Against entropy.
InDesign’s Data Merge feature is great. This is a video I return to, when I need to use it. There is a catch, though: the data must be in the right format for this to work with Swedish text, which has å, ä and ö. Use a spreadsheet app to make a dataset (columns and …
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You’re desperate. Your legacy code-generation code outputs a Hash using hash#to_s. You’ve flouted many Rubocop rules to get to where you are. Suddenly, it gets too much. You search the Web for a pretty-print function that you want: a Rubocop-friendly Hash pretty-printer. Empty-handed, you cough up blood, while a police car’s red-blue lights flicker in …
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Julian Togelius blogs about his new paper.
I finished reading a novel. Been a long slog. Five years to read a novel? Some blogger said they immediately began re-reading it, to see and experience the rich intertextuality etc. Thanks, Evan, for the reminder that it’s been so long. PS: the book was grand.
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Thanks Nukomeet, for a chatty pre-conference event! Thanks Alexander, Lukasz, Agnieska, Alban, Zaiste, Arsenia, Marcin, Johanna. And Robert and Christoffer. You are awesome, welcoming and interesting. (Quickly ordering rhubarb desserts just before the kitchen closed – top of my good-life game. The place with the kitchen open was Nifty No 20.)
People may scoff, but the facts are: strangers and friends will interact with self-portraits. Is it the eyes? The gaze that meets yours? I include here the one Twitter post that made others interact with me. I’ve published more than 7000 items. This one got attention and praise. Ten degrees and blue gray weather. Gulls …
LOL ‘computer, ’ alias for sudo by @chastell pic.twitter.com/RKNX7Ov6rT — Miha Rekar (@MihaRekar) March 1, 2014 Quoth @chastell: alias computer,=’sudo’ computer, apt-get install postgresql PS: Alas, the oEmbed content from Twitter did not contain the image with the pun. Reproduced here. @chastell will forgive me. As a bonus, do read these fine lines of Markdown-formatted …
Crimer is a mind-boggling, CSI-like TV show in the form a Twitter stream. Read it.
IMG_8811 Originally uploaded by David Tolnem But, as a wise woman often says: “…it’s not television, it’s HBO.”