson: Blogs are good for project management because they foster spam free, truly open conversation

News sites without RSS risk becoming irrelevant

You are not helping users if you don't provide an RSS feed

New Nokia 3220 = portable Hecklebot?

What I meant to say is blogs are better because links are first class citizens

Blogs are better than mailing lists because blogs were designed with links in mind from the beginning

Use blogs to increase your Google Rank - Don't go over to the dark side and use link farms and other trickery

Kerry Intern Story that wasn't true - yet another case of "real journalists" not being any better than bloggers

Every Citizen is a Reporter for Urban Vancouver as well as OhMyNews

Ecto 1.1.7 support Movie uploads!

Blogs and RSS are the best way to aggregate collective wisdom

Blogging will become mainstream as I've stated for many moons!

We need Conversational Advertising

Summer clouds over south east Vancouver

Stewart Butterfield's F*cking talk on Flickr Design

RSS more important than blogs?

Reactive marketing sucks, proactive marketing builds empires

Microsoft to offer desktop search and ads in email

Empowering a team with weblogs allows the collective IQ to stay current

What is Not's Music Hosting Project for legal downloads

For the truly paranoid, using blogs for project management requires secure RSS

Ton Zijlstra - Blogs are the hub in our communicational flow

Personal, Permalink, Publish, Ping, Participate, Patience - The 6 P's of Marketing with blogs

Free Blogware blogs now available to all 2004 Canadian Election Candidates

Flickr is now 100% focused on being a photo sharing app

The Busine$$ of RSS

Free blogs for BC candidates and the first 50 outside of BC

RSS feeds for video news from The FeedRoom

Microsoft 'gets' bottom up collaboration including blogs - does your company?

lulop - Independent video news complete with RSS feeds

Kolabora event with Stuart Henshall on Thursday - please give us more notice next time

Follow your passions

Feed2JS

Yet another dumb patent - this time on live instant recordings of concerts

Help Jay out

Liferea - Linux RSS reader

Herecast: Location-Based WiFi Services

Desperately seeking candidate blogs for Canadian Election 2004

RSSQuotes - Free stock quotes via RSS for up to 5 stocks

Boycott the Canadian Music Industry - Join Ross and I

Real estate is another business that the Internet can change radically

More artists who don't get it

Workflow of Erik - the mad link blogger

Funny and informative treatment of Jakob's Link Usability Guidelines

Who else is working on the visualization of weblogging conversations? QuickDraft is

Permalinks for audio files is in present HTTP standard but kludgey

Email direct marketers - put your money where your mouth is and use RSS and I want personal RSS feeds

3d Blog Reader

Frontier kernel will go open source

Edith this Page comes to PHP

Reduce Blog Spam - Use PubSub to get an RSS feed that's updated everytime a blogger links to you

PulpFiction ships!

Jeff Jarvis: Hosted Service and Software Business invariably conflict

An Objective Look at Table Based vs. CSS Based Design

Dodgy phone cable kills my DSL

Troy Angrignon recommends Take Control Ebooks for Mac users

RSS is bigger than blogging and everyone will be a blogger if they choose to

I love Google and I love Atom but Blogspot not generating both Atom and RSS feeds is evil for users

Google Groups 2 Beta looks good

Audioblogger - free and only works with Blogger blogs

iPhoto2Weblog

Stewart to discuss Flickr lessons learned on Thu March 27th at 6p.m. at VFS

Hymn - a program to defeat iTunes DRM

Gmail would make a great container for an RSS information router via print to RSS

Fix a Troubled Mac

Vodafone introduces first camera phone with optical zoom

Samsung want to push to 5 Mega pixel camera phones

Ken Rockwell - buy a digital SLR not an expensive Point and Shoot

Inside Dave Shea's Zen Garden

IBM Workplace - Jack of all Offices master of none!

Flickr Notes - visually annotate your photos

Flickr Notes based on Greg Elin's Fotonotes

David Pollard's blog vision

Blogware 1.0 released

RSS + proprietary Q channel format = Qikonnex

RSS ads better than email ads according to NetHawk Interactive's study with Sun

Proogle = Google + Page Rank

Page 23 - Dim Sum - A Pocket Guide

Hello World and Happy Mother's Day

Blogger Relaunch - still free, now supports sFTP, photos are still not free

Our kids won't know what wireline phones are

Nokia 7610 looks like a good 1 Megapixel camera phone

Social software's purpose is dealing with with groups, or interactions between people

List of Freeware Nokia Series 60 phones

Go Al, go!

Computers should help us become smarter and work together better

What happens to our culture when everything is eternal and recorded?

HowTo play AVI files on Mac OS X

Bill Burnham's automated software stock spreadsheet (Windows only)

You are not a real software developer until you realize you can never really know what it takes to develop software

TextAmerica offers Moblog Enterprise platform

Simon Woodside's Semacode bar code to URLs for Symbian camera phones

I want a big fat mobile pipe, not p*rn

Awesome Clay Shirky Interview

The best companies arise out of downturn - Ross Mayfield

Samsung releases CDMA only 2 Megapixel cameraphone with no Bluetooth

JD Lasica - Personal media enables participatory culture

Darknet - J D Lasica's book about new media remixing

BBC to experiment with free downloads

Traditional Gatekeeper professions like real estate agents must move up the food chain

Joeldg pushes back on FOAF

Help me buy a 1 Megapixel Camera Phone for my 40th in July

The soul comes here to make the world a better place

Programmers alone must not decide how users can do things

Mobile Boom is leading to mass deployment of Java and more Java phones than Macs

Mitch Kapor - Business success needs to be measured not just by profit , but by social impact as well

Java enabled mobile phones is 400 million by end of 2004

Google has 47K - 79K machines!

