My February ‘22 in Review
February, especially if it’s not a leap year, is a short month, but it’s already over now too. So time for a quick review…. ⌘ Read more
The Goldilocks Rule href=”https://we.loveprivacy.club/search?q=%23Shorts”>#Shorts** ⌘ Read more
I’ve heard that being a soldier in a combat zone is long hours of idleness, punctuated by short periods of terror and stress. That pretty much describes my time as a manager, without the “terror” part (and the bullets and explosions). People don’t work as much as they say | Hacker News
Nominally, my seen/read list for 2021, but I missed a lot of short readings. I may try to write more about these things this year. http://a.9srv.net/media/2021
Peter Saint-Andre: 2021 Readings
As best I can reconstruct it, here are the books I read in 2021. Not included are scholarly papers, essays, and other short works. I’ve provided links to books that are available online at my monadnock.net website for works in the public domain…. ⌘ Read more
On the blog: Short Fiction — All Quiet on the Vernal Front https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/12/05/war.html #fiction #christmas #holiday
So the evolution of my nick is as follows. I had a bicycle that had the word Zephyr written on it. Which means a western wind. That is related to the Greek god Zephyrus.
I liked words where X make a Z sound. And also had a bit of dyslexia so my firs IRC nick was Xypher swapping the y and e.. I would also use the forms Xypherius or just Xypheri.
Because its close hemming to Cypher I found the nick would get used by others.. Though that is not my origin.
Later I would sign websites I created as The X-Urban Underground (where X was short for Xypher) and that evolved to xuu. Pronounced like zoo.
Review Jam, day 2: try a short task in Teliva. https://buttondown.email/reviewjam/archive/advent-of-foc-day-2-brutalist-convivial-computing
Secure deployments with OpenID Connect & GitHub Actions now generally available
GitHub Actions now supports OpenID Connect for secure deployment to different cloud providers via short-lived, auto-rotated tokens. ⌘ Read more
created a short introductory video to qiudanz mode 1 | gemini://compudanzas.net/qiudanz_mode_1.gmi
A Short Review of Selling on Tindie
I started using the Tindie platform in April to sell my WiFiStation kits. I’ve now sold out all of my initial inventory and am not planning on making any more, so I thought I’d offer my opinions of Tindie as a platform for selling things. ⌘ Read more
Painbow Award
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On the blog: Short Fiction — The Gevkahahal https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/10/31/gevkahahal.html #freeculture #creativecommons #fiction #horror
13 short and scary games plus source to play (or hack) this Halloween 🎃
It’s that time of year again where I like to share seasonally spooktacular games plus source code—a goldmine of material for (a) those looking for coffee-break entertainment, (b) those interested in learning more about game ⌘ Read more
@prologic@twtxt.net I knew you were short sided from day one I saw Yarn. On desktop everything is huge, and I assumed it was to cater short-sightedness. Also, you have enabled underlines on buttons on iOS, bold and bigger fonts, etc., so that was also a give away. Sorry if I digress, but, glasses wouldn’t help? I have to wear mine all the time, otherwise I am also near blind myself!
@niplav@niplav.github.io Re: Liber Augmen: Not a whole lot of it is new to me either, but I thought the method of delivery (a single page full of short descriptions of things) is super interesting as a mindspace-delivery device
One day short of a full chain: Real world exploit chains explained ⌘ Read more…
In case you were wondering, taking a couple pairs of damp shorts fresh from the washing machine into a room and pointing a fan at them will raise the room’s humidity.
don’t get me wrong, I love the power of emacs. but it’s a very complex piece of software, which is inherrently brittle. not a problem in the short term, but for some of my more long term tools it’s a consideration.
Short Notice: Appearing on Millenniyule TONIGHT at 7PM New York Time ⌘ Read more…
Short Notice: Appearing on Millenniyule TONIGHT at 7PM New York Time
Sorry for the short notice, I’ve been busy for the holidays, but I’ve been asked to be interviewed on Millenniyule in less than two hours from when I’m posting this. I’m scheduled for 7PM to as late as 9PM New York time.
The livestream will be on this channel (i.e. not my own due to bandwidth issues).
If you miss it, you can get it [at the bottom of this playlist](https://www.youtube.com/ … ⌘ Read more
it is short, 140 pages, according to the table of contents. First impressions: 4 pages in. It is about a plucky, precocious redhead girl whose parents are lost at sea, and who is definitely NOT Pippi Longstocking. Distinct lack of waffles so far. Am disappoint.
