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Wim Wenders’ Closet Picks from The Criterion Collection

The legendary auteur returns to the closet, the first person who has been allowed to visit for a second time, and it is as charming as you would expect it to be. He selects new editions of favorite films like Down by Law and Wanda, talks about Kurosawa’s genius for recreating weather on-screen, and shouts out his former assistant director Claire Denis. He even calls out his favorite of his own…

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JavaScript bloat

This makes me want to see what my WordPress site here looks like. Kind of wish the author had taken the step of seeing what was being downloaded not just how much. But, that would be a fun learning experience. https://tonsky.me/blog/js-bloat/

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a public commonplace book

I have always loved the idea of commonplace books, a writers sketch book, more or less. Digital versions in things like tickler files have tempted me down the path into many failed or abandoned organizational systems. I have tried to keep physical ones, digital ones, even have a magical one as part of a novel. For a long time now I have been saving notes in a digital commonplace book. (I don’t…

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2023-09-25

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CTHUGHA and OpenGL

So, to recap, I decided to revive an old piece of software, because corona-virus induced sheltering in place had left me a little bonkers. Last update I talked about how I got it at least limping along. Before I went too far, I set out some goals: Cross-platform – has to run on both Mac and PC, Linux an added bonus. Maybe mobile. Modern C++ for new code – any significant new code will have to…

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Markdown Tables Suck

In the process of moving all of my notes from one app to another, a blog post for another day, and the biggest pain point so far has been editing Markdown tables. The app I am going from has a lot of tables, and the app I am going to does everything in Markdown (light weight formatting for plain text files but gives you enough bells and whistles for things like notes and scraping webpages). The…

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Arthur Suydam, 1981