Our parents don't usually get as much airtime as, say, our kids, but I've
found that most of us have a lot to say about them anyway.
I'll go first: My mom, Carol, was diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer's
disease a few years ago, and I moved home to San Francisco to take care of
her. After several turbulent years spent trying to keep her at home (even
though she ran out of money) and get a diagnosis (even though she was
uninsured), I'm happy to say she's finally settled at a memory care
facility in Phoenix, AZ. She's doing worse if you zoom out, of course, but
better if you zoom in – thanks to the structure and socialization that the
facility is able to provide. That all sounds neat and tidy, to my ear, but
it has all been and felt very messy.
For reasons mostly related but also unrelated to my mom, I've emerged from
these last few years having lost most of my interest in the technology
industry – and, by extension, in my work. (I know I'm not alone in that
here.) As I've constructed my new normal, I've tried to channel Cory
Doctorow's notion of "bugging in instead of bugging out" by starting a
business <https://www.quiltcoaching.com> that lets me help other people who
are caring for their aging parents, too:
*"What I want is for people to be able to vividly imagine that the heroism
> in the moment of disaster is to avert catastrophe by bugging in instead of
> bugging out. ... If you ever take a first aid class, 99% of that first aid
> class is the knowledge that everyone else is going to assume that someone
> else is going to take care of a problem, and the realization that the
> perfect person doing the perfect thing is less important than any person
> doing something. Even if you know a small amount about looking after
> someone, you should rush forward. Be prepared to get out of the way if
> someone says, 'I'm a doctor,' but rush forward." (Source
> <https://locusmag.com/2017/07/cory-doctorow-bugging-in/>)*
If you think I might be able to help you or someone you know, I'd really
like to try. You can find me at this email address any time, or at
www.quiltcoaching.com.
<3,
Libby
*libby brittain*
elizbrittain(a)gmail.com
415.794.9937
Okay so I have ended up in the possession of a FirstData FD-100 credit
card terminal, and I have been trying to figure out how one would, or if
it would even be possible to, connect it to a computer or raspberry pi
and print arbitrary things with its thermal printer and maybe even
receive input from the keypad. I have so far turned up very little
information, though my information-gathering skills are not too great.
Has anyone maybe got any ideas?
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Enjoy the rest of your day,
~Hazel
tl;dr; We started an NYC list. You can, too. Also, my intro.
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Hi all,
Our NYC meetup was fun, and we want to do more without annoying everyone
else.
So: we made a list for New Yorkers to make plans and complain about stuff.
Sign up here:
https://lists.tildeverse.org/postorius/lists/nyc.lists.tildeverse.org/
To start your own local tilde list, email benharri(a)tilde.club and be ready
to moderate.
In other news, I owe you an intro, so
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Hello /~everyone!
I'm Ben.
You might remember me from:
- The mobile team at Vice, which I hired and managed
- The iOS readers at the New York Times
- The Longform dot org iPhone and iPad apps
- A desktop blog editor for the Mac called "Blogo" back in the aughties
- The Shame Eraser, which AFAIK was the first open-source tweet-deleter
- Any of the other articles I did for ~jwherrman before ~mat took over BF
tech
My relationship with the tilde is complicated. I never wanted to work as a
programmer. (Engineering wasn't "cool" before the App Store.) But my gramps
gave me a Mac in '91, my school taught BASIC and when I graduated it paid
well and came easily.
Now I work on all the cool parts of HR: interviewing employees and
designing infrastructure like hiring and onboarding plans to maintain a
healthy culture. It's like product design, but the "customers" spend
8-14h/day in the product, which I'm sure no one here does with any app.
My tilde is ~bj, but there's nothing there, so please accept this modern,
pink website in its place:
https://ftw.nyc
(Your data will be encrypted with secure socket layer technology)
See you all around,
Ben
P.S. If you identify with an underrepresented group in tech and need advice
on your career, or the company you run, or anything really, I have office
hours at https://ftw.nyc/office-hours and you should book a slot.
--
Ben Jackson
bhjackson(a)gmail.com
@benjaminjackson
http://90wpm.com/about
I typed "ssh mpnordland(a)tilde.club" into my terminal.
What followed was not quite what I had expected...
The MOTD was spouting some nonsense about "Ac1d1c5" owning the box.
