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New blog post, More Clocks than Time

New blog post, More Clocks than Time, inspired by having to change so many of them last night for the switch to DST.

Cross-posted to both web and gemini.

K2R: More Clocks than Time
Gemlog: More Clocks than Time
Walking around the house last night, setting all the clocks to Daylight Saving Time before bed, I found myself thinking: Why do we have so many clocks, anyway?

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OK, I think the console has finished cycling through the accidental tab-hits on an empty …

OK, I think the console has finished cycling through the accidental tab-hits on an empty command line and the long pause while autocomplete enumerates every executable file in the current path so it can give me an exact number when it asks if I really want to list them all

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Ugh, no, it’s doing it on *all* tab-completion now (plus briefly flashing the screen white). I can’t remember what I had to do to fix it last time, and my search terms are failing me.

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Oh, right, the flashing white screen is just the visual equivalent of the alert when sound is off.

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Argh. you know what? It’s 5pm on Friday. Time to just reboot and deal with it on Monday

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It’s still very experimental, but I’m messing around with gemini at my new capsule…

It’s still very experimental, but I’m messing around with #gemini at my new capsule, gemini://hyperborea.org

So far I’ve copied a few pages from my website and started a #gemlog. Mostly I’m trying to get a good sense of what works best in the ultra-minimalist environment. I’ll probably still be moving things around for a while.

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Pages copied over so far include tech troubleshooting and some old MIDI files. The log’s mostly a subset of my blog so far (life, tech & entertainment catgegories), plus some recent posts on my early impressions of Gemini itself.

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Question for #gemini users – is there a consensus on the best way to handle photo galleries?

Question for #gemini users – is there a consensus on the best way to handle photo galleries? Browsing around I’ve mostly seen just index pages with links, which I suppose works, but it feels like the old days of Twitter when you had to click on a link to twitpic or yfrog or wherever and there was no preview to give you any hint unless the author posted a good description in the tweet.

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I do like the way Lagrange handles that case, though, loading the linked image inline when you click on the link. It helps to avoid losing the context of where you are.

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There is apparently a version of the Iditarod that people *run on foot* !?!?!?

There is apparently a version of the Iditarod that people *run on foot* !?!?!?

The part where the author’s running partner can’t sleep and is having hallucinations while running is just kind of….what are you DOING?

Ten Days, 350 Miles, and Countless Moose Encounters: What It’s Like Running the Iditarod

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Covid adjacent, office

It’s now been a year since I’ve been to the office.

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Weirdly enough I kind of miss the commute. Not having to do it every day, but the excuse to get out, and having a physical separation between work and home mentalities.

They’re planning to keep most of the dev team remote once in person offices are a thing again. Just bring us in for meetings and stuff. Which will work better once the kid is back in physical school, too, because JFC the whining…

Probably ought to ask if they want the card keys & parking pass back for the old office.