I took me a while to find a working solution to run #kitty terminal via the "Terminal" feature of #macOS #alfred, so I published it on my #til site. The focus of the effort was actually #zoxide directory jumping from #Alfred, which you might also find helpful: charlbotha.com/til/zoxide-a...

Thinking about what it must’ve been like to be a fan of Trent Reznor’s new wave bands and then suddenly he comes out with Head Like a Hole and it sounds nothing like this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWcc...

Sea Level xkcd.com/3135/

"bitchat location chat. chat with anyone in nearby regions (block/neighborhood/city/region/country). or teleport. it works by using geohashes to map the world into chat channels, uses a new pseudonym per geohash for privacy, and decentralized relays to propagate (via nostr)." x.com/jack/status/...

We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us. Marcel Proust (via Waking Up)

youtube.com/watch?v=-bYp... first few minutes are an entertaining yet informative summary of #Google 's pixel 10 updates

I'm using lsd [1] as drop-in replacement for #ls instead of exa [2], as lsd is closer and I can use the same invocations. The screenshot below shows example output, plus the small config tweaks required to render readably in a light theme. [1] github.com/lsd-rs/lsd [2] github.com/ogham/exa

“It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.” — Ram Dass (shared by Waking Up)

#iPhone keeps on resetting bluetooth hardware #keyboard layout to #Qwerty, although I have only #Dvorak configured. Work-around is to cycle through keyboards with ctrl-space on the hardware keyboard which usually gets it back to #dvorak.

A former colleague of mine managed to ship an epic looking and especially sounding heavy metal game on Steam. Releasing tomorrow, get it while it's HOT: store.steampowered.com/app/2221780/... P.S. HEAVY METAL

vec3 p;for(float i,z,d,b;i++<6e1;o+=vec4(1,5,2,0)/b-(dFdx(z)*r.y-z)/exp(d/.1))p=z*(FC.rgb*2.-r.xyy)/r.y-1.,p.z+=8.,z+=min(b=length(abs(p*=.1*mat3(9,0,3,0,9,2,-7,-2,8)).xy+min(.4*p.z-2.6,0.))/(cos(d/.1-t)+2.),d=max(d=length(p)-5.,d-length(p.xy)+1.-cos(d/.1)*.1))*.5;o=tanh(o/4e3);

Setting up #Huawei Band 10 for the 9yo. Great little smart watch BUT: 1. Huawei app on iOS disallows pasting into password fields (Argh) and 2. Child account can't pair with watch (so why support a child account in the first place?!)

Misleading packaging (partner bought because at a glance looks like extra virgin olive oil) by Checkers here in South Africa, normally quite good. "Vegetable oils (canola seed and/or maize and/or sunflower seed andor soybean" and olive fruit (10 %))."

Usually I let my experiencing self drive during #running but this scene was so epic that narrative self briefly took the wheel to take a photo before I could stuff him back in his box

Please enjoy this Klimt Eastwood

'Prepone' dates back to the early 1500s and originally meant “to place in front of, to set before.” Now, it is primarily used in Indian English to mean the opposite of 'postpone.'

Dear @aptshadow.bsky.social - thank you for Alien Clay. I can't remember another book which made me feel this much. 50 million stars from an extremely grateful fan who is in awe. #booksky

My 2018 paperwhite #kindle (my fourth kindle) is driving me up the walls, because it crashes hard at least once per week (see my linked review). Can anyone recommend a third-party android e-ink device that can run the kindle app? Boox Poke4 / 5, Go 6? #ereaders www.amazon.com/review/RRA4L...

Een boek om als neerlandicus jaloers op te zijn. neerlandistiek.nl/2025/07/een-...

Fascinating idea and demo: Interfacing MCP with Combinatorial, Convex, and SMT Solvers by Stephen Diehl www.stephendiehl.com/posts/smt_an... via alper.nl on LinkedIn

I'm super excited that it's possible to query delta tables using @duckdb.org ! However, file filtering with timestamp / date predicates don't work yet, which can result in long query times: The issue: github.com/duckdb/duckd... The feature: duckdb.org/2025/03/21/m... #databs

Wait what?! You can use the #macbook trackpad as a scale?! youtube.com/shorts/Yd89S...

Email, hosting, messaging, and so on being hosted in Switzerland might not be the #privacy feature that many people perceive. Read here the story about how US + German intelligence secretly bought a whole Swiss company, Crypto AG, to spy better! www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/202... #infosec

In a remote location with low bandwidth, I needed to find out which process on my macbook was sucking up data in the background. Activity Monitor only shows accumulated totals. Fortunately, "nettop -Pd" will show you instantaneous network bandwidth by process! culprit was #icloud drive #macos

Been a NiN fan since '93. Grew up with the original Tron movie. I just melted a little bit watching this trailer. 🥹

The ‘hippo’ in ‘hippopotamus’ and the ‘hippo’ in ‘hippocampus’ are the same. ‘Hippo’ is from the Greek for "horse." Hippopotamus means “river horse.” ‘Hippocampus’ means “sea horse” because that part of the brain is shaped like a seahorse.

