I just finished a custom Hugo theme I’ve been working on. It’s called “Today I Learned,” and it’s perfect for both traditional blogging and building a knowledge base of shorter, informal notes for easy reference and sharing.

A cool feature: it graphs your content like Obsidian! It also supports side notes and highlights with admonitions.

Check it out at <https://michenriksen.com/til-example-site>

[#Hugo](https://chaos.social/tags/Hugo) [#Obsidian](https://chaos.social/tags/Obsidian) [#Blogging](https://chaos.social/tags/Blogging) [#Notes](https://chaos.social/tags/Notes) [#TIL](https://chaos.social/tags/TIL)

I built a new plugin for LLM called llm-jq, which lets you pipe JSON into the tool and provide a short description of what you want, then it uses an LLM to generate a jq program and executes that against the JSON for you <https://simonwillison.net/2024/Oct/27/llm-jq/>

Example usage:

llm install llm-jq
curl -s 'http''s:api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues' |
llm jq 'count by user login, top 3'

Discovered a neat new tool last week: <https://github.com/wr7/refold>

It's similar to fmt and fold except that it automatically handles prefixes. Vim/Neovim gq can do this out of the box but fails (for me at least) when multiple prefixes are present, such as a Markdown block-quote inside Rust comments. E.g.

// > Some quoted text  
// > to reflow.  

refold handles this.

[#Rust](https://mastodon.decentralised.social/tags/Rust) [#RustLang](https://mastodon.decentralised.social/tags/RustLang) [#TextProcessing](https://mastodon.decentralised.social/tags/TextProcessing) [#TextManipulation](https://mastodon.decentralised.social/tags/TextManipulation) [#TextEditor](https://mastodon.decentralised.social/tags/TextEditor)

How to stop the monthly screen recording prompts in macOS 15 Sequoia: <https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/2024/8/10.html> (via [@skypunch](https://mastodon.social/@skypunch))

Powerful menu bar manager for macOS. Contribute to jordanbaird/Ice development by creating an account on GitHub.

Open-source examples and guides for building with the OpenAI API. Browse a collection of snippets, advanced techniques and walkthroughs. Share your own examples and guides.

Today I discovered a pretty cool utility for listing USB devices! 🔌

🌸 **cyme**: A modern and cross-platform lsusb!

🔥 Displays manufacturer, serial number, speed, current information (mA) and more!

🦀 Written in Rust!

⭐ GitHub: <https://github.com/tuna-f1sh/cyme>

[#rustlang](https://fosstodon.org/tags/rustlang) [#lsusb](https://fosstodon.org/tags/lsusb) [#usb](https://fosstodon.org/tags/usb) [#devices](https://fosstodon.org/tags/devices) [#utility](https://fosstodon.org/tags/utility) [#commandline](https://fosstodon.org/tags/commandline) [#tool](https://fosstodon.org/tags/tool) [#libusb](https://fosstodon.org/tags/libusb)

Consent-O-Matic is a browser extension that recognizes CMP (Consent Management Provider) pop-ups that have become ubiquitous on the web and automatically fills them out based on your preferences – even if you meet a dark pattern design. Sometimes a website might not use standard categories, and in that case, Consent-O-Matic will always try to submit the most privacy preserving settings.

“When the AI provided an incorrect result, researchers found inexperienced and moderately experienced radiologists dropped their cancer-detecting accuracy from around 80% to about 22%. Very experienced radiologists’ accuracy dropped from nearly 80% to 45%.”

<https:www.brainfacts.org/neuroscience-in-society/tech-and-the-brain/2024/why-ai-can-push-you-to-make-the-wrong-decision-at-work-090324>

If you're using AI for coding or prose in Neovim, don't forget to try out <<https://github.com/olimorris/codecompanion.nvim>> and <<https://github.com/milanglacier/minuet-ai.nvim>>!

Both work seamlessly with local models using OpenAI compatible API, e.g., llama-server from llama.cpp <3

[#llm](https://mastodon.social/tags/llm) [#ai](https://mastodon.social/tags/ai) [#neovim](https://mastodon.social/tags/neovim) [#vim](https://mastodon.social/tags/vim) [#copilot](https://mastodon.social/tags/copilot)

New blog post! Beyond Ctrl-C: The dark corners of Unix signal handling.

