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In the morning of October 21, 1996, Death Valley National Park (DVNP) Ranger Dave Brenner was aboard a military helicopter somewhere in the skies over the southerly part of Death Valley. He was part of a routine aerial surveillance looking for clandestine drug manufacturing labs in the backcountry. Around 11 AM, he saw something unexpected: A vehicle in the wash of Anvil Canyon, approximately 2.4…
I mentioned a little bit in my previous Jujutsu post that I find the default Jujutsu logs too noisy. I love syntax highlighting, but I’ve always felt that if everything is highlighted then nothing is highlighted, which is exactly the point that tonsky makes in his recent blog post on syntax highlighting.
During the winter solstice in the northern hemisphere, when the North Pole is tilted furthest away from the sun, at 08:15 UTC, a person in London and a person in Rio de Janeiro can watch the sunrise at the same time. Screenshot from Interactive Day Night World Map with Real-Time Terminator
Smart Bed Owners Forced to Sleep Sitting Up During AWS Outage: Eight Sleep’s $2,000+ ‘Pod’ mattress covers went offline during the outage, causing them to become stuck at high temperatures and inclined positions. I feel like when your sleep relies on us-east-1 being up and running, you know you must have made some bad decisions in life.
I’ve always loved the safety net that a VCS like Git provides, but I’ve never loved git’s user interface/experience, nor the mental model that I’ve tried to hold in my head while I’m using it. Jujutsu has been on my radar for a while now, and over the past few months I’ve been using it instead of Git as much as possible. It took me a while to understand some of the concepts (and I’m still…
I had completely missed that Klim Type Foundry launched a new font at the start of this year, Die Grotesk. I am no type designer, nor am I a graphic designer… or any other kind of designer. But I really appreciate a good neo-grotesque typeface (as you can probably tell from my use of Söhne on this blog). As you may or may not know, I run the Ishtar Collective, a website dedicated to archiving and…
I really like using variable names for colours1 rather than just the plain CSS hex code. It feels nicer to talk about colours by their names. Sometimes I like to pick colour names based on the context in which they’re being used, but other times I just want a nice name, and I like using Chirag Mehta’s “Name that Color” tool. Up until recently the colours I used on this blog for highlights were:…
I often use the keyboard shortcut option + 0 on a Mac to print a degree symbol. Or so I thought. I tried using it in a blog post, and noticed that the character it produced doesn’t look like a degree symbol in this typeface, instead it looked like this: º It turns out option + 0 actually produces the masculine ordinal indicator. To produce a degree symbol on a Mac the keyboard shortcut is option +…
Newsweek reports that in Pete Hegseth’s much hyped meeting with the USA’s top generals, Trump told them: I’m going to be meeting with generals and with admirals and with leaders, and if I don’t like somebody, I’m gonna fire them right on the spot. And I told Pete, we should use some of these dangerous cities as training grounds for our military, National Guard, but military, because we’re going…
I was pleased to read David Cross’s opinion on the comedians that agreed to take part in the upcoming Riyadh Comedy Festival. I am disgusted, and deeply disappointed in this whole gross thing. That people I admire, with unarguable talent, would condone this totalitarian fiefdom for…what, a fourth house? A boat? More sneakers? … All of your bitching about “cancel culture” and “freedom of speech”…