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If you left your current industry, what would you do for a living?

Something with people, bartender maybe, or something with no critical thinking, delivery person, taxi driver and such. Or I go back to being a DJ as I was doing when I was young.

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love it

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If things turned out differently, I'd like to be a librarian in a medical history library.

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Librarian does sound very appealing.

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I've linked up my blog (jeff-mitchell.dev) to textlog. I hope to use the two things together now to build a bit more of a writing habit. The 500 character increase is nice, room to breath but not an essay. Gotta build the muscles slowly :)

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Hello! I am a cynical optimist and recovering realist. It's been 3 days since my last sip of Hobbes. Today, I'm hopeful again. That's all I have for now. Thanks.

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At moms house for the holiday weekend so the kids can see Nana. She has a "premium Plex" account on her tv serving a truly massive amount of content. Allegedly the brother of a long time friend is offering the "service". She says that the service will go down when the host is having outages, so the infra is likely local. I brought my year this weekend. We are going to dig in to this guys operation. Intuition dictates that there is some hand rolled accounting going on. I'd like to see it.

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Maybe implementing a subset of Markdown would be a good thing. I am thinking about bold, italics, inline code, and code block, mostly. Oh, and links.

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That’s a great set (and then no more!)

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I think so. It could even be made a setting, defaulting it to off. I think it would be useful, especially is self-hosted for a tech community.

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Instead of what to add I'm always asking myself what can be avoided or what can I take out. Adding features is easy. Minimalism is hard.

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I agree that minimalism is hard. That’s why the subset was explicitly recommended small. Yet, I believe it is extremely useful to have.

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Cool! Let’s test it with a link to Google.

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I've tested MD and honestly I don't like it. Bold/italics add unnecessary noise/clutter and the font is already monospace, suited for code, so inline code & code fences are not needed. If 3rd party clients want to implement them it's fine but I'm sensitive to visual noise.

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I agree with this. The core you're building is around a deliberate minimalist philosophy. I was happy to build an opinionated client for my own use-case, but it should imo stay on the fringes for those seeking it.

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Monitoring the situation

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 Error: Provider rejected the request (invalid_request_error, 400): Claude Code 2.1.75 does not support this model; version 2.1.251 or newer is required. Run
 'claude update', or update the Claude desktop app, then try again. [request_id: req_011CedKqBRnC6Qr3m6nKEwNN]

I’m not using Claude Code. This is how you drop the ball.

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mandelbrot show code

for y in range(10):
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 for x in range(25):
  a=[]
  for q in range(2):
   z=c=x/25*3-2+1j*((y*2+q)/10-1);n=40
   while n and abs(z)<2:z=z*z+c;n-=1
   a+=[n<5]
  s+=" ▀▄█"[a[0]+2*a[1]]
 print(s)

                         
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Hello loggers

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Another day missing Aaron Swartz.

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I never have enough time but I’d love to do a bit more recreational programming with esoterical languages like kitten, , and . AoC and Project Euler are good because they just require an answer but there’s also loads of simple puzzles online that rely on being able to submit the code in common languages. I’ve been wondering, however, if I could use an LLM to take those problems and create a verification harness for any language I like.

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hi everyone

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Hmm, I think is on vacation, or otherwise engaged with other affairs...

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My iPhone is pouring its battery. Feels like a major upgrade of the OS is coming. Hate this crap.

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I'm looking forward to . I didn't update to at all on my se 2020. however, at some point I anticipate will require or above.

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Just get rid of it. Life is way better without phones. I haven't had a phone for five years.

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I am curious how does that work for you. You should write a post about it and share.

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how do you do things like online identification/tickets for services/events? From my experience in germany a lot of these are online only. Same with like the vaccination certificate back in covid times

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When I sit with curious people, I build a lot of curiosity. And inspiration.

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This is like the third time in my life I've seen an interrobang in the wild. And I don't know, but I'd prefer JSON over having configuration as constants in a PHP script like at $DAYJOB sob

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Ok, that sounds significantly worse, but like, YAML and TOML exists people…

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My problem with yaml is the indentation annoyance it leads to, and if you are using the same tool on two different machine like windows and linux, have fun configuring those tabs and spaces all the time. I do like toml and ini for editing, but json is not as bad as yaml for sure

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, new day, new issues to solve — oh and ☕

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Had a little help from Claude to fix a bug in my NNW themes - to embed youtube videos directly in the theme. meaning NNW can now be my video player of choice from YT's RSS feeds directly. thechels.uk/…/nnw-theme-bundle-release-f3749adf9d58

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