Just installed Catalina (my recommendation: don’t.). zsh is a fine shell…for downloading and installing other shells.

Expired: squatting in the squat rack. Tired: curling in the squat rack. Wired: Running curl(1) from your phone while in the squat rack

A bumper sticker, from a distance: “usetrojans”. Seen closer up: “usctrojans”.

@von@tilde.town gl

@dave@davebucklin.com Did you type that out with your knuckles, or did you use voice recognition, or…? ;)

My idea of a fun Saturday night: achieving Camera Roll Zero.

This won’t get me a “Dear Mr. Cook” mention in an Apple event, but I thought it was pretty cool to be able to use my iPad in the kitchen without touching it. Voice Control is pretty good.

Petrov Day is coming up this Thursday, September 26. What, if anything, is a suitable thing to do in his honor?

@kas@enotty.dk I probably get a slightly-suboptimal lossily-compressed image. Or maybe I get the same image that I would have had I not bothered to give it a preset hint.

Day 1 of not installing the latest iOS release. Pulse still normal. Heart rate normal. Sleep moderately disturbed.

@mdosch@mdosch.de Battery-life preservation is a harsh mistress.

@kas@enotty.dk is pretty great, but there’s no equivalent widely-available functionality for background images, which is a real pity. Just imagine — hero images that take up half the space!

I’m not sure I like how homebrew will try to build a package if the download fails. I don’t need a second go binary, really.

Day 0 of not installing the new iOS because everyone says it’s buggy. Pulse normal. Heart rate normal.

I tried cwebp -preset photo -o foo.webp foo.jpeg on a preview image and it was imperceptibly worse at the sizes I expected to show it. Then again, I don’t really care that you can’t read the nutrition labels on a jar in the background of the subject.

This almost makes me want to bother changing to a 24-bit-color terminal as my main: https://github.com/sharkdp/pastel

What’s the wettest food that the Wicked Witch of the West can safely eat?

@von@tilde.town no worries, I have days/weeks/years like that

Non-programming thought of the hour: “I want pancakes”. Also the non-programming thought of the previous hour, and the hour before that.

Programming thought of the hour: “if everything knew about everything else, I wouldn’t have this problem.” Of course, I’d have different problems later…

cheap entertainment of the day: running https://github.com/boyter/scc/ and chuckling at the cost and manpower estimates of my one-man projects

WebP is kind of disappointing. Not because there’s anything wrong with it, but because I tend to not really need it, even though I’d like to use it.

I just got the tauthon pun. Well done, whoever named it.

new toy of the day: https://github.com/variadico/noti

ran-as-root command of the day: pkg delete python27

8 PM naps: They’re the naps that you need, even though they’re not the naps that you want.

Saw pokerstove in the new-formulae list in Homebrew. Installed it and ran ps-eval -g d AsAcAdAh2d, and after a few moments it told me that this particular hand has 99.998% equity. Turns out, “a pair of ones…and another pair of ones” is a better hand than Bugs’ tone of voice indicates.

“Thinkfluencer” might be one of the most pompous nouns invented in the last five years but at least it isn’t as confusing as using “clerk” as a translation of “_clerc_”.

At the gym in the morning. Full parking lot. ♫ All the morning people / Where do they all come from? / All the morning people / Where do they all belong? ♫

If it’s called a ‘twoosh’ when one tweets exactly 280 characters without editing, what’s it called when one writes an exactly-50-character Git commit message?

Cut a 228-column line down to a mere 185. Progress!

Unexpected prefers-color-scheme-using website of the day: openbsd.org

wait, gcc is a run-time dependency for dungeon in Homebrew?

There is spider food flying around in my bedroom. I am most displeased.

How can you tell when an Apple fan is dead tired? He blanks out when prompted for his Apple ID.

Oh, right. If my main computer is tethered to my phone’s LTE connection, it’s not going to be accessible from my tablet, will it? Darn.

Can one use nerd tools to live-blog an internet outage (without tethering)? Let’s find out.

Today’s fish fun: set -l color_host $fish_color_host; if command -qs shasum; set color_host (printf (prompt_hostname) | shasum -pa 256 - | cut -c 59-64 | tr -d ‘\n’); end

I think it’s kind of cute that Siri is suggesting I set a timer for five minutes, even though it hasn’t realized I only do that at the gym.

Found out that Terminal will switch from light to dark themes if background color is unset. One catch: “background color” includes transparency and blur settings.

When Wikipedia and Wikiquote disagree, which is right?

@mdosch@mdosch.de oh, that’s good.

@kas@enotty.dk @mdosch@mdosch.de He ought to switch to one-line fortunes if he can. I don’t want to have to wait a day to get the punch line to a joke.

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Dear lazytwtxt, I just saw someone say hi to a few new people. How can I check the accounts of these new-to-me people so I can figure out whether to add them to my own following list? Their URLs are snipped out in the main client (for good reason).

Looking for a reason to use Firefox more when developing sites? on macOS it’s the browser that smashes into the least horizontal space. Good if you like having a browser window running all the time. Doubly good if you like running it in Split View.

block elephant modifier

@von@tilde.town ganbatte

fun phrase learned today: “de haut en bas”

Turns out that color-scheme support only works in the Safari Technology Preview beta.