Danny van Kooten, who started Fathom Analytics is going back to PHP from Go. I wonder how that will affect Fathom, which I’d like to keep using
Power outage as productivity booster
Ice storms took power out for miles around yesterday. We got lucky and our house was only affected for about 12 hours and temperatures weren’t too far below freezing.
I get so much done when the power is out. Closets get cleaned, paperwork gets filed, drawers get organized, journals get written, books get read.
We should ask the power companies to randomly pick a few hours once or twice a month to just shut it all down.
Adding On This Day feature to Blot - Amit Gawande
Amit strikes again with Adding On This Day feature to Blog.
TL;DR: Expose a JSON feed on your site. Create two views in Blot using the gist flashback.js and on-this-day.html. You should have two additional pages, you can use the same file names. If you do, you can access your On This Day page at
/on-this-day.
I may have hosed my RSS feed from Blot. Title-less posts are acting up and being imported twice to Micro.blog; once with a title and link and once with just the text. This post is testing my fix for that.
Testing Retrobatch
Retrobatch from Flying Meat is “Flexible, super charged, batch image processing for your Mac.”
I thought I’d try it and it works great. I created a simple workflow for photos I want to share on my blog.
It does this:
- Grabs all images in a folder
- Removes location/GPS data
- Adds my signature watermark
- Outputs the modified images to another folder
Neat!
Now, if it could also upload to, say, Flickr, or Instagram or somewhere via SFTP that would be perfect.
Saving time with Emacs, or not.
Using Emacs easily saves me hours every day
I’m sorry, but no it doesn’t. If it saves him more than ten minutes a day I’d be shocked.
I prefer to keep my hands on the keyboard as much as possible, and it seems faster, but I’m sure it doesn’t save as much time as I’d like to think it does.
Remember the uproar over Bruce Tognazzini’s research?:
We’ve done a cool $50 million of R & D on the Apple Human Interface. We discovered, among other things, two pertinent facts:
- Test subjects consistently report that keyboarding is faster than mousing.
- The stopwatch consistently proves mousing is faster than keyboarding.
We’ve been debating this forever, and if you think keyboarding is always faster, well, that’s what you’re always going to think. And you may be right. I hope you are. I’m not picking on Garrett, and he probably didn’t mean to be specific, but the “hours every day” bit reminded me how far off we can be in our assumptions.
And my other observation is that it might have taken weeks to finesse Emacs to a point where one feels so damn efficient. Never getting that time back no matter how many times I don’t grab for the mouse.
Artificial Condition (The Murderbot Diaries, #2)
Artificial Condition (The Murderbot Diaries, #2)Artificial Condition by Martha Wells
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Good fun. I love Murderbot.
I may be a terrifying murderbot, but I fuck up a lot.
@kordumb was kind enough to share his secrets for customizing Blot’s Console theme. This is great. Now I’m well on my way to making the Console theme work for me, which has been a long time coming.