"Network" vec3 p,v;for(float i,z,d;i++<5e1;o.rgb+=(v+1.5)/d/z)p=z*normalize(FC.rgb*2.-r.xyy)-9.,p.z-=t/.1,z+=d=.3*length(min(v=cos(p+sin(p*4.-t/.3)),v.yzx)+1.)+max(d=3.-dot(cos(p+=sin(p)*.1-.9*p),sin(p).yzx)/.4,-d*.3);o=tanh(.1*o);

I haven't stresses this much about a story before... Tchaikovsky's Children of Ruin, Kern riding Meshner's implants as he's interfacing with orbiting module and Lante's cellular infestation is waking up. 😱

The word ‘stan’ comes from the Eminem song "Stan" which is about one of his obsessed fans. What if Eminem named the fan ‘Dennis’? We could be saying, “I dennis Beyonce.”

If you were wondering what Jack Dorsey's new distributed chat app #bitchat looked like, I built from source for my iPhone and made a screenshot. Currently p2p bluetooth, later wifi direct and lorawan. No internet required, near-indestructible comms. Test tmrw with others. github.com/jackjackbits...

"Hollow" for(float i,z,d,n;i++<1e2;o+=(cos(t+vec4(0,2,4,0))+9.-n*8.)/d/d){vec3 p=z*normalize(FC.rgb*2.-r.xyy);p.z+=7.;n=fract(.3*t+pow(fract(d*1e2),.1));p.y+=n*(n+n-3.)/.1+9.;d=length(p);z+=d=.3*length(vec3(d*.3-n*n*n,cos(n+atan(vec2(p.z,d),p.xy)*mat2(4,-3,3,4))*.3));}o=tanh(o/1e4);

Fun little post showing how you can make single #Python scripts that contain their own dependency spec and can be successfully one-line executed by anyone with #uv! www.cottongeeks.com/articles/202...

"Modeling the World in 280 Characters" tympanus.net/codrops/2025... Wrote about my creative process for making "tweet" shaders

The latest release 1.8.0 of my #obsidian ai-chat-as-markdown plugin has better support for the perplexity web-grounded models directly from the #perplexity API. When you use these sonar models via perplexity, citations have titles and dates. (#openrouter only URLs atm) github.com/cpbotha/obsi...

The 261st edition of my extremely personal and deliberately artisanal "weekly" head voices #blog post is finally out. cpbotha.net/2025/06/16/w... p.s. topics include: fatherhood, vo2max, #emacs #org-mode timestamps in #obsidian #blogsky

Reposting this because it's still useful 6 months later, and many more folks (about 10 million) have joined #bluesky!

Whoops, the #Mastodon embed I used on 2024-01-28 did exactly what I feared it would do: Disappear the source, thus breaking the embed. Fortunately #bluesky does this more durably, with the post text in the embed itself, so it will mostly render even if the post is removed or bluesky disappears.

Much respect for the #Apache #Spark developers for everything else they have achieved, but man, they are weak on #timezones 😭 see e.g. issues.apache.org/jira/browse/... As someone who has been programming between timezones for years: Please just keep everything timezone-aware all the time! #databs

For all intensive purposes, what idioms or colloquialisms do people seem to constantly get wrong?

"The latest stable version is before I joined yeah" 🤣 youtube.com/shorts/GM-9R...

"String Theory" for(float i,z=fract(dot(FC,sin(FC))),d;i++<1e2;){vec3 p=z*normalize(FC.rgb*2.-r.xyy);p.z+=9.;for(d=.7;d<4.;d/=.9)p+=cos(p.yzx*d-t/vec3(2,1,5))/d;z+=d=.002+abs(p.z)/2e1;o+=(sin(z+4.*p.z+vec4(0,1,5,0))+1.2)/d;}o=tanh(o/1e4);

In #vscode, if you would prefer that #github #copilot only suggests completions when you explicitly trigger them instead of as-you-type, ensure that the setting github.copilot.enable has an item "*: false", and use Alt+\ (alt-backslash) to trigger a completion when you actually want it.

A part of my day went into getting #databricks notebooks running in VSCode via the extension and databricks connect. Once working, this is for me a many times better experience than notebooks in the databricks web UI. My #github issue + comments might save you some time: github.com/databricks/d...

I'm working on a new @obsidian.md plugin which tries to render a small subset of #emacs #org-mode style timestamps as prettily as org-modern [1] does. [1] github.com/minad/org-mo...

This was not even considered for any of my bingo cards. Go #markdown!

My third drive-by #github PR of the day is this tiny regex tweak: github.com/sora32127/vs... #obsidian #vscode

I just created a PR (just merged!) that modifies DaInfernalCoder's Perplexity #MCP server to add the actual citations / sources to its responses. github.com/DaInfernalCo... Below you can see the results with Github copilot in VSCode using perplexity via MCP. All other MCP clients will benefit.

New 📔: Data storage costs are eating into analytics budgets. Wouldn't it be great to build a data warehouse on top of affordable storage? SSDs are fast storage but expensive. S3/R2 is significantly cheaper, but the downside is that it quickly becomes messy and lacks clear governance and rules.

Scene from Friday afternoon #running in perfect autumn weather, Strand, Western Cape, South Africa

Having trouble sleeping so I just wrote a long reply to the new MIT Technology Review's report on AI and the environment andymasley.substack.com/p/reactions-...