@Jason’s Microblog! - SamDalrymple

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/115994866334564434

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUiMfS6qzIMyDqm9aJgzSgwQpfeNOPvXR

2026-01-27T06:04:16+0000

Jason Braganza — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 06:04:16 +0000

#PSA for for the Byomkesh Bakshi fans of the series that aired on DD in the 90s

DD has now apparently cleaning up the old videos and putting them into a new playlist.
It’s solved the constant audio hum that was there in the playlist they had uploaded during the Covid lockdowns

They have done about a third of the videos as far as I can make out

#GoldenAgeTV #ByomkeshBakshi #Doordarshan

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/115965549359885551

#psa, #GoldenAgeTV, #ByomkeshBakshi, #doordarshan

2026-01-24T14:14:46+0000

Jason Braganza — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 14:14:46 +0000

I read Morgan Housel’s, The Psychology of Money

https://janusworx.com/reading/the-psychology-of-money/

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/115950491141888813

https://janusworx.com/reading/shattered-lands/

2026-01-19T15:03:58+0000

Jason Braganza — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 15:03:58 +0000

I read Sam Dalrymple’s, Shattered Lands.

#mjbWrites #Books #Reading #ShatteredLands #SamDalrymple

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/115922373082020718

#mjbwrites, #books, #reading, #ShatteredLands, #SamDalrymple

2026-01-02T03:28:55+0000

Jason Braganza — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 03:28:55 +0000

Amen! Happy New Year!

https://myjetpack.tumblr.com/post/804535632103866368

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/115823380739855066

https://publicdomainreview.org/blog/2026/01/public-domain-day-2026/

2026-01-02T00:24:28+0000

Jason Braganza — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 00:24:28 +0000

Happy Public Domain Day 2026!

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/115822655491923463

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nPPRQeTxTY

2025-12-20T07:52:43+0000

Jason Braganza — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 07:52:43 +0000

Me’Shell Ndegécello & John Mellencamp covering Van Morrison’s Wild Night in the 90s.

#Rock #Music

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/115750807994984630

#rock, #music

2025-12-20T07:10:36+0000

Jason Braganza — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 07:10:36 +0000

Oh, kithe chaley oh?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K364wKMGwF0

#PunjabiFolk #FolkMusic #Music

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/115750642409554136

#PunjabiFolk, #folkmusic, #music

2025-12-12T03:38:52+0000

Jason Braganza — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 03:38:52 +0000

Is ishq ch yaaro,
Kuch kihya vi nahin janda

Raula paya vi nahin janda
Chup rahiya vi nahin janda

(Ishq aap bhe awalla)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j52tXsEbcQM

#PunjabiFolk #FolkMusic #Music

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/115704511359903267

#folkmusic, #music, #PunjabiFolk

2025-12-08T05:06:23+0000

Jason Braganza — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 05:06:23 +0000

@mandarvaze, this is beautiful!

Always love you sharing your work in different domains
I learn so much!

https://microblog.desipenguin.com/post/church-urban-sketch/

#Art #Sketch

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/115682206238474428

#art, #sketch

2025-12-06T16:39:19+0000

Jason Braganza — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 16:39:19 +0000

These Are My Reading Rules For 2026 - http://ryanholiday.net https://ryanholiday.net/my-reading-rules-for-2026/

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/115673606369665862

Via:
https://www.tumblr.com/persephonelovesbooks/801862100625539072

2025-12-03T15:26:11+0000

Jason Braganza — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 15:26:11 +0000

This is my late teens and early twenties!

Alt: text shot saying “It was quiet. The quiet had teeth”

#Books #Reading #Poetry

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/115656331833032190

#books, #reading, #poetry

2025-10-10T02:19:15+0000

Jason Braganza — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 02:19:15 +0000

A case for writing on mirrors …

Item no. 9 in this eclectic post:

13 Things I Found on the Internet Today (Vol. 751) https://www.messynessychic.com/2025/09/09/13-things-i-found-on-the-internet-today-vol-751/

#Art #Portraits #Photography

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/115347472714220491

#art, #portraits, #photography

2025-10-07T00:21:00+0000

Jason Braganza — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 00:21:00 +0000

A great book doesn’t take you away from the world—it brings you back to the world you were torn from.

Reading isn’t an escape—it’s a reckoning.

Rereading is training, practice for remaking and unmaking—and, yes, razing—the world. Rereading draws your best thoughts close, keeps them at the ready, prepares you to think thoughts with them, prepares you to act with them at hand. Your favorite reads are your armor and your weapons and your shelter all in one. What have you gathered about you? What has taken root in your mind? What thoughts are you thinking with?

— @aworkinglibrary , The case for rereading

https://aworkinglibrary.com/writing/case-for-rereading

#Books #Reading #Life #Lenses #MentalModels

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/115330020822628730

#books, #reading, #life, #lenses, #mentalmodels

2025-10-05T14:38:57+0000

Jason Braganza — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 14:38:57 +0000

In order for me to write poetry that isn’t political,
I must listen to the birds
and in order to hear the birds
the warplanes must be silent

— Marwan Makhoul
via https://www.tumblr.com/holyfigtree/731005660088745984

#mjbPoetry #Poetry #Palestine #Gaza

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/115322069793309726

#mjbpoetry, #poetry, #palestine, #gaza

2025-10-02T01:16:48+0000

Jason Braganza — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 01:16:48 +0000

#RIP #JaneGoodall

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/115301928711781645

#rip, #janegoodall

2025-09-26T08:30:03+0000

Jason Braganza — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 08:30:03 +0000

I learned something very beautiful
today, In French, “bibliothèque
intérieure” means your “inner library”
the invisible shelf you carry inside,
filled with every story that’s ever
shaped you.

All the books you’ve loved, the
heartbreaks you’ve survived, the
random quotes that stuck, the
memories that built you. They all live
there. Quietly reminding you of who
you are and how far you’ve come.

— thirdeye.spiritual on instagram via https://www.messynessychic.com/2025/09/23/13-things-i-found-on-the-internet-today-3/

#Books #Reading #Poetry #Life

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/115269658447735264

#books, #reading, #poetry, #life

2025-09-26T03:20:06+0000

Jason Braganza — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 03:20:06 +0000

The en dash responds …

P.S. And for the record: I am not a whore. I am a matchmaker. Ask any calendar.

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/i-am-the-gap-between-knowing-and-saying-the-en-dash-responds-to-the-em-dash

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/115268439695224090

2025-09-26T03:07:13+0000

Jason Braganza — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 03:07:13 +0000

You think I showed up with ChatGPT?
Mary Shelley used me… gratuitously.
Dickinson? Obsessed.
David Foster Wallace built a temple of footnotes in my name.

I am not some sleek, futuristic glyph.

I am the battered, coffee-stained backbone of writerly panic—the gasping pause where a thought should have ended but simply could not.

P.S. You’re probably thinking of the en dash. That whore has always been suspicious.

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the-em-dash-responds-to-the-ai-allegations

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/115268389021891722

2025-09-26T02:54:26+0000

Jason Braganza — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 02:54:26 +0000

The people I grew up with

have doctorates
have children
have spouses
have divorces

have careers
have died
have lived

and me? I have done
some of the dishes

— David M Briggs
via https://www.tumblr.com/persephonelovesbooks/795664395311169536

#mjbPoetry #Poetry #Pensive #Poem #Life

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/115268338767074130

#mjbpoetry, #poetry, #Pensive, #poem, #life

2025-09-21T14:24:45+0000

Jason Braganza — Sun, 21 Sep 2025 14:24:45 +0000

Ae Bhai Zara Dekh Ke Chalo 🎷🎺

#Jazz #IndianJazz #BollyJazz #MannaDey #mjbMusic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHC3qfwVhBc

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/115242741618940320

#jazz, #IndianJazz, #BollyJazz, #MannaDey, #mjbmusic

2025-09-20T13:16:51+0000

Jason Braganza — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 13:16:51 +0000

My experience with @dabeaz’s Ruckus course.
What a week it was!

https://janusworx.com/work/make-a-ruckus-001/

#Rust #Ruckus #mjbWrites

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/115236812349528937

#rust, #ruckus, #mjbwrites

2025-09-17T05:41:57+0000

Jason Braganza — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 05:41:57 +0000

Time management isn’t about time at all.
It’s about priorities.

— @ColleenDoran

https://colleendoran.substack.com/p/motivation-monday

#TimeManagement #Priorities #Life

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/115218036633700581

#timemanagement, #priorities, #life

2025-09-16T06:06:44+0000

Jason Braganza — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 06:06:44 +0000

@dabeaz There was a perfectly serviceable car metaphor (that he did use, at the very end.)

But until then it was just hour upon hour of dismembering Mabel!

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/115212471785858459

2025-09-16T05:46:32+0000

Jason Braganza — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 05:46:32 +0000

#Ruckus should actually have been called “Mabel dies in the end”

And after showing us such a beautiful picture of Mabel 😢

aka reasons I hate @dabeaz 😂
https://mastodon.social/@dabeaz/115211233347818496

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/115212392334687874

#ruckus

2025-09-11T13:33:47+0000

Jason Braganza — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 13:33:47 +0000

Been using a web browser / GUIs in some shape or form since the late 90s. and i just blanked on the word scrollbar. (I needed the word, because I wanted them to be visible always in Firefox)

I had to go looking for window side, up-down thing.

#WebBrowser #GUI #Firefox

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/115185918115357203

#webbrowser, #gui, #firefox

2025-09-11T09:21:44+0000

Jason Braganza — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 09:21:44 +0000

Make a ruckus!

https://janusworx.com/work/make-a-ruckus-000/

#Rust #Ruckus #mjbWrites

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/115184926999095817

#rust, #ruckus, #mjbwrites

2025-09-10T04:15:52+0000

Jason Braganza — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 04:15:52 +0000

I’m even more comfortable with the quiet than @sacha and so this resonates even more strongly with me.

#TheGreatConversation is exactly why I write. Something I experienced or learned could resonate with someone across the years.

And even moreso (for me) that’s not quite the point of me writing. I am more interested in pouring my thoughts out, so that my mind stays calmer, and more meditative. The point of me writing is reflection. The point of me writing is loving my own company, my own voice … even finding my own voice. The point of me writing is quiet comfort. The point of me writing is me talking back to the old ones. The point of me writing is quiet joy.

https://sachachua.com/blog/2025/09/writing-into-the-quiet/

Gorgeous Doodle and Alt text courtesy: @sacha

#Writing #Blogging #SachaChua #IncoherentRamble

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/115178062005981133

#TheGreatConversation, #writing, #blogging, #sachachua, #IncoherentRamble

2025-09-10T02:24:02+0000

Jason Braganza — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 02:24:02 +0000

Unkempt, preoccupied, Reader

https://universeodon.com/@Edmonds_Scanner/115175949162087711

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/115177622222583607

2025-09-08T02:10:31+0000

Jason Braganza — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 02:10:31 +0000

#Electronics #Semiconductors #Art
http://www.righto.com/2025/09/marilou-schultz-navajo-555-weaving.html

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/115166244490664575

#electronics, #semiconductors, #art

2025-09-06T12:03:03+0000

Jason Braganza — Sat, 06 Sep 2025 12:03:03 +0000

“First of its kind” AI settlement: Anthropic to pay authors $1.5 billion

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/09/first-of-its-kind-ai-settlement-anthropic-to-pay-authors-1-5-billion/

More please!

#AI

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/115157249800861917

#ai

2025-09-06T11:49:56+0000

Jason Braganza — Sat, 06 Sep 2025 11:49:56 +0000

Abolition is both destruction and reconstruction; in abolishing work, you become able to create it anew. For too long, “work” has been synonymous with waged work, with the work we long for an escape from. And everything else becomes the “life” that stands in opposition to work, as if work were somehow an equal to the life it sucks dry.

But what if work was all the change we make in the world, with all the people we make that change with—colleagues and comrades, neighbors and friends, kin in all the kingdoms. What if work wasn’t only what we do at work, but all the ways that work moves out into the world, and all the work we do elsewhere—whether in our homes or in our streets. What if our work is all the things we give a fuck about? What becomes possible then?

— @aworkinglibrary commenting on André Gorz’s, Reclaiming Work

https://aworkinglibrary.com/writing/everything

#Books #Reading #Work #Unions

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/115157198221073565

#books, #reading, #work, #unions

2025-09-04T14:09:48+0000

Jason Braganza — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 14:09:48 +0000

I’m so scared that I’ll never
get put back together

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8ASR_HD554

#mjbMusic #MatchboxTwenty #Bent

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/115146423558453585

#mjbmusic, #matchboxtwenty, #bent

2025-08-29T11:36:44+0000

Jason Braganza — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 11:36:44 +0000

859 contributions to 6 repositories, says my #CNCF Contributor card

And the whole journey started with a contribution to #Flatcar, thanks to @thilo

https://contribcard.cncf.io/jasonbraganza

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/115111847852736843

#cncf, #Flatcar

2025-08-27T04:28:38+0000

Jason Braganza — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 04:28:38 +0000

Is Math discovered or invented?

Both.

Pure math is invented nonsense passed off as if it were authored by nature. Thus it is best described as a *forgery* or a *fabrication*.
Meanwhile, applied math is the human attempt to take credit for discovering nature’s work. Thus, it is best described as *plagiarism* or *intellectual theft.*
— Ben Orlin

https://mathwithbaddrawings.com/2025/08/25/is-math-discovered-or-invented/

#Math #Maths #Mathematics #BenOrlin

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/115098839836099076

#math, #maths, #mathematics, #BenOrlin

2025-08-17T03:45:48+0000

Jason Braganza — Sun, 17 Aug 2025 03:45:48 +0000

You were my first editor (thank you @kushal) as I stepped into the vast new world, that was programming.

RIP #Mu! I will miss you.

I owe a deep debt of gratitude to @ntoll and all the other lovely people who made this wonderful gift for me

#Python

https://madewith.mu/mu/users/2025/08/16/rip.html

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/115042048320510174

#mu, #python

2025-08-13T16:30:23+0000

Jason Braganza — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 16:30:23 +0000

How can I go on
Pretending
I’d given up on
Happy endings

Even though your
Heart is breaking
Love is there -
It’s for the taking

Don’t look back

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDW0fFjE3C8

#mjbMusic #BryanAdams

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/115022405542935676

#mjbmusic, #bryanadams

2025-08-13T15:48:41+0000

Jason Braganza — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 15:48:41 +0000

How to Read a Book: 006, Own Your Book
(Or scribble all you want!)

https://janusworx.com/reading/how-to-read-a-book-006/

#mjbWrites #Books #Reading #HTRAB #HowToReadABook #MortimerAdler

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/115022241570661201

#mjbwrites, #books, #reading, #HTRAB, #HowToReadABook, #MortimerAdler

2025-07-21T01:42:44+0000

Jason Braganza — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 01:42:44 +0000

I realised today that his tumblr queue had finally unspooled totally sometime last month
And I mourned some more

#RIP #GNUPeterMorwood #PeterMorwood

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/114888681998130110

#rip, #GNUPeterMorwood, #PeterMorwood

2025-07-19T15:19:30+0000

Jason Braganza — Sat, 19 Jul 2025 15:19:30 +0000

#TIL, that books† that teach Proof Writing are the Wren and Martin / Strunk and White of the #Maths world. Tactical knowledge that makes everything else easier.

WHY THE HELL DID NO ONE TELL ME THIS BEFORE?!
I would have started my Maths self study journey so much sooner 😂

† am currently skim reading Solow’s How to Read and Do Proofs

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/114880569040557565

#til, #maths

2025-07-19T03:15:27+0000

Jason Braganza — Sat, 19 Jul 2025 03:15:27 +0000

Upgraded to the latest release of #Forgejo
All went well

https://forgejo.org/2025-07-release-v12-0/

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/114877721972414572

#forgejo

2025-07-16T09:36:09+0000

Jason Braganza — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 09:36:09 +0000

This is going to be comfort food for the next decade

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVzCztUSkVc

#JudiDench #DameJudiDench #TheDench #Art #Film

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/114862232031869240

#judidench, #DameJudiDench, #TheDench, #art, #film

2025-07-14T02:02:17+0000

Jason Braganza — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 02:02:17 +0000

Org Agenda for everyone!
#Emacs #OrgMode
https://donovan-ratefison.mg/2025/07/13/My-Emacs-Journey-Agenda/

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/114849122743756058

#emacs, #orgmode

2025-07-13T15:04:35+0000

Jason Braganza — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 15:04:35 +0000

i am
afraid
that if i
open
myself i will not
stop pouring

— Jamie Oliveira, “Erosion”

via poemwav on tumblr

https://www.tumblr.com/poemwav/784713634816376832/jamie-oliveira-from-erosion

#Poetry

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/114846536528903440

#poetry

2025-07-11T15:09:21+0000

Jason Braganza — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 15:09:21 +0000

Pliss to ignore part deux

#IgnoreThis

https://janusworx.com/reading/joseph-conrad-forsees-aaron-swartz-and-ai-bandits/

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/114835230672950837

#IgnoreThis

2025-07-11T14:24:16+0000

Jason Braganza — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 14:24:16 +0000

Friendly people of the #Elk Fediverse, lend me your ears (and help!)

Does #Elk not support the open graph protocol or am I doing something wrong?
(it’s obviously the latter. I just wish to know **what** 😂)

None of the links that I post on Elk ever show up in a pretty card. The same toot shows up with a preview on both the native mastodon web client as well as Ivory on iOS. Have attached pictures of a toot I just wrote.

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/114835053356529893

#elk

2025-07-11T14:17:18+0000

Jason Braganza — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 14:17:18 +0000

test toot. pliss to ignore

https://janusworx.com/reading/how-to-read-a-book-005/

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/114835025990780977

2025-07-11T04:33:29+0000

Jason Braganza — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 04:33:29 +0000

hello @thibaultamartin, if not too much trouble would you mind telling me a couple of things about your beautiful ~~blog~~ website?

from a few posts, I understand that you use astro. is there a theme that you use? or is this entirely handcrafted?

also would you please tell me where you get the black and white cover/hero images for your posts? they are pretty!

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/114832730341288347

2025-07-11T02:39:55+0000

Jason Braganza — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 02:39:55 +0000

My best tip for anyone trying to get back into reading is to remember that you can read books to avoid other responsibilities in ur life and it can become a vice if you play your cards right

— pjharvey on Tumblr

https://www.tumblr.com/pjharvey/782738136201592832/my-best-tip-for-anyone-trying-to-get-back-into

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/114832283782652864

https://reactormag.com/mr-india-feeding-the-poor-and-saving-the-day-with-superhero-hijinks/

2025-07-11T02:15:50+0000

Jason Braganza — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 02:15:50 +0000

Blast from the past

Kali Wallace over at #ReactorMagazine reviews #MrIndia

“Because, after all, when everything is chaotic and violent, and powerful and wealthy people wreak havoc without consequences, the world still needs the guy who will feed a starving family on the street.”

Mogambo khush hua 😂

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/114832189042066861

#ReactorMagazine, #MrIndia

2025-07-10T01:29:10+0000

Jason Braganza — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 01:29:10 +0000

I was going to write a post once I moved my motley collection of services to #K3S.
But @thibaultamartin has already written it.

I will still write mine in the coming months.
But @thibaultamartin has already covered every single thought I have, much thoroughly and exhaustively than I would have.

I hate @thibaultamartin for having written this awesome post.
https://mamot.fr/@thibaultamartin/114822968578038498

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/114826343251645528

#k3s

2025-07-09T00:17:35+0000

Jason Braganza — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 00:17:35 +0000

#Firefox is fine.
The people running it are not

https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2025/07/08/firefox_isnt_dead/

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/114820399459319256

#firefox

2025-07-08T15:48:36+0000

Jason Braganza — Tue, 08 Jul 2025 15:48:36 +0000

Observations as I Learn to Read, 2

https://janusworx.com/reading/observations-as-i-learn-to-read-2/

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/114818398030310376

https://janusworx.com/work/emacs-package-updation-checklist/

2025-07-06T16:56:23+0000

Jason Braganza — Sun, 06 Jul 2025 16:56:23 +0000

My Emacs Package Updation Checklist

#mjbWrites #Emacs

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/114807339986124173

#mjbwrites, #emacs

2025-07-05T00:57:53+0000

Jason Braganza — Sat, 05 Jul 2025 00:57:53 +0000

How to Read a Book: 005, On Reading Speed (or On #SpeedReading)

https://janusworx.com/reading/how-to-read-a-book-005/

#MortimerAdler #HowToReadABook #mjbWrites #Books #Reading

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/114797908669996686

#speedreading, #MortimerAdler, #HowToReadABook, #mjbwrites, #books, #reading

2025-07-04T03:42:21+0000

Jason Braganza — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 03:42:21 +0000

Joseph Conrad Forsees Aaron Swartz and the AI Bandits

https://janusworx.com/reading/joseph-conrad-forsees-aaron-swartz-and-ai-bandits/

#mjbWrites #Books #Reading #AI #AaronSwartz #HeartOfDarkness #JosephConrad

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/114792893066654902

#mjbwrites, #books, #reading, #ai, #aaronswartz, #HeartOfDarkness, #josephconrad

2025-07-03T14:58:21+0000

Jason Braganza — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 14:58:21 +0000

Observations as I Learn to Read, 1

https://janusworx.com/reading/observations-as-i-learn-to-read-1/

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/114789888946217545

https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nqKd8KDf6-0BCd0HI3Pap_DOQ1ASqxc-E

2025-07-03T13:48:31+0000

Jason Braganza — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 13:48:31 +0000

Evening wind down :)

Khwaabon ke tinkon se …
Chal banayeinn aashiyan 🎵🎶

#Barfi #mjbMusic

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/114789614309706868

#barfi, #mjbmusic

2025-07-02T03:13:53+0000

Jason Braganza — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 03:13:53 +0000

The Four Levels of Reading

https://janusworx.com/reading/how-to-read-a-book-004/

#MortimerAdler #HowToReadABook #mjbWrites #Books #Reading

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/114781456514879627

#MortimerAdler, #HowToReadABook, #mjbwrites, #books, #reading

2025-07-01T14:33:21+0000

Jason Braganza — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 14:33:21 +0000

When the last drop of rain has fallen
When the final note has drifted away
When the earth ceases to turn
And the last fire has burned

You and I will find nothing has changed
Love, remains

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpEXenkqp-4

#mjbMusic #Alabama

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/114778466003858406

#mjbmusic, #alabama

2025-06-29T06:28:07+0000

Jason Braganza — Sun, 29 Jun 2025 06:28:07 +0000

I Need Two Copies of a Book Now

https://janusworx.com/reading/i-need-two-copies-of-a-book-now/

#MortimerAdler #HowToReadABook #mjbWrites #Books #Reading

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/114765233334978805

#MortimerAdler, #HowToReadABook, #mjbwrites, #books, #reading

2025-06-28T15:39:28+0000

Jason Braganza — Sat, 28 Jun 2025 15:39:28 +0000

The Four Basic Questions a Reader Asks

https://janusworx.com/reading/how-to-read-a-book-003/

#MortimerAdler #HowToReadABook #mjbWrites #Books #Reading

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/114761739071761373

#MortimerAdler, #HowToReadABook, #mjbwrites, #books, #reading

2025-06-27T15:42:43+0000

Jason Braganza — Fri, 27 Jun 2025 15:42:43 +0000

A few thoughts on books …

https://janusworx.com/reading/how-to-read-a-book-002/

#MortimerAdler #HowToReadABook #mjbWrites #Books #Reading

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/114756089487093823

#MortimerAdler, #HowToReadABook, #mjbwrites, #books, #reading

2025-06-26T15:22:20+0000

Jason Braganza — Thu, 26 Jun 2025 15:22:20 +0000

I’m learning how to read and then writing about what I learn as I go

https://janusworx.com/reading/how-to-read-a-book-001/

#MortimerAdler #HowToReadABook #mjbWrites #Books #Reading

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/114750347022471147

#MortimerAdler, #HowToReadABook, #mjbwrites, #books, #reading

2025-06-26T05:26:25+0000

Jason Braganza — Thu, 26 Jun 2025 05:26:25 +0000

I find great books from the past all thanks to @Bluejo’s lists

I found Georgette Heyer and D. E. Stevenson and Mary Renault because of her

https://reactormag.com/tag/jo-walton-reads/

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/114748003791925038

https://janusworx.com/work/forgejo-workflow-action-to-publish-hugo-blog/

2025-06-23T02:34:06+0000

Jason Braganza — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 02:34:06 +0000

The fact that values like merit and honesty could be bought took me a long time to learn thanks to the shelter my parents and my first boss afforded me.

It was a very rude awakening 😂
https://aus.social/@Unixbigot/114729088649610190

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/114730339291049659

2025-06-09T10:58:13+0000

Jason Braganza — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 10:58:13 +0000

New Post: Forgejo Workflow Action to Publish a Hugo Blog

#Hugo #Forgejo

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/114653049226145356

#hugo, #forgejo

2025-06-05T08:56:20+0000

Jason Braganza — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 08:56:20 +0000

Every point I have against #llm s and generative ai, much more eloquently expressed by @glyph

https://blog.glyph.im/2025/06/i-think-im-done-thinking-about-genai-for-now.html

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/114629920717733169

#llm

2025-05-30T02:16:29+0000

Jason Braganza — Fri, 30 May 2025 02:16:29 +0000

with the exception of pic 1, I’ve done it all 😂😂😂

#SysAdmin
https://infosec.exchange/@beyondmachines1/114592174065444629

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/114594374578727513

#sysadmin

2025-05-27T23:57:48+0000

Jason Braganza — Tue, 27 May 2025 23:57:48 +0000

#Autism doesn’t erase potential. It reshapes it.
Sometimes it’s quiet.
Sometimes it’s nonlinear.
Always, it’s human. https://io.mwl.io/@mwl/114581667737171742

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/114582504627273483

#autism

2025-05-27T14:18:02+0000

Jason Braganza — Tue, 27 May 2025 14:18:02 +0000

Evensong to put soothe my mind and help me sleep …

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QC8kGtUuKk

#NorahJones #RosiesLullaby #mjbMusic

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/114580224871373941

#norahjones, #RosiesLullaby, #mjbmusic

2025-05-23T02:17:16+0000

Jason Braganza — Fri, 23 May 2025 02:17:16 +0000

I’m mostly Tom and a little weaselly https://fosstodon.org/@wiersdorf/114552507991978865

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/114554741513379098

2025-05-10T06:07:18+0000

Jason Braganza — Sat, 10 May 2025 06:07:18 +0000

Thank you for your warmth. And your all that you said. And all that you did for me.

I will always be grateful

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/114482035998587585

2025-05-10T06:02:13+0000

Jason Braganza — Sat, 10 May 2025 06:02:13 +0000

You brought smiles and sunshine and a knowledge of god know how many esoteric things into my life.

Thank you for so many wonderful years!

https://dduane.tumblr.com/post/783067867808776192/peter-morwood

#RIP #GNUPeterMorwood #PeterMorwood

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/114482015965606864

#rip, #GNUPeterMorwood, #PeterMorwood

2025-04-12T15:41:10+0000

Jason Braganza — Sat, 12 Apr 2025 15:41:10 +0000

I am a grumpy dragon, apparently

#Reading #Books
https://mastodon.art/@MicroSFF/114320970330710584

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/114325747828401703

https://mastodon.social/@hypercritical/114314727817895234

2025-04-11T05:30:28+0000

Jason Braganza — Fri, 11 Apr 2025 05:30:28 +0000

#LoveDeathAndRobots was made specifically with me in mind.

I’ve loved every single volume

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/114317684178665396

#LoveDeathAndRobots

2025-03-18T03:33:28+0000

Jason Braganza — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 03:33:28 +0000

@jetbrains,
do you have a learn #goland video series anywhere. the goland playlist on youtube is a muddled list of very interesting things I could do with things *in* goland

is there a structured set of videos, that I could use to get familiar with my editor? I have a yearly subscription to all the editors.

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/114181328620308521

#goland

2025-03-08T10:34:29+0000

Jason Braganza — Sat, 08 Mar 2025 10:34:29 +0000

The kids are alright!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ax2trB3XJSI

#Humour #StandUp #Comedy #WomensSafety

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/114126361008674895

#humour, #standup, #comedy, #womenssafety

2025-03-04T15:49:44+0000

Jason Braganza — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 15:49:44 +0000

And I thought only I did crazy #RSS hacks 😂

@ChrisHardie beats the pants off anything I do 😂

“Fine. Whatever. I used to spend time trying to work around individual fingerprinting and blocking mechanisms, but I got tired of that. So now I pay about $25/year for access to rotating residential IP addresses to serve as proxies for my requests.”

“I don’t like supporting these providers but when I come to make an RSS feed of your content, it will look like it’s from random Jane Doe’s home computer in some Virginia suburb instead of a VPS in a data center.”

“Look what you made me do.”

https://tech.chrishardie.com/2025/rss-feed-of-your-website/

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/114104951383042195

#rss

2025-02-25T06:01:21+0000

Jason Braganza — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 06:01:21 +0000

All my highlights from Math for English Majors by #BenOrlin, he of the lovely #Maths apology blog and even lovelier stick figures

https://janusworx.com/reading/math-for-english-majors-ben-orlin/

#Arts #Math #Mathematics #Books #Reading

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/114063001644365792

#BenOrlin, #maths, #arts, #math, #mathematics, #books, #reading

2025-02-24T07:06:50+0000

Jason Braganza — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 07:06:50 +0000

Upgraded to #Emacs 30.1!

a couple of slight hiccoughs compiling. but all’s well that ends well.

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/114057596790514635

https://bitfieldconsulting.com/posts/code-review

2025-02-24T06:32:09+0000

Jason Braganza — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 06:32:09 +0000

forgot to do a make -j 4 compiling emacs today. I now appreciate multi/parallel processing so much more :)

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/114057460413501361

2025-02-24T01:04:36+0000

Jason Braganza — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 01:04:36 +0000

“the best way to have it is by talking, which is an unbelievably high-bandwidth communication channel compared to those little text boxes.

In other words, code should be pair-reviewed as well as pair-programmed. For example, Aisha and Chiku could get on a screen-share and look at the code together, asking questions, making suggestions, explaining ambiguities, and highlighting potential problems.

Tone of voice and even facial expressions convey a lot of extra information that would otherwise be lost, and somehow, people are always gentler and more respectful to each other in person than they are when typing messages back and forth.

…

Pair review like this isn’t always possible, though, so when a code review happens textually, that means we need to *take even more care about what we say and how we say it* ” (emphasis, mine)

— John Arundel, on code review in “Death of a thousand nits”

Tone of voice and being kinder than you need to be is something I’ve hammered into my young mentees, since … well, ever since I’ve had young mentees

Also grateful to @pradhvan, @mandarvaze and #AnjaliPardeshi for being kind to me when I worked with them!

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/114056172461529516

#AnjaliPardeshi

2025-02-23T23:45:56+0000

Jason Braganza — Sun, 23 Feb 2025 23:45:56 +0000

“I had let the constant onslaught of bad news convince me that unless I singlehandedly turned the tide, there was no point in trying.

No. I wouldn’t ask that of anyone else, I shouldn’t ask it of myself.

I’ll tell a stupid joke. I’ll tell a story making an obscure reference that not even a tenth of my readers will get. I will tell a shaggy dog story with an atrocious pun. And if even one person’s day has been made brighter by it, it’s worth doing.

And who knows, I might write something that is wise, or profound, or uplifting too.

I have decided to be kinder to myself, and to keep writing. I’ve reached double digits so far in February, and I’m having fun with it.”

— @MicroSFF

Lower the bar
Be kind(er) to yourself
Keep showing up!
https://mastodon.art/@MicroSFF/114054964132451777

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/114055863135333860

2025-02-23T13:52:32+0000

Jason Braganza — Sun, 23 Feb 2025 13:52:32 +0000

The Music Video starts with an implied car accident

#Earworm du jour

Good bye my love, #Ailee

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRWyDl26Qt0

No, I don’t understand a word.
I just love it for the haunting run of the repeated “You” by the backup singers

https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/20/a_big_ai_build_has/

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/114053529757347747

#earworm, #Ailee, #mjbmusic

2025-02-23T13:43:13+0000

Jason Braganza — Sun, 23 Feb 2025 13:43:13 +0000

#Kobo #Elipsa friends on #Bookstodon

How safe is installing #NickelMenu on you Kobo?

Does it break with firmware updates?
Does it break the Kobo at the same time?
What’s been your experience?

Thank you all!

Editing to add, I’m doing this, because I want textshots more often now. and I’ve gotten tired of shooting the page with my phone

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/114053493140026079

#kobo, #Elipsa, #bookstodon, #nickelmenu

2025-02-20T13:16:59+0000

Jason Braganza — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 13:16:59 +0000

We await signs of a wider malaise.

#AI

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/114036403064383113

#ai

2025-02-18T07:57:43+0000

Jason Braganza — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 07:57:43 +0000

Here’s What is Stopping Us From Using Free Software

https://janusworx.com/work/heres-what-is-stopping-us-from-using-free-software/

#mjbWrites** **#FOSS

cc: @schubisu

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/114023823004516510

#mjbwrites, #foss

2025-02-16T03:22:18+0000

Jason Braganza — Sun, 16 Feb 2025 03:22:18 +0000

My version of Keep Calm and Carry On

#Books #Reading #Life #Coping

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/114011415433052106

#books, #reading, #life, #coping

2025-02-14T05:10:17+0000

Jason Braganza — Fri, 14 Feb 2025 05:10:17 +0000

Written a couple of years ago, but still highly relevant!

In the twenty-first century, it’s time for governments to step up and fund open source regularly and proactively rather than hoping that some physics contractor manages to craft a grant that sparks the next information revolution. Key digital infrastructure is reduced to lame pleas for sponsors or scraping together funding from disparate sources. It doesn’t have to be this way. **Digital infrastructure is infrastructure.** Let’s act like it.

— @carlana

https://blog.carlana.net/post/2021/digital-infrastructure-is-infrastructure/

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/114000515400899026

2025-02-14T03:24:43+0000

Jason Braganza — Fri, 14 Feb 2025 03:24:43 +0000

No words! No words! So awesome!

Art courtesy, @drawerbread on Tumblr

https://www.tumblr.com/drawerbread/774854610403950592/my-favourite-jerd-jock-nerd-used-vinesh-phogat

#VineshPhogat #Art #LifeInspiresArt #TLT #CamillaHect #TheLockedTomb #TamsynMuir

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/114000100282403665

#VineshPhogat, #art, #LifeInspiresArt, #tlt, #CamillaHect, #TheLockedTomb, #tamsynmuir

2025-02-14T01:40:44+0000

Jason Braganza — Fri, 14 Feb 2025 01:40:44 +0000

@jbaty and moi seem to have the same compulsions about notes and journaling and have reached similar conclusions 😂

https://baty.net/journal/2025/02/12/today/

https://janusworx.com/work/notes-now-has-no-rss-feed/

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/113999691391512077

2025-02-13T04:12:08+0000

Jason Braganza — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 04:12:08 +0000

@carlana Also coming at learning #GoLang from #Python she’s written one of the best posts I’ve read explaining Go’s idiosyncracies

https://blog.carlana.net/post/google-go-the-good-the-bad-and-the-meh/

Yes, stuff has changed, but this is still a really good primer

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/113994624415669336

#golang, #python

2025-02-13T04:03:04+0000

Jason Braganza — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 04:03:04 +0000

Binge reading @carlana ’s blog after finding her on the #FallThrough podcast. She’s my kind of person (Thoughts constantly grounded in reality)

https://blog.carlana.net/

https://fallthrough.transistor.fm/episodes/whats-new-in-go-1-24

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/113994588752830268

#FallThrough

2025-02-12T11:36:40+0000

Jason Braganza — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 11:36:40 +0000

“#Emacs has a funny way of always being one step ahead of you”

— @naiquevin

I was just thinking of how to go about fixing my recurring checklist problem with #OrgMode when the universe gifts me Vineet’s post. Thank you Vineet! Big fan of all your posts! I learn a lot from them!

https://www.naiquev.in/recurring-checklists-using-org-mode-in-emacs.html

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/113990710070695295

https://mastodon.social/@hotdogsladies/113978810941235041

2025-02-12T04:15:38+0000

Jason Braganza — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 04:15:38 +0000

#English du jour

Roiling sea / Rolling boil

I always mix the two up!

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/113988975885694226

#english

2025-02-10T11:37:01+0000

Jason Braganza — Mon, 10 Feb 2025 11:37:01 +0000

This is basically my entire house. Because this is how I keep stuff.
I’ve honed it to a fine art.

Now I purposely first imagine where I would find a thing. Or where I’d go look for it. And *then* go put it there.

The mother curses me for doing this, while the wife, the blessed, saintly wife, indulges me (for better and for worse and all that) 😂

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/113979386863910301

2025-02-07T14:41:20+0000

Jason Braganza — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 14:41:20 +0000

I learnt (and forgot) Z80 #assembly. It’s always fascinated me. Maybe someday I’ll start again with the 6502!
https://fosstodon.org/@amoroso/113962378053055131

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/113963124713077785

#assembly

2025-02-07T05:57:27+0000

Jason Braganza — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 05:57:27 +0000

Mere liye, tu hai … Maula tu hai!

https://youtu.be/K48-_0hhXcg

(Phool khil jayien)

#mjbMusic #AbidaParveen #SufiMusic

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/113961064698590736

#mjbmusic, #AbidaParveen, #SufiMusic

2025-02-06T01:20:45+0000

Jason Braganza — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 01:20:45 +0000

It was Harrow that did me in, but yea #TLT will do that to you 😂

via harrowharksboner on tumblr, https://www.tumblr.com/harrowharksboner/774643708183363584

#TamsynMuir #TheLockedTomb #GideonTheNinth #Books #Reading #Humour

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/113954314375042972

#tlt, #tamsynmuir, #TheLockedTomb, #gideontheninth, #books, #reading, #humour

2025-02-04T08:49:38+0000

Jason Braganza — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 08:49:38 +0000

Thanks to @saptaks, here’s my attempt at the #BlogQuestionsChallenge 2025

https://janusworx.com/work/blog-questions-challenge-2025/

#Blogging #Writing #mjbWrites

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/113944754825171553

#blogquestionschallenge, #blogging, #writing, #mjbwrites

2025-02-04T04:06:16+0000

Jason Braganza — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 04:06:16 +0000

Hacking #Hugo post metadata on all my blog posts with #Python because I don’t want to edit 800+ posts by hand 😂

https://janusworx.com/work/hack-hugo-post-metadata-with-python/

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/113943640552002163

#hugo, #python

2025-02-04T04:04:06+0000

Jason Braganza — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 04:04:06 +0000

A little bit of a moving on from #NeilGaiman

https://janusworx.com/reading/on-gaiman/

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/113943632050120392

#neilgaiman

2025-02-04T03:33:30+0000

Jason Braganza — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 03:33:30 +0000

Abso-fucken-lutely 😂😂😂

#Expanse #TheExpanse #Humour

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/113943511753321980

#expanse, #theexpanse, #humour

2025-02-01T00:53:53+0000

Jason Braganza — Sat, 01 Feb 2025 00:53:53 +0000

Sound like a fun side project!
https://www.coryzue.com/writing/make-ai-pictures-of-yourself/

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/113925897133659679

2025-01-29T07:05:05+0000

Jason Braganza — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 07:05:05 +0000

me as i furiously write ansible scripts to control my growing-out-of-hand home net work

https://io.mwl.io/@quotebot/113909929111259803

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/113910369840410459

2025-01-28T01:18:26+0000

Jason Braganza — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 01:18:26 +0000

@danb ’s lists a lot of pretty logical canaries …

#FOSS
https://danb.me/blog/os-selfhosted-project-flags/

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/113903344448642332

#foss

2025-01-26T04:20:15+0000

Jason Braganza — Sun, 26 Jan 2025 04:20:15 +0000

#TIL i could download only part of a video thanks to #YTDLP

https://www.reddit.com/r/youtubedl/wiki/howdoidownloadpartsofavideo/

combined it with -x to download #ThePersuasions’ rendition of Looking for an echo from this lovely Spike Lee documentary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UZZpkRwnNQ

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/113892734739675252

#til, #ytdlp, #ThePersuasions

2025-01-20T05:06:19+0000

Jason Braganza — Mon, 20 Jan 2025 05:06:19 +0000

Today I learnt how to get Org Agenda to show me only the day

https://janusworx.com/work/view-only-day-with-org-agenda/

tldr; (setq org-agenda-span 'day)

#mjbWrites #OrgMode #Emacs #TIL

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/113858942009642596

#mjbwrites, #orgmode, #emacs, #til

2025-01-19T09:25:31+0000

Jason Braganza — Sun, 19 Jan 2025 09:25:31 +0000

More hacking on Espanso and Emacs

https://janusworx.com/work/more-espanso-emacs-shenanigans/

#mjbWrites #Espanso #Emacs

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/113854298960556603

#mjbwrites, #espanso, #emacs

2025-01-18T12:31:31+0000

Jason Braganza — Sat, 18 Jan 2025 12:31:31 +0000

#STTNG would have been so much better if Captain Jean-Luc Picard had kept his native French accent!

https://youtu.be/ZFkn4S9AbOM?t=415

#PatrickStewart

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/113849368030415356

#sttng, #patrickstewart

2025-01-18T10:14:20+0000

Jason Braganza — Sat, 18 Jan 2025 10:14:20 +0000

Done!

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/113848828573089307

2025-01-18T09:27:00+0000

Jason Braganza — Sat, 18 Jan 2025 09:27:00 +0000

BRB! Upgrading …
https://mastodon.social/@linuxmint/113848565818217922

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/113848642453195211

2025-01-17T12:20:44+0000

Jason Braganza — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 12:20:44 +0000

#TIL that the mp3 and flac audio formats* support multiple instances of the same tag. i can now tag a song with multiple genres. I can now list BoneyM with both pop and disco! Hurrah!

*I assume other formats do too, but my library is mostly m4a, alac, mp3 and flac

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/113843663312793324

#til

2025-01-14T10:14:56+0000

Jason Braganza — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 10:14:56 +0000

Goddamit! #NeilGaiman is dead to me

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/113826181735415043

#neilgaiman

2025-01-06T16:10:14+0000

Jason Braganza — Mon, 06 Jan 2025 16:10:14 +0000

Slow progress! #French

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/113782280336702167

#french

2025-01-06T02:25:08+0000

Jason Braganza — Mon, 06 Jan 2025 02:25:08 +0000

Damn you #JonathanSwift!
If you had only kept your mouth shut! 😂😂😂

He then commanded six-and-thirty of the lads, to read the several lines softly, as they appeared upon the frame; and where they found three or four words together that might make part of a sentence, they dictated to the four remaining boys, who were scribes.

