“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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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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5957ecd21830a9b1.pngUrsula 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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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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Still listening to K-Drama OST Pop


Beautiful lady (Oh My Venus), Kim Jong-hyun


https://youtu.be/SusXtLLQ01c


#mjbMusic




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Fin.


  1. The Cobra, Frederick Forsyth
  2. The Little Black Book of Workout Motivation, Michael Matthews
  3. Mastering reveal.js: Video Course, Hakim El Hattab
  4. Bigger Leaner Stronger, Michael Matthews
  5. The Outsider, Frederick Forsyth
  6. The Contrarian, Max Chafkin
  7. The Odessa File, Frederick Forsyth

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


#mjbReads #Books #mjbBooks #Reading #mjbReading




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Contd …


  1. Tao of Charlie Munger, David Clark
  2. The Lost Fleet (Incursion, Insurrection, Invasion), Sarah Hawke
  3. Ink Blood Sister Scribe, Emma Törzs
  4. The Daily Show (The Book), Chris Smith
  5. Red Sonja and Cub, Jim Zub et al.
  6. Kaiju Preservation Society, John Scalzi
  7. Absence of Mercy, S.M. Goodwin
  8. Crooked in His Ways, S.M. Goodwin
  9. Brionne, Louis L’Amour
  10. Phoebe, S.M. LaViolette
  11. Hyacinth, S.M. LaViolette
  12. Melissa and The Vicar, S.M. LaViolette
  13. Joss and The Countess, S.M. LaViolette
  14. Hugo and the Maiden, S.M. Laviolette
  15. Thomas Aquinas in 90 Minutes, Paul Strathern
  16. The Fox, Frederick Forsyth
  17. Where the Long Grass Blows, Louis L’Amour
  18. Avenger, Frederick Forsyth
  19. The Afghan, Frederick Forsyth
  20. Dogs of War, Frederick Forsyth
  21. The Veteran, Frederick Forsyth
  22. Day of the Jackal, Frederick Forsyth

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


#mjbReads #Books #mjbBooks #Reading #mjbReading




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Been a while since I posted my reading. So here’s a smol thread on what I read over the past few months


  1. Maelstrom, Peter Watts
  2. Slave to the Empire, Sarah Hawke
  3. Unbound, Sarah Hawke
  4. Unchained, Sarah Hawke
  5. Unbroken, Sarah Hawke
  6. Unleashed, Sarah Hawke
  7. Better Spelling in 30 Minutes a Day, Robert W. Emery & Harry H. Crosby
  8. The Snowball, Alice Schroeder
  9. Fluent in 3 Months, Benny Lewis
  10. Gideon the Ninth, Tamsyn Muir
  11. Harrow the Ninth, Tamsyn Muir
  12. As Yet Unsent, Tamsyn Muir
  13. The Boy Who Would Be King, Ryan Holiday
  14. Buffet, Roger Lowenstein
  15. The Complete Sherlock Holmes, Vols I & II, Arthur Conan Doyle
  16. How Integers and Floats Work, Julia Evans
  17. Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes, Maria Konnikova
  18. Damn Right, Janet Lowe
  19. Wings of the Seraph: The Complete Series, Sarah Hawke

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


#mjbReads #Books #mjbBooks #Reading #mjbReading




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