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…
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.
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…
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…
This was a scary read this morning: Infocalypse Now. Standard Buzzfeed click-baity warnings aside, the argument is that we’re approaching a point in time where we cannot trust anything that comes via the Internet. Images can be doctored or spun out of whole cloth (not new). Quotes can be similarly doctored (definitely not new). Now…
#tfw NAnt becomes the preferred scripting language. Yes, I’m looking at you #dos.