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· 22 Shevat 5780 (Monday 17 February 2020) · 1 minute to read

I’ve read 10% of True Faith And Allegiance, and this time, Mark Greaney is babbling at length about the dark web. New rule: You’re not allowed to utter the words "dark web" until you can operate an onion router proficiently.

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· 22 Shevat 5780 (Monday 17 February 2020) · 1 minute to read

I’ve read 17% of The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer by Neal Stephenson.

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· 22 Shevat 5780 (Monday 17 February 2020) · 1 minute to read

I think it’s safe to say that a large chunk of browsing the web while blind is just clicking on things and watching what happens next.

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· 22 Shevat 5780 (Monday 17 February 2020) · 1 minute to read

It’s never a good time to have to listen to Kid Rock. Monday morning when I haven’t even finished my first cup of coffee is even worse. Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.

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· 18 Shevat 5780 (Thursday 13 February 2020) · 1 minute to read

I’ve read 32% of Tom Clancy’s Threat Vector, and Mark Greaney needs to go to his room and think about what he’s done because he knows just enough buzzwords pertaining to cryptography, hacking and DEF CON to get himself into a whole lot of trouble.

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· 18 Shevat 5780 (Thursday 13 February 2020) · 1 minute to read

This website: (1) has an accessibility mode and (2) is using ARIA to keep bugging me to turn on accessibility mode. after it knows I haven’t enabled it. This kind of thing is why I close tabs.

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· 18 Shevat 5780 (Thursday 13 February 2020) · 1 minute to read

Reading the Audio Games forum always makes me feel so much better about myself.

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· 17 Shevat 5780 (Wednesday 12 February 2020) · 1 minute to read

I've spent a whole bunch of time working on and perfecting the workflow for my personal site, and I really need to… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1227647104446844929

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

The Rise And Fall Of D.O.D.O. was a really good book, and I hope there’s a sequel because nobody should be allowed to end a book with that much unfinished business left. There are so many possible subplots to deal with that, (now that I think about it), there should just be a series.

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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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