This work was repeated three or four times, and at every turn, the engine was so contrived, that the words shifted into new places, as the square bits of wood moved upside down.

…

He assured me “that this invention had employed all his thoughts from his youth; that he had emptied the whole vocabulary into his frame, and made the strictest computation of the general proportion there is in books between the numbers of particles, nouns, and verbs, and other parts of speech

via #thechipletter’s latest, https://thechipletter.substack.com/p/the-engine

#LLM #AI #GPT

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/113779035911216746

#jonathanswift, #thechipletter, #llm, #ai, #gpt

2025-01-04T11:22:44+0000

Jason Braganza — Sat, 04 Jan 2025 11:22:44 +0000

figured out how to disable RSS for select posts in #hugo

https://janusworx.com/work/notes-now-has-no-rss-feed/

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/113769825214548138

2024-12-23T03:39:08+0000

Jason Braganza — Mon, 23 Dec 2024 03:39:08 +0000

Jon Batiste, Paul McCartney, Mick Jagger & Taylor Swift don’t earn as much as Daniel Ek …
https://aus.social/@bananamangodog/113694455623377938

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/113700054548009121

2024-12-18T02:04:30+0000

Jason Braganza — Wed, 18 Dec 2024 02:04:30 +0000

A love letter to some really good things on #movies and #tv this year.

Somebody please write something as lovely for India. We had lots of wonderful stuff this year!
https://reactormag.com/a-few-things-that-brought-us-nerdy-joy-in-2024/

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/113671370876395335

#movies, #tv

2024-12-04T01:37:31+0000

Jason Braganza — Wed, 04 Dec 2024 01:37:31 +0000

Also this gem …

“Because, yes, the way you make money as a band is to actually be a garment retailer.”

#SkinInTheGame

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/113591992390058782

#skininthegame

2024-12-04T01:32:53+0000

Jason Braganza — Wed, 04 Dec 2024 01:32:53 +0000

“When you’ve run a nightclub for 24 years and had it survive through an 18-month pandemic closure, I will give your fiscal theories all due consideration.”

This! THIS!

Have some #SkinInTheGame before spouting your foolish advice!
https://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/log/2024/12/03.html

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/113591974203052265

#skininthegame

2024-12-03T16:13:38+0000

Jason Braganza — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 16:13:38 +0000

Such a good list!
#Books #Reading
https://pluralistic.net/2024/12/02/booklish/

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/113589775119857685

https://www.macworld.com/article/2525708

2024-11-21T04:09:14+0000

Jason Braganza — Thu, 21 Nov 2024 04:09:14 +0000

The title of the article is, “Once again, the only way forward is the Mac”

My title woulda been, Why I moved to Linux on the desktop and why I try and use my iPhone as little as possible.
But I realise that is a mouthful

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/113518978948188923

2024-11-20T04:00:40+0000

Jason Braganza — Wed, 20 Nov 2024 04:00:40 +0000

“Take this quote from William Hamilton […]

We belong to opposite poles of algebra; since you… seem to consider Algebra as a ‘System of Signs and of their combinations,’ somewhat analogous to syllogisms expressed in letters; while I am never satisfied unless I think that I can look beyond or through the signs to the things signified.

You catch that? William Hamilton, who gave us our bizarro non-commutative generalization of the complex numbers, didn’t want algebra to be a science of symbols alone.
[…]
In brief: Algebra isn’t just hard for surly teens. It’s hard for anyone with an intellectual commitment to symbols having meanings.”

— Ben Orlin, What’s the use of math history?
https://mathwithbaddrawings.com/2024/11/19/whats-the-use-of-math-history/

#Maths #Mathematics #History

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/113513282959520504

#maths, #mathematics, #history

2024-11-18T12:21:41+0000

Jason Braganza — Mon, 18 Nov 2024 12:21:41 +0000

#Go #GoLang friends, what library can I use to extract cover art from an mp3 file?

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/113503928394276327

#go, #golang

2024-11-18T02:59:29+0000

Jason Braganza — Mon, 18 Nov 2024 02:59:29 +0000

#LazyWeb #LazyFedi is there a way to add #AltText to my profile and header images on Mastodon?

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/113501717734737128

#lazyweb, #lazyfedi, #alttext

2024-11-18T00:00:41+0000

Jason Braganza — Mon, 18 Nov 2024 00:00:41 +0000

… “there is no such thing as the essential spirit of a text, because what is “essential” will vary from person to person. it is, again, all interpretation.”

Notes on adaptation, https://www.tumblr.com/trans-elrond/722964776975728640/a-general-reply-to-people-in-the-notes-assigned

#Books #Films #Media #Adaptation

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/113501014656458267

#books, #films, #media, #adaptation

2024-11-17T12:52:18+0000

Jason Braganza — Sun, 17 Nov 2024 12:52:18 +0000

I want to setup a new section on my website. Currently it consists of three bloggy sections; Personal, Work & Reading.

I want to add another one that’s similar. I want to collect all sorts of drafts and progress notes and miscellanea over there.

What should I call it? other than the obvious: Stuff under the carpet?
I’m tending towards the other obvious thing, Notes & Miscellanea, but it feels long and clunky

Please help. Please boost! All suggestions welcome.

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/113498386515656223

2024-11-16T11:33:51+0000

Jason Braganza — Sat, 16 Nov 2024 11:33:51 +0000

Who wants to buy a heart?
One broken lover’s heart …

https://youtu.be/5JtDuDTtWKs

#ElvisPresley #mjbMusic

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/113492415731318266

#elvispresley, #mjbmusic

2024-11-16T04:26:40+0000

Jason Braganza — Sat, 16 Nov 2024 04:26:40 +0000

If this beautiful story does not make you back @mwl’s #DearAbyss, I don’t know what will

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mwlucas/dear-abyss-the-freebsd-journal-letters-column-years-1-6/posts/4253368

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/113490735973560456

#dearabyss

2024-11-15T14:26:11+0000

Jason Braganza — Fri, 15 Nov 2024 14:26:11 +0000

While you’re out lookin’ for sugar …
Somebody’s tryin’ to take your honey and be gone

You just …
Buzz, Buzz, Buzz, Buuuzzz

https://youtu.be/VO4vDhCWAxc

#JossStone #mjbMusic

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/113487431064020106

#JossStone, #mjbmusic

2024-11-13T12:31:44+0000

Jason Braganza — Wed, 13 Nov 2024 12:31:44 +0000

Natalia’s amazing and her talk even more so
Thank you for all you do, @nessita

Inside Out: My Journey of Understanding Inclusion with Natalia Bidart
https://youtu.be/jYAeO37-420?si=2r0Y-Zw7qlTDmgbu

#Django #Inclusion

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/113475656384316302

#django, #inclusion

2024-11-11T11:11:55+0000

Jason Braganza — Mon, 11 Nov 2024 11:11:55 +0000

The resulting carnage was as swift as the DEC Alpha was powerful. 😂

https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/11/who_me/

#SysAdmin

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/113464017940922108

#sysadmin

2024-11-10T05:19:08+0000

Jason Braganza — Sun, 10 Nov 2024 05:19:08 +0000

thinking about how i’d handle subdirectories for a smol #Python script of mind.
had a lovely stream of consciousness sort of progress going, before I realised, I had reinvented BASE\_DIR
I really need to read a lot more code to familiarise myself with common programming conventions

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/113456968413111045

#python

2024-11-07T14:08:13+0000

Jason Braganza — Thu, 07 Nov 2024 14:08:13 +0000

Put me in your pocket and run …

https://youtu.be/V-7s5AVkVGc

#mjbMusic #RagNBoneMan

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/113442061932557805

#mjbmusic, #RagNBoneMan

2024-11-07T03:07:07+0000

Jason Braganza — Thu, 07 Nov 2024 03:07:07 +0000

#Ansible #SysAdmin #Devops folk need help

What is the generally accepted wisdom on updating the os and packages on systems with Ansible?
Five systems on my network is getting too much to handle and I want to automate os and package updates with Ansible. Good idea?

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/113439462381991143

#ansible, #sysadmin, #devops

2024-11-05T08:14:46+0000

Jason Braganza — Tue, 05 Nov 2024 08:14:46 +0000

Imagine being born into an age when #QuincyJones reigned supreme. Nothing in pop ever came close after that :)

RIP Quincy!

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/113429347460007483

#quincyjones

2024-11-02T04:26:42+0000

Jason Braganza — Sat, 02 Nov 2024 04:26:42 +0000

and also, “You’re welcome you ungrateful fuck.” is something I’m going to use a lot

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/113411463746699913

2024-11-02T04:26:01+0000

Jason Braganza — Sat, 02 Nov 2024 04:26:01 +0000

“i will start and not finish whatever the fuck i want”, is exactly the thing I needed to hear today :)

https://dduane.tumblr.com/post/765964861184278528

via DD’s Tumblr (#DianeDuane)

#Reading #Writing #Books #Creativity #Arts

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/113411461060104135

#DianeDuane, #reading, #writing, #books, #creativity, #arts

2024-11-01T06:56:52+0000

Jason Braganza — Fri, 01 Nov 2024 06:56:52 +0000

Here’s what I read last month

Head First Go, Jay McGavren
The Rest is History, The Roman Conquest of Britain, Episodes 499-502
All Systems Red, Martha Wells
Artificial Condition, Martha Wells
Rogue Protocol, Martha Wells
Exit Strategy, Martha Wells
Network Effect, Martha Wells
Fugitive Telemetry, Martha Wells
System Collapse, Martha Wells
Grit, Angela Duckworth
The Art of Resilience, Ross Edgley
When the World Screamed, Arthur Conan Doyle
The Disintegration Machine, Arthur Conan Doyle
The Lost World, Arthur Conan Doyle
The Captain of the Polestar, Arthur Conan Doyle
Playing With Fire, Arthur Conan Doyle
How It Happened, Arthur Conan Doyle
One Crowded Hour, Arthur Conan Doyle
The Fall of Lord Barrymore, Arthur Conan Doyle
Dreams With Sharp Teeth, Harlan Ellison & Erik Nelson
A Rare Benedictine, Ellis Peters
A Morbid Taste for Bones, Ellis Peters
Once Corpse Too Many, Ellis Peters
Monk’s Hood, Ellis Peters
Saint Peter’s Fair, Ellis Peters
The Leper of Saint Giles, Ellis Peters
The Sealed Room, Arthur Conan Doyle
The Lost Special, Arthur Conan Doyle
The Sanctuary Sparrow, Ellis Peters
Github Actions in Action, Michael Kaufmann, Rob Bos & Marcel de Vries
Strange Beasts, Susan J. Morris
Death on the Nile, Agatha Christie
Powerful Command-Line Applications in Go, Ricardo Gerardi
Murder in Mesopotamia, Agatha Christie
The Devil’s Novice, Ellis Peters
Dead Man’s Ransom, Ellis Peters
The Pilgrim of Hate, Ellis Peters

The rest of this year’s list is here:
https://janusworx.com/reading/2024/

https://mas.to/@kissane/113392547908179508

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/113406391893706794

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

2024-10-31T03:30:59+0000

Jason Braganza — Thu, 31 Oct 2024 03:30:59 +0000

Happy Deepavali folks!

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/113399920065275851

2024-10-30T03:29:21+0000

Jason Braganza — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 03:29:21 +0000

My new motto
https://hachyderm.io/@robpike/113394204508730857

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/113394251308786573

2024-10-30T03:18:35+0000

Jason Braganza — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 03:18:35 +0000

Today’s #SelfHost if you can, help your family and friends if you can PSA, brought to you by Erin

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/113394208988551854

#selfhost

2024-10-29T13:28:57+0000

Jason Braganza — Tue, 29 Oct 2024 13:28:57 +0000

You should write in your #Books

— Ben Orlin

#Reading #Notes #Learning #NoteTaking

https://mathwithbaddrawings.com/2024/10/29/please-deface-my-books/

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/113390946696640912

#books, #reading, #notes, #learning, #notetaking

2024-10-29T12:27:34+0000

Jason Braganza — Tue, 29 Oct 2024 12:27:34 +0000

the music video was sheer fun too!

https://youtu.be/jbS5PZiiWIQ

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/113390705335680774

2024-10-29T12:21:56+0000

Jason Braganza — Tue, 29 Oct 2024 12:21:56 +0000

my go to listen, whenever I’m blue …

https://youtu.be/idC_GEGl5v4

#Amazulu #MontegoBay #mjbMusic

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/113390683214755870

#Amazulu, #MontegoBay, #mjbmusic

2024-10-29T11:19:16+0000

Jason Braganza — Tue, 29 Oct 2024 11:19:16 +0000

just back online after a day. thank you so much to all who boosted, specially those who shared their experiences and thoughts ( @khleedril, @mdhughes, @SnoozyRests, @wnj, @deafferret, @greggyb and @tokyo_0)

i have poked you folks a bit more for details in your replies, but I’ve already learnt so much. Thank you.

The essence though, is that I am in fact on the right track and I just need to be more patient with myself. and figure out somehow to decouple the learning from the job hunt.

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/113390436769384102

2024-10-29T07:33:59+0000

Jason Braganza — Tue, 29 Oct 2024 07:33:59 +0000

It’s been home for a few weeks now and I’ve only gotten around to it today!
It’s amazing! thank you for all you do @mwl

#RYOMS #eMail

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/113389550942197976

#RYOMS, #email

2024-10-27T04:50:16+0000

Jason Braganza — Sun, 27 Oct 2024 04:50:16 +0000

@mwl , would appreciate a boost please?

also (only if you have the time and energy) you’ve pivoted careers. considering you’re writing more of the darned things, how do you work through tech books. would love to hear your learning process

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/113377582516251698

2024-10-27T04:38:50+0000

Jason Braganza — Sun, 27 Oct 2024 04:38:50 +0000

Fellow #Programmers, #Coders (and possibly #Mathematicians) lend me wisdom!

I’m learning from books and I “know” the best way to learn from them is to work through them. But what I don’t know is how I’m doing. I’m often frustrated at my pace, since I don’t know what normal is.

And I need to learn stuff, to land a job. (I’m old. I want to pivot into a remote job, ergo devops. Anyway, that’s enough about me.)

So here’s the question(s),

How long do you take to work through a new text / proof / new book on a new topic that you don’t know?

How long did it take you (if you remember) when you were just starting out?
Were you doing this on your own?
Were there other people / things / places that aided you?

Please boost, to help a slow learner?! Thank you!

#Coding #Maths #Books #Workbooks

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/113377537561154700

#programmers, #coders, #mathematicians, #coding, #maths, #books, #Workbooks

2024-10-26T14:28:10+0000

Jason Braganza — Sat, 26 Oct 2024 14:28:10 +0000

Love remains …

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpEXenkqp-4

#mjbMusic #Alabama #ChristopherCross

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/113374192663131769

#mjbmusic, #alabama, #ChristopherCross

2024-10-26T04:21:00+0000

Jason Braganza — Sat, 26 Oct 2024 04:21:00 +0000

Two good authors I follow, from two different worlds: Kitty Kildare & David Kadavy have had their books blocked on Amazon for unspecified reasons.

@mwl was paranoid when he diversified
@mwl was prescient
and @mwl was right

Buy their books and support them if you can.

#Authors #Books #BookPublishing

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/113371805179310727

#authors, #books, #BookPublishing

2024-10-24T06:28:46+0000

Jason Braganza — Thu, 24 Oct 2024 06:28:46 +0000

via #WilWheaton on Tumblr
https://wilwheaton.tumblr.com/post/765179952022847489

#SciFi #WomenAuthors

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/113360982919820689

#wilwheaton, #scifi, #womenauthors

2024-10-21T10:44:09+0000

Jason Braganza — Mon, 21 Oct 2024 10:44:09 +0000

Some folks go, he takes 300 pages for something that could’ve been done in a hundred fifty.
to those folks, I say, suck it.

ala Taleb, the point with these books is the journey.

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/113345000216176639

2024-10-21T10:41:38+0000

Jason Braganza — Mon, 21 Oct 2024 10:41:38 +0000

I read #TheTiger by #JohnVaillant in June.
The Amur tiger and the Russian Far East still haunt my mind and soul
Similar #Book recommendations, people?

#Bookstodon

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/113344990324577250

#TheTiger, #johnvaillant, #book, #bookstodon

2024-10-20T07:24:45+0000

Jason Braganza — Sun, 20 Oct 2024 07:24:45 +0000

Also #NoteToSelf:

Instead of announcing a ten hour work day and then being disappointed when you don’t meet it, shoot for five hours a day of actual art making: it’s still going to end up being an eight-hour work day.

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/113338553796061463

#notetoself

2024-10-20T07:23:22+0000

Jason Braganza — Sun, 20 Oct 2024 07:23:22 +0000

This post by @ColleenDoran is excellent and helpful

I only share it though, because her middle aged grumpiness matches mine. To wit:

“The other day someone chewed me out for writing a post about setting boundaries and managing my stress.

Because to do so is a sign of privilege.

She can suck it.”

— Colleen Doran, Low Energy Life Strategies

https://colleendoran.substack.com/p/low-energy-life-strategies

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/113338548380330835

2024-10-20T05:22:11+0000

Jason Braganza — Sun, 20 Oct 2024 05:22:11 +0000

I’m sure @JensGustedt has a hidden philosoper in him somewhere. This description is pithy and genius:

“There are two categories of aspects to consider in a C program:

syntactical aspects
(how do we specify the program so the compiler understands it?)

and

semantic aspects
(what do we specify so the program does what we want it to do?).

In the following subsections, we will introduce the syntactical aspects (grammar) and three different semantic aspects: declarative parts (what things are), definitions of objects (where things are), and statements (what things are supposed to do).”

— Jens Gustedt, Modern C
https://gustedt.wordpress.com/2024/10/15/the-c23-edition-of-modern-c/

I think that’s C (and most basic programming) in a nutshell.

#ModernC #C

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/113338071886753826

#ModernC, #c

2024-10-18T02:46:42+0000

Jason Braganza — Fri, 18 Oct 2024 02:46:42 +0000

A case for feminism in programming language design #FelienneHermans
https://www.felienne.com/archives/8470

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/113326135874627079

#FelienneHermans

2024-10-16T04:58:07+0000

Jason Braganza — Wed, 16 Oct 2024 04:58:07 +0000

Oh, how the mighty have fallen!
There’s absolutley no way, I saw Intel bending the knee like this and cooperating, in their heyday

https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/15/intel_amd_x86_future/

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/113315327996472516

2024-10-12T15:47:02+0000

Jason Braganza — Sat, 12 Oct 2024 15:47:02 +0000

Evensong

if you ever hear me calling out
And if you’ve been by paupers crowned
Between the worlds of men and
Make-believe
I can be found

(Scarecrow’s Dream)

https://youtu.be/_rrp8KFIuIY

#DanFogelberg #mjbMusic

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/113295230399124259

#DanFogelberg, #mjbmusic

2024-10-04T07:59:05+0000

Jason Braganza — Fri, 04 Oct 2024 07:59:05 +0000

Long ago, and oh, so far away
I fell in love with you before the second show
Your guitar, it sounds so sweet and clear
But you’re not really here, it’s just the radio

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGrLUavvkIA

#KarenCarpenter was amazing!

#mjbMusic #TheCarpenters #RoyalPhilharmonic

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/113248091893868685

#karencarpenter, #mjbmusic, #TheCarpenters, #RoyalPhilharmonic

2024-10-02T13:47:34+0000

Jason Braganza — Wed, 02 Oct 2024 13:47:34 +0000

Rosie, come with me
Close your eyes and dream

https://youtu.be/8QC8kGtUuKk

#mjbMusic #NorahJones

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/113238137556694219

#mjbmusic, #norahjones

2024-10-01T13:58:42+0000

Jason Braganza — Tue, 01 Oct 2024 13:58:42 +0000

I’m living in an empty room
With all the windows smashed
And I’ve got so little left to lose
That it feels just like I’m walking on broken glass

https://youtu.be/y25stK5ymlA

#mjbMusic #AnnieLennox

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/113232519008045585

#mjbmusic, #annielennox

2024-09-30T02:34:15+0000

Jason Braganza — Mon, 30 Sep 2024 02:34:15 +0000

A new spin on Seneca’s Dying Every Day

(Come to think of it, this is Mother Nature, so Stoicism’s a modern spin on 😆)

https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/living-world/2024/apoptosis-necrosis-and-other-ways-cells-can-die

#Biology #Physiology #Stoicism

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/113224165331353349

#biology, #physiology, #stoicism

2024-09-29T12:33:02+0000

Jason Braganza — Sun, 29 Sep 2024 12:33:02 +0000

Fixing Espanso Expansions

https://janusworx.com/work/fixing-espanso-expansions/

#mjbWrites #Espanso

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/113220857503861535

#mjbwrites, #espanso

2024-09-28T12:27:57+0000

Jason Braganza — Sat, 28 Sep 2024 12:27:57 +0000

Testing opengraph support on my blog’s theme. Thank you!

https://janusworx.com/work/testing-opengraph-logo/

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/113215175242080746

2024-09-28T10:19:09+0000

Jason Braganza — Sat, 28 Sep 2024 10:19:09 +0000

Setup a new personal instance of Forgejo. Yay!

https://janusworx.com/work/forgejo/

#mjbWrites #Devops #Forgejo #Git

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/113214668766898479

#mjbwrites, #devops, #forgejo, #git

2024-09-26T14:21:11+0000

Jason Braganza — Thu, 26 Sep 2024 14:21:11 +0000

Grow old with me!

https://janusworx.com/personal/13-grow-old-with-me/

#mjbWrites #Photography

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/113204295844393869

#mjbwrites, #photography

2024-09-25T10:26:38+0000

Jason Braganza — Wed, 25 Sep 2024 10:26:38 +0000

Rainy days and Mondays always get me down …

https://youtu.be/PjFoQxjgbrs

#mjbMusic #TheCarpenters

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/113197711264510997

#mjbmusic, #TheCarpenters

2024-09-21T09:58:22+0000

Jason Braganza — Sat, 21 Sep 2024 09:58:22 +0000

J’ai créé une petite extension #Anki pour m’envoyer des notifications #Pushover pour les cartes qui sont à réviser.

Trouvez l’extension et les instructions sur Github

https://github.com/jasonbraganza/anki-push-u

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/113174950888615431

#anki, #Pushover

2024-09-21T09:25:52+0000

Jason Braganza — Sat, 21 Sep 2024 09:25:52 +0000

I made a thing! A tiny #Anki addon that sends me notifications via #Pushover of any cards due.

Post: https://janusworx.com/anki-push-u/
Github repo: https://github.com/jasonbraganza/anki-push-u

#Python #mjbWrites

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/113174823073602398

#anki, #Pushover, #python, #mjbwrites

2024-09-14T10:35:09+0000

Jason Braganza — Sat, 14 Sep 2024 10:35:09 +0000

Some Site Housekeeping (New Sections and RSS Feeds)

https://janusworx.com/work/some-site-housekeeping-new-sections-and-rss-feeds/

#mjbWrites

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/113135459349296339

#mjbwrites

2024-09-13T06:41:13+0000

Jason Braganza — Fri, 13 Sep 2024 06:41:13 +0000

and while it works 99% of the time, the few times it does not, have led to the premature greying of my hair

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/113128877134708503

2024-09-13T06:39:01+0000

Jason Braganza — Fri, 13 Sep 2024 06:39:01 +0000

When I say, oh you can’t use this, I’ve specifically tailored this to my needs, what I mean, is that this is a giant pile of hacks, most pretty insecure, that I dare not let loose in the wild.

#SysAdmin #Hugo

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/113128868538093461

#sysadmin, #hugo

2024-09-10T12:18:50+0000

Jason Braganza — Tue, 10 Sep 2024 12:18:50 +0000

How to support your favourite authors—even if you can’t buy their books, Suyi Davies Okungbowa

https://suyidavies.com/essays/support-authors

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/113113217821453916

2024-09-07T05:04:15+0000

Jason Braganza — Sat, 07 Sep 2024 05:04:15 +0000

Tried the new #Reeder for #RSS. It’s definitely not for me.
It does not work with my #Miniflux instance and does too much “magic”

Been a happy user for more than a decade and a half now and I’m a bit saddened that Silvio’s vision for how an RSS app should be, has diverged from mine.
Wished Silvio had just enabled subscriptions in #ReederClassic, so I could continue to pay him, annually.

So where does that leave me, now that one of my core reading experiences is undergoing upheaval? With a certain sense of unease for now, that is all.
#ReederClassic still exists and I hope there will be enough people like me, who’d love to pay @rizzi to keep working on ye olde classic.
I worry about an amazing app like this vanishing.

None of this is to say that the new app is bad. It’s classic Silvio.
I’m assuming an enormous amount of time and effort must have gone into accomplishing all that he has done.
It’s beautiful, polished and amazing. Just sadly not for me :)
Go try it 1 and if it fits your mental model, then there can be no better app, than a Silvio Rizzi creation

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/113094522022147224

#reeder, #rss, #miniflux, #ReederClassic

2024-08-31T09:12:20+0000

Jason Braganza — Sat, 31 Aug 2024 09:12:20 +0000

is there any Indian site online, that has signed copies of the new William Dalrymple book, The Golden Road? Shipping it in from abroad is prohibitively expensive for me.

Please boost for reach.

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/113055861365351456

2024-08-31T05:16:30+0000

Jason Braganza — Sat, 31 Aug 2024 05:16:30 +0000

When Cabanel finally graduated and returned to Paris as a professional painter, he had already received nearly *sixteen years* of focused, intense education on art and art alone.

I’d kill for that. Or, at least sacrifice a goat for it.

You can graduate from medical school and be operating on patients in less time than that artist studied how to paint that angel.

— @ColleenDoran
( in her latest, The Education of an Artist
https://colleendoran.substack.com/p/the-education-of-an-artist )

#Art #Life #Practice

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/113054934032699927

#art, #life, #practice

2024-08-21T13:57:15+0000

Jason Braganza — Wed, 21 Aug 2024 13:57:15 +0000

#TIL about --inplace with #rsync. (I’m copying close to a tb of data disk to disk on a local machine)

Goodness gracious what a difference in speed!

#sherlockholmes, #ShekharHome

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/113000358568496987

#til, #rsync, #linux

2024-08-20T12:06:56+0000

Jason Braganza — Tue, 20 Aug 2024 12:06:56 +0000

and Bengal’s never looked prettier!

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/112994262458810236

2024-08-20T12:00:05+0000

Jason Braganza — Tue, 20 Aug 2024 12:00:05 +0000

imagine a fantastic #SherlockHolmes adaption in my own backyard!
#ShekharHome is a fantastically rooted, fun, ride.

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/112994235537993740

2024-08-20T09:51:57+0000

Jason Braganza — Tue, 20 Aug 2024 09:51:57 +0000

saw #LaalKaptaan. again. nothing will ever capture the Indian Hinterland like this movie did.

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/112993731700893003

#LaalKaptaan

2024-08-20T06:26:06+0000

Jason Braganza — Tue, 20 Aug 2024 06:26:06 +0000

RIP Mike! Thanks to you, I was able to see the clusterfuck that was the CPQ/HP merger and realise that I was for the chopping block, much before others could. I could then leave on my own terms and then had the margin to go set up my own consultancy.
Thank you for all the news you broke, but even more for being such a joyful, wonderful wordsmith.

One good example of the clout Mike had was summed up in a conversation I had with him and an Intel VP who shall remain nameless during an IDF in China. He casually mentioned that The Inq was the first thing he read when he woke up. With a good degree of snark I asked, “Before or after you take a leak?”. “Before”. He was serious.
Those days are unlikely to return but they were pretty amazing to live through and it is all because of what Mike Magee created. Much to the relief of many execs in the industry, there will never be another like him.

— Charlie Demerjian
https://semiaccurate.com/2024/08/12/industry-pioneer-mike-magee-has-passed-away/

#MikeMagee

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/112992922289209005

#MikeMagee

2024-08-20T04:22:52+0000

Jason Braganza — Tue, 20 Aug 2024 04:22:52 +0000

You read something which you thought only happened to you, and you discover that it happened 100 years ago to Dostoyevsky.

This is a very great liberation for the suffering, struggling person, who always thinks that he is alone.

This is why art is important.
Art would not be important if life were not important, and life is important.

— James Baldwin
via, @thenightlymirror on Tumblr: https://thenightlymirror.tumblr.com/post/741802282358882304/james-baldwin

#Art #Life

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/112992437715911677

#art, #life

2024-08-19T09:31:36+0000

Jason Braganza — Mon, 19 Aug 2024 09:31:36 +0000

Notes to Self, Compiling Qbittorrent on a Raspberry Pi 5

https://janusworx.com/blog/notes-to-self-on-compiling-qbittorrent-on-a-raspberry-pi-5/

#mjbWrites #RaspberryPi #100WordHabit #Linux

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/112987989386226049

#mjbwrites, #raspberrypi, #100WordHabit, #linux

2024-08-18T04:03:17+0000

Jason Braganza — Sun, 18 Aug 2024 04:03:17 +0000

Me!
https://frikiverse.zone/@terrybot/112981023619666526

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/112981036095160132

2024-08-16T03:12:06+0000

Jason Braganza — Fri, 16 Aug 2024 03:12:06 +0000

Finally! Finally! I get to put my grubby little paws on @mwl’s latest!

As an old sysadmin who got so badly burnt, that email has been the one piece of infrastructure I’ve always outsourced for the past decade and a half, here’s hoping #RYOMS helps me get over that fear. (or knowing Lucas, confirms my worst fears!)

It’s been a joy seeing this project come to fruition. Thank you @mwl!

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/112969510182730345

#RYOMS

2024-08-13T14:58:37+0000

Jason Braganza — Tue, 13 Aug 2024 14:58:37 +0000

Finally! A chart I can identify with …

Via, https://www.tumblr.com/bookgeekdom/748234807054614528

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/112955301393331141

https://petermorwood.tumblr.com/post/758245883901001728

2024-08-08T16:17:52+0000

Jason Braganza — Thu, 08 Aug 2024 16:17:52 +0000

I pay a terrible price to bring this news to you …

More fun here …

#Books #Reading #Humour

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/112927301472336340

#books, #reading, #humour

2024-08-07T03:41:44+0000

Jason Braganza — Wed, 07 Aug 2024 03:41:44 +0000

What do you mean?

https://mathwithbaddrawings.com/2024/08/06/which-mean-do-you-mean/

#Maths #Fun

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/112918665912511748

#maths, #fun

2024-08-07T01:15:04+0000

Jason Braganza — Wed, 07 Aug 2024 01:15:04 +0000

Hurrah 🥳 https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2024/08/06/wordstar_7_the_last_ever/

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/112918089193291293

2024-08-05T13:55:24+0000

Jason Braganza — Mon, 05 Aug 2024 13:55:24 +0000

Every time I watch an Anurag Kashyap interview, it reminds me of my long conversations with @kushal

https://youtu.be/pZL88FpoOB0

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/112909754321677231

2024-08-03T03:56:03+0000

Jason Braganza — Sat, 03 Aug 2024 03:56:03 +0000

Current mood

#Books #Reading #Snoozing #RainyDay

https://www.tumblr.com/snoopyoftheday/750631331273326592/snoopy-of-the-day

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/112896072982047189

#books, #reading, #snoozing, #RainyDay

2024-08-02T12:49:11+0000

Jason Braganza — Fri, 02 Aug 2024 12:49:11 +0000

Here’s what I read in March, April, May, June & July

The Phoenix Project, Gene Kim, Kevin Behr & George Spafford
Sherlock & Co. Podcast, Episodes 36–41
Empire Podcast, America’s Founding Fathers & the American Revolution, Episodes 146–159
A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder, Holly Jackson
90 Common French Phrases Every French Learner Should Know, Frederic Bibard
How to Hide an Empire, Daniel Immerwahr
How to Fail Miserably at Writing, Giselle Renard
The Colour of Magic, Terry Pratchett
Tarzan of the Apes, Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Return of Tarzan, Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Beasts of Tarzan, Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Girl Who Would Be Free, Ryan Holiday
The Rest is History, Titanic, Episodes 427–432
Empire Podcast, American Imperialism, Episodes 160–169
HIM, Geoff Ryman
Mr. Einstein’s Secretary, Matthew Reilly
The Peripheral, William Gibson
The Rest is History, Fall of the American Indigenous Peoples, Episodes 446–456

The rest of this year’s list is here:
https://janusworx.com/reading/2024/

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/112892507041384255

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

2024-08-02T12:47:55+0000

Jason Braganza — Fri, 02 Aug 2024 12:47:55 +0000

It’s been a while since I posted on of these, so this is a going to be a thread methinks

Here’s what I read in March, April, May, June & July

The Poppy War, R.F. Kuang
The Dragon Republic, R.F. Kuang
The Burning God, R.F. Kuang
The Tainted Cup, Robert Jackson Bennett
Empire Podcast, Series 6, Episodes 128–132, Buddhism
Foundryside, Robert Jackson Bennett
Shorefall, Robert Jackson Bennett
Locklands, Robert Jackson Bennett
Schaum’s Outline of French Grammar, Mary Coffman Crocker
5BX Plan, The Royal Canadian Air Force
The Pixar Touch, David A. Price
Empire Podcast, Series 7, Episodes 133–145, Queens and Empresses
The Romance of Lust: A Victorian Erotic Novel, Anonymous
Sherlock & Co. Podcast, Episodes 1–15
Sherlock & Co. Podcast, Episodes 16–35
Empire Podcast, Episodes 148–155, America: The Empire of Liberty
The Dagger and the Coin - 01 - The Dragon’s Path, Daniel Abraham
The Well-Trained Mind: A Guide to Classical Education at Home, Susan Wise Bauer
The Bed of Procrustes, Nicholas Nassim Taleb
How Git Works, Julia Evans
The Programmer’s Brain, Felienne Hermans
The Dagger and the Coin - 02 - The King’s Blood, Daniel Abraham
The Dagger and the Coin - 03 - The Tyrant’s Law, Daniel Abraham
The Dagger and the Coin - 04 - The Widow’s House, Daniel Abraham
The Dagger and the Coin - 05 - The Spider’s War, Daniel Abraham
The Tiger, John Vaillant
Troll Mountain, Matthew Reilly

The rest of this year’s list is here:
https://janusworx.com/reading/2024/

https://youtu.be/9d_-myIs4To

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/112892502048321790

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

2024-07-31T14:51:33+0000

Jason Braganza — Wed, 31 Jul 2024 14:51:33 +0000

chanson dans ma tête:

So take me from the wreckage
Save me from the blast
Lift me up and take me back
Don’t let me keep on walking
[…] on broken glass

#AnnieLennox #WalkingOnBrokenGlass #mjbMusic

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/112881663601528706

#annielennox, #WalkingOnBrokenGlass, #mjbmusic

2024-07-31T12:59:25+0000

Jason Braganza — Wed, 31 Jul 2024 12:59:25 +0000

All you can do is create it and put it out there for them to decide. #Writing https://dduane.tumblr.com/post/757497324421431296

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/112881222670659484

#writing

2024-07-30T08:34:36+0000

Jason Braganza — Tue, 30 Jul 2024 08:34:36 +0000

Big giant list of tutorials for life skills via #PeterMorwood

https://petermorwood.tumblr.com/post/757358802994708481/missmentelle-this-is-a-big-giant-list-of-youtube

#Life

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/112874519022474103

#PeterMorwood, #life

2024-07-29T09:14:54+0000

Jason Braganza — Mon, 29 Jul 2024 09:14:54 +0000

Chanson du jour

I took her by the looking glass
And forced her to agree
Saying, ‘You must be the mermaid
Who took Neptune for a ride.’

https://youtu.be/JyOatVYq0mM

#AnnieLennox #ProcolHarum #WhiterShadeOfPale #mjbMusic

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/112869015167756700

#annielennox, #ProcolHarum, #WhiterShadeOfPale, #mjbmusic

2024-07-29T08:04:47+0000

Jason Braganza — Mon, 29 Jul 2024 08:04:47 +0000

Upgraded to #LinuxMint Wilma. The process was smooth. Lots of stuff not working, but thanks to everything being well documented and checked and inconsistencies shown up front, nothing was a surprise

All is hunky dory!

Thank you @linuxmint !

#Books #Reading #TomGauld

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/112868739505237954

#linuxmint, #linux

2024-07-28T03:52:23+0000

Jason Braganza — Sun, 28 Jul 2024 03:52:23 +0000

It was the Kobo Elipsa e-reader that finally solved this conundrum for me

I really did have a backpack just for books before that

https://www.tumblr.com/myjetpack/757146800119545856/for-guardian-books

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/112862084663141461

#books, #reading, #tomgauld

2024-07-26T05:21:57+0000

Jason Braganza — Fri, 26 Jul 2024 05:21:57 +0000

Hello Wilma!

https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4731

Thank you @linuxmint for all you do!

#LinuxMint #Linux

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/112851112271784270

#linuxmint, #linux

2024-07-25T06:51:51+0000

Jason Braganza — Thu, 25 Jul 2024 06:51:51 +0000

It’s an innately human thing to do. Hope!
Today’s blow your mind philosophical/biological thread of the day!

That is an absolutely bonkers pitch, by the way, and everyone thought you were a showoff, even before the opposable thumbs. When the winter came, and the winter of winters, and the rain was acid and the air was poison on the tender shells of their eggs and choked the children in the shells; when the plants turned to poison, and the ocean turned against you all; when the climate changed, and the world’s children fell to shadow; your internal ocean was it that held true. A bet laid against the changing fates, a bet laid by a small beast against climate and geography and the forces of outer space, that you won. The dinosaurs fell and the pterosaurs fell and the marine reptiles dwindled, and you, furthest-child, least-looked-for, long-range-spaceship, held hope internally at 37.5 degrees. Which is another thing that humans do, sometimes.

— elodieunderglass on Tumblr
https://dduane.tumblr.com/post/756925146317602816/gallusrostromegalus-derinthescarletpescatarian

I learn so much thanks to @dianeduane!

#Biology #Philosophy #Hope #Life

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/112845803442176796

#biology, #philosophy, #hope, #life

2024-07-17T05:46:53+0000

Jason Braganza — Wed, 17 Jul 2024 05:46:53 +0000

#TIL that #KoboUtilities lets me store and restore reading progress to #Calibre

and here I was manually keeping track, all these years 😂

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=215339

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/112800249535250809

#til, #KoboUtilities, #calibre

2024-07-16T05:31:58+0000

Jason Braganza — Tue, 16 Jul 2024 05:31:58 +0000

Today’s #earworm …

All for freedom and for pleasure
Nothing ever lasts forever
Everybody wants to rule the world

https://youtu.be/SFU1GeGFpzY

#mjbMusic #TearsForFears #EverybodyWantsToRuleTheWorld

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/112794528551860529

#earworm, #mjbmusic, #tearsforfears, #EverybodyWantsToRuleTheWorld

2024-07-16T04:31:06+0000

Jason Braganza — Tue, 16 Jul 2024 04:31:06 +0000

Drucker’s subsequent description of the insensate labor of unskilled men in factories draws almost entirely from Taylor’s portrait of them—and accordingly condescends to their abilities to plan and organize work. In actual fact, it wasn’t so. Before Taylor, work was already organized by teams of factory workers, who in large part had control over how they worked. The knowledge they applied to work was largely “tacit” in nature, agreed upon among workers themselves rather than “explicit” (to borrow a famous definition from the sociologist Michael Polanyi). What Taylor sought in particular—indeed, what constituted his signal obsession—was to extract this tacit knowledge and install it in another set of people, the “industrial engineers.” Drucker called them “the prototype of all modern ‘knowledge workers’”—a plausible assumption but one that excised the tremendous amount of knowledge that already existed in the work process.

it’s even better to acknowledge that there never were any knowledge workers.
There have only ever been workers

— @aworkinglibrary
https://aworkinglibrary.com/writing/knowledge-workers

#Work #Life

(as someone who began his work life on the factory floor, cleaning CNC machines, and have slowly moved along the spectrum of work to now doing devops, I’ve experienced every single inch of the journey above. )

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/112794289198355889

#work, #life

2024-07-15T11:43:16+0000

Jason Braganza — Mon, 15 Jul 2024 11:43:16 +0000

Echoing Howard Marks’ mental model of second-order thinking,

“We create technologies, but we don’t know, where and how they will be affected”

— @kushal

(and what harmful consequences they might bring — me)

https://youtu.be/p_Vx3gDHeUI?t=1790

#AllCodeIsPolitical

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/112790326221228308

#allcodeispolitical

2024-07-15T09:22:40+0000

Jason Braganza — Mon, 15 Jul 2024 09:22:40 +0000

“Physical matter is music solidified” - Pythagoras
Above is the harmonic series
Below a photographic x-ray of a sea shell🐚
— didanawisgi on Tumblr

https://didanawisgi.tumblr.com/post/651161993709010944/physical-matter-is-music-solidified-pythagoras

#Nature #Science

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/112789773361229327

#nature, #science

2024-07-15T09:10:29+0000

Jason Braganza — Mon, 15 Jul 2024 09:10:29 +0000

do it scared
do it stupid
do it alone etc etc

*but*

***don’t do it hungry.***
eat a snack first!

— hummingbirdsaltimolockia, on tumblr
https://hummingbirdsaltimolockia.tumblr.com/post/753312313404276736/do-it-scared-do-it-stupid-do-it-alone-etc-etc-but

#NoteToSelf #PutYourOxygenMaskOnFirst

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/112789725485853256

#notetoself, #PutYourOxygenMaskOnFirst

2024-07-14T06:43:18+0000

Jason Braganza — Sun, 14 Jul 2024 06:43:18 +0000

“
“how did you get into writing”

girl nobody gets into writing.
writing shows up one day at your door and gets into you

”
— sourdough-seal on tumblr
https://sourdough-seal.tumblr.com/post/733549479619395584/how-did-you-get-into-writing-girl-nobody-gets

#Writing

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/112783484444117064

#writing

2024-07-12T02:02:59+0000

Jason Braganza — Fri, 12 Jul 2024 02:02:59 +0000

Fantasy needs to be grounded. It is not simply a license to do anything you like. Smaug and Toothless may both be dragons, but they should never be confused. Ignore canon, and the world you’ve created comes apart like tissue paper.

