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…
That sound when everyone in the cube farm has the same meeting appointment with the same alert scheduled.
At $EMPLOYER, the 2T men’s restroom’s left-most sink has been broken. It’s been this way for at least half a year. It’s been broken so long no one remembers when last they washed their hands in that sink. It’s been broken so long someone looked up the faucet on amazon and printed out the page.…
A thing that needs to happen, Internet. A Yo Dawg/lmgtfy mashup. You provide it a search string and then it animates googling for lmgtfy. Then it animates clicking the result and landing on lmgtfy.com. Then it turns over the animation to lmgtfy to google the string you provided. All of this being narrated by the…
My new project: create a bunch of odd, free-association Google News Alerts. That way, if one of those things comes to pass, I’ll be the first to know. I thought about this after receiveing an alert for “Council Bluffs levee break” that I had set up when last the Missouri was a couple of dozen…
Part of my moving off the Facebooks et al is to find alternate modes for the sorts of communications that social media platforms facilitate. While my account at Facebook is still sort of up–I don’t monitor it. I also don’t monitor Facebook Messenger all that often. At least that is the plan. To that end,…