Band name of the day: power tool massacre

Cursed ontologies in forbidden orthographies. Special tools are required to handle them safely: wands, swords, cups, pantacles – all important safety equipment in any conceptual laboratory environment.

More Hints for Writing Unix Tools | Mario Campos https://www.mariocampos.io/blog/more-unix-tools-hints/

Hints for writing Unix tools https://monkey.org/~marius/unix-tools-hints.html

In the future when people tell me the web stack is an acceptable GUI layer I should just show them this: https://www.vox.com/2018/5/3/17309078/digital-art-diana-a-smith-francine-coded-browser-art ; if drawing a picture is impressive with your tools, your tools are shit

GitHub - motherboardgithub/mass_archive: A basic tool for pushing a web page to multiple archiving services at once. https://github.com/motherboardgithub/mass_archive

How K-pop became a propaganda tool | The Outline https://theoutline.com/post/4269/k-pop-propaganda-south-korea-north-korea-demilitarized-zone

GitHub - robey/font-problems: command-line tool for reading and writing console bitmap fonts https://github.com/robey/font-problems

Daniel Dennett on Tools To Transform Our Thinking - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJsD-3jtXz0

Four AI composition tools … https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2018/03/robots-composed-the-soundtrack-for-my-home-movie-they-can-help-you-too/

Hot take: mashups & references can be powerful tools for getting your message across, but if you don’t have a message (or your message is this is my taste) it’s just masturbatory. (Fite me.)

Tools, substitutes or compani… https://cyberselves.org/2018/02/05/tools-substitutes-or-companions-metaphors-for-thinking-about-technology/

We need tools that will encourage us to do what Jefferson did to his bible with razors and glue. These tools will be discouraged and limited for the same reason that these practices were discouraged on the bible.

The Wartime Spies Who Used Knitting as an Espionage Tool - Atlas Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/knitting-spies-wwi-wwii

Dymaxion: Please Stop Writing Secure Messaging Tools https://dymaxion.org/essays/pleasestop.html

I’m trying to decide whether soldiering on with the messy codebase of my homegrown site generator is worth it or if I should redo my site in a more established tool.

RFC 439 - PARRY encounters the DOCTOR https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc439

Hackers‘ Own Tools Are Full of Vulnerabilities - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/59pvp8/hackers-own-tools-are-full-of-vulnerabilities

Ravens ignore a treat in favor of a useful tool for the future | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/07/ravens-ignore-a-treat-in-favor-of-a-useful-tool-for-the-future/

5 Gaming Tools to Help Your Writing | Tor/Forge Blog http://www.torforgeblog.com/2017/07/10/5-gaming-tools-to-help-your-writing/?utm_source=exacttarget&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_term=na-haspilarticle&utm_content=na-readblog-blogpost&utm_campaign=torjuly17newsletter&et=35866-n19595941

Tarot cards: a tool of cold tricksters or wise therapists? | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/tarot-cards-a-tool-of-cold-tricksters-or-wise-therapists

@kas@enotty.dk If i’m reading http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986#section-3.5 correctly, the character ‘:’ is explicitly allowed

@quite@lublin.se There is even a section rfc7234 about heuristic expiration times: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7234#section-4.2

@tx@0x1A4.1337.cx ircpipe looks neat! Starred! Do you know http://tools.suckless.org/ii/?

Hello from #txtnish, a new twtxt client with minimal dependencies: posix tools, wget and xargs with -P: https://github.com/mdom/txtnish

Sometimes you know a new tool is better but you are so used to the old one… :)

Anybody has http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7033 running for twtxt? And what to use for rel? https://twtxt.org/twtfile?

Parsing iso8601 is way to hard, maybe http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3339 would be a better choice?

NixOps 1.0 released
NixOps\
 1.0 has been released, the inaugural release of the NixOS
cloud deployment tool. See the announcement
and the manual
for details. ⌘ Read more

LDTA 2008 paper
Eelco Dolstra presented the paper “Maximal\
Laziness — An Efficient Interpretation Technique for Purely\
Functional DSLs” at 8th\
Workshop on Language\
Description, Tools and Applications (LDTA 2008). It’s about
caching of evaluation results in the Nix expression evaluator as
a technique to make a simple term-rewriting evaluator efficient.
Slides are [here](h … ⌘ Read more