The IRC bot project has become stable if not a little useful. There is much to do w/r/t writing new behaviors but the framework appears to be mostly in place. Hooray for that! Most days I’m in front of a computer you can find me on Freenode’s #fezchat channel. I tend to run the bot…
https://www.metafilter.com/172992/Fear-and-Trembling-and-the-Sickness-Unto-Death#7347759 It is an open question as to where the money came from to pay off Stormy Daniels (Ms. Stephanie Clifford). Metafilter user 0XFCAF cobbled together a little regex and sprinkled in some n-gram logic to answer the question, were there payments from the Bawbag campaign to some organization with ‘Trump’ in the name within…
Angry old man yelling at clouds or shrewd evaluator of priorities? You be the judge[1]. Myself? I’m on the side of shrewdness. Security, while important, is not the most important priority necessarily. It’s all about context, severity, and disruption. And when a vulnerability requires physical access or root access or replacing microcode on the CPU…
Can I just say that Twitter represents everything that is wrong with U.S. politics? There is no nuance. Chronology and threading are exceptionally difficult. Individual tweets are consumed without scepticism. The noun ‘tweet’. The shambolic nature of the company behind the platform. I’ve never really understood the platform’s popularity. I have an account, well two…
Doing support work while slightly buzzed is entertaining. I’ve recently used words like ‘abomination’ and ‘extreme rigidity’. Certainly the folks on the other end of these missives are deriving the same enjoyment…
This was a scary read this morning: Infocalypse Now. Standard Buzzfeed click-baity warnings aside, the argument is that we’re approaching a point in time where we cannot trust anything that comes via the Internet. Images can be doctored or spun out of whole cloth (not new). Quotes can be similarly doctored (definitely not new). Now…
#tfw NAnt becomes the preferred scripting language. Yes, I’m looking at you #dos.
I’ve been having a bit of fun with my bot still. There’s a bit of user tracking in place. There’s a bit of data caching going on. There’s a little interactivity. It’s not finished by a long shot, but I’ve really enjoyed coding with a purpose for a few days at least. I’ve also had…
My latest obsession? Writing an IRC bot. If I’m relegated to hanging out in my own channel by my own lonesome, at least I’ll have a bot to keep me company. The digressions of writing an IRC bot are endless. Sort of like writing your own Siri or Google Assistant, but with your own brand…
RAGBRAI 2018 overnight towns announced! I’ll get a chance to redeem myself after last year’s shellacking the weekend before RAGBRAI. Onawa -> Denison > Jefferson -> Ames -> Newton -> Sigourney -> Iowa City -> Davenport. There’s a few heavy hitters for overnights this year with Newton just outside of Des Moines to go along…