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Why is so much of the cat pics feed furry garbage.

Obsidian Bases + Obsidian Web Clipper is the web archival tool I always wanted replaces my read-it-later app and saves everything to local markdown files

It has always seemed obvious to me that high level scripting languages like Python and Lua should be used to configure data structures to manipulate high performance program behavior, not be load bearing.

This is awesome, but my excitement is dramatically dampened by the use of YAML as the query syntax. Gross.

Introducing Bases, a new core plugin that lets you turn any set of notes into a powerful database. With Bases you can organize everything from projects to travel plans, reading lists, and more. Bases are now available in Obsidian 1.9.0 for early access users.

Best cybernetic psychological horror since Snowcrash.

Every so often I get really sad that I don't, and never have, lived in a tech hub. The internet is a really big place and you can easily forget that there's things happening in the real world that you're excluded from by nature of where you live.

The amount of disinformation in this thread is astounding.

Sooooo what countries are the nicest for digital nomads?

My PC will occasionally do this thing where it lags to hell because Nvidia broadcast also goes to hell

You know, the email model is pretty good for... a lot of things. Part of me wants to build an instant messaging platform that is (transparently) email, though I suspect email itself is too slow.

#moodboard

And everyone will know that if you're in this round of layoffs, you were probably in the bottom 5%. I would most likely throw out the resume of someone who matched that profile tbh.

Not me getting IP banned from Migadu for forgetting that domain aliases require using the aliased domain as the username when authenticating to a mailbox

This is going to be an ultimate conversation starter at my local DefCon meetups

Email is truly one of the greatest tools ever created

How to fix OSC-52 in neovim almost never working correctly: oppi.li/posts/OSC-52/

There's no scarier codebase than a massive pile of buggy Lisp

ADHD executive dysfunction is like those last minute video game patches where they nerf overpowered characters by adding the most random limitations. "You can master any skill you want, but require heroic doses of pharmaceutical grade meth in order to perform the basic tasks needed for survival"

Update: it was delivered today. It's a bit smaller than I expected and has basically no compartments inside which greatly limits its utility as a bag. Oh well

AWK has the potential to be *so* good, and yet it's just annoying a lot of the time.

Oh yay, I'll actually be able to wear my Christmas sweaters on Christmas

Passkeys are the absolute shit!

ATProto really needs a hyperlink format

This is why you use multi-paradigm languages that have strong support for FP. Rust and C# are great examples of this. Python is a great negative example

Algorithmic feeds are a tool to deal with scale. When you have enough content to sift through it stops being practical to deal with as an individual. You have 2 options then: algorithmic feeds, or organic social graph-based feeds.

The insides of my windows are freezing. I should probably get those looked at.

It amazes me how good Apple's web apps are

Dear friends, I'm rejoining Redis. It's a long story, so it deserved a blog post to explain all the details: antirez.com/news/144

I feel like tabletop's "fun" factor scales with either: - how into numbers your players are - how much your players enjoy writing and it depends on which type of game you're playing

I accepted the offer. It's not my ideal technology to be working with, but I think it will offer a net positive in the space and I'm excited for where it takes me.

Do I work for the crypto+AI startup and make a ton more money or do I keep working on cool hardware shit?

I'm coming to the conclusion that NixOS is not the ideal development OS

bring back the personal site! tilde.team is a shared computer and everyone gets their own webpage this is mine and it's artisanally handcrafted: tilde.team/~ben/ i have a blog too i guess benharri.org

The longer Bluesky goes without competition, the sooner this decentralized social media experiment fails.