@kas@enotty.dk micro (https://micro-editor.github.io/) and kakoune (https://kakoune.org/).

I want to use more newfangled non-vi(m) console-based text editors, but they all seem to assume that the alt key is as easy to press as the ctrl key. Meanwhile, I use my Option key too much to be willing to change its function.

Just learned that a guy I know of has an impressive beard. I wouldn’t have figured he had an impressive beard. Now I wonder who else I know who has an impressive beard that I don’t know about.

@von@tilde.town sleeping works. how long do you need?

Tonight’s burps taste like raspberries.

@johanbove@johanbove.info gratz!

Massive piles of implementation bugs notwithstanding, See (on Apple TV+) is pretty neat if you’re into worldbuilding like I am.

Bride of boo, hiss: Hovering over an Edge icon in the Taskbar doesn’t give you a preview of every tab.

Hmm. The new Blink-powered Edge doesn’t let you change the new-tab searchbox off Bing’s. Boo, hiss.

All I need to do to get this to work in all major browsers is to wait for Safari to get a major version bump…

@kas@enotty.dk @freemor@freemor.homelinux.net I doubt many want to browser-sniff. Unfortunately, I see browser sniffing used to work around a particular browser’s bugs, so browser sniffing isn’t going away anytime soon.

@freemor@freemor.homelinux.net @kas@enotty.dk I’m not seeing how this is worse for privacy than the current mess that is the User-Agent string, though. What am I missing?

30 minutes of scrubbing and washing later, my monitor’s solid-color background looks solid-colored.

You see these proper quotes/apostrophes in my posts? They’re not curling themselves.

I think part of what’s killing emacs for me is what killed kakoune for me — I don’t have a good Meta key on my Mac and I’m not about to give up my Option key for it.

I sniffed my hand after washing it and it smelled like crème brûlée.

@sdk@codevoid.de also, if you can find out how to get your desktop environment to tell your browser “I prefer dark mode”, that’s also an option

darndest thing I’ll see today: “goimports, but for FORTRAN”: https://www.ratrabbit.nl/ratrabbit/content/findent/introduction

@sixbitproxywax@sixbitproxywax.com if I didn’t livetxt Apple presentations, one-per-decade would probably be enough for me. However…I might just get lazy and chop them up into one-per-decade things anyway.

@sixbitproxywax@sixbitproxywax.com it’s not obviously broken if you ask me…

@kas@enotty.dk I aliased ls to exa and nothing broke. With any luck, nothing’ll break for you, either.

@johanbove@johanbove.info A better question: Are you real enough for yourself?

I just wrote a Rick-and-Morty-copypasta snowclone and now I need a shower.

@freemor@freemor.homelinux.net Sounds like yet another reason to never buy a smart TV, or at least to never depend on any functionality that requires it to be connected to the Internet.

I get slightly nervous when my backup program does full uploads of FLAC files that shouldn’t have changed at all and should only be a checksum match

An object with one UUID knows what it is; an object with two is never sure.

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!

Phew. Searching DuckDuckGo for “blackfriday markdown” gives me what I want even though it’s the day before Black Friday.

My text editor failed to autocomplete like it usually does and now I’m left wondering if I introduced a syntax error or something that it can’t cope with.

Interesting photo compression numbers: 2.1 MB HEIC original, 13.8 MB PNG, 3.8 MB JPEG, 790 KB WebP.

Hm. My phone doesn’t reliably recognize me when I’m wearing wet glasses, but so far it seems to recognize me well enough when I’m wearing no glasses.

Just saw the Cybertruck unveiling. Elon Musk is the best spectator sport available today.

I moved all windows off my second monitor and…it just looks so peaceful. Nothing on it but a zoomed-in picture of a sand dune with a very dim menu bar on top.

@von@tilde.town You’ll probably want a separate BuJo if you have a bunch of work-only tasks. One of the nice things about OmniFocus is that it can be really good at hiding tasks you can’t make headway on at the moment for one reason or another, assuming you tag things appropriately.

@johanbove@johanbove.info there’s also the extended battery life (an unambiguous plus) and FaceID (probably a plus for most people). Me, I miss my hand-sized SE.

@kas@enotty.dk I’m tempted to split my file once per decade.

@johanbove@johanbove.info An iPhone XR as opposed to…?

@johanbove@johanbove.info oh, that helps. Thanks!

@von@tilde.town yeah, I stopped posting to it eventually.

@johanbove@johanbove.info a random question from someone who’s used Gopher clients a little bit recently but doesn’t quite understand all the memes: Why are numbered directories like “/0/” common on Gopher holes (but not websites)?

@von@tilde.town re: hidden twtxt: I’ve done this. It was fun.

@kas@enotty.dk that said, I have no idea who bothers looking at the commented-out portions of others’ twtxt files. I only bother on rare occasions. Sometimes, there are interesting easter-eggy things to see.

@kas@enotty.dk doesn’t seem like a bad idea. I suppose I should do that one day too eventually, but I haven’t livetweeted enough Apple events to bloat my file to where I’d want to bother.

My Chrome uptime has been so long that I got a notification in it to restart it so it could update itself. Do I get some sort of award for this?

@freemor@freemor.homelinux.net Those things you swallow when you have a headache. (It’s a The Matrix reference.)

@freemor@freemor.homelinux.net Did it try to POST any pills?

Today’s fun: pastel random -n 2 | pastel gradient - -

Just took a raw photo with Halide for the first time. It looks pretty awful compared to its companion JPEG because it’s horribly noisy. Not sure what magic turns awful raws into better-than-JPEG images. Probably lots of know-how.

@mdosch@mdosch.de Apple refuses to ship GPLv3 software. bash has security bugs that Apple doesn’t want to backport. So they’ve switched default shells again, this time to zsh. (bash and the previous default, tcsh, still ship with the OS.)

@mdosch@mdosch.de @freemor@freemor.homelinux.net was right. The latest (but not the greatest) macOS.