This spider has been living on my study window pane since some time back in the spring. She's definitely grown in that time, which is odd as she's never caught a single one of the flies in there in all the time I spend there

Sky above my house right now. Rainbow but no rain?

Can't say if it's objectively faster to write this in #elm-lang, but it's a damn sight more pleasant than javascript + d3

https://github.com/telent/log-mark-i/compare/elm-entry-my-dear

Raising speed limit from 50-60 through roadworks found that the journey time for the 24-mile route was reduced by an average of 68 seconds. "If we can save just one minute, that will make it all worthwhile". https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-53541440

"Owing to this restriction, the system could only display three splendidly playful one-word error messages: users received a “WHAT?” if their BASIC code had a syntax error, a “HOW?” if their requested input was unrecognizable, and a “SORRY” if the machine exceeded its memory capacity. " Yugoslavian homebrew 1980s microcomputer / https://tribunemag.co.uk/2020/07/make-your-own-self-managed-socialist-microcomputer

I really really wasn't expecting that to work correctly first time

And, to be scrupulously precise, it didn't. But it did work correctly the first time it passed the type checker

#elm-lang

Decided to see if Log Mark I would be easier to write in Elm than in Javascript+Typescript+D3, and so far - holy cow, yes. I probably should have taken it as a sign when I had to look in the "advanced" part of the typescript docs to find out how to define a new type

The new #postmarketOS community edition #pinephone is now for sale :D

https://postmarketos.org/blog/2020/07/15/pinephone-ce-preorder/

I hope this helps clarify the matter

"The procession is led by an individual carrying a duck — originally dead, now just wooden " https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mallard_Song

"I'm addicted to yew but I know that it's toxic"

"generally vague handwaving that sounds like an appeal to authority, but the authority is what someone might call a teenage libertarian's idea of how markets might behave."

'Markets, discrimination, and "lowering the bar"': https://danluu.com/tech-discrimination/

Reading the Phoenix Project, because I found it in my Calibre library (no recollection of how it got there) and some people at work claim it's good.

Not going to talk about whether the advice is good or novel, but the literary style is one long continuous "as you know, Bob"

"5 things that music makers need to know about Apple’s switch from Intel to silicon processors" says https://www.musicradar.com/news/5-things-that-music-makers-need-to-know-about-apples-switch-from-intel-to-silicon-processors

Not gonna take my Mac apart to check, bit reasonably sure that the Intel chip inside it is made from silicon ...

Realised the other day that I no longer have a favourite (or even least unfavourite) programming language, and I'm not sure how I feel about that

terse.telent.net was down for about 12 hours, because I rebooted the VPS it runs on and forgot it was still running in a tmux session rather than as an actual service :-(. #NotAProfessionalSysadmin

https://www.hanselman.com/blog/EasilyRenameYourGitDefaultBranchFromMasterToMain.aspx

Although I am tempted to rename all my master branches to "amster" because 80% of the time that's how I typo it

TIL there are three kinds of target for violent acts: people, property, and police

Essex chief constable, Ben-Julian Harrington issued a tough declaration: “We will not tolerate violence in our communities, whether that’s against people, whether it’s against property or, indeed, against police officers"

Weird phrasing. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/jun/11/blm-organisers-call-off-london-event-to-prevent-clashes-with-far-right

https://github.com/telent/clap-hands first code release of my marginally less awful Withings healthmate app. Be kind, it's my first time writing Python and all I know about idiomatic coding in that language is what I learned by running pylint

I just booted #postmarketOS!

Next step is mobile-nixos.

#NixOS

Easily distracted? Me? No, of course I didn't just spend the weekend trying to render data from my wireless IoT bathroom scales while learning Python and D3

I like to read The Guardian because their biases are so often congruent with mine

the daughter of a New York real estate billionaire opined: “In my own life, I have found that my greatest personal growth has arisen from times of discomfort and uncertainty.” https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/06/ivanka-trump-cancel-culture-kansas-speech

Madame s'est fait volé son vélo électrique Star Si vous voyez passer un vélo star à vendre à #rennes faites passer l'info... Le plus chiant c'est le découragement pour elle qui s'y était mise, toute contente à utiliser son #vélo depuis 10 jours

First (for me) successful launch of Weston on mobile-nixos, woo. fbdev backend, not attempting to divine how/whether dri works just yet