How come when you're in kindergarten and have to put your head down on your desk for a nap it feels like a punishment, but when you're an adult naps are the most amazing thing ever?
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Speak enigmatically and carry a large cat
Every time I reach out for the tea cup it's empty.
I refill.
Now the tea pot is empty.
This has no deeper meaning, it's just a complaint that I ran out of tea.
Anyone else notice that either the timestamps (?) and/or notifications are all out of whack?
"Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
Mark Twain
"And remember, no matter where you go, there you are."
Earl Mac Rauch
all of a sudden almost everything on my federated timeline is Japanese!
Today I helped prevent a possible accident. Slowed and rerouted traffic when a car died on a blind turn until the police came.
Many people don't know this, but it's possible to read something you don't agree with on the Internet and simply move on with your life. #SliceOfBread
Did you eat any chocolate today?
One of the good things that happened with #Mastodon:
I learned how to correctly spell "Mastodon"
Would anyone know how I would run psql against the Postgres DB of a Mastodon instance running inside of its standard Docker Compose configuration?
RIP Bob Taylor, who played a role in the creation of the ARPAnet, the personal computer, Engelbart's mouse, Xerox's desktop metaphor, and more. Also (this guy didn't slack) co-wrote "The Computer as a Communications Device" (1968) with Licklider.
It's a pity the day after St. Patrick’s Day is not half-price beer day the way the Monday after Easter is half-price candy day.
Let's recap. I built a toot search engine proof-of-concept, nothing fancy. It indexes the content of my instance database in bulk, per batch. Not realtime. It only indexes toots that are public - not unlisted/private/direct.
You can play with it here: https://cler.ical.ist or head to the code here: https://github.com/vhf/clericalist
Main motivation for this is putting some #Elixir/#Phoenix in practice. Have fun.
Hey you aspiring scientists, learn what a lab notebook is and what goes inside https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sW9YBcDAAvI
“A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.” — Henry David Thoreau