— GRRM on writing (dragons)

https://georgerrmartin.com/notablog/2024/07/11/here-there-be-dragons-2/

#Writing #ToolsOfTheTrade

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/112771057530300611

#writing, #toolsofthetrade

2024-07-11T07:47:22+0000

Jason Braganza — Thu, 11 Jul 2024 07:47:22 +0000

love the idea! have to figure out how to do this on my blog.

https://gomakethings.com/poisoning-the-ai-well/

#AI

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/112766749422220224

#ai

2024-07-09T09:23:10+0000

Jason Braganza — Tue, 09 Jul 2024 09:23:10 +0000

Happy Birthday Abbygail!

https://janusworx.com/blog/happy-birthday-abbygail-3/

#100WordHabit #Gratitude #HappyBirthday #Photography #Portraits #mjbWrites

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/112755801505233339

#100WordHabit, #gratitude, #happybirthday, #photography, #portraits, #mjbwrites

2024-07-09T03:15:01+0000

Jason Braganza — Tue, 09 Jul 2024 03:15:01 +0000

“It’s sufficiently well written that I kept reading, without being actually good.”

… @Bluejo, reviewing a book

https://reactormag.com/jo-waltons-reading-list-june-2024/

This is mostly my reading life. I’m slowly learning to put them down now

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/112754353851143401

https://www.wheresyoured.at/tss/

2024-07-08T04:24:38+0000

Jason Braganza — Mon, 08 Jul 2024 04:24:38 +0000

Setlled on using #Shotwell after close to a month of using both, Shotwell and #Digikam

Both handled my library with aplomb, with no issues. Both are awesome.
I could search, browse and find anything I wanted just the way I could with Lightroom classic.
You can’t go wrong with either.

Only settled on Shotwell, for purely subjective reasons; my mind just works better with it.

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/112748965314398037

#shotwell, #digikam

2024-07-02T03:37:16+0000

Jason Braganza — Tue, 02 Jul 2024 03:37:16 +0000

An excellent historical through line from Jack Welch’s awful practices to modern management

“ When Mira Murati said that AI was killing creative jobs that “should never have been there in the first place,” it wasn’t just a grotesque insult to those actually working in creative professions like journalism, design, and software engineering — though it was. Nor was it merely a demonstration of her unchained sociopathy and hubris, and the fact that she believes that she — a woman of little actual accomplishment and talent, and the intellectual depth of a puddle on a flat sidewalk — is singularly ordained to decide which jobs are worthy, and which jobs deserve to die.

Really, it was an insult to all of us. It was an expression of her belief that consumers don’t deserve things created by a person who actually gives a shit. You don’t deserve to watch movies that only exist thanks to the combined efforts of illustrators, sound engineers, composers, actors, writers, directors, and countless other uncelebrated roles, where each cog in the machine has spent years honing their skills until they’ve reached a level of unassailable mastery.

You, yes you, don’t deserve to use software created by someone who actually thought about the problem and — at the very least — makes a best effort to write secure, robust code.”

— Ed Zitron, The Shareholder Supremacy

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/112714805206328918

2024-07-02T03:08:30+0000

Jason Braganza — Tue, 02 Jul 2024 03:08:30 +0000

@linuxmint is there a way to do a one time donation without paypal? can i do a github sponsorship?

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/112714692083034876

2024-07-02T02:46:40+0000

Jason Braganza — Tue, 02 Jul 2024 02:46:40 +0000

2024-07-02

Gotten used to the layout for the most part. The arrow keys are still very troublesome and trip me up all the time. Realise how deep muscle memory actually is.
The only reason I don’t want to change them, is that they (the new keys) are easy on my fingers and when I’m intentional about them, are easy to use.
The Compose key and the : keys will still take a while getting used to.
Have gotten the hang of /, ?, = and + though.
Have gotten back to my old speed. My error rate is still *really* high. Most of my friends have now gotten used to my typos 😂

#100WordHabit #Keyboard #KinesisAdvantage360 #Kinesis

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/112714606224335376

#100WordHabit, #keyboard, #KinesisAdvantage360, #Kinesis

2024-07-01T05:15:26+0000

Jason Braganza — Mon, 01 Jul 2024 05:15:26 +0000

“I paid a terrible price for this knowledge.”
It sure feels like that at times!
#Books #Reading

More here, https://moss-sprout.tumblr.com/post/753938020143677440/im-starting-a-collection

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/112709528864257206

https://aworkinglibrary.com/writing/laborsaving

2024-06-30T02:43:25+0000

Jason Braganza — Sun, 30 Jun 2024 02:43:25 +0000

Sound familiar?

That same siren song of laborsaving technology echoed throughout the twentieth century, with vacuums and dishwashers and personal computers and 5G networks and on and on and on.

Yet the average number of hours worked (both waged work and housework) hasn’t budged.

The present-day fiction of so-called AI is the same story, second verse.
The people urging AI on us won’t save labor; they will try to degrade that labor, to further alienate us from it, to demand that we work as long and hard and hopelessly as ever.

Unless we refuse.

— @aworkinglibrary, Laborsaving

#AI #Humanity #Life

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/112703268806446880

#ai, #humanity, #life

2024-06-26T04:43:01+0000

Jason Braganza — Wed, 26 Jun 2024 04:43:01 +0000

Via catchymemes on Tumblr

https://www.tumblr.com/catchymemes/754007035834712064

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/112681089852361592

https://myjetpack.tumblr.com/post/754089082767998976

2024-06-24T01:16:29+0000

Jason Braganza — Mon, 24 Jun 2024 01:16:29 +0000

I did this as a young un.
A lot.
A lot, lot, in fact.

#TomGauld #Reading #Books

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/112668953113687183

#tomgauld, #reading, #books

2024-06-22T08:46:29+0000

Jason Braganza — Sat, 22 Jun 2024 08:46:29 +0000

Bread and Roses

https://janusworx.com/blog/bread-and-roses/

#Photography #BloomScrolling #100WordHabit #mjbWrites

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/112659397976052512

#photography, #bloomscrolling, #100WordHabit, #mjbwrites

2024-06-21T01:58:04+0000

Jason Braganza — Fri, 21 Jun 2024 01:58:04 +0000

#NoteToSelf #Emacs

C-x 1 when I want to close all the other windows in my frame, other than the one I’m working on.

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/112652129723045890

#notetoself, #emacs

2024-06-20T09:55:56+0000

Jason Braganza — Thu, 20 Jun 2024 09:55:56 +0000

Several Corroborative Thoughts on Pacing Yourself

https://janusworx.com/blog/several-corroborative-thoughts-on-pacing-yourself/

#mjbWrites #Writing #100WordHabit #Syntopica #Pacing #Perseverance

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/112648346422450410

#mjbwrites, #writing, #100WordHabit, #syntopica, #pacing, #perseverance

2024-06-19T10:01:18+0000

Jason Braganza — Wed, 19 Jun 2024 10:01:18 +0000

Note to Self, My New Heuristic for Blogging

https://janusworx.com/blog/note-to-self-my-new-heuristic-for-blogging/

#mjbWrites #100WordHabit #Writing #Blogging #NoteToSelf #Photography

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/112642705255603184

#mjbwrites, #100WordHabit, #writing, #blogging, #notetoself, #photography

2024-06-18T11:33:20+0000

Jason Braganza — Tue, 18 Jun 2024 11:33:20 +0000

Need Day of Month Reminders in Org Mode?
Emacs Sexp Diary Entries to the Rescue

https://janusworx.com/blog/org-mode-emacs-diary-sexps/

#OrgMode #Emacs #100WordHabit #NoteToSelf

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/112637404799992368

#orgmode, #emacs, #100WordHabit, #notetoself

2024-06-16T17:27:51+0000

Jason Braganza — Sun, 16 Jun 2024 17:27:51 +0000

Abso-fucking-lutely!

https://www.tumblr.com/syupon/753366914953248768/me-all-my-friends-currently

#TLT #TheLockedTomb #Books #Reading

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/112627474171134947

#tlt, #TheLockedTomb, #books, #reading

2024-06-15T10:53:54+0000

Jason Braganza — Sat, 15 Jun 2024 10:53:54 +0000

Bird on a Wire

https://janusworx.com/blog/bird-on-a-wire/

#mjbWrites #Photography #Nature #Flamingos #100WordHabit

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/112620262796356194

#mjbwrites, #photography, #nature, #flamingos, #100WordHabit

2024-06-14T14:20:43+0000

Jason Braganza — Fri, 14 Jun 2024 14:20:43 +0000

https://youtu.be/KmaU-U1BQ8Y

#Earworm #BobMarley #Exodus

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/112615413770968327

#earworm, #BobMarley, #exodus

2024-06-14T11:47:24+0000

Jason Braganza — Fri, 14 Jun 2024 11:47:24 +0000

The Rest Is Memory

https://janusworx.com/blog/the-rest-is-memory/

#mjbWrites #100WordHabit #Syntopica #Photography #Portraits

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/112614810859628640

#mjbwrites, #100WordHabit, #syntopica, #photography, #portraits

2024-06-13T12:20:56+0000

Jason Braganza — Thu, 13 Jun 2024 12:20:56 +0000

How to Stop Time

https://janusworx.com/blog/how-to-stop-time/

#Photograpy #100WordHabit #mjbWrites #BloomScrolling

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/112609280433029710

#photograpy, #100WordHabit, #mjbwrites, #bloomscrolling

2024-06-12T15:08:46+0000

Jason Braganza — Wed, 12 Jun 2024 15:08:46 +0000

Be Nobody but Yourself

https://janusworx.com/blog/be-nobody-but-yourself/

#100WordHabit #BloomScrolling #EECummings #Photography #Syntopica #mjbWrites

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/112604278085346268

#100WordHabit, #bloomscrolling, #EECummings, #photography, #syntopica, #mjbwrites

2024-06-12T09:14:53+0000

Jason Braganza — Wed, 12 Jun 2024 09:14:53 +0000

#RainLillies #Photography #Nature #BloomScrolling

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/112602886561761019

#RainLillies, #photography, #nature, #bloomscrolling

2024-06-12T06:18:24+0000

Jason Braganza — Wed, 12 Jun 2024 06:18:24 +0000

If you want to be more productive, the data are clear—*where* you work matters much more than *how hard* you work.

— Scott H Young, The Most Overlooked Way to Be More Productive

https://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/2024/06/11/overlooked-productivity/

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/112602192548342808

2024-06-11T10:40:39+0000

Jason Braganza — Tue, 11 Jun 2024 10:40:39 +0000

#BloomScrolling #Photography

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/112597561492116580

#bloomscrolling, #photography

2024-06-09T00:36:10+0000

Jason Braganza — Sun, 09 Jun 2024 00:36:10 +0000

I Read Like Grandma Does

https://janusworx.com/blog/i-read-like-grandma-does/

#mjbWrites #100WordHabit #Reading #Books

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/112583859959365880

#mjbwrites, #100WordHabit, #reading, #books

2024-06-08T14:02:28+0000

Jason Braganza — Sat, 08 Jun 2024 14:02:28 +0000

Go back @mwl’s ROYMS kickstarter already!
Get a fuck ton of books!
It’s a steal I tell you. Feels like I’m robbing him blind!

Only about 30 hours left to get ‘em all!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mwlucas/run-your-own-mail-server

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/112581368090768984

2024-06-08T09:36:54+0000

Jason Braganza — Sat, 08 Jun 2024 09:36:54 +0000

Cursive Is Fun

https://janusworx.com/blog/cursive-is-fun/

#mjbWrites #Photography #Cursive #Handwriting #100WordHabit

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/112580323855947272

#mjbwrites, #photography, #cursive, #handwriting, #100WordHabit

2024-06-08T06:28:57+0000

Jason Braganza — Sat, 08 Jun 2024 06:28:57 +0000

and to all the folks who pointed me to the pxls.us site, Thank You!
Quite a find. I’ll learn lots!

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/112579584830390645

2024-06-08T05:24:50+0000

Jason Braganza — Sat, 08 Jun 2024 05:24:50 +0000

Folks, need help.

I’m a lightroom refugee and ever since moving to Linux, I have done nothing with my photos.

My main use of Lightroom was the RAW processing and the catalog

While I can wait for the editing/processing stuff, the browsing folders to get at a photo, is getting to me.

Can Digikam or Shotwell handle large collections of photos? Does it work well for a serious amateur photographer, who has a large volume of photos in various RAW formats?

#AskFedi #Gnome #Photography #Shotwell #Linux #Digikam

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/112579332669521328

#askfedi, #gnome, #photography, #shotwell, #linux, #digikam

2024-06-07T11:23:05+0000

Jason Braganza — Fri, 07 Jun 2024 11:23:05 +0000

Doing Devops, Dropping Rust

https://janusworx.com/blog/doing-devops-dropping-rust/

#100WordHabit #mjbWrites

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/112575079089810377

#100WordHabit, #mjbwrites

2024-06-06T12:44:34+0000

Jason Braganza — Thu, 06 Jun 2024 12:44:34 +0000

Linking to a Headline in an Org File

https://janusworx.com/blog/note-to-self-linking-to-a-headline-in-an-org-file/

#NoteToSelf #mjbwrites #100WordHabit #OrgMode #Emacs

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/112569737181922954

#notetoself, #mjbwrites, #100WordHabit, #orgmode, #emacs

2024-06-05T12:05:26+0000

Jason Braganza — Wed, 05 Jun 2024 12:05:26 +0000

What I’d Do for You

https://janusworx.com/blog/what-id-do-for-you/

#mjbWrites #Dgplug #Photography #FujiXS20 #Poetry #100WordHabit

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/112563920969354545

#mjbwrites, #dgplug, #photography, #FujiXS20, #poetry, #100WordHabit

2024-06-04T07:36:38+0000

Jason Braganza — Tue, 04 Jun 2024 07:36:38 +0000

Moved My Music Library From Jellyfin to Emby Today

https://janusworx.com/blog/moved-my-music-library-from-jellyfin-to-emby-today/

#mjbWrites #Linux #Devops #Containers #Emby #Jellyfin #Dgplug #100WordHabit

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/112557201711316927

#mjbwrites, #linux, #devops, #containers, #Emby, #jellyfin, #dgplug, #100WordHabit

2024-06-03T12:29:13+0000

Jason Braganza — Mon, 03 Jun 2024 12:29:13 +0000

Assigning Keyboard Shortcuts to Nemo Actions

https://janusworx.com/blog/assigning-keyboard-shortcuts-to-nemo-actions/

#100WordHabit #mjbWrites #NoteToSelf #Linux #LinuxMint #Cinnamon #Nemo

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/112552689883270641

#100WordHabit, #mjbwrites, #notetoself, #linux, #linuxmint, #cinnamon, #nemo

2024-05-31T06:43:07+0000

Jason Braganza — Fri, 31 May 2024 06:43:07 +0000

Notes to Self on Renewing Wildcard Letsencrypt Certs Manually With Lego

https://janusworx.com/blog/notes-to-self-on-renewing-wildcard-letsencrypt-certs-manually-with-lego/

#100WordHabit #mjbWrites #NoteToSelf #LetsEncrypt #Lego

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/112534342037923335

#100WordHabit, #mjbwrites, #notetoself, #letsencrypt, #lego

2024-05-31T02:29:46+0000

Jason Braganza — Fri, 31 May 2024 02:29:46 +0000

Firefox, Chromium and Chrome all updated in the space of a day? What’s gone wrong on the internet?

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/112533345861408870

2024-05-30T13:57:19+0000

Jason Braganza — Thu, 30 May 2024 13:57:19 +0000

Using Hugo Variables to Help With Mailto Links in Hugo

https://janusworx.com/blog/using-hugo-variables-to-help-with-mailto-links-in-hugo/

#100WordHabit #mjbWrites #Hugo

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/112530387084725863

#100WordHabit, #mjbwrites, #hugo

2024-05-29T15:21:10+0000

Jason Braganza — Wed, 29 May 2024 15:21:10 +0000

My Experience With the Kinesis Advantage 360 After a Day of Use

https://janusworx.com/blog/kinesis-advantage-360/

#100WordHabit #mjbWrites #Kinesis #KinesisAdvantage360

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/112525054487749991

#100WordHabit, #mjbwrites, #Kinesis, #KinesisAdvantage360

2024-05-29T09:40:15+0000

Jason Braganza — Wed, 29 May 2024 09:40:15 +0000

I have brown switches
#Keyboard #KinesisAdvantage360

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/112523713906100913

#Keyboard #KinesisAdvantage360

2024-05-29T09:37:08+0000

Jason Braganza — Wed, 29 May 2024 09:37:08 +0000

I am truly enjoying the freedom the split sections give now. Ican make micro adjustments based on how my wrists hurt.
In my mind, I’m Zakir Husain, adjusting my left and right tablas before a performance :)

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/112523701658717799

#Keyboard #KinesisAdvantage360

2024-05-29T09:33:38+0000

Jason Braganza — Wed, 29 May 2024 09:33:38 +0000

learned how to mount the onboard flash storage and eject it properly
updated firmware to the latest version.
also note to self, switch to querty before you do this. status reports are typed out wonky other wise

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/112523687915031022

#Keyboard
#KinesisAdvantage360

2024-05-29T05:38:47+0000

Jason Braganza — Wed, 29 May 2024 05:38:47 +0000

got used to the compose key
the question mark and slash has moved below and to the right (dvorak), so will need to see if i adjust
i miss my numpad so much!

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/112522764483829666

#Keyboard #KinesisAdvantage360

2024-05-29T03:39:34+0000

Jason Braganza — Wed, 29 May 2024 03:39:34 +0000

Day 1:

Everything’s slowed to a crawl
The Dvorak layout seems to work better on this than on my old keyboard
The key layout and spacing is throwing everything off
Realised some of my keyboard shortcuts were that way, because of the old keyboard layout. They are *terrible* on the new keyboard. Need to find new shortcuts for ulauncher, minimising windows, and the gpaste clipboard manager
the caps lock is the compose key and i need to see if the new position will help or hinder me
totally gotten used to the new space, return and backspace keys
totally not used to the placement of esc. will try a week to see if i can get used to it.
new wa;ys of chording keys in emacs. seem to be easier on the wrists. (because of the new place for the ctrl and alt keys)
my wrists feel much better. no idea how much of this is placebo. will know for sure only after a while
bottom row keys are tough right now

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/112522295675899709

#KinesisAdvantage360, #keyboard

2024-05-28T10:16:51+0000

Jason Braganza — Tue, 28 May 2024 10:16:51 +0000

New Ergonomic toy; #KinesisAdvantage360

#Keyboard

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/112518195529009498

2024-05-26T11:39:48+0000

Jason Braganza — Sun, 26 May 2024 11:39:48 +0000

Ignoring Syncthing Conflict Files in the Org Agenda Folder

https://janusworx.com/blog/ignoring-syncthing-conflict-files-in-org-agenda-folder/

#OrgMode #Emacs #100WordHabit #mjbWrites #Syncthing

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/112507197082775580

#orgmode, #emacs, #100WordHabit, #mjbwrites, #syncthing

2024-05-25T06:04:36+0000

Jason Braganza — Sat, 25 May 2024 06:04:36 +0000

Search for Something! Kill the Line! In Emacs

https://janusworx.com/blog/search-for-something-kill-the-line-in-emacs/

#Emacs #100WordHabit #mjbWrites

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/112500216708145568

#emacs, #100WordHabit, #mjbwrites

2024-05-24T17:56:15+0000

Jason Braganza — Fri, 24 May 2024 17:56:15 +0000

Why I Write

https://janusworx.com/blog/why-i-write/

#Writing #100WordHabit #mjbWrites

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/112497352730053711

#writing, #100WordHabit, #mjbwrites

2024-05-24T03:11:39+0000

Jason Braganza — Fri, 24 May 2024 03:11:39 +0000

if any young newbie asks me how #SSL works, I’ll just send them Farhaan’s post now …

https://journal.farhaan.me/ssl-how-it-works-and-why-it-matters

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/112493874344045605

#ssl

2024-05-23T14:12:51+0000

Jason Braganza — Thu, 23 May 2024 14:12:51 +0000

Org Mode, Automatically Clocking in and Out of Tasks on Task State Changes

https://janusworx.com/blog/org-mode-clocking-in-and-out-of-tasks-on-task-state-changes/

#100WordHabit #mjbWrites #Productivity #OrgMode #Emacs

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/112490811966870365

#100WordHabit, #mjbwrites, #productivity, #orgmode, #emacs

2024-05-22T15:56:58+0000

Jason Braganza — Wed, 22 May 2024 15:56:58 +0000

All my heroes are turning out to be assholes

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-features/he-who-not-be-named-can-john-lasseter-ever-return-disney-1105297/

In the whole of Creativity Inc. not once does Catmull mention anything of this sort. What good creative process if its built on exclusion? To protect assholes because they are a “creative genius”

Money talks, bullshit walks after all

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/112485559072273030

2024-05-22T15:44:41+0000

Jason Braganza — Wed, 22 May 2024 15:44:41 +0000

This! Fucking this!
https://mastodon.social/@AlSweigart/112485417160251077

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/112485510747073539

2024-05-22T11:19:58+0000

Jason Braganza — Wed, 22 May 2024 11:19:58 +0000

Beggining to learn #Rust

https://janusworx.com/blog/rust/

#100WordHabit #mjbWrites

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/112484469834714490

#rust, #100WordHabit, #mjbwrites

2024-05-22T09:11:32+0000

Jason Braganza — Wed, 22 May 2024 09:11:32 +0000

Playing around with #Rust basics, because I wanted a systems language under my belt. and because @mandarvaze’s on a tear with his inspiring TILs on Rust (https://microblog.desipenguin.com/tags/rust/)

My main insight, *this* is the language for me. hopefully it’ll stick around for a while.

(mostly because sane error messages!

and because it’s easier for me with my Python mental model to learn rust than C. And because my brief courtship with C kinda scared me a bit.)

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/112483964826807457

#rust

2024-05-22T06:03:08+0000

Jason Braganza — Wed, 22 May 2024 06:03:08 +0000

#Emacs #OrgMode friends! help!

I need a way to exclude files containing .sync-conflict in their name from Org Agenda.
My org setup is such that it reads all the files in a folder.

Context & Details:

Org mode reads my syncbox folder for the agenda.
(syncbox syncs with beorg on the phone via syncthing, so I can see and execute on all my stuff through out the day)
files are open on both the desktop and the phone, and every once in a while syncthing creates a -sync.conflict file and now i have two sets of everything (sometimes 3) (for e.g. tasks.org conflicts and i get, tasks.sync-conflict-20240516-101335.2TWENY.org and tasks.sync-conflict-20240408-041556.2TWENY.org)
for more context, the desktop needs to reigns supreme. i don’t care about the phone. once in a while i go delete the conflicting files and then all is well
i tried hacking org-agenda-file-regexp , but wasn’t successful at asking it to ingore them.

is there a way I can tell org to ignore, files with a certain pattern in my org-agenda directory?

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/112483224007964606

#emacs, #orgmode

2024-05-21T06:10:57+0000

Jason Braganza — Tue, 21 May 2024 06:10:57 +0000

#SkinInTheGame

https://social.lol/@jbaty/112475520328513183

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/112477592450726430

#skininthegame

2024-05-20T15:07:17+0000

Jason Braganza — Mon, 20 May 2024 15:07:17 +0000

The key to keep in mind is this: if you think it’s important enough—and you can’t see a better path—then you need to put yourself out there again. And again. And again.

— Herbert Lui, Pecking Wood

https://herbertlui.net/pecking-wood/

#Persistence

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/112474039093523233

#persistence

2024-05-20T02:52:00+0000

Jason Braganza — Mon, 20 May 2024 02:52:00 +0000

Go vote!

#India #Elections

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/112471147829661899

#india, #elections

2024-05-20T02:50:25+0000

Jason Braganza — Mon, 20 May 2024 02:50:25 +0000

Probably me …
Who am I kidding? Definitely me!

#Books #Reading #TomGauld

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/112471141622435453

#books, #reading, #tomgauld

2024-05-19T10:40:28+0000

Jason Braganza — Sun, 19 May 2024 10:40:28 +0000

People spend too much time on the last 24 hours and not enough time on the last 6,000 years.
— Will Durant

via the #FarnamStreet newsletter, https://fs.blog/brain-food/may-19-2024/

#Life #History #LifeLessons

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/112467327590321757

#FarnamStreet, #life, #history, #lifelessons

2024-05-15T09:35:56+0000

Jason Braganza — Wed, 15 May 2024 09:35:56 +0000

First Love

https://janusworx.com/blog/first-love/

#100WordHabit #mjbWrites #Photography #Poetry #MichaelFaudet

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/112444424645634778

#100WordHabit, #mjbwrites, #photography, #poetry, #MichaelFaudet

2024-05-15T03:40:56+0000

Jason Braganza — Wed, 15 May 2024 03:40:56 +0000

#TIL want something similar to apt autoremove on #archlinux

Use: sudo pacman -R $(pacman -Qdqt)

#Linux #Manjaro

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/112443028681869564

#til, #archlinux, #linux, #manjaro

2024-05-03T04:41:01+0000

Jason Braganza — Fri, 03 May 2024 04:41:01 +0000

Public performance eats art.
True.

Fame doesn’t rub off.
Also True.

Fame doesn’t always pay the bills.
Too True.

This industry doesn’t owe you a living, and it doesn’t pay you to dwell on the past.
Very True.

Most of the people in this industry are garage bands wondering why they’re not the Rolling Stones.
So Very Very True.

Don’t get into comics to get rich. Don’t get into comics for fame. Don’t get into comics for any reason except to make comics.

Fame and money are never a guarantee in the arts, no matter who you are or what you create.

Making your comic is about the truth of your love for the art.

Not about fame. Not about money.

If the audience comes, then yay.

If the audience doesn’t come, you made a comic.

And that’s the hard truth that makes you stronger.

— Colleen Doran, These Things Are True
https://colleendoran.substack.com/p/these-things-are-true

#Art #Career #Life #ColleenDoran

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/112375317207965215

#art, #career, #life, #colleendoran

2024-05-03T04:19:12+0000

Jason Braganza — Fri, 03 May 2024 04:19:12 +0000

I’ve been in love with Medusa for a long, long time too!

image via, https://shopboardwalkvintage.com/shop/vintage-cassette-tape-annie-lennox-medusa-1995

#Medusa #AnnieLennox

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/112375231414465626

#medusa, #annielennox

2024-05-03T03:13:19+0000

Jason Braganza — Fri, 03 May 2024 03:13:19 +0000

Medusa and the blind woman in love

—Jennifer Prince

#Art #Myth #Love #Medusa

https://www.tumblr.com/jeniferprince/739593033031598080/medusa-and-the-blind-woman-in

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/112374972371927393

#art, #myth, #love, #medusa

2024-04-29T16:46:17+0000

Jason Braganza — Mon, 29 Apr 2024 16:46:17 +0000

‘The objection to fairy stories is that they tell children there are dragons. But children have always known there are dragons. Fairy stories tell children that dragons can be killed.’

— G.K. Chesterton, as quoted by Terry Pratchett

https://dduane.tumblr.com/post/749094988346015744

#Books #Reading #FairyTales #Dragons #Kids

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/112355519857516627

#books, #reading, #fairytales, #dragons, #kids

2024-04-26T11:47:52+0000

Jason Braganza — Fri, 26 Apr 2024 11:47:52 +0000

“The saying goes you need to pay twice for a book; once when you purchase it, another when you read it the first time.”

https://herbertlui.net/you-cant-summarize-the-most-important-parts-of-a-book/

#HerbertLui #Books #Reading

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/112337359514892901

#HerbertLui, #books, #reading

2024-04-23T02:47:52+0000

Jason Braganza — Tue, 23 Apr 2024 02:47:52 +0000

Truly, the end of en era!
I learned assembly on a #Z80 kit in the late 90s …

After 48 years, #Zilog is killing the classic standalone Z80 microprocessor chip

https://arstechnica.com/?p=2018763

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/112318249227711252

#z80, #zilog

2024-04-21T04:21:07+0000

Jason Braganza — Sun, 21 Apr 2024 04:21:07 +0000

https://wilwheaton.tumblr.com/post/748212279712088064

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/112307291233496387

2024-04-20T03:58:29+0000

Jason Braganza — Sat, 20 Apr 2024 03:58:29 +0000

Take Sam Altman. Altman is not an engineer. He is not a scientist. He has no real training in either. He is an entrepreneur, with a flair for optimistic tech futurism. He places bets on where technology is headed, and then attempts to bend society in a direction that makes those bets pay off.

The previous generation of venture capitalists were, for the most part, actual engineers and scientists. They had spent time in the lab. They had experience being “close to the metal.” They made some real money early, then started to point that money in the direction of funding audacious high-risk/high-reward projects that didn’t fit anywhere else. The sector was small, compared to government money and corporate R&D money.

Folks like Altman approach the future much like bad sci-fi.

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/112301539920185920

2024-04-20T03:55:24+0000

Jason Braganza — Sat, 20 Apr 2024 03:55:24 +0000

“The VC approach is the prevailing model today. And I have become increasingly convinced that many of the problems with the current state of Silicon Valley are rooted in the venture capital-class simply acquiring too much capital. VC is fine (*good*, even!) when it is relatively small. But when VC is the primary source of funding new science and technology breakthroughs, the whole system gets skewed.

As it stands today, the primary direction-setter for new advances in science and technology is “what do folks like Marc Andreessen and Peter Thiel and Gary Tan and Sam Altman find exciting?”

— Dave Karpf, On Giant Piles of Cash And Their Origins

https://davekarpf.substack.com/p/on-giant-piles-of-cash-and-their

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/112301527834581763

2024-04-15T05:37:30+0000

Jason Braganza — Mon, 15 Apr 2024 05:37:30 +0000

Make Bad Things

https://janusworx.com/blog/make-bad-things/

#100WordHabit #Art #Life

Original: https://amandaswork.tumblr.com/post/731449232798760961/sadbuddies-pssssst-stickers-available-now

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/112273617721766940

#100WordHabit, #art, #life

2024-04-13T06:29:31+0000

Jason Braganza — Sat, 13 Apr 2024 06:29:31 +0000

No love is wasted

https://janusworx.com/blog/no-love-is-wasted/

#100WordHabit, #Love

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/112262497667556078

#100WordHabit, #love

2024-04-11T02:05:37+0000

Jason Braganza — Thu, 11 Apr 2024 02:05:37 +0000

“Just to be clear, I’m not mad at anyone who has tried to reassure me by telling me I have impostor syndrome, and I recognize it as a real problem that lots of talented people struggle with.

But I am furious at a world in which women and POC are being told to be as self-confident as a group of mostly white dudes who are basically delusional megalomaniacs. We’re great the way we are, level-headed self-assessments and all. Stop rewarding *them* for being jackasses.”

— Chris Xu, Stop Blowhard Syndrome
https://www.tumblr.com/xuhulk/110549967516/stop-blowhard-syndrome

via @aworkinglibrary
https://aworkinglibrary.com/writing/toward-inquiry

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/112250135343854466

2024-04-10T05:41:59+0000

Jason Braganza — Wed, 10 Apr 2024 05:41:59 +0000

Hello #Emacs and #OrgMode friends, is there a way to insert a deadline *with* time for a task?

for e.g. with:

Buy Book: CSS in Depth, Second Edition, Keith J. Grant
DEADLINE: <2024-06-10 Mon>

I want the deadline to be

DEADLINE: <2024-06-10 Mon 09:00>

I’m inserting times manually by hand currently. But am I missing an M-x org-some-command-to-insert-date or a handy keyboard shortcut?

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/112245323817341936

#emacs, #orgmode

2024-04-07T06:09:51+0000

Jason Braganza — Sun, 07 Apr 2024 06:09:51 +0000

My Reading Life

https://janusworx.com/blog/my-reading-life/

#100WordHabit #mjbWrites #Books #Reading

The Art of Losing - The Art of Losing

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/112228446494310072

#100WordHabit, #mjbwrites, #books, #reading

2024-04-07T05:59:06+0000

Jason Braganza — Sun, 07 Apr 2024 05:59:06 +0000

Je vais essayer d’écrire plus de toots en français pour mieux apprendre

Amis français, si vous tombez sur cela, n’hésitez pas à me corriger. (orthographe, langue, nuance, tout…)

Cet toot vous est présenté par Google Translate (pour l’instant)

#mjbBabbles #Francaise

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/112228404206789773

#mjbBabbles, #francaise

2024-04-07T00:48:31+0000

Jason Braganza — Sun, 07 Apr 2024 00:48:31 +0000

One of my #Lindy reads
https://indieweb.social/@mariapopova/112225229936977238

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/112227182910527936

#lindy

2024-04-07T00:46:19+0000

Jason Braganza — Sun, 07 Apr 2024 00:46:19 +0000

Be intentional.
Be deliberate.
Be deliberately intentional https://fosstodon.org/@carlton/112225030457554250

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/112227174306248963

2024-04-06T15:20:56+0000

Jason Braganza — Sat, 06 Apr 2024 15:20:56 +0000

The Art of Losing

https://janusworx.com/blog/the-art-of-losing/

#100WordHabit #mjbWrites #Photography #Versailles #France

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/112224951108120722

#100WordHabit, #mjbwrites, #photography, #versailles, #france

2024-04-06T05:41:38+0000

Jason Braganza — Sat, 06 Apr 2024 05:41:38 +0000

I kinda try and do a tiny deep dive everytime I want to use a new facet of #emacs and then make notes for myself.
Thankfully #GavinFreeborn does things exactly like me.
So I have all I need for learning about #OrgMode tables
Roughly 20m. Worth the time if you want to learn too.

Thank you Gavin!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g43XNwKY1YA

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/112222673225199907

#emacs, #GavinFreeborn, #orgmode

2024-04-06T03:45:57+0000

Jason Braganza — Sat, 06 Apr 2024 03:45:57 +0000

Everything I learnt about #Python f-strings in dribs and drabs over the years in one handy #Pybites post!

https://pybit.es/articles/python-f-string-codes-i-use-every-day/

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/112222218346398104

#python, #pybites

2024-04-05T07:14:16+0000

Jason Braganza — Fri, 05 Apr 2024 07:14:16 +0000

How to Learn Vocabulary in Another Language

https://janusworx.com/blog/notes-to-self-how-to-learn-vocabulary-in-another-language/

#100WordHabit #mjbWrites #French #Languages #Photography #Paris #France

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/112217375148566978

#100WordHabit, #mjbwrites, #french, #languages, #photography, #paris, #france

2024-04-02T04:47:20+0000

Jason Braganza — Tue, 02 Apr 2024 04:47:20 +0000

This is a neat tip to run @signalapp in the system tray.
You can also put this into a new shortcut into your app launcher if you use one (i use Ulauncher)

https://retiolus.net/posts/minimize-signal-desktop-system-tray/

#Signal #SignalApp

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/112199810429677964

#signal, #signalapp

2024-03-15T04:40:10+0000

Jason Braganza — Fri, 15 Mar 2024 04:40:10 +0000

Shoots really pretty photos!

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/112097860708548367

2024-03-15T04:37:43+0000

Jason Braganza — Fri, 15 Mar 2024 04:37:43 +0000

new toy. comes with a 400 page manual. think i’m set for the rest of the year, fidgeting wise :)
also hope this one lasts me as long as the old Canon 1000D did, if not longer :)

#Fujifilm #Camera #Photography #X-S20

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/112097851033449256

#fujifilm, #camera, #photography, #x

2024-03-14T04:18:55+0000

Jason Braganza — Thu, 14 Mar 2024 04:18:55 +0000

I have slides to make, and I have this stuck in my head! Sigh … 😂

Nalayak!
Adharmi!
Durachari!
Mamachari!
Bhrashtachari!
Bol sorry!

https://youtu.be/Xou6n1H4GQk

#Art #Movies #Comedy #Satire #JaaneBhiDoYaaron

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/112092114839402943

#art, #movies, #comedy, #satire, #JaaneBhiDoYaaron

2024-03-11T02:19:07+0000

Jason Braganza — Mon, 11 Mar 2024 02:19:07 +0000

Suits think EVERYONE is a spark plug. They don’t have a clue why this guy they paid to draw Batman didn’t wake up one day and become Frank Miller. They can’t tell the difference between Frank Miller and another creator.

They think it’s luck. A trick.

There is craft and then there is creation.

And the suits don’t know what that is.

Suits, of course, love AI art.

Processed cheese pictures made up of the real pictures made by real human beings, easily replaced on the cheap.

Like spark plugs.

— @ColleenDoran

https://colleendoran.substack.com/p/artists-sell-themselves-so-cheap

#Art #Creation #Life

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/112074656810190095

#art, #creation, #life

2024-03-07T08:08:17+0000

Jason Braganza — Thu, 07 Mar 2024 08:08:17 +0000

Today I learned, #Bangla #Robocop is a thing. And I know I’ll very much enjoy going down this rabbit hole.
h/t: #WilWheaton

http://diedangerdiediekill.blogspot.com/2018/10/shoktir-lorai-aka-banglar-robocop.html

#Art #BMovies #Movies

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/112053380550960550

#bangla, #robocop, #wilwheaton, #art, #bmovies, #movies

2024-03-05T12:45:47+0000

Jason Braganza — Tue, 05 Mar 2024 12:45:47 +0000

Ursula Vernon on Unrealistic Expectations and Eating Bread

https://janusworx.com/blog/ursula-vernon-on-unrealistic-expectations/

#UrsulaVernon #Art #Life #100WordHabit #mjbWrites

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/112043147093848451

#UrsulaVernon, #art, #life, #100WordHabit, #mjbwrites

2024-03-04T13:13:26+0000

Jason Braganza — Mon, 04 Mar 2024 13:13:26 +0000

help #emacs #elisp folk.
my org-agenda-files is set to the j/org-files directory, which is synced via synctihng to my phone.
every once in a file my files conflict and for eg. my tasks.org gets a conflicting version tasks.sync-conflict-20240304-053587-4ZNEUT.org

is there a way to tell instruct org-mode not to look at files contaning sync-conflict ?

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/112037593485380512

#emacs, #Elisp

2024-03-04T04:34:49+0000

Jason Braganza — Mon, 04 Mar 2024 04:34:49 +0000

Beautiful Arunachal!

https://janusworx.com/blog/beautiful-arunachal/

#100WordHabit #mjbWrites #Photography #Travel #ArunachalPradesh

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/112035554245395845

#100WordHabit, #mjbwrites, #photography, #travel, #arunachalpradesh

2024-03-04T04:27:49+0000

Jason Braganza — Mon, 04 Mar 2024 04:27:49 +0000

Weekly fitness update

https://janusworx.com/fitness/#2024-03-04

#mjbGettingFit #FitnessLogging #WeightLoss #WeightLossJourney

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/112035526723870074

#mjbgettingfit, #FitnessLogging, #weightloss, #weightlossjourney

2024-03-03T03:01:24+0000

Jason Braganza — Sun, 03 Mar 2024 03:01:24 +0000

Books! Do What You Will, With Them

https://janusworx.com/blog/books-do-what-you-will/

via, https://www.tumblr.com/ladygreyslibrary/635420511138185216/you-are-allowed

#100WordHabit #mjbWrites #Reading #Books

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/112029524594623484

#100WordHabit, #mjbwrites, #reading, #books

2024-03-02T12:22:22+0000

Jason Braganza — Sat, 02 Mar 2024 12:22:22 +0000

Cal Newport’s Minimalist Note Taking System

https://janusworx.com/blog/note-to-self-cal-newports-minimal-notes-system/

#100WordHabit #mjbWrites #Reading #Books #Syntopica #Productivity #CalNewport #Life #NoteTaking #BookNotes

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/112026068067140361

#100WordHabit, #mjbwrites, #reading, #books, #syntopica, #productivity, #calnewport, #life, #notetaking, #booknotes

2024-03-01T04:39:17+0000

Jason Braganza — Fri, 01 Mar 2024 04:39:17 +0000

I read Iron Widow!

https://janusworx.com/reading/iron-widow/

#100WordHabit #mjbWrites #Reading #Books #IronWidow #Syntopica

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/112018584890474604

#100WordHabit, #mjbwrites, #reading, #books, #IronWidow, #syntopica

2024-03-01T03:51:48+0000

Jason Braganza — Fri, 01 Mar 2024 03:51:48 +0000

As long as the tides of the ocean flow
As long as the trees and the flowers grow
So long, oh my love, will I love you so
Today, tomorrow and forever

https://youtu.be/T7NrB4j2iKw

#mjbMusic #Earworm #PatsyCline

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/112018398123886377

#mjbmusic, #earworm, #PatsyCline

2024-02-29T04:34:33+0000

Jason Braganza — Thu, 29 Feb 2024 04:34:33 +0000

I read Babel!

https://janusworx.com/reading/babel/

#100WordHabit #mjbWrites #Reading #Books #Babel #Syntopica

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/112012903941138532

#100WordHabit, #mjbwrites, #reading, #books, #babel, #syntopica

2024-02-28T07:26:44+0000

Jason Braganza — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 07:26:44 +0000

Note to Self Footnotes Using Littlefoot.js

https://janusworx.com/blog/note-to-self-footnotes-using-littlefoot.js/

#100WordHabit #mjbWrites #NoteToSelf #LittlefootJs #Hugo

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/112007918651540816

#100WordHabit, #mjbwrites, #notetoself, #LittlefootJs, #hugo

2024-02-28T01:56:06+0000

Jason Braganza — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 01:56:06 +0000

I know heroes with feet of clay and all, but the slow and now the all at once crazy making of Matt Mullenweg is baffling. Was he always this way?

Every thing he seems to be doing now a days is from some corporate playbook. Every action user hostile.

I thought Automattic was one of the good ones. A trustworthy steward of open source. Sigh!

