Nate! @nate@frogmob.life
Author, blogger, programmer, nerd, man of faith, father, husband, board gamer, whovian...
- Painless Vim!
- https://leanpub.com/painless_vim
- Painless Tmux!
- https://leanpub.com/painless_tmux
- Monday Stories!
- http://mondaystories.net/
I need a good project to make me feel like a real nerd again in my break between summer and fall semesters. Any suggestions?
Things I'm considering:
* Arduino
* Flask
* SmallTalk
* Actually working on one of my books
Does anyone out there have a favorite #toyProject or #petProject that you use to get into a new tech stack? Is anyone interested in a lighthearted take on git training?
What about a non-dice interactive #storytelling game?
You can avoid #YouTube's weird algorithms and broken subscription system by subscribing to channels through RSS instead. You don't need an account, just a feed reader.
Put the channel's username in this address:
https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?user=USERNAME
You can then add this RSS address to your feed reader app.
For example, OnePotChefShow's RSS feed is:
https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?user=OnePotChefShow
You can also make RSS feeds from channel IDs (strings of letters and numbers):
https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=CHANNELID
Me: *Listening to Spotify*
Spotify: *Plays C+C Music Factory*
Me: Dude, what? I...I don't listen to this kind of stuff!
Spotify: Nobody's forcing you to listen to the whole track.
Me: ...
Spotify: You gonna skip it?
Me...
Spotify: 'S what I thought.
I started falling asleep in a meeting, and here is what I wrote down (more or less...my half asleep handwriting is hard to decipher)
A button shaped like a gem
A rabbit runs inside it eternally
A star falls beside it.
There is a question of purpose.
It collapses, it collapses.
Does it matter if it is real?
It's all new again.
We are free again.
Programmer friends: Many of us have deeply-ingrained habits of making fun of whichever languages, tools, OSes, etc we don't personally use. Please don't. I highly recommend reading Aurynn Shaw's essay on "Contempt Culture", which I have to revisit myself periodically: https://blog.aurynn.com/2015/12/16-contempt-culture
I appreciate a professor that puts this as an answer on a multiple choice assignment. #MBA
One night a while ago #Medium annoyed me enough that I made a browser extension to fix all the "engagement" / nag UX.
Today I launched a little site for it: https://makemediumreadable.com
It seems like this street would be mostly awesome, but occasionally full of p(l)otholes. 
Make the switch today, don't wait another Windows update ruining your mood.
Also, this site has a really nice design, well done.
Browser: knock knock
Server: who's there?
Browser: Mozilla
Server: Mozilla who?
Browser: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/67.0.3396.87 Safari/537.36
What will aliens think about us, when we finally get out among the stars?
That's the topic I explored in this week's Monday Story. With a couple of nods to some great sci-fi stories.
@nate finally made it on your instance. It's been pretty...amazing during those few short minutes.
Thanks to #DoctorWho, I now know the word for βthat amazing smell you get before it rainsβ #petrichor
I've been sick for a couple of days, and I've found that Cities: Skylines is perfect under-the-weather gaming. It's engaging, the in-game radio stations are great, the graphics are pretty, and you make like, one decision every minute or so.
Picked up #Onitama last week and itβs a family hit. It took a few minutes to explain the rules to the kids, but thereβs enough depth to keep it interesting.
Quick reminder: you need to complete at least *two* quests in Kerbal Space Program before trying to build a real rocket.
At last, I can create the MGMT/Blink-182/Murray Gold mashup I've always dreamed about.
Okay, I created it. It was kinda epic.
#Dropmix is awesome.
From the actual text of said textbook:
"Major ISPs today include AOL, AT&T, EarthLink, and NetZero".
Yep, nailed them all.
This is in the same chapter where they discuss bitcoin.
