Monday morning happy place. 📷
Sobering activity today: saw a list of every National Guard soldier killed since 9/11. Of course it is a long list. But I took time to look up the stories of the lives and deaths of a number of them. Time well spent to help make the sacrifices real.
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Our 9 year old son and 14 year old daughter have spent the entire evening in the den. With mom and dad. Voluntarily.
Parents are confused by this unheard of behavior.
I helped my 8th grade daughter finish her end-of-year project for Business Information Management. A PowerPoint preseo for a company she created: a company building software for artists. I was happy to see how “into it” she was. She even made a video for it. I am a proud “pops”.
I used to say “I’m glad people in the real world don’t act like the ones on TV”. I no longer feel like I can say that.
TFW right after you start your workout you realize you left your AirPods on your desk. 🤦🏻♂️
One more test of my change based on the WP hack from @smokey - checking if the duplicate post was a one time MB glitch.
I put the WordPress hack from @smokey on my site. So now I wonder if this mention from WordPress will work auto-magically.
My Micro Monday is @vishae. Such a nice person and interesting posts!
So today there is news of the EFAIL announcement of PGP vulnerabilities. As always the day 0 of these notices often leaves a bit to be desired. Of particular note is, per the ProtonMail dev team, their client does not have this vulnerability and you can continue to use PGP.
After DayOne’s breach I enabled end-to-end encryption on my Journals. IFTTT won’t work with encryption on. Since it users an API for posting it certainly should be possible for IFTTT to still post. I think the only workaround is to create an unencrypted journal for IFTTT to use.
Arghh! I just discovered that even after DayOne recovered, finally, from their breach and brought sync back online my IFTTT applets are silently failing. The applet details show “No options found” for which Journal to post too. Re-auth of IFTTT didn’t help 🤬
It looks like I have been able to slay the launch services daemon that kept burning my CPU. Not sure which tweak did the trick but I’m happy to have my MBP working well again. @smokey
Part of my Mother’s Day gift to my wife: John Dewar & Son’s Signature Scotch. It’s a bit extravagant but man is it wonderful! 🥃🥃
More milestones in my Internet makeover: 1. Having replaced my gmail account everywhere I can find, I set Google to forward straggling emails to Proton & removed Gmail from all devices. 2. Except for my Mac, I have set my Mail apps to no longer show unread counts. Less twitchy.
I recently started a project to enter my book collection into the BookBuddy app. In doing so I have discovered I have 50 books by John Dickson Carr and his nom de plumes. He was my first mystery writer and I devoured his books starting in my late teens. Great memories.
The root launch services daemon (lsd!) on my MBP keeps going nuts and using tons of CPU time. So far my attempts to figure out the cause using Console are a complete failure. Open to suggestions if you have any. I’m on High Sierra.
I can’t remember the last time I saw books mentioned as a driver of a major corporation’s revenue. Hooray for reading.
These new UPS trucks are adorable!
UPS has new electric trucks that look straight out of a Pixar movie
Recent discussions here triggered memories of computer languages I’ve known vs what I currently use. So I decided to write it up for my amusement and maybe yours. Who can forget HyperTalk? Forth? Pascal? Fond memories.
I've forgotten more than I know (languages edition)
A number of posts on micro.blog triggered memories of forgotten languages (computer that is, though I’ve forgotten most of my Japanese as well). I was curious what a list of languages I currently use would look like up against ones I no longer use[footnote title=“…”]and in several cases had forgotten existed[/footnote]. Below is my list of current vs relegated languages. I think this list is a great illustration of how Computer Science requires constant learning without even taking into account the many advances in architecture, development paradigms, etc.
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I used this Wiki page to help compile the list.
Is the DayOne app integration with IFTTT still working for anyone? Mine’s been down for days. I heard of a general API failure but haven’t been able to track down any details.
Note: I use IFTTT to ‘cross post’ blogs into my personal journal.
The latte art is strong with this one (cortado) ☕️.
The barista here is always so friendly & cheerful it really kickstarts my day.
I just watched Human Flight (wingsuits). My reactions went from amazing videos of flights to those people are insane flights straight to videos noting the fatal flights. The YT comments debate doing what they love vs selfish and cruel to loved ones. Thought provoking.