The post is an introduction to signals and how to manage them effectively with async Rust. It's a written version of my talk at RustConf 2023, heavily edited for presentation as a blog post.

Hope you enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it!

<https:sunshowers.io/posts/beyond-ctrl-c-signals/>

Iwebdev side project: QR code generator

• It's instant, purely client-side, and has no ads or upsells.

• It has a variety of color, shape, and logo embedding options.

• There's PNG and SVG export.

The included logo selection is, let's say, "opinionated" and features lots of familiar faces if you enjoy federated social platforms. 😄

- Tiling window manager based on a tree paradigm
- i3 inspired
- Fast workspaces switching without animations and without the necessity to disable SIP
- AeroSpace employs its own emulation of virtual workspaces instead of relying on native macOS Spaces due to their considerable limitations
- Plain text configuration (dotfiles friendly). See: default-config.toml
- CLI first (manpages and shell completion included)
- Doesn't require disabling SIP (System Integrity Protection)
- Proper multi-monitor support (i3-like paradigm)

Docling bundles PDF document conversion to JSON and Markdown in an easy, self-contained package.

Check whether your Mac is up to date automatically. Covers firmware, security settings and data files, and now checks macOS malware scans. Has both a summary Help page and a detailed reference. Update improves compatibility with Sequoia.

My notes on trying out whisperfile, the new cross-platform executable packaging for the Whisper speech-to-text model, released as part of the latest update to llamafile
<https:simonwillison.net/2024/Aug/19/whisperfile/>

A detailed post, including settings to make it easier on your muscle memory.

The video in that last boost might be one of the greatest things I've ever seen. Relinked here: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hdJQkn8rtA>

One gem I really liked: "We shouldn't worry too much, too early, about language details. Otherwise we don't program, but just code lots of details."

Some notes on mlx-whisper - it's now really easy to run transcriptions through an Apple Silicon (and GPU) optimized Whisper model using Python on macOS <https://simonwillison.net/2024/Aug/13/mlx-whisper/>

New TIL: Using sqlite-vec with embeddings in sqlite-utils and Datasette <https://til.simonwillison.net/sqlite/sqlite-vec>

OK gang! This is ready for you to test.

python tweet2html.py --css 1234

That will take a Twitter ID and return HTML and CSS for you to embed in your website with no calling back to Twitter.

Features:
🗣 Avatars inlined as Base64 WebP
📸 All attached photos inlined
🎥 Video poster inline, <video> to original source
🔗 Hyperlinks don't use t.co
#️⃣ Hashtags and @ mentions linked
🕰 Semantic time
♥ and 🗨 counts

Try it out at <https://github.com/edent/Tweet2Embed>

Feedback and pull requests very welcome!

A free web app to take the pain out of transcribing recorded interviews.

- Fully Native: Marta is a native macOS application written entirely in Swift. It offers a native experience and is blazingly fast.
- Keyboard Support: Click or press. Marta will make you feel comfortable whenever you prefer to use a keyboard or a mouse.
- Your Privacy Matters: Marta doesn't collect or sell your data. There's no hidden functionality or backdoors. And it will never be.

A highlighted result
In recent months, I’ve begun to notice that results from web searches often highlight specific text on the page to which they’re linking. The web page is also scrolled to the relevant content. It’s quite helpful!

A quick investigation showed this is accomplished by appending a bit of code, #:~:text= to the URL for a link. These are called Text Fragments, and they’ve been supported by Chrome since back in 2020. It took a couple more years for support to come to Safari, but at this point, the element is well-supported enough to be worth using

And now for something completely different: Check out this nifty how-to for highlighting text on a page when you link to it.

<https:weblog.rogueamoeba.com/2024/08/08/how-to-highlight-text-fragments-when-linking/>

"Almost everything has been done by someone else before. Almost nothing you want to do is truly novel. And language models are exceptionally good at giving you solutions to things they've seen before."

I collect examples of this kind of thing, and this is by far the most exhaustive list of practical LLM uses I've seen.

