New repository: aquilax/md2html - Markdown to HTML command line tool (wraps Blackfriday)

Why Tool AIs Want to Be Agent AIs: The Power of Agency - Gwern.net https://www.gwern.net/Tool-AI

LOOPY: a tool for thinking in systems https://ncase.me/loopy/

New repository: aquilax/cutdoc - Shortcut cheat sheet tool

New repository: aquilax/urlcat - Command line URL manipulation tool

We ought to be suspicious of business plans that resemble manifest destiny: expansion into supposedly-unclaimed regions, turning inhabitants into tools & discarding the resistant (who now have nowhere to go) or worse.

Re: https://adactio.com/journal/14888 – it’s a competent reframing job, but if common behaviors require complicated hacks for literally years, you’re using the wrong tool.

Notion “ The all-in-one workspace for your notes, tasks, wikis, and databases. https://www.notion.so/tools-and-craft/03-ted-nelson

Gossip was a powerful tool for the powerless in Ancient Greece | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/gossip-was-a-powerful-tool-for-the-powerless-in-ancient-greece

YouTube Strikes Now Being Used as Scammers’ Extortion Tool - TorrentFreak https://torrentfreak.com/youtube-strikes-now-being-used-as-scammers-extortion-tool/

today’s procrastination tactic: writing a README (pretty much a spec) for an as-yet unwritten command-line tool

Twenty-Five Useful Thinking Tools | Scott H Young https://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/2018/12/04/25-thinking-tools/

Tooling (in progress) | Irene PoschIrene Posch http://www.ireneposch.net/tooling/

People become what they can imagine becoming, & access to tools has as much to do with this as representation. If it’s easy to fall into programming accidentally, then it’s easy to imagine yourself programming regularly.

The Anime Cult - The Mike Toole Show - Anime News Network https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/the-mike-toole-show/2015-12-13/.96470

New repository: aquilax/colorcount - Command line tool to count colors used in image

GitHub - trimstray/the-book-of-secret-knowledge: A collection of awesome lists, manuals, blogs, hacks, one-liners, cli/web tools and more. Especially for System and Network Administrators, DevOps, Pentesters or Security… https://github.com/trimstray/the-book-of-secret-knowledge

17: visible but cannot be typed on, fingers hit emptiness.↵1?: invisible, produces characters indistinguishable from spaces. except when I try to run binary analysis tools on the output, which invariably crash.

SimCity, Cellular Automata, and Happy Tool for HyperLook (nee HyperNeWS (nee GoodNeWS)) https://medium.com/@donhopkins/hyperlook-nee-hypernews-nee-goodnews-99f411e58ce4

TempleOS: an educational tool for programming experiments - TechRepublic https://www.techrepublic.com/blog/software-engineer/templeos-an-educational-tool-for-programming-experiments/

how i found out about twtxt btw: gopher://fuckup.solutions/0/enkiv2/medium-backup/2018-06-15_Exocortex-tools-part-I–social-media-automation-with-very-small-shell-scripts-62d995242a57.txt

Apparently hot take: automation tools don’t obviate abstract discussions about how best to think about decisions (like ‘should translations be precise or should they be accurate’ or ‘what is the good’) but make them more important.

TempleOS: an educational tool for programming experiments - TechRepublic https://www.techrepublic.com/blog/software-engineer/templeos-an-educational-tool-for-programming-experiments/

Notion “ The all-in-one workspace for your notes, tasks, wikis, and databases. https://www.notion.so/tools-and-craft/01-andy-hertzfeld

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.)

@robbinaer@robbinaer.info, ok I think it’s normal for such a nerdy microblogging tool to be rather quiet.

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.

AR MMORPG overlays as a tool of social policy and peacekeeping, giving everybody their own reality so that consensus reality is fought over less

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

Fun with text tools today https://www.baty.net/2017/some-text-based-things-today/

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.

New repository: aquilax/python-android-webview - Simple WebView Android App 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

“You mean they invented large brains, tool use, culture, swarming and malthusian trap evasion AT THE SAME TIME? Who leaked the cheat codes?”

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