links, etc OldMapsOnline - via the orange site. this was a solid 30 minutes wasted on learning random shit. this is the best collection of U.S. state/territory map changes over time that i’ve seen anywhere. that they go and juice it with rulers/wars/people overlaid on the maps is spot on. BlenderGPT - what. the. actual. fuck? this is awesome and if 20 year old me could see this, he would totally plotz....
the cockroach of gitconfig after every OSX update, or Xcode update, or Xcode command line tools update you will be pestered to hell and back by the ghost of the osxkeychain credential helper dialog box. % sudo nvim /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/share/git-core/gitconfig % sudo nvim /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/usr/share/git-core/gitconfig from [credential] helper = osxkeychain to # [credential] # helper = osxkeychain for some reason this doesn’t get surfaced when running … % git config --get-all --show-origin credential....
notes bookshop link recommended: highly this kept cropping up in the stuff i’ve been reading over the past couple of months. i figured it was time to dig into this again. i read this last in the 1990s. the book holds up extremely well and the mass suspension of critical thought and utopian dystopia it describes seems like something we’ve done a great job of slipping into ever more firmly over the past 10 years....
TIL: home assistant is incredible back in september, i had my first generation wemo stuff go totally flaky with the wemo homekit bridge. the bridge it turns out has been abandonware for a while now and i was blithely skating along on borrowed time. i was loath to replace the working wemo outlets with new ones and i didn’t have the inclination to spend a lot of time digging into replacement options and shell out again....
links, etc SEA-ME-WE 3 (SMW3) Retired on December 2, 2024 - Submarine Networks this is/was a pretty impressive cable system for its time. all of the new cool stuff here is being done by the hyperscalers. i do wonder if there’s an appetite for massively cooperative cables like this anymore.