How To Make VERTICAL VIDEOS in iMovie - the RIGHT WAY!
Probably the best method I've seen yet for how to make YouTube Short style videos in iMove.
How to Resize Videos for YouTube Shorts Using iMovie
Handy little hack to resize videos, in iMovie, so they're friendly for YouTube Shorts.
HN: Lessons I learned from working full-time on a FOSS project for 503 days
A submission to HackerNews of Rodrigo's blog post about working at and on Textual. What's pretty funny in the comments is the speculation about how Textualize would make money, which shows that some folk were speculating on the post without actually having read it.
So nothing new for HN there.
Elon Musk Didn’t Want His Latest Deposition Released. Here It Is.
I'm shocked! Shocked! Shocked I tell you!
vygr/ChrysaLisp: Parallel OS, with GUI, Terminal, OO Assembler, Class libraries, C-Script compiler, Lisp interpreter and more...
A Lisp-based operating system that can be run on many machines, and under the "main" OS.
A Microcosm of the interactions in Open Source projects
Some background on how the xz backdoor situation arose.
Open Source Maintainers Owe You Nothing
A reminder that FOSS project developers owe you nothing, at least under the license. The only way you're ever owned anything is if they've directly contracted them.
503 days working full-time on FOSS: lessons learned
Rodrigo's history of working at Textualize, mention of the layoffs, and what he learned during the time.
The Rise, Fall, and Surprising Survival of dBase
A history of dBase.
Everything I know about the XZ backdoor
A timeline of the events in the creation of the xz backdoor.
The (in)famous reddit "how did you take that photo?" thread
Fairly famous thread on reddit where someone took a photo of their tats, showing both hands, and someone asks how they took the photo, and then they ask how they took the photo of how they took the photo, etc...
Will's Tweet announcing that I was going to join Textualize
"In a fantasy tech startup, who would you hire?
For me it would be @davepdotorg and @mathsppblog
But it's no fantasy. Dave and Rodrigo will be starting at Textualize. They will be helping me build Textual. The TUI framework for #Python that will eat some of the browser's lunch."
Our Subtle Habit of Misusing Managerial Authority
Quote that sums up something that’s been bugging me for months: “When we use managerial authority as the easy way out of an uncomfortable situation—whether we do so in the absence of skill, to save time, or to avoid unpleasant emotions—we do so at the expense of earned trust between ourselves and our employees.”
The mess that is Canonical job adverts and interviews
I noticed that job sites have a lot of adverts for positions at Canonical, and I also noticed that their application process seemed weirdly obsessed with "highschool" (despite claiming to be very global in their recruitment practices).
Little did I know...
Mondo 2000 - Anarchivism
Mondo 2000 was a glossy cyberculture magazine published in California during the 1980s and 1990s. It covered cyberpunk topics such as virtual reality and smart drugs. It was a more anarchic and subversive prototype for the later-founded Wired Magazine.
Deleted Scenes | Starship Troopers (1997)
Starship Troopers is one of my very favourite movies. It's rare that I see deleted scences for a movie, espeailly one I love, and think "damn I'm glad this got deleted, this would have made the movie so much worse!".
I'm so glad these scenes are deleted; I feel they would have made the movie so much worse!
Fragile Express pin
A Fragile Express pin. Need I say more?
WidgetToggler: macOS Sonoma Widget Toggler for the Tray Bar - Easily Show and Hide Widgets
Handy-looking tool that can be used to quickly show/hide desktop widgets. I love desktop widgets on macOS, but if I want to share my screen I don't need folk seeing my Reminders list or my calendar...
It's Time to Stop Giving Unsolicited Advice
While not the best-written article (it seems to want to appear to be knowedgable, but also seems to do the common misuse of "passive agressive") it does cover some helpful examples of why unsolicitied advice is a shitty thing to provide.
Audible Tools
Tool for removing the DRM from Audible books.
Grapheme Clusters and Terminal Emulators – Mitchell Hashimoto
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Okay, it's kinda useful actualy.
Automate the Litra Beam - Share your Projects! - Home Assistant Community
Possibly useful information if I want to do fun things with my new Litra Beam desk light. Could actually be a fun little thing to wrap in a Textual app.
Blurring the lines between shell and editor
Cool things to do to blur the line between Emacs and Eshell.
anathema: A theme library for CLIM applications - Codeberg.org
Theme library for McCLIM applications.
Refresh Rate Test - Check Monitor Hz Online
Check the refresh reate of your monitor, in the browser.
Input: Fonts for Code
Tidy font to remember any time I get the itch to change my editor or terminal font.
The disappointing tea.xyz
Another week, another example of crypto spoiling things. Imagine the worst parts of Hacktoberfest only with added crypto. Yeah, it's that bad.
A Retrospective on Requests
As per the title: a retrospective of requests.
Possibly killer quote: "After receiving our first security disclosure, I was told that Requests wasn't a serious project but instead one person's art project and thus we shouldn't fix the vulnerability. This was despite the project being touted as being used by multiple international government agencies, political campaigns, and boasting about it's #1 download spot on PyPI. So when I say it might be artful, I'm trying to take a neutral stance on what is art and what isn't art and whether the internals of Requests are actually beautiful art."
Lem
A programmer's editor written in Common Lisp, written for Common Lisp, which aims to be a good Common Lisp IDE; but which also works as an IDE for other languages too.
Think Emacs in Common Lisp.
Unsolicited advice is always criticism
Toot that's an image of a capture from Twitter, or something. The content is good though. What's even better is the unironic near-meltdown of some of the replies and the way they totally miss the point, pretty much thereby demonstrating it.