I still think it's kind of cool that trains run through my neighborhood.
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Susie Dent (@susie_dent) on X
In the past, you could be reckful (considerate) as well as reckless. People were also gormful (careful); feckful (responsible), ruthful (compassionate), wieldy (agile), ept (adroit), and definitely gruntled. Bring back the lost positives. -
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woahh mann (@ashhhhhhole) on X
quarantine taught me that u don’t need fun to have alcohol -
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Dec 12, 2020, 8:10 PM -05:00 TIL about George Appel, a convicted murderer executed by electric chair in 1928, who's last words were "Well, gentlemen, you are about the see a baked Appel". A tip of the hat to you, sir.
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Dec 10, 2020, 7:26 PM -05:00 Tacos Victor and the Good Lovelies. Not the worst birthday.
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Dec 3, 2020, 9:34 AM -05:00 eyes wide Is it possible to learn this power?
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Jessica Valenti (@JessicaValenti) on X
@maxieponzusauce No this is literally the first day ever! -
Dec 1, 2020, 8:57 AM -05:00
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feminist next door (@emrazz) on X
Day 13 of an argument happening under one of my tweets: “oh sorry emrazz I’ll untag you” Me: what no I’m invested now you can’t cut me off like this -
Dec 1, 2020, 8:55 AM -05:00
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Max Böck (@mxbck) on X
At this point if you do the "vertical centering in CSS" joke, I'm just going to assume you haven't written any CSS in the last 5 years -
Nov 29, 2020, 4:04 PM -05:00 Rue Coursol, Little Burgundy, Montreal
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Nov 28, 2020, 9:01 AM -05:00“Stupid light software”
Martin Tournoij wrote about “stupid light software”. When you try to be a bit too minimalistic with your software, it’s probably “stupid light software”.There’s also the concept of stupid light: when you save weight to the point of stupidity. You won’t be comfortable, you’ll miss stuff you need, your equipment will be too fragile and break.With software I most often go from “heavy” to “light”. First, I try to realize the features I need and then I try to optimize where possible. First, I will... -
Nov 26, 2020, 7:51 PM -05:00 So, Constable Crabtree invented Red Bull?
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Nov 22, 2020, 3:02 PM -05:00 The Organic Web
If we lived close to nature in an agricultural society, the seasons as metaphor and fact would continually frame our lives. But the master metaphor for our era does not come from agriculture—it comes from manufacturing. We do not believe that we “grow” our lives—we believe that we “make” them. Just listen to how we use the word in everyday speech: we make time, make friends, make meaning, make money, make a living, make love. — Parker Palmer, “Let Your Life Speak” (97) You know what else we... -
Nov 17, 2020, 4:08 PM -05:00 I use Piwigo. My gallery: https://photos.desmondrivet.com/ I'm interested in the idea of statically generated galleries but it's unclear to me how this would work if you have GBs of photos. Where would you store the images?
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Nov 7, 2020, 12:04 PM -05:00 Did anyone else learn where Pennsylvania was just this week?
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David Roberts (@drvolts) on X
I forget who originally sent me this poem, but I go back to it periodically, and it's hitting particularly hard this week. -
Oct 30, 2020, 1:03 PM -04:00 I learned the word "magniloquence" today and I'm warning all of you, I will be using it frequently.
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Oct 29, 2020, 8:37 AM -04:00 Finished season 2 of Ozark and I guess Wendy is Walter White, not Marty?
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Oct 25, 2020, 10:16 PM -04:00 Ohhhhh... This looks awesome!
Oct 25, 2020, 6:42 AM -04:00There’s loads of fun interactive fiction games to play at IFComp 2020. We came across IFComp yesterday, via a friend of E’s, and played Saint Simon’s Saw and Stand Up / Stay Silent. -
Oct 24, 2020, 10:44 PM -04:00 Things I Learned In Lockdown
While it's perhaps inaccurate to call the current Covid-19 crisis "unprecedented" (given that the Spanish Flu outbreak in 1918 led to many of the same measures), I think it's reasonable to say that it's unprecedented in my lifetime - and I'm not exactly young.
Accordingly, in these heady times, I don't think it's uncommon to discover a thing or two about yourself. Hell, introspection is almost inevitable, given the circumstances.
In that vein, this is my "Things I Learned In Lockdown" post. There are many like it, but this one is mine.
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Oct 22, 2020, 3:34 PM -04:00 Bookmark of https://obsidian.md/
@obsdmd
Obsidian - Sharpen your thinking
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Oct 21, 2020, 9:34 AM -04:00 https://asoftmurmur.com/ I often use this site with custom "storm" sounds.
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Shubheksha ✨ (@ScribblingOn) on X
Traffic noise outside my house is really bothering me and making me feel frazzled, so give me recs for soothing music and other things that might help with it, please? 💜 -
Oct 17, 2020, 8:55 PM -04:00 Bookmark of https://jlelse.blog/links/2020/10/searchmysite/
Oct 17, 2020, 4:12 PM -04:00Search personal websites
Michael Lewis had a pretty great idea, he created a search engine for personal websites. I really like that idea because I like exploring personal websites and especially reading personal blogs. It’s always interesting to read about people’s thoughts, hobbies, lives, experiences and point of views.There are already a couple of resources to discover personal sites (like this, this or this), but having more is even better! Michael Lewis also wrote some background posts about creating this proje...