Knowing the consequences I want, what choice would create them? What big choice would nudge a hundred others that way?

Request web pages and other documents through email. They get turned into plain text, sadly, and Unicode gets removed.

via Devine in this cool Merveilles thread by Luci who thought of something similar:

• https://merveilles.town/@zens/112849957122568227

• Приложения для сбора хайлайтов из статей и книг не помогают запоминать прочитанное

• Для того, чтобы запоминать прочитанное не нужна хорошая память

• Лучший способ запомнить прочитанное — понять то, что ты прочитал

• Чтобы на самом деле понять прочитанное, нужно приложить усилия

• Объясняй другим идеи, чтобы лучше понимать и запоминать их

• Заведи блог

• Участвуй в сетевых дискуссиях

• Откажись от автоматизации

Regarding the recent Maven drama.

Which leads to the question: what makes one of these work? I’ve been a part of several groups and have tried to stand up many myself and I find the same patterns repeating across all the good ones. The best ones are a “forever dinner party” – good friends and conversation happening in perpetuity. They often share the below.

• Gardener, not carpenter

• Cooling rods and nuclear reactors

• The n-1 group

• Dinner party alchemy

• Gravitational pull of a few topics

• Size and Pruning

• Shared rituals

How about we measure the amount of times programmers touch the lines. Instead of counting the number of lines we’ll count how many times they were actually modified—we can get this information from Git (or any other SCM). The more you touch that part of the aircraft—the more effort you spent on it, right?

I called it Hits-of-Code (HoC) and created a small tool to help us calculate this number in just one line.

What a nice idea! I installed this program and ran it on Betula and Mycorrhiza codebases. For Betula it's 26350 HoC, for Mycorrhiza it's 137208 HoC. Yeah, Betula is still comparatively young! Hey, what about Mycomarkup? 23443. Oh wow, just a little less than Betula. I expected a small number.

The bicycle, as we know it today, was not invented until the late 1800s. Here are some theories about why

Flancia Meet is a weekly video conference where we discuss our projects and goals, and occasionally work in public. Most participants are programmers.

I am here often. I helped to write this page.

Everyone told me there is no water on top of this Brazilian mountain, there won’t be any frogs. Now I’ve dedicated my life to preserving this incredible species

Hi! I'm novie. I like computers and other things. This is my little corner of the web, where I dump random thoughts and knowledge.

Another Mycorrhiza wiki dropped! This one is pretty fun.

Info on the Cat. Documents!

Les maisons-ponts ont été très populaires à Venise, Florence et Bath, mais désormais aussi en Suisse. Après avoir échoué pour la quatrième fois dans sa tentative de rejoindre l'Union européenne, la Suisse se concentre sur sa position géographique stratégique.

Мосты-дома!

Guillaume Lion visited Low-tech Magazine in Barcelona and turned his experience into a comic for the Belgian magazine Médor.

That's what they call BD?

В японской культуре есть такое расхожее выражение «нанацу доогу» — семь предметов (или семь инструментов), которые определяют человека по профессии или по его предназначению.

Например, есть список для воина, куда входят: кольчуга( панцирь), катана, длинный меч, лук, стрелы, накидка «хоро» и шлем.

Cool blog. Completed.

An overview of Holy C, the programming language for Temple OS.

Summarizing Edward Tufte's essay "The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint".