T[errier]-1000

Special animation just for dog?

Redshift, it changes the brightness/color on the display bluer closer to midday and redder at night. Twilight is a similar app on android.

The command line is an exceptionally useful tool, you may want to spend a little time getting familiar with it and common command line tools that would probably make self hosting almost anything easier.

It’s like wanting to learn to play guitar but not learning how to restring and tune it, sure it’s not necessary but you’re going to be overly dependent on others to do something you could learn for yourself with a little time and patience, and it will probably broaden your perspective on what you can do once you do get familiar with how to pipe commands together and combine basic tools into something more sophisticated and complex.

Korn shell scripts get all the subsidizes anyways

I get the idea that it’s only temporary, but I’d much rather have a current gen AI paint a picture than attempt to program a guidance system or a heart monitor

Never showered in the rain?

https://harpers.org/archive/1932/10/in-praise-of-idleness/

And all code is data too, and all processes are data transformers

Ubuntu Mono for terminal, code, and data, Open Sans for the rest

Cult of the line must go up

Weak code lacks tests

Alt: if strength relies on unity I need to switch to game dev

I’ve used Dia for years, great simple tool for diagramming & if I need something more I’ll switch to graphviz dot files

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Cygwin terminal and chocolatey package manager gets windows some missing features in Linux like gnu tools and a non-store based software library.

iTerm2 terminal and homebrew package manager help turn MacOS into a fully functional OS

Once you hit 99+ in Firefox on mobile it changes to ∞

As someone who conferenced some basic ML research in early 2000s and then left academia for a boring/stable software engineering gig in a non IT org to escape the hype bubble only to end up having to talk to people about ML/AI frequently this article speaks to me.

I don’t have anything against Rust, I’m just not very familiar with it

Pretty much all of the command line coreutils programs I use daily are in C; cd, ls, pwd, touch, rm, etc. If I want to write some small utility I’ll usually reach for a scripting language first like bash python ruby etc, but if it needs to be small and fast I’ll use C instead.