<https:nicholas.carlini.com/writing/2024/how-i-use-ai.html>

/ht [@emollick](https://bird.makeup/users/emollick)

[#llm](https://social.coop/tags/llm) [#examples](https://social.coop/tags/examples)

The future of digital asset management is here with a powerful solution to organize, edit, and share your digital media with ease. Musebox empowers visual artists like you to focus on your muse, not your mess.

I wrote about using the Plotly Graphing Library in Hugo. I'm still finding my away around [@gohugoio](https://fosstodon.org/@gohugoio) and would love to hear any feedback or suggestions :)

<https:read.ryancowl.es/posts/plotly-graphing-in-hugo/>

[#hugo](https://union.place/tags/hugo) [#plotly](https://union.place/tags/plotly) [#foss](https://union.place/tags/foss) [#data](https://union.place/tags/data)

Part of proper preparation is estate planning – having a will is important, along with making sure your executor has the information they need to handle your affairs. With so much of the world having a digital presence, it’s important that you’re thinking about how to pass that account information on, so that the task of identifying and accessing accounts is made simple

Here's a small script "find-postings-without-comment-id.py" which checks all my [#Hugo](https://mastodon.social/tags/Hugo) [#goHugo](https://mastodon.social/tags/goHugo) blog postings if I forgot to add the comments id.

<https:github.com/andreasscherbaum/hugo-tools>

Plus some other tools.

[#Blogging](https://mastodon.social/tags/Blogging) [#Blog](https://mastodon.social/tags/Blog)

HTML for email is probably the hardest code to write. Even a teeny-tiny deviation from the rules will break the email in untold combination of os/desktop/mobile clients.

It's mid 2024. Almost 50 years since email was invented and 35 years since HTML was born. A 'basic-open-source-HTML-email-designer' must be a solved problem, right? We thought so too.

Sadly, that's not the case.

There are a few decent open source email designers but they carry dependencies that make them cumbersome to embed within your app. That's why we decided to open source our HTML Email Designer.

The SENDUNE email designer focuses on simplicity and ease of use. It is light-weight. It does pure HTML - no intermediate code wranglers like mjml. There is no lock-in of any kind. Save HTML output as a template and use with ANY email service provider.

A modern ebook manager and reader with sync and backup capacities for Windows, macOS, Linux and Web - koodo-reader/koodo-reader

I read the first two chapters of

<https:lazyvim-ambitious-devs.phillips.codes/>

Very well written, concise course / e-book by Dusty Phillips. Gives context when needed and even explains a bit of Vim basics which I did not know. I am currently experimenting it using the NVIM_APPNAME environment variable but the results are impressive so far. I might swap my handwritten configuration for what comes out of this course.

[#LazyVim](https://mastodon.acc.sunet.se/tags/LazyVim) [#neovim](https://mastodon.acc.sunet.se/tags/neovim)

More than 130M pages from Dutch newspapers, books, and magazines. You can read them for free.

Thinking of adding search to my static site... This seems to be a good option! <https://pagefind.app/>
Might give this a try when I have the time. Looks easy enough.

[#Hugo](https://fosstodon.org/tags/Hugo) [#staticsitegenerator](https://fosstodon.org/tags/staticsitegenerator) [#Pagefind](https://fosstodon.org/tags/Pagefind) [#staticsite](https://fosstodon.org/tags/staticsite)

AppCleaner is a small application which allows you to thoroughly uninstall unwanted apps.

Installing an application distributes many files throughout your System using space of your Hard Drive unnecessarily.
AppCleaner finds all these small files and safely deletes them.

Simply drop an application onto the AppCleaner window. It will find for the related files and you can delete them by clicking the delete button.

TIL how to access secrets stored in 1Password from CLI scripts, e.g. to populate an environment variable using an API key stashed in my password manager

✨ Friends, I've recently been laid off, and I'm looking for my next role.

