Andrew Kuchling @akuchling@octodon.social
Python developer; reader; information squirrel. He/him.
The list of novels looks promising; I've only read Jemisin's The Stone Sky. It's a very strong year for long-form dramatic presentation as well as short, though the Doctor Who nominee is weak and not going to win. Graphic Story doesn't look great to me (I bounced off Monstress and got bored with Saga). Best Related Work has an academic book on Iain Banks' Culture novels, as well as Zoe Quinn's Gamergate book and Ursula K. LeGuin's last essay collection.
The Metafilter discussion thread on the Hugo nominees links to those stories that are available for free online.
“I have failed!”
“What's it like?”
— Davros and the Doctor, in “Destiny of the Daleks”
Open source contribution today: two pull requests for pgcli, a doc improvement and a new feature to shorten hostnames in the prompt.
"You’ve Reached the Winter of Our Discontent" by Rebecca Schuman https://longreads.com/2018/03/27/youve-reached-the-winter-of-our-discontent/
I feel like I understand Gen Xers a bit more now.
.@mozilla Firefox extension limits damage from Facebook spying https://blog.mozilla.org/firefox/facebook-container-extension/ #FacebookDataBreach #Facebookgate #facebook #mozilla #firefox #Privacy
Our A to Z play-through of our game shelf brings us to the Catan Card Game this week. See what my wife thinks of this 2-player implementation of Catan in her latest blog.
#blog #boardgame #bgg #catan #2player #mayfairgames
https://meeplephd.com/2018/03/a-to-z-gaming-catan-card-game/
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so happy to see #peertube grow! we were one of the first federated sites and now there are tons! https://instances.peertu.be/instances #hispagatos #peertube https://video.hispagatos.org
“Well naturally enough the only country that could be trusted with such a role was Great Britain.”
“Well, naturally. I mean, the rest were all foreigners.”
— The Brigadier and the Doctor, in “Robot”
My final event, probably: a conversation with William Russell, who played Ian Chesterton at the very beginning of #doctorwho. #RegenerationWho
https://octodon.social/media/x90ERXAUyPaAb5iV1ig
This "TARDIS Period Piece" session is an interesting survey of the historical stories of the New Who era. #RegenerationWho
Next panel: Broadchurch in Space?, a speculative discussion of what Chris Chibnall's Doctor Who series might look like. #RegenerationWho
Rob Shearman, moderator Arnold Blumberg, and Nev Fountain at the memorial panel. #RegenerationWho
https://octodon.social/media/9O1qRHxx65IcK6C6lME
Next panel: a memorial discussion of Deborah Watling and Peter Miles. #RegenerationWho
This panel on Memory and Identity in the Moffat Era is turning into a minute dissection of River Song's timeline. #RegenerationWho
Back for day 2 of #RegenerationWho, a #DoctorWho convention in downtown Baltimore.
Jordan Peterson's new book may just be the most boring thing I've ever read.
And I've read all of Ayn Rand's fiction. Let that sink in.
> the unix philosophy is about composing small orthogonal features in flexible ways, like lockf and flock and fcntl(F_SETLK) and fcntl(F_OFD_SETLCK) and "mandatory locking" but only if present in the kernel and the fs is mounted with "-o mand" or MS_MANDLOCK and SGID is set but not
-- From @wingo@twitter.com (aka @wingo) https://twitter.com/andywingo/status/975718647489495041