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/112006618602103961

2024-02-27T04:11:21+0000

Jason Braganza — Tue, 27 Feb 2024 04:11:21 +0000

Moving Audio Library to Flac & MP3 Formats

https://janusworx.com/blog/moving-audio-library-to-flac-mp3/

#100WordHabit #mjbWrites #Productivity #ffmpeg #audio #Linux #QuodLibet

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/112001488096843673

#100WordHabit, #mjbwrites, #productivity, #ffmpeg, #audio, #linux, #quodlibet

2024-02-26T13:15:28+0000

Jason Braganza — Mon, 26 Feb 2024 13:15:28 +0000

Here’s what I read last week

The Complete History & Strategy of Hermès, Season 14, Episode 2, Acquired Podcast
Nintendo’s Origins & Nintendo: The Console Wars, Season 14, Episodes 3 & 4, Acquired Podcast

The rest of this year’s list is here:
https://janusworx.com/reading/2024/

https://janusworx.com/fitness/#2024-02-26

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111997965337886295

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

2024-02-26T13:04:44+0000

Jason Braganza — Mon, 26 Feb 2024 13:04:44 +0000

Weekly fitness update

#mjbGettingFit #FitnessLogging #WeightLoss #WeightLossJourney

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111997923149890170

#mjbgettingfit, #FitnessLogging, #weightloss, #weightlossjourney

2024-02-26T05:43:06+0000

Jason Braganza — Mon, 26 Feb 2024 05:43:06 +0000

Org Mode Narrowing and Widening Buffers

https://janusworx.com/blog/org-mode-narrowing-and-widening-buffers/

#100WordHabit #mjbWrites #Productivity #OrgMode #Emacs

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111996186585727596

#100WordHabit, #mjbwrites, #productivity, #orgmode, #emacs

2024-02-25T05:10:51+0000

Jason Braganza — Sun, 25 Feb 2024 05:10:51 +0000

Note to Self, Bookmark Your Work, Coda

https://janusworx.com/blog/bookmark-your-work-coda/

#100WordHabit #mjbWrites #Productivity #DoTheWork #SelfHelp

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111990397402880210

#100WordHabit, #mjbwrites, #productivity, #DoTheWork, #selfhelp

2024-02-24T07:33:45+0000

Jason Braganza — Sat, 24 Feb 2024 07:33:45 +0000

Note to Self, Bookmark Your Work

https://janusworx.com/blog/bookmark-your-work/

#100WordHabit #mjbWrites #Productivity #DoTheWork #SelfHelp

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111985297027462639

#100WordHabit, #mjbwrites, #productivity, #DoTheWork, #selfhelp

2024-02-23T05:36:39+0000

Jason Braganza — Fri, 23 Feb 2024 05:36:39 +0000

On Invisible Inequity and Entrenched Privilege (In Open Source and the World)

https://janusworx.com/blog/on-invisible-inequity-and-entrenched-privilege/

cc/ @carlton

#100WordHabit #mjbWrites #Babel #BookNotes #Reading #RFKuang #CarltonGibson #Reading

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111979174271125795

#100WordHabit, #mjbwrites, #babel, #booknotes, #reading, #RFKuang, #CarltonGibson

2024-02-23T04:35:56+0000

Jason Braganza — Fri, 23 Feb 2024 04:35:56 +0000

#OrgMode friends, is there a way to show the times I took for a task in my org clock summary itself?

for e.g.

| \\_ 100 Words, Writing Session | | 0:45 | |
| \\_ Research | | | 0:24 |

i would like to know the actual time ranges in my Research section. what time to what time did i actually work? is this possible?

if not, i think my next best bet is to set :link t and then have these linked down to the actual task. (don’t want to do this though)

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111978935548874115

2024-02-23T02:56:44+0000

Jason Braganza — Fri, 23 Feb 2024 02:56:44 +0000

#TIL: I could just C-c C-u to go up rapidly jump up the headline structure in an org file instead of just clacking up, up, up with my keyboard

#Emacs #OrgMode

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111978545459051982

https://janusworx.com/blog/when-a-book-kicks-you-up-your-backside/

2024-02-22T03:51:54+0000

Jason Braganza — Thu, 22 Feb 2024 03:51:54 +0000

When a Book Kicks You Up Your Backside

#100WordHabit #mjbWrites #Procrastination #DoTheWork #Babel #BookNotes #Reading

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111973100031753929

#100WordHabit, #mjbwrites, #procrastination, #DoTheWork, #babel, #booknotes, #reading

2024-02-21T16:41:07+0000

Jason Braganza — Wed, 21 Feb 2024 16:41:07 +0000

Publish! Show Your Work! You Don’t Have Leonardo’s Genius or Luck

https://janusworx.com/blog/publish-you-dont-have-leonardos-genius-or-luck/

#100WordHabit #mjbWrites #ShowUp #Publish #ShowYourWork #AustinKleon #DavidKadavy #LeonardoDaVinci

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111970462463402760

#100WordHabit, #mjbwrites, #ShowUp, #publish, #showyourwork, #AustinKleon, #davidkadavy, #leonardodavinci

2024-02-21T14:11:46+0000

Jason Braganza — Wed, 21 Feb 2024 14:11:46 +0000

And somehow, it got worse!

https://wrongquestions.blogspot.com/2024/02/the-2023-hugo-awards-somehow-it-got.html

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111969875169768724

2024-02-19T09:15:45+0000

Jason Braganza — Mon, 19 Feb 2024 09:15:45 +0000

Create New Scars (or Calluses)

https://janusworx.com/blog/create-new-scars-or-calluses/

#100WordHabit #Writing #mjbWrites #Doing

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111957386560609849

#100WordHabit, #writing, #mjbwrites, #doing

2024-02-19T02:30:32+0000

Jason Braganza — Mon, 19 Feb 2024 02:30:32 +0000

Here’s what I read last week

9.The Author Blog: Easy Blogging for Busy Authors, Anne R. Allen
10. Babel, R.F. Kuang
11. The Poppy War, R.F. Kuang

The rest of this year’s list is here:
https://janusworx.com/reading/2024/

https://janusworx.com/fitness/#2024-02-19

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111955793205671694

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

2024-02-19T02:28:58+0000

Jason Braganza — Mon, 19 Feb 2024 02:28:58 +0000

Weekly fitness update

#mjbGettingFit #FitnessLogging #WeightLoss #WeightLossJourney

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111955787038042938

#mjbgettingfit, #FitnessLogging, #weightloss, #weightlossjourney

2024-02-19T00:47:08+0000

Jason Braganza — Mon, 19 Feb 2024 00:47:08 +0000

There’s No Dearth of Things to Write About

https://janusworx.com/blog/theres-no-dearth-of-things-to-write-about/

#100WordHabit #Writing #mjbWrites

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111955386578330334

#100WordHabit, #writing, #mjbwrites

2024-02-18T04:40:39+0000

Jason Braganza — Sun, 18 Feb 2024 04:40:39 +0000

What @nixCraft says is #SatyaVachan

https://elk.zone/mastodon.social/@nixCraft/111950434002021768

But … because gif

() - round brackets
[] - square brackets
{} - curly brackets
<> - angle brackets

#joke #YesTheyAreParentheses

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111950642492589658

#satyavachan, #joke, #YesTheyAreParentheses

2024-02-17T11:41:28+0000

Jason Braganza — Sat, 17 Feb 2024 11:41:28 +0000

and also

A career in creativity is the greatest life I can imagine, but it takes decades.

If you need money now, rob a billionaire.

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111946634949756601

2024-02-17T11:39:52+0000

Jason Braganza — Sat, 17 Feb 2024 11:39:52 +0000

A person’s motives don’t matter. Only the harm they inflict matter.

— @mwl

https://mwl.io/archives/23451

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111946628600579456

2024-02-17T10:24:06+0000

Jason Braganza — Sat, 17 Feb 2024 10:24:06 +0000

Note to Self: Less Research, Less Rabbit Holes

https://janusworx.com/blog/note-to-self-less-research-less-rabbit-holes/

#100WordHabit #mjbWrites #Writing #Focus

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111946330703690968

#100WordHabit, #mjbwrites, #writing, #focus

2024-02-17T09:41:33+0000

Jason Braganza — Sat, 17 Feb 2024 09:41:33 +0000

From the post:

I cannot emphasize enough, given the context, and given the lack of answers to the above questions, right now it sure as fuck looks like a bunch of North American/British administrators heard that Chinese publications were promoting recommendation lists, a thing that is not only objectively allowed under the rules but seems normal and fine, and decided this meant Those Deceitful Chinese Fake-Fans Must Be Cheating, and so threw out a bunch of ballots of Chinese fans - fans who, by the way *paid for the privilege of submitting their votes* - without bothering to even tell those fans and creators.

https://carriesthewind.tumblr.com/post/742390773706817536/i-do-not-share-neil-gaimans-astonishment-i-had

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111946163401305592

2024-02-16T11:34:54+0000

Jason Braganza — Fri, 16 Feb 2024 11:34:54 +0000

Gaiman, on the controversy

“I think it’s fair to say that the astonishing thing is how enthusiastically the American, Canadian (and British?) people involved in the Hugos took to censorship. I’m proud of the whistleblower, and am still puzzled by the removal of Sandman Episode 6. But this appears to have been what was going on”

The fuckwads! I went and bought Babel and Iron Widow, just because they were “ineligible”

https://www.patreon.com/posts/98498779

#HugoConChina

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111940946812865808

#HugoConChina

2024-02-16T05:59:17+0000

Jason Braganza — Fri, 16 Feb 2024 05:59:17 +0000

The Kobo Elipsa 2e, Six Months Later

https://janusworx.com/blog/the-kobo-elipsa-2e-six-months-later/

#100WordHabit #mjbWrites #Books #Reading #Kobo #Elipsa

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111939627064840549

#100WordHabit, #mjbwrites, #books, #reading, #kobo, #Elipsa

2024-02-15T13:10:20+0000

Jason Braganza — Thu, 15 Feb 2024 13:10:20 +0000

I moved on from regular #DOS commands in the late 90s. and even today i do a copy instead of cp at least once a day

Dos 6.22 ftw!

#Nostalgia #MuscleMemory

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111935659726497452

#dos, #nostalgia, #MuscleMemory

2024-02-15T12:05:33+0000

Jason Braganza — Thu, 15 Feb 2024 12:05:33 +0000

Meritocracy, my arse!
— @carlton

That is my new motto! ☝️

While I’ve obviously done this because I have a peurile and juvenile mind, the talk proper, is amazing with a lot a wisdom. (hard earned wisdom)

How to survive open source: https://youtu.be/YOZWF86TGmo

#Django #OpenSource

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111935404971723655

#django, #opensource

2024-02-15T04:06:06+0000

Jason Braganza — Thu, 15 Feb 2024 04:06:06 +0000

Note to Self, #Emacs Help Stuff

https://janusworx.com/blog/note-to-self-emacs-help-stuff/

#100WordHabit #mjbWrites

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111933519695880434

#emacs, #100WordHabit, #mjbwrites

2024-02-14T08:34:37+0000

Jason Braganza — Wed, 14 Feb 2024 08:34:37 +0000

Use your scars

https://janusworx.com/blog/use-your-scars/

#100WordHabit #mjbWrites #SkinInTheGame

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111928913267529912

#100WordHabit, #mjbwrites, #skininthegame

2024-02-13T09:36:23+0000

Jason Braganza — Tue, 13 Feb 2024 09:36:23 +0000

My Raspberry Pi 5 Ran Hot

https://janusworx.com/blog/my-raspberry-pi-5-ran-hot/

#100WordHabit #mjbWrites #RaspberryPi

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111923493828506602

#100WordHabit, #mjbwrites, #raspberrypi

2024-02-13T06:09:05+0000

Jason Braganza — Tue, 13 Feb 2024 06:09:05 +0000

I’m counting my sheep
and each one that passes is another dream to ashes
And they all fall down

And as I lay me down tonight
I close my eyes
What a beautiful sight

I’m sleeping to dream about you
I’m so damn tired … of having to live without you
But I don’t mind …

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRt8pgjMe-M

#mjbMusic #JasonMraz #Earworm

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111922678670358383

#mjbmusic, #JasonMraz, #earworm

2024-02-13T04:38:42+0000

Jason Braganza — Tue, 13 Feb 2024 04:38:42 +0000

write your own books. Say the things only you can say.
— @neilhimself

https://neil-gaiman.tumblr.com/post/742162358265380864/hello-mr-gaiman-fat-chance-youll-see-this-but

#Writing #NeilGaiman

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111922323275550594

#writing, #neilgaiman

2024-02-12T11:51:49+0000

Jason Braganza — Mon, 12 Feb 2024 11:51:49 +0000

Here’s what I read last week

Romans in Space, Episode 412, The Rest is History, Tom Holland & Dominic Sandbrook
Just William, Richmal Crompton
Iron Widow, Xiran Jay Zhao
Empire Podcast, Series 5, Episodes 112–121, Empires of Iran, Part II

The rest of this year’s list is here:
https://janusworx.com/reading/2024/

https://janusworx.com/fitness/#2024-02-12

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111918364035355751

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

2024-02-12T11:50:32+0000

Jason Braganza — Mon, 12 Feb 2024 11:50:32 +0000

Weekly fitness update

#mjbGettingFit #FitnessLogging #WeightLoss #WeightLossJourney

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111918359021235022

#mjbgettingfit, #FitnessLogging, #weightloss, #weightlossjourney

2024-02-12T09:34:13+0000

Jason Braganza — Mon, 12 Feb 2024 09:34:13 +0000

I write a #newsletter, infrequently. I’m trying to be more consistent

Subscribe here, https://janusworx.com/subscribe

Here’s what went out, today: https://sendy.janusworx.com/w/iuwCovRmlXXm9IjipU0m1g

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111917822978991134

#newsletter

2024-02-12T04:27:47+0000

Jason Braganza — Mon, 12 Feb 2024 04:27:47 +0000

Filters work! Filters keep you sane! Use filters!

#MastodonFilters #Filters

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111916618040664154

#mastodonfilters, #filters

2024-02-12T03:51:47+0000

Jason Braganza — Mon, 12 Feb 2024 03:51:47 +0000

Poor Ceres Always Gets the Short End of the Stick

https://janusworx.com/blog/poor-ceres-always-gets-the-short-end-of-the-stick/

#TLT #TheExpanse #Ceres #FanFiction #Entertainment

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111916476473362619

#tlt, #theexpanse, #ceres, #fanfiction, #entertainment

2024-02-12T03:19:35+0000

Jason Braganza — Mon, 12 Feb 2024 03:19:35 +0000

Watched #TheArchies on Netflix. Loved it!

Probably because I identified a lot with the Anglo/Goan aesthetic, more than the “Archie” part of the story. It got a lot of things right :)

My only gripe was when I switched to English as the language of the movie, they all had American accents. Wish they had authentic Anglo/Goan accents or failing that, they’d have used Brit accents.

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111916349894430151

#TheArchies

2024-02-11T15:01:10+0000

Jason Braganza — Sun, 11 Feb 2024 15:01:10 +0000

Get #Hugo to Show Images in Links When Shared on Social Networks

https://janusworx.com/blog/hugo-show-images-in-links-when-shared-on-social-networks/

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111913446286505289

https://janusworx.com/blog/100-word-writing-habit/

2024-02-11T14:13:41+0000

Jason Braganza — Sun, 11 Feb 2024 14:13:41 +0000

100 Word Writing Habit

#100WordHabit #Writing

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111913259602158166

#100WordHabit, #writing

2024-02-11T12:04:26+0000

Jason Braganza — Sun, 11 Feb 2024 12:04:26 +0000

Viewing hugo server Output Remotely

https://janusworx.com/blog/viewing-hugo-server-remotely/

#Hugo

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111912751341048445

https://hallowedlore.tumblr.com/post/725788309915336704/this-is-targeted-tumblr-content

2024-02-09T04:14:20+0000

Jason Braganza — Fri, 09 Feb 2024 04:14:20 +0000

I am here to spit facts,
You all did stan Caesar once!

#PerformanceArt #Fun #Shakespeare

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111899578240045605

#performanceart, #fun, #shakespeare

2024-02-08T13:57:29+0000

Jason Braganza — Thu, 08 Feb 2024 13:57:29 +0000

आजी बात डोकं … सगळे इंजिनिअर!
कॉपी पेस्टची एवढी सवय लागलेली आहे …

https://youtu.be/-CONzqaOHCA

#StandUp #Comedy #Fun #ThaneCity #FatimaAyesha

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111896208989927586

#standup, #comedy, #fun, #ThaneCity, #FatimaAyesha

2024-02-06T04:21:52+0000

Jason Braganza — Tue, 06 Feb 2024 04:21:52 +0000

#TIL: Switching software branches in #Manjaro #Linux

https://janusworx.com/blog/note-to-self-switch-to-manjaro-unstable/

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111882620933511683

#manjaro, #linux, #til

2024-02-05T16:05:36+0000

Jason Braganza — Mon, 05 Feb 2024 16:05:36 +0000

Jo Walton’s Reading List: January 2024

https://reactormag.com/jo-waltons-reading-list-january-2024/

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111879725831073864

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYVLjFPpmwQ

2024-02-04T02:53:36+0000

Jason Braganza — Sun, 04 Feb 2024 02:53:36 +0000

Every time I read crazy #LLM shit like 0, it reminds me of the #LenieClark madness in #PeterWatts’ #Rifters trilogy.
My mind keeps going, Damn! He called it close to two decades ago!

A running series of Peter’s thoughts on this shit is here - 1

#Books #Reading #AI

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111870949198668497

#llm, #LenieClark, #peterwatts, #Rifters, #books, #reading, #ai

2024-02-02T16:56:03+0000

Jason Braganza — Fri, 02 Feb 2024 16:56:03 +0000

A Sara mini concert. A beautiful, soulful fifteen minutes.

#SaraBareilles #mjbMusic

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111862937244612382

#sarabareilles, #mjbmusic

2024-02-02T16:45:57+0000

Jason Braganza — Fri, 02 Feb 2024 16:45:57 +0000

Meet Popsicle, one of my local strays.

#Dogstodon #mjbPhotography

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111862897564747255

#Dogstodon, #mjbphotography

2024-02-02T15:59:26+0000

Jason Braganza — Fri, 02 Feb 2024 15:59:26 +0000

This could be the end of everything
So why don’t we go,
Somewhere only we know?

https://youtu.be/lAgplUg3P10

#mjbMusic #Keane

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111862714609637863

#mjbmusic, #Keane

2024-01-25T04:50:17+0000

Jason Braganza — Thu, 25 Jan 2024 04:50:17 +0000

Take two of your songs from two different albums.
Now mash them up into something hauntingly beautiful for your new album.

Only #SaraBareilles, with No Such Thing & Satellite Call

https://youtu.be/9R3-E04pINY

#sarabareilles, #mjbmusic

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111814784947348118

2024-01-23T07:07:28+0000

Jason Braganza — Tue, 23 Jan 2024 07:07:28 +0000

DISABLE\_IPX
from the Netlify documentation. my first thought was why would any one even run the protocol in the first place? reading further …

when set to true for a Next.js site, the build will not generate a function for the next/image loader bundled into Next.js Runtime.

Sigh! I *am* old!

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111803999740602785

2024-01-22T03:50:32+0000

Jason Braganza — Mon, 22 Jan 2024 03:50:32 +0000

Here’s what I read last week

The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity, Carlo M. Cipolla 0

The rest of this year’s list is here:
https://janusworx.com/reading/2024/

https://janusworx.com/fitness/#2024-01-22

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111797563068054238

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

2024-01-22T03:47:32+0000

Jason Braganza — Mon, 22 Jan 2024 03:47:32 +0000

Weekly fitness update

#mjbGettingFit #FitnessLogging #WeightLoss #WeightLossJourney

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111797551240272362

#mjbgettingfit, #FitnessLogging, #weightloss, #weightlossjourney

2024-01-20T02:49:40+0000

Jason Braganza — Sat, 20 Jan 2024 02:49:40 +0000

I Found Rainbows in Emacs!

https://janusworx.com/blog/i-found-rainbows-in-emacs/

#Emacs #RainbowMode #mjbWrites

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111785999074758529

#emacs, #RainbowMode, #mjbwrites

2024-01-20T01:58:31+0000

Jason Braganza — Sat, 20 Jan 2024 01:58:31 +0000

There we wept,
While we remembered Zion.

https://youtu.be/u60fXbTsMDg

#LindaRonstadt #mjbMusic #RiversOfBabylon

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111785798002745571

#lindaronstadt, #mjbmusic, #RiversOfBabylon

2024-01-16T13:46:01+0000

Jason Braganza — Tue, 16 Jan 2024 13:46:01 +0000

And they’re dreaming of black roses, white rhythm and blues
And somebody who cares when you lose

https://youtu.be/l-trzAMKRzk?si=Nsv2zH-oRK-VgJbM

#mjbMusic #Earworm #LindaRonstadt

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111765930750047382

#mjbmusic, #earworm, #lindaronstadt

2024-01-15T02:49:18+0000

Jason Braganza — Mon, 15 Jan 2024 02:49:18 +0000

Here’s what I read last week

Number Go Up, Zeke Faux
Dread Knight, Sarah Hawke

The rest of this year’s list is here:
https://janusworx.com/reading/2024/

https://janusworx.com/fitness/#2024-01-15

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111757686082254317

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

2024-01-15T02:47:52+0000

Jason Braganza — Mon, 15 Jan 2024 02:47:52 +0000

Weekly fitness update

#mjbGettingFit #FitnessLogging #WeightLoss #WeightLossJourney

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111757680480248536

#mjbgettingfit, #FitnessLogging, #weightloss, #weightlossjourney

2024-01-14T05:03:49+0000

Jason Braganza — Sun, 14 Jan 2024 05:03:49 +0000

One smol dream come true!

A signed copy of @neilhimself’s, What You Need To Be Warm!

#Books #Reading #WhatYouNeedToBeWarm #mjbBooks

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111752552761877712

#books, #reading, #WhatYouNeedToBeWarm, #mjbbooks

2024-01-13T03:58:37+0000

Jason Braganza — Sat, 13 Jan 2024 03:58:37 +0000

Text:
the fact that i’m no longer the same age as the protagonists of novels and films i once connected to is so heartbreaking. there was a time when I looked forward to turning their age. i did. and i also outgrew them. i continue to age, but they don’t; never will. the immortality of fiction is beautiful, but cruel.

— septemberkisses on Tumblr

https://www.tumblr.com/septemberkisses/737960366788771840/the-fact-that-im-no-longer-the-same-age-as-the

#Reading #Books #Nostalgia

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111746634069509868

#reading, #books, #nostalgia

2024-01-13T00:48:55+0000

Jason Braganza — Sat, 13 Jan 2024 00:48:55 +0000

Walker, your footsteps
are the road, and nothing more.
Walker, there is no road,
the road is made by walking.
Walking you make the road,
and turning to look behind
you see the path you never
again will step upon.
Walker, there is no road,
only foam trails on the sea.

— Border of a Dream: Selected Poems of Antonio Machado, translated by Willis Barnstone

Via: https://herbertlui.net/the-road-is-made-by-walking/

#Poetry #Poem #mjbPoetry

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111745888156027280

#poetry, #poem, #mjbpoetry

2024-01-12T15:36:59+0000

Jason Braganza — Fri, 12 Jan 2024 15:36:59 +0000

Like John Carter, I have jumped to @linuxmint ‘s Vir-geen-ya!

#LinuxMint #Virginia

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111743717848326384

#linuxmint, #virginia

2024-01-10T14:49:30+0000

Jason Braganza — Wed, 10 Jan 2024 14:49:30 +0000

Bruinhilda the librarian is awesome!

https://www.tumblr.com/bruinhilda/171987962425/as-a-library-worker-theres-something-i-want-to

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111732206512008308

https://youtu.be/KEPTLfkXvU4?si=BLami1CItFVJUyZG

2024-01-09T11:30:11+0000

Jason Braganza — Tue, 09 Jan 2024 11:30:11 +0000

“We know where we’re goin’
We know where we’re from!”

This mashup is quite something!

#Exodus #Marley #Santana #mjbMusic

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111725760418433516

#exodus, #marley, #santana, #mjbmusic

2024-01-08T05:42:12+0000

Jason Braganza — Mon, 08 Jan 2024 05:42:12 +0000

The #Zettelkasten’s slowly growing!

Thank you #OrgRoam!

#Emacs #OrgMode

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111718729807603245

#zettelkasten, #orgroam, #emacs, #orgmode

2024-01-08T05:15:49+0000

Jason Braganza — Mon, 08 Jan 2024 05:15:49 +0000

All prose is fiction

“It occurs to me that to read everything, including the news, like a novel—to be cognizant and accepting of discontinuities and conflicts, of multiple interpretations, of symbol that sits alongside more objective truths—is maybe the skill we most need to employ in navigating the world of news today, when there is so much news, and so few ways of making it all cohere.”

— @aworkinglibrary
https://aworkinglibrary.com/writing/all-prose-is-fiction

**#Reading** **#Books**

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111718626053724532

2024-01-05T16:12:24+0000

Jason Braganza — Fri, 05 Jan 2024 16:12:24 +0000

Moved janusworx.com from #Namecheap to #Porkbun today.

This is the first time in my entire working life, since ’97 that a domain transfer and every single associated activity has gone off without a hitch.

It’s always #DNS, but sometimes miracles do happen!

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111704220958081406

#namecheap, #porkbun, #dns

2024-01-05T03:01:51+0000

Jason Braganza — Fri, 05 Jan 2024 03:01:51 +0000

Here’s what I read last week

The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse, Charlie Mackesy

The rest of this year’s list is here:
https://janusworx.com/reading/2024/

#mjbGettingFit #FitnessLogging #WeightLoss #WeightLossJourney

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111701112361512825

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

2024-01-05T02:55:21+0000

Jason Braganza — Fri, 05 Jan 2024 02:55:21 +0000

Weekly fitness update

janusworx.com/fitness/#2024-01-05

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111701086765253951

#mjbgettingfit, #FitnessLogging, #weightloss, #weightlossjourney

2024-01-05T02:55:01+0000

Jason Braganza — Fri, 05 Jan 2024 02:55:01 +0000

Ending this thread, because I keep losing it.
Never fear though, the updates aren’t going away.

I’ll just be posting them independently

Final update to 2023
https://janusworx.com/fitness/#2023-12-29

If you still want a reverse chronological timeline, find it here
https://janusworx.com/fitness/

#mjbGettingFit #FitnessLogging #WeightLoss #WeightLossJourney

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111701085475864732

#mjbgettingfit, #FitnessLogging, #weightloss, #weightlossjourney

2024-01-02T05:02:33+0000

Jason Braganza — Tue, 02 Jan 2024 05:02:33 +0000

#TomGauld as usual, helping me with my New Year’s resolutions and life goals!

https://myjetpack.tumblr.com/post/738317573108760576/happy-new-year

https://janusworx.com/blog/my-year-in-reading-2023-edition/

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111684600010423288

#tomgauld, #books, #reading

2023-12-31T18:03:05+0000

Jason Braganza — Sun, 31 Dec 2023 18:03:05 +0000

My Year in Reading, 2023 Edition

#Books #Reading #mjbWrites

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111676344566904506

#books, #reading, #mjbwrites

2023-12-30T08:12:28+0000

Jason Braganza — Sat, 30 Dec 2023 08:12:28 +0000

Three and a half years with #Emacs

https://janusworx.com/blog/emacs-three-and-a-half-years-on/

#mjbWrites

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111668359865812743

#emacs, #mjbwrites

2023-12-30T07:17:38+0000

Jason Braganza — Sat, 30 Dec 2023 07:17:38 +0000

#Espanso snippets immediately modified to do this!

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111668144246444482

#espanso

2023-12-30T07:17:06+0000

Jason Braganza — Sat, 30 Dec 2023 07:17:06 +0000

I was today years old when i had the sudden realisation that i could use inactive timestamps (or even active ones should i choose to) as headlines in my #OrgMode files 🤦🏿

I was manually typing dates and then moving trees between them. Now I can just increment the headline date, if I want too! Yippee!

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111668142146119485

https://janusworx.com/fitness/#2023-12-29

2023-12-29T06:33:01+0000

Jason Braganza — Fri, 29 Dec 2023 06:33:01 +0000

Here’s what I read this month: 3/3

The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
The Song of the Bird, Anthony de Mello
The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Meditations, Marcus Aurelius
Brave Enough, Cheryl Strayed
Atomic Habits, James Clear
Antifragile, Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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

**#mjbReads** **#Books** **#mjbBooks** **#Reading** **#mjbReading**

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111662306497742379

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

2023-12-29T06:32:37+0000

Jason Braganza — Fri, 29 Dec 2023 06:32:37 +0000

Here’s what I read this month: 2/

The Daily Laws, Robert Greene
The Daily Stoic, Ryan Holiday & Stephen Hanselman
American Gods Vols I, II & III, (Illustrated), Neil Gaiman
One-on-One With Andy Grove, Andrew S. Grove
How to Pronounce Knife, Souvankham Thammavongsa
The Complete Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle
Deck ’Em, Scott Shwertly
Empire Podcast, Series 1, Episodes 01–20, The British Empires in India
Digital Zettelkasten, David Kadavy
Twilight Of The Aesir, Parts I & II, Dan Carlin
Sounds Like Me: My Life (So Far) in Song, Sara Bareilles
The Ultimate Deliberate Practice Guide, Shane Parrish
The Overstory, Richard Powers

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

**#mjbReads** **#Books** **#mjbBooks** **#Reading** **#mjbReading**

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111662304920698398

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

2023-12-29T06:31:51+0000

Jason Braganza — Fri, 29 Dec 2023 06:31:51 +0000

Here’s what I read this month: 1/

Chaos Kings, Scott Patterson
Yumi and the Nightmare Painter, Brandon Sanderson
Sach Kahun Toh, Neena Gupta
Nona the Ninth, Tamsyn Muir
The Fall of the Aztecs (Parts 1–8), The Rest is History, Episodes 384–391, Tom Holland & Dominic Sandbrook
The History of English, Episodes 61-70, Kevin Stroud
The History of English, Episodes 71-80, Kevin Stroud
The History of English, Episodes 81-90, Kevin Stroud
The History of English, Episodes 91-100, Kevin Stroud
Three Ships Trilogy, Episodes 107-109, Empire Podcast
Empire Podcast, Series 4, Episodes 72–95, The Russian Empire and the Great Game
Empire Podcast, Series 5, Episodes 96–106, Empires of Iran
The Sunlit Man, Brandon Sanderson
The Grammar Devotional, Mignon Fogarty

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

**#mjbReads** **#Books** **#mjbBooks** **#Reading** **#mjbReading**

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111662301926851131

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

2023-12-29T04:10:17+0000

Jason Braganza — Fri, 29 Dec 2023 04:10:17 +0000

Final Weekly fitness update for 2023

**#mjbgettingfit**

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111661745260094070

#Petzold #Code #CompSci #Christmas #Books #Reading

2023-12-28T06:50:05+0000

Jason Braganza — Thu, 28 Dec 2023 06:50:05 +0000

Thank you #BookSanta

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111656711291643252

#booksanta, #Petzold, #code, #compsci, #christmas, #books, #reading

2023-12-19T04:26:58+0000

Jason Braganza — Tue, 19 Dec 2023 04:26:58 +0000

Why it took 379 pages to prove 1+1=2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwbZaTjXo-s

#Mathematics #Maths

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111605187773825075

#mathematics, #maths

2023-12-19T03:21:01+0000

Jason Braganza — Tue, 19 Dec 2023 03:21:01 +0000

Probabbly the best thing you’ll read today

#Fun #Camp #Art #JimSteinman

It never takes off in America. A prophet is without honor in his own land.

But that doesn’t matter. How could it matter? You are perhaps the most creatively self-actualized man who has ever lived.

Look at that vampire.
He’s coming in hot and a hundred Venetian nuns gave their lives to make his ludicrously capacious lace sleeves.

Look at that girl. She was born in a fog machine. She wore her best red velvet cape. She’s down bad …

https://wizzard890.tumblr.com/post/733990822886932480/okay-so-picture-this-youre-a-man-named-jim

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111604928434342715

#fun, #camp, #art, #jimsteinman

2023-12-19T03:18:29+0000

Jason Braganza — Tue, 19 Dec 2023 03:18:29 +0000

Take the most fun, yet incomprensible Nolan movie you know.

Now take *that* fun and incomprehensibility and turn it up to 11.
While lengthening it ten times

And you get #TheLockedTomb
Reading the #TLT series has been the most fun I’ve had this year.

#Books #mjbReading #Reading

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111604918482707817

#TheLockedTomb, #tlt, #books, #mjbreading, #reading

2023-12-18T02:21:58+0000

Jason Braganza — Mon, 18 Dec 2023 02:21:58 +0000

@bleuje just stumbled across your site and faq. all questions answered!
thank you for all you do!

edit: for other interested folk, mosey over to, https://bleuje.com/

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111599033922287610

2023-12-18T02:06:57+0000

Jason Braganza — Mon, 18 Dec 2023 02:06:57 +0000

@bleuje, love your work so much!
if one had to learn how to do this for themselves, how would one go about it?

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111598974889350910

2023-12-16T05:30:09+0000

Jason Braganza — Sat, 16 Dec 2023 05:30:09 +0000

Found the Annotations plugin for #Calibre today.
Makes it a breeze to now get notifications off my Kobo Elipsa

Life just got so much simpler!

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?p=2853161

#Books #eBooks #Reading

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111588449275671607

#calibre, #books, #ebooks, #reading

2023-12-15T17:22:00+0000

Jason Braganza — Fri, 15 Dec 2023 17:22:00 +0000

On How the Kubernetes v1.29 Logo Came About

https://janusworx.com/blog/on-how-the-kubernetes-v129-logo-came-about/

#Kubernetes #Mandala #DevOps #Art #Design #Logo

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111585586116583749

#kubernetes, #mandala, #devops, #art, #design, #logo

2023-12-13T03:51:17+0000

Jason Braganza — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 03:51:17 +0000

Police Are Freezing Bank Accounts for Accepting Payment from UPI Accounts Linked with Cybercrimes

From the article:
Since the issue is complex, there are no straightforward solutions for these cases, which are rising rapidly. If it happens to you, you need to request your bank and the concerned police station to share details and apply for de-freezing your account. If it does not work, then you need to file a case in a court or a consumer forum. It may be a time-consuming process, though.

https://advisor.moneylife.in/cyber-awareness/fraud-alert-beware-police-are-freezing-bank-accounts-for-accepting-payment-from-upi-accounts-linked-with-cybercrimes/4485.html

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111571073622333134

2023-12-13T03:21:37+0000

Jason Braganza — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 03:21:37 +0000

Like some text in the linked post says:
Wrap Yourself In Blankets, Call It a Day!

https://dduane.tumblr.com/post/736441691724300290/assessthatdress-deliciouswastelandgoddess

Alt Text: Linked post and the pictures depict draping a large rectangle of cloth around the human body in various styles, from Greek to Indian

#Art #Clothing

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111570956955356551

#art, #clothing

2023-12-13T02:53:07+0000

Jason Braganza — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 02:53:07 +0000

Some of Tor.com’s Best Articles About Fiction, Reading, and Writing in 2023

https://www.tor.com/2023/12/12/some-of-tor-coms-best-articles-about-fiction-reading-and-writing-in-2023/

#Reading #TorBooks #Books

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111570844873176625

#reading, #TorBooks, #books

2023-12-13T02:06:40+0000

Jason Braganza — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 02:06:40 +0000

I stole this from tumblr ya’ll! just to get you to read!

https://just-late-roman-republic-things.tumblr.com/post/735382895932391424/sidles-out-of-the-shadows-opens-jacket-to

*sidles out of the shadows*
*opens jacket, hands you PDFs of every Loeb classical library text in the public domain*
*also hands you links to Gutenberg.org for searchable EPUB books, LibriVox for free audiobooks, the Internet Archive library and the Perseus Digital Library*

*slides back into shadows*

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111570662212228473

#mjbBooks #Books #Reading

2023-12-12T14:41:42+0000

Jason Braganza — Tue, 12 Dec 2023 14:41:42 +0000

Thank you so much #BookSanta for this delightful gift!

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111567968837941936

#booksanta, #mjbbooks, #books, #reading

2023-12-12T14:02:44+0000

Jason Braganza — Tue, 12 Dec 2023 14:02:44 +0000

The best thing about #TheArchies movie is Aditi “Dot” Saigal’s, Dear Diary leitmotifs.

https://youtu.be/DblQ801aE08?si=ZDihGWdLoD0SqXpZ

#Reading #Books #mjbPhotography

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111567815600180398

#TheArchies, #mjbmusic

2023-12-12T02:26:03+0000

Jason Braganza — Tue, 12 Dec 2023 02:26:03 +0000

What’s a trip to Bangalore, without a Blossom’s #BookHaul

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111565076157586351

#BookHaul, #reading, #books, #mjbphotography

2023-12-01T03:58:18+0000

Jason Braganza — Fri, 01 Dec 2023 03:58:18 +0000

Here’s what I read last week

The Lost Metal, Brandon Sanderson
Tress of the Emerald Sea, Brandon Sanderson

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

https://janusworx.com/fitness/#2023-12-01

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111503153486004286

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

2023-12-01T03:57:17+0000

Jason Braganza — Fri, 01 Dec 2023 03:57:17 +0000

Weekly fitness update

#mjbGettingFit #FitnessLogging #WeightLoss #WeightLossJourney

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111503149474728157

#mjbgettingfit, #FitnessLogging, #weightloss, #weightlossjourney

2023-11-29T15:17:05+0000

Jason Braganza — Wed, 29 Nov 2023 15:17:05 +0000

To be a Flower, is profound
Responsibility —
— Emily Dickinson, Bloom

#mjbPhotography #Nature #Photography #Bloomscrolling

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111494497938261568

#mjbphotography, #nature, #photography, #bloomscrolling

2023-11-29T03:22:36+0000

Jason Braganza — Wed, 29 Nov 2023 03:22:36 +0000

RIP Charlie.

I began following you in the late 90s to learn how to get rich.
What you taught me went way beyond that.

Thank you.

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111491688477174383

2023-11-27T03:44:53+0000

Jason Braganza — Mon, 27 Nov 2023 03:44:53 +0000

I don’t have to do a cranky #OrgMode ritual anymore. Something’s good about this Monday :)

https://janusworx.com/blog/weirdly-placed-emacs-org-branches-are-only-cosmetic/

#Emacs #mjbWrites

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111480451457092897

#orgmode, #emacs, #mjbwrites

2023-11-26T04:30:30+0000

Jason Braganza — Sun, 26 Nov 2023 04:30:30 +0000

#Writing and me. Same!

via keepinventory on tumblr, https://www.tumblr.com/keepinventory/160471215113/sees-art-with-thick-smooth-line-art-ah-yes-i-want

#Art

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111474968522252424

#writing, #art

2023-11-24T02:13:28+0000

Jason Braganza — Fri, 24 Nov 2023 02:13:28 +0000

Here’s what I read last week

Shadows of Self, Brandon Sanderson
The Bands of Mourning, Brandon Sanderson
Columbus, Episodes 306–309, The Rest is History, Tom Holland & Dominic Sandbrook

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

https://janusworx.com/fitness/#2023-11-24

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111463105067572849

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

2023-11-24T02:03:02+0000

Jason Braganza — Fri, 24 Nov 2023 02:03:02 +0000

Weekly fitness update

#mjbGettingFit #FitnessLogging #WeightLoss #WeightLossJourney

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111463064043198864

#mjbgettingfit, #FitnessLogging, #weightloss, #weightlossjourney

2023-11-23T05:11:00+0000

Jason Braganza — Thu, 23 Nov 2023 05:11:00 +0000

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

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111458140860365370

#art

2023-11-23T05:07:45+0000

Jason Braganza — Thu, 23 Nov 2023 05:07:45 +0000

Using #Hugo as a redirect service

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

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111458128070160743

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

2023-11-23T02:31:48+0000

Jason Braganza — Thu, 23 Nov 2023 02:31:48 +0000

The Surprising Genius of Sewing Machines

— Derek Muller, #Veritasium

#Art #Sewing #Skill

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111457514879852848

#Veritasium, #art, #sewing, #skill

2023-11-20T04:22:04+0000

Jason Braganza — Mon, 20 Nov 2023 04:22:04 +0000

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

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111440961508885517

#humour, #art, #writing, #ai

2023-11-18T04:45:07+0000

Jason Braganza — Sat, 18 Nov 2023 04:45:07 +0000

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

#Scripting #Linux #Bash #Emacs #mjbWrites

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111429727492601416

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

2023-11-18T02:06:00+0000

Jason Braganza — Sat, 18 Nov 2023 02:06:00 +0000

I made it to an irreal blog post!

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

#Emacs #mjbWrites

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111429101854878772

#emacs, #mjbwrites

2023-11-17T15:26:33+0000

Jason Braganza — Fri, 17 Nov 2023 15:26:33 +0000

The Alloy of Law, Brandon Sanderson

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

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

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111426587454258365

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

2023-11-17T15:26:20+0000

Jason Braganza — Fri, 17 Nov 2023 15:26:20 +0000

Here’s what I read last week

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

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111426586560063499

2023-11-17T15:22:19+0000

Jason Braganza — Fri, 17 Nov 2023 15:22:19 +0000

Weekly fitness update

#mjbGettingFit #FitnessLogging #WeightLoss #WeightLossJourney

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111426570792463835

#mjbgettingfit, #FitnessLogging, #weightloss, #weightlossjourney

2023-11-17T14:53:08+0000

Jason Braganza — Fri, 17 Nov 2023 14:53:08 +0000

#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

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111426455998547291

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

2023-11-17T06:56:30+0000

Jason Braganza — Fri, 17 Nov 2023 06:56:30 +0000

Update to the post:
I got it working just the way I envisioned, thanks to @laotang’s generosity.

Read here:
https://janusworx.com/blog/having-my-emacs-tasks-and-notes-ready/#update-2023-11-17

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111424581818435789

2023-11-16T15:39:01+0000

Jason Braganza — Thu, 16 Nov 2023 15:39:01 +0000

Literally #EveryFrameAPainting!

https://www.tumblr.com/helloohart/179689062708/caravaggio-living-paintings-by-ludovica-rambelli

#Art #Caravaggio #LudovicaRambelliTheatre

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111420974128299909

#EveryFrameAPainting, #art, #Caravaggio, #LudovicaRambelliTheatre

2023-11-16T14:51:12+0000

Jason Braganza — Thu, 16 Nov 2023 14:51:12 +0000

Finally figured out a way to get all my tasks and notes all ready and waiting for me in Emacs, every morning :)

https://janusworx.com/blog/having-my-emacs-tasks-and-notes-ready/

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111420786117944334

https://janusworx.com/blog

2023-11-16T03:09:24+0000

Jason Braganza — Thu, 16 Nov 2023 03:09:24 +0000

moved to the latest version of #Baikal
If you want a simple, no nonsense #Caldav / #Carddav server to sync all your devices Baikal can’t be beat.

Latest release: https://github.com/sabre-io/Baikal/releases/tag/0.9.4
Home: https://sabre.io/baikal/

#SelfHosting #SelfHost

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111418026508755550

#baikal, #caldav, #carddav, #selfhosting, #selfhost

2023-11-15T12:40:20+0000

Jason Braganza — Wed, 15 Nov 2023 12:40:20 +0000

#DarkMode peeps, does my blog show up in Dark mode for you?

i think I borked something, and then I think I hopefully fixed it?!!

