I’ve never used a modal single-letter keyboard command in Slack on purpose.
Figure 1. Screenshot of the context menu for a message in slack scrollback detailing all the mistakes you can make if you put Slack the message-in-scrollback mode, specifically consisting of these accidents:Mark unread URemind me about this > Forward message... FCopy link LPin to channel PStart a huddle in thread...Edit message E.
Gravely googling: reliable source of pearl onions in sf fresh or frozen
it’s only coq au vin, small shallots will do
Figure 1. mise for coq au vin: a cutting board with diced carrots on top of a board scraper, quartered mushrooms, smashed garlic, peeled shallots, minced parsley, and diced potatoes (for a side). left to right behind the board: a few cups of broth with gelatin in a measuring cup, a peeler, a bottle of red wine, a compost container, ands a chef knife.
Goth surrealist tangential punny folklore ghost stories? Idk what the hell I just read and if it was a TV show I’d turn it off but I can read stuff like this all day long (and just did).
Figure 2. the paperback cover of “Magic for Beginners”, Stories by Kelly Link. An illustration of a woman with black hair parted down the middle, a long black doubled-over pearl necklace, and multiple rings and black wristbands in a black t-shirt holds a ferret? looking left (pretty goth imo), over a blue background. A sky blue rectangle with the corners clipped (as if it was a card tucked into cuts in the cover) is covered w/ the title in all caps sans, the authors name below in light blue over the blue background.Per Link’s website: The cover is modeled on Leonardo Da Vinci’s “Lady with an Ermine.”
Had to move the adirondack i was sunning myself in about fifteen feet into a clearing because the trees above where it was initially are so full of bees that every other thought i had was “buzz”
Figure 1. photo of a Sequoia grove to me east, the rising sun above, blue skies behind.
🏁 what I’m considering Glen Park and Diamond Heights, bound by Portola, Diamond Heights Blvd, San Jose, Bosworth, and O’Shaughnessy Blvd
🏁 what I’m considering Potrero Hill, bound by Division, 280, Cesar Chavez, and 101
Figure 1. A San Francisco street map centering the area bound by Market, 3rd street, 280, and Twin Peaks, on which most streets have a meandering purple GPS path I’ve logged on it, generally completing (in order I walked it) Noe Valley, Bernal Heights, the Inner Mission, Mission Dolores, the Castro, Eureka Valley, Glen Park, Diamond Heights, and Potrero Hill.
Tenth book of 2024: “Pnin", by Vladimir Nabokov. Nice.
Figure 1. the current Vintage International paperback cover of “Pnin” by Vladimir Nabovkov, as I read it:a black leather frame that is set on and shadows a white field contains a bow tie constructed of two or three pieces of maroon paper covered with the lowercase typewritten letters p, n, i, and n in repetitive 8 letter blocks is affixed to white board with sewing pins.and a strip of cream paper with “Pnin” typewritten below,.
Unexpected tiling window manager bonus: image popovers immediately get tiled to the same size
I never really got into these things because I guess it never occurred to me that they would have pleasant margin options for single app configs, which for some reason I kinda prefer (tiled round rect windows and drop shadows at 0px margin and padding look weird, to me)
MoomMove, zoom, and snap windows. Arrange windows in layouts. Auto-adjust to display setups.Many Tricks (opens in a new tab)Figure 2. Link preview of https://manytricks.com/moom/, "Moom".Figure 3. screenshot of a computer desktop with the mastodon application Ivory open and filling nearly the entire screen. floating over Ivory’s main window is an image open in a window about 1/3 the size of the main window by volume, which seems to have been the default way to “show image” since lightbox.js ten or fifteen years ago or whatever.Figure 4. the same image loaded on the same computer with nothing changed except that Amethyst is running and instantly yoinked the image to fill the entire screen, which is always what I wanted when I tell the computer to “show image” or whatever, instead of lightbox.js style nonsense.
it’s a little 2 mile loop with a steep stepped shortcut up from the bottom to the top. also, you can walk on the letters. also also, if you bring cardboard you can slide on a few of them even.
Figure 1. wide angle photograph looking up hill at the huge ‘L’ from “INDUSTRIAL”.
