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grwster

@grwster@mastodon.social

Industrious slacker. Love spending time in my workshop and getting outdoors with my wife and our dogs. Have been known to brew beer and mix cocktails.

You can also find me at Counterwave Labs (https://labs.counterwave.com), where we make puzzles like OMBY — The Moby-Dick Unscrambling Game (https://www.counterwavegames.com/omby).

Previously at Sun, Apple, Verisign, HP, and several startups in between, working on distributed and federated systems.

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rasterweb, to random
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Why do we have so many programming languages!?

grwster,
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@rasterweb for the same reason we don’t use channel lock pliers for every job? general purpose tools are great, but they always fall short on any specific task

ai6yr, to random
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My 9 year old nephew (who lives in a city) refers to people who are between 18-25 "New Hires". As in "hey, look at all those New Hires" and "I saw a lot of New Hires heading to the bar". 😂

grwster,
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@ai6yr those new hire years were good years ;-)

b0rk, (edited ) to random
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some folks have been asking what the difference between this git zine I've been writing and "Oh Shit, Git!" (which we published in 2018) is.

The main difference is that Oh Shit, Git! is about how to get out of git messes. The new zine explains why those messes happen in the first place. I think they're both very important.

Also, I didn't come up with Oh Shit, Git! Katie Sylor-Miller made https://ohshitgit.com, I was a huge fan, and we made it a zine together.

https://wizardzines.com/zines/oh-shit-git/

grwster,
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@b0rk Just so you know, you've already helped me out ;-)

I used 'git rebase' the other day when, previously, I would have just used 'git merge' because it was more familiar: https://mastodon.social/@grwster/112295193314255368

mcnees, to random
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LaTeX friends!

I’m looking for a modern and native (not electron) mac OS text editor that might take the place of textmate in my latex workflow.

I'm hoping to find something with existing bundles / scripts / extensions comparable to textmate’s LaTeX bundle. The great "Watch Document" feature works so much better than “latexmk -pvc”.

Any recs? I feel like the pickings are slim. When a nice native editor has any LaTeX support it's usually just syntax highlighting and a basic build script.

grwster,
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@mcnees I use emacs, but I don't think that's what you're looking for.

There are some more IDE-like apps around, like TeXworks, but that's probably not what you're looking for either. I even (just now) found a new one, Compositor, that looks pretty nice https://compositorapp.com

jwz, to random
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Let's check in on how Kickstarter's "pivot to blockchain" worked out.

David Gerard:

Kickstarter is a crowdfunding platform. You put up a planned creative work, get pledges, and Kickstarter takes a percentage. This is pretty simple. There are very few...
https://jwz.org/b/ykOv

grwster,
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@jwz Capital is a carcinogen

ai6yr, to random
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Hmm, I wonder how old this cookbook from Vermont is...

grwster,
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@ai6yr Huh, the W in 1869-W probably refers to a branch office to the West of downtown “Cities soon needed additional branch offices some distance from Central, to accommodate the subscriber base and expanding area, as a single office typically served a maximum of ten thousand telephone numbers. Often, additional central offices might be named by the directions of the compass, North, South, East, and West.” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_exchange_names

jef, to random
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Just got to Mayor Breed's Vision Zero announcement and

grwster,
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@mattblaze @jef https://www.sfmta.com/getting-around/walk/daylighting

rasterweb, to random
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For those of you who follow me I just want you to know I have no idea where I'm going...

grwster,
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@rasterweb saw a shirt today in my running group “Don’t follow me, I do stupid things” ;-)

rasterweb, to macos
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I came in this morning after being out for a week and had to close about 150 warning dialogs in macOS.

It's a shame no one gives a fuck about what happens in a UI when shit goes wrong.

(I ended up writing a script to click and close them all.)

#macOS #error #UI

grwster,
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@rasterweb there was a System 7 extension called Okie Dokie that would click OK on modal dialogs to keep them from hanging up an unattended computer

gedeonm, to random
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Watching

grwster,
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@gedeonm Barbie was robbed

rasterweb, to random
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I was telling my wife about someone I know and I said "Well, he started an ISP in the 1990s then sold it for a crap ton of money.... Hmm, I actually know another guy who did the same thing."

My wife asked me why I didn't start and then sell an ISP in the 1990s...

My only answer was that I was punk as fuck and then had to get a job at a corporation to survive.

grwster,
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@rasterweb Hah, we started an ISP in the 90s, in the garage of a rental house, but we didn’t get the memo about selling it for a lot of money… instead, it turned into a cooperative / commune ;-)

jwz, to random
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My "device", I am told, might be "unverified"

There's a new trend of sites' CDNs inserting multi-second interstitials that distract you with a spinner to make you think they are doing something.

I find these vaguely threatening. They come with the...
https://jwz.org/b/ykNJ

grwster,
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@jwz Content Delay Network

rasterweb, to pizza
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I wrote up a post about my first experience using a pizza steel. (The results were amazing!)