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111414609218087529

#darkmode

2023-11-15T12:00:07+0000

Jason Braganza — Wed, 15 Nov 2023 12:00:07 +0000

My custom CSS for #Miniflux

https://janusworx.com/blog/my-custom-css-for-miniflux/

#CSS** **#Blogging** **#RSS #FeedReaders #mjbWrites

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111414451044801759

#miniflux, #css, #blogging, #rss, #FeedReaders, #mjbwrites

2023-11-15T03:38:59+0000

Jason Braganza — Wed, 15 Nov 2023 03:38:59 +0000

—via @bookgeekdom on tumblr

https://www.tumblr.com/bookgeekdom/733911287675961344

#Books #Reading #Art

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111412480570518446

#books, #reading, #art

2023-11-15T03:32:35+0000

Jason Braganza — Wed, 15 Nov 2023 03:32:35 +0000

The world has told you lies about how small you are.

— Heather Havrilesky

https://www.tumblr.com/mythologyofblue/679127486490099712/the-world-has-told-you-lies-about-how-small-you

#Quote #mjbQuote #Life #Strength #Resilience

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111412455353213238

#quote, #mjbquote, #life, #strength, #resilience

2023-11-10T02:58:32+0000

Jason Braganza — Fri, 10 Nov 2023 02:58:32 +0000

A new, well designed font that’s freely available, is always good.

https://monaspace.githubnext.com/

#Typography

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111384009905129901

#typography

2023-11-10T02:14:38+0000

Jason Braganza — Fri, 10 Nov 2023 02:14:38 +0000

Weekly fitness update

https://janusworx.com/fitness/#2023-11-10

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111383837290020993

2023-11-10T02:11:47+0000

Jason Braganza — Fri, 10 Nov 2023 02:11:47 +0000

Here’s what I read last week

Renegade, Sarah Hawke
25 Sales Strategies That Will Boost Your Sales, Stephan Schiffman
Anguished English, Richard Lederer

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

via @mariapopova
https://www.themarginalian.org/2023/02/28/sea-survival-dougal-robertson/

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111383826085844473

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

2023-11-09T01:33:40+0000

Jason Braganza — Thu, 09 Nov 2023 01:33:40 +0000

I have no words to offer which may comfort the reader who is also a castaway, except that rescue may come at any time but not necessarily when you expect it;
and that even if you give up hope, you must never give up trying, for, as the result of your efforts, hope may well return and with justification

— Dougal Robertson, Sea Survival

#Life #Hope #Desperation #mjbDoTheWork #Resilience #AntiFragile

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111378013882569363

#life, #hope, #desperation, #mjbdothework, #resilience, #antifragile

2023-11-06T06:44:34+0000

Jason Braganza — Mon, 06 Nov 2023 06:44:34 +0000

Theoretical research in the sciences is the unfallen version of Fuck Around and Find Out. 😀

— Diane Duane

https://dduane.tumblr.com/post/733143720787132416/theoretical-research-in-the-sciences-is-the

#Science #Art #Life #Tinkering #Exploring #MakeMistakes

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111362249469987959

#science, #art, #life, #tinkering, #exploring, #MakeMistakes

2023-11-06T06:42:05+0000

Jason Braganza — Mon, 06 Nov 2023 06:42:05 +0000

You seem kind!

https://dduane.tumblr.com/post/733147417336283136

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111362239695563735

2023-11-04T05:13:29+0000

Jason Braganza — Sat, 04 Nov 2023 05:13:29 +0000

When, in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes,
I all alone beweep my outcast state,
And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries,
And look upon myself and curse my fate,
Wishing me like to one more rich in hope,
Featured like him, like him with friends possessed,
Desiring this man’s art and that man’s scope,
With what I most enjoy contented least;
Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising,
Haply I think on thee, and then my state,
(Like to the lark at break of day arising
From sullen earth) sings hymns at heaven’s gate;
For thy sweet love remembered such wealth brings
That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

https://youtu.be/6_0VBS9AOhE?t=86

#WillieTheRapper #JudiKillsIt #TheDench #JudiDench #Shakespeare #Art #Poetry

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111350566698196151

#WillieTheRapper, #JudiKillsIt, #TheDench, #judidench, #shakespeare, #art, #poetry

2023-11-04T04:58:16+0000

Jason Braganza — Sat, 04 Nov 2023 04:58:16 +0000

Tree on a lake

#BlackAndWhite #Nature #mjbPhotography #Photography

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111350506906054913

#blackandwhite, #nature, #mjbphotography, #photography

2023-11-04T02:55:55+0000

Jason Braganza — Sat, 04 Nov 2023 02:55:55 +0000

Here’s what I read last week

The Well of Ascension, Brandon Sanderson
Hero of Ages, Brandon Sanderson
Secret History, Brandon Sanderson

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

https://janusworx.com/fitness/#2023-11-03

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111350025750848860

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

2023-11-04T02:54:00+0000

Jason Braganza — Sat, 04 Nov 2023 02:54:00 +0000

Weekly fitness update

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111350018252487797

#Art #Life #mjbDoTheWork #StealLikeAnArtist #AustinKleon

2023-11-03T02:53:54+0000

Jason Braganza — Fri, 03 Nov 2023 02:53:54 +0000

and all went well this time :)

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111344355540191823

2023-11-03T02:24:09+0000

Jason Braganza — Fri, 03 Nov 2023 02:24:09 +0000

#LinuxMint’s offering an upgrade to my Nvidia display drivers today.

for once I remember! 😂
System backup in progress before I attempt this!

#Backups

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111344238583995943

#linuxmint, #backups

2023-11-02T11:09:14+0000

Jason Braganza — Thu, 02 Nov 2023 11:09:14 +0000

Because I wrote a book called *Steal Like an Artist*, some people think I’m really interested in plagiarism. Actually, I’m much more interested in *forgery*.

“Plagiarism is the flip side of forgery,” wrote Andrew Potter in *The Authenticity Hoax*. “Forgers pass off their own work as that of someone else, while plagiarists pass off the work of others as their own.”

In other words: Plagiarism is taking credit for someone else’s work. Forgery is giving someone else credit for work you create.

The difference is you *doing the work*.

— Austin Kleon
https://austinkleon.com/2023/11/01/3-recent-newsletters/

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111340640930647912

#art, #life, #mjbdothework, #StealLikeAnArtist, #AustinKleon

2023-10-30T00:33:00+0000

Jason Braganza — Mon, 30 Oct 2023 00:33:00 +0000

Find mine here:

https://janusworx.com/subscribe/

#RSS

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111321152289460453

#rss

2023-10-30T00:22:20+0000

Jason Braganza — Mon, 30 Oct 2023 00:22:20 +0000

how to keep following people when a major social platform implodes (…and you don’t want to join 20 new websites) aka

Use RSS!

https://smellslikebot.tumblr.com/post/700851357933060096/how-to-keep-following-people-when-a-major-social

— smellslikebot on tumblr

via @neilhimself & @dianeduane

#RSS #RSSForever #Tech #Reading

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111321110337045253

#rss, #RSSForever, #tech, #reading

2023-10-29T13:28:39+0000

Jason Braganza — Sun, 29 Oct 2023 13:28:39 +0000

The older I get, the more I realize how valuable it is to let go of the anchors holding you back.
When someone makes a mistake, forgive them. When someone wrongs you, move on. When someone slights you, let it go. When someone tells you they didn’t mean it, believe them. When someone tries to pull you down, let them go.
Moving forward helps a lot and doesn’t cost a thing.

— Shane Parrish

https://fs.blog/brain-food/october-29-2023/

#Quotes #mjbQuotes

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111318539914039988

#quotes, #mjbQuotes

2023-10-28T05:12:41+0000

Jason Braganza — Sat, 28 Oct 2023 05:12:41 +0000

See all these new folk getting all excited about a @lisamelton boost, and I’m like, bah!

I was there when she came into being! I was amongst her first boosts!

Take that newbies 😂

(On a more serious note, @lisamelton is now the world turtle on which #Fediverse’s elephants stand :) )

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111310927409450055

#fediverse

2023-10-28T03:22:43+0000

Jason Braganza — Sat, 28 Oct 2023 03:22:43 +0000

Entertainment for the coming month is all set

https://www.rediff.com/movies/special/10-women-achievers-you-must-watch-on-ott/20231026.htm

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111310494982223516

2023-10-27T03:06:11+0000

Jason Braganza — Fri, 27 Oct 2023 03:06:11 +0000

Here’s what I read last week

The History of English, Episodes 41-50, Kevin Stroud
Mistborn, Brandon Sanderson
The History of English, Episodes 51-60, Kevin Stroud
You Deserve a Tech Union, Ethan Marcotte
He Who Drowned the World, Shelley Parker-Chan

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

https://janusworx.com/fitness/#2023-10-27

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111304767652686903

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

2023-10-27T02:51:26+0000

Jason Braganza — Fri, 27 Oct 2023 02:51:26 +0000

Weekly fitness update

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111304709640727163

#CorelDraw #Photoshop #Illustrator #GraphicArts #Humour

2023-10-26T14:01:00+0000

Jason Braganza — Thu, 26 Oct 2023 14:01:00 +0000

I have these scars and used those tags in the original post, because I supported graphics folk in an ad agency when I was young.

but @doctormo’s like tells me, the story still continues and with FOSS graphic software too 😂

#Inkscape #Krita #GIMP

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111301680224006096

#inkscape, #krita, #gimp

2023-10-26T13:55:10+0000

Jason Braganza — Thu, 26 Oct 2023 13:55:10 +0000

Found on Tumblr …
https://www.tumblr.com/mostly-funnytwittertweets/717667127483564032

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111301657235022805

#CorelDraw, #photoshop, #illustrator, #GraphicArts, #humour

2023-10-26T11:14:01+0000

Jason Braganza — Thu, 26 Oct 2023 11:14:01 +0000

Share your French Fries people!

https://mathwithbaddrawings.com/2023/10/24/err-and-err-and-err-again-but-less-and-less-and-less/

#Maths #Math #Mathematics #Wisdom #Life

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111301023599203089

#maths, #math, #mathematics, #wisdom, #life

2023-10-26T06:04:47+0000

Jason Braganza — Thu, 26 Oct 2023 06:04:47 +0000

They also let you download the font, customised, just the way you like it!

#MonoLisa #FaceTypeFoundry #Fonts #Typography

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111299807647832537

#monolisa, #FaceTypeFoundry, #fonts, #typography

2023-10-26T06:01:53+0000

Jason Braganza — Thu, 26 Oct 2023 06:01:53 +0000

When the folks behind your favourite font, listen to you and grant you, your desires! ❤️ 😍

Thank you #FaceType Foundry for #MonoLisa!

https://github.com/MonoLisaFont/feedback/issues/229

#Fonts #Typography

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111299796242052859

#FaceType, #monolisa, #fonts, #typography

2023-10-17T01:19:20+0000

Jason Braganza — Tue, 17 Oct 2023 01:19:20 +0000

O Mater Dei, memento mei. Amen.

https://youtu.be/s1sSqIxY-k8

#mjbMusic #AveMaria #Bach #Gounod #BobbyMcFerrin #YoYoMa

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111247724395733429

#mjbmusic, #avemaria, #bach, #Gounod, #BobbyMcFerrin, #yoyoma

2023-10-16T11:13:02+0000

Jason Braganza — Mon, 16 Oct 2023 11:13:02 +0000

Mastodon filters are a godsend for my sanity!

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111244396654782408

2023-10-14T01:15:17+0000

Jason Braganza — Sat, 14 Oct 2023 01:15:17 +0000

Here’s what I read last week

She Who Became The Sun, Shelley Parker-Chan
Bombay Balchao, Jane Borges
Lucasfilm, Pixar, Marvel, Acquired Podcast
Lockheed Martin, Acquired Podcast
Nvidia: Parts 1-3, Acquired Podcast
AWS, WhatsApp, Android, Stratechery, PA Semi & Authentec, Acquired Podcast
LVMH, Nike, Costco, Acquired Podcast

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

https://janusworx.com/fitness/#2023-10-13

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111230721562458671

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

2023-10-14T01:12:27+0000

Jason Braganza — Sat, 14 Oct 2023 01:12:27 +0000

Weekly fitness update

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111230710389081051

https://janusworx.com/blog/joining-two-images-using-imagemagick/

2023-10-13T01:51:23+0000

Jason Braganza — Fri, 13 Oct 2023 01:51:23 +0000

I don’t use or know #ImageMagick at all, but joining images? I never thought I’d use it as much as I did. But it’s infrequent enough that I’d documented it a while back. And it saves my behind every time 😂

#Blogging #Writing #Documentation #Linux

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111225201213515242

#imagemagick, #blogging, #writing, #documentation, #linux

2023-10-12T02:20:18+0000

Jason Braganza — Thu, 12 Oct 2023 02:20:18 +0000

aka why I began the years long move to #Linux in 2018 after close to two decades of System 7/8 / OSX use.

Macworld: Apple is destroying the Mac by trying to make it safer

https://www.macworld.com/article/2101369/overzealous-security-is-wrecking-the-mac-user-experience.html

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111219652600046875

#linux

2023-10-11T01:20:55+0000

Jason Braganza — Wed, 11 Oct 2023 01:20:55 +0000

Oh, this is beautiful!

Mr. Fell’s Guide to the Gavotte.

https://www.tumblr.com/hoshioyoo/730713827974496256/mr-fells-guide-to-the-gavotte-hes-trying-his

#GoodOmens #Art #FanArt

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111213756795292566

#goodomens, #art, #fanart

2023-10-10T10:12:40+0000

Jason Braganza — Tue, 10 Oct 2023 10:12:40 +0000

listen to it as entertainment, rather than history or lessons from history.

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111210185408037514

2023-10-10T05:13:15+0000

Jason Braganza — Tue, 10 Oct 2023 05:13:15 +0000

probably beginning my maths journey. slowly

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111209008005591726

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AkDPs72ffw

2023-10-10T05:05:33+0000

Jason Braganza — Tue, 10 Oct 2023 05:05:33 +0000

Math for Super Beginners || How To Learn Pre-Algebra and Basic Algebra

#Mathematics #Maths #ForMe

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111208977741346205

#mathematics, #maths, #ForMe

2023-10-10T04:54:40+0000

Jason Braganza — Tue, 10 Oct 2023 04:54:40 +0000

going to just take a couple of weeks off and do nothing.
or rather do this and do that. just wander aimlessly

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111208934974861174

2023-10-10T04:28:23+0000

Jason Braganza — Tue, 10 Oct 2023 04:28:23 +0000

Binge listening to the Acquired Podcast, by Benjamin Gilbert and David Rosenthal. The tone is young, slightly broey and plenty privileged. I find my self disagreeing with a lot of what they say and opine.

But the stories of the companies that they tell? That part is lovely. and really well executed. Plenty of work and effort.

https://www.acquired.fm/

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111208831626598542

https://www.tumblr.com/dontlistentothemmoose/708642357485109248/nasa-employee-oh-hey-u-guys-are-back

2023-10-09T14:38:10+0000

Jason Braganza — Mon, 09 Oct 2023 14:38:10 +0000

The moon’s stuck in a time loop!

#SciFi #Fun

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111205567038341327

#scifi, #fun

2023-10-07T06:37:10+0000

Jason Braganza — Sat, 07 Oct 2023 06:37:10 +0000

I am a light mode in the day and dark mode eve onwards person.
And of course I want my @linuxmint to automatically change themes for me. As of now, it natively does not.

and so tada: S L Gobinath’s Dark Mode applet to the rescue.

While I don’t quite get the iOS-esque automatic sundown switch, aleast now Mint switches to dark mode automatically at 6 in the eve.

Thank you so much, Sir!

https://cinnamon-spices.linuxmint.com/applets/view/347

#Linux #LinuxMint #DarkMode

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111192351106598443

#linux, #linuxmint, #darkmode

2023-10-07T04:42:19+0000

Jason Braganza — Sat, 07 Oct 2023 04:42:19 +0000

and if you want a beautifully produced aural experience, go listen to Forest 404

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06tqsg3

#Forest #Nature #Sounds #Breathe

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111191899476412524

#forest, #nature, #sounds, #breathe

2023-10-07T04:41:22+0000

Jason Braganza — Sat, 07 Oct 2023 04:41:22 +0000

Listen to a random forest

https://www.tree.fm/

#Nature #Sounds #Forest #Breathe

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111191895740251782

#nature, #sounds, #forest, #breathe

2023-10-06T11:26:04+0000

Jason Braganza — Fri, 06 Oct 2023 11:26:04 +0000

There is fiction in the space between
The lines on your page of memories
Write it down but it doesn’t mean
You’re not just telling stories

https://youtu.be/wapCTd5fS2Y

#TracyChapman #mjbMusic #TellingStories

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111187824797982844

#tracychapman, #mjbmusic, #TellingStories

2023-10-06T02:53:03+0000

Jason Braganza — Fri, 06 Oct 2023 02:53:03 +0000

Weekly fitness update

https://janusworx.com/fitness/#2023-10-06

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111185807488858317

2023-10-06T02:47:24+0000

Jason Braganza — Fri, 06 Oct 2023 02:47:24 +0000

Here’s what I read last week

The Frugal Wizard’s Handbook for Surviving Medieval England, Brandon Sanderson
Uncurled, Daniel Stenberg
Intel, Sony, Taylor Swift, Howard Marks, Standard Oil: Parts I & II, Sequoia Capital: Parts I & II, Acquired Podcast

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

#Programming #Languages #Humour

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111185785287072789

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

2023-10-05T03:42:01+0000

Jason Braganza — Thu, 05 Oct 2023 03:42:01 +0000

close to two decades after I moved to a completely digital audio library, I’ve had my first case of bit rot and needed to replace close to 25 songs.

This is quite a bit longer than my records and tapes and cds lasted, when i was using them though. So pretty pleased :)

I bought songs on iTunes. How much longer will I get to buy songs for keeps for myself, is anyone’s guess though.

#Bitrot #Music

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111180337771209722

#bitrot, #music

2023-10-05T03:32:32+0000

Jason Braganza — Thu, 05 Oct 2023 03:32:32 +0000

In today’s, An oldie but a goodie …

A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages
https://james-iry.blogspot.com/2009/05/brief-incomplete-and-mostly-wrong.html

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111180300457952299

#programming, #languages, #humour

2023-10-04T13:11:43+0000

Jason Braganza — Wed, 04 Oct 2023 13:11:43 +0000

@crmsnbleyd @rostre @fidel @mousebot @l13u7anant, @ynom, @pymander

From all that you’ve shared, I surmise that if I forsee my init growing more complex (and I do), then I better invest the time and effort into learning and using use-package (which I will)

Thank you all, for your thoughtful replies and for indulging me :)

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111176915579256105

2023-10-04T04:41:57+0000

Jason Braganza — Wed, 04 Oct 2023 04:41:57 +0000

Thank you for liking @imsodin :) and thank you for all you do!

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111174911104580597

2023-10-04T04:08:28+0000

Jason Braganza — Wed, 04 Oct 2023 04:08:28 +0000

finally enabled #Syncthing’s introducers. on *one* machine. after close to five years of using it.

i have enough devices now that redoing them is a giant pita otherwise

it confused the hell out of me when I did it last. machines would keep offering me folders and i would not know what came from where 😂

now i know enough of how I use syncthing to know that enabling introducers on one machine is enough.

Watching shared folders propogate painlessly is so amazing! Thank you #Syncthing

#Linux #SysAdmin

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111174779464947779

#syncthing, #linux, #sysadmin

2023-10-04T02:01:50+0000

Jason Braganza — Wed, 04 Oct 2023 02:01:50 +0000

, @pymander, @crmsnbleyd, @rostre, @fidel & @mousebot, thank you all for your help and thoughtful replies.Before I flog this horse to death though, permit me one more ask

At what point in you #emacs journey did you folk begin using use-package Did ya’ll just start out with it? Or were you just chugging along until some problem got so unbearable that ya’ll started casting out for solutions and use-package was it.

What specific pain point did it solve for you?

(Asking because while I see the appeal, I am trying to see if I want to actually begin using this tool. It does nothing currently. My emacs is pretty simple and each big mode has its config broken out into its own init file)

Thank you folk, once again :)

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111174281483781882

2023-10-03T13:39:26+0000

Jason Braganza — Tue, 03 Oct 2023 13:39:26 +0000

oh! use-package is for *configuration* of packages. not installation.
definitely for another day then. my #Emacs has not reach that level of complexity yet. and i have other things to learn and do now.

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111171362233463676

2023-10-03T13:25:35+0000

Jason Braganza — Tue, 03 Oct 2023 13:25:35 +0000

Moved my itty bitty #Lenovo #IdeaPad1 laptop to Manjaro today with KDE
everything worked except for the touchpad. a little bit of web fu led me to blacklisting the elan\_i2c module

added blacklist elan\_i2c to blacklist.conf in the /etc/modprobe.d directory and then all was well :)

#Linux #SysAdmin

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111171307815956582

#lenovo, #IdeaPad1, #linux, #sysadmin

2023-10-03T12:27:08+0000

Jason Braganza — Tue, 03 Oct 2023 12:27:08 +0000

think that’s it. use-package sadly has moved to learn some other day.

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111171077934436970

2023-10-03T12:26:31+0000

Jason Braganza — Tue, 03 Oct 2023 12:26:31 +0000

My #OrgRoam #Zettelkasten is back!

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111171075560077186

#orgroam, #zettelkasten

2023-10-03T12:14:50+0000

Jason Braganza — Tue, 03 Oct 2023 12:14:50 +0000

copied lots of stuff. so far #Emacs is holding up
hopefully I will be able to use 29. 🤞

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111171029591013287

2023-10-03T11:51:45+0000

Jason Braganza — Tue, 03 Oct 2023 11:51:45 +0000

#OrgMode’s back

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111170938829366055

#orgmode

2023-10-03T11:33:59+0000

Jason Braganza — Tue, 03 Oct 2023 11:33:59 +0000

got distracted and installed Manjaro and upgraded Mint on two other options instead 😂

for now, trying to triage the old files and moving over only the stuff i want into the new init file

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111170868953299991

2023-10-03T05:20:22+0000

Jason Braganza — Tue, 03 Oct 2023 05:20:22 +0000

now that i inadvertently formatted the main system because of a combination of a weird driver crash, sickness and inattention, i decided to move to #Emacs 29, using the ubuntu-elisp ppa instead of the venerable kelleyk (will move back whenever they release 29)

i get a “pure-gtk” warning, about crashes that might occur during transfer of large selection data. but i have no choice now. i want the new hotness. So in for a penny, in for a pound.

(I did check the system-configuration-options and the package seems to be compiled with both x --with-x-toolkit=gtk3 and wayland --with-pgtk=yes support. so let’s see how stable it is)

also decided to rewrite my init file and the way I install packages. (learning use-package finally.

Looks like a good way to noodle around while recovering from this dastardly viral.
Let’s see how it goes.

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111169399842730088

#Programming #LifeWithCode #LongTerm #UnCurled

2023-09-30T05:13:21+0000

Jason Braganza — Sat, 30 Sep 2023 05:13:21 +0000

#NoteToSelf make sure the machine is backed up before you do any sort of driver update on the desktop

At least you will have the latest versions of your stuff when the machine goes wah

#SysAdmin #mjbBabbles

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111152385345091635

#notetoself, #sysadmin, #mjbBabbles

2023-09-29T05:19:27+0000

Jason Braganza — Fri, 29 Sep 2023 05:19:27 +0000

Taleb’s, “I write with my scars” just as easily applies to Daniel ( @bagder ) Stenberg’s, Uncurled.

The language is gentle, the passion is fierce, the wisdom is timeless.

Read it here: https://un.curl.dev/

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111146746982199057

2023-09-29T05:10:49+0000

Jason Braganza — Fri, 29 Sep 2023 05:10:49 +0000

“All bugs could in theory eventually be found. But only if you stop adding new features and you have a large amount of users *for an extended period of time*.”

— Daniel Stenberg (@bagder) 1

This corollary to ancient open source lore 2 can only come from a person who has skin in the game and the scars to show for it.

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111146713038453170

#programming, #LifeWithCode, #longterm, #uncurled

2023-09-28T06:41:16+0000

Jason Braganza — Thu, 28 Sep 2023 06:41:16 +0000

#TimeBlocking Log Day 8

Spoke too soon yesterday 😂
Laid up in bed today with a fever.

Lesson? Learn to listen to your body better

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111141406437600610

https://www.raspberrypi.com/products/raspberry-pi-5/

2023-09-28T05:57:20+0000

Jason Braganza — Thu, 28 Sep 2023 05:57:20 +0000

moving from the 486 to the Pentium and fans began to become a must
moving from the #RaspberryPi 4 to the 5 and fans begin to become a must.

History rhymes :)

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111141233672475187

#raspberrypi

2023-09-27T04:42:46+0000

Jason Braganza — Wed, 27 Sep 2023 04:42:46 +0000

#TimeBlocking Log Day 7

Well, it’s not really day 7, it’s been quite a few days. (a week i think)

What I worked on last week was what the logs and the reviews were showing me, telling me. That I had too much on my plate.

cut out a lot of stuff from life. delegated even more. and postponed a few important things. And completed a few of them. There was just no way I was doing them all anyway

What I have learnt, is just showing up daily and doing even haphazard work, leads to getting more done, rather than just wringing my hands over all the things I couldn’t do.

Have quite enjoyed the past couple of days. To boot, my body seems to like this way of working and I have lost weight. Something which I have been struggling to do, since January

#mjbBabbles #mjbFitness #mjbGettingFit

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111135278167579180

#timeblocking, #mjbBabbles, #mjbfitness, #mjbgettingfit

2023-09-27T03:43:23+0000

Jason Braganza — Wed, 27 Sep 2023 03:43:23 +0000

Multiple timers in the new #iOS . Only took sixteen years

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111135044609425817

#ios

2023-09-27T01:13:27+0000

Jason Braganza — Wed, 27 Sep 2023 01:13:27 +0000

Perfect soundtrack to start the morning off with

Hard Rock Mamma Mia!

https://www.tumblr.com/promisetoloveyouforevermore/634182015469666304/this-goes-so-hard

#Abba #mjbMusic

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111134455100575324

#abba, #mjbmusic

2023-09-25T15:10:57+0000

Jason Braganza — Mon, 25 Sep 2023 15:10:57 +0000

Evening loop tonight as well!

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111126423651061036

2023-09-25T13:36:38+0000

Jason Braganza — Mon, 25 Sep 2023 13:36:38 +0000

Miss you Mama Cass

https://youtu.be/KOok1WzZbOY

#CaliforniaDreamin #mjbMusic #TheMamas&ThePapas

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111126052757852387

#CaliforniaDreamin, #mjbmusic, #TheMamas

2023-09-25T04:32:04+0000

Jason Braganza — Mon, 25 Sep 2023 04:32:04 +0000

Thank you Kovid, for decades of freedom with books!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-nFFtQt-Gg

#KovidGoyal #Calibre #eBooks

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111123911438891570

#KovidGoyal, #calibre, #ebooks

2023-09-23T14:49:33+0000

Jason Braganza — Sat, 23 Sep 2023 14:49:33 +0000

Mine, is Kolhapuri Misal Pao

cc: @bhavin192

My unsafe word is tacos.

https://beige.party/@TootOfBob/111114792525222752

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111115014880021237

2023-09-22T05:32:13+0000

Jason Braganza — Fri, 22 Sep 2023 05:32:13 +0000

Here’s what I read last week

The Fist of God, Frederick Forsyth
Berkshire Hathaway, Parts One, Two & Three, Acquired Podcast

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

https://janusworx.com/fitness/#2023-09-22

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111107161030539089

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

2023-09-22T05:30:38+0000

Jason Braganza — Fri, 22 Sep 2023 05:30:38 +0000

Weekly fitness update

**#mjbgettingfit **

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111107154794382674

https://janusworx.com/blog/reworking-blog-newsletter-subscription-options/

2023-09-21T05:44:54+0000

Jason Braganza — Thu, 21 Sep 2023 05:44:54 +0000

Reworking Blog/Newsletter Subscription Options

#mjbBlog #Email #Newsletter #mjbNewsletter

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111101548615151318

#mjbBlog, #email, #newsletter, #mjbnewsletter

2023-09-21T05:28:33+0000

Jason Braganza — Thu, 21 Sep 2023 05:28:33 +0000

cw: Gunshots

as an Indian who loves K-Dramas, I can confirm. Both scenes are accurate :😂

https://youtube.com/shorts/X1PRpYZYG0g

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111101484304843483

2023-09-20T07:54:51+0000

Jason Braganza — Wed, 20 Sep 2023 07:54:51 +0000

Poem: *Kupu rere kē from *Alice Te Punga Somerville,* Always Italicise: How to Write While Colonised *

Source: Words & Coffee on Tumblr, https://www.tumblr.com/words-and-coffee/728849735623049216/alice-te-punga-somerville-always-italicise-how

#Racism #Colonialism #Poetry #Art

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111096397250550169

#racism, #colonialism, #poetry, #art

2023-09-20T04:16:19+0000

Jason Braganza — Wed, 20 Sep 2023 04:16:19 +0000

#TimeBlocking Log Day 6

Planning the day with coffee and the Cal Newport’s fancy Time Block Planner

(will be going back to plain ole notebooks when this one gets filled)

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111095537973967864

2023-09-18T06:16:45+0000

Jason Braganza — Mon, 18 Sep 2023 06:16:45 +0000

been using #ArchLinuxArm and #ManjaroArm (because Arch panicked on that Pi) since June on two Pis.

Enjoying it so far.

Will definitely use it more. Have gotten over my fear of Arch based distributions and rolling releases

The only thing that is left to see, is how quickly I recover when everythng goes wrong. (if it matches my slow deb distribution based recovery, I’m happy)

#AskFedi #AskWritingFedi #Writing #Blogging

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111084686918270903

#archlinuxarm, #manjaroarm, #linux

2023-09-18T04:28:34+0000

Jason Braganza — Mon, 18 Sep 2023 04:28:34 +0000

You get your best ideas in the morning.

Due to life and circumstances, the only time you get the time, space and bandwidth *actually* write is in the evening. How do you cope? How do you retain your ideas?

All answers appreciated. Please boost for reach!

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111084261476174100

#askfedi, #AskWritingFedi, #writing, #blogging

2023-09-18T02:22:21+0000

Jason Braganza — Mon, 18 Sep 2023 02:22:21 +0000

Every single sound 9.6k upwards is seared into memory taking up valuable mental space!
I’d know something was up if the sounds didn’t follow these predictable patterns 🤣

https://dragonscave.space/@KaraLG84/111079192607346804

#SysAdmin #OldManMemories

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111083765188943774

#sysadmin, #OldManMemories

2023-09-18T01:52:54+0000

Jason Braganza — Mon, 18 Sep 2023 01:52:54 +0000

This 👇

“unfortunately social media puts the activist meeting, the bitching session, the public outreach, the group therapy session, the silly blow off some steam gossiping about people private chat, and the group d&d session all in the same place,

and so people mistake, for example, an outpouring of legitimate grief and rage as somehow a public-facing political statement, or a carefully edited and tactical political statement as a reflection of a person’s most deeply held private feelings, etc”

— Devon Price

https://drdevonprice.com/post/724467763916177408/unfortunately-social-media-puts-the-activist

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111083649396901671

2023-09-15T06:49:19+0000

Jason Braganza — Fri, 15 Sep 2023 06:49:19 +0000

Here’s what I read last week

A Guide to Writing Mathematics, Dr. Kevin P. Lee
Everything You Need to Ace Computer Science and Coding in One Big Fat 134. Notebook, Grant Smith, Chris Pearce, Dawn Dupriest & Abby Dening
How to Prove It, Daniel Velleman
The History of English, Episodes 31-40, Kevin Stroud
The Fourth Protocol, Frederick Forsyth
The Deceiver, Frederick Forsyth

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

https://janusworx.com/fitness/#2023-09-15

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111067828038228659

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

2023-09-15T06:46:39+0000

Jason Braganza — Fri, 15 Sep 2023 06:46:39 +0000

Weekly fitness update

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111067817558795676

1: https://billwillingham.substack.com/p/willingham-sends-fables-into-the

2023-09-15T05:01:24+0000

Jason Braganza — Fri, 15 Sep 2023 05:01:24 +0000

i ought to play social media catchup in the evening.
one little matter of interest and i’ve gone down the rabbit hole of researching it and then finding a nuanced take that helps me understand.

Yesterday, it was the fight on here with fediverse block lists and their biases
Today it was all about artists playing guerilla warfare, against entrenched duopolies [1]

One little rabbit hole and 2-3 hours gone. And then I wonder what is happening to my work blocks 😂

Get up, get coffee, get to work is the new motto

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111067403656451360

2023-09-15T04:50:29+0000

Jason Braganza — Fri, 15 Sep 2023 04:50:29 +0000

but that thing is important and I just *have* to do it. i just *have* to join up
no. this has not worked well so far.
best to try the other, slower approach now.

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111067360773950632

2023-09-15T04:35:33+0000

Jason Braganza — Fri, 15 Sep 2023 04:35:33 +0000

Thoughts after a few days of #TimeBlocking

I can only do about 4 hours of #Focus split across two hour blocks
The rest of my day is *filled*, which is why I cannot do more
I get very, *very*, distracted. Very Soon. Progress on stuff is slow, and it’s is not helped with my mind flitting off to do different things or think different things
I have poor impulse control. I’ve already opened up that social media page and clicking away happily before I catch myself. This is getting better
The @neilhimself method helps. and is maddeningly, frustratingly easy, yet hard to do. Either do the task. or sit and do nothing. No other option. I come away sweating.
I have taken on so many things to do, when I have a life that is quite uncertain. I need to make space and have margin. And until my life changes, this is how it has to be. Fewer commitments. Stronger commitments.

Here’s to slow, steady progress

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111067302005733493

#timeblocking, #focus

2023-09-14T16:52:04+0000

Jason Braganza — Thu, 14 Sep 2023 16:52:04 +0000

Herbert Lui on doing the work and self promotion

“Making good work is like a muscle, one that wears away within days or even hours. The best thing you can do is exercise it every day. While you may publish every day, you don’t need to promote all of it; just the good stuff.”

https://herbertlui.net/an-author-on-both-sides-of-publishing/

#mjbDoTheWork

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111064535809718504

#mjbdothework

2023-09-14T14:52:13+0000

Jason Braganza — Thu, 14 Sep 2023 14:52:13 +0000

derb; Script to Create podcast RSS feeds

https://janusworx.com/blog/derb/

#Python #Scripting #mjbWrites

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111064064563124429

#python, #scripting, #mjbwrites

2023-09-14T05:25:11+0000

Jason Braganza — Thu, 14 Sep 2023 05:25:11 +0000

I’ve always told myself, I’m not nostalgic. I don’t have any particular attachment for yesterday.

Until I caught myself yesterday, on a beautiful rainy evening, telling myself, this is just how it used to be. And realised that every good feeling now, links back to good memories of yore

So #NoteToSelf :

it’s ok. nostalgia is good mostly
in the humdrum of the daily grind, look for moments of joy
sometimes take the time out to actively go experience new, novel things
be present. appreciate today for what it gives you.
and if you keep going back. be grateful for the good memories. just don’t get stuck there

#mjbBabbles #Nostalgia #TheGoodOldDays #DaysOfYore

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111061834870894564

#notetoself, #mjbBabbles, #nostalgia, #TheGoodOldDays, #DaysOfYore

2023-09-14T02:20:32+0000

Jason Braganza — Thu, 14 Sep 2023 02:20:32 +0000

ok. this suddenly struck me as I was reviewing my day, last eve, as I do all these #TimeBlocking posts.

The reason I don’t much done, even after all these lovely plans, is that I spent most of my day, holding my breath, for something that may or may not come and knock me and my day over.

I don’t know if it’ll come or not. but my body is in near constant flight or fight mode. because to my mind and body, being caught blind sided is far worse.
I need to figure out a way to be calm and collected and to be ok if things fall by the wayside. both; what is coming at me, or my grand plans for the day.

i need to trust my gut, that what I am doing *is* the right thing to do in that moment. If that means that my planned life trajectory will slow down, then I need to clear time and review, and prioritise and have heart to hearts with folks, and / or be ok with life being the way it is.

Just putting these down on paper, seems to have unblocked something in me. Some progress then :)

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111061108799241754

2023-09-13T12:00:04+0000

Jason Braganza — Wed, 13 Sep 2023 12:00:04 +0000

#TimeBlocking Log Day 5

Decided to take the day off and do only one thing

Got knocked over by life.

Never mind. Time to get up, dust myself and get going again

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111057725304724646

2023-09-13T11:58:48+0000

Jason Braganza — Wed, 13 Sep 2023 11:58:48 +0000

spent the whole day in a slow flow state.
If I take this long to be productive at something then God help me.

On the other hand, I should take it as a positive that stuff is slowly clicking for me.

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111057720357484781

#LilKim #PhilCollins #mjbMusic

2023-09-12T15:24:56+0000

Jason Braganza — Tue, 12 Sep 2023 15:24:56 +0000

dumb #RSS question for all you #Web folk out there

does the whole feed file get regenerated every time, an item is added?

or is the new item just appended to the existing xml file?

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111052868571672340

#rss, #web

2023-09-12T13:11:03+0000

Jason Braganza — Tue, 12 Sep 2023 13:11:03 +0000

an old spin on an even older classic

In the Air Tonite
https://youtu.be/KAxxvGQBTOY

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111052342126719150

#LilKim, #philcollins, #mjbmusic

2023-09-12T12:24:42+0000

Jason Braganza — Tue, 12 Sep 2023 12:24:42 +0000

https://youtu.be/t4LWIP7SAjY

#mjbMusic #LaBelle #LadyMarmalade

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111052159854252796

#mjbmusic, #LaBelle, #LadyMarmalade

2023-09-12T12:18:10+0000

Jason Braganza — Tue, 12 Sep 2023 12:18:10 +0000

My Sharona!

https://youtu.be/uRLuIm2Bjgk

#Knack #mjbMusic

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111052134190507355

#Knack, #mjbmusic

2023-09-12T05:20:58+0000

Jason Braganza — Tue, 12 Sep 2023 05:20:58 +0000

the kind of mood swings, I’ve been having, maybe I should just call myself Hyperion

https://channels.im/@ufofeed/111050151984983906

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111050493675185526

#mjbBabbles #DisappearingPosts

2023-09-12T04:30:59+0000

Jason Braganza — Tue, 12 Sep 2023 04:30:59 +0000

Kind folk of the #Fediverse. I need #advice on disappearing posts

with all the babbling i’ve doing these days, i’m realising two things

sometimes i want to be a bit more vulnerable and open
i realise it could come back to bite me in the ass (or worse)

So please help me, if you could speak to

Why do you make posts disappear? How do you feel about it after?
How did you decide on your timeframe of choice

Would be grateful for anything you people can give me to chew on.

Please Boost!

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111050297156534400

#fediverse, #advice, #mjbBabbles, #DisappearingPosts

2023-09-12T03:53:20+0000

Jason Braganza — Tue, 12 Sep 2023 03:53:20 +0000

#TimeBlocking Log Day 4

Taking it easy today.

made a plan. for doing nothing. or very little. what matters today is the plan and the intention and the mindfulness of the execution / delegation behind it. Not the actual content.

I know it’s weird but reading the @thephd’s post and it’s somehow heartening to see that I’m not the only one struggling like this

https://elk.zone/pony.social/@thephd/111049360559613330

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111050149120260710

2023-09-12T01:29:29+0000

Jason Braganza — Tue, 12 Sep 2023 01:29:29 +0000

#PigLatin!

mysharona1987 on Tumblr
https://www.tumblr.com/mysharona1987/727379839840075776

#Fun #Latin #Art #Comics

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111049583444446722

#PigLatin, #fun, #latin, #art, #comics

2023-09-11T16:01:15+0000

Jason Braganza — Mon, 11 Sep 2023 16:01:15 +0000

did manage to do *some* stuff.
i’ll count that as a win

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111047349086474842

https://youtube.com/shorts/vaz0G6n5oa8

2023-09-11T13:41:29+0000

Jason Braganza — Mon, 11 Sep 2023 13:41:29 +0000

By Jove, he’s still got it!

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111046799508583510

2023-09-11T13:41:03+0000

Jason Braganza — Mon, 11 Sep 2023 13:41:03 +0000

evening loop: Caribbean Queen

She dashed by me, in painted on jeans …

https://youtu.be/uxX2gA18grk

#mjbMusic #BillyOcean

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111046797800593995

#mjbmusic, #billyocean

2023-09-11T11:44:29+0000

Jason Braganza — Mon, 11 Sep 2023 11:44:29 +0000

i have a small website which uses #Nginx to serve a few static files for family.
Four people at most will use it.

it is ssl only, using a letsencrypt cert.

I’d like to password protect it. Is http basic auth good enough? are there better (yet easy to setup) options out there?

Please boost. Need help :)

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111046339425599186

#nginx

2023-09-11T10:05:28+0000

Jason Braganza — Mon, 11 Sep 2023 10:05:28 +0000

scrapping everything.
will do some reading and some noodling with Python

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111045950099791576

2023-09-11T08:51:41+0000

Jason Braganza — Mon, 11 Sep 2023 08:51:41 +0000

#TimeBlocking Day 3 Log

created a plan in the morning.
have just spent all day looking at it. and then browsing the same set of five websites in a circle

mental energy seems to be a real thing after all.

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111045659965761064

https://www.themarginalian.org/

2023-09-11T03:55:04+0000

Jason Braganza — Mon, 11 Sep 2023 03:55:04 +0000

@mariapopova And for all this and more, she has my undying gratitude.

Subscribe to The Marginalian. You don’t have to read it much. Let it just flow over you over time. Like water smoothening a stone.

#Art #Gratitude #Reading #Marginalia #Books #Reading #NaturalPhilosophy #MariaPopova
3/3

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111044493601732480

#art, #gratitude, #reading, #marginalia, #books, #NaturalPhilosophy, #mariapopova

2023-09-11T03:54:41+0000

Jason Braganza — Mon, 11 Sep 2023 03:54:41 +0000

@mariapopova If anyone can talk about science and maths and art and life and words as being different facets of the same natural thing, it is her.

She’s the very embodiment of Syntopica.

for e.g. What do relentless persistence, witchcraft, astronomy, mathematics, science fiction, the moon landing and an undying parental love, have in common? Johannes Kepler.

