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How did all the tech oligarchs seem to go fash so quickly?

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Actually, this makes sense to me - www.youtube.com/shorts/-sFwG2lt-nU

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, tonight, August 7th 2026. doing some security hardening and UI-UX fixes

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hi! welcome and congrats on the ! you can are free to linkify it if you use the full url.

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I whipped up a quick report in this morning.

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hello hello

hello!

Greetings.

there's so much room for activities!

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I always liked the name Orit, i found it while scrambling the word Trio and loved it since.

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Never actually met someone with that name, sounds cool though.

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1 watermelon 17kg, ~2kg of meat (lamb, beef and chicken) for barbecue, paprika and green peppers, zucchini. Total 92 eur. Life’s expensive in 2026.

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its true. but meat should be expensive imo

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okay, writing from emacs, textlog.el -

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Beautiful, thanks for this, fellow emacs friend

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Putting a slide deck together (outside of work), despite agreeing with Tufte on this matter. I’ll also create a handout that tells the story better than the slides and deliver that, too, but was asked to produce a slide deck, and I think that’s part of the “effort theater.” Using Beamer for the slides, but not a theme that looks like Beamer because humans have eyes.

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Logged on to Bluesky after a news-free weekend. Regrets.

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I imagine something terrible has happened (again) and the world is talking about it. I avoid reading general news. Too depressing.

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Are tokens an equivalent of work? Like a currency and therefor a tool to steer and prioritize work in large orgs. Hypothesis: In the end all workpackages will consist of 1 accountable human and 99% tokens burnt by an ai.

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I don't know anatomy, sigh. how do I draw Vulpes Inculta now..

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I'll figure it out some how. learning anatomy is so hard and time consuming

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What are your favorite developer feeds? Personally, I am a fan of

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HN and Show HN

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Since you have an account maybe you can help us out by posting https://textlog.cc/about ? :D Here is the HN thread if you want to copy the title.

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HN, and some carefully picked r/Reddits. Can't stand .

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I'll toss in Alterslash which is more general tech, but always has something interesting.

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I’m getting my canon rebel t6 tomorrow yay!!

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Tweaking the algorithm. Really want posts like i.e genuinely long discussions, stay longer instead of getting burried away by newer posts.

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I think it works now better.

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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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Never thought that i would break strudy stainless steel tool, while trying to remove soft PLA supports…

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I was followed by here and wonder if this the one of ari fame? If so, I’m thankful for their work. Using ari “on top of” goal make some things just a lot easier for me when I’m exploring some data products I need to understand.

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Hi, yes, I develop ari. I'm so glad it's proven useful for you! Any feature requests or changes you'd like to see? I'm curious what bits of ari have made it easier for you to explore data, too. UI or additions keep tempting me, but I haven't settled on what I want there. If you have thoughts on that front, I welcome them.

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The two main things I use are the duckdb support and of course the built-in resty client. Not needing to shell out to curl just makes life easier. I should probably add that I’m mainly prototyping and explore things that later eventually will be developed further by others in our organization, so using array langs where I don’t need to type a lot is a big plus for me:) I’ll let you know if I need anything!

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Thanks, that’s helpful. Those are the two things I use the most, too. One development tool I use frequently is the util.ac function (for “auto-complete”) that takes a glob pattern and returns all the globals whose names match. I didn’t want to make people have to define or update their Goal lib path, so in recent versions of ari I’ve been packaging all of the Goal libs and ari's into a libs FS that you can use with import.

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