Patrick @patrick@social.basementcomputer.site

Trying the new mastodon app. Seems nice.

Grab text from an image to clipboard on OSX:

screencapture -i /tmp/t.png && tesseract /tmp/t.png - | pbcopy && rm /tmp/t.png

Simplicity is as simplicity does

Work to live. Work to love.

This & Twitter https://www.damninteresting.com/to-h-e-double-hockey-sticks-with-facebook/

Starlink (someday): https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2021/spacexs-starlink-review-four-months

What's your mastodon app?

This has to be the best video I have seen about "fat loss." Comes down to math: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuIlsN32WaE

Back to my corner of the world, where I belong. 👋

Freedom of speech matters to me, even if i disagree with what you say. Words are words, there's always the "off button" I guess people forget that part. I can't be part of a system that refuses to let you voice your opinion, dumb as it may be. (That includes me)

I've accepted some alienation and I don't believe I fit in anywhere, so I guess I am alone.

I've lost many friends over the past few years even though communication is easier than ever. I realize some people are not willing to change but it still bewilders me how some don't even try new forms of communication at all. They choose to forget you. But I guess there's two sides to the coin, at least that's what I think they'd say if I could hear them.

https://looking-glass.io/

busy is as busy does

Communication is still one of the hardest parts of software engineering.

This is pretty cool! https://github.com/hendotcat/ppl

Deer suck

Integration specs are king 🤴

Docker desktop should be ashamed of itself for this dark pattern: