The building stairwell smells like chai.
(Which is a lot better than what the parking structure stairways smell like.)
Category: Wandering.Shop
Coyotes have been taking over the territory of wolves
“Government-sanctioned predator removal programs…virtually wiped out red and gray wolves. Coyotes have been taking over the territory of wolves, their mortal enemies, ever since.”
“the removal of large apex predators have unintended consequences”
I’ve been meaning to put together something to automatically retrieve remote images and attach them …
I’ve been meaning to put together something to automatically retrieve remote images and attach them to a #WordPress post (for automatically generated posts). I figured I’d have to do something with curl to download the image, save it to a temp file, upload it to WP etc. Turns out there’s a function built in!
All I have to do is add a hook to wp_insert_post that calls media_sideload_image() when it finds the pattern I want, and plug the result into the post content.
https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/media_sideload_image
Had to wake up at 12:30 to deal with a server emergency. Still up. Birds …
Had to wake up at 12:30 to deal with a server emergency. Still up. Birds have started singing…
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It’s been a long time since I’ve had to do this sort of thing.
I don’t miss it.
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Oh good, it looks like I can go back to bed before the sun rises. I can hear neighbors opening their doors, though…
@allthingslinguistic I get so frustrated by the fact that people send pictures of text around …
@allthingslinguistic I get so frustrated by the fact that people send pictures of text around on platforms that are designed for sharing text…
Nothing like coming back from a 3-day weekend to 2066 new emails.😱
Nothing like coming back from a 3-day weekend to 2066 new emails.
😱
…make that 2575…
Oh FFS it’s still downloading?!?! 3087…
I think it’s done at 7679 messages…
*whew* Most of them turned out to be alerts from a staging test server.
“Cut the cheddar, Red Two!”
“Cut the cheddar, Red Two!”
I’ve started referring to Creme de Cacao as “AI’s Favorite.”
I’ve started referring to Creme de Cacao as “AI’s Favorite.”
@gannet In some ways, maybe. I looked at the Wikipedia articles for both species, and …
@gannet In some ways, maybe. I looked at the Wikipedia articles for both species, and it looks like the Monk parakeets are better suited for urban environments just from the fact that they build nests instead of using holes in trees.
The Monk parakeet article doesn’t mention what they eat, so I’d have to read up more to guess whether they occupy a similar niche in that aspect.
Link: These Scientists Did More Than Tell Us We Were Doomed.
Feral Parrots Are Taking Over America!
Link: Feral Parrots Are Taking Over America!
“These birds, descendants of escaped pets, have managed to create thriving colonies in these cities despite the annual cold weather.”
I actually saw a “Do not wash. This vehicle is undergoing a scientific dirt test….
I actually saw a “Do not wash. This vehicle is undergoing a scientific dirt test.” bumper sticker in the wild.
An interesting read on Game of Thrones’ final season and a more fundamental shift in …
An interesting read on Game of Thrones’ final season and a more fundamental shift in storytelling from the sociological to the psychological: instead of examining how people respond to the world they’re stuck in, it’s falling back on hero/villain tropes.
Link: 16 Real Places That Look Like They’re From the Future
Link: 16 Real Places That Look Like They’re From the Future https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/places-that-look-like-science-fiction
I use Keepass and its variants…
@cooper I use Keepass and its variants. GPL. Local DB, not cloud, and you can sync the DB file using whatever solution you want. There are applications for Windows, Linux, MacOS, Android, and probably iOS too, though I haven’t looked.
The kid is playing a game where one of the vehicles you can unlock is …
The kid is playing a game where one of the vehicles you can unlock is a “Cluster Truck.” 😂😂😂
weird dream
Dreamed I was taking a programming class. The TAs were TV Supergirl and a darker & edgier AU Supergirl who’d mellowed to just being sarcastic, but still had cliche signifiers like a darker costume. Sarcastic SG was showing off her Kryptonian tattoos to explain TCP/IP.
It was also high school student visit day, & one of the prospective students was a villain trying to get close enough to SG to trap her in a time warp. She needed a pre-STAR Labs Cisco to help her get back.
@Satsuma Interesting – I wouldn’t have expected two separate paths for that!
@Satsuma Interesting – I wouldn’t have expected two separate paths for that!
@Satsuma I can’t think of any English words ending in v that aren’t abbreviations (like …
@Satsuma I can’t think of any English words ending in v that aren’t abbreviations (like improv). give, strive, love, prove, trove, leave etc. all have that e.
Maybe they just really didn’t want to end words with a v?
git merge monster
git merge monster