Posts in category 'tweet'

And just like that I got my DIY edition laptop from Framework! Thanks @FrameworkPuter !

@CBCEdmonton blindly parroting @jkenney ‘s distorted talking points without criticism is the worst kind of yellow journalism. No one has proposed “[shutting] off a major, industrialized economy with the flick of a switch” and he knows it.

A belated photo of our lovely new front yard design! We couldn’t be happier with the way it came together!

Nice! For my blog I have a Calibre db containing metadata, covers, etc, for books. Then I wrote a Jekyll plugin that uses calibredb to pull the data out and populate my pages at build time. This reminds me I need to write a post about this…

Finally got around to planting my first little pot of succulents! My home office now looks just a little less sterile.

I’m loving my new @8bitdo controllers! I’ve wanted an arcade stick for as long as I can remember and this thing is great! And the M30 is pure joy for an old Sega Genesis fan.

Well, our home is host to another Robin’s nest. They sure do love this spot!

Following the lead of @CMOH_Alberta, we got ourselves some AstraZeneca! We couldn’t be happier!

First butterfly of the season, a beautiful Morning Cloak. Spring, you’ve finally sprung!

Just upgraded my Searx instance to 1.0.0 and it went perfectly. Thanks so much to all the maintainers and contributors for their hard work!

Huge shout out to The @internetarchive. Their large collection of old Wheel of Fortune episodes has been keeping my wife and I very entertained!

I wonder when the @Alberta_UCP and @JasonNixonAB will admit they’ve been lying about their park closure policy? Here we see they either don’t have usage data to back their policy, or they’re withholding it. Oops.

I can’t believe I only just discovered the joy of the @MST3K 24/7 Twitch channel… just in time for Turkey Day!

A beautiful Thursday riding solo at @MarmotBasin. I can’t think of a better way to socially distance!

Finally got a #DefendABParks sign. Gotta show support and make the @Alberta_UCP take notice.

Very nice intro piece on capital ‘S’ Stoicism and how deeply its misunderstood. I wouldn’t label myself a Stoic–I don’t spend nearly enough time on the topic–but it’s had a very profound effect on my own life.

Thank you, James Randi. You were a stalwart defender of facts and reason, something we can use that now more than ever. Thank goodness we have @jref to carry on your legacy.

Getting close!

Nothing better than a summer day in Alberta.

Huge thanks to the @CanadaCraftClub for switching away from styrofoam to paper-based packaging! The foam packaging always troubled me and was the one thing that made me consider cancelling. Now I can have beer shipped to my door guilt-free(-er)!

First crack at Peter Reinhart’s Italian bread from BBA, in pull apart roll form. Turned out great!

Updated my Nintendo DS port of NetHack to upstream version 3.6.6! Why? Because I can, and I had some time over my lunch break, that’s why!

The ai thought leader on Twitter is now one of my favourite things (and also makes me want to play around with GPT2)…

More IoT devices bite the dust. I’ve avoided “smart” devices for a lot of reasons–lack of: security, control, cost, complexity, repairability–but rapid obsolescence is also a huge factor.

Spotted someone reading the Enchiridion on the bus and I had to fight not to strike up a conversation about Stoicism…

Another pair down! This yarn had been in my stash for a couple of years now, so it’s nice to get them done. Post to come with details, including how I converted this cuff down pattern to toe up.

After finishing my DIY keyboard project (http://b-ark.ca/MIYO2i) I’ve been trying to decide what I want to try as my next hardware hacking project, and this is definitely on the list…

How the heel has turned!

A lot of things I post to Twitter start as notes on my blog so I host the content, but right now I don’t link back from the tweet to the note as I find it messy.

I don’t agree with all the advice here, but this is another reason to have my own blog, authored in Markdown, converted to static HTML and CSS.

I couldn’t find any of my row counters, so I made one!

#nostalgia is a dangerous drug. I don’t tend to romanticize the past, but as I get older and more and more of my past is memorialized on the web, it’s really easy to fall down the rabbit hole. Rewatching #HaltandCatchFire definitely doesn’t help!

I think I’m starting to understand the attraction of retirement, or at least sabbatical. Knowing I can just read or write or listen to music or play guitar and not feel guilty about the other things I’m not doing is just wonderful!

I don’t like the idea of getting a real Christmas tree for the house… messy, maintenance, and you gotta dispose of them. But a tiny one…

Great piece on Brave. The Freeloading argument isn’t accurate, but the rest of it is spot on and highlights how Brave is regressive and disempowers content creators.

Absolutely fantastic podcast about the rise and fall of Rob Ford. It shows the power of populism and how in many ways Ford presaged Trump.

Posts like this make me want to finally learn how to program the FPGA on my shelf! So cool!