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I heard on NPR (I think) that it was astronaut Suni Williams herself that named it Calypso. Hope she's not detained for seven years!

Seems like title cleanup is a good use for an LLM actually. (Not to remove the human option, but as the first smarter pass instead of simple stopword lists.)

How does this compare to DataHub? I have been comparing the two and I don't have any pros/cons that really help me pick. What I've noticed: * It seems like DataHub has an async Kaf…

As a long time vim user I didn’t have as much trouble as I feared for the arrows: just hold my left thumb on mod while using hjkl. (This isn’t quite the native mapping that comes w…

I use and strongly prefer a split keyboard for these reasons. I’m not too far down the rabbit hole but when I got my Ultimate Hacking Keyboard[1] I was finally a happy camper. The …

Gammu seems like an ideal candidate for a Home Assistant integration or add-on. Could use incoming SMS as triggers and outgoing as notification methods.

Effective TypeScript [0] has many more well written and explained tips to know to use TypeScript well. I highly recommend it. [0] https://smile.amazon.com/Effective-TypeScript-Spec…

A few years ago they wouldn’t let me board a flight from SFO to Australia because my visa said I was born in 1921 when my passport didn’t agree. After a good bit of hassle we just …

My (default) “shortcuts security settings do not allow untrusted shortcuts”. Well that’s surprising and nice.

This will really make it a lot easier to move existing apps to a PaaS setup on Mesos. I'm excited that I won't need to do any more port re-mapping, and won't need any more complica…