With 7+ years of leadership experience in non-profits and startups, here is a summary of my skills:

📊 20+ years [#rstats](https://hachyderm.io/tags/rstats) programming expertise
🔧 Data pipeline development
☁️ AWS infrastructure management
📚 Creator of widely-used data science curricula
🛡️ GDPR compliance implementation

For the full version, including my resume and testimonials from colleagues: <https://francoismichonneau.net/hire-me/>

[#GetFediHired](https://hachyderm.io/tags/GetFediHired) [#DataScience](https://hachyderm.io/tags/DataScience) [#Jobs](https://hachyderm.io/tags/Jobs)

Few things piss me off more than a huge, multi-billion IT corporation that suddenly sends me an email regarding an open-source project I’ve been running since 1990’s that I’ve recently shut down due to absolute lack of interest from its users… which happened to be telcos and large IT companies. Here’s what I replied:

Thank you for your email. As it’s often the case with open-source projects, their value to organisations is only noticed and appreciated when they go offline. I have maintained pam_tacplus for the last years and it had the call for sponsorship prominently displayed for most of the time specifically because it’s a legacy project that is difficult to maintain. None of the commercial companies that clearly do rely on it ever demonstrated any interest in even nominal donations, so it was archived. While it’s notable someone finally noticed it, I’m not the person to discuss any future development any more.

I did work in large companies and I do understand the sick logic that drives them, when it’s easier to get approval for annual spending of $50k for some office decorations than $100 for a mission-critical project which happens to be open-source and can be used for free for some time.

But it’s possible. If you’re working in such roles, please make every effort to get this $100 because otherwise it will become your responsibility to develop and maintain code that you always got for free.

Typst is a new open-source markup-based typesetting system that is designed to be as powerful as LaTeX while being much easier to learn and use. Typst creates beautiful PDF output with blazing fast render times.

Use the typst format to create a PDF document via Typst

Instantly publish your own books on the web for free, no publisher required.

Blogging and posting on social is easy. But why is it so hard to publish a whole book on the web? It’s not anymore. Writebook is remarkably simple software that allows you to publish text and pictures in a simple, browsable online book format.

## Features
Human-readable output with color-coded and tabular format
JSON output support for easy scripting and parsing
Multiple transport protocols:
DNS over HTTPS (DoH)
DNS over TLS (DoT)
DNS over QUIC (DoQ)
DNS over TCP
DNS over UDP
DNSCrypt
Support for ndots and search configurations from resolv.conf or command-line arguments
Multiple resolver support with customizable query strategies
IPv4 and IPv6 support
Web interface available at doggo.mrkaran.dev
Shell completions for zsh and fish
Reverse DNS lookups
Flexible query options including various DNS flags (AA, AD, CD, DO, etc.)
Debug mode for troubleshooting
Response time measurement
Cross-platform support (Linux, macOS, Windows, FreeBSD, NetBSD)

Man steals moon
Man loads moon in wheelbarrow, then into hatchback vehicle.

Really inventive, clever photography.

Update - noted in comments: [@persagen](https://mastodon.social/@persagen) Source: "Photographer Daniel Antoniol, from Brazil, produces mind bending snaps where it looks like he’s playing football with the moon, and even loading it into the boot of his car." 🙏

<https:www.instagram.com/daniel_antoniol/?hl=en>

<https:www.photoawards.com/winner/zoom.php?eid=8-1657122048-22>

[#DanielAntoniol](https://mastodon.social/tags/DanielAntoniol) [#photography](https://mastodon.social/tags/photography) [#art](https://mastodon.social/tags/art)

Learning about marimo, an open-source reactive notebook.
Looks really nice for visualizations.

<https:marimo.app/?slug=55kclj>

Plus, notebook changes results in small diffs and the notebooks themselves are executable as Python scripts!

[#nbpy](https://fosstodon.org/tags/nbpy)

Batman's aff his nut
Have you seen the way he cuts aboot
Dressed up as a mad fuckin bat
Batterin guys
I was lit at:
"Mate, I'm worried aboot ye I know your ma and da died But everybody's ma and da dies And we're no aw runnin aboot
Hookin muggers and
Kickin psychopaths in the baws." And that was when Batman went
"Aye, but do ye ever feel like it?
Do you ever look at the world and feel like it?
Like having a big mad base under your hoose?
Do you ever feel like drivin a big mad motor that turns intae a tank?
And leatherin fuck oot of guys aw night?
Scarin the fuckin shite oot of them?"
And that was when I was lit at:
"Aye. Fuck it. Ah dae."
And that's the Secret Origin of Robin and everybody else.