On the blog: Short Fiction — Instant Podcast https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2020/09/27/podcast.html #fiction #freeculture #humor
When I read this I see a a niche, super premium hardware company that managed to acquire tens of thousands of customers by word of mouth. Not only that, their customers are all in-effect self employed or small businesses with huge average revenue per employee. They manage global supply chains, intense competition, all while taking on and managing huge legal/compliance risk. How is is that supposedly “dumb,” criminals can do this, and yet many of us are stretching our intellectual capacities to learn new technologies and maths, developing our nth stupid app, trying to achieve a fraction of the customer traction and revenue that street thugs manage to do every day. Are these people much smarter than average, or does it mean that if you sell something people actually want, literally nothing else matters about your intelligence, education, character, background, or anything at all. When I read these drug stories, it just reinforces for me that growth solves everything. You can succeed with a crew of violent, drug addicted idiots whose only reliable characteristic is short term thinking, and who spend half their time in prison if you have product market fit. What I’m beginning to think is that the “smarter,” people are in a company, the less anyone will want their product. It’s like the success of a venture is inversely proportional to the number of ostensible geniuses it employs. reply How Police Secretly Took over a Global Phone Network for Organized Crime | Hacker News
@von@tilde.town Good luck. I wrote poems twice for a girl. They were rather short, the girls name length in lines. And if you read the lines first character from bottom to top you got, … I guess that’s obvious. 😁
Took a long walk earlier today and now I want to take a short nap.
The new anime season is so weird. A bunch of harem shit (yay) but all of it is short episodes (wut)
Million Short - What haven’t you found? https://www.millionshort.com/
“Great repository names are short and memorable. Need inspiration? How about supreme-couscous?” — I hadn’t heard about this particular Supreme collab, but then again I haven’t been subscribed to Hypebeast in a while…
Emotional Mechanics | Emily Short’s Interactive Storytelling https://emshort.blog/2019/03/12/39385/
There’s a tendency, when we don’t have a rational understanding of something, to classify it as only capable of IRrational understanding – i.e. pattern matching. Occasionally, this is the only practical solution in the short term.
A short history of 20th century African-American horror literature | jessnevins.com http://jessnevins.com/blog/?p=842
A Short History of Italian Horror - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJCo35gX7j0
The Avengers - Short Skirt, Long Jacket [Emma Peel] - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idtYckLIZnI
I Wrote 100 Terrible Stories That I’m Glad You’ll Never Read https://io9.gizmodo.com/5870146/i-wrote-100-terrible-short-stories-that-im-glad-youll-never-read
Not All Choice Interfaces Are Alike | Emily Short’s Interactive Storytelling https://emshort.blog/2016/05/25/not-all-choice-interfaces-are-alike/
Not Exactly Mailbag: Worldbuilding from a Mechanic | Emily Short’s Interactive Storytelling https://emshort.blog/2018/03/13/not-exactly-mailbag-worldbuilding-from-a-mechanic/
An Alternative Taxonomy for Interactive Stories | Emily Short’s Interactive Storytelling https://emshort.blog/2011/05/03/an-alternative-taxonomy-for-interactive-stories/
Plot-shaped Level Design | Emily Short’s Interactive Storytelling https://emshort.blog/2016/05/18/plot-shaped-level-design/
Beyond Branching: Quality-Based, Salience-Based, and Waypoint Narrative Structures | Emily Short’s Interactive Storytelling https://emshort.blog/2016/04/12/beyond-branching-quality-based-and-salience-based-narrative-structures/
Card-Deck Narratives | Emily Short’s Interactive Storytelling https://emshort.blog/2016/05/03/card-deck-narratives/
An Incomplete List of Things I’d Need to Know In Order Not to Be A Total Impostor | Emily Short’s Interactive Storytelling https://emshort.blog/2018/09/02/an-incomplete-list-of-things-id-need-to-know-in-order-not-to-be-a-complete-impostor/
Mailbag: Self-Training in Narrative Design | Emily Short’s Interactive Storytelling https://emshort.blog/2019/01/08/mailbag-self-training-in-narrative-design/
Save the Cat (Blake Snyder) | Emily Short’s Interactive Storytelling https://emshort.blog/2018/12/04/save-the-cat-blake-snyder/
Fairly reliable indicator of a bad/naive post or project: the title or short description contains the name of the implementation language, but that language is conventional, commonly-used, or ‘general-purpose’.
If you sample your own thoughts at twice the Nyquist frequency, you can theoretically achieve full-fidelity introspection - but only for a very short time, since that frequency doubles every few samples
Short work week and about half the office is out.
‘Free your mind and your ass will follow’ is absurdly optimistic. Freedom of mind is necessary but not sufficient for freedom of ass. In the short term, wokeness makes your life harder because you become aware of how bad things are.
Box Office Bomb: The Short Life of Popcorn Prediction Markets - The Ringer https://www.theringer.com/movies/2018/11/15/18091620/box-office-futures-dodd-frank-mpaa-recession