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Kinda neat: I'm getting something shipped from Germany. Deutsche Post gives you a tracking number, but at some point, it says that it sent the package to another country, and you should check out their service to see where it is.
Here, I figured that I have basically been shrugged off at that point. But no! The Deutsche Post tracking number works at USPS.com!
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It took me a while, but I got eslint working for both .js and .ts files. Here's my config.
Part of the trouble was that I didn't even know the linter was failing with previous versions of my config. I'm so used to vim running the linter that it didn't even occur to me to run eslint directly. When I did, I saw the config errors.
Then, I found out that the Typescript linting plugin needs eslint as a peer dependency in the local package, even if you run eslint globally, like I do.
Finally, vim won't show linter error in a file unless it understand how to do syntax highlighting for that kind of file. So, even though I don't really care about syntax highlighting, I installed typescript-vim.
I gotta say, it's really nice that in vim 8 and on, if you want to install a plugin, all you do is clone a git repo to a particular directory. Vundle and pathogen were such a hassle that I decided to just stop using plugins altogether, until now. -
I've thought a few times in the past couple of year about making a Jupyter Notebooks-style app. I always get hung up on how secure I'd need to make it.
It's come up again in a design I was working on, and then I saw this really clean and simple notebooks proof-of-concept. So, I backed up to what even is a reasonable expectation of security for these things? They weren't hard to find, actually.
Here's what Jupyter says:The whole point of Jupyter is arbitrary code execution. We have no desire to limit what can be done with a notebook, which would negatively impact its utility.
Unlike other programs, a Jupyter notebook document includes output. Unlike other documents, that output exists in a context that can execute code (via Javascript).
The security problem we need to solve is that no code should execute just because a user has opened a notebook that they did not write. Like any other program, once a user decides to execute code in a notebook, it is considered trusted, and should be allowed to do anything
I think that's very reasonable, both for users and the developers of notebook-style apps.
Here is Observable's stance:Observable’s security model is that notebook content runs in a sandboxed, crossorigin iframe. This prevents any malicious content in notebooks from being able to access the surrounding page, so the risk of malicious JavaScript modifying the Observable UI, stealing credentials, or other nefarious activity, is nullified. It’s true that on other websites, loading resources from third-parties is a risky proposal given that jsdelivr or unpkg or another site could be taken over. But in the case of Observable, the impact of that would be minimal.
Once you define how far you have to go, this kind of app seems much more makable. -
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Someone emailed me to let me know that a thing I made had a broken link and that they liked it. It is excellent when people do that because, generally, things on the web are thought of as sort of just part of the environment. It's worth putting stuff out regardless in order to contribute to the body of knowledge and art available to humanity, but it's still nice to hear that someone's getting something out of your stuff.
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Always satisfying to get Yakety Sax on something that needs it.
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10-4-4-3-3-3. It's been quite a while since I've worked out two days in a row. Hopefully, I get myself to do one Thursday or Friday.
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10-4-4-4-4-4. Three sets of burpees.
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Chili’s!
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I figured out how to generate random strings made of alpha chars in Google Spreadsheets (unfortunately not available in Airtable):
=concat(char(65 + Floor(RAND()*26)) , concat(char(65 + Floor(RAND()*26)), char(65 + Floor(RAND()*26))))
However, it seems to get recalculated any time I change any other cell in the sheet!
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I stumbled across // Commented, a blog by Sher Minn Chong. There's a lot of really good writing about computers, art, and burnout. I subscribed to the RSS feed but have not read through all of the archives, as I kind of want to avoid burning through it all in one go.
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This bone dance is subtler than the other ones, but I think the chill does it some good.
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10-4-4-4-4-4. They were leisurely, and again, I only got two workouts in this week, but to compensate a little I did three sets of burpees instead two. Good enough, I say! ✓
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The new Blood Incantation album is out! Though the weird thing about single release strategy and an album with only four tracks is that half the album has already been released from a number of tracks perspective. Though in terms of minutes previously released, only about a third of the album has been released since one of the unreleased tracks is eighteen minutes long.
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Maisie Cousin's photography (some NSFW). I really like arranged everyday things made to send a much more intense message.
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