So I think I’m going to be bringing back the blog. So much going on, so much to share and yet I’m still vigorously opposed to Facebook or other do-it-for-you social media platforms. I can’t imagine anyone is reading this, but at least I’ll feel like I’m telling someone? Anyway, I think there is probably…
More neovim proselytizing: The embedded terminal emulator is like having an entire operating system inside of vim. Open a terminal, launch neovim, and then never leave the terminal again! Best of all, the terminal is just another buffer so you can plonk your way back to it in the middle of editing in other buffers.…
Oh my! Loving me some neovim. Well worth the heartache of the update to the bionic beaver backed KDE neon release. And, actually, that would have been painless had I fsck’ed my disks a little more frequently. Gone also are the days where I had to backdoor mounting disks by dropping into recovery mode and…
A Warning From Europe is a bit of read as it meanders to its point but the destination is well worth the trip. Besides, I like essays and articles that most see as tl;dr. Anyway, single-party oligarchies are waxing worldwide. The author discusses Poland and Hungary specifically but the parallels to the United States are…
Proving once again why xkcd is the software developer’s comic of choice: Sandboxing Cycle.
I was so onboard with RSS (no acronym tag because no one can even agree what it stands for) back in the day. I wrote a blogging platform that stored data in RSS and used Python to render that into HTML for viewing. Subbing in an ‘.rss’ file extension would give you the raw RSS.…
It’s only 2018 and it’s not on by default but, hey, now you can eliminate the arcane 260 character path limit in Windows 10 (and presumably beyond). See howtogeek instructions.
I came across this descriptive noun for the Trump administration/entourage and wanted to share/save it for posterity. ‘Clownreich’ Fucking brilliant, that.
…which, inside joke, Slow Artifactory… VPN to desktop to Citrix to PAM gateway to RDC-to-server to Server Manager panel to Event Log viewing. Not enough layers of indirection. I can still scroll one line every seven seconds.
Why doesn’t anyone ever get my Chilly Willy pancakes reference? More folks need to have watched this on a continuous loop: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xx4x56
The IRC bot project has become stable if not a little useful. There is much to do w/r/t writing new behaviors but the framework appears to be mostly in place. Hooray for that! Most days I’m in front of a computer you can find me on Freenode’s #fezchat channel. I tend to run the bot…
https://www.metafilter.com/172992/Fear-and-Trembling-and-the-Sickness-Unto-Death#7347759 It is an open question as to where the money came from to pay off Stormy Daniels (Ms. Stephanie Clifford). Metafilter user 0XFCAF cobbled together a little regex and sprinkled in some n-gram logic to answer the question, were there payments from the Bawbag campaign to some organization with ‘Trump’ in the name within…
Angry old man yelling at clouds or shrewd evaluator of priorities? You be the judge[1]. Myself? I’m on the side of shrewdness. Security, while important, is not the most important priority necessarily. It’s all about context, severity, and disruption. And when a vulnerability requires physical access or root access or replacing microcode on the CPU…
Can I just say that Twitter represents everything that is wrong with U.S. politics? There is no nuance. Chronology and threading are exceptionally difficult. Individual tweets are consumed without scepticism. The noun ‘tweet’. The shambolic nature of the company behind the platform. I’ve never really understood the platform’s popularity. I have an account, well two…
Doing support work while slightly buzzed is entertaining. I’ve recently used words like ‘abomination’ and ‘extreme rigidity’. Certainly the folks on the other end of these missives are deriving the same enjoyment…