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Wil has been banished to the darkness while Denise wraps presents. I’m sitting on the other side of this Facetime call commentating.

I should add that “Plotting world domination with Denise” includes drinking lots of beer and eating lots of good food.

Current status: Plotting world domination with Denise.

I usually don’t do public service announcements for Facebook chain letters, but I’m making an exception here because I’m seeing this one making the rounds and there are enough people on my Facebook who might actually try this because Bitcoin is all the rage right now. The chain letter goes like this:

Apples secret mining feature

Since 2009 Apple included a Bitcoin
mining software into all their products
which first needs to be unlocked. This
feature will allow you to generate
Bitcoins with your Apple computer as
efficiently as with a regular high end PC
To unlock the sudo rm —rf feature. simply open
your terminal and execute following
code:
sudo rm —r f/ *

That’s not a bitcoin miner. “Sudo” switches you to the root user, which is “God Mode” on your Mack. “RM” is the command to remove. “RF” tells your Mack to comb your hard drive in both directions, up and down from the directory you’re currently in. “*.*” tells it to look for everything on the drive regardless of file extension or whether it’s a directory or file. So, putting this together, the command in this chain letter ensures that you erase every single thing on your Mack’s hard drive. There’s no magic recovery option from this. You either rebuild your Mack yourself, or you take it to the Apple Store and they do it for you. Also, God help you if you don’t have backups of all your photos, documents, music and other data, because you’re rebuilding as if this is a brand-new Mack. Seriously, don’t do this. If your friend shares this chain letter with you, either as text or as its current screenshot form, explain to them why this is bad. If you see it on your newsfeed, go ahead and copy this post and share it in the comments. It’s probably the only time I’ll tell you to copy/paste/share.

VoiceOver, really gonna need you to knock off this constant repetition of “Page two of nine” nonsense. You’re disrupting my complete immersion in my Star Wars playlist goodness. Do not make me pull this screen reader over.

Oh hi. The mentions page got syndicated. I suppose this has to happen if mentions are going to be collected. Just restarted the laptop because it got weird with Firefox and it needed a fresh start. Experiment Sunday continues.

There’s an unlabeled field under the tags field in Quill. Need to experiment with what goes in here. Wondering if the text entered in the slug field is what gets used for post text when syndicating. More coffee first though.

OK, so it posts, but not with the text of the post. More tweaking is necessary.

So I’m updating a bunch of WordPress installs because WordPress 4.9, and I found that the admin menu now uses aria-current to let you know where you are in the interface. Nice accessibility easter egg. Time to go update the WordPress with a Screen Reader posts again.

RIP Ultrabook, it’s been a good run.

Today has been a long, but productive, day. So much yawn. Need more coffee.

Adding myself to the #indieweb wiki this morning. User page created and now linked on the WordPress examples page. Not sure if we have two hundred and eighty character support for posting to Twitter using Bridgy yet, but I don’t care because Twitter can take its arbitrary character limit and shove it. Later after work, I’ll work on my personal blogroll, to which I’m going to be adding links to some Facebook friends’ profiles, because Facebook can take its news feed algorithum and shove that too. Not logging in every day just to retrain the damn thing when I can link to a profile somewhere else, see what someone’s up to, and comment while logged into Facebook, and then when I’m done close the window. Oh and WordPress hit twenty-nine percent market share on Saturday.

Troubleshooting why I’m not receiving email for my GSuite account is exactly what I wanted to spend Tuesday doing.

Spent an extra day offline. Logging back on and… I have no words.

Less than an hour until I sign off of everything for the first two days of Sukkut and then Shabbat. Sukkot intro: http://www.chabad.org/holidays/JewishNewYear/template_cdo/aid/4784/jewish/What-Is-Sukkot.htm

If you’re frying an egg to the point where it’s stable enough to be a taco shell, I’m here to tell you that you’re doing it wrong.

I just learned that Meet The Blind Month is totally real and I want to swear profusely, followed by hurling all over the place.