Tildizens,
I’ve waited since 2014 for my tilde account and have had a lot of fun the past couple of days.
I noticed you are all a bunch of creative people with a knack for writing terribly crafted html that looks awesome.
I also noticed that we are a community. So what good is a community if we cannot work on something together?
Now while you guys were living under a rock writing goofy shell scripts and honing your html 3.2 skills something terrible happened. It was called web 2.0 and it made everything go south very quickly.
So I’m thinking how about we collectively go south the tilde way and do some of that user generated co creation nonsense that in the outside world ended with the russians tipping the US presidential elections?
So, here’s what I did.
I created an empty html file and made it world writeable. You can find it here:
cd /home/martijn/public_html/thepage/
and in your browser obviously:
https://tilde.club/~martijn/thepage/
All I am asking of you is to please edit that file and leave something there. A text, an image, a gif, a piece of javascript, an invisible html comment, a story, whatever. If you stumble upon something someone else did, you may rearange, enhance or add to it, as long as you do not remove it. If you find something offensive, please do remove it. Aside from that all standard ~ rules apply.
Still with me? Good! There’s one more thing:
To prevent people overwriting eachothers edits, I’ve created a locking system.
Before you edit this file, please execute
ls -lt
in the thepage directory:
total 0
-rw-rw-rw-. 1 martijn club 0 Sep 20 10:38 index.html
-rw-rw-rw-. 1 martijn club 0 Sep 20 10:35 index.lock
If the output looks like the above, where index.html is above index.lock because it’s modification time was more recent, there is no lock on the file and you can proceed to lock it by touching the index.lock file.
touch index.lock
Now if you ls -lt that directory again:
ls -lt
total 0
-rw-rw-rw-. 1 martijn club 0 Sep 20 10:41 index.lock
-rw-rw-rw-. 1 martijn club 0 Sep 20 10:38 index.html
You’ll see that you have successfully placed a lock. You can proceed to edit index.html. Once you are done and you save your changes, the modification date of index.html will be updated and the lock will be lifted automagically.
If you find index.html to be locked, don’t touch it and wait for it to be released, unless the lock is more than 20 minutes old. In that case, by all means ravage whatever the person who locked you out for too long was trying to do.
So, I’m in europe and if you are not, it’s highly likely that I will be asleep when you are reading this. The last thing I want is to wake up tomorow morning and find the same blank canvas I am leaving you now. I want to wake up and see something special, so please don’t disappoint me.
Also: I am open to discussions and suggestions as far as what thepage can be and what it should mean, but I would appreciate if we could find a place for these discussions on thepage itself. That is to say: we do not discuss thepage outside of thepage.
So unless I goofed up and you guys are totally unable to edit these files, don’t let me know if you have any questions, ask thepage. Also, if you enjoy this kind of thing please feel free to come back ocasionally and do some rearranging of whatever state thepage is in. I envision an ever growing and improving library of god knows what all crammed into the confines of a single html file.Help me see what that could look like.
Cheers!
~martijn
Someone turned me onto a Humble Bundle of O'Reilly Linux/Unix books. $15
gets you 15 books.
https://www.humblebundle.com/books/linux-unix-oreilly-books
Here is the list of filenames, not titles, but I'm sure you can sort it
all out.
- bashcookbook
- classicshellscripting
- effectiveawk
- greppocketref
- introducingregularexpressions
- learninggnuemacs_3rdedition
- learningthebashshell_3rdedition
- learningtheviandvimeditors_7thedition
- linuxdevicedrivers
- linuxinanutshell
- linuxpocketguide_3rdedition
- linuxsystemprogramming
- masteringregularexpressions
- sedandawk
- unixpowertools
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~elb
I wrote about this on my tilde page, so more information is there: https://tilde.club/~audiodude/ (https://tilde.club/~audiodude/)
The idea is to set up a Factorio multiplayer server for members of the tildeverse. It would follow the code of conduct of tilde.club, and I would donate the AWS resources necessary.
The post has some links about Factorio if you haven't heard of it. If you have heard of it, you're probably already a fan. I just registered a domain for this so the server would be at tilde.assembly.monster
We could start a new game from scratch or load up someone's save, or whatever. Server settings and map seeds are all up for debate and consensus.
Let me know if there's interest!
-Travis
~audiodude
