Saving $20 on airport food by spending $30 at Buc-Ee’s.
For anyone who might be curious, I decided not to move forward with the idea I was pontificating yesterday. But I’m going to keep the details locked away. I think there may come a day where it’s the right idea, it just doesn’t happen to be now.
Question 1 - Does CircleMUD still compile on a modern linux distribution.
Question 2 - Do I remember how to do it?
@chrisaldrich If I were interested in exploring the idea of using a typewriter + notecards as a daily bullet journal, what typewriter would be a good place to start?
@heyloura thank you!
I updated the main body font for my blog. It’s kind of a kludgy hack, but I think it’s a lot more readable. I’m working on a v2.0 of the theme to roll up a bunch of other fixes, but it was important to me to achieve readability before I worry about the vibe.
@lostinhaste I'm not convinced they aren't using old "previous number +1"-style autodialers.
@glyph I used automat back in ~2019 to implement craps. The entire craps table is a MethodicalMachine. The problem is that I don't think many people know how to play craps in the first place, so it's probably a terrible example.
I have a new blog theme! It’s entirely possible you’re witnessing it right now, with your very own eye-holes. If not, you might want to click through and give it a taste.
I’ll be moving in roughly 3-4 years. I know what city, but not which suburb or neighborhood. What are some things I could be doing right now to establish a social circle in what will become my new home?
@mbkriegh I read that book coming out of a hard breakup, and I think it made me a better person and a better partner.
“Is this a problem you have to solve, or can the world solve it for you later?”
— Adam Savage
@jsonbecker I'll give that a try!
My curse is being incredibly picky about UI and UX but not being very good at implementing either.
@jsonbecker I could also just have a partial of hand-coded links, which would work, but I would have liked it if I could have tied the posts-that-are-reviews directly to the data object such that when I posted one it would go "live" in the sidebar. But the more I think about that, the more I realize I probably needed frontmatter to do it.
@jsonbecker I might be able to make that work. It creates a double-entry situation that I think I could have avoided with post types, but I've never tried to do this exact thing so maybe I couldn't have.
@Contrariwise in effectively all other ways I'd want them to appear and behave like a normal post, and maybe if I better understood categories/tags they'd get me what I need. Post types is the hammer I know.
@jsonbecker the end result I think I want to achieve is a right-hand sidebar of roleplaying game books that I intend to review, including those not yet reviewed. Frontmatter would certainly help and could be used to do neat things, but I think just having the separate post type would make it easier to iterate in a template.
@KimberlyHirsh Fair, and true, but difficult to fit caveats into a 300 character limit. I think without the background the observation wouldn't have made sense, and without the observation I'd just be talking about competitive gaming (which I have no interest in.)
@jsonbecker I have sort of a weird vision where I think post types would solve 100% of what I think I want to do without frontmatter, but it’s probably a weird artifact of the specific use case.
In competitive video games you should expect a 50% win rate. About half the time the other team will be better than you, half the time they won’t. You’re operating at the razor’s edge of your skill level. Today I realized that’s likely true in every other part of life as well.
I wish there were a way on micro.blog to write different kinds of posts. I forget the terminology but I’ve used hugo in the past to have a few distinct category of records. I want to do something like that for EG media reviews.
@rscottjones I went to Minidoka in 2019, and it remains one of the most powerful things I've experienced.
Bears.
Alaska.
@bjhess I believe Readwise can gather highlights from the Kobo platform and has the ability to sync to Obsidian. It's paid, but I've found it worthwhile and am falling in love with their Reader app as a replacement for Instapaper.
@gdp that’s fair. I had to dig into some of the settings to make it work for me, but I appreciate that they even made those options available. So much modern software wants to force you into its paradigm.
@gdp I'm currently kicking the tires on readwise.io/read for eBook syncing and it's in a pretty good state for an open beta. Also replaces Instapaper for my trouble.
@humdrum I’ve had really good luck using Firefox’s reading / distraction-free mode for printing things out if I didn’t want to save them to my read it later app.
@glyph the double-@ always struck me as weird. I don’t understand why it wasn’t sufficient to use email-like URIs. You’re a user @ a server. The front loaded @ seems superfluous. Also casting side eye at Matrix for using a : where an @ feels more natural.
@BestofTimes most people do eventually seem to get back, and very few of the things I email about would ever qualify as urgent, so patience has been a virtue.
@BestofTimes I usually provide a polite follow up about a week later. The longest it’s taken someone to get back was about three weeks total.
@BestofTimes that makes sense!
@lostinhaste thank you! I tailed along with some friends on a lark and it was lovely.
@BestofTimes well now I just want to know what could possibly be so boring if you’ve kept up with it for 20 years.
@glyph I have an old PowerBook (I think 5200?) that I got for nostalgia and tinkering purposes and was sad to find out it wasn’t quite powerful enough to run civ:ctp. I lost a lot of hours to that game in my youth.
@xxxx Thank you!