Lifestream

So what does the #indieweb use for storing photos/albums? I run a micropub media server on a remote machine, storing the photos on disk. Any advantage to switching to the cloud (a bucket, for example)?

If you're a programmer of a certain age, you've either read or know about Design Patterns, a book on software architecture popular in the 90s and early 2000's. The book was sort of like a repository of TV tropes for the Object Oriented Programming (OOP) world in that it provided a convenient vocabulary for describing what were usually eminently recognizable software engineering techniques that nonetheless often lacked punchy, easy to remember names.

Notably, the book was more descriptive than prescriptive. It described preexisting techniques that were already in use in the "wild", so to speak.

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Chicago, summer 2018. Not Greece, but I'll take it.

Taken in summer 2015. Wish I were there, in both space and time.

Though parts of the Wheel of Time TV series were maddeningly frustrating, I did enjoy it on the whole, though being a fan I was always going to be an easy sell. The people complaining about the diversity of the cast can get bent; the cast was one of the best parts.

I have a very hard time developing new habits. As I have not grown up with plants my whole life, this means that I cannot be trusted to keep a plant alive, as I will inevitably forget to water it.

I am grateful that Wordle exists if for no other reason than it gives me a reason to talk to my mother every day.

I understand the sentiment but really, what's wrong with garlic in your soul? Garlic is good.

Why does every Greek letter sound so ominous?

TIL I learned that the word "senate" is derived from the Latin word "senex" meaning "old man".

TIL that Betty White is older than sliced bread. Also, her and Rue McClanahan were originally offered their respective parts on The Golden Girls.

I know this sounds patronizing but the Spanish word for small (pequeño/a) is super cute.

Unoaked whiskey.  Isn't that just...vodka?

Tree Corridor. Mansonville, Quebec

Mansonville, Quebec

I'll admit I gave up on the series after...book11?  Still excited, though :-)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Fus4Xb_TLg

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?"

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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Borden-Carleton, Prince Edward island

Victoria by the Sea, Prince Edward Island

Lonely

Aha, so THAT'S what a crab pinch feels like

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.

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

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?