Lindypress Bug Fix
Just a brief note that for the past couple of days, you might’ve been unable to buy books on LindyPress.net if you are in the United States, Canada or Australia (which is a lot of you). This has now been fixed, so you can place your orders now!
The issue was that there was a silent API update that kept addresses from validating states and provinces. Note that if your order placed, it’s all okay, this is only for people for whom the site would not let place an order.
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Lindypress Bug Fix
Just a brief note that for the past couple of days, you might’ve been unable to buy books on LindyPress.net if you are in the United States, Canada or Australia (which is a lot of you). This has now been fixed, so you can place your orders now!
The issue was that there was a silent API update that kept addresses from validating states and provinces. Note that if your order placed, it’s all okay, this is only for people for whom the site would not let place an order.
… ⌘ Read more
There is a Polish saying that great Polish literature requires three people to suffer: the main character, the writer and the reader. If all three are suffering book becomes part of the school curriculum. A genius at suffering | Hacker News
On my blog: Free Culture Book Club — Life Blood, chapters 23 – 25 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/02/18/life-blood-8.html #freeculture #bookclub
** Accessibility and the product person **
This post is a slightly modified version of a talk I presented to the product practice at my work. It presents a few ways that product designers and managers can help to move accessibility forward. It is a little bit different than what I normally share, here, but, I thought it may be interesting to some folks.
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On my blog: Free Culture Book Club — Life Blood, chapters 20 – 22 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/02/11/life-blood-7.html #freeculture #bookclub
**RT by @mind_booster: Anniversary: Charles Dickens Books to Download #PublicDomain♥
https://paulasimoesblog.wordpress.com/2014/02/07/anniversary-charles-dickens-books-to-download-publicdomain-%e2%99%a5/**
Anniversary: Charles Dickens Books to Download #PublicDomain ♥
Sci-Fi, Fantasy, & General Nerdiness. Books, Comics, TV, & Film. ⌘ Read more
**RT by @mind_booster: The First Shape Book: Little Red Riding Hood (1863) @PublicDomainRev
https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-first-shape-book-little-red-riding-hood-1863**
The First Shape Book: Little Red Riding Hood (1863) @PublicDomainRev
 of introduction to uxn programming e-book: launcher and raw runes | gemini://compudanzas.net/introduction_to_uxn_programming_book.gmi
After many years of having our #books separated over our house, our parents’, and our in-laws’, we finally have them all under one roof 😍 ⌘ Read more
Arrived today. If you want to know my wish list of books to be published, check my post: https://paulasimoesblog.wordpress.com/2022/10/21/my-wish-list-of-books-to-be-published-in-2022-2023-bookrecommendations/ ⌘ Read more
Look, sir, I know Angua. She’s not the useless type. She doesn’t stand there and scream helplessly. She makes other people do that Look, sir, I know Angua. She’s not the useless… - Quotes from Terry Pratchett’s Discworld Books
🌠 Dataview Example Vault, Book Club, & Ecosystem Stats
Memes about minimalism, bullet backlinks plugin, timeshifting, a book club, and an upcoming mystery event. ⌘ Read more
Read the first 50 pages, if the author hasn’t earned your attention by then, you can stop reading. You’ll never read all the good books anyway, don’t waste your time on the bad ones. Reading fast, reading well, and reading widely (2020) | Hacker News
Hard times create strong men. Strong men create autocratic dynasties. Autocratic dynasties create supernumerary bureaucracies. Supernumerary bureaucracies create eunuch castes. Eunuch castes create drama. Drama creates Heavenly displeasure. Heavenly displeasure creates hard times. Book Review: 1587, a Year of No Significance | Hacker News
RT by @mind_booster: OMG In the Penguin Random House/S&S antitrust trial it was revealed that out of 58,000 trade titles published per year, half of those titles sell fewer than one dozen books. LESS THAN ONE DOZEN.