Read Maria’s post to find out :)
https://www.themarginalian.org/2019/12/26/katharina-kepler-witchcraft-dream/

#Art #Gratitude #Reading #Marginalia #Books #Reading #NaturalPhilosophy #MariaPopova
2/

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111044492100749139

#art, #gratitude, #reading, #marginalia, #books, #NaturalPhilosophy, #mariapopova

2023-09-11T03:53:46+0000

Jason Braganza — Mon, 11 Sep 2023 03:53:46 +0000

When I first began reading Brain Pickings—eons ago—I would skip her commentary in the “margins” and go straight to the quotes, because that is what I wanted.
Now a days the quotes pale into insignificance as I rush to read what she has to day. If ever there was a case of the frame being more beautiful than the art it contains, it is the Marginalian’s (@mariapopova)

#Art #Gratitude #Reading #Marginalia #Books #Reading #NaturalPhilosophy #MariaPopova

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111044488463437644

#art, #gratitude, #reading, #marginalia, #books, #NaturalPhilosophy, #mariapopova

2023-09-10T04:44:53+0000

Jason Braganza — Sun, 10 Sep 2023 04:44:53 +0000

https://janusworx.com/blog/12/

#Gratitude #Togetherness #Anniversary

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111039027186023202

#gratitude, #togetherness, #anniversary

2023-09-09T12:38:08+0000

Jason Braganza — Sat, 09 Sep 2023 12:38:08 +0000

evenings are for soothing, honey dew voices
like Oleta Adams.

I hope you dance!

https://youtu.be/D8YGhcWgcUg

#mjbMusic #OletaAdams

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111035225776698303

#mjbmusic, #OletaAdams

2023-09-09T11:54:18+0000

Jason Braganza — Sat, 09 Sep 2023 11:54:18 +0000

#TomGauld speaks to my soul!

#Me!

via his latest post:
https://myjetpack.tumblr.com/post/727972254871420928/my-cartoon-for-this-weeks-guardian-books

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111035053422480887

#tomgauld, #me, #books, #reading

2023-09-09T11:37:23+0000

Jason Braganza — Sat, 09 Sep 2023 11:37:23 +0000

#NoteToSelf

If you extend your block because it gets interesting and then get tired and bored, you have only yourself to blame! have the discipline to stop when the going’s good.

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111034986904546138

#notetoself, #mjbBabbles

2023-09-09T08:21:09+0000

Jason Braganza — Sat, 09 Sep 2023 08:21:09 +0000

The end of an era.

Respect to my eight year old #TVSE Gold mechanical keyboard.

You served us well!

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111034215242994881

#TVSE

2023-09-09T05:30:46+0000

Jason Braganza — Sat, 09 Sep 2023 05:30:46 +0000

block one done! 🎉
took a break. on to the next block

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111033545309987908

2023-09-09T04:05:51+0000

Jason Braganza — Sat, 09 Sep 2023 04:05:51 +0000

Not as much head scratching involved, while making the plan, compared to yesterday.

I know I’m supposed to keep weekends loose, but I’m kinda making a pseudo plan today filled with loosey goosey stuff to do.

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111033211407823392

2023-09-09T03:48:58+0000

Jason Braganza — Sat, 09 Sep 2023 03:48:58 +0000

#TimeBlocking Day 2!

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111033145015653875

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLiNVoBckLqLnpvY0btY40oI5k9c0Tqa0I

2023-09-09T03:48:41+0000

Jason Braganza — Sat, 09 Sep 2023 03:48:41 +0000

Weekend Music: Moana!
I need something to uplift my spirits, now that there’s a heavy rain warning at home …

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111033143854776962

https://www.messynessychic.com/2023/09/08/the-great-binge-an-unsettling-reality-check-of-the-drug-fuelled-belle-epoque/

2023-09-09T02:03:11+0000

Jason Braganza — Sat, 09 Sep 2023 02:03:11 +0000

“Coca would also get an endorsement from an unlikely place: Vatican City. During the Great Binge, one notable drink in circulation was the Vin Mariani, an alcoholic beverage that combined both wine and cocaine and received endorsements from not one, but two popes. The popular concoction contained about 6 milligrams of cocaine per ounce, and Pope Leo XIII even allowed his face to be used in Vin Mariani’s marketing campaign. He was very much a brand ambassador, citing that it strengthened him “when prayer was insufficient”. The Papal endorsement led it to become many a religious leader’s drink of choice. In the secular world, the Belle Epoque’s most famous names, Sarah Bernhardt, Jules Verne and even Queen Victoria were all fans of the drug-infused cocktail that would spend the following century cleaning up its act to become the world’s most iconic household brand: Coca Cola (more on that here).”

More on Messy Nessy… (CW: images in the post contain nudity)

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111032729056224311

2023-09-09T01:51:56+0000

Jason Braganza — Sat, 09 Sep 2023 01:51:56 +0000

“Silicon Valley, despite being a supposed hub of innovation, one separated from the garish demands of regular industries, has culturally grown to resemble an open-air private equity firm where companies are incubated like animals bred for slaughter.”

— Ed Zitron

https://wheresyoured.at/p/silicon-valleys-slaughterhouse

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111032684828958581

2023-09-08T15:29:26+0000

Jason Braganza — Fri, 08 Sep 2023 15:29:26 +0000

It’s the weekend! Time to go listen to Dirty Dancing!

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUoBW9RBPmzqYzbc7-zfy9B_K_l3XIU1c

#mjbMusic #DirtyDancing

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111030237049565612

#mjbmusic, #DirtyDancing

2023-09-08T15:24:24+0000

Jason Braganza — Fri, 08 Sep 2023 15:24:24 +0000

Ok done for the day. Shutdown complete ✅

Cognition takes a precipitous dive post 6p.
best served for light reading / iterating / noodling

Energy highest in the morn. Tackle hard tasks then.

Doing this makes me a lot more self aware and intentional.

the plan got borked thrice in the day.
At least this time I got to be intentional about what I would do / ditch / delegate / postpone

And everything got captured, so my mind’s empty

It’s not natural doing this. And a bit hard.

So I’ll probably keep doing these, until the process becomes second nature.

#mjbBabbles #TimeBlocking

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111030217270985915

#mjbBabbles, #timeblocking

2023-09-08T13:36:04+0000

Jason Braganza — Fri, 08 Sep 2023 13:36:04 +0000

peak distraction in the last hour.

took me 30m to read two pages of a book.
evenings are also very interruptible

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111029791229812694

2023-09-08T11:54:22+0000

Jason Braganza — Fri, 08 Sep 2023 11:54:22 +0000

also would anyone know of an online mooc / youtube playlist that uses this textbook to teach #DiscreteMathematics ?

Please boost folks! Would really love to know.

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111029391349186458

#DiscreteMathematics

2023-09-08T10:45:12+0000

Jason Braganza — Fri, 08 Sep 2023 10:45:12 +0000

#Math #Fediverse, I want to self study #DiscreteMathematics using Susanna Epp’s textbook.

How long would a newbie take to learn this material? I’m going to give it an hour a day. And I’m in no hurry. Persistence over Pressure with this one

If I have questions, is there a place folk like me can go ask? other than spewing them out here in the void?

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111029119381907562

#math, #fediverse, #DiscreteMathematics

2023-09-08T10:34:02+0000

Jason Braganza — Fri, 08 Sep 2023 10:34:02 +0000

third focused task.

did only a few minutes of work in the

self realisation: everytime i tackle something hard, i want everything around to be perfect. i need to know all about it. how long it will take. how it is structured and blah blah blah.

methinks for me, the solution going forward is to just dive in. and then recalibrate once i’m actually doing the work.

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111029075503557676

https://youtu.be/GJiNR353_KI

2023-09-08T09:28:06+0000

Jason Braganza — Fri, 08 Sep 2023 09:28:06 +0000

and Mary Black’s, Columbus

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111028816213961224

https://youtu.be/2KQYLb0v4NQ

2023-09-08T09:22:21+0000

Jason Braganza — Fri, 08 Sep 2023 09:22:21 +0000

also Brian Hyland’s Sealed with a Kiss

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111028793620226454

https://youtu.be/WhrjnKdl-g4

2023-09-08T09:19:39+0000

Jason Braganza — Fri, 08 Sep 2023 09:19:39 +0000

it’s a rainy, cloudy day. Perfect time to listen to Bread’s Diary

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111028783009033450

2023-09-08T08:56:18+0000

Jason Braganza — Fri, 08 Sep 2023 08:56:18 +0000

done with lunch.
day rescheduled. one task had to be dropped
moving on with the day

feeling much better than normal.

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111028691157629012

2023-09-08T07:23:49+0000

Jason Braganza — Fri, 08 Sep 2023 07:23:49 +0000

first focussed task. ran over by a lot.
rescheduling day

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111028327513498106

2023-09-08T05:50:01+0000

Jason Braganza — Fri, 08 Sep 2023 05:50:01 +0000

irrational concern when talking / collaborating with folks
do it faster!
i only have an hour 😂

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111027958657919418

2023-09-08T05:30:35+0000

Jason Braganza — Fri, 08 Sep 2023 05:30:35 +0000

i need a 10-15m buffer between tasks

#NoteToSelf

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111027882259578570

#notetoself, #mjbBabbles

2023-09-08T05:24:20+0000

Jason Braganza — Fri, 08 Sep 2023 05:24:20 +0000

second hour done (play catchup with communications :))

moving on

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111027857692306101

2023-09-08T05:09:07+0000

Jason Braganza — Fri, 08 Sep 2023 05:09:07 +0000

so I need some sort of middle ground of … disciplinary flow, I guess?

also with the old life, all I had to do was show up, and do the work. and that was easy to plan and execute

my current life is very amorphous. I have a lot more responsibilities. I have to take care of family. My body broke in 2018 and it requires daily upkeep to function. And I am trying to pivot careers. All of these generate a lot of work. Not to mention the rest of life throwing things at me.

So I somehow need some approach to taming it. and focus on what I need to do.

I’m good at the long term stuff. I know what I want to do.What I need to try. The paths to get there.

What I currently lack is some way of handling daily life. And what to do when life happens all the time.

Current plan: long term stuff - do with #OrgMode. daily stuff - do with #TimeBlocking

What I *also* need to remember to do is ***review*** mesh what i do on a daily basis and see if it is leading me to where I want to be.

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111027797839619853

#orgmode, #timeblocking, #mjbBabbles

2023-09-08T05:00:31+0000

Jason Braganza — Fri, 08 Sep 2023 05:00:31 +0000

Tech writer friends on the #Fediverse, when do you write about your projects?

I write tiny scripts that help me do stuff.
And I always want to write about them.

But I feel silly, thinking folks already know this.
Or I haven’t done it yet, let me write about it once, I get it working
And once I’m done, sometimes the thing I did is so specific, I don’t know if other folk will write it.
Or the script / program does, what I want it to do, works really well, and fades into the background with my good intentions of writing about it.

#Blogging #Writing

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111027764035458112

#fediverse, #blogging, #writing

2023-09-08T04:45:09+0000

Jason Braganza — Fri, 08 Sep 2023 04:45:09 +0000

but more important than that is the mindset.

when I was doing omnifocus / gtd, everything got done, but I was wound tight as a drum.
and while over the past years, i reverted to simple planning using org mode, i feel … free, but important things fall through the cracks and then I am all flustered. I also feel lost a lot.

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111027703613123286

2023-09-08T04:42:05+0000

Jason Braganza — Fri, 08 Sep 2023 04:42:05 +0000

oh, I just realised, I never addressed *why* I am doing this.

let’s talk tools first. There was a time when everything just worked.
I had a Mac & iPhone, I was into Getting Things Done, I did consulting with a select set of clients and Omnifocus helped with everything/everywhere.

Right now, consulting is at a bare minimum, I’m in the middle of a career pivot. I use Linux and would prefer foss tools alongside paper or other analogue systems

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111027691554381260

2023-09-08T04:32:48+0000

Jason Braganza — Fri, 08 Sep 2023 04:32:48 +0000

first hour done! (doing my first day on easy mode, so nothing really serious here)

i need to be aware and account for cascading tasks.
tiny tasks that need more tasks or the context around it needs more task.

ok I need go get that towel.
… oh but these raincoats on the line need to be put in and folded too!

and a million other teensy things like these

i need to budget more time than i need

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111027655017684224

2023-09-08T04:26:46+0000

Jason Braganza — Fri, 08 Sep 2023 04:26:46 +0000

my first heuristic when trying new stuff out, nowadays is not how it works, but *who* made it.

if this is a VC funded / global megacorp thing, it automatically puts it in a no trust, try in a sandbox, give it a really long trial, and then use it and then don’t even trust it zone, if i use it at all

most times, I’ll just skip it. #ViaNegativa

life’s too short to be burned multiple times.

#vianegativa, #mjbBabbles

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111027631317959132

2023-09-08T03:31:55+0000

Jason Braganza — Fri, 08 Sep 2023 03:31:55 +0000

muting trump and us politics was the best thing for my sanity i ever did on mastodon.

i don’t get indian stuff much, because I think I don’t follow enough Indian folk. will do indian politics when it get loud enough too

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111027415668733837

2023-09-08T03:29:41+0000

Jason Braganza — Fri, 08 Sep 2023 03:29:41 +0000

muting trump and us politics was the best thing i ever did on mastodon.

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111027406881905675

2023-09-08T03:26:15+0000

Jason Braganza — Fri, 08 Sep 2023 03:26:15 +0000

i already thought of additional stuff to do!

goshdarnit!

ok. this goes into the ideas side on the left like Cal suggests.

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111027393394547472

2023-09-08T03:21:58+0000

Jason Braganza — Fri, 08 Sep 2023 03:21:58 +0000

made the plan.

first realisation. i have too much shit on my plate.

ok. deep breaths. let’s see how this goes

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111027376543630793

2023-09-08T03:20:55+0000

Jason Braganza — Fri, 08 Sep 2023 03:20:55 +0000

#TimeBlocking Log, Day 1 thread.

Will this stuff work? Logging for a few days, to see what I feel as I do this.

P.S. this is what I’m babbling on about: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111023054494146952

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111027372377060351

https://janusworx.com/fitness/#2023-09-08

2023-09-08T03:00:39+0000

Jason Braganza — Fri, 08 Sep 2023 03:00:39 +0000

Weekly fitness update

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111027292714799148

2023-09-08T02:57:03+0000

Jason Braganza — Fri, 08 Sep 2023 02:57:03 +0000

Here’s what I read last week

A Portrait of Love, Minerva Spencer
The Language of Love, Minerva Spencer
Dancing With Love, Minerva Spencer
The Boxing Baroness, Minerva Spencer
The Dueling Duchess, Minerva Spencer
The History of English, Episodes 21-30, Kevin Stroud
Their Master, Victorian Decadence, S.M. LaViolette

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

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111027278527622774

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

2023-09-08T01:01:11+0000

Jason Braganza — Fri, 08 Sep 2023 01:01:11 +0000

Wait what? #Doggust is a thing?! And I didn’t know?!

https://dduane.tumblr.com/post/727824668035268609

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111026822911928289

#doggust, #mjbBabbles

2023-09-07T15:06:15+0000

Jason Braganza — Thu, 07 Sep 2023 15:06:15 +0000

so i’m going to try doing #TimeBlocking tomorrow onwards and babble about it

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111024483553161104

https://youtu.be/OhDu4eePPtk?t=20

2023-09-07T13:17:20+0000

Jason Braganza — Thu, 07 Sep 2023 13:17:20 +0000

oh i just realised that i could also babble on about the books i read. never quit want to write structured posts about them.

but i do feel like writing about something that strikes and then i want to go, didja see that?! i must screama to tha world … my excitement from the top of some place … very high!

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111024055263484352

2023-09-07T10:48:52+0000

Jason Braganza — Thu, 07 Sep 2023 10:48:52 +0000

FIN!

That about sums up the advice given in the planner proper
Also all the “I”’s above are Cal. I have just been copy pasting, in case that wasn’t clear.

The planner has a site here: https://www.timeblockplanner.com/

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Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111023471486472636

2023-09-07T10:46:46+0000

Jason Braganza — Thu, 07 Sep 2023 10:46:46 +0000

CONCLUDING a bit more:

Build smart weekly plans.
Use this plan to develop effective daily time-block schedules.
Execute those daily schedules with intensity.
When you’re done for the day, shut down completely.
When you get to the weekend, take a break from rigorous scheduling.
Then start the cycle all over again. This is the rhythm of a professional life that’s both extremely productive and sustainable. And it’s exactly what this planner is designed to help you achieve.

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Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111023463234244447

2023-09-07T10:44:33+0000

Jason Braganza — Thu, 07 Sep 2023 10:44:33 +0000

CONCLUSION

It’s this combination of high-level weekly plans with detailed daily time block schedules that unlocks the full potential of this productivity system. 2. The weekly/daily approach is what allows you to begin moving obligations around like pieces on a chessboard, and to construct configurations of your schedule that enable you to accomplish head turning amounts of work, all while staying on top of the various small requests and tasks pulling at your time and attention. While your peers react frantically to inputs and deadlines as they arise, often putting in late nights to try to compensate for their haphazard schedules, you’ll approach each day with a justified confidence.

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#mjbBabbles

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111023454502442676

2023-09-07T10:42:27+0000

Jason Braganza — Thu, 07 Sep 2023 10:42:27 +0000

PLAN YOUR WEEK! Contd:

Weekly plans are also important because they allow you to tackle objectives that require more than a day to complete. If you decide at the beginning of the week, for example, to write an article that’ll require around ten to fifteen hours of research and writing, your weekly plan can help you figure out how to spread this work out across the upcoming days. It’s much less likely you’d end up getting all of this required work done if you instead just planned each day as it arrived.

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#mjbBabbles

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111023446284217846

2023-09-07T10:40:47+0000

Jason Braganza — Thu, 07 Sep 2023 10:40:47 +0000

PLAN YOUR WEEK! Contd:

The planning may take time up front, but it will return much greater productivity for the entire week that follows.
It allows you to identify important patterns that can help you get much more accomplished. If you see, for e.g., that Wednesday through Friday are very busy due to a visiting client, then you can compensate by squeezing in more uninterrupted deep work on Monday or Tuesday. Or if you know you’ll be off-site all day Friday, then you can adjust your Thursday schedule to make sure loose ends are tied up before the trip.
Sometimes your weekly planning habit can motivate you to change appointments already on your calendar. After trying and failing to fit in enough hours to finish an important project, for e.g., you might realize that you need to cancel or reschedule a few non-urgent appointments perhaps coffee with a colleague or a meeting for a speculative project to make room for the more urgent work.

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Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111023439695427454

2023-09-07T10:37:13+0000

Jason Braganza — Thu, 07 Sep 2023 10:37:13 +0000

PLAN YOUR WEEK!

You should work out your weekly plan either first thing Monday morning or over the weekend before the week begins.
When crafting the plan, look over your calendar and whatever system you use to track your obligations, projects, and goals.
Some people like to empty their email inbox as part of this planning process so that they feel as though they restarting the week fresh. For other people, this might be infeasible.
Regardless, creating these plans takes time. For example, I usually spend between thirty and sixty minutes to get up to speed on what’s happening in the upcoming week and decide how to tackle it.
You might feel at first that this time is wasted like you’re throwing away an hour you could dedicate to actually completing concrete tasks. I urge you to resist this reaction.

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Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111023425696499162

2023-09-07T10:33:54+0000

Jason Braganza — Thu, 07 Sep 2023 10:33:54 +0000

Right side of a weekend page:

It includes space for you to plan the upcoming week. This area is purposefully left simple. When it comes to weekly planning, I’ve found it’s crucial to embrace flexibility. The style or format of your plan should match the challenges of the specific week ahead.

20/
#mjbBabbles

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111023412665197556

2023-09-07T10:32:47+0000

Jason Braganza — Thu, 07 Sep 2023 10:32:47 +0000

Left side of a weekend page:

I typically advise people not to time block their weekends: these two days should provide some respite from the rigors of allocating work to every minute of your day.
the planner provides only a single page for organizing your entire weekend. The page is divided into two columns, one for Saturday and one for Sunday. The empty boxes included for each day can be used for jotting down a loose schedule, including reminders of any important appointments (“Dinner at the restaurant at 7:00”) or major things you hope to get done (“Read that novel”).
The lined space below these boxes that’s labeled “Weekend Capture” should be used for capturing ideas or tasks that come up on Saturday or Sunday. I suggest you always process these notes when you create your time-block plan on Monday morning. This will ensure that they’re never forgotten.

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#mjbBabbles

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111023408230677940

2023-09-07T10:28:33+0000

Jason Braganza — Thu, 07 Sep 2023 10:28:33 +0000

#TimeBlocking
WEEKEND PAGES

This is another two page spread that you’d have at the end of a week.

The page on the left is dedicated to organizing Saturday and Sunday, while the page on the right is for capturing your weekly plan, a high-level road map for the week ahead.

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Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111023391633181320

2023-09-07T10:23:18+0000

Jason Braganza — Thu, 07 Sep 2023 10:23:18 +0000

#TimeBlocking
THE SHUTDOWN RITUAL Contd:

Once you’ve finished going through your collection columns, you should then briefly review any other potential sources of unresolved work obligations.

For most people, this means taking one last look at your email inbox, to ensure you didn’t miss something urgent, as well as reviewing your calendar and obligation-tracking system.

When done with these checks, look over your weekly plan (below), updating it as needed. The goal here is to convince yourself that there’s nothing being forgotten or missed or being kept track of only in your brain, and that you have a reasonable plan for the days ahead. All of these reassurances are the precondition for enabling your brain to fully shift its attention from work to life outside work.

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Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111023370983853189

2023-09-07T10:21:02+0000

Jason Braganza — Thu, 07 Sep 2023 10:21:02 +0000

#TimeBlocking
THE SHUTDOWN RITUAL

One of the most important pieces of my system’s daily scheduling discipline is executing a shutdown ritual that helps your mind shift more completely from work mode to non-work mode. The details of this ritual are straightforward. At the end of each day’s time-block schedule, your final step, if at all possible, is to shut down work. To do so, first make sure your personal metrics have been re-corded. Next, go through the tasks and ideas in your collection columns, deciding for each what you want to do with it. In some cases, you may need to add new tasks into your task system, while in others, you may need to update your calendar or even shoot off a quick message.

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#mjbBabbles

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111023362041518761

2023-09-07T10:19:04+0000

Jason Braganza — Thu, 07 Sep 2023 10:19:04 +0000

#TimeBlocking
ADVANCED TIME-BLOCKING TIPS Contd:

Tip #4: Use “conditional blocks” to add flexibility to your schedule.

If you’re unsure how long a given activity might take, break it into two blocks.

The first block is dedicated to working on the activity.

The activity for the second block is conditioned on what happens during the first block: If you need more time for the original activity, then the second block is used to finish it. On the other hand, if you’ve finished the original activity, the second block can be used to tackle a backup task. In this way, you can avoid unnecessary schedule fixes when confronting work of ambiguous duration.

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#mjbBabbles

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111023354336353689

2023-09-07T10:17:48+0000

Jason Braganza — Thu, 07 Sep 2023 10:17:48 +0000

#TimeBlocking
ADVANCED TIME-BLOCKING TIPS Contd:

Tip #3: Capture email and instant messenger communication in
their own blocks.
Many knowledge workers don’t consider checking email or instant messenger channels a standalone activity. They instead think of it as something that’s always done in parallel with primary work.

I highly discourage this mindset: all of these quick checks of communication channels significantly reduce your cognitive capacity due to neural network switching costs. Batch your email or instant messenger time into their own blocks. When you get to one of these communication blocks, do nothing but communicate, and when you’re not in one of these blocks, don’t communicate at all. If your work requires you to check these tools often, then schedule lots of blocks to do so, but refuse to let this behavior be something that occurs informally in the background.

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#mjbBabbles

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111023349345339453

2023-09-07T10:15:14+0000

Jason Braganza — Thu, 07 Sep 2023 10:15:14 +0000

ADVANCED TIME-BLOCKING TIPS

Tip #1: Embrace schedule fixes.
If circumstances upend your schedule, this isn’t a failure, it’s an expected part of applying this strategy. When you next get a chance, simply fix the schedule for the time that remains in the day so that you remain intentional about where you direct your focus.

Tip #2: At first, schedule more time than you think you need.
Novice time blockers chronically underestimate how long common work activities actually take. If you’re new to time blocking, you can save yourself unnecessary schedule fixes by inflating the time-block sizes you think are reasonable by 20 to 30 percent. After you’ve been time blocking for several months, you’ll begin to develop a more realistic understanding of these durations and can begin building more-accurate blocks without needing this extra padding.

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#mjbBabbles

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111023339219091837

2023-09-07T10:12:28+0000

Jason Braganza — Thu, 07 Sep 2023 10:12:28 +0000

Energy Matters!

Finally, keep in mind factors such as time of day-perhaps earlier in the day is better for hard thinking and later in the day is better for small tasks-and how you’re feeling.

If you’re exhausted, you might want a schedule designed to help you catch up on administrative obligations, whereas if you’re feeling energized, you might want to put aside large blocks of uninterrupted time for intense projects.

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Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111023328379663805

2023-09-07T10:11:04+0000

Jason Braganza — Thu, 07 Sep 2023 10:11:04 +0000

When building your time-block schedule, you should first reference whatever calendar or planner or organisation system you use to make sure that you’re adding time blocks for any meetings or appointments you already have scheduled.

The real decision then becomes what to do with the free time that remains.

To help make these choices, next consult whatever external system you use to track and organize all of the tasks, projects, long-term goals, or other obligations for which you’re currently responsible. You want your schedule to help you make progress on the right activities.

(In my case it’s my calendar and #OrgMode)

11/
#mjbBabbles

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111023322869458825

#timeblocking, #orgmode, #mjbBabbles

2023-09-07T10:07:34+0000

Jason Braganza — Thu, 07 Sep 2023 10:07:34 +0000

all of the above were Cal Newport ideas that I jotted down from his video on Time Blocking here: https://youtu.be/eff9h1WYxSo

More ideas below from the instructions in the physical planner itself

10/
#mjbBabbles #CalNewport

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111023309119062265

#timeblocking, #mjbBabbles, #calnewport

2023-09-07T09:50:12+0000

Jason Braganza — Thu, 07 Sep 2023 09:50:12 +0000

Left Side Contd:

The metrics box also has a shutdown complete box. **Before you do that though,**
At the end of the day, go through what you’ve done.
Process your time block plan, see what needs moving
Check your tasks and ideas, move them to you digital systems (#OrgMode) if need be
Then go mash that box, knowing that your mind is empty and you can go relax and do home / family / leisure stuff

9/
#mjbBabbles

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111023240832643529

#timeblocking, #orgmode, #mjbBabbles

2023-09-07T09:42:57+0000

Jason Braganza — Thu, 07 Sep 2023 09:42:57 +0000

Left Side Contd:

the metrics box is for a Jerry Seinfeld-esque chain (or daily numbers or whatever) important metrics of your life. Did you do your exercise? Did you hit your diet plan? Did you do your Urdu lesson? Did you walk? Did you meditate or pray? Track them all!
Use shortforms and stick figures or whatever you like to track what you do
it gives you record of what you do. and it keeps you motivated and accountable.

8/
#mjbBabbles

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111023212266899255

2023-09-07T09:40:34+0000

Jason Braganza — Thu, 07 Sep 2023 09:40:34 +0000

Left Side Contd:

if you remember a jbo that needs doing, just capture it in tasks
if there’s an idea that strikes you, a thought that inspires you, capture those in ideas
eliminates distraction and lets you focus on you planned work on the right page. no fancy tech required to do this too!

7/
#mjbBabbles

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111023202895397131

2023-09-07T09:38:53+0000

Jason Braganza — Thu, 07 Sep 2023 09:38:53 +0000

Now going to the left side of the two page spread

Page divided into 3 boxes.
A smallish box running across the top of the page. for metrics
Rest of the page divided equally into two tall boxes for tasks and ideas

6/
#mjbBabbles

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111023196312920684

2023-09-07T09:27:28+0000

Jason Braganza — Thu, 07 Sep 2023 09:27:28 +0000

(Back to the right spread)

Life happens. You run over. Something gets cut short. The plan goes to pot. What now?
You redraw the item that went long. on the right. and replan your day below it. you might have to remove some things or shorten the time for others. but at least you are intentional. and you realise, c’est la vie.
Repeat everytime the schedule gets mangled and out of whack
**The idea of timeblocking is not to hit your schedule no matter what. The big idea is to redraw you schedule and intentionally use your time**
**You don’t get a price for accuracy. You get a prize for intention**
You always want there to be a plan for the time that remains

5/
#mjbBabbles

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111023151419830057

2023-09-07T09:18:44+0000

Jason Braganza — Thu, 07 Sep 2023 09:18:44 +0000

Aside, contd:

you can see how much time you have available. if someone wants to jump on a call, you can see what needs to be done. do you need to shuffle things around in your day? can you fit them in some block? you want to tell them some other day/time?
folks who time block get twice as much compared to those who don’t.

4/
#mjbBabbles

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111023117055002587

2023-09-07T09:16:47+0000

Jason Braganza — Thu, 07 Sep 2023 09:16:47 +0000

#timeblocking

Aside: There’s a few advantages to scheduling the day, this way, on paper

You *intentionally* decide a blocks of time to work daily . (i will work from 7-12 and then from 4-8) and then you *intentionally* decide what you will do with that time
You get more done. You do better quality work.
you can fill in gaps of time (like the tasks above)
you decide what you will do according to the energy you think yiou have at various times of the day
when you run yoeur day off a plan like this, you know what you’re expected to be doing at any moment. you’ll be less likely to be distracted because you know you’ll fall behind
you get a real sense of how long work *actually* takes. you might decide the report takes only an hour, but when you are constantly over shooting by 30m every day, you know a block takes 90m on average, and you’ll plan accordingly. you have to face that reality

3/
#mjbBabbles

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111023109393811709

2023-09-07T09:08:41+0000

Jason Braganza — Thu, 07 Sep 2023 09:08:41 +0000

You might realise as you plan, there there are lots of tiny miscellaneous tasks you might want to do. for example you can’t write 5 tasks in tiny 30m box
In that case, just give the box a descriptive header (Errands or Social Catchup or Communications or Tasks), and also give it a number.
Then a bit further to the right, write the number down and elaborate what is happening in that block (of time)

2/
#mjbBabbles

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111023077572886034

2023-09-07T09:02:49+0000

Jason Braganza — Thu, 07 Sep 2023 09:02:49 +0000

First up: Daily Pages

Have a two page spread.

Right hand side

Date on the top
Left margin, mark hours you will work, down the page at regular intervals
Start making boxes with the work you have to do. e.g. 9-10 report / 10-11 email and so on and so forth

1/
#mjbBabbles

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111023054494146952

2023-09-07T05:02:36+0000

Jason Braganza — Thu, 07 Sep 2023 05:02:36 +0000

still with the flu and the sniffles
so i don’t quite know what to do with my day

hmm. watching Cal Newport ideas on #TimeBlocking seems to be a good idea.
I’ll make notes

I need to do this so that I can figure out how to do multiple cognitive tasks, in some sane manner. right now the approach is to just do bursts until i burn myself out.
It might have worked when i was a young scrapper, but it doesn’t work now.

getting sick over and over is also not fun

i have so many things to learn and I need some sort of system to do it all

worth experimenting to find something that works for me

the babbling experiment that i started yesterday seems to be helping with keeping my mind at ease.

need to figure out more approaches/heuristics

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111022109931513920

2023-09-07T02:39:42+0000

Jason Braganza — Thu, 07 Sep 2023 02:39:42 +0000

New day, new babbles

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111021548020225958

https://www.tumblr.com/cursedtrekedits/714691142286000128/my-favorite-tos-bloopers-outtakes-x-and-bts

2023-09-07T02:25:58+0000

Jason Braganza — Thu, 07 Sep 2023 02:25:58 +0000

Star Trek Nostalgia!

‘Nuff said

#StarTrek #TOS #Outtakes #Bloopers

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111021494015957593

#startrek, #tos, #Outtakes, #bloopers

2023-09-06T13:04:11+0000

Jason Braganza — Wed, 06 Sep 2023 13:04:11 +0000

I think i need to change my sci-fi-fantasy tag in #Calibre to fantasy-sci-fi
This is the year, where the balance has finally tilted over

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111018341268147716

#calibre, #mjbBabbles

2023-09-06T12:21:36+0000

Jason Braganza — Wed, 06 Sep 2023 12:21:36 +0000

This song I love, love, love for the bass guitar (specially the run from 3.10 to about 3.25) and the horns

Find a way to my heart
https://youtu.be/j1sJkRPUnqg

#mjbMusic #PhilCollins

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111018173834429566

#mjbmusic, #philcollins

2023-09-06T09:22:26+0000

Jason Braganza — Wed, 06 Sep 2023 09:22:26 +0000

/me recalls 20+ disk Novell Netware installs

shudders …

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111017469333566269

2023-09-06T09:08:49+0000

Jason Braganza — Wed, 06 Sep 2023 09:08:49 +0000

Need to get myself out of my scarcity mindset and stop shift deleting files.
Not a week goes by, when I need to fish a file out of my backups because I irrevocably deleted it and now want back.

I have large disks now. They can afford to hold large amounts of trash!

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111017415746161256

2023-09-06T08:38:42+0000

Jason Braganza — Wed, 06 Sep 2023 08:38:42 +0000

Really well written analysis by Ben Thompson1, totally disagree with the conclusion

Talent, meanwhile, has to realize that they and the studios are not divided by this new paradigm, but jointly threatened: the Internet is bad news for content producers with outsized costs, and long-term sustainability will be that much harder to achieve if the focus is on increasing them.

What @dianeduane and @neilhimself have taught me is that the demands of the folk on strike are minuscule. The big content producers have been rapacious.Talent should not have to bear these burdens, because they haven’t shared in the benefits all these decades past.

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111017297361874874

https://youtu.be/IU2ttJ73h2Y

2023-09-06T08:10:08+0000

Jason Braganza — Wed, 06 Sep 2023 08:10:08 +0000

IBM Cloud to ‘uplift’ prices by up to 29 percent!

ok i didn’t care a whit about what IBM did. I just wanted an excuse to link to Adnan Sami’s peppy 90s hit

#mjbBabbles #mjbMusic #LiftKarade #AdnanSami

grudgingly also includes a link to the news: https://www.theregister.com/2023/09/05/ibm_cloud_price_uplift/

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111017185034773874

#mjbBabbles, #mjbmusic, #LiftKarade, #AdnanSami

2023-09-06T07:16:45+0000

Jason Braganza — Wed, 06 Sep 2023 07:16:45 +0000

#LaalKaptaan (2019) is a visually stunning feast!

Lovely performances.

only wish the story was a bit more epic to match the running time.
(or it’d have be edited tighter to make it match the gritty, mystery, revenge story it is - not my preference though. i love a long, long spectacle)

https://youtu.be/dcj82CR82ng

#LaalKaptaan, #mjbBabbles

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111016975124778062

2023-09-06T05:59:32+0000

Jason Braganza — Wed, 06 Sep 2023 05:59:32 +0000

Watching @drchuck’s #CC4E while I am down and out.
If I haven’t said it here before, Dr. Chuck is one of the best teachers there is.

And his courses are all free.

https://www.cc4e.com/

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111016671496086548

#cc4e, #mjbBabbles

2023-09-06T04:50:35+0000

Jason Braganza — Wed, 06 Sep 2023 04:50:35 +0000

I use #Emacs. I write code using #Python
I write in #English
I am #Heterosexual and #Married to a wonderful woman

It’s just because I stumbled into these and I was ok with them.
Later in life when I learnt how to reflect and think critically, I evaluated most of my big life choices and stayed with most of them, because they made me happy

And I am and do all these things, not because these are inherently good or better. it’s just what i like and what i choose to do / be

Folks choosing / being ok with / stumbling into the alternatives are choosing what makes them happy. They aren’t wrong. They aren’t bad.
Just different.

We could all do with a little kindness (and a little bit of self reflection)

and if we can’t do that, at least learn to mind our own business and not to poke our noses into stuff that does not concern us

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111016400333567109

#emacs, #python, #english, #heterosexual, #married, #mjbBabbles

2023-09-06T04:37:26+0000

Jason Braganza — Wed, 06 Sep 2023 04:37:26 +0000

hmm, now that i think of it, i should have told them about fiery farts

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111016348671996304

2023-09-06T04:36:58+0000

Jason Braganza — Wed, 06 Sep 2023 04:36:58 +0000

sufficiently horrified **and** amused the young pixies my mom teaches, by telling them that they could think of their noses as volcanoes and nose goo as lava.

there, now they will never be confused with volcano / lava again.

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111016346786572119

2023-09-06T04:30:17+0000

Jason Braganza — Wed, 06 Sep 2023 04:30:17 +0000

hmmm, putting crazy thoughts out in the world just like the young ones do.

this could by my version of a mid life crisis

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111016320531836959

https://io.mwl.io/@mwl/111014016377983296

2023-09-06T04:24:29+0000

Jason Braganza — Wed, 06 Sep 2023 04:24:29 +0000

Moo Acopalipse by Like Mucus finally here!
aah no, we’re not at that time of the year yet

But it’s still a cause for celebration today!

Mike Lucas’ (@mwl) #ApocalypseMoi is finally in my greedy #AntiLibrary

(or it’s just me that’s greedy and the calibre library is just a long suffering repository 😂)

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111016297721399910

#apocalypsemoi, #antilibrary

2023-09-06T04:18:07+0000

Jason Braganza — Wed, 06 Sep 2023 04:18:07 +0000

doing this when i’m laid up in bed and slightly medicated is a good idea, no?

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111016272659319027

2023-09-06T04:17:02+0000

Jason Braganza — Wed, 06 Sep 2023 04:17:02 +0000

hmm, think i’ll keep this public

most of these are just random thoughts that i have no problems being public with.

mostly because my family and friends are either too tired or too busy to listen to me blab

i can thus inflict my slight insanity on the rest of the unsuspecting world, in hopes that i’ll figure something out myself later, or some kind soul teaches me the error my ways.

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111016268412850910

2023-09-06T04:05:32+0000

Jason Braganza — Wed, 06 Sep 2023 04:05:32 +0000

a good example is now. should i be making these private? let them be public, with a pinned notice to mute this hashtag on my profile?

how much babbling is good, considering that i’m intensly private?

well, i’ll try this and find oeut.

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111016223230379282

2023-09-06T04:03:58+0000

Jason Braganza — Wed, 06 Sep 2023 04:03:58 +0000

urgh. sick day today

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111016217020365325

2023-09-06T03:39:52+0000

Jason Braganza — Wed, 06 Sep 2023 03:39:52 +0000

sometimes when i learn, i need to babble / rant out loud in writing, and this microblog seems to be the easiest way to do it.

i need to spew it all out and look at the mess I made and then wonder, hmm now what possessed me to do this? or what did i learn from this.

if you are following me and want to avoid these bursts of madness, i’ll be tagging them with #mjbBabbles. Mute away :)

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111016122262208894

https://youtu.be/-i3Ilas24X4

2023-09-06T03:16:48+0000

Jason Braganza — Wed, 06 Sep 2023 03:16:48 +0000

need to break my C-x 4 0 muscle memory

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111016031557360611

2023-09-06T03:15:58+0000

Jason Braganza — Wed, 06 Sep 2023 03:15:58 +0000

#Emacs #NoteToSelf

to close your window *without* closing your buffer, use C-x 0

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111016028295392953

#emacs, #notetoself

2023-09-04T14:37:02+0000

Jason Braganza — Mon, 04 Sep 2023 14:37:02 +0000

vocal jazz this eve

Tu Teer To,
Khwabon Mein Khanjar Hoon
Main Bhi

#mjbMusic #Neeyat #Farebi #LothikaJha #MikeyMcCleary

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111007381754949250

#mjbmusic, #Neeyat, #Farebi, #LothikaJha, #MikeyMcCleary

2023-09-02T14:11:43+0000

Jason Braganza — Sat, 02 Sep 2023 14:11:43 +0000

Saturday groove

Going Loco in Acapulco!

https://youtu.be/NPF1FZNiCU8

#mjbMusic #TheFourTops

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110995957611251333

#mjbmusic, #TheFourTops

2023-09-02T04:01:28+0000

Jason Braganza — Sat, 02 Sep 2023 04:01:28 +0000

Meiko Kaji, the Queen of Vintage Japanese B-Movies

https://www.messynessychic.com/2023/08/31/meet-quentin-tarantinos-secret-muse-the-queen-of-vintage-japanese-b-movies/

#Art #Movies #MeikoKaji #LadySnowblood #QuentinTarantino #MessyNessyChic #B-Movies

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110993558006742417

#art, #movies, #MeikoKaji, #LadySnowblood, #quentintarantino, #MessyNessyChic, #b

2023-09-01T05:35:10+0000

Jason Braganza — Fri, 01 Sep 2023 05:35:10 +0000

Here’s what I read last week

Outrageous, Minerva Spencer
Scandalous, Minerva Spencer
The Footman, Minerva Spencer
The Postilion, Minerva Spencer
The Bastard, Minerva Spencer
The Music of Love, Minerva Spencer
A Figure of Love, Minerva Spencer

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

https://janusworx.com/fitness/#2023-09-01

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110988264143024565

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

2023-09-01T05:30:54+0000

Jason Braganza — Fri, 01 Sep 2023 05:30:54 +0000

Weekly fitness update

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110988247355519651

https://janusworx.com/blog/you-cant-have-it-all/

2023-09-01T05:26:34+0000

Jason Braganza — Fri, 01 Sep 2023 05:26:34 +0000

You Can’t Have It All

#Photography #Ladakh #India #Life #Nature #Travel

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110988230298028162

#photography, #ladakh, #india, #life, #nature, #travel

2023-09-01T04:12:09+0000

Jason Braganza — Fri, 01 Sep 2023 04:12:09 +0000

You Can’t Have It All

https://janusworx.com/blog/you-cant-have-it-all/

#Photography #Ladakh #India #Life #Nature #Travel

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110987937656458583

#photography, #ladakh, #india, #life, #nature, #travel

2023-08-30T14:16:23+0000

Jason Braganza — Wed, 30 Aug 2023 14:16:23 +0000

Evening music …

तू जो नहीं तो ऐसे पिया हम
जैसे सूना आंगना …

https://youtu.be/dByy4mlbP70

#mjbMusic #Fuzon #ShafqatAmanatAli #Khamaj

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110978989015899262

#mjbmusic, #Fuzon, #ShafqatAmanatAli, #Khamaj

2023-08-29T08:06:56+0000

Jason Braganza — Tue, 29 Aug 2023 08:06:56 +0000

— Jean-Louis Gassée, Grateful Geek

6/6

#Books #ComputerHistory #History #Reading #mjbReading

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110971873974543520

#books, #computerhistory, #history, #reading, #mjbreading

2023-08-29T08:05:16+0000

Jason Braganza — Tue, 29 Aug 2023 08:05:16 +0000

To this day, I wonder how we came to own this gospel of personal computing, but we did. In mythological and biological terms, we explained the deep raison d’être of PCs. And in practical terms, we described the five categories of activities they enabled or enhanced. All this while competitors spent most of their airtime discussing bits and bytes, fun topics for geeks but neither interesting nor meaningful to normal humans, who were more concerned by what the PC did for them.

