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· 16 Shevat 5780 (Tuesday 11 February 2020) · 1 minute to read

I’ve read 77% of The Rise And Fall Of D.O.D.O.: A Novel by Neil Stephenson.

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· 13 Shevat 5780 (Saturday 8 February 2020) · 1 minute to read

The thing I like most about Neil Stephenson’s fiction is that it allows you to think while at the same time not requiring you to do so.

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· 12 Shevat 5780 (Friday 7 February 2020) · 1 minute to read

I like a good debate as much as the next person. But no one is entitled to a debate, and if someone’s indicated to you they’re not up for one, implicitly or explicitly, that’s your cue to slide out of their mentions or comments.

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· 9 Shevat 5780 (Tuesday 4 February 2020) · 1 minute to read

Harassing an anonymous account into silence or trying to hack it when you can’t shut it up isn’t just cancel culture, it’s the original sin of the web.

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· 9 Shevat 5780 (Tuesday 4 February 2020) · 1 minute to read

If you’re going to spend enough time harassing an anonymous account to get it to shut down only to then stay silent while everything goes to hell so you avoid any backlash you’re a coward.

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· 9 Shevat 5780 (Tuesday 4 February 2020) · 1 minute to read

I’m not saying blind people shouldn’t attend to hygene. But claiming that sighted people will assume that all of us are smelly because they met one of us who happens to be is soft bigotry because it assumes that sighted people can’t treat us as individuals.

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· 8 Shevat 5780 (Monday 3 February 2020) · 1 minute to read

Blind people who don’t work in the accessibility space can tell those of us who do how to interact with developers after they’ve spent a week wading through 37 levels of div soup coupled with WordPress shortcode insanity. Until then, keep your advice to yourselves.

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· 8 Shevat 5780 (Monday 3 February 2020) · 1 minute to read

Does anyone know if there's a way to get Visual Composer to respect manually-entered styling? Even copying its own… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1224441416828379136

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· 7 Shevat 5780 (Sunday 2 February 2020) · 1 minute to read

Apparently you can no longer get a full list of your checkins from Foursquare while browsing on something other than your phone, so I’m waiting on an export so I can hopefully get checkin IDs for consumption and importing into my site. Hopefully they’ll give me a json export.

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· 6 Shevat 5780 (Saturday 1 February 2020) · 1 minute to read

The Goodreads read shelf RSS feed was introducing too much cruft into my site, so I’ve disabled that IFTTT/web hooks recipe in favor of using an indieweb micropub client to post books with reading statuses. I’m still keeping the book updates recipe though. If I find a way to get the read shelf feed to post the way I’d like it to then I’ll re-enable so I can continue to post that sort of thing from my phone.

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· 6 Shevat 5780 (Saturday 1 February 2020) · 1 minute to read

I’m 88% done with "The Bear and the Dragon" by Tom Clancy, and I would dearly like to know what the hell happened to the editor because there are significant chunks of this book that could be removed and the story would still make perfect sense.

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· 5 Shevat 5780 (Friday 31 January 2020) · 1 minute to read

Apparently Kraft is selling a 20-oz container of the powdered cheese that comes in their macaroni and cheese boxes. I just threw up in my mouth a little bit.

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· 5 Shevat 5780 (Friday 31 January 2020) · 1 minute to read

I smacked my head pretty hard on the marbble fixture of the towel rack and am trying to catch up after a two-hour unscheduled power outage so I can get today’s work done before today ends. How’s your Friday going?

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· 5 Shevat 5780 (Friday 31 January 2020) · 1 minute to read

That time you’re about to press enter after typing a command with several parameters, and the power goes out. Good thing the coffee just finished brewing.

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· 4 Shevat 5780 (Thursday 30 January 2020) · 1 minute to read

It’s 2020 and I still have a hate-hate relationship with WordPress’s AutoP filter. Yes, I can remove it, but why the hell are we still doing this in the first place?

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· 2 Shevat 5780 (Tuesday 28 January 2020) · 1 minute to read

Second day with the new mechanical keyboards, and both John and I can confidently report that we absolutely love them and should have gotten them much sooner.

It’s been so much easier to get things done, and faster too.

I think I should probably change the keyboard layout for my screen reader from laptop to desktop, and if I have to travel at any time I’m going to really miss this mechanical keyboard.

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· 2 Shevat 5780 (Monday 27 January 2020) · 1 minute to read

From the inbox: "Enjoy new on-board entertainment on Greyhound!" Me: Given the kind of passengers Greyhound attracts, I assumed we already had that.

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· 1 Shevat 5780 (Monday 27 January 2020) · 1 minute to read

This is my first post from the new mechanical keyboard. I’ll have to get used to typing on a truly full keyboard again, but so far this is fun. It’s my second birthday present from John, and he has a matching one. So it’ll be clacky clacky clacky all throughout the apartment.

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· 29 Tevet 5780 (Sunday 26 January 2020) · 2 minutes to read

I’ve added an "on-this-day" feature to my site. I’ve been publishing for a long time, and this is becoming a place for all my data, so I thought it might be interesting to look back at past posts for a given day instead of just the usual WordPress archives.

I’ve also added a "now" feature, which is just a link to the full blog archive.

I don’t want to have posts displaying on my front page, since things are cleaner that way, but there should be an easy way for people to get to an archive of all content along with everything else without having to remember an address and manually typing that in the address bar.

I need to add some subscription links to the menu as well.

We have mechanical keyboards coming on Monday. I’m glad for this. Both of us spend tons of time typing, and a mechanical keyboard will make typing a ton easier.

My birthday was a lot of fun. Lots of good food and drink was had.

We went to Texas Road House, and I had a 16-oz ribbeye along with a huge mound of mashed potatoes covered with cheese, butter and sour cream, some yeast roles and a huge salad. We also tried all the desserts. Afterwards we jumped on Facetime with Wil and Denise and drank beers with them, which was a lot of fun.

I’d like to thank everyone for writing on my timeline for my birthday. It means a lot.

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· 29 Tevet 5780 (Sunday 26 January 2020) · 1 minute to read

Correction. This is the longest book John and I have read together, and I think, the longest book I’ve read.

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