I have always loved [#neovim](https://dotnet.social/tags/neovim)'s github commit style, but assumed it was just a project-style-guide thing. Now a realise that is has been standardized:

<https:www.conventionalcommits.org/en/v1.0.0/>
"Conventional Commits: A specification for adding human and machine readable meaning to commit messages "

[#git](https://dotnet.social/tags/git) [#development](https://dotnet.social/tags/development)

This is a sample in the wild:

Simutrans is a freeware and open-source transportation simulator. Your goal is to establish a successful transport company. Transport passengers, mail and goods by rail, road, ship, and even air. Interconnect districts, cities, public buildings, industries and tourist attractions by building a transport network you always dreamed of.

An AI thing I'm watching play out at another org:

1: Expert A, with a deep understanding of a nuanced and difficult problem answers a question they've been given, offering several options.

2: Director B, recipient, uses an AI to summarize it and then runs it up to leadership saying, "A says this." That generated summary is subtly and very wrong.

3: A is now being held responsible for plans made based on B's AI-generated and very wrong rewriting of his recommendations.

Fun times.

Mein Blog hat erstmals seit Januar 2017 wieder eine eigene Suchfunktion!

<https:thomas-leister.de/search/>

Damals habe ich von Wordpress zu Hugo umgestellt - also zu einem Static Site Generator. Die Suchfunktion war damals auch weg. Zwischenzeitlich habe ich mir mit einer integrierten DuckDuckGo Suche beholfen. Besonders schön war das allerdings nie.

Vor zwei Wochen bin ich aber auf "Pagefind" gestoßen - eine Javascript-basierte Suchmachine. Das funktioniert wunderbar und sehr schnell. :)

[#hugo](https://metalhead.club/tags/hugo)

ts functionality is grouped into 3 categories described below.

mise installs and manages dev tools/runtimes like node, python, or terraform both simplifying installing these tools and allowing you to specify which version of these tools to use in different projects. mise supports hundreds of dev tools.

mise manages environment variables letting you specify configuration like AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID that may differ between projects. It can also be used to automatically activate a Python virtualenv when entering projects too.

mise is a task runner that can be used to share common tasks within a project among developers and make things like running tasks on file changes easy.

Hey fyi

You can go to radiooooo.com (that's 5 o's), look at the world map, select a country, select a decade, and then listen to music from that time and place. For free. No ads. No idea how or why but it exists. Check it out!

Edit: you should also know that radio.garden does the same thing. I am not familiar, but several people have endorsed it. Nice to have options!

[#music](https://eldritch.cafe/tags/music) [#radio](https://eldritch.cafe/tags/radio)

So BBC released an online version of the Hitch Hickers guide to the Galaxy text adventure game. enhanced 30th anniversary edition. And guess what folks, it's fully screen reader friendly, Enjoy! <https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/1g84m0sXpnNCv84GpN2PLZG/the-game-30th-anniversary-edition>

Maccy is a lightweight clipboard manager for macOS. It keeps the history of what you copy and lets you quickly navigate, search, and use previous clipboard contents.

AltTab brings the power of Windows’s “alt-tab” window switcher to macOS.

Ben Sandofksy went deep on the history of Lambda School, a learn-to-code startup that aimed to disrupt computer science education, and its founder, Austen Allred.

New blog post by Gábor Szárnyas

Command Line Data Processing: Using DuckDB as a Unix Tool

This blog post shows how DuckDB stacks up against classic Unix tools (such as cut, grep, sort and sed) when performing simple data processing steps.

Read more at <https://duckdb.org/2024/06/20/cli-data-processing-using-duckdb-as-a-unix-tool>

[@phire](https://phire.place/@phire) [@mhoye](https://mastodon.social/@mhoye) a friend said once that enterprise architects exist so programmers don't have to talk to business analysts, and BAs exist so that EAs don't have to talk to customers/users

It has forever changed my perception of the development process

If you'd prefer a more wizard-like interface for search-and-replacing in [#Neovim](https://hachyderm.io/tags/Neovim), grug-far might be your cup of tea: <https://github.com/MagicDuck/grug-far.nvim>

<https:tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations>