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I didn't just almost miss the train, I just optimized the waiting time.

I didn't just almost miss the train, I just optimized the waiting time.

I rarely bought them – most were advertisement handouts, similar to flyers, I guess. Which means that they were almost always for the...

I rarely bought them – most were advertisement handouts, similar to flyers, I guess. Which means that they were almost always for the current year, and actually got used as a calendar.

It all became obsolete when I got a Nokia 6610 with a calendar app.

A random video on YouTube, where the author couldn't remember that the 7th month is July, unlocked a memory of mine: in elementary and...

A random video on YouTube, where the author couldn't remember that the 7th month is July, unlocked a memory of mine: in elementary and middle school, I used to collect physical pocket-sized calendars. I even had two "eternal calendars".

I've been writing computer programs for almost 20 years. Today I misspelled the word "gigabytes" in the most embarrassing way:...

I've been writing computer programs for almost 20 years. Today I misspelled the word "gigabytes" in the most embarrassing way: "gigabites".

Small [citation needed] stickers: just 0.95€ per sticker.Handwritten thank you note from @molly0xfff included with the purchase:...

Small [citation needed] stickers: just 0.95€ per sticker.

Handwritten thank you note from @molly0xfff included with the purchase: priceless.

https://store.mollywhite.net/products/small-citation-needed-sticker

#citationneeded

My first ever (source code) contribution to @mediawiki has been rolled out to @wikimediafoundation in MediaWiki version...

My first ever (source code) contribution to @mediawiki has been rolled out to @wikimediafoundation in MediaWiki version 1.43.0-wmf.21.

Release notes: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.43/wmf.21

TIL that nectarines are the same species as peaches.

TIL that nectarines are the same species as peaches.

#TIL that you can ctrl-click or shift-click table cells in Firefox 🔥 🦊 to select them.

#TIL that you can ctrl-click or shift-click table cells in Firefox 🔥 🦊 to select them.

Tutorial "How to create a low filesize gif of screen recording" using @OBSProject, @kdenlive, and...

Tutorial "How to create a low filesize gif of screen recording" using @OBSProject, @kdenlive, and FFmpeg

https://cohost.org/andrybak/post/6183334-how-to-create-a-low

#tutorial #obs #kdenlive #ffmpeg

https://susam.net/cfr.html#B7F3E5R3C2B5F2E5C2R3E2

https://susam.net/cfr.html#B7F3E5R3C2B5F2E5C2R3E2

Splash screen of Microsoft Teams says "Meetings are just one tool in our belt." Mention of tools and the cadence of the sentence...

Splash screen of Microsoft Teams says "Meetings are just one tool in our belt." Mention of tools and the cadence of the sentence remind me of a line from film Arrival: "Language is the foundation of civilization. It is the glue that holds a people together. It is the first weapon drawn in a conflict."

Every time a Teams call ends I imagine Jeremy Renner reading the tagline from the splash screen.

trurl tool by @bagder and contributors is great!https://github.com/curl/trurlNow I don't need to worry about URL encoding, e.g.:...

trurl tool by @bagder and contributors is great!

https://github.com/curl/trurl

Now I don't need to worry about URL encoding, e.g.: https://github.com/rybak/scripts/commit/df32aa2dff30d3bbbbb0c23b396ccc12dd96e26a

I learned about extreme ductility of gold at a very young age. However, only today I've learned that there are electron microscopy...

I learned about extreme ductility of gold at a very young age. However, only today I've learned that there are electron microscopy photos of stretching gold into a wire with single atom (!) thickness. 🤯

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Au_atomic_wire.jpg

#TIL

#TIL that current day on Mars is called "tosol". Previous is...

#TIL that current day on Mars is called "tosol". Previous is "yestersol".

https://deepspace.social/@kevinmgill/111044074654147421

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/tosol

I found an interesting edge case in clipboard handling of GitHub's Markdown...

I found an interesting edge case in clipboard handling of GitHub's Markdown editor.

https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/65235

Step 4 from "Steps to reproduce" will shock you!

#GitHub

Version 1.0.0 of Commit Copy Reference, a plugin for the #IntelliJ-based IDEs, has been released.It can be installed by going to...

Version 1.0.0 of Commit Copy Reference, a plugin for the #IntelliJ-based IDEs, has been released.

It can be installed by going to Settings/Preferences > Plugins > Marketplace > Search for "Copy Commit Reference" > Install.

https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/22138-copy-commit-reference

On one hand, I don't want the evil corporations to have my data. On the other hand, I wouldn't mind ads if they were more relevant...

On one hand, I don't want the evil corporations to have my data. On the other hand, I wouldn't mind ads if they were more relevant to me. The very few ads that I do get are completely irrelevant.

If only advertisement companies were more trustworthy. 😐

Back in the Google+ days I enjoyed the blogposts by Linus Torvalds there quite a lot and I'm glad that he's back on the social...

Back in the Google+ days I enjoyed the blogposts by Linus Torvalds there quite a lot and I'm glad that he's back on the social media.

https://social.kernel.org/torvalds

I've made a YouTube playlist playback tracker: https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/459412-youtube-playlists-playback-trackerIt remembers...

I've made a YouTube playlist playback tracker: https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/459412-youtube-playlists-playback-tracker

It remembers which video you've watched last in a playlist, so that you don't have to!

It is useful for podcasts, lectures, let's plays, and any kind of long-form content in playlists.

So far, the best personal use case for #ChatGPT that I found is convincing myself to do beneficial things. It is sometimes hard to convince...

So far, the best personal use case for #ChatGPT that I found is convincing myself to do beneficial things. It is sometimes hard to convince myself not to procrastinate but reading it from an external source somehow works better. For example, today: