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.

- 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)

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.

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.

One thing really worth addressing from the post that I don't think author accepted, and I see this a lot with engineers:

> "That did introduce tension for our team because we were supposed to be taking experimental bets for the platform’s future. These bets couldn’t be baked into product without hacks or shortcuts in the typical quarter as was the expectation."
If I can pump one learning into engineers' and PMs' heads it's this: intermediate deliverables are not optional no matter how cutting-edge your team is.
You will never succeed if your pitch to leadership is "give us a budget for the next N years and expect no shippable products until the end of N years". Even if you get approved somehow at the beginning, there's a 99.5% chance your team/project will be killed before you get to N years.
Again, once again for the audience in the back: there is no such thing as a multi-year project without convincing, meaningful intermediate deliverables.
To clarify, that doesn't mean "don't have multi-year roadmaps", it means "your multi-year roadmaps must deliver wins at a consistent cadence".
Understanding this will carry you a lot further in the industry.
As a fairly cutting-edge R&D team part of your job is to figure out what slice of this is shippable (and worth shipping). If you're coming up empty you are not ready to pitch this to execs.

Slopple.
<https:hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/112485627917497636>

Cool new fan site for NetNewsWire themes!

<https:paiji.github.io/NetNewsWire-themes-collection/>

See <https://pandoc.org/typst-property-output> for more info about the new [#typst](https://fosstodon.org/tags/typst) property support introduced in [#pandoc](https://fosstodon.org/tags/pandoc) 3.2.

[@simon](https://fedi.simonwillison.net/@simon) Copilot is funny. If you can convince it that it's about programming, it'll tell you all sorts of things...

The Python version of "Software Design by Example" will be out Real Soon: you can read the content at <https://third-bit.com/sdxpy/> or order a hard copy at <https://www.routledge.com/9781032725215> - please use the code "SMA22" to get 20% off. All royalties will go to support the Red Door Family Shelter in Toronto (<https://www.reddoorshelter.ca/>).

This is going to be a hard one to explain tomorrow during standup.

For all the [#neovim](https://mastodon.social/tags/neovim) and [#vim](https://mastodon.social/tags/vim) lovers out there that are also using [#firefox](https://mastodon.social/tags/firefox) - as we all should do - here is something to play with on this fine [#sunday](https://mastodon.social/tags/sunday)

<https:github.com/tridactyl/tridactyl> -- [#tridactyl](https://mastodon.social/tags/tridactyl)
A Vim-like interface for Firefox, inspired by Vimperator/Pentadactyl.

DIe Macht in Dosen, ich sags euch.

Leslie Lamport, of LaTeX fame, is a very accomplished mathematician and computer scientist with a Turing award for his work on “fundamental contributions to the theory and
practice of distributed and concurrent systems”. He just published a draft of his new book:

"A science of concurrent programs"

<https:lamport.azurewebsites.net/tla/science.pdf>

True to his pedagogic approach to everything he does, "The book assumes only that you know the math one learns before entering a university." Even the appendices are fantastic. Can only wish I'll remain this lucid at his 82 years old.

[#multithreading](https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/multithreading) [#maths](https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/maths) [#LesleyLamport](https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/LesleyLamport)

Great complete Goose live show, free on YouTube: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvhNRj13KrQ>

Inspired by [@chriscoyier](https://front-end.social/@chriscoyier), I put together a little list of the apps I use pretty much every day.

<https:noahjacob.us/words/default-apps-2023.html>

[@jonafato](https://mastodon.social/@jonafato) [@glyph](https://mastodon.social/@glyph) Paperless-ngx might do the trick. I think it’s more targeted for mail, but I came to know about it from someone who used it to store manuals. It does OCR, the correspondant can be the product manufacturer, and it has tags. I run it in Docker on my Synology and I love it.

<https:docs.paperless-ngx.com/>

Still just as funny today as this was in back in 2006. 😂 Frank Caliendo - Letterman - Impressionists Week <https://youtu.be/CqN8v5pZC54?si=9qD3YAg5ufdbIQGX>

Just posted slides for Beyond Paradigms, updated for [@NorthBayPython](https://social.northbaypython.org/@NorthBayPython) 2023.

Thanks to all who attended and made me feel welcome!

<https:speakerdeck.com/ramalho/beyond-paradigms-with-python-examples>

strip-tags 0.4 is now out, with a set of features to make it easier to turn large HTML pages into content suitable for feeding to a LLM
<https:github.com/simonw/strip-tags/releases/tag/0.4>

I wrote more about strip-tags here: <https://simonwillison.net/2023/May/18/cli-tools-for-llms/>