OMG In the Penguin Random House/S&S antitrust trial it was revealed that out of 58,000 trade titles published per year, half of those titles sell fewer than one dozen books. LESS THAN ONE DOZEN. ⌘ Read more
Before Chromebooks: The 2009 “litl webbook”
A look back at the failed, Linux “Web-book” that paved the way for Chromebooks. ⌘ Read more
The ‘West’ is losing. How could it not?
I’m pretty sure that February 24th, 2022 is going to be written in the history books, if those books ever get written and we’re not all subsumed in an imminent nuclear winter. The predictability of a Europe, and later United States-dominated world, where the ‘West’ ruled and enjoyed unprecedented levels of comfort, material wealth and peace and the rest of the world either suffered or gradually developed, feeding from the leftovers of Western consumption, i … ⌘ Read more
**R to @mind_booster: Metaverse? Yeah, that other new thing, haven’t you notice? Nevermind that book in my shelf claiming that Second Life is Linden Lab’s Metaverse, or years of Metaverse references older than Facebook in papers, conferences, etc.: the Metaverse is now.
https://www.wiley.com/en-us/Second+Life%3A+The+Official+Guide-p-9780470096086**
Metaverse? Yeah, that other new thing, haven’t you notice? Nevermind that book in my shelf claiming that Second Life is Linden Lab’s Metaverse, or years of Metavers … ⌘ Read more
🌠 Boolean Task Queries & Improved Sidebar Controls
Plugin settings design tips & productivity book recommendations. ⌘ Read more
Is the Lunduke Journal a Tech Publication or nerdy book/video subscription service? Yes.
Definitely “all of the above”. ⌘ Read more
Linux for Hank - the video book
Watch now (4 min) | The Audio / Video version of the kids book about Linux. ⌘ Read more
Oh man, the evening light was sooooo bloody awesome and also the sky seemed off a picture-book. And I didn’t bring my camera. Came home about quarter an hour too late, sun was already set.
Book Release: Go For DevOps #go #golang #sre #devops #terraform href=”https://we.loveprivacy.club/search?q=%23kubernetes”>#kubernetes**
In the book you will find:
\* The basics of Go (including the 1.18 generics addition)
\* Using Go with various encoding formats
\* Building basic REST and gRPC services
\* Applying Go to automate local system tasks
\* Utilizing Go to automate those same tasks on thousands of machines
\* Building a … ⌘ Read more
Spent the afternoon updating my tilde and now it is time to unwind with some meditation and a book!
Hong Kong Book Fair to begin on July 20 but some publishers banned with ‘no reason’
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“2299: Act 1” – Comedy Sci-Fi with spaceships and stuff
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Airlines restoring flights faster than planned to meet demand
Seats on international flights are about 90 per cent full, and daily services between Sydney and London via Singapore on the Airbus superjumbo are fully booked for weeks. ‘There’s massive demand’, Qantas CEO said. ⌘ Read more
‘I need a room’: overseas Hong Kong students struggling to book quarantine hotels for summer return to city
Bulk of 66 quarantine hotels fully booked until end of July, while some hotels on new list of designated facilities only have availability from middle of August. ⌘ Read more
https://gigamonkeys.com/book/ Practical Common Lisp
Coronavirus: Hong Kong bar and club patrons cancel bookings over rapid-test proof rule, as industry leader slams ‘unclear guidelines’
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RT by @mind_booster: This book can be your next (perfect?) TBR: The Story of Classic Crime in 100 (102?) Books by Martin Edwards ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ @medwardsbooks @poisonedpen @BL_Publishing #BookReview #Booktwt https://paulasimoesblog.wordpress.com/2021/07/05/this-book-can-be-your-next-perfect-tbr-the-story-of-classic-crime-in-100-102-books-by-martin-edwards-%e2%ad%90%e2%ad%90%e2%ad%90%e2%ad%90%e2%ad%90-medwardsbooks-poisonedpen-bl_publishing-bo/
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I’m reminded today that books are still a great form of entertainment. Secondhand books in particular are always plentiful and cheap–a big plus in times of supply chain squeezes and rampant inflation.