fredcy

The popular Mandelbrot zoom-in videos all seem to develop rotational symmetry before long, and the order of that symmetry only increases over time. I've assumed that this is artifact of precision errors compounding.

Our PCI-compliance audit dings us for not disabling autocomplete on the login form fields. That's not the same as disabling paste, but heading that direction.

For personal use I just abandon any site that won't let me use my password manager (Bitwarden).

Going to the Howard Johnson's (in Oshkosh, Wisconsin) in the late 60's was a big treat for my family. Their fried clams were exotic fare.

Elm, with Typescript and Vite.

Working with Elm code is satisfying to me. It's generally easy to revisit code I last worked with months ago and get immediately fluent with it again. The "Elm Architecture" (model / update / view) with all external interaction done over "ports" is so clean (albeit with boilerplate). Integrating with JS libraries has to be done over ports (async one-way messaging) but it works well enough in practice. Vite provides a decent dev/build toolchain with hot-reloading of all Elm, JS, and CSS code. The Elm framework is very opinionated and has stopped evolving, but it's mostly a joy to work with.

His "Behemoth" bike had such low gearing for hill-climbing that, as I recall it, the bike had two retractable small wheels, one on each side, that worked like training-wheels to stabilize the bike at very low speeds.

I have a Herman Miller Aeron that works great, bought at a reasonable price off Craigslist.

Along with the Aeron I often use an inflatable cushion, the "Gymnic Disc 'o' Sit". Sitting on it keeps me alert and greatly improves my sitting posture.

We ran into this, where the Outlook client would scan one-time login links from SalesForce (iirc). Huge pain to work around.

Don't believe everything you think.

Far too many sites don't allow more than one hardware key for 2FA. I set up 3 yubikeys on those sites that allow it.

Prior to the stay-home order my wife and I would go out line dancing three nights each week. Dancing in unison with dozens of other people is surprisingly invigorating. I miss it deeply.

I save each OTP config on three separate Yubikeys using Yubico Authenticator. I also screen-shot the QR code and save that and any recovery codes to a veracrypt volume.

If the site allows for UTF I register each key for that too, but only if I can also use OTP since I can't yet use UTF with my android phone.

It's the same with the WSJ. Just last week I wanted to cancel the paper delivery and get online access only. Even to do only that required a phone call; not even a chat option was available.

Damn, this is disappointing. I've long preferred hg over git but developer preference has clearly moved to favor git. I like using mercurial queues for managing local config changes but I guess I'll have to get better using `git stash`. I hope bitbucket provides some tools to easily convert repos from hg to git. Frankly, though, I'll likely just move from bitbucket now.