➡️ https://rasterweb.net/raster/2024/02/16/pizza-steel-first-attempt/

#pizza #food #baking

grwster,
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@rasterweb @digitaylor Aha, came here to ask if you previously used a stone. I’ve also been making pizza at home for 20 years or so and love our stone. I guess the steel would have a higher heat capacity… intriguing

clive, to random
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All right PEOPLE of MASTODON 🐘

It's time for ...

... "the opposite of doomscrolling" 🌞

My latest "Linkfest" newsletter has just dropped 🤘

Free for anyone to read and subscribe here 📬 -- toss in support if you want (and can): https://buttondown.email/clivethompson/archive/linkfest-18-infinite-crafting-the-reverse/

Includes:

⚙️ a gearbox that will outlive the universe
🔋 "frankenstein batteries"
🍞 how to get free sourdough starter that began in 1847
💡 trapping "phonons"
🛠️ "infinite crafting" video game
🏃 why women dominate in ultramarathons

AND MORE

grwster,
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@clive Hah, have you seen Machine With Concrete at Exploratorium is SF? https://www.exploratorium.edu/exhibits/machine-with-concrete

grwster,
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@clive @futurebird It looks like the artist, Arthur Ganson, has a related work Behold the Big Bang at the MIT Museum in Cambridge https://www.arthurganson.com/beholding-the-big-bang

jwz, to random
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Tamper-Evident SOMA Nature Walk.

Anyone know what these things are? They are recently stuck to nearly every sidewalk hatch on Folsom. Obviously they're tamper-evident seals, but my spidey sense tells me there's some kind of wireless electronics in them.
https://jwz.org/b/ykMX

grwster,
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@jwz +1 for APEC, saw them around Moscone then

rasterweb, to art
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Here's a little blue whale shark for you...

#art #printMaking #whaleShark #whale #shark

grwster,
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@rasterweb Ooh, I would buy one of these if you’re selling them!

docpop, to SanFrancisco
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I went for a short walk on today and bumped into Amos Goldbaum, a local muralist whose distinct line art can be seen all over . I'm going to grab my microphone, then come back up the hill for a quick interview with him. Anything you'd like me to ask Amos about his work? Check out his site here: https://www.amosgoldbaum.com/

A closer look at a finished mural by Amos. The art is on a large concrete wall. The background is a dark grey, the art is a light blue. The art is painted in a consistent line width with no shading or fills. It shows buildings and landmarks in San Francisco and on Bernal Hill.
A photo of Sutro Tower that was taken from the same spot where Amos's mural is now. The photo shows the view that you would see if you turned around from the concrete wall and looked out at San Francisco on a beautiful day.

grwster,
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@docpop @epu love his mural at Kiss My Seoul!

rasterweb, to random
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I saw some dude's profile on LinkedIn listed his job as "retired" and I said "why the fuck you on LinkedIn if you're retired!?" and then I realized I was on LinkedIn and then I threw the computer out the window...

grwster,
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@rasterweb for dudes of a certain (retirement) age, linkedin is the social network for connecting with people you don't want to friend on facebook ;-)

rasterweb, to art
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Progress on my "30 prints in 30 days" which is really going be be like "40 prints in 31 days" at this rate. If you like a rambling narrative about art... here it is!

➡️ https://rasterweb.net/raster/2024/01/19/january-prints-in-progress-part-ii/

grwster,
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@rasterweb Oh man, I love the idea of 3d printing plates. Nice!

rasterweb, to 3DPrinting
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Look, I don't know if anyone reads my posts, but I do! Sometimes I dig up things I wrote if I forget them. So it's my notebook, but you can look at it.

This time it's getting & setting the viewing angles in OpenSCAD.

(As usual, if you know more than I do please feel free to correct me!)

➡️ https://rasterweb.net/raster/2023/11/10/openscad-viewing-angles/

grwster,
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@rasterweb Nice! I’ll be using that

kentbrew, to Trivia
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Today I learned that the first MP3 was Suzanna Vega singing "Tom's Diner" acapella. Lots of other great stuff at neal.fun!

https://neal.fun/internet-artifacts/first-mp3/

grwster,
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@kentbrew Neat! Reading through the MP3 Wikipedia page it sounds like that would have been in the early 90s

grwster, to random
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A few people asked, so I made some more "spectre" puzzles and listed them for sale on Etsy https://www.etsy.com/shop/grwster

All of the parts for a Fifty-Six Spectres Monopuzzle, with the border assembled
A bagged Fifty-Six Spectres Monopuzzle

grwster,
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If there's sufficient interest, I might do the same with the "hat" puzzle

grwster,
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There was sufficient interest, so I made some more "hat" puzzles and listed them for sale on Etsy https://etsy.com/shop/grwster

A bagged Fifty-Six Hats Monopuzzle

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