I've been doing Spanish on Duolingo since December of last year, and I STILL have trouble mentally translating "Yo tengo" as "I have" as opposed to "You tango?"
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Aug 25, 2021, 9:17 PM -04:00 Git is Terrible
If I say that my professional life has spanned RCS, CVS, Mercurial and Git, this tell you something (depressing) about my age.
Like everyone else, I'm now a git user, but I still say that Mercurial was the most elegant of the bunch, at least in terms of its emmiently predictable and well-designed CLI, even if the software itself gave up the ghost years ago.
Back in the day, when version control systems were still duking it out, I used to try and defend Mercurial to rabid git fans, mostly to no avail. I always felt that I was at a bit of a disadvantage in those conversation (cue the git fans yelling "Yeah, cuz mercurial SUCKS!"), because I was always willing to concede, despite appreciating Mercurial's virtues, that git actually did have its strengths as well as its weaknesses, while the git fans were rarely so magnanimous with any other VCS.
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Aug 25, 2021, 12:13 PM -04:00 Borden-Carleton, Prince Edward island
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Aug 25, 2021, 10:15 AM -04:00 Victoria by the Sea, Prince Edward Island
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Aug 21, 2021, 8:44 PM -04:00 Lonely
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Aug 18, 2021, 1:26 PM -04:00 Aha, so THAT'S what a crab pinch feels like
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Aug 10, 2021, 5:53 PM -04:00 Drambuie has a bad reputation, but for what it is worth it's pretty good in a sour - 2 parts Drambuie, 1 part lemon juice, shaken over ice and strained. This is from a guy who actually likes Rusty Nails.
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Aug 8, 2021, 7:57 PM -04:00 I find the Spanish tendency to drop the subject of a sentence when it's implied by the format of the verb to be both jarring and admirably efficient
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Introducing a Microformats API for Books: books-mf2.fly.dev
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Jul 17, 2021, 10:34 AM -04:00 I don't know about awesome, but I usually find myself enjoying SQL more than I think I will.
Jul 17, 2021, 3:55 AM -04:00Unpopular opinion: SQL is awesome and I really like writing performant SELECT statements. -
Jul 16, 2021, 3:03 PM -04:00 The Expanse is an awesome series of books but am I the only one who loves the fact that each and every chapter is almost exactly ten pages long?
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Jul 14, 2021, 11:20 AM -04:00 Helen Keller died less than 10 years before I was born. I am ancient.
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Jul 10, 2021, 4:18 PM -04:00 Dose number dos!
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Jul 5, 2021, 10:54 PM -04:00 I thought I read that they were developing boosters for the delta variant but I'm not sure.
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Jun 27, 2021, 7:50 PM -04:00 Watching Domina on Crave made start watching I, Claudius, and it's super interesting to see the same historical figures portrayed on two entirely different shows, with two entirely different agendas
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I like big butts and I cannot lie. The person guarding the other door likes big butts and cannot tell the truth... -
Jun 14, 2021, 8:53 PM -04:00 Poets.org
Good Bones
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May 29, 2021, 2:18 PM -04:00When did you join the IndieWeb?
(Hopefully this appears at https://www.indieforums.net) I think I first heard of the IndieWeb movement in 2016 sometime. It’s a bit hazy now, but I’ve a memory that I stumbled on it through a trail of links starting on Wikity. I’ve tinkered with web sites in some form or another for a long time, and I have happy memories of various weird Geocities experiments, sadly lost to the sands of time it seems. As far as independently hosting goes, I appear to have had a self-hosted blog since 2006 at ... -
May 20, 2021, 8:37 PM -04:00
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“I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart; I am, I am, I am.” - Sylvia Plath -
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May 11, 2021, 10:33 PM -04:00 Got my first shot #HousePfizer !
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Apr 14, 2021, 9:25 PM -04:00 Bookmark of https://aaronparecki.com/2021/04/13/26/indieauth
Apr 14, 2021, 12:15 AM -04:00How to Sign Users In with IndieAuth
This post will show you step by step how you can let people log in to your website with their own IndieAuth website so you don't need to worry about user accounts or passwords. What is IndieAuth? IndieAuth is an extension of OAuth 2.0 that enables an individual website like someone's WordPress, Gitea or OwnCast instance to become its own identity provider. This means you can use your own website to sign in to other websites that support IndieAuth. You can learn more about the differences be... -
Apr 12, 2021, 7:12 PM -04:00 I've of the things I have to deal with in Spanish: 'sombrero' means 'hat', and I sort of already knew this, but I always associated it with a very specific kind of hat, not hats in general.
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Mar 29, 2021, 11:53 PM -04:00 First practical duolingo result: I now understand that the chihuahua was saying "I want Taco Bell"