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by tqwhite 4y ago
I'll join those who benefit from personal workflow automation. I use BASH Alfred Applescript NodeJS bbedit in a zillion combinations to make things fast and easy. I have a bad memory so I have tons of BASH aliases and .bashrc terminal
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by tqwhite 4y ago
That is so strange. I worked in a mixed shop and all of us OSX people laughed our butts off when we did zoom and screen share with Windows guys as they took forever to do stuff we did almost instantly. I used Windows side-by-side with OSX f
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by tqwhite 4y ago
Sorry mate but that is just wrong. I get payback of a hundred to one on most of my fiddly bits. A single command that does the ten things needed correctly every time instead of looking up each thing, typing it wrong four times and doing it
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by tqwhite 4y ago
I had a document notarized and was amazed that the person only did the signature page. I could have easily swapped out the entire contract. I do not understand this. At least a digital signature let's you know what document was signed
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by tqwhite 4y ago
Yes. At least all decent people.
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by tqwhite 4y ago
Yes it's too complicated. It's horrible. It's the Windows of cloud services, surpassed in obscurity and nastiness only by Microsoft's own Azure, which is a nightmare. In both cases, the UI and UX designers should be shot
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by tqwhite 4y ago
I just made a small thing that is thrilling me. It started because I wanted to be able to share a diagram on a whiteboard drawing site (whiteboardfox.com, nice service). I thought it would be cool if I could have a bookmarklet that saved th
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by tqwhite 4y ago
I have run https://mailinabox.email (Ubuntu, Digital Ocean) for six or seven years. It is astonishingly simple to install and operate. I have never found an email feature (webmail, calendar) or security requirement (DNSSec, etc)
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by tqwhite 4y ago
This is not about kids. You are mentally ill in a serious way. The the therapy you have gotten so far is either incompetent or you are so sick that you need time in an institution where your tragedy can be treated seriously. I know a number
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by tqwhite 4y ago
If you have a domain with Godaddy, you are going to get screwed. First, by their terrible service. Eventually, by their terrible policies. It's nice of you to provide an example. Now migrate to a decent registrar.
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by tqwhite 4y ago
Nope. Not emacs vs vim. The biggest thing is what kind of music. Also, what kind of slang. I know this because I was young once, too. When I got a coworker who was twenty years older than me, it made me uncomfortable. Weird 'dad'
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by tqwhite 4y ago
Come on people. This is ridiculous. If they had the perfect privacy policy, they could simply tell their clients to view a video that you have uploaded for them to see. Tik Tok is a dumpster fire but his is not interesting.
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by tqwhite 5y ago
This article isn't talking about MVP. It's talking about fools who don't know what they are doing. MVP doesn't suggest that you don't know what you want to do but that you understand that you are wrong and that you
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by tqwhite 5y ago
I take notes, as energetically as my interest allows. While I do read them subsequently, I do not really make too much use of them. For me, the act of taking notes strongly helps my mind connect to the information in ways that make me know
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by tqwhite 5y ago
I did this on my workstation. I used it for a short while. Then I realized that I was actually putting a thing into the world that circumvents the entire security infrastructure of the world. Then I needed to do it for a server. Local only.
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by tqwhite 5y ago
For a long time I was all fussy about having to create a security exception for self-signed certificates. One day I realized I was acting insane, as if there was some glorious principle involved. There isn't. I trust my own (or coworke
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by tqwhite 5y ago
Yes. I am you. I do that, too.
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by tqwhite 5y ago
I have always detested Google and am a longtime Apple user. I use Maps exclusively and like it perfectly well. Occasionally there is an update that makes it a bit dumber but, that always goes away. It's very difficult imagine the margi
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by tqwhite 5y ago
I have a neighbor whose SSID is itHurtsWhenIP. I've always liked that.
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by tqwhite 5y ago
I haven't had it long enough to have an opinion about it's virtue yet but I found this interesting tool recently... https://loshadki.app/shellhistory/
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by tqwhite 5y ago
As someone above said, history | grep -i "whatever I want to remember"
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by tqwhite 5y ago
Me Too!!! https://tech.genericwhite.com/remembering-details-of-program...
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by tqwhite 5y ago
I use BASH scripts, even to manage Windows server projects. It's close enough to universal. (I hate WSL but it's better than the alternative.) I make aliases for everything. It totally works. I explain my strategy here: https:&#x
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by tqwhite 5y ago
I wrote an entire essay about this at https://tech.genericwhite.com/remembering-details-of-program... but here is the gist... The main things I have figured out are, 1) use a script to contain all the stuff I know I will no
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by tqwhite 5y ago
The only thing anyone who controls websites cares about is profit. Nothing other than money matters in our capitalistic society. No human virtue. No social virtue. Nothing beyond money. As some have said here, the dark patterns are thought
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by tqwhite 5y ago
All the other comments about the background processing, waiting for inspiration, only having stamina for a certain amount of time are all correct. For forty years I have lived that life and have never been in a situation where I averaged mo
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by tqwhite 5y ago
I have been a professional programmer for forty years. In the eighties, there was a no-code desktop relational database application called Helix. I continue to think that it belongs on the same shelf as Excel in the UI hall of fame. Like Ex
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by tqwhite 5y ago
No. That's not the issue. The issue is whether it's bad to make systems that digitize lived experience because that data could be used to violate your privacy. Your capacity for trust notwithstanding, Apple has made a major brand
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by tqwhite 5y ago
I don't mean to be insensitive but what on earth possessed you to have your only copy of anything be held by some gigantic corporation, let alone one as completely nihilistic as Google. Dear Everyone, Buy a USB stick and keep some co
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by tqwhite 5y ago
Why? Is the point to show typing animation? Maybe I'm dumb. What's the use case?

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