Well, try as I might to avoid it, I’ve added another subscription to my podcast player.

And it has joined the ranks of the VERY few I play at regular 1x speed. 🙄

Thanks a lot, @joec! 😜

I think Forrest Gump might be choice for “stranded on a desert island movie.”

Three venues, four days, five stages. 🎸 Sun, rain, wind, a rainbow. 🌈 I saw bands; I missed bands. 🎶

Here’s who I did see perform: Buckethead, Zeal & Ardor, Pussy Riot, Black Label Society, Meshuggah, Ghost, The Black Dahlia Murder, Gojira, Architects, The Cult, Primitives, Lo-Pan, plus other partial performances. 🎵

I had planned to see more artists (Refused, The Hives, Joan Jett), but two of the stages were shut down on Sunday due to high winds, and they even evacuated everyone for a while. 🌬 Eventually, they re-opened the gates and the main stage, but I wasn’t heading back over by that point, even for the Foo Fighters. Refused played a last-minute make-up show at another venue that night, as well, which was very cool of them – but I opted to stay home and watch the GoT finale with my wife. 🐲

Tomorrow: three (more) days of music.

Saw Buckethead live for the 1st time tonight. Fun show!

He started late: 2hrs 25min after doors. No opener. Then he played for two hours. A night of waiting, sweating, guitar+, KFC buckets, a white mask, a mannequin hand, a rubber chicken, nunchakus, and gifts for the audience.

A new edition of my favorite programming book ever is available as a beta. I think I read the original not very long after it came out – psyched to read this version!

My current ear worm is a song I’ve been a fan of since its release in 1980. And it is almost certainly the BEST song to ever feature a singer wearing a calculator watch in the video. ⌚ 🎵

Just playing around with posting from IG.

Sounds like Instagram is toying with hiding like counts, which is very interesting.

I keep hearing the fans blasting on my MacBook Pro when I’m not doing much on it, and so checking Activity Monitor only to find Dropbox is the top CPU hog.

This could drive me to another solution – anybody have an alternative they like?

TFW you reach for the top of your iPhone screen to hit Save only to have a notification come down into that space and steal the tap.

This is the touch version of my traditional OS pet peeve of the hated “stealing my focus.”

”…interrogate the architecture of social networks that incentivize and reward the creation of extremist communities and content.”

Burn those networks down and come to Micro•blog / Indieweb.

wp.me

NextDraft: Everything in Moderation

TFW you struggle to find where the log statements that you temporarily added for debugging are at so you can delete them before committing, only to then remember they are inside automatically continuing breakpoints.

I don’t check my Mastodon timeline(s) often, and maybe I’m not following enough people there (is that a problem?) but when I do, not a lot of scrolling is necessary to catch up.

Is that a failure of Mastodon, a triumph of Twitter, or merely a characteristic of my social graph?

The other day, I dusted off an older MacBook Pro so it might be able to swap in for me when(ever) I take my current one in for its long-dreaded keyboard issues (ugh).

As part of the hours-long update process, rather than update Little Snitch on it, I decided to try an alternative I’ve had my eye on: Objective-See’s LuLu.

(Another alternative that I have yet to try –which looks like it also has other features to compare with Little Flocker-to-XFENCE– is Hands Off!.)

So far, I’m really liking LuLu. It doesn’t have Little Snitch’s Network Monitor view (with map!), but it’s also free & shared source.

I like and use nearly all of Patrick Wardle’s Objective-See apps, and I follow his blog, as well, to keep some high-level of awareness of the security threats related to macOS. I have yet to download anything from the Malware page, however. 😅

If you check out his free apps and end up using some, you can support his work on Patreon, as I do.

I have begun my binge-listen catch-up for this new-to-me podcast: Hi-Phi Nation – A show about philosophy that turns stories into ideas.

TFW force-quit itself freezes.

Got to see Jon Batiste perform live last night.

Super fun. 🎵

Still thinking about it.

“From Bacon’s utilitarian perspective, knowledge, in the sense of truth, no longer had intrinsic value, but derived its value from the practical purposes it served.”

Reading this made me think about politics.

I used to take advantage of windy days like this as a kid. I’d get a plastic bag, hold it above my head until the moment of a good gust… then chase it wherever it went!

Memories of running, bags aloft, just out of reach. Fun. 🌬

I’m enjoying this episode of Dan Carlin’s Hardcore History: Addendum. It’s striking some chords with my thinking wrt topics like the “spectrum” of politics. Good stuff to think honestly about and talk respectfully about.

I might write more about this later, but today I made a decision.

I had intended to re-embrace Vim for my non-iOS coding. I like Vim, I was comfortable and productive in it, and it’s a mature stalwart of a tool.

Visual Studio Code is, of course, the new (or, rather, most/semi-recent?) hotness, relatively speaking. It’s not “native”, which is a negative for me, but I’ve been using it regularly for about six months now – and I like it.

So, I have decided to forego rejuvenating my Vim chops in favor of increasing my fluency in VS Code. One less thing on my task list!

(If/when I do write more on this, I’ll likely add details, such as the Vim vs. Neovim flavor choice(s), as well as mention a selection of VS Code extensions that factored in my decision.)

Ah, Philosophy. Aladdin’s Wish - Existential Comics

This Intermittent Fasting thing is getting easier.

Uh oh.

I just had that awe-ful/-some thing where, while looking into a new book I would probably enjoy, I discovered several more recently released “must reads.”

Machine Learning knows me well. And I don’t have time for this. :)