Menno Finlay-Smits @menn0@mastodon.nzoss.nz
Tech lead at the Cacophony Project, among other things. Curious crafter of artisanal bits.
Joined Feb 2018
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I wish I didn't know a thing about programming so I can enjoy these moments even more
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Very good: just heard a proposed better name for people engaging in ransomware attacks: 'technical-debt collectors'. Oh snap! (h/t @menn0 and https://www.risky.biz/RB629/ at about 9min). To me, it seems fair to call them collectors of a special tax on organisations unable to control their own tech.
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Excellent tea-related content. ☕️
RT @munyachawawa@twitter.com
Unknown P - the UK’s first posh drill rapper returns 🧐🔥
Remixing ‘Burning’ by @Mhuncho_1@twitter.com, @dutchavelli1@twitter.com & @GRMDAILY@twitter.com
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/munyachawawa/status/1282379667442368513
Just finish an upgrade to my web site. New colours, more whitespace, CSS grid to make things behave nicely on mobile. There's more to do but I'm happy with the result so far. https://menno.io/
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Thoroughly spooked myself
Well, it's almost 5:10AM. Gonna watch this so I can still sleep
New blog article: Better #Emacs configuration with use-package. https://menno.io/posts/use-package/
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One thing I absolutely love about #Emacs is how easy it is to add random convenience features to it. I've just added two work-related ones in the span of 10 minutes. Each is a single line of elisp, and they both leverage a popup UI (via Hydra package) I added some year ago.
That's the nice thing. Small utilities accrue and become greater than the sum of their parts.
Want straightforward, linear undo/redo in #Emacs and something simpler, faster and more reliable than undo-tree? Try undo-fu. I've been using it for a few weeks now and it's wonderful. https://gitlab.com/ideasman42/emacs-undo-fu
Every movie that involves computers https://rakhim.org/honestly-undefined/12/
Here's a thoughtful article about current editor choices for programmers (and not just #emacs, #vim & #vscode). In many ways the author's opinions align closely with mine. https://andreyorst.gitlab.io/posts/2020-04-
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“It’s Terry,” said Terry. “‘Ere. That [story] you sent me. Are you doing anything with it?”
“Not really.”
“Well, I think I know what happens next. Do you want to sell it to me? Or write it together?”
“Write it together,” I said, because I was not stupid, and because that was the nearest I was ever going to get to Michaelangelo phoning to ask if I wanted to paint a ceiling with him.
—Neil Gaiman, on how he came to co-write “Good Omens” with Terry Pratchett
#terrypratchett #neilgaiman #goodomens
I received new Ferrous keycaps from Pimp My Keyboard for my Vortex Race 3 #keyboard today. They look awesome, better than the store pictures. Very pleased.
New #keyboard ! Vortex Race 3 with MX clear switches. This one is nice and portable.
Beautiful and strange wavy clouds over Christchurch this evening
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RT @SteveStuWill@twitter.com
Incredible visualisation: Birds migrating across Europe, tracked by GPS.
You learn something every day. I've been using DuckDuckGo for ages but didn't know about the "bang" feature. I usually set up other search engines directly in the my browser but this means I don't have to. Neat! https://duckduckgo.com/bang
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😭❤️🌱🌳
RT @hallaboutafrica@twitter.com
Super green. Ethiopia tries to break world record by planting 200million trees in one day. Ends up planting 350million. Ethiopia is determined to reclaim lost forests, which covered 35% of country in 1900 but only 4% of country in 2000. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jul/29/ethiopia-plants-250m-trees-in-a-day-to-help-tackle-climate-crisis
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/hallaboutafrica/status/1155885766494568448
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circa 1980. "And we concluded that one excellent way to protect people was to collect less information about them."
Tech lead at the Cacophony Project, among other things. Curious crafter of artisanal bits.
Joined Feb 2018
