I love retailers that sell a variety of werid stuff. Add leevalley.com to sciplus.com and countycomm.com.

My guy, Robert Reich, summing up modern global trade. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yt9rKP85CJk

Arizona-based TEC Accessories have an interesting Kickstarter and write-up on for their refillable titanium marker/highlighter. (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/tecaccessories/hi-markr-titanium)

It’s a very dangerous time. The coalition for reason is extremely weak. That’s why I really appreciate C.H. Danhauser’s entertaining and informative Logical Thinking series. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUqMNVnELzE&list=PLMpofmkxKHBJfta_JzekLbWGHUSLUJoLt)

As I was writing my latest post on conscious consumption (https://www.davebucklin.com/play/2024/06/27/consumption.html), I learned of Dr. Bronner’s 5-to-1 cap on executive compensation (https://www.drbronner.com/pages/about).

Some of the dev teams I work with use kanban. I like using cumulative flow diagrams to monitor throughput. Pawel Brodzinski has a terrific write-up on using CFDs here: http://brodzinski.com/2013/07/cumulative-flow-diagram.html

If bandanas are part of your wardrobe, I can recommend banditsbandanas.com, senderopc.com, and misterbandana.com

This was a super fun text adventure. https://pacian.itch.io/superluminal-vagrant-twin

I love the history view in Jira, but changes to long descriptions are hard to find via stare-and-compare. I’ve been using git diff --word-diff to find the actual changes.

Put a West country whipping on my grips. The grips were really rough on my hands! https://www.davebucklin.com/assets/img/20240525_133944.jpg

I don’t pretend to have all the answers. I don’t pretend to even know what the questions are. Hey, where am I? - wigums

This is a fun read: https://ploum.net/the-computer-built-to-last-50-years/

@hecanjog@hecanjog.com I was a programmer for almost 20 years before I figured that out. Never too late.

@bender@twtxt.net Seems to be working! I’m using mdom’s txtnish and I’m figuring out replies.

@bender@twtxt.net Howdy.

Excellent write-up about markdown. https://capiche.com/e/markdown-history

I heard about this eons ago. I’ve been telling people about it, but never found any official info. https://internetoracle.org/

YAGNI: https://www.martinfowler.com/bliki/Yagni.html

Another example of domestic computing: https://www.robinsloan.com/notes/home-cooked-app/

New album from Phaserland! I discovered Duett along the way.

Now and then I become fascinated by M4, try using it, and then give up.

Awk and roll: https://gitlab.com/snippets/1907701

Added an h-card to my site. https://indieweb.org/h-card

I peeled butternut squash and now my hands are covered in squash film.

I’ve been reading Minimal Perl by Maher. Fun read.:

Just renewed my FSF membership.

Made a donation to https://joinmobilizon.org

Late-night music archaeology. Listening to Kate Bush, hearing Tori Amos and Allie X.

But also check out http://criticmarkup.com

And if you like that, you should also look at https://draftin.com

This kinda gets back to Ted Nelson’s idea of copy and paste: https://speare.com

@metamurks@www.metamurks.org if you like Amazon for used books, try Alibris.

Etegami https://beyond-calligraphy.com/2017/01/10/introduction-art-etegami/

Special counsel calls ‘dibs’: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jan/18/michael-cohen-robert-mueller-responds-lying-congress-buzzfeed-report

I came across the idea of a Book of Shadows and, with benefit of ignorance, compared it to the idea of a personal wiki.

History of Unix man pages. http://manpages.bsd.lv/history.html

This is such good advice: https://hbr.org/2015/11/two-things-to-do-after-every-meeting

Asking a computer scientist to build your website is like asking a geologist to pave your driveway.

My favorite flavor is Original.

ttyplot https://virtuallyfun.com/wordpress/2018/10/14/ttyplot-a-real-time-plotting-utility-for-the-terminal/

Ever wake up in the morning, pick up your phone, and find a Wikipedia page that you pulled up while you were half-asleep? This morning it was John Candy.

”…the truth is silent.” -Pope Francis. I’ve never heard a more disturbing turn of phrase, given the source.

Watching rsync output makes me nervous.

Savage. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DlXx11MX0AATr0q.jpg

@freemor@freemor.homelinux.net re brow.sh: But, muh javascripps!

Another excellent read on Lisp. http://www.defmacro.org/ramblings/lisp.html

I’ve been learning about Lisp. This was a good read. http://www.paulgraham.com/icad.html

@freemor@freemor.homelinux.net Thanks! I’m not exactly taking aim at abook, but the name isn’t a coincidence, either.

Contact management with bash and recutils. https://gitlab.com/davebucklin/bbook

I’m loving the new CHVRCHES album.