Viewing profile — piffey

For me seems to be. I keep it in my front shirt pocket, pull it out to read all the time. I've gone through 8 books on it so far this year. That's 7 more books than I read on my Ko…

First time hearing about ifMud despite being someone who spent a lot of time on MUDs and MUSHs in the past, hacking on various ones. Seems like a neat community and would love to h…

I've been really curious about pi and have been following it but haven't seen a reason to switch yet outside anecdotes. What makes it a better daily driver out of the box compared …

Just setup my personal blog again after a four years hiatus using Astro (loved the good docs). Kind of disappointed, but given how simple static site generators are, probably somet…

https://piffey.net - Only content from 2020, has been down the last ~4 years due to job, but redesigned and got it up again in the last month and have lots of writing planned.

Outside of what has been mentioned here (thanks folks for some new brands) I've found clusters in Canada and Portugal of great clothing brands making quality products with good mat…

Take a look at the REMNux reverse engineering page for PDF documents ( https://docs.remnux.org/discover-the-tools/analyze+documents... ). Lots of tools here for looking at maliciou…

Love this. Can't tell you how many times I've screenshotted maps then drawn on directions for family/friends. Great idea.

Doesn't always work. I've got old Agfa negatives I developed from my grandpa in Korea in the 50s. Developed them after finding them in his attic maybe 10 years ago now. They sat be…

I'll give this a go. My second TL is Lithuanian which is very difficult to find content in outside of state TV stuff.

Just kicked off my third language after reaching B2/C1ish in my second (~5 years in), we'll see what the C1 test determines this fall, and Anki has been the consistent thing that s…

Scarecrow Video does this in Seattle. Their library is amazing. https://scarecrowvideo.org/rent-by-mail

Seems easy to defeat. I shake your car to make the alarm go off, hide, wait for you to pick up your keys to disable the alarm when you see no one there, use RF extender while your …

Succeeding as a bad manager maybe. I’ve had the pleasure of working for three fantastic managers, one being now, over my career. The second I began asking for leadership advice as …

Don’t see this as any different than amateur programmers releasing another framework. Already established norms, will very likely never take off, but a great way for a person to le…

Few people do drive to the island. Over 60% of workers in Manhattan take mass transit to work versus 21% driving. https://www.nyc.gov/assets/planning/download/pdf/planning-le... An…

There are over 30 US cities with trains to the airport. Another half dozen on the way. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_airport_rail_link_syst... US also has almost 350 miles …

Honestly with Curb in NYC have been more than happy with taxis. Wish it would be adopted in more cities.

Proprietary tools means passive DNS.

Electricity moving between boxes is not equivalent to physical spaces in reality.

Cities need to be enacting high tax rates on non-primary residences, luxury residences, and investment properties. If I remember right, Italy does this well with little to no tax o…

Easy: drop the public commentary portion of development. Random old people with nothing to do all day shouldn't be allowed to delay a project by months because they want to complai…

Go do a year in IR if you want some inside perspective -- and to shave a few years off your existence. Sounds about normal for a large telecommunications firm. These large firms do…

Sorry didn't see this reply or would've commented sooner. So you certainly would need some sort of structured instructions. And there are specific methods for teaching specific lan…

What I learned in a year on Duolingo I picked up in a month of in-person non-native tutor sessions. What I learned in a year of non-native tutor sessions I picked up in a month of …