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The guy is playing out this narrative in which a Duplo mobile prison built for a Beasty Support (a wooden rail support animated by a magic/sci-fi spray, per Dog Man) has been hijacked by Diesel 10 (a more or less evil engine from Thomas the Tank Engine). He and the Beasty Support have trapped Percy and some other engine in it and have driven it to the kitchen. I feel this is at par with prestige TV writing.
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@godtributes is back with tributes about wifflebats and tetraneutrons, much like before. However, it now has RSS!
I couldn't get to sleep, so I got up and did this. Computer stuff is a bad idea when you can't sleep, but 1) I was having anxiety about all the stuff I haven't gotten done and 2) this is much more mechanical (as opposed to thinking) work than most of my current projects.
Porting a bot that used to post to Twitter to post to a web site and an RSS feed doesn't involve much thinking, but there are quite a few steps. For future reference, I had to:
- Update the bot posting code to post to note-taker.
- Add a note-taker config for the bot.
- Set up the directory and git repo on the server for note-taker to write to
- Set up a bare repo for that git repo to be pushed to
- Add a cron job to push that repo
- Set up a directory and git repo on my backup server to pull from that bare repo
- Reenable the cron job that made the bot post
- Add a redirect to the nginx config to send people that go to the old archive location to the new one.
- Add the bot's links to the bot index.
And it all requires just a tiny bit of human judgment, enough to make it not work automating. -
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Wiped. Did not feel the effect of waking up in the middle of the night until about 3 PM.
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My colleague Aliza made this: Discover Quickly
It does what it says on the tin — it's very handy for getting a sense of what's in a playlist or album. I like that also incidentally gives you an album cover graph/collage of a playlist. -
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Good project night! Mostly chatting, but also a lot of handy (for me, at least) project feedback, and some significant code was written!
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Also, I had a bunch of thoughts about the Trump essay in the Rebecca Solnit book, but for time's sake, they boil down to this: I'm not sure her assumption that Trump is being defeated by being hated is correct. I'm not sure she's incorrect, either.
It's true that the presidency isn't what he expected and that he would prefer to be admired and adored. However, he may be somewhat like his followers. They don't care that you loathe them; the important thing is that you give attention to them. A lot of them are well beyond expecting to be loved, and they just want to "own the libs"; to get a reaction. They're sort of like the company Twitter: Any sort of engagement counts as a win.
Again, Trump may not be like the neo-Nazi alt right in this regard. But he might be.
Incidentally, if you haven't read Rebecca Solnit's "Death by Gentrification" essay, you should. It's a really lucid look at the ways in which the privileged end up actually killing people. -
Oh, yeah: 10-4-4-3-4 today.
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Free metal album cover.
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Reading about Christopher Robin Milne further cements the idea that it's a bad idea to make your child famous.
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