Reading @ColleenDoran’s saga on publishing along with the bits and bobs she’s published over the years, makes me realise that writers and artists do indeed, do #art for art’s sake

There is no way in hell, anyone could / would put up with this level of rent seeking and greed, for decades, otherwise

https://colleendoran.substack.com/p/very-bad-publishers-part-iv

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#art

Using #Hugo as a redirect service

https://dannorth.net/hugo-redirects/

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#hugo

The Surprising Genius of Sewing Machines

https://youtu.be/RQYuyHNLPTQ?si=gqQAt7yIr6Fi0pRs

— Derek Muller, #Veritasium

#Art #Sewing #Skill

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#Veritasium, #art, #sewing, #skill

I know I’m probably the last to stumble on this, but given “AI” and “Copilot” and all that jazz, this is even more side-splittingly funny

Hemingway, on Hemingway
https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=10416

#Humour #Art #Writing #AI

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#humour, #art, #writing, #ai

I repurposed the tiny xdotool script, I whipped up yesterday, to solve some pesky Emacs frame issues I was facing.

Read more here: https://janusworx.com/blog/getting-emacs-windows-to-not-be-shy/

#Scripting #Linux #Bash #Emacs #mjbWrites

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#scripting, #linux, #bash, #emacs, #mjbwrites

I made it to an irreal blog post!

https://janusworx.com/blog/on-how-emacs-adapts/

#Emacs #mjbWrites

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#emacs, #mjbwrites

163. The Alloy of Law, Brandon Sanderson

The rest of this year’s list is here:
https://janusworx.com/reading/2023/

#mjbReads #Books #mjbBooks #Reading #mjbReading

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#mjbreads, #books, #mjbbooks, #reading, #mjbreading

Here’s what I read last week

162. Empire Podcast, Series 2, The Ottoman Empire

• The Ottoman Empire
• Byzantium and the Rise of the Turks
• The First of the Ottomans
• The Fall of Constantinople
• Suleiman the Magnificent
• Suspicion and Sorrow in Sulieman’s Court
• The Seige of Cyprus
• The Battle of Lepanto
• The Tudors and the Turks
• Sultanas to Slaves: Voices from the Harem
• Conquering the Night: The History of Coffee
• The Greatest Ottoman Empire
• Lady Mary: Our Woman in Constantinople
• The Sick Man of Europe
• Gallipoli: Death at the Cliff Edge
• The Armenian Genocide: Road to the Deportations
• The Armenian Genocide: Death Marches
• Sykes-Picot: Carving up the Middle-East
• Lawrence of Arabia & the Arab Revolt
• Origins of the Israel-Palestine Conflict
• The Rise of Ataturk
• The Fiery End of the Ottoman Empire
• The Birth of Saudi Arabia
• The Legacy of the Ottomans, Queen of the Desert, and giant turbans
• Successors to the Romans, progressive harems, and living Ottomans

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Weekly fitness update

https://janusworx.com/fitness/#2023-11-17

#mjbGettingFit #FitnessLogging #WeightLoss #WeightLossJourney

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#mjbgettingfit, #FitnessLogging, #weightloss, #weightlossjourney

#TIL

I got around some pesky Firefox errors when I would run profiles as part of #LinuxMint’s webapp manager.

Spoiler alert: #xdotool came in really handy!

I wrote about it here, https://janusworx.com/blog/getting-around-linux-mint-web-app-manager-window-errors/

#devops #scripting #linux #bash

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#til, #linuxmint, #xdotool, #devops, #scripting, #linux, #bash