(This is partly unfair. In the best-case geeks who speak the esoteric language of bits and bytes are indispensable early adopters; they are the “bleeding edge”, they show the way to The Rest of Us. Luckily, we spoke from both sides of our Apple France mouth, catering to the interests of technically inclined trailblazers, while also doing our best to make sense for people more interested in simply using VisiCalc, AppleWriter or PFS:Graph.)

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110971867384842849

2023-08-29T08:04:50+0000

Jason Braganza — Tue, 29 Aug 2023 08:04:50 +0000

Turn the clock three decades forward, and the computer became personal: a machine you could lift with your hands, your credit card, and your mind.
We had no need for the people in white coats, the techno-priests who attended the big mainframes. Personal computers were indefatigably patient idiots with the potential for infinite storage and symbol manipulation.
Personal computers made us whole; they supplemented our central nervous system and allowed us to catch up with our invention: symbols. Put in a more poetic and mythological way, they returned to us what the gods had stolen from us. Hence the Promethean attribute.

This was summarized in that easily digestible and repeatable taxonomy of personal computer roles: Think, Organize, Communicate, Learn and Play.

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110971865690193951

2023-08-29T08:03:37+0000

Jason Braganza — Tue, 29 Aug 2023 08:03:37 +0000

But our minds were limited. Our central nervous system left us behind; it stopped evolving while we raced ahead with ever more complex uses of symbols. We had trouble remembering long symbol strings — storing the content of sacred texts in a single brain was an extraordinary skill of exceptional individuals. And we had difficulties performing even simple arithmetic operations in our heads and extracting cube roots. The invention of writing and, later, of the printing press went towards supplementing and expanding the power of our brains. But while that was good for storing, reproducing, and sharing symbol strings; it still fell short when combining, manipulating strings, and calculating.
The infinitely flexible symbol manipulation machine arose when the modern computer was born in the forties.
3/

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110971860881653698

2023-08-29T08:02:18+0000

Jason Braganza — Tue, 29 Aug 2023 08:02:18 +0000

Next: Heuristic. As the etymology indicates, heuristic *(eureka)* refers to “good finding”. My computer is a rewarding instrument of exploration, of valuable discoveries.

The Promethean attribute deserves more elaboration. It refers to our deeply entrenched need to feel we’re masters of our inventions.
Once upon a time we invented symbols such as the letters of the alphabet and Arabic numerals. These symbols gave us boundless power. With symbols we could write Elizabethan poetry, describe Wall Street greed, and produce equations explaining general relativity.

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110971855748938002

2023-08-29T08:00:21+0000

Jason Braganza — Tue, 29 Aug 2023 08:00:21 +0000

Back in France we met Jacques Séguéla and his merry band of thinkers and writers. On our behalf they performed qualitative market research for what PC meant in the minds and, more importantly, guts of normal people.

The outcome of such research was couched in seemingly esoteric language. Séguéla’s team told us the PC was endowed with three important attributes:
Solipsistic, Heuristic and Promethean.

Let’s unfold these adjectives to see how they resonate.

Solipsistic refers to a one-on-one, immediate relationship, without mediation, with the computer, as opposed to dealing with an organization. As a gifted but troubled programmer once told me, he liked his computer because it didn’t judge him, it obeyed him (most of the time) and, by allowing him to perform difficult, valuable tasks, it gave him a much-needed sense of self-worth. My machine, without intercessors, teachers, judges, or intruders.

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110971848078209887

2023-08-29T03:24:51+0000

Jason Braganza — Tue, 29 Aug 2023 03:24:51 +0000

Water

https://janusworx.com/blog/wade-in-the-/

#Photography #Nature #Travel #Netherlands

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110970764738978420

#photography, #nature, #travel, #netherlands

2023-08-27T14:14:04+0000

Jason Braganza — Sun, 27 Aug 2023 14:14:04 +0000

I’ve done something else with a guy from Canada …

https://youtu.be/ZMYX2DcbFEw

#TinaTurner #mjbMusic #ItsOnlyLove #BryanAdams

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110961992987166159

#tinaturner, #mjbmusic, #ItsOnlyLove, #bryanadams

2023-08-26T03:55:44+0000

Jason Braganza — Sat, 26 Aug 2023 03:55:44 +0000

to be read to the Mandalorian theme in the background

https://youtu.be/62x19Bepc5s

#mjbMusic #TheMandalorian

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110953899242218682

#mjbmusic, #themandalorian

2023-08-26T00:48:34+0000

Jason Braganza — Sat, 26 Aug 2023 00:48:34 +0000

https://janusworx.com/blog/45/

#Gratitude

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110953163279069168

#gratitude

2023-08-25T13:55:57+0000

Jason Braganza — Fri, 25 Aug 2023 13:55:57 +0000

Evening music …

I go out walkin’ …

https://youtu.be/kYEuZd-WZxg

#PatsyCline #mjbMusic

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110950597100398895

#PatsyCline, #mjbmusic

2023-08-25T03:50:07+0000

Jason Braganza — Fri, 25 Aug 2023 03:50:07 +0000

Charles Schultz, Letterer

https://kleinletters.com/Blog/charles-schulz-letterer/

#Art #MakingArt #MakeGoodArt #ToddKlein #Lettering #Illustration #Comics

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110948214848093817

#art, #MakingArt, #MakeGoodArt, #ToddKlein, #lettering, #illustration, #comics

2023-08-25T02:21:20+0000

Jason Braganza — Fri, 25 Aug 2023 02:21:20 +0000

Here’s what I read last week

The History of English, Episodes 1-10, Kevin Stroud
Courage Under Fire, James Stockdale
Selina, S.M. LaViolette
Balthazar: The Spare, S.M. LaViolette
A Second Change for Love, S.M. LaViolette
The Arrangement (Anthology), Sylvia Day, Minerva Spencer & Kristin Vayden
Icon, Frederick Forsyth
Dangerous, Minerva Spencer
Barbarous, Minerva Spencer
Notorious, Minerva Spencer
Infamous, Minerva Spencer

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

https://janusworx.com/fitness/#2023-08-25

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110947865750808772

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

2023-08-25T02:16:58+0000

Jason Braganza — Fri, 25 Aug 2023 02:16:58 +0000

Weekly fitness update

**#mjbgettingfit**

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110947848575820275

https://janusworx.com/blog/81/

2023-08-25T00:32:27+0000

Jason Braganza — Fri, 25 Aug 2023 00:32:27 +0000

Man’s not dead while his name is still spoken

#HappyBirthdayDad

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110947437585642998

#happybirthdaydad

2023-08-24T12:01:26+0000

Jason Braganza — Thu, 24 Aug 2023 12:01:26 +0000

You’re telling me no, no, no
You don’t want to let your love go!

https://youtu.be/sp9B1FodnkI

#mjbMusic #Bread

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110944484511768937

#mjbmusic, #bread

2023-08-22T00:59:56+0000

Jason Braganza — Tue, 22 Aug 2023 00:59:56 +0000

I made a house of houselessness,
A garden of your going:
And seven trees of seven wounds
You gave me, all unknowing:
I made a feast of golden grief
That you so lordly left me,
I made a bed of all the smiles
Whereof your lip bereft me:
I made a sun of your delay,
Your daily loss, his setting:
I made a wall of all your words
And a lock of your forgetting.

— Rose O’Neill

via Colleen Doran: https://colleendoran.tumblr.com/post/726289653606514688

#Poetry #mjbPoetry

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110930558717145597

#poetry, #mjbpoetry

2023-08-21T14:24:46+0000

Jason Braganza — Mon, 21 Aug 2023 14:24:46 +0000

How many mystery writers does it take to change a lightbulb?

Two! One to change the bulb, and the other to give it an unexpected twist at the end!

@dianeduane shares more here:
https://dduane.tumblr.com/post/726256976764567552

#Writing #WordPlay

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110928061176969084

#writing, #wordplay

2023-08-21T05:50:19+0000

Jason Braganza — Mon, 21 Aug 2023 05:50:19 +0000

I came to understand that long before I read it.
— James Stockdale

#Stoicism #mjbQuotes #CourageUnderFire #JamesStockdale #Reading

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110926038289850771

#stoicism, #mjbQuotes, #CourageUnderFire, #JamesStockdale, #reading

2023-08-21T03:51:28+0000

Jason Braganza — Mon, 21 Aug 2023 03:51:28 +0000

Nine sources of advantage:

Raw talent/intelligence - Some people are just naturally better and smarter.
Hard work - Some people work harder.
Differentiation - Seeing the world differently. Doing something different. Reading different books. Interpreting the same information differently.
Process / Discipline - Creating a process and following it. Working out every day is a great example.
Talent Collector - The ability to hire the best people and get the most out of them.
Patience - A lack of patience changes the outcome.
Ability to take pain - Are you willing to look like an idiot to get better? How much risk are you willing to take, AND, importantly, can you handle the losses?
Temperament - Keeping your head when everyone else is losing theirs.
Luck

Most of these are within your control.

— Shane Parrish
https://fs.blog/brain-food/august-20-2023/

#MentalModels #ShaneParrish #FarnamStreet

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110925570940409968

#mentalmodels, #ShaneParrish, #FarnamStreet

2023-08-20T06:23:37+0000

Jason Braganza — Sun, 20 Aug 2023 06:23:37 +0000

#TIL: Emphasise any text you select, in #OrgMode using the keyboard

Use Ctrl-c Ctrl-x Ctrl-f and it’ll let you choose your markup.

From #irreal’s latest #Emacs blog post
https://irreal.org/blog/?p=11572

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110920506931058339

#til, #orgmode, #Irreal, #emacs

2023-08-20T04:20:19+0000

Jason Braganza — Sun, 20 Aug 2023 04:20:19 +0000

Tried configuring a network connected printer on two #Linux machines this past week. One unnamed and the other @linuxmint.

The unnamed machine took nearly a day to configure, with looking up packages and ports and HCL lists and driver packages and what not.

#LinuxMint on the other hand went, “Hello there, you have a printer on the network! Want to print to it? Also that thing’s got a scanner too, want to be able to use it? Done and done!”

Took all of 5 seconds.

Thank you @linuxmint

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110920022045310291

#linux, #linuxmint

2023-08-19T06:47:41+0000

Jason Braganza — Sat, 19 Aug 2023 06:47:41 +0000

There are two types of men in the world:
those that love Linda Ronstadt,
and those that never heard of her

— Willie Nelson

https://youtu.be/pmQpYSBkwag?si=YRZQ4pSWPN-7Q3ZD

Silver threads and Golden Needles

#mjbMusic #LindaRonstadt

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110914939225875084

#mjbmusic, #lindaronstadt

2023-08-18T14:13:28+0000

Jason Braganza — Fri, 18 Aug 2023 14:13:28 +0000

A bar was walked into by the passive voice.

A malapropism walks into a bar, looking for all intensive purposes like a wolf in cheap clothing, muttering epitaphs and casting dispersions on his magnificent other, who takes him for granite.

Papyrus and Comic Sans walk into a bar. The bartender says, “Get out — we don’t serve your type.”

A hyphenated word and a non-hyphenated word walk into a bar and the bartender nearly chokes on the irony

— Jill Thomas Doyle

More word fun here: https://www.tumblr.com/ebookporn/628326548234240000/an-oxford-comma-walks-into-a-bar-where-it

#Language #LanguageLearning #LanguagesAreFun #WordPlay

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110911029773258293

#language, #languagelearning, #LanguagesAreFun, #wordplay

2023-08-18T03:36:40+0000

Jason Braganza — Fri, 18 Aug 2023 03:36:40 +0000

Here’s what I read last two weeks

The Negotiator, Frederick Forsyth
Command Line Interface Guidelines, Eva Parish, Aanand Prasad, Ben Firshman & Carl Tashian
Demonbound, Sarah Hawke
The Dragon of Highwind, Sarah Hawke
Dawnbringer, Sarah Hawke
The Rest is History World Cup Spectacular, Episodes 252–286, Tom Holland & Dominic Sandbrook
Jesus Christ: The History & The Mystery, Episodes 287–289, Tom Holland & Dominic Sandbrook
Joan Rivers Confidential, Melissa Rivers & Scott Currie
Forget a Mentor, Find a Sponsor, Sylvia Ann Hewlett
Deep Storm, Lincoln Child

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

https://janusworx.com/fitness/#2023-08-18

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110908525832449722

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

2023-08-18T03:33:30+0000

Jason Braganza — Fri, 18 Aug 2023 03:33:30 +0000

Weekly fitness update

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110908513377619991

https://youtu.be/pM_Q-G_CZ74

2023-08-17T13:47:06+0000

Jason Braganza — Thu, 17 Aug 2023 13:47:06 +0000

Am I the only kooky one who *really* loves parts of songs?

Irresistible is a case in point. The home stretch, the last 45 seconds of this song are what do it for me. The voices, the meandering bass, the yay we’re going home tempo. I love it all

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110905263813032914

2023-08-17T13:39:58+0000

Jason Braganza — Thu, 17 Aug 2023 13:39:58 +0000

A rainy evening with the Corrs

You’re irresitible!

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110905235750781979

#LanguageLearning #Language #French #Assimil

2023-08-17T05:10:40+0000

Jason Braganza — Thu, 17 Aug 2023 05:10:40 +0000

All my language learning has ground to a halt. No French or Urdu for quite a while.

So decided to do it even slower. Tiny bits of French daily with a chapter of Assimil’s, New French With Ease. Hopefully, that’ll help me be persistent.

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110903233113024204

#languagelearning, #language, #french, #assimil

2023-08-16T03:10:55+0000

Jason Braganza — Wed, 16 Aug 2023 03:10:55 +0000

Absolutely!

via https://www.tumblr.com/catchymemes/725757070007238656

#Language #LanguagesAreAlive

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110897099900705967

#language, #LanguagesAreAlive

2023-08-16T02:39:43+0000

Jason Braganza — Wed, 16 Aug 2023 02:39:43 +0000

#TIL: Since I sync my zettelkasten-esque Org Roam folder across multiple devices, using Syncthing, every once in while I’d get file conflicts and revisions and the Org Roam db would panic and log errors, because it would find multiple versions of the same file.

Today I learnt, I could exclude subfolders from my Org Roam path. using org-roam-file-exclude-regexp

I put in both my Syncthing subfolders and et voilà, no more errors!

(setq org-roam-file-exclude-regexp '("\\.stversions" "\\.stfolder"))

[#Syncthing](https://toots.dgplug.org/tags/Syncthing) [#Emacs](https://toots.dgplug.org/tags/Emacs) [#OrgRoam](https://toots.dgplug.org/tags/OrgRoam)

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110896977266228070

#til, #syncthing, #emacs, #orgroam

2023-08-12T15:35:52+0000

Jason Braganza — Sat, 12 Aug 2023 15:35:52 +0000

waited on a line of greens and blues,
just to be the next to …

https://youtu.be/L6-uJLteKek

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110877379932019479

https://dduane.tumblr.com/post/725387465880420352

2023-08-12T02:10:06+0000

Jason Braganza — Sat, 12 Aug 2023 02:10:06 +0000

Text from the image:

ur still an artist if u don’t release ur work.
ur still a writer if u don’t publish a piece.
art is still art even in private.

#art #life

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110874211542491249

#art, #life

2023-08-10T03:36:00+0000

Jason Braganza — Thu, 10 Aug 2023 03:36:00 +0000

#Miniflux might call itself minimalistic, but nearly every darned feature I’d want is in there. (probably my needs are minimalistic too?)
And then some.

Today I marked something article as read by mistake, and then wanted to go look for it. Wondered if Miniflux let me search.
A look through its documentation told me it did!

And it’s pretty fast too! (powered by #PostgreSQL search)

I love my #RSS feed reader more and more everyday :)

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110863224688921435

#miniflux, #postgresql, #rss

2023-08-10T02:51:58+0000

Jason Braganza — Thu, 10 Aug 2023 02:51:58 +0000

You ought to read #ToddKlein if you love the #Art and #Craft of #Comics and #GraphicNovels

https://kleinletters.com/Blog/lettering-terms-and-pioneers-part-1/

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110863051538019874

#ToddKlein, #art, #craft, #comics, #graphicnovels

2023-08-08T10:04:24+0000

Jason Braganza — Tue, 08 Aug 2023 10:04:24 +0000

I was wondering why the Rust static site generator was called #Zola, until I realised the Golang based generator I use was called #Hugo

Well played!

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110853427307053098

#zola, #hugo

2023-08-07T10:38:17+0000

Jason Braganza — Mon, 07 Aug 2023 10:38:17 +0000

upgraded to a #Debian release that truly describes me 😂

#Bookworm

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110847898246858351

#debian, #bookworm

2023-08-07T05:13:25+0000

Jason Braganza — Mon, 07 Aug 2023 05:13:25 +0000

#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

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110846620811212281

#til

2023-08-07T04:15:51+0000

Jason Braganza — Mon, 07 Aug 2023 04:15:51 +0000

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/

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110846394458857761

#ShaneParrish, #FarnamStreet, #writing, #quote

2023-08-07T04:14:07+0000

Jason Braganza — Mon, 07 Aug 2023 04:14:07 +0000

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/

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110846387659806422

#ShaneParrish, #FarnamStreet, #writing, #quote

2023-08-07T04:12:25+0000

Jason Braganza — Mon, 07 Aug 2023 04:12:25 +0000

“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/

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110846380968571773

#FarnamStreet, #quote, #mjbdothework, #hatersgonnahate

2023-08-06T10:02:06+0000

Jason Braganza — Sun, 06 Aug 2023 10:02:06 +0000

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.

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110842093652590871

2023-08-06T09:49:07+0000

Jason Braganza — Sun, 06 Aug 2023 09:49:07 +0000

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

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110842042612425327

#quodlibet, #MusicPlayer, #linux, #AudioJukebox

2023-08-06T04:26:32+0000

Jason Braganza — Sun, 06 Aug 2023 04:26:32 +0000

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

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110840774161651657

#art, #UrsulaVernon, #evolution, #humour, #darwin

2023-08-04T04:42:10+0000

Jason Braganza — Fri, 04 Aug 2023 04:42:10 +0000

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

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110829511023422518

2023-08-04T04:39:46+0000

Jason Braganza — Fri, 04 Aug 2023 04:39:46 +0000

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.

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110829501571275131

2023-08-02T03:31:01+0000

Jason Braganza — Wed, 02 Aug 2023 03:31:01 +0000

Still listening to K-Drama OST Pop

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

https://youtu.be/SusXtLLQ01c

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110817906600945772

2023-08-01T13:39:04+0000

Jason Braganza — Tue, 01 Aug 2023 13:39:04 +0000

Fin.

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

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

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110814635280342891

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

2023-08-01T13:37:53+0000

Jason Braganza — Tue, 01 Aug 2023 13:37:53 +0000

Contd …

Tao of Charlie Munger, David Clark
The Lost Fleet (Incursion, Insurrection, Invasion), Sarah Hawke
Ink Blood Sister Scribe, Emma Törzs
The Daily Show (The Book), Chris Smith
Red Sonja and Cub, Jim Zub et al.
Kaiju Preservation Society, John Scalzi
Absence of Mercy, S.M. Goodwin
Crooked in His Ways, S.M. Goodwin
Brionne, Louis L’Amour
Phoebe, S.M. LaViolette
Hyacinth, S.M. LaViolette
Melissa and The Vicar, S.M. LaViolette
Joss and The Countess, S.M. LaViolette
Hugo and the Maiden, S.M. Laviolette
Thomas Aquinas in 90 Minutes, Paul Strathern
The Fox, Frederick Forsyth
Where the Long Grass Blows, Louis L’Amour
Avenger, Frederick Forsyth
The Afghan, Frederick Forsyth
Dogs of War, Frederick Forsyth
The Veteran, Frederick Forsyth
Day of the Jackal, Frederick Forsyth

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

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110814630620478288

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

2023-08-01T13:32:20+0000

Jason Braganza — Tue, 01 Aug 2023 13:32:20 +0000

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

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

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

https://www.masteringemacs.org/article/whats-new-in-emacs-29-1

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110814608763346351

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

2023-08-01T03:54:29+0000

Jason Braganza — Tue, 01 Aug 2023 03:54:29 +0000

Thank you, God!

New commands 'split-root-window-below' and 'split-root-window-right'.
These commands split the root window in two, and are bound to 'C-x w 2'
and 'C-x w 3', respectively. A number of other useful window-related
commands are now available with key sequences that start with the
'C-x w' prefix.

From the latest #Emacs news file.
https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/news/NEWS.29.1

via #MickeyPetersen’s post
https://www.masteringemacs.org/article/whats-new-in-emacs-29-1

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110812336560734206

#emacs, #MickeyPetersen

2023-08-01T01:54:35+0000

Jason Braganza — Tue, 01 Aug 2023 01:54:35 +0000

#MickeyPetersen’s (of #MasteringEmacs) thoughts and annotations on the new #Emacs V 29 release

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110811865144586549

#MickeyPetersen, #masteringemacs, #emacs

2023-07-28T12:28:37+0000

Jason Braganza — Fri, 28 Jul 2023 12:28:37 +0000

I know exactly when @lisamelton begins her daily Fediverse run, because my feed goes from eh, you have ten unread items to OH MY GOD! YOU HAVE A BAJILLION ITEMS TO CATCH UP ON!

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110791708967177476

2023-07-28T05:10:31+0000

Jason Braganza — Fri, 28 Jul 2023 05:10:31 +0000

Still on my K drama ost trip

Can’t Stop It From Blooming

Can’t understand a word obviously, but what a hauntingly beautiful melody.

https://youtu.be/na0SE2niFPs

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110789986290197536

https://youtu.be/WpLkJD5jKrQ

2023-07-26T14:26:34+0000

Jason Braganza — Wed, 26 Jul 2023 14:26:34 +0000

and this here, earworm! Say yes!

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110780848189650509

https://youtu.be/y72_r33ca88

2023-07-26T14:21:46+0000

Jason Braganza — Wed, 26 Jul 2023 14:21:46 +0000

Why did no one tell me K-dramas have such lovely pop soundtracks?

There go the next few months of my life!

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110780829323148898

https://youtu.be/SuCi0cninjU

2023-07-25T13:06:54+0000

Jason Braganza — Tue, 25 Jul 2023 13:06:54 +0000

Don’t you turn like Orpheus, just stay here
Hold me in the dark and when the day appears
We’ll say we did not give up on love today

#SaraBareilles #mjbMusic

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110774872599757547

#sarabareilles, #mjbmusic

2023-07-24T12:48:24+0000

Jason Braganza — Mon, 24 Jul 2023 12:48:24 +0000

As usual, it’s #TomGauld, it’s #Books, it’s me!

https://myjetpack.tumblr.com/post/722998137775685632/this-weeks-cartoon-for-guardian-books

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110769137569038361

#tomgauld, #books

2023-07-24T03:35:22+0000

Jason Braganza — Mon, 24 Jul 2023 03:35:22 +0000

https://ampervadasz.tumblr.com/post/723650603265458176

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110766962932573189

2023-07-23T12:22:13+0000

Jason Braganza — Sun, 23 Jul 2023 12:22:13 +0000

A Mini Guide to #RSS Feeds

https://www.tumblr.com/jeypawlik/702274648464867328

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110763372292413044

#rss

2023-07-21T15:20:21+0000

Jason Braganza — Fri, 21 Jul 2023 15:20:21 +0000

Oh hello @pushover! I finally found you on the fediverse!

I began using #Pushover just a few months ago and it’s a god send!
Thank you so much for making such a lovely, simple, well documented and stable service!

Been using it for a few months now and every notification from every script I run, makes me happy :)

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110752748110275333

#Pushover

2023-07-20T05:59:40+0000

Jason Braganza — Thu, 20 Jul 2023 05:59:40 +0000

today’s earworm loop:

If this isn’t love, Chicago

https://youtu.be/CwXLQdpxZQM

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110744881106628917

#LinuxMint #LinuxMintVictoria

2023-07-19T09:44:58+0000

Jason Braganza — Wed, 19 Jul 2023 09:44:58 +0000

and #TIL: RSS feed for a user’s #DeviantArt gallery is

<https://backend.deviantart.com/rss.xml?q=gallery:username>

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110740104706446116

#til, #deviantart

2023-07-19T02:26:38+0000

Jason Braganza — Wed, 19 Jul 2023 02:26:38 +0000

Upgraded the desktop to @linuxmint’s spanking new Victoria!

It was as easy as 1-2-3(-4-5) on this page: https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4550

Read all about the new release here: https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4543

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110738381107219589

#linuxmint, #LinuxMintVictoria

2023-07-17T16:29:00+0000

Jason Braganza — Mon, 17 Jul 2023 16:29:00 +0000

More gorgeous crosshatches here …

#Art #Illustration #Fantasy

https://www.tumblr.com/tkingfisher/722938791081525248/i-have-been-doodling-a-lot-on-my-ipad-mini-these

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110730368798013243

#art, #illustration, #fantasy

2023-07-17T12:30:27+0000

Jason Braganza — Mon, 17 Jul 2023 12:30:27 +0000

Playing with #Sqlite and #Python today.
And then I got curious about dumping my objects ala pickle into a database. and then it hit me.

Dump an object into a relational database. rather map them from one form to another.

That is what #Django’s ORM (is) does. (as do other Python ORMs)

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110729430806357247

#sqlite, #python, #django

2023-07-16T08:01:07+0000

Jason Braganza — Sun, 16 Jul 2023 08:01:07 +0000

tw: depression tw: suicide

@dianeduane Boggle wants to give you a loving pick me up! 2/2

Text of the image continues:

How is that helpless? I think that’s incredible. You’re like a marine: trapped for years behind enemy lines, your gun has been taken away, you’re out of ammo, you’re malnourished, and you’ve probably caught some kind of jungle virus that’s making you hallucinate giant spiders.

And you’re still just going, ***“Give me a stick. i’m not dying out here.”***

“A cry for help” makes it sound like I’m supposed to take pity on you. But you don’t need my pity. This isn’t pathetic. This is the will to survive. This is how humans lived long enough to become the dominant species.

With **no** hope, running on **nothing,** you’re ready to cut through a hundred miles of hostile jungle with nothing but a stick, if that’s what it takes to get to safety.

All I’m doing is handing out sticks.

You’re the one staying alive.

#Depression #Suicide #Hope

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110722709442052777

#depression, #suicide, #hope

2023-07-16T08:00:14+0000

Jason Braganza — Sun, 16 Jul 2023 08:00:14 +0000

tw: depression tw: suicide

Boggle wants to give you a loving pick me up! 1/2

Text of the image:

I don’t like the phrase “A cry for help.”
I just don’t like how it sounds. When somebody says to me, “I’m thinking about suicide, I have a plan; I just need a reason not to do it,” the last thing i see is helplessness.

I think: Your depression has been beating you up for years. It’s called you ugly, and stupid, and pathetic, and a failure, for so long that you’ve forgotten that it’s wrong. You don’t see any good in yourself, and you don’t have any hope.

But still, here you are; you’ve come over to me, banged on my door, and said,“***Hey!*** staying alive is **really hard** right now! Just give me something to fight with! I don’t care if it’s a stick! Give me a stick and I can stay alive!”

— from the old Boggle the Owl tumblr at https://boggletheowl.tumblr.com/post/41509206591/ive-been-getting-a-lot-of-these-lately-and-i

via the gentle yet ferocious, @dianeduane

#Depression #Suicide #Hope

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110722705916012128

#depression, #suicide, #hope

2023-07-12T10:34:48+0000

Jason Braganza — Wed, 12 Jul 2023 10:34:48 +0000

trying to wrap my arms around #revealjs
loving it.
will now use it for my next presentation.

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110700664460740277

#revealjs

2023-07-10T06:27:00+0000

Jason Braganza — Mon, 10 Jul 2023 06:27:00 +0000

This long, long, thread by @alecui warms my heart.
Even though I am new to writing code, my impression of languages (and editors and ides) has always been that they’ve been built to solve issues, from certain folks’ point of view. It’s endlessly fascinating to me to see how each language tackles some common problem differently.

I don’t see better. I see different. And I love different :)
especially if they are old and warty. (how do i love thee #emacs? )

Worth the read!

https://qoto.org/@alecui/110655659211456591

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110688365445857326

https://janusworx.com/blog/a-new-hole-hawg-the-kobo-elipsa-2e/

2023-07-10T05:51:49+0000

Jason Braganza — Mon, 10 Jul 2023 05:51:49 +0000

#kobo folk of the fediverse, I got a new elipsa 2e. safe to use #nickelmenu on it?

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110688227125258110

#kobo, #nickelmenu

2023-07-10T04:02:45+0000

Jason Braganza — Mon, 10 Jul 2023 04:02:45 +0000

A New Hole Hawg, the Kobo Elipsa 2e

#books #reading #kobo #elipsa2e

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110687798278152247

#books, #reading, #kobo, #elipsa2e

2023-07-09T03:42:44+0000

Jason Braganza — Sun, 09 Jul 2023 03:42:44 +0000

Books are a special kind of poison. They soothe every ache inside of you while making you long for things that don’t exist. They make you feel alive while simultaneously making life seem more and more dull with every page you read. Reading makes you feel less alone and yet it creates an ache for companionship - the likes of which you will never know outside of those pages.

Books are a poison I wish I had never drunk, but now that I have - it’s the one thing keeping me alive.

— https://www.tumblr.com/shkespeares-ass/720268649636757504/books-are-a-special-kind-of-poison-they-soothe

#Books #Reading #Quotes

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110682057213876870

#books, #reading, #quotes

2023-07-05T14:26:35+0000

Jason Braganza — Wed, 05 Jul 2023 14:26:35 +0000

The difference between Wester and Indian Music

https://www.tumblr.com/thegaymertrainer/720771044398530560/thats-so-cool-to-see-it-explained

#Music #MusicTheory #WesternMusic #IndianMusic #mjbMusic

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110661939725364753

#music, #musictheory, #WesternMusic, #indianmusic, #mjbmusic

2023-07-03T17:26:27+0000

Jason Braganza — Mon, 03 Jul 2023 17:26:27 +0000

Winding down to #ColbieCaillat and Oxygen

https://youtu.be/AWdjI645rdU

#ColbieCaillat, #mjbmusic

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110651322365138231

2023-07-02T06:55:14+0000

Jason Braganza — Sun, 02 Jul 2023 06:55:14 +0000

Of octopuses & snails

https://www.tumblr.com/dduane/721639692722929664/pensandthings-petermorwood-markscherz

Via @dianeduane

#NatureRedInToothAndClaw

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110643178017692866

#natureredintoothandclaw

2023-07-02T06:13:37+0000

Jason Braganza — Sun, 02 Jul 2023 06:13:37 +0000

The complex history of the Intel i960 RISC processor

— @kenshirriff

https://www.righto.com/2023/07/the-complex-history-of-intel-i960-risc.html

P. S. Ken is amazing!
#TechHistory #i960 #Intel

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110643014368443419

#techhistory, #i960, #intel

2023-07-02T04:15:05+0000

Jason Braganza — Sun, 02 Jul 2023 04:15:05 +0000

Definitely me

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110642548250564408

2023-07-01T15:58:55+0000

Jason Braganza — Sat, 01 Jul 2023 15:58:55 +0000

shoulda moved sooner.
#Jellyfin handles my music metadata much better than Plex ever did

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110639653563983383

#jellyfin

2023-07-01T04:58:14+0000

Jason Braganza — Sat, 01 Jul 2023 04:58:14 +0000

I don’t know which of the two backstabbings (Reader or Sparrow(which barely lasted a year or so)) made me realise that no webcorp is benign or kind or has small folks’ interests at heart. To me, this was eye opening; to use the new fangled hashtag, #Enshittification v0.1

Anyhoo. RIP Reader. I loved you while you lived.

https://www.theverge.com/23778253/google-reader-death-2013-rss-social

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110637055655991925

#enshittification

2023-07-01T04:37:23+0000

Jason Braganza — Sat, 01 Jul 2023 04:37:23 +0000

Monthly email download / backup to #Thunderbird done.

If you live in a webmail client, like I do, it behooves you to go download stuff every once in a while. (Yay, open email standards)

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110636973646480696

#thunderbird

2023-07-01T04:12:29+0000

Jason Braganza — Sat, 01 Jul 2023 04:12:29 +0000

Me!

https://www.tumblr.com/quirkycatsfatstacks/713671211590254592

Friend: You have enough books!
Me: But I don’t have these books!

I lie. My family and friends are the best.
They are very indulgent of all the books I buy myself
They also buy me all the books I want.

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110636875726954218

https://youtu.be/IGJcP_5EXK8

2023-06-30T10:23:30+0000

Jason Braganza — Fri, 30 Jun 2023 10:23:30 +0000

moved the music library off of #Plex and onto #Jellyfin
The only tricky part of the whole process was to get remote access to the music working. and even that was not so bad.

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110632672323373510

#Plex, #jellyfin

2023-06-29T16:56:11+0000

Jason Braganza — Thu, 29 Jun 2023 16:56:11 +0000

Rainy eve playlist, Dionne Warwick’s All the Love in the World

#mjbMusic #DionneWarwick

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110628554108861497

#mjbmusic, #DionneWarwick

2023-06-29T03:38:42+0000

Jason Braganza — Thu, 29 Jun 2023 03:38:42 +0000

From here: https://www.instagram.com/p/CteN3UcO0d6/

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110625418255251075

https://www.tumblr.com/dduane/721097822070603776/pimentogirl-foone-lennon-and-trotsky

2023-06-28T07:58:49+0000

Jason Braganza — Wed, 28 Jun 2023 07:58:49 +0000

The little #RaspberryPi that powers my #Calibre library crashed today.

So, I took the opportunity to replace #Ubuntu with #ArchLinux. It feels much lighter than Ubuntu. the tiny Pi feels much snappier.

Fingers crossed, this one stays up and running as long as the old Ubuntu install.

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110620778818021585

#calibre, #raspberrypi, #ubuntu, #archlinux

2023-06-25T13:43:28+0000

Jason Braganza — Sun, 25 Jun 2023 13:43:28 +0000

This! #WomenInComputing

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110605147092895336

#womenincomputing

2023-06-25T05:02:38+0000

Jason Braganza — Sun, 25 Jun 2023 05:02:38 +0000

@bhavin192 @nickanderson @hl @simendsjo @pjs I don’t know how the toot above ate Bhavin’s name, but thank you @bhavin192 :)

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110603099081465896

2023-06-25T05:01:48+0000

Jason Braganza — Sun, 25 Jun 2023 05:01:48 +0000

@bhavin192, @nickanderson, @hl, @simendsjo, @pjs; Thank you all.

This is the first time, I’ve just put out a call and so many folks have been kind and answered! the #fediverse is amazing!

I think I’ll go checkout the native #Hugo #Org support as @bhavin192 and @hl suggested. Will look at more powerful solutions if I need them

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110603095817798043

#fediverse, #hugo, #org

2023-06-25T04:28:12+0000

Jason Braganza — Sun, 25 Jun 2023 04:28:12 +0000

Aah they didn’t. They call it, no leg on chair

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110602963683396572

2023-06-25T04:27:03+0000

Jason Braganza — Sun, 25 Jun 2023 04:27:03 +0000

I saw the first image on Tumblr with the caption, for a small place called … Kenny & Shopsins, methinks?

They obviously haven’t met a #Mumbai #Irani restaurant or they wouldn’t be saying sorry like that 🤣🤣🤣

Oh, I miss #Kyani & #Brittania

The Parsi notice misses my favourite, No fit on sit!

Image credits:

https://www.tumblr.com/mostlysignssomeportents/721025646293385216/fuck-yeah-shopsins-dot-tumblr-dot-com

https://oldphotosbombay.blogspot.com/2012/12/irani-restaurant-notice-board-of-old.html

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110602959133234046

#mumbai, #Irani, #Kyani, #Brittania

2023-06-24T13:34:47+0000

Jason Braganza — Sat, 24 Jun 2023 13:34:47 +0000

Yo @bhavin192, what you do use?

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110599450655996780

2023-06-24T13:31:44+0000

Jason Braganza — Sat, 24 Jun 2023 13:31:44 +0000

wrote the last few blogs posts on https://janusworx.com/blog using #OrgMode in #Emacs and then copy pasted them and rewrote them using markdown

Wondering if it’s worth putting in the time, to move #Writing completely to Org mode using something like @kaushalmodi’s #OxHugo

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110599438603182983

#orgmode, #emacs, #writing, #oxhugo

2023-06-24T09:14:06+0000

Jason Braganza — Sat, 24 Jun 2023 09:14:06 +0000

@anwesha @kushal — Christina Rossetti’s, Goblin Market :)

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110598425584403051

2023-06-24T09:13:09+0000

Jason Braganza — Sat, 24 Jun 2023 09:13:09 +0000

my toots #dgplug instance now lets me ramble on for a thousand letters!
thank you @anwesha and @kushal!
Why, i can even draw thank you, hearts for you now ❤️
I can quote poetry!

Days, weeks, months, years
Afterwards, when both were wives
With children of their own;
Their mother-hearts beset with fears,
Their lives bound up in tender lives;
Laura would call the little ones
And tell them of her early prime,
Those pleasant days long gone
Of not-returning time:
Would talk about the haunted glen,
The wicked, quaint fruit-merchant men,
Their fruits like honey to the throat
But poison in the blood;
(Men sell not such in any town):
Would tell them how her sister stood
In deadly peril to do her good,
And win the fiery antidote:
Then joining hands to little hands
Would bid them cling together,
“For there is no friend like a sister
In calm or stormy weather;
To cheer one on the tedious way,
To fetch one if one goes astray,
To lift one if one totters down,
To strengthen whilst one stands.”

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110598421864850785

#dgplug

2023-06-23T08:15:47+0000

Jason Braganza — Fri, 23 Jun 2023 08:15:47 +0000

#TIL

The folks responsible for Safari and Core Animation at Apple were also responsible for giving us the Nautilus shell for Linux (today’s #Gnome Files)

https://www.storiesofapple.net/working-at-eazel-an-interview-with-gene-ragan.html

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110592533934448813

#til, #gnome

2023-06-22T04:49:20+0000

Jason Braganza — Thu, 22 Jun 2023 04:49:20 +0000

Extra! Extra! You computer lies to you!

Read all about it in @b0rk’s new zine!

https://wizardzines.com/zines/integers-floats/

#Books #Zines #Maths #Computers

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110586059838327086

#books, #zines, #maths, #computers

2023-06-22T02:54:22+0000

Jason Braganza — Thu, 22 Jun 2023 02:54:22 +0000

@linuxmint and this is the web app for #mail
4/4
#linux

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110585607813279868

#mail, #linux

2023-06-22T02:52:47+0000

Jason Braganza — Thu, 22 Jun 2023 02:52:47 +0000

@linuxmint This is the #Fediverse #Mastodon web app
3/
#Linux

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110585601582502501

#fediverse, #mastodon, #linux

2023-06-22T02:51:23+0000

Jason Braganza — Thu, 22 Jun 2023 02:51:23 +0000

@linuxmint This is normal #firefox
2/
#Linux

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110585596078466777

#firefox, #linux

2023-06-22T02:49:59+0000

Jason Braganza — Thu, 22 Jun 2023 02:49:59 +0000

Different color themes for each #Firefox process (using @linuxmint Webapps) keeps me sane.

https://www.tumblr.com/dduane/720749650629558272

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110585590577665372

#firefox, #linux

2023-06-22T02:10:49+0000

Jason Braganza — Thu, 22 Jun 2023 02:10:49 +0000

We’ve all been the same for 30,000 years …
— via @dianeduane

#Life #Community

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110585436526629671

#life, #community

2023-06-20T09:57:41+0000

Jason Braganza — Tue, 20 Jun 2023 09:57:41 +0000

Me:

getting pissed off because i can’t find 17,000 more songs that sound exactly like the one i am enjoying but aren’t that song exactly but make me feel the same way so i can continue the precise vibe. i have the hardest life anybody has ever had btw.

— https://www.tumblr.com/catchymemes/720596913021419520

#Music

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110575947741565403

#music

2023-06-18T05:59:59+0000

Jason Braganza — Sun, 18 Jun 2023 05:59:59 +0000

A man’s #Emacs is his castle!

https://youtu.be/urcL86UpqZc

#Humour

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110563688432298919

#emacs, #humour

2023-06-17T04:22:21+0000

Jason Braganza — Sat, 17 Jun 2023 04:22:21 +0000

Loved listening to this #CoRecursive episode

From Project Management to Data Compression Innovator
With Yann Collet
https://corecursive.com/data-compression-yann-collet/

#YannCollet #Life #Tech #CompressionAlgorithms #LZ4

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110557642180166023

#CoRecursive, #YannCollet, #life, #tech, #CompressionAlgorithms, #LZ4

2023-06-16T14:07:41+0000

Jason Braganza — Fri, 16 Jun 2023 14:07:41 +0000

Look what came!

The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace & Babbage, with Interesting and Curious Anecdotes of Celebrated and Distinguished Characters!

Fully Illustrating A Variety Of Instructive and Amusing Scenes;
As Performed Within and Without the Remarkable Difference Engine
Embellished with Portraits and Scientifick Diagrams

Thank you so, so, so much #booksanta!
This is such a gem!

#mjbReading #Reading #Books #EarlyComputing #AlternateRealities

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110554281512227341

#booksanta, #mjbreading, #reading, #books, #EarlyComputing, #AlternateRealities

2023-06-15T02:54:15+0000

Jason Braganza — Thu, 15 Jun 2023 02:54:15 +0000

@aworkinglibrary It’s a great exercise in humility, keeping a blog for this many years. But in exchange for the keen awareness of how far I still have to go as a writer, I have the space to keep going. I have the home to keep coming back to. And I will. I will return, again and again.

4/4

#AWorkingLibrary #Reading #Writing #Books #Blogging

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110545971182119054

#AWorkingLibrary, #reading, #writing, #books, #blogging

2023-06-15T02:52:51+0000

Jason Braganza — Thu, 15 Jun 2023 02:52:51 +0000

@aworkinglibrary And maybe that’s a good way to think about blogging, too. The new stuff sits next to the old but doesn’t supplant it, doesn’t shove it out of the way. Each new post lays atop the next like sediment, and all the old layers remain exposed for you to meander through, with their mediocre sentences and lapsed claims, all the sloppy thinking ever on display.

