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Illumos on ARM: Commence

macOS System Unresponsive after Volume + TouchID Chord

“This can be a surprisingly difficult and enlightening task.”

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“Cowardly refusing to create an empty archive”

The Most Boring Configs

Existential Risk Taxonomy

Scripting Mjolnir: Quick Config Reloading

Scripting your Mac: Tiling Motion

Scripting your Mac: Basic Motion

Scripting your Mac: Getting started

[S]he was a go-go dancer for the Ugandan Army’s Revolutionary Suicide Mechanised Regiment Band.

“Write as fast as you can because someday you'll die and if you didn't tell all the stories you had in you it will hurt.”

Jawbreaker

William Butler Yeats

Smalltalk in Smalltalk in Javascript

Always verify SSL certificates

Dedicated + Cloud = Hybrid

12% combined

D.D.

Alaskans enjoy warmed pilot bread with melted butter or with soup or moose stew. Pilot bread with peanut butter, honey, or apple sauce is often enjoyed by children.

Today a four processor machine costs under $12,000.

When using “wat” + 1 instead of “wat” - 1 as argument, the addition operator converts 1 to a string instead of converting “wat” to a number, so it effectively calls Array(16).join(“wat1”).

A creator, such as an artist, musician, photographer, craftsperson, performer, animator, designer, videomaker, or author - in other words, anyone producing works of art - needs to acquire only 1,000 True Fans to make a living.

But I strongly fear that among the 70,000 farmers tomorrow there will be no philosopher. If there is one—everything being possible—he will strike with only slightly less force than the others, for he will have read Darwin and will know the value of the fight for life. Like Daudet, he will find this a very interesting ‘struggle for existence’ to talk about.

The Most Wonderful Way to Augment Reality

[T]hey’ll ask, “What’s with all the fucking knots?” and attack.

You talked about the normal distribution versus power-log distribution and at that point I was like, okay this is an exciting presentation!

The pretend gates at the entranceways to gated communities will become real, and the charred stubs of previous white-collar homes will serve only to make the still-standing structures creepier and more exotic.

You are lost in a twisty maze of Perl generating Javascript generating not-quite-SQL beneath not-quite-OAuth. To generate RSS. You have been eaten by a Grue.

Deploying with Bundler and Capistrano

And yet, still the masses come. But not because it is Utopia. No, they come only because this dystopia is marginally better than the only alternatives that they know…

Your New New Web Identity

League, myself and four others got on stage, snorted a line of salt (the agony!), slammed a shot, then squeezed a fresh lime into our eyeballs (the horror!), quite easily the dumbest bet I’ve agreed to since my twenties.

Walgreens:

Throughout the UNIX manual pages, a manual entry is simply referred to as a man page, regardless of actual length and without sexist intention.

Unsolved Problems

Instead of Quitting

Once in a while,
I’m standing here, doing something.
And I think,
“What in the world am I doing here?”
It’s a big surprise.

If you put Dave Winer and Joe Clark into a room together, the universe will explode.

Podcast Patent: Busted

Damned Flickr

Smoke Testing for Profit

Crying doesn’t indicate that you’re weak. Since birth, it has always been a sign that you’re alive.

I first have to pay someone to map the chili genome. I am sorely disappointed by modern technology.

Having a shared orifice is just plain inefficient.

I used to eat Mexican food back when I was a homeless rodeo clown but not any more. Now I am a world class magician !

Prev and Next II: Electric Boogaloo

When the world ends, the only things left will be cockroaches, rats, Keith Richards, and mangled text that has been escaped one-too-many or one-too-few times.

You want to hear the Word of the Lord, you’ve got to pay! And I don’t mean that jigglin’ money, I mean that foldin’ money!

Did you mean: recursion?

The worst kind of false affordance is an unreliable affordance - a knob that can be turned except when it can’t, a chair that’s a cozy place to sit except when it rams a hidden metal spike deep into your tender parts.

In Soviet Amerika, the car drives you… bankrupt!

I enjoy interacting with humans

An E- record is an organically conceived masterpiece that repays repeated listening with a sense of horror in the face of the void. It is unlikely to be marred by one listenable cut.

versioning is computer-science-complete

Be nice and honest to the system and the system will be very nice to you.

“Really intelligent design would include documentation.” Drew Endy.

Attaching a payment service to your web identity

Next and previous page bookmarklets using prototype

There is no Cabal. There is, however, a net-wide conspiracy designed solely to lead Dave Hayes to believe that there is a Cabal.

In case I die in this mess, I leave all to the wife.

RMS' free software song, death metal style.

The magic words are squeamish ossifrage.

Please consider contributing. Now is the time. Only you. Now?

Neither way is better than the other. They each have their benefits and risks, and each will get me to my goal.

Still No Reputation Networks?

XRD API

OAuth for the IRS

We Wear the Mask

Getting into Open Government

Passion

To Insure Proper Service

Oh how time slips away

Propertied Intellectual?

Live ID Isn't Auth[nz]

Fat client leacher

He-who-must-not-be-named

Behold that bester of swords

Protest

Oauth plans to add needed functionality to OpenID

Repetitive assignment is a bug that only cause confusion

Broken Windows

NVarchar Oddness

Selenium Testing

Embrace your identity

Embrace your avatar

Every Day, You Say?

furl you man!

emotions

Hot Cocoa

this is from perry bible fellowship

births remind me of death

hello world

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