Notes

What do you think, will it work?

I added ActivityPub/Fediverse stuff to
http://plan.cat so you can now follow user .plan updates by subscribing to @user@plan.cat

This is why OpenBSD has separate misc@ and tech@ mailing lists. Most developers aren't on misc@ and the whiners aren't on tech@ (except for me).
https://twitter.com/awesomekling/status/1583020418817880064

Google's "Sign in with Google" Javascript has started showing this big dialog as soon as the page loads, on at least Twitter and eBay. On Twitter's website it covers up the "Sign up with Apple" and regular email signup buttons. Seems kinda... anti-competitive?

Watching a video of someone stepping through an uglified version of your code that you never planned on releasing is like a code review from hell, but @awesomekling@twitter.com does it with grace :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62L0Skd-HTk

BBSing at 300 Bits Per Second

https://jcs.org/2022/10/02/whisper_writer

Whisper quiet compared to a Teletype, I suppose

I got this 3M Whisper Writer 1000 today but it was not able to advance the paper properly. I took it apart and found a cracked plastic piece on the stepper motor, modeled a replacement part, 3D printed it, and it works again.

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VCF Midwest, Wikipedia Reader, and Subterm

https://jcs.org/2022/09/29/vcfmw

Assembling a laptop on stage as you are demoing it to the crowd feels like something only @FrameworkPuter@twitter.com could get away with now (though @gassee@twitter.com does it without any tools)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzlQdWKmPuE

Well, it was this Z-Wave power control thing. When it's connected inline, it causes a buzzing through what I assume is the speaker.

How annoying that I swapped everything except the outlet it was plugged into. It was too loud at VCFMW to hear that it wasn't buzzing.