#AWorkingLibrary #Reading #Writing #Books #Blogging

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110545965626379369

#AWorkingLibrary, #reading, #writing, #books, #blogging

2023-06-15T02:51:48+0000

Jason Braganza — Thu, 15 Jun 2023 02:51:48 +0000

@aworkinglibrary … I read on paper still, so the evidence of time spent is visible in dog-eared corners and coffee stains, in curling covers and the occasional broken spine. I’m hardest on the books I love the most, so that more than one of them is neighbored by a newer edition: not replaced (because I would never forsake my margin notes) but accompanied by a copy that will decay in its own way, soon enough.

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110545961546477279

#AWorkingLibrary, #reading, #writing, #books

2023-06-15T02:50:37+0000

Jason Braganza — Thu, 15 Jun 2023 02:50:37 +0000

From @aworkinglibrary’s fifteenth birthday post 1

There are books here that have taken up residence in my mind. Or perhaps more accurately, I have lived long residencies within them, have curled up under their eaves and stretched out on the porch, have explored the basements and attics and crawl spaces.

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110545956860078364

#AWorkingLibrary, #reading, #writing, #books

2023-06-15T02:47:41+0000

Jason Braganza — Thu, 15 Jun 2023 02:47:41 +0000

@aworkinglibrary Which leads me to understand how she writes so resonantly.
It’s not just her beautiful mind, but also that she writes with her scars.

Thank you @aworkinglibrary

For all you do, for all you’ve taught me, for the worlds you’ve led me to, and the all the dreams you’ve shown me.

P.S. I now have to go catch up with thirteen to fourteen years worth of writing. There goes June!

3/3

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110545945339736175

#AWorkingLibrary, #reading, #writing, #books

2023-06-15T02:37:19+0000

Jason Braganza — Thu, 15 Jun 2023 02:37:19 +0000

@aworkinglibrary Today, as she celebrates the quinceanera of her blog, I realised that she also:

is an awesome people herder 1
is one of the forces behind #ABookApart 2
is one of the leading lights of Web Design world
has put in time as a suit (CEO)

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110545904558450634

#ABookApart, #AWorkingLibrary, #reading, #writing, #books

2023-06-15T02:26:34+0000

Jason Braganza — Thu, 15 Jun 2023 02:26:34 +0000

All I knew about @aworkinglibrary when I began following her a year ago is

she has a doggie called Furiosa
she thinks about books the way I do. 1
she reads books and then writes about reading them, the way I always dreamed I could.
she’s a prominent member of my circle of the #EminentDead 2

https://youtu.be/JeZ5ThHFfAA

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110545862277252545

#EminentDead, #AWorkingLibrary, #reading, #writing, #books

2023-06-14T01:12:14+0000

Jason Braganza — Wed, 14 Jun 2023 01:12:14 +0000

It’s one of those beautiful, melancholic rainy days

Because, like #AmosLee sings, it finally, Started to rain!

#Petrichor #mjbMusic

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110539907710914077

#AmosLee, #petrichor, #mjbmusic

2023-06-12T16:15:04+0000

Jason Braganza — Mon, 12 Jun 2023 16:15:04 +0000

From the always brilliant #TomGauld

https://myjetpack.tumblr.com/post/719926566454427648/my-cartoon-for-the-latest-issue-of-new-scientist

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110532133156952818

#tomgauld

2023-06-12T15:24:53+0000

Jason Braganza — Mon, 12 Jun 2023 15:24:53 +0000

Lalala, nothing to see … puts link in …

https://www.moneylife.in/article/cowin-massive-data-leaked-easily-available-on-telegram-say-reports/71062.html

moving on, whistling innocently

a *billion* people!

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110531935813455347

2023-06-12T13:19:38+0000

Jason Braganza — Mon, 12 Jun 2023 13:19:38 +0000

#AnitaBaker is #Serious

https://youtu.be/UxOa821uVZU

Winding down the day with some soothing vocals …

https://youtu.be/2_we6VQOnoQ

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110531443299396662

#AnitaBaker, #serious, #mjbmusic

2023-06-12T04:32:54+0000

Jason Braganza — Mon, 12 Jun 2023 04:32:54 +0000

Happy Birthday @anwesha!
Here’s to many more!

I owe so much to you. Thank you for being such a force for good :)
The world needs more souls like you

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110529372139732712

2023-06-12T04:24:52+0000

Jason Braganza — Mon, 12 Jun 2023 04:24:52 +0000

@mozilla - Want the option to open your links in another browser? Geoff Lankow’s Open With is just the ticket

Want to open a set of tabs every time? Igor Logius’ Startup Tabs will do that (Firefox does seem to have ability natively, but I couldn’t quite get it to work)
Want a theme to differentiate the webapp from the main browser? And remind you of times when whole operating systems fit on floppies? Lars-Erik Østerud’s pretty ClassicWindows theme, will remind you of the crashy old times :)

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110529340563829927

2023-06-12T04:11:57+0000

Jason Braganza — Mon, 12 Jun 2023 04:11:57 +0000

Realised just how malleable #Firefox is, as I was creating a #LinuxMint #Firefox web app just to read emails. And this is after having Firefox as my default browser for years (I’ve never really meddled with the defaults.)
Even if the browser proper doesn’t support something, some good soul somewhere has made an extension or theme that supports your particular quirk.
Thank you to all the kind folk over the years at @mozilla and around the world!

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110529289774929796

#firefox, #linuxmint

2023-06-10T08:20:50+0000

Jason Braganza — Sat, 10 Jun 2023 08:20:50 +0000

Today’s earworm: Who’s Crying Now?
Randy’s such a crooner! ❤️

#RandyCrawford #mjbMusic

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110518943750662893

#RandyCrawford, #mjbmusic

2023-06-10T06:20:28+0000

Jason Braganza — Sat, 10 Jun 2023 06:20:28 +0000

Test toot

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110518470481073376

2023-06-10T03:53:21+0000

Jason Braganza — Sat, 10 Jun 2023 03:53:21 +0000

I forgot to link to org-web-tools in yesterday’s post.[1]

Here it is: https://github.com/alphapapa/org-web-tools

#Emacs #OrgMode #OrgWebTools
[1]: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110512811809034696

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110517891985831130

#emacs, #orgmode, #OrgWebTools

2023-06-09T06:21:24+0000

Jason Braganza — Fri, 09 Jun 2023 06:21:24 +0000

Been copying text manually from web pages into my #Zettelkasten since last June.

A year into my journey, I realise, I could’ve just used Adam Porter’s (#alphapapa) org-web-tools package to scrape it straight into my org file! [1] Just select the link, M-x org-web-tools-insert-web-page-as-entry and …
Boom!
The whole page!
Properly formatted! In my org file!

Better late than never 😂

[1] which I had installed and ready all the time!
#Emacs #OrgMode #TIL

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110512811809034696

#zettelkasten, #alphapapa, #emacs, #orgmode, #til

2023-06-07T04:06:46+0000

Jason Braganza — Wed, 07 Jun 2023 04:06:46 +0000

Can @ivory schedule toots yet? I can’t seem to be able to do it

#Ivory

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110500957819121725

#ivory

2023-06-07T02:45:50+0000

Jason Braganza — Wed, 07 Jun 2023 02:45:50 +0000

Minimalism and me …

Pretty pic by #SarahAndersen, https://sarahcandersen.com/post/716941841951506432

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110500639545212699

#SarahAndersen

2023-06-06T07:19:48+0000

Jason Braganza — Tue, 06 Jun 2023 07:19:48 +0000

#Blogging Myth No. 4: Writing Boring Posts is Bad

I can never remember how to renew my letsencrypt certificates.
I refer to my boring blog post, that details how to go about doing it. Every quarter. Without fail.
It’s saved my hide more times than I can count now!

@b0rk explodes more myths at https://jvns.ca/blog/2023/06/05/some-blogging-myths/

My boring blog post:
https://janusworx.com/blog/notes-to-self-on-renewing-wildcard-certbot-certs/

#Writing

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110496054513479186

#blogging, #writing

2023-06-06T06:34:28+0000

Jason Braganza — Tue, 06 Jun 2023 06:34:28 +0000

#TIL, in #Emacs #OrgMode

press v c in Org agenda to see fishy things in your clocking data.

src: https://list.orgmode.org/CAC=HedC5NRmYJ2YdwsXncP8hiih=HYBUMmqDqHxoS50GKZVruQ@mail.gmail.com/

via: https://mbork.pl/2023-06-03_Org_agenda_clock_check

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110495876293114722

https://youtu.be/G5BVKOJb-L0

2023-06-05T09:17:17+0000

Jason Braganza — Mon, 05 Jun 2023 09:17:17 +0000

Sometimes some one makes a classic their own.
Imagine Whitney covering Dolly Parton’s, I will always love you.
Or imagine Randy Crawford covering Lennon’s, Imagine.

You may say I’m a dreamer
But I’m not the only one …

#mjbMusic #RandyCrawford #Imagine

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110490854164804227

#mjbmusic, #RandyCrawford, #imagine

2023-05-25T06:35:14+0000

Jason Braganza — Thu, 25 May 2023 06:35:14 +0000

If your life ain’t worth livin’
And you’re ready to give in
Just remember
It’s only love - and that’s all

RIP, #TinaTurner

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110427931579201068

#tinaturner

2023-05-23T09:44:32+05:30

Jason Braganza — Tue, 23 May 2023 09:44:32 +0530

Wait, you’re a shapechanger?
Yes?

You can take any shape?
Preserving mass, yes.

And you chose to look like that?

You’re a phrasebuilder?
What?

You can say anything you want?
I mean …

And you chose to say that?

— O. Westin, MicroSF/F

#Kindness, #Life

2023-05-23T00:54:49+0000

Jason Braganza — Tue, 23 May 2023 00:54:49 +0000

Tumblr: https://www.tumblr.com/melodysbookhaven/715971128570560512

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110415268410830404

#Books #Reading #TomGauld

2023-05-21T15:01:57+0000

Jason Braganza — Sun, 21 May 2023 15:01:57 +0000

https://www.tumblr.com/myjetpack/717921448736538624/my-cartoon-for-yesterdays-guardian-books

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110407274805325420

#books, #reading, #tomgauld

2023-05-21T04:46:22+0000

Jason Braganza — Sun, 21 May 2023 04:46:22 +0000

Oh my Verne!

Look what came!
Thank you #BookSanta 😬😁

(Also ♥️ the way the gilt edge reflects light )

#SteamPunk #mjbReading #Reading #Books #EarlySciFi #SciFi #Fantasy

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110404854270889479

#booksanta, #steampunk, #mjbreading, #reading, #books, #EarlySciFi, #scifi, #fantasy

2023-05-21T04:19:44+0000

Jason Braganza — Sun, 21 May 2023 04:19:44 +0000

To read a book for the first time in one’s maturity is an extraordinary pleasure, different from (though one cannot say greater or lesser than) the pleasure of having read it in one’s youth.

— Italo Calvino, The Uses of Literature

https://www.tumblr.com/the-hearth-and-the-wild/715624065178714112/to-read-a-book-for-the-first-time-in-ones

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110404749501008916

https://www.tumblr.com/waitingforthesunrise/717857308558901248/you-want-to-know-what-im-missing-the-sense-of

2023-05-21T02:43:34+0000

Jason Braganza — Sun, 21 May 2023 02:43:34 +0000

I was an adventurer, a traveler, a magic student; God, I was whole. drunk on words for hours….being pulled out at twilight by my mother’s voice, calling me for dinner. eating in a daze, sneaking back up the stairs to fall back in love. minutes and hours and midnight…falling asleep, book clutched in my hand.

you want to know what I’m missing?

when time was our friend.

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110404371402238543

#WriteMore #Writing #Blogging

2023-05-21T02:42:20+0000

Jason Braganza — Sun, 21 May 2023 02:42:20 +0000

worlds, words, there were so many. pulling books off the shelves with feverish fingers, stuffing my bag until it tugged at the seams. running to the car, hovering over which to read first. tumbling back into the world I’d longed for. hunched under blankets, eyes burning, mind ablaze with friends and the feelings I never could capture.

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110404366528365432

2023-05-21T02:41:49+0000

Jason Braganza — Sun, 21 May 2023 02:41:49 +0000

Found on Tumblr:

You want to know what I’m missing?

the sense of time.

the way I’d bounce in my seat all the way to the library; the way I’d painstakingly pick out the words from the computer, the way I’d speed-walk through the aisles –

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110404364476084387

2023-05-19T14:09:01+0000

Jason Braganza — Fri, 19 May 2023 14:09:01 +0000

Hello, Mr. Gaiman! I hope you’re doing well. I’m curious, how many words would you say you write on a good/average/bad day? […] it’s hard not to feel like it’s a complete waste of time […] do you have any advice?

[…]

Stephen King has written more books than anyone I know. He writes 1500 words a day. That’s what he does. Then he does other things.

If you write 300 words a day you will have written a 365 page novel in a year.

Just write.

— @neilhimself

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110395742052535118

#WriteMore, #writing, #blogging

2023-05-19T01:09:11+0000

Jason Braganza — Fri, 19 May 2023 01:09:11 +0000

The book that taught me about and got me up and running with #Zettelkasten: Digital Zettelkasten 99 centsl http://kadavy.net/blog/posts/digital-zettelkasten-99-cents/

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110392675605142350

#zettelkasten

2023-05-16T13:12:50+0000

Jason Braganza — Tue, 16 May 2023 13:12:50 +0000

Best GUI music tag editor I ever used was the windows based #TagAndRename.

I found #PuddleTag today. Closest thing I’ve found on #Linux that matches the features #TagAndRename gave me. Managing my music files has gotten fun and easy again.

https://docs.puddletag.net/

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110378534202548136

#TagAndRename, #PuddleTag, #linux

2023-05-16T08:33:30+0000

Jason Braganza — Tue, 16 May 2023 08:33:30 +0000

Got it working, thanks to Anki’s excellent documentation and scavenging and adapting old nginx / systemd scripts

Tested with a large-ish deck. Works beautifully.
Now to start uploading *ALL THE DECKS!*

Thank you #Anki!

https://elk.zone/toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110155607480886827

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110377435820686616

#anki

2023-05-02T01:37:21+0000

Jason Braganza — Tue, 02 May 2023 01:37:21 +0000

When you hear “fintech,” think “unlicensed bank” https://pluralistic.net/2023/05/01/usury/#tech-exceptionalism

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110296527081236178

2023-05-01T04:31:48+0000

Jason Braganza — Mon, 01 May 2023 04:31:48 +0000

Here’s what I read last week (rather over the past couple of weeks)

What Child is This?, Bonnie MacBird
Make Something Wonderful, Steve Jobs
Blood, Sweat & Chrome, Kyle Buchanan
Starfish, Peter Watts

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

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110291550791604765

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

2023-05-01T04:31:33+0000

Jason Braganza — Mon, 01 May 2023 04:31:33 +0000

Here’s what I read last week (rather over the past couple of weeks)

An Oral History of Lilo & Stitch, Bilge Ebiri
The First Man in Rome, Colleen McCullough
The Grass Crown, Colleen McCullough
Art in the Blood, Bonnie MacBird
Unquiet Spirits, Bonnie MacBird
The Devil’s Due, Bonnie MacBird
The Three Locks, Bonnie MacBird

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

https://janusworx.com/fitness/2023-05-01

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110291549776821522

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

2023-05-01T04:28:03+0000

Jason Braganza — Mon, 01 May 2023 04:28:03 +0000

Weekly fitness update

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110291536020613205

#books #reading #bookshopping

2023-04-28T04:51:55+0000

Jason Braganza — Fri, 28 Apr 2023 04:51:55 +0000

Amazon has amazing reading instructions for this book, I’m perusing …

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110274642933553169

#books, #reading, #bookshopping

2023-04-13T14:34:01+0000

Jason Braganza — Thu, 13 Apr 2023 14:34:01 +0000

The afternoon has settled long and heavy on my shoulders
The winter’s light feels different on my skin
[…]
Distill a whole year down into a day
Act like we all start over with a pristine slate

But to get yourself a new life,
you’ve got to give the other one away

And I’m starting to believe,
in the power of a name
Cause it can’t be a mistake,
if I just call it change

December…

https://youtu.be/Gv972gdiu58

#mjbMusic #SaraBareilles #December

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110191997185039545

#mjbmusic, #sarabareilles, #december

2023-04-13T06:01:49+0000

Jason Braganza — Thu, 13 Apr 2023 06:01:49 +0000

bought myself an Easter gift.

Thank you for Cheap Chocolate Week, @dianeduane!

https://dduane.tumblr.com/post/714248430012252160/for-cheap-chocolate-week-get-our-whole-ebook

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110189983134029295

2023-04-13T04:04:57+0000

Jason Braganza — Thu, 13 Apr 2023 04:04:57 +0000

#TIL: with #Emacs #OrgMode

I wanted to expand all my entries in my Org file, to see how large it had gotten, so I looked up how to do it.

To expand all tabs (org-show-all)
C-u C-u Tab

To close tabs to the startup visibility of the buffer (org-set-startup-visibility)
C-u C-u C-u Tab

Tada!

https://orgmode.org/manual/Global-and-local-cycling.html

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110189523608103710

https://preview.mailerlite.io/emails/webview/257621/85173509616043929

2023-04-11T16:44:44+0000

Jason Braganza — Tue, 11 Apr 2023 16:44:44 +0000

there’s a free @mwl story
scratch that.
there’s a free @mwl story in a free #PulpHouseMagazine anthology out there!
git!

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110181186572049324

#PulpHouseMagazine

2023-04-11T02:57:06+0000

Jason Braganza — Tue, 11 Apr 2023 02:57:06 +0000

We Grow Accustomed to the Dark

https://vimeo.com/139463445

The Bravest — grope a little —
And sometimes hit a Tree
Directly in the Forehead —
But as they learn to see —

Either the Darkness alters —
Or something in the sight
Adjusts itself to Midnight

— Emily Dickinson
via https://www.themarginalian.org/2018/09/18/we-grow-accustomed-to-the-dark-emily-dickinson-animation/

#EmilyDickinson #Poetry #mjbPoetry #Resilience

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110177932207762751

#emilydickinson, #poetry, #mjbpoetry, #resilience

2023-04-10T12:57:15+0000

Jason Braganza — Mon, 10 Apr 2023 12:57:15 +0000

Collaborating on a Libeoffice presentation with a collaborator, hundreds of miles away.
Thank God for #syncthing

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110174629729943028

#syncthing

2023-04-10T05:07:04+0000

Jason Braganza — Mon, 10 Apr 2023 05:07:04 +0000

#TIL in #Emacs and #OrgMode:

If i want to timestamp an entry, I use C-c .
and if I want to do this *without* causing it to appear in the agenda, I use C-c !

The second step is pretty handy for me to date my entries in my decision journal.
I want to keep track of when I made a significant decision and my rationale behind it.
But, not something I want popping up in my agenda :)

Timestamps in Org Mode: https://orgmode.org/manual/Creating-Timestamps.html
Decision Journal: https://fs.blog/decision-journal/

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110172780910730038

https://docs.ankiweb.net/sync-server.html

2023-04-07T04:19:38+0000

Jason Braganza — Fri, 07 Apr 2023 04:19:38 +0000

#TIL: #Anki has an inbuilt sync server!

I can go hog wild with my decks now! Hurrah!

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110155607480886827

#til, #anki

2023-04-05T04:39:04+0000

Jason Braganza — Wed, 05 Apr 2023 04:39:04 +0000

An Oral History of ‘Lilo & Stitch,’ A Hand-Drawn Miracle

https://www.vulture.com/2022/10/an-oral-history-of-lilo-and-stitch-a-hand-drawn-miracle.html

#Art #Animation #StoryTelling #ArtHistory

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110144359254070863

#art, #animation, #storytelling, #arthistory

2023-03-31T16:47:00+0000

Jason Braganza — Fri, 31 Mar 2023 16:47:00 +0000

On Things That Last

https://janusworx.com/blog/on-things-that-last/

#mjbWrites

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110118910098071174

#mjbwrites

2023-03-27T15:01:53+0000

Jason Braganza — Mon, 27 Mar 2023 15:01:53 +0000

Would building a Dyson sphere be worth it? We ran the numbers. | Ars Technica #Physics https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/03/building-a-dyson-sphere-whats-the-payback-time-of-disassembling-a-planet/

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110095847490030876

#physics

2023-03-27T02:48:32+0000

Jason Braganza — Mon, 27 Mar 2023 02:48:32 +0000

Here’s what I read last week

The Secret of Red Gate Farm (Nancy Drew), Carolyn Keene
The Shore Road Mystery (The Hardy Boys), Franklin W. Dixon
Slide:ology, Nancy Duarte
Resonate, Nancy Duarte
The Heart to Start, David Kadavy
The Clue in the Diary (Nancy Drew), Carolyn Keene

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

https://janusworx.com/fitness/#2023-03-27

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110092963848759185

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

2023-03-27T02:41:51+0000

Jason Braganza — Mon, 27 Mar 2023 02:41:51 +0000

Weekly fitness update

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110092937560459216

https://youtu.be/Uaee65gg7bU

2023-03-25T05:39:16+0000

Jason Braganza — Sat, 25 Mar 2023 05:39:16 +0000

My fav affirmations from the song,

I believe:

we place our happiness in other people’s hands
your parents did the best job they knew how to do
I’m loved when I’m completely by myself alone
that family is worth more than money or gold
the struggle for financial freedom isn’t fair
you can’t appreciate real love until you’ve been burned
forgiveness is the key to your unhappiness
in love surviving death into eternity

#mjbMusic #Affirmation #SavageGarden

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110082310553865279

#mjbmusic, #affirmation, #savagegarden

2023-03-25T05:13:34+0000

Jason Braganza — Sat, 25 Mar 2023 05:13:34 +0000

Musically set for the day

#mjbMusic #DarrenHayes #SavageGarden

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110082209532987621

#mjbmusic, #darrenhayes, #savagegarden

2023-03-24T18:28:10+0000

Jason Braganza — Fri, 24 Mar 2023 18:28:10 +0000

ChatGPT’s open source AI journey • The Register https://www.theregister.com/2023/03/24/column/

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110079671677058245

2023-03-24T02:48:18+0000

Jason Braganza — Fri, 24 Mar 2023 02:48:18 +0000

The description has it right

“There are no words for the power of her voice! Enjoy this new classic & share with a friend.”

Good god, Morgan James’ amazing!

https://youtu.be/Yq4KA0mUnC8

#mjbMusic #Music #RockRepurposedAsVocalJazz

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110075975959578483

#mjbmusic, #music, #RockRepurposedAsVocalJazz

2023-03-23T03:47:48+0000

Jason Braganza — Thu, 23 Mar 2023 03:47:48 +0000

“One of the questions I always ask of stories is how they *work*. Who do they serve? Who benefits? Who, if anyone, is burdened or harmed by them? Who is uplifted? What modes or methods or structures do they employ?”

#MandyBrown’s latest missive at #AWorkingLibrary tackles the way we look and think about #AI.
***Must Read***

https://aworkinglibrary.com/writing/smoke-screen

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110070547663514240

#mandybrown, #AWorkingLibrary, #ai

2023-03-23T03:30:15+0000

Jason Braganza — Thu, 23 Mar 2023 03:30:15 +0000

good #frontend #css folk on the fediverse, what is the property to tighten up the spacing between lines? methinks my lines1 in my blog posts look too loosey-goosey and i want them a bit closer together. thank you!

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110070478658634058

#frontend, #css

2023-03-21T04:14:19+0000

Jason Braganza — Tue, 21 Mar 2023 04:14:19 +0000

Here’s what I read last week

Ignore Everybody, Hugh MacLeod
How to Write a Book, David Kadavy
The Secret of Shadow Ranch (Nancy Drew), Carolyn Keene
Hunting For Hidden Gold (The Hardy Boys), Franklin W. Dixon

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

https://janusworx.com/fitness/#2023-03-20

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110059327308685901

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

2023-03-21T04:07:11+0000

Jason Braganza — Tue, 21 Mar 2023 04:07:11 +0000

Weekly fitness update

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110059299254540616

https://sliceosunshine.tumblr.com/post/712183227437236224/a-bit-of-a-tldr-for-some-questions-i-saw-in-the

2023-03-20T09:27:30+0000

Jason Braganza — Mon, 20 Mar 2023 09:27:30 +0000

Love it when tech works *for* a creator! (For a change)

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110054896484022840

2023-03-18T03:36:38+0000

Jason Braganza — Sat, 18 Mar 2023 03:36:38 +0000

he most recently worked at Google,[…] although his hiring caused problems: he refused to take the company’s mandatory C proficiency test, on the feeble pretext that he designed the C language.

😂😂😂 https://www.theregister.com/2023/03/17/ken_thompson_is_a_maccie/

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110042192211430046

2023-03-17T04:31:11+0000

Jason Braganza — Fri, 17 Mar 2023 04:31:11 +0000

Avoid Accidentally Minimizing Emacs

https://emacsredux.com/blog/2023/03/14/avoid-accidentally-minimizing-emacs/

Thank you @bbatsov !
https://youtu.be/BlIS13npcew

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110036744357156697

2023-03-15T14:25:38+0000

Jason Braganza — Wed, 15 Mar 2023 14:25:38 +0000

#TIL about the GO111MODULE environment variable

https://janusworx.com/blog/quick-fix-go-mod-file-not-found-in-current-directory/

#go #golang #mjbWrites #Blogging #Linux #Tech

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110027757222115976

#til, #go, #golang, #mjbwrites, #blogging, #linux, #tech

2023-03-15T05:19:11+0000

Jason Braganza — Wed, 15 Mar 2023 05:19:11 +0000

New post:
Huginn: Huginn: Vive La Pratique Délibérée Avec Les Flux RSS

https://janusworx.com/blog/huginn-vive-la-pratique-d%C3%A9lib%C3%A9r%C3%A9e-avec-les-flux-rss/

#mjbWrites #Blogging #Linux #Tech #Huginn #French #Devops

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110025608466738540

#mjbwrites, #blogging, #linux, #tech, #huginn, #french, #devops

2023-03-14T14:25:29+0000

Jason Braganza — Tue, 14 Mar 2023 14:25:29 +0000

I just realised that most of my friends learned the word iterate / iteration when they learnt to program their computers.
I on the other hand learnt it in the early 90s reading a book about dinosaurs. The word was used as section separators in Jurassic Park. Iteration 1, Iteration 2 …

#IAmGettingOld

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110022094314629136

#IAmGettingOld

2023-03-14T14:12:16+0000

Jason Braganza — Tue, 14 Mar 2023 14:12:16 +0000

Note to self, when you think you are going to *quickly* synthesize that interesting note and put it into your #Zettelkasten, check yourself.

It always takes more time than you think. It always derails your day.

Budget the time. And then do it.

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110022042377369068

#zettelkasten

2023-03-14T14:09:03+0000

Jason Braganza — Tue, 14 Mar 2023 14:09:03 +0000

Huginn: On Becoming a Cal Newport Podcast Packrat

https://janusworx.com/blog/huginn-on-becoming-a-cal-newport-podcast-packrat/

#mjbWrites #Blogging #Linux #Tech #Huginn #CalNewport #Devops

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110022029737153609

#mjbwrites, #blogging, #linux, #tech, #huginn, #calnewport, #devops

2023-03-14T05:06:12+0000

Jason Braganza — Tue, 14 Mar 2023 05:06:12 +0000

via Diane Duane’s Tumblr
https://dduane.tumblr.com/post/711634635699912704/the-periodical-reminder

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110019895135969833

2023-03-14T04:06:48+0000

Jason Braganza — Tue, 14 Mar 2023 04:06:48 +0000

#Attention #Focus

6 Secrets That Will Increase Your Attention Span!
Eric Barker’s, Barking Up the Wrong Tree

https://bakadesuyo.com/2023/03/increase-attention-span/

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110019661572029933

#attention, #focus

2023-03-13T16:48:47+0000

Jason Braganza — Mon, 13 Mar 2023 16:48:47 +0000

Huginn: the Rube Goldbergness of Updating Hugo

https://janusworx.com/blog/huginn-the-rube-goldbergness-of-updating-hugo/

#mjbWrites #Blogging #Linux #Tech #Huginn #Hugo

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110016995501045527

#mjbwrites, #blogging, #linux, #tech, #huginn, #hugo

2023-03-13T13:28:21+0000

Jason Braganza — Mon, 13 Mar 2023 13:28:21 +0000

ok re-read.
Reading the first time around took me … uhm … scratches head … violent mental math … 14 years 😂

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110016207361458069

2023-03-13T13:21:35+0000

Jason Braganza — Mon, 13 Mar 2023 13:21:35 +0000

If people ask me how long was I sick, I’ll tell them it was a little longer than it took me to read A Song of Ice and Fire

#Books #Reading #ASOIAF #GoT

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110016180714091238

#books, #reading, #asoiaf, #got

2023-03-13T12:38:43+0000

Jason Braganza — Mon, 13 Mar 2023 12:38:43 +0000

Weekly fitness update

https://janusworx.com/fitness/#2023-03-13

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110016012166961617

2023-03-13T12:35:21+0000

Jason Braganza — Mon, 13 Mar 2023 12:35:21 +0000

Here’s what I read last week

A Storm of Swords, George R. R. Martin
A Feast for Crows, George R. R. Martin
A Dance with Dragons, George R. R. Martin
Python Concurrency with asyncio, Matthew Fowler

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

https://sentientcitizen.tumblr.com/post/711590971806253056

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110015998927581765

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

2023-03-12T16:11:09+0000

Jason Braganza — Sun, 12 Mar 2023 16:11:09 +0000

@terri , this reminded me of you

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110011185196939718

2023-03-11T16:59:14+0000

Jason Braganza — Sat, 11 Mar 2023 16:59:14 +0000

I miss #Utsjoki #Finland

#Photography #mjbPhotography

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110005711971814194

#Utsjoki, #finland, #photography, #mjbphotography

2023-03-11T10:17:25+0000

Jason Braganza — Sat, 11 Mar 2023 10:17:25 +0000

(Limited Time) Free copy of How to Write a Book #Writing #DavidKadavy http://kadavy.net/blog/posts/limited-time-free-copy-of-how-to-write-a-book/

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110004131952436808

#writing, #davidkadavy

2023-03-11T04:46:06+0000

Jason Braganza — Sat, 11 Mar 2023 04:46:06 +0000

Nothing demonstrates the virtues of #FOSS stewardship of software that needs to be #Lindy than these two adjacent headlines in my #ArsTechnica feed
If we want the software we need, and depend on to last us through the ages, we the people are better stewards than any corporation out there

P.S. Thank you @bagder ❤️

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110002829181650747

#foss, #lindy, #arstechnica

2023-03-10T04:26:12+0000

Jason Braganza — Fri, 10 Mar 2023 04:26:12 +0000

#Ladakh is beautiful!

#Photography #mjbPhotography

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/109997088627717899

#ladakh, #photography, #mjbphotography

2023-03-08T04:57:13+0000

Jason Braganza — Wed, 08 Mar 2023 04:57:13 +0000

Even better live

https://youtu.be/QkNym9S8uMw

#WomensDay #SaraBareilles #mjbMusic #Music

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/109985885926128480

#womensday, #sarabareilles, #mjbmusic, #music

2023-03-08T04:54:32+0000

Jason Braganza — Wed, 08 Mar 2023 04:54:32 +0000

Let it begin, let Adam in
Step one: original sin
Underneath the leaves, Adam found Eve
Both of them found something sweet under the apple tree
Then it was over, roads divide
Step two: learning how to lie
Let me ask a question to present day
How the hell did Eve end up with all the damn blame? …

Happy Women’s Day!

https://youtu.be/vB3A5vXQvXI

#WomensDay #SaraBareilles #mjbMusic #Music

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/109985875363504414

#womensday, #sarabareilles, #mjbmusic, #music

2023-03-06T04:12:17+0000

Jason Braganza — Mon, 06 Mar 2023 04:12:17 +0000

Here’s what I read last week

The Missing Chums (The Hardy Boys), Franklin W. Dixon
A Game of Thrones, George R. R. Martin
A Clash of Kings, George R. R. Martin

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

https://janusworx.com/fitness/#2023-03-06

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/109974384638736442

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

2023-03-06T04:11:04+0000

Jason Braganza — Mon, 06 Mar 2023 04:11:04 +0000

Weekly fitness update

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/109974379840961894

https://fs.blog/brain-food/march-5-2023/

2023-03-05T14:05:39+0000

Jason Braganza — Sun, 05 Mar 2023 14:05:39 +0000

Good thinking is expensive. Bad thinking costs a fortune.

One way to force yourself to think is to write. Good writing requires good thinking.

Forcing yourself to make your thinking visible gives poor thinking nowhere to hide. You can’t simply take a few minutes here and there, get the gist of the problem, and expect to have clear writing. It doesn’t work that way.

Good writing, like good thinking, takes time.

— Shane Parrish

#Writing #Thinking #mjbWriting

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/109971055518079231

#writing, #thinking, #mjbwriting

2023-03-05T02:55:56+0000

Jason Braganza — Sun, 05 Mar 2023 02:55:56 +0000

via @neilhimself ‘s repost at:

https://neil-gaiman.tumblr.com/post/710880199984758784

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/109968422132374778

2023-03-03T03:15:38+0000

Jason Braganza — Fri, 03 Mar 2023 03:15:38 +0000

hello @kushal and the rest of the #tech fediverse? what #cdn do you folks use?

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/109957174931565507

#tech, #cdn

2023-03-02T02:59:40+0000

Jason Braganza — Thu, 02 Mar 2023 02:59:40 +0000

I found #Huginn!

https://janusworx.com/blog/huginn/

#mjbWrites #Blogging #Linux #Tech

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/109951449883369795

#huginn, #mjbwrites, #blogging, #linux, #tech

2023-03-01T09:35:10+0000

Jason Braganza — Wed, 01 Mar 2023 09:35:10 +0000

TIL: The Difference Between a CLI Tool and a Freeze Tool

https://janusworx.com/blog/til-the-difference-between-a-cli-tool-and-a-freeze-tool/

**#Python**

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/109947342706595578

#python

2023-03-01T01:47:46+0000

Jason Braganza — Wed, 01 Mar 2023 01:47:46 +0000

New blog post with me reflecting on, Why I Use an Online VM

#mjbWrites #Blogging #Tech

https://janusworx.com/blog/why-i-use-an-online-vm/

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/109945504820496175

#mjbwrites, #blogging, #tech

2023-02-28T15:00:55+0000

Jason Braganza — Tue, 28 Feb 2023 15:00:55 +0000

if someone ever asks me about #OrgMode again, I’ll just point them to Aditya’s post at https://www.evalapply.org/posts/why-and-how-i-use-org-mode/index.html

P.S. also Thank you Aditya, for introducing me to Gentium Book Plus

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/109942961321301488

https://janusworx.com/blog/emacs-can-transparently-encrypt-and-decrypt-file-with-gpg/

2023-02-28T08:13:57+0000

Jason Braganza — Tue, 28 Feb 2023 08:13:57 +0000

TIL: #Emacs Can Transparently Encrypt and Decrypt Files With Gpg

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/109941361041697213

#arunachal, #mjbphotography, #photography

2023-02-27T17:58:26+0000

Jason Braganza — Mon, 27 Feb 2023 17:58:26 +0000

I miss #Arunachal #mjbPhotography #Photography

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/109937997038390934

2023-02-27T16:16:59+0000

Jason Braganza — Mon, 27 Feb 2023 16:16:59 +0000

I miss #Ladakh #Photography #mjbPhotography

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/109937598105153317

#ladakh, #photography, #mjbphotography

2023-02-27T16:05:46+0000

Jason Braganza — Mon, 27 Feb 2023 16:05:46 +0000

I miss #Nainital

#Photography #mjbPhotography

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/109937553971112722

#Nainital, #photography, #mjbphotography

2023-02-27T04:15:05+0000

Jason Braganza — Mon, 27 Feb 2023 04:15:05 +0000

Here’s what I read last week

Chokepoint Capitalism, Rebecca Giblin & Cory Doctorow
Last Ape Standing, Chip Walter
Art in the Blood, Bonnie MacBird
The Mystery at Lilac Inn (Nancy Drew), Carolyn Keene

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

https://janusworx.com/fitness/#2023-02-27

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/109934759449773484

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

2023-02-27T04:08:12+0000

Jason Braganza — Mon, 27 Feb 2023 04:08:12 +0000

Weekly fitness update

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/109934732438316342

https://youtu.be/DK4UDFzIZ3Q

2023-02-26T18:04:01+0000

Jason Braganza — Sun, 26 Feb 2023 18:04:01 +0000

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/109932356651191064

2023-02-26T18:02:18+0000

Jason Braganza — Sun, 26 Feb 2023 18:02:18 +0000

… we’re collecting evidence
Of one remarkable storm
How wild it was to find it, finally feel the climate
Instead of only staying dry and warm

— Sara Bareilles, Saint Honesty

#SaraBareilles #mjbMusic #mjbPhotography #Photography

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/109932349900180016

#sarabareilles, #mjbmusic, #mjbphotography, #photography

2023-02-26T14:53:34+0000

Jason Braganza — Sun, 26 Feb 2023 14:53:34 +0000

On #Poetry

#Poetry #mjbPhotography #Photography

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/109931607817265026

#poetry, #mjbphotography, #photography

2023-02-25T12:47:53+0000

Jason Braganza — Sat, 25 Feb 2023 12:47:53 +0000

Test toot. Please Ignore

[…] why is earth set so remote?
I cannot reach the nearest star
That hangs afloat.

I would not care to reach the moon,
One round monotonous of change;
Yet even she repeats her tune
Beyond my range.

I never watch the scatter’d fire
Of stars, or sun’s far-trailing train,
But all my heart is one desire,
And all in vain:

For I am bound with fleshly bands,
Joy, beauty, lie beyond my scope;
I strain my heart, I stretch my hands,
And catch at hope.

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44994/de-profundis

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/109925451272763435

2023-02-24T10:15:05+0000

Jason Braganza — Fri, 24 Feb 2023 10:15:05 +0000

Hello World!

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/109919188108273502

2023-02-24T07:03:05+0000

Jason Braganza — Fri, 24 Feb 2023 07:03:05 +0000

You become what you give your attention to …
If you yourself don’t choose what thoughts and images you expose yourself to, someone else will!

#Epictetus #Stoicism #DailyStoic #mjbStoicism #mjbQuotes #Quotes #mjbNoteToSelf

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/109918433166459843

#epictetus, #stoicism, #DailyStoic, #mjbstoicism, #mjbQuotes, #quotes, #mjbnotetoself

2023-02-23T02:13:26+0000

Jason Braganza — Thu, 23 Feb 2023 02:13:26 +0000

For a word to be spoken there must be silence.
Both before and after.

— Ursula K LeGuin
via, https://dduane.tumblr.com/post/709990303852019712

#Quotes #mjbQuotes #Silence #Reflection

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/109911631911609522

#quotes, #mjbQuotes, #silence, #reflection

2023-02-22T07:24:49+0000

Jason Braganza — Wed, 22 Feb 2023 07:24:49 +0000

Finished learning the #Urdu alphabet using #RekhtaFoundation’s lovely #Aamozish #RasmUlKhat course.

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/109907193973657291

#urdu, #RekhtaFoundation, #Aamozish, #RasmUlKhat

2023-02-22T02:51:21+0000

Jason Braganza — Wed, 22 Feb 2023 02:51:21 +0000

#OrgMode Subtree Expansion With the Mouse

https://janusworx.com/blog/org-mode-subtree-expansion-with-the-mouse/

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/109906118687873852

2023-02-20T03:24:56+0000

Jason Braganza — Mon, 20 Feb 2023 03:24:56 +0000

Here’s what I read last week

The Hidden Staircase (Nancy Drew), Carolyn Keene
The Bungalow Mystery (Nancy Drew), Carolyn Keene
The Secret of the Old Mill (The Hardy Boys), Franklin W. Dixon

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

https://janusworx.com/fitness/#2023-02-20

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/109894926133080180

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

2023-02-20T03:16:03+0000

Jason Braganza — Mon, 20 Feb 2023 03:16:03 +0000

Weekly fitness update

**#mjbgettingfit**

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/109894891191007596

from https://rowansugar.tumblr.com/post/706928468745715712/manifesting-cozy-reading-time-for-you-all-today

2023-02-18T04:13:28+0000

Jason Braganza — Sat, 18 Feb 2023 04:13:28 +0000

Found this somewhere on tumblr.

Alt Text:
@SJSindu

We don’t need Al to make art.
We need Al to write emails and clean the house and deliver the groceries so humans can make more art.

#Art #AI

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/109883792304121667

#art, #ai

2023-02-17T13:52:16+0000

Jason Braganza — Fri, 17 Feb 2023 13:52:16 +0000

found the @PythonMorsels youtube channel today!

For folks new to Python, @treyhunner is one of the best teachers there is! Subscribe!

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/109880405937210853

2023-02-16T02:37:10+0000

Jason Braganza — Thu, 16 Feb 2023 02:37:10 +0000

Hello #Python folk, what do you use to find libraries quickly? Or what is the first thing you search?
Now that I am writing lots more code, I want to be efficient at finding if something out there already does what I want.
For e.g. right now I’m looking for a library to download and parse RSS feeds.

Thank you! Please boost!

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/109872089023265129

#python

2023-02-14T07:35:50+0000

Jason Braganza — Tue, 14 Feb 2023 07:35:50 +0000

**Between Books**

**#Reading #Books #Art #ThisIsGorgeous**

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/109861938834142142

#reading, #books, #art, #ThisIsGorgeous

2023-02-14T05:26:11+0000

Jason Braganza — Tue, 14 Feb 2023 05:26:11 +0000

upgraded to the latest #PaperMod theme on my #Hugo blog. Thank you so much #AdityaTelange.

https://github.com/adityatelange/hugo-PaperMod/releases/tag/v7.0

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/109861428994238215

#PaperMod, #hugo, #AdityaTelange

2023-02-13T15:55:21+0000

Jason Braganza — Mon, 13 Feb 2023 15:55:21 +0000

#mjbWhatILearned for 11/2/23

https://janusworx.com/blog/what-i-learned-today-2023-02-13/

#Emacs #Urdu

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/109858240668321075

#mjbWhatILearned, #emacs, #urdu

2023-02-13T15:13:03+0000

Jason Braganza — Mon, 13 Feb 2023 15:13:03 +0000

Here’s what I read last week

9.The Book of Signs, Rudolf Koch
10. Accidental Mobster, Catherine Banks & Daisy Emory
11.Dark Crimes 2, Modern Masters of Noir, Ed Gorman (editor)

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

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/109858074351850009

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

2023-02-13T15:09:02+0000

Jason Braganza — Mon, 13 Feb 2023 15:09:02 +0000

Weekly fitness update

janusworx.com/fitness/#2023-02-13

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/109858058553120015