Ryan 🔇📯 @foureyedsoul@octodon.social

#Boise's skyline looked pretty good tonight!

(I'm still learning how to use this low-light photo app; the foreground/light contrast looked much starker to my eyes than in this pic.)

Stoked to realize I might actually be pulling off this part-time Ph.D. thing. If my past credits transfer correctly & the class schedule aligns next semester, it should be the last I'll have to commute across the state once a week for classes.

Looking forward to focusing on actually researching & writing, if I do get that far. Even after a year, it still feels so shaky I rarely mention it beyond coworkers.

Strange how relaxing, almost therapeutic, it is to do freeCodeCamp tutorials.

Almost certainly the best thing about today was that when the big bottle of Cholula ran out, i already had another big bottle of Cholula.

But really… how does one circadian rhythm?

Sitting here in the Subaru dealership with Bowie on their stereo, thinking about their old "just made that way" slogan.

The existence of this project gives me inexplicable (& kinda needed) joy. It's a LaTeX package for typesetting contra and square dances!
https://bitbucket.org/SamWhited/contracard

Very hot take: fewer bass drops, more recapitulations of the theme with funky handclaps.

So the fun thing I've learned tonight is that WordPress's wysiwyg-ish visual editor view strips any <thead></thead> content you might have previously saved in the code editor view.

@inkdroid @cm_harlow Please do let us know if you find something better!

I wasn't initially aware that standard Reveal has some accessibility issues, but Marcy Sutton has made a plug-in that apparently makes it less redundant for folks who use screen readers: https://github.com/marcysutton/reveal-a11y

Figured you'd likely want to know if you don't already.

@NthTensor I keep going back and forth between 8 trunks and 8 tusks. Pretty sure the "don" refers to "tooth" in Greek, but the Github octocat logo kinda has 8 arms…

So I guess I vote "yes"?

@ruth Hey, just wanted to say thanks for the write-up you made of Mastodon. Very much clarified the various post types for me!

@naxuu Good work writing about it with a status that would fly on oulipo.social, too. I'm still figuring out if I'll go with `four_y_dsoul` on it or what.

@cm_harlow Hey, thanks for the rec! I've been wanting to use Pandoc more often. Right now I mostly just follow this tutorial so I can use BibTeX: http://programminghistorian.org/lessons/sustainable-authorship-in-plain-text-using-pandoc-and-markdown

Gah, having to reformat something mostly by hand from markdown to Word (because of line breaks and Reasons). I missed the day the class decided to go with Word .docx format instead of .txt files. For online "archives." 🙃