David Dykstal
Just downloaded Pharo 9.0. It feels good to be working in Smalltalk again, if only for small things.
black walnuts
a black and green mottled sphere embedded in the grass
a long-handled plastic leaf rake
bend the tines underneath
flip
my woods have one more walnut
only 500 left
Apple is acquiring Primephonic. Good news: somewhat decent classical music discovery and streaming from Apple at some point in the future. Bad news: Primephonic goes off-air on September 7th and doesn’t reappear until Apple gets its act together. Sigh.
Finished reading: Naturalist: A Graphic Adaptation by Edward O. Wilson 📚
Our little travel group (6 couples) has a trip scheduled to NZ in February/March. I’m skeptical about being able to pull it off.
I have yet to find a scheme for general stuff that can take the place of Circus Ponies Notebook. It had pages and sections. Each page was an outline and handled attachments with ease. OneNote sort of comes close but doesn’t quite hack it. Anyone else miss this?
Testing Ulysses
This is a test. It is only a test. Don’t get so worked up about it. :)
Testing some formatting
- I’ve not posted from Ulysses yet.
- Let’s see how this works.
Here is some inline code: cd /home/ddykstal.
Here is some code that I use to reformat text in Drafts.
// Get the full text of the clipping as an array of strings
let a = editor.getText().split("\n");
let b = [];
let knownSources = [
{suffix: " - The Washington Post", source: "The Washington Post"},
{suffix: " - The New York Times", source: "The New York Times"},
{suffix: " : NPR", source: "NPR"},
{suffix: " - POLITICO", source: "POLITICO"},
{suffix: " | MPR News", source: "MPR News"},
{suffix: " | Star Tribune", source: "Star Tribune"},
{suffix: " - StarTribune.com", source: "Star Tribune"},
{suffix: " | MinnPost", source: "MinnPost"},
{suffix: " | The Hill", source: "The Hill"},
{suffix: " | The New Republic", source: "The New Republic"},
{suffix: " - Washington Times", source: "Washington Times"},
];
let found = false;
// copy from a to b, adjusting the Title: line and adding a Source: line if necessary
for (let i = 0; i < a.length; i++) {
let line = a[i];
found = false;
if (line.startsWith("Title: ")) {
for (let j = 0; j < knownSources.length; j++) {
let s = knownSources[j];
if (line.endsWith(s.suffix)) {
found = true;
b.push(line.slice(0, -s.suffix.length));
b.push("Source: " + s.source);
break;
}
}
}
if (!found) {
b.push(line)
}
}
// Set the full text of the clipping
editor.setText(b.join("\n"));
Five minutes before we were able to cross the bridge, the bridge closed due to some sort of security incident. Now waiting along the beautiful Lake Huron shore in Cheboygan Michigan. 😐
On the road again. Ann Arbor to Manistique. Crossing the Mackinac Bridge on the way.
Currently reading: From Yao to Mao: 5000 Years of Chinese History by Kenneth J. Hammond 📚
Currently reading: Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching: A Book about the Way and the Power of the Way by Ursula K. Le Guin 📚
Finished reading: It Can’t Happen Here (Signet Classics) by Sinclair Lewis 📚
Finished reading: The Case of the Lady in the Luggage by Cheri Baker 📚
Finished reading: The Case of the Lady in the Luggage by Cheri Baker 📚
Finished reading: EndTimes by Bryan Walsh 📚
The subject matter is grim, especially on the existential threats we create for ourselves. The book was released in 2019, and accurately predicted the way the science-denying Trump administration would “handle” a pandemic. Fortunately, while SARS-COV-2 was serious, it wasn’t the big one. Other anthropogenic topics covered are the AI apocalypse, nuclear annihilation, climate change, bioterrorism. Add to that the natural existential threats of supervolcanoes and asteroid impacts and you have a book that makes for some interesting reading. The science is presented well.
I “read” the Audible audiobook. The narration was OK, but the narrator tried to assume the accents of the people who are quoted. That didn’t work for me. I would have preferred to actually read the text.