Oh, ha ha, there I am! You really know you've made it as an author when the bots have pirated your books!
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/03/search-libgen-data-set/682094/
Way back when my books first hit the shelves, I had some vanity Google search feeds and alerts set up. They kept pinging on results from massive e-book torrents where my stuff appeared, almost immediately after publishing. I really did feel oddly accomplished
@kf Oof, I too have that bike and I, too, tried the practice bus bike racks at the community bike center and was disappointed my tires weren't at all going to fit in there.
My best solution so far was to carry a toolkit & patch kit under the seat, but that's not awesome. I had a chain break once and luckily was only a half mile from a bike shop
@kf I did change the tire on my HSD once on the eastbank esplanade. It was... fun? It did manage to stand up vertically on the back rack stably enough for me to make it work
@kf heh, yeah, I'd have no idea what to do with any of that hardware either 😅
Though, FWIW, we live in NE near alberta park, so 👋
Looking at an old project of mine in github and I just suffered a spike of psychic damage
(last commit was from 20 years ago and it was in subversion 😱 )
@crowdsupply Looks like your URL is missing a final `n`
Reading @brentsimmons write about developing in Frontier from @davew 's UserLand makes me rather nostalgic for that environment!
I never worked at UserLand, but I did work on some Radio UserLand code that came from Frontier for fun. It had some of the flavor of Lisp or Smalltalk - or React component hot-reloading that we didn't get for a decade later.
And the hot patching from the web was pretty dang great. I think the only thing I never figured out was version control
I think the main reason I kept soaking my brain in other things like Perl, Python, PHP, JavaScript, and Ruby back in the era of UserLand & Frontier is that I felt rather desperately compelled to pick up languages & environments used for paying gigs and had to budget time
But, there was a lot that felt really good working in an outliner-based coding environment with a hash-table-based database with a web server and a scheduler all built-in out of the box. Like, you don't really get that even now
Like, these days you'd have to assemble that from a grab-bag of parts dumped on the floor and call it a batteries-included no-sql no-compile hot-reloading opinionated web dev desktop automation super-app
Or something
It's only a podcast if it comes from the Pocket Casts region of my pocket computer. Otherwise it's just a sparkling hangout
(this after I stubbed my brain on "podcasts" that seemed vaguely interesting except they were only on YouTube, TikTok, and Spotify respectively so I couldn't subscribe to them along with everything else I listen to)