upgraded to a #Debian release that truly describes me 😂
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#TIL bungalow comes from Bangla!
bungalow (n.)
1670s, Anglo-Indian, “one-story thatched house,” usually surrounded by a veranda, from Gujarati bangalo, from Hindi bangla “low, thatched house,” literally “Bengalese,” used elliptically for “house in the Bengal style”
via https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=bungalow
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Writing gives poor thinking nowhere to hide.
When your invisible thoughts are made visible, you are forced to confront them as they are, not as you wish them to be. You can’t simply take a few minutes here and there, get the gist of the problem, and expect to have clear thinking and unique insights.
Good thinking, like good writing, demands patience.
*(and practice —me)*
— Shane Parrish
#ShaneParrish #FarnamStreet #Writing #Quote
https://fs.blog/brain-food/august-6-2023/
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#ShaneParrish, #FarnamStreet, #writing, #quote
Good writing is expensive, but poor writing costs a fortune.
Poor writing transfers the work from the writer to the reader. Good writing, on the other hand, nearly reads itself, allowing the reader to spend more time thinking about the ideas than pulling out meaning. Poor writing might be one of the single biggest invisible costs in organizations.
— Shane Parrish
#ShaneParrish #FarnamStreet #Writing #Quote
https://fs.blog/brain-food/august-6-2023/
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#ShaneParrish, #FarnamStreet, #writing, #quote
“If my critics saw me walking over the Thames, they would say it was because I couldn’t swim.”
— Margaret Thatcher
#FarnamStreet #Quote #mjbDoTheWork #HatersGonnaHate
https://fs.blog/brain-food/august-6-2023/
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#FarnamStreet, #quote, #mjbdothework, #hatersgonnahate
an audio jukebox was the first think i looked for when I moved from MacOS to Linux. it took a bit of trying different players, but there’s been no looking back after Quod Libet.
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Been enjoying #QuodLibet as my audio player / local music library for close to 3 years now.
It’s no frills, no fuss, rock solid stable!
Handles my large-ish library of god knows how many formats.
Never gets in the way of my listening.
Big Thanks to Joe Wreschnig, Christoph Reiter & Co over at https://github.com/quodlibet/quodlibet
#MusicPlayer #Linux #AudioJukebox
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#quodlibet, #MusicPlayer, #linux, #AudioJukebox
Ursula Vernon’s delightful homage to Darwin
https://www.tumblr.com/tkingfisher/724849350810959872/divergent-evolution-in-plague-doctors-i-am
#Art #UrsulaVernon #Evolution #Humour #Darwin
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#art, #UrsulaVernon, #evolution, #humour, #darwin
Something I have only just realised and struggling to get better at,
“The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative power restive and uprising, and gave to it neither power nor time.”
via @mariapopova’s latest post, https://indieweb.social/@mariapopova/110829418008390662
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Just got done reading Command Line Interface Guidelines, by Parish, Prasad, Fishman and Tashian.
Very pragmatic, very well written.
As someone who is interested in writing CLI programs, this was extremely helpful. Well worth the read.
Read it here: https://clig.dev/
h/t to @a13cui for the recommendation.
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