tosbourn

tosbourn, 2 months ago to writing

I've started down a copy editing rabbit hole and I'm loving it.

I wanted to remove the word "basically" from any old blog post where it didn't make sense. (you don't "basically, do something" you "do something")

As I was going through I kept on finding other examples of words that could be clipped.

• essentially
• probably
• possibly
• just
• you need to
• trivial

This isn't even the full list!

80% of the time the sentence reads better without further edits

#Writing #Editing

tosbourn, 2 months ago to ruby

jemalloc is some job!

#Ruby #RubyOnRails

tosbourn, 2 months ago to random

@ianRobinson just came across this wholesome video of someone reacting to Bohemian Rhapsody and I thought you’d appreciate!

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZGemPv8N1/

samir, 2 months ago to random

Sleep is just VACUUM FULL for your brain.

tosbourn, 2 months ago to random

Beatboxing is a form of vocal percussion primarily involving the art of mimicking drum machines, using one's mouth. It may also involve vocal imitation of turntablism, and other musical instruments.

Bleatboxing is that. But goats.

tosbourn, 2 months ago to AppleMusic

Anyone use Apple Music?

https://music.apple.com/profile/tosbourn

Let’s be friends!

#AppleMusic

tosbourn, 2 months ago to random

Imagine a world where we linked to text instead of taking screenshots of it.

Glorious

tosbourn, 2 months ago to random

@stux (hopefully) quick question.

When setting a featured hashtag I write them #likeThis for accessibility and legibility reasons

Masto appears to normalise them #likethis

I'm guessing this is a software thing I should open a bug for, and not a per-instance thing?

tosbourn, 2 months ago to random

Some Rails apps deploy super quick on Heroku and some really drag.

Sometimes it is really hard to see what is causing the hold up, I'd love to spend the time to understand it more.

#RubyOnRails

tosbourn, 2 months ago to random

I've been bitten one too many times when my text editor formats an entire file on save.

With VS Code, you can change this to only format lines you've actively edited as part of your recent changes. Which is pretty cool.

The setting you want to look for is "Editor: Format on save mode"

https://tosbourn.com/configure-vs-code-to-only-format-changed-lines/

tosbourn, 2 months ago to random

Being able to create little tasks from within several Google apps and assign them is really quite powerful.

As is being able to see a list of your tasks from across loads of different contexts and projects.

But, but, but. I don't have any faith that they won't silently or not-so-silently nuke that feature, so there is no way I can use this as anything other than a scratchpad.

threedaymonk, 2 months ago to random

Do you use #FreeAgent? Do you have a business savings account with #Aldermore? Are you inconvenienced by the complete lack of statement downloads in their redesigned site?

This might help: https://po-ru.com/2024/04/02/a-bookmarklet-to-download-aldermore-statements-for-freeagent

tosbourn, 2 months ago to random

I just spent way too long jumping between XML groking, regex writing, bash scripting, to import bowel movement data from a closed system to an open one.

Ask me anything.

tosbourn, 2 months ago to random

Did anything ever replace feedburner for RSS stats?

tosbourn, 2 months ago to random

I love this;

We are under DDoS attack and we do nothing

https://tableplus.com/blog/2024/03/how-we-deal-with-ddos.html

Long live the monolith!