I really enjoyed this deep-dive video essay by Lola Germs on the science of airborne disease spread. It’s educational and fun with some Bill Nye vibes. There’s extensive notes as well!

what if everything we thought we knew about disease spread is wrong? by Lola Germs

Happy send a friend a watermelon day, Matt!

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I took a second pass at the indiebookclub UI I was working on. I kept getting stuck because I wanted to let people update the title/author/ISBN in case they were incorrect in Open Library, but I also thought that made the form feel too busy.

Eventually I realized that most of the time people will not need/want to update that information, so I can keep them read-only. This keeps the form minimal for the most common scenario. I can still include an edit link that will open the full form for people that want that level of control.

Since we already have the title from the search results, Read Status is the only other required field. I decided a minimal form would show that and the Tags field. The other fields can be tucked away under Advanced Options. I also tried shortening the Read Status field. I think that helps the visual flow. All of the dropdowns on this form have relatively short text anyway.

Next I updated the Published field. Previously, the field was always displayed and had an instruction to leave it blank if you wanted to publish the post right away. A better UX is if the default says “Now” and the datetime field only appears if you choose to change it.

The next thing I am working on is lining up the left side of the title/author/ISBN text with the form inputs below them.

I am quite pleased with how this is turning out. Let me know what you think!

If you don’t want your GitHub repositories in HuggingFace’s data set used for LLM training, unfortunately you need to opt-out.

Find out if you’re in the crawl and follow the opt-out instructions at the bottom.

Improve your vibe-coded project with this one neat trick:

sudo rm -rf /

Archiving my current bio in preparation for the updated one. Also on Internet Archive:

music · faith · computer geekery · friends · liberty

These six words are probably the most succinct bio I could write. Keep reading if you would like more, though!

My name is gRegor Morrill, a.k.a. gRegorLove. Yes, “Gregor is a weird name,” ¹ and I know gRegor is a weird capitalization. You can pronounce it “Greg-or,” “Greg-er,” “Gee-reg-or,” or “Floyd.” I am not too picky about it.

I am 45—yes, really—and one of the most interesting things about me is that I had a pacemaker put in when I was 28. It was a crazy story and I am very grateful to be alive.

Computers have been a big part of my life since childhood. (Now I even have one assisting my heart!) I particularly enjoy making web sites and applications that look great and work well. Most of my work is in programming, but I have quite a love for design and typography. I have been told that I have a good eye for them, which I attribute to my talented friends rubbing off on me.

There are some amazing people in my life. I love spending time with friends, meeting new people, laughing, and making other people laugh. Laughter is one of the best inventions ever.

I love how powerful music can be. A song can fit exactly how I feel, change how I feel, or even transport me to a specific memory. It is a spiritual experience at times. Going to concerts is one of my favorite activities and I enjoy promoting the artists that move me.

While I have quite an interest in politics as a topic, I have grown tired of politics as a process. Liberty is much more interesting to me. I am opposed to initiating force to achieve political or social goals. I think it is wrong and only perpetuates a cycle of people wielding force against each other. We can peacefully mature beyond such systems.

My faith in Jesus as Saviour is central in my life and I strive to follow Christ in all I do. I believe that God is relational and thus we are made to be the same way. Through our relationships we have great power for good, for redemption. “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind’; and, ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’” (Luke 10:27)

Pronouns: he/him/his

Hey San Diego, We All We Got is running a fundraiser to help sustain the free grocery distribution and deliveries. Can you spare some money to support the community instead of billionaires? Every dollar helps!

weallwegotsd.com/donate

I was following James’ Search engine shortcuts in Firefox which was very helpful, though I was not seeing this part of step 5 in Firefox on Windows:

“Click the icon of the site in the ‘This time, search with:’ bar. If you haven’t already added the site as a search engine, a small green + icon should appear indicating you can add the site as a search engine.”

I knew that indieweb.org advertised OpenSearch, so I thought there should be a way the browser picks up on that. I found that right-clicking in the address bar gave me the option Add “IndieWeb (en)”.

That worked and the search now shows up under Settings > Search Shortcuts. However, it appears that the edit option is disabled, which seems like it might be a bug. That prevents me from adding a search shortcut like @iw unless I manually add the search engine.