that cms guy @cms@mastodon.social
- Keybase
- cms
- Human Name
- Colin M. Strickland
- Internet Name
- cms
- Secret Name
- Website
- https://beatworm.co.uk/
I built the IMDb message boards. I ran the last.fm databases. I rendered the picturebooks at Wonderbly. I survived Makeshift. Good at naming things.
Joined Apr 2017
I swapped my terrible stock amber control knobs for nice ivory/parchment ones
I really like unexpected real-world side-channel attacks https://cacm.acm.org/news/246744-picking-locks-with-audio-technology/fulltext
Is Wild at Heart my favourite Lynch movie? It just might be. Can it be 30 years? Apparently so. https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/aug/17/wild-at-heart-at-30-david-lynchs-divisive-and-unruly-road-movie
Maybe running out of money is not the real problem at Mozilla. What if it's getting all the money in the first place, and then reinventing itself to be dependent on this to function.
My feed of toots is bare 🤔
I have run out of #kinnie
I baked a loaf of bread! I had assistance, some of it robotic. https://www.beatworm.co.uk/blog/baking/breadbot
It took me a long time to find one, in these interesting times, but I just deployed an automatic breadmaker.
that cms guy
boosted
Starting a new thread to talk about Daniel Ingalls' wonderful "Evolution of Smalltalk" paper from June 2020, via @smuglispweenie
https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3386335
I really love the simplicity of Smalltalk-72 and I wish we could re-investigate something like it. Even Lua or Io aren't quite this simple.
<< To evaluate a token stream representing an expression, control is passed to the object represented by the first token, and the remainder of the stream is passed to it as a message. >>
why does it seem like the ancient greeks percieved colour so very differently from us https://aeon.co/essays/can-we-hope-to-understand-how-the-greeks-saw-their-world
Tiny Pilot! Homebrew KVM over IP Kind of surprised that this works, but it's a neat idea if you have too many headless home servers (and I do).
pondering the ethics of submitting improvements to software libraries you dislike
Topped off my #website rebuild and redeploy with a #selfhosted #analytics counter using goatcounter, which has has a very small footprint and doesn't try to do stateful tracking. I can't pretend that the name wasn't a large part of the appeal. #goat Pretty straightforward to run it alongside the site in another small LXC container.
I blogged about masks. Masks are cool. I can't be the only person who enjoys the excuse to hide their face.
https://www.beatworm.co.uk/blog/me/masked-man-of-mystery
- Keybase
- cms
- Human Name
- Colin M. Strickland
- Internet Name
- cms
- Secret Name
- Website
- https://beatworm.co.uk/
I built the IMDb message boards. I ran the last.fm databases. I rendered the picturebooks at Wonderbly. I survived Makeshift. Good at naming things.
Joined Apr 2017
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