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'wade in the water.' isn't this the challenge of being 'ahead'? so many of us are waist deep in the same sea, it's hard to see what's in front of us vs. what's behind us. then we see the yacht boys sail by with their new masters, splashing us in their wake. then we grumble amongs

Sipping Choya’s ウメッシュ　ノンアルコル。😋

A bit of insomnia this early Tuesday morning. I call it “the witching hour”, whatever can go wrong, will go wrong and the brain is defenceless. Reality, of course, is more nuanced, but brain doesn’t care. :)

Cut sex scene from Titanic and now watching it with my 10yo daughter. Love that movie.

I've been on a kick lately of trying to visualize the oscillating clock, and ultimately the effectively arbitrarily complex activity of a computer processor, as modern refinements of the line shaft factory of the 19th century. Of compute as being not much more than profoundly refined "work" delivered by the electrical grid into marvelously complex machines. Does that, as a metaphor at least, feel as important to you as it has to me of late? We spend so much time in a world abstracted.

Found some coffee at TJ Maxx (american discount store) -- not a big discount but still fun.

Many leaders acquire authority through ambition and manipulation. I’m not referring to them. But a test of leadership for those who acquire authority organically, with the will of those being led, is to maintain the zeal and principles which put you into that position, after you encounter the machinery designed to exhaust, exasperate, deter, and demoralize.

Watched Black Bird ep 1. Definitely lived up to the great reviews.

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History is written by the people who write stuff down.

this is where I live. it’s a plateau. it’s quiet, we have cats and there are goats around and fig and pear trees. #mapnotesfollow Kallikratis, CreteKalikratisMunicipality of Sfakia, Chania Regional Unit, Region of Crete, Greece

Today I wanted to share some Music from my youth :) www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Hn-pNxtByM

A credit union wants to get their own data out of a vendor's online system. Vendor wants $160,000. I wrote a #pythonnotesfollow script with #Playwrightnotesfollow to download the data just as though a user would. It's going to run for about 6 weeks to download around 250k records and 70GB of images.

A couple of afternoons of the jinn coding harness and glm-5.3 and my taxus static site generator is properly whipped into shape. get-taxus.org It now has a frickin' data model, that's documented, as well as installers for your platform of choice. Try it, break it, I'll be doing the same. Let me know where it broke for you.

a few #securitynotesfollow fixes this morning, some actions in your account are now gated behind email(or password) confirmations, like "delete account" and "enable password" - this is to keep the account safe. #featurenotesfollow

Trying out a new place for Friday happy hour. Local pizza place with cheese slices #happyhournotesfollow #pizzanotesfollow

Collected my helper functions to lozenge.el package, e.g. (◊duckduckgo "textlog") opens ddg. Lozenge is ◊ character. Others are (◊find-file), (◊grep), (◊github-search), (◊show-commit) etc.

Lonely in the night

#morningnotesfollow, new day, new issues to solve — oh and #coffeenotesfollow ☕