[20:46] Brickset deciphered the signs and letters of Ninjago. The one thing I miss is a character map.
[20:13] The Last Jedi trailer, remade with 1984 tech, and its making of.
[23:32] Tinkering a little with gmb again. New entries now feature a meta tag adressing the viewport, so the blog will appear more readable on mobile devices.
I used sed to refit the older entries, too.
Also, I began to replace deprecated commands in the source.
[20:32] Apparently I've spent time learning deprecated shell commands in the past. Time to get up to date.
[20:17] I just ran ShellCheck against gmb. Ouch.
[21:00] Lego phone, printer and keyboard. I actually had my fingers on one of those phones quite a few years ago, my dad used to have one or two of these. I wonder if he still has them stored somewhere. Got to ask next time I'm visiting my parents.
[18:40] These sneakers come with a built-in display. Funny idea. But I fear the next step (no pun intended) will be speakers, so that annoying ads can be played everywhere. Based on locations and events, probably. Yuck.
[21:14] AI is now one step ahead at Jeopardy!, Go and ... Ms. Pac-Man.
[19:29] I'm a keyboard person. I do believe that I work faster this way, even though I don't have proof. Dan Luu tried to find out wether or not the keyboard is faster than the mouse. "The results are mixed."
[21:21] A Tattoo machine prosthesis is one thing, but an artificial arm made of Lego is quite another.
[19:54] Is the color of coffee defined? Well, the word itself sort of defines the color.
[19:53] Jeff Leek states that the future of education is plain text. I'm pretty much consistent with that.
[00:28] I've put quite a lot of work into this blog by now, it has been running for over two years and it would be a pity to lose this collection of links. To keep a local backup, I'll tar the blog directory every now and then, so I can download it:
$ tar -zcvf blog.tar.gz ~/public_html/gmb/
[00:17] Does anyone have data on the cost of running a tilde server? I did find some info about tilde.town and perispomeni.club, but I'd really like to know more. All, if possible. I plan to work on The Swintons of Tildeverse again, currently starting a chapter about funding (which is currently way to short to even call it a draft).
And while we're at gathering intel: any clues which operating systems, web servers are used? Where the servers are hosted? Tell me, please.
[20:19] Seems like someone from China had a particular interest in perispomeni.club earlier this year. (via)
[23:03] The seascraper is a very interesting concept. So is the earthscraper.
[22:21] Pretty old and apparently not pursued anymore, but still a cool mod: Harmonica NES Carts
[21:52] Jangbricks did a little research on Lego's pricing of licensed and non-lincensed sets.
[11:35] Another new tilde server: tilde.team
[17:35] I can't wait for self-driving automobiles to be ready for the market and become mandatory. Mainly because this would gradually remove antisocial egotistical assholes from road traffic.
[21:21] I ordered a Saturn V Lego model. Can't wait to get my fingers on this. But I guess it'll take a while.
[21:17] Week on a device: "visualizing what multi-tasking means in terms of user experience"