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Have been working on a modern replacement for Notational Velocity (last updated in 2011), I call it “neonv”. https://github.com/msnodderly/neonv

"We were in a vicarious position, but we flushed out a solution over instant messenging."

ChatGPT in particular writes in middle school essay format: introduction, point 1, point 2, point n, conclusion.

Not as bad as "GitOps". IaC got people to understand at the idea that your infra code should be treated like your app code. Checked in to source control, deployed via COCD etc. Not…

Sounds like the setup for a William Gibson novel.

Also a big truckers hitch fan, but that animation was hard for me to follow because it doesn't look anything like how it's used in real life. It doesn't really make sense to compar…

And it is in fact the inspiration for "Sandy Shores" in GTA5.

In a rational environment if you're leaving "for cause", it shouldn't come as a shock to your employer when you quit, in the same way a bad performance review or firing shouldn't c…

This statement after Methuselah had lived for 969 years, before (it is implied) drowning in a flood.

Or if you actually want to send shortwave snail mail: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARRL_Radiogram

Reminds me of this Penn and Teller trick with a similar method but the opposite effect -- see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnEGedfTrzc (skip to 2 minutes in). Freely think of an…

And here is the mandatory AvE Hole Hawg tear-down: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoR59rzqlxw

As far as I understand it this is the opposite of that. In other words it only works if you already have internet access. You can use it to talk over the internet with your radio f…

All of the slow mo sounds are recreations. In fact I’m pretty sure they use that same sloshy sound clip in about half their videos.

You laugh, but Minecraft Education Edition -- where lots of kids are getting their first exposure to coding -- is locked to Office 365.

I took a communication class many years ago and this was the main thing I took away from it. If you give a reason or an excuse the other person will try to help you "solve" it. If …

The first time I remember hearing the phrase was in 2009 when Roberts flubbed the swearing in oath at Obama's inauguration. They later announced that the oath was administered agai…

Oh man, I have the same memory. Back in ‘92 or ‘93, in addition to the “^]” telnet trick, our local dial up gopher could launch vi sessions for sending emails which they hadn’t tho…

Beorg is awesome, I use it daily, but it's really "TODO" oriented, and not that great for editing documents. I've often wished there was an iOS text editor that understood org form…

This list from the same site, titled “The 10 Longest-Kept Cars When Bought New” has almost no overlap. http://www.thedrive.com/news/22665/the-10-longest-kept-cars-...

I've always wished John Williams would just include this piece straight up in a Star Wars movie. Both to acknowledge the inspiration and just because it would be perfect sad, brood…