Weeknotes 4
We just rented a dumpster for a week to help/force us to clean out 14 years of detritus in the basement. This appears to be the only way.
Did:
- Dumped a bunch of mp3s on a thumb drive to play on shuffle in the Honda Fit. It works, but the shuffle in the car is not smart enough to not repeat the same song too soon.
We’re An AmeriKihn Band — photo by Dave C.
- Played drums on two Greg Kihn Band songs with my buds at Nutstock this past weekend. We called ourselves We’re An AmeriKihn Band and it was fun as hell! After that, I played in a rock improv duo called Jazz Brunch that I had forgotten I was supposed to be in. Both of those bands made me wonder why I don’t play drums more often.
- And then we were treated to Martin Roach, who hadn’t played together since they were a band in Blacksburg 35 years ago. The memories!
Music:
- Jack White: No Name (from Matt)
- Translator — I Need You to Love (from Will)
- Wussy — The Great Divide (from Matt)
- Wussy Duo — Indiana Wants Me, Too
- Cassie Ramone — Together
- April Varner — I’ll Remember April
- Martin Roach: Satan Doghair Shirt
Found:
- Great stuff in here about having a personal blog, using your blog for accountability and to document what you learn, and taking detailed notes in GitHub issues on a large number of projects to document what you were thinking, tried, and decided. I need to watch his Django talk.
- Also, the idea of saying “what are my options” in a prompt does work great when I try it, which also sucks. Like this: “In Emacs orgmode, what are my options for showing search results from all orgmode files in their respective headings context?”
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mclear-tools/consult-notes: Use consult to search notes
consult-notescan be used with any directory (or directories) of note files. It easily integrates with note systems like zk, denote, or org-roam. Additionally, it may also search org headings in a set of specified files.
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Music industry’s 1990s hard drives, like all HDDs, are dying | Ars Technica
One of the things enterprise storage and destruction company Iron Mountain does is handle the archiving of the media industry’s vaults. What it has been seeing lately should be a wake-up call: roughly one-fifth of the hard disk drives dating to the 1990s it was sent are entirely unreadable.
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Re: Overwhelmed and Need Help with Organizing | Protesilaos Stavrou
My recommendation to you then is to forget about the advanced features of logging, plotting, linking, drawing, stamping, clipping, extracting, summarising, analysing, et cetera, and focus on the one and only basic thing that matters: you set a goal and you do it. If you cannot do this with consistency, then all that other stuff is just a glorified mini-game to make you feel better about the fact you are not actually doing what you are supposed to.
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Archive.today is a time capsule for web pages! It takes a ‘snapshot’ of a webpage that will always be online even if the original page disappears. It saves a text and a graphical copy of the page for better accuracy and provides a short and reliable link to an unalterable record of any web page including those from Web 2.0 sites:
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Why I prefer rST to markdown | Hillel Wayne
The most important difference between rst and markdown is that markdown is a lightweight representation of html, while rst is a midweight representation of an abstract documentation tree.
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Challenging The Myths of Generative AI | TechPolicy.Press
The productivity myth suggests that anything we spend time on is up for automation — that any time we spend can and should be freed up for the sake of having even more time for other activities or pursuits — which can also be automated. The importance and value of thinking about our work and why we do it is waved away as a distraction. The goal of writing, this myth suggests, is filling a page rather than the process of thought that a completed page represents.
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BEM — is a methodology that helps you to create reusable components and code sharing in front‑end development
Looking forward to:
Someday installing Linux on the 2014 MacBook Pro after seeing bashbunni demo how to turn a MacBook Pro into a Linux server | YouTube. And her homepage has the coolest loading animation.