David Weinberger Rant and Video blogging is still too hard

Cameraphone killer apps enhance social interaction

3 kinds of Rich Internet Applications - Text only, Windows style and Mac style

The Future is the Internet overlaid on the world and always on

Jack Valenti - Still clueless after all these years

I agree with Lisa Wiliams - too late to rename RSS now

DECAFBAD's one line shell script to generate an RSS feed for his referers

decafbad.com 500 & 404 report shell script

Dave Shea explains standards based HTML and XHTML

Google's IPO filing is also a rant/manifesto for enlightened capitalism

Winning Weblog Elevator Pitch

Lightly edited notes from Douglas Engelbart's BCNET 2004 Keynote

Why Mitch Radcliffe won't invest in Google: Public Google can't be as innovative and great as private Google

Tim Bray: Real World Web Services

MailFeed - PHP script to turn mail into RSS

First Test Post from Windows ecto

Blogs are the 'worse is better' of publishing

Bloglines (like MailByRSS) will convert mailing lists into RSS feeds

MailbyRSS

I don't use Technorati links feature yet because it doesn't show number of cosmos links and the links aren't accurate and I am

We need a better way to track and continue conversations

Nova Spivack's MetaWeb vision updated

Google's Brin gets RSS - let's hope he puts RSS Support in GMail

Traditional websites need to learn from blogs just like traditional firms need to learn from design shops

Nice URLs on Flickr are free

Blogs and social software won't work in a non sharing, unempowered culture

Why I use Safari instead of Mozilla or Firebird even though they are faster

My Flickr PhotoStream has a funny URL!

My first public website - Dreadnet.de built using Frontier

Lazy Person's Guide to being a NewsMaster Part 1: Use PubSub to track your URL, name and topic

Blogging is still too hard

Sorry for yesterday's lack of posts

NetNewsWire 1.1 new features look great

Another great idea from Britt Blaser - Twin Iraq and American cities using blogs

There is no RSS Bubble

SubEthaTrack - Global Repository of globally editable documents

Spike - Cross platform Zero configuration Sharing

PulpFiction - Vaporware :-) or the next big RSS reader for Mac OS X?

Dvorak - WiFi signal on public property becomes public domain

All we need is PubSub to track the RSS conversations

Use your digital camera to record prices while shopping

SimpleViewer

McLaws announces Visual Blogger 2004

Liloia.com's BloggerCon II Coverage

Great domain specific (for lawyers) example of how to use an RSS reader

Richard Akerman's Digital Photography Sharing and Printing revisited

Richard Akerman: Digital Photography, Sharing, and Printing

Google Local subtle mechanism for metadata collection?

TrailBlazer - Visual browser history

Joe Gregorio:Building a Atom-Powered Wiki in Python

Jeffrey Veen, like me, only buys CDs direct from artists at their gigs

Have cold - posting will be light today

Amazon's A9 Toolbar with Diary Feature = stealth blogging feature?

We're back

LinkRanks - Yet another cool PubSub Feature

Google's real target is Windows

Pocket Skype available for Windows Mobile 2003 devices

Legal music download prices to increase?

Exefen - Automagically create XFN files from HTML pages

Bloghorn: A Blog Reader Built in XAML in a Lazlo stylee

Blog Reader done in Flex

Why Google Will Probably Win over Hotmail

Near-Time: Flow

Google is a single, very large custom computer

Core versus Context - Core creates value that competitors can't replicate

Newspapers must use non traditional sources like blogs if they are to survive

Laszlo is independent of Flash and can do more than Flash since it is based on XML

It's a boy!

Steve Gillmor - Why Microsoft needs RSS

Scoble is rewriting the rules of a whole new form of Public Relations through his blog

Jim Roepcke loves Shrook 2

Phil Agre- How to help someone use a computer

Panic's next cool app

Microsoft smoking gun from Minnesota trial

Dijkstra - it's a superstition that programming is so easy that even a Republican can do it!

Vonage working on Mac but it's a kludge

Pydoc - online docs of all the Python modules installed in your system

Moving to Colo - This blog will be down until DNS changes

Markdown as an OS X Service

Great spoof post from Stuart.

Feedster Alerts aka RSS for the rest of us

David Coursey: MapPoint Location Server debut is watershed for location-enabled applications

TypeKey FAQ

Thijs van der Vossen predicts blogs will become most important way of sharing information

Shrook 2 rocks Cory Doctorow's world

Safari is my default browser because Ecto's "post highlighted text to blog" service works and tabs work properly

Mark Pilgrim is a great writer

Help Britt make a better democracy

ecto now supports Markdown

NetNewsWire editor being totally overhauled for 1.1

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