The classical book reprinting site is live! LindyPress.net
For a while, I’ve hinted that I’ve been contributing to a project to reprint out-of-print classical and medieval texts that are of hidden value, sometimes even in their original languages. I’ve worked on this project for a while and now it’s live and you can browse the first five books available.
See the site at https://lindypress.net. All works have been reformatted in XeLaTeX so that … ⌘ Read more
The classical book reprinting site is live! LindyPress.net ⌘ Read more…
https://si3t.ch/log/2021-05-11-unison.html sync openbsd unison
On the blog: Writing Jekyll Plugins https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/07/21/jekyll.html #programming #blog #techtips #ruby
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On the blog: GitHub Copilot and Other Programming Doom https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/07/18/copilot.html #quora
On the blog: Free Culture Book Club — Headshot, part 1 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/07/17/headshot.html #freeculture #bookclub
On the blog: Tweets from 07/12 to 07/16 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/media/2021/07/16/week.html #twitter #week #socialmedia #linkdump
Errata Security: Ransomware: Quis custodiet ipsos custodes ⌘ Read more…
On the blog: Real Life in Star Trek, The Savage Curtain https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/07/15/savage.html #scifi #startrek #closereading
Debian XMPP Team: XMPP Novelties in Debian 11 Bullseye ⌘ Read more…
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On the blog: Media and Imposed Morality https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/07/11/mmedia.html #harm #ethics #safety #media
Why I no longer trust Github ⌘ Read more…
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My kid just uncovered a bug in a program I wrote by grabbing my laptop and smacking the keyboard a bunch. Biological input fuzzing; a real-life chaos monkey.
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Well I’m happy to accept patches to linebanner if you’d like to add characters. :-) http://txtpunk.com/banner/index.html
On the blog: Tweets from 07/05 to 07/09 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/media/2021/07/09/week.html #twitter #week #socialmedia #linkdump
On the blog: Real Life in Star Trek, The Cloud Minders https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/07/08/cloud.html #scifi #startrek #closereading
On the blog: Developer Journal, Early July https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/07/05/july.html #programming #project #devjournal
On the blog: Content Advisories https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/07/04/advisory.html #harm #ethics #safety
Considering deleting all source code from Github re Copilot vioations ⌘ Read more…
I wrote a ‘banner’-like program for Plan 9 (and p9p) that uses the Unicode box drawing characters: http://txtpunk.com/banner/index.html
On the blog: Free Culture Book Club — Solitudes and Silence, ch 10-14 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/07/03/solitudes3.html #freeculture #bookclub
Just tried looking at some of my site’s pages’ HTML after they’ve been run through Prettier. It sure looks nice in bat(1), but the extra build step would take entire seconds to complete.
On the blog: Tweets from 06/28 to 07/02 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/media/2021/07/02/week.html #twitter #week #socialmedia #linkdump
On the blog: Real Life in Star Trek, The Way to Eden https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/07/01/eden.html #scifi #startrek #closereading
The Weaving The Web Book by Tim Berners-Lee should be a required read for anyone building on the Web.
How to Give Alternate Rows of a Table a Different Colour (HTML/CSS) ⌘ Read more…
On the blog: Developer Journal, Stonewall Uprising https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/06/28/stonewall.html #programming #project #devjournal
On the blog: Attracting Job Candidates https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/06/27/hiring.html #rant #career
Matrix vs. XMPP ⌘ Read more…
Matrix vs. XMPP
XMPP and Matrix are two decentralized and federated free sofware projects for chat, including true end-to-end encrypted chat.
Users can either install the software on their own server if they want, but they can also easily register on any public server—both allow any XMPP or Matrix user to talk to users on their server or on any other one. In essence, it works like email: you might have an em … ⌘ Read more
On the blog: Free Culture Book Club — Solitudes and Silence, ch 5-9 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/06/26/solitudes2.html #freeculture #bookclub
Not sure why exactly, but I made sure my Twtxt HTML page renders okay on a Nokia 8110 4G 240px screen.
On the blog: Tweets from 06/21 to 06/25 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/media/2021/06/25/week.html #twitter #week #socialmedia #linkdump
I made https://johanbove.info/twtxt.html with a couple of lines of JS today. Makes it a bit easier to read my Twtxt feed online.
On the blog: Real Life in Star Trek, Requiem for Methuselah https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/06/24/methuselah.html #scifi #startrek #closereading
On the blog: Developer Journal, World Humanist Day https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/06/21/humanist.html #programming #project #devjournal
On the blog: First Official Juneteenth https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/06/20/juneteenth.html #holiday
On the blog: Free Culture Book Club — Solitudes and Silence, ch 1-4 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/06/19/solitudes1.html #freeculture #bookclub
First pass at sticking my twtxt in a web page. It’s not escaping all the html properly, and generally needs work, but it’s a start: http://a.9srv.net/tw/following.html
Late livestream on YouTube ASAP ⌘ Read more…
Late livestream on YouTube ASAP
Link is here: https://youtu.be/OU84HrX8D8Q
I’ll begin before the top of the hour. ⌘ Read more
On the blog: Tweets from 06/14 to 06/18 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/media/2021/06/18/week.html #twitter #week #socialmedia #linkdump
On the blog: Real Life in Star Trek, The Lights of Zetar https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/06/17/zetar.html #scifi #startrek #closereading
Sumeet Agarwal solves an Advent problem with Mu: http://akkartik.github.io/mu/html/linux/advent2017/1a.mu.html
On the blog: Developer Journal, World Blood Donor Day https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/06/14/blood.html #programming #project #devjournal
Livestream on Odysee/LBRY now. ⌘ Read more…
On the blog: Managing Priorities https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/06/13/priorities.html #rant #programming
On the blog: Free Culture Book Club — Boris Munchausen https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/06/12/boris.html #freeculture #bookclub