Another nugget from my dive through the SSB docs:

"The ssb protocol was initially implemented in javascript, and it relied heavily on implicit behavior of the node js runtime. People (including the authors of this specification) have called the message format "bizarre" and worse, and that is entirely justified. But when during reading you inevitably think "How could anybody end up with this, I could have done a much better job.", then remember: Maybe you could have, but you didn't."

Where historical context is lost, digital art seems like it is new, but is impoverished without its original grounding in craft.

Added umami tracking to my personal site. I don’t have huge traffic but it was useful to discover people reach my site from the cool merveilles search engine https://lieu.cblgh.org

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We are getting into app shell / micro frontends at work. Excited to share experience with webpack module federation in a few weeks.

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Just finished a backup script to tar the screenshots that pile up on my system. I keep coming back to PERL for tasks like this. Closer to normal programming then BASH but still great shell interlope.

Learned that getting date strings is pretty easy. 🧅⏱👍

use POSIX qw(strftime);

my $tar_name = strftime "pic_dump_%d_%m_%y.tar.gz", localtime;
my $tar_full_path = "/tmp/${tar_name}";

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