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I was a huge tilix fan for ages, but ran into an issue with long URLs being unclickable.

Circa 1997 a coworker lamented that he had signed up for some email list, and attempts to unsubscribe weren’t working (more of a manual thing, IIRC). I made the suggestion to set up a cronjob to run hourly, to send an email request to be unsubscribed. It would source a text file containing the request to be unsubscribed. And with each iteration, it would duplicate the text from the file, effectively a geometric progression. The list owner responded about a week or so later, rather urgently requesting that my coworker cut it out, saying that he would remove him from the list. Apparently the list owner had been away on vacation the entire time.

I’m in a similar situation and hadn’t thought of it that way. My take on the email I receive is that they fall into one of these categories: a) genuinely intended for me (and not spam), b) spam, c) genuinely intended case of mistaken address (they forgot to include another character), d) someone using mine as their throwaway (site sending verification email), and e) someone using mine as their throwaway (no verification process, ergo not altogether different from spam).

I do something somewhat similar which has evolved for myself and in part for my team. What follows is heavily abridged in the interest of time.

I use Obsidian as follows:

1. Daily log in bullet-point format. Title in YYYY-MM-DD format. Bottom of log has [[YYYY-MM-DD]] with tomorrow’s date.

If I get into a task that starts to get a bit ‘chatty’ and/or would benefit from capturing stdin/stdout/stderr snippets, I’ll use the [[blah]] trick and dump it there.

If a particular priority task didn’t get tended to, I copy that into tomorrow’s daily before stepping afk for the day.

Gets shared with manager, etc.

2. Weekly summary using the ![[Week ending YYYY-MM-DD]] embedded view Obsidian feature in my daily log page. For that at-a-glance warm fuzzies. This boils down to:

- retrospective - highs - lows - 1:1 notes - incoming week’s tasks/priorities

I use this page for my 1:1’s of course. I’ve only very recently started copying the retrospective to my manager via Slack to ensure he’s got the goods.

I prep my incoming week with a new weekly summary, and pre-populate the bare bones for the daily notes.

Is it possible they’re trying to separate out candidates who studied English literature as a matter of typical high school education vs those who studied ESL back in their home countries?

Back around 20 years ago I was with an MSP. We depended heavily on having a well written - as current as possible - prod guide for all operations.

At some point it occurred to me that there was likely a way to draw upon the experiences of those who came before us. In my case, it seemed fitting to use newspapers as a reference.

Somewhere I’d come across a concise guideline, a list of do’s and don’ts. The only thing I clearly recall now is keeping the key info “above the fold”, which is likely something that might puzzle someone who has never handled a newspaper. Even so, the concept is easy to share and grasp.

I wish I’d kept that list. I’ve tried looking for it within the past couple years, to no avail.

Sci-fi drama?

Also: man, I really enjoyed that show.

Random: is the Niche Duo made by a US company?

Asking, as I noticed the power switch on the side: the "|" symbol was at the top, which doesn't jive with the UK's "up is off, down is on" typical switch.

As someone who is something of a coffee nerd (QM67 machine, Fiorenzato grinder w/ timer), I'll admit to balking at doing any of the more fiddly/fussy things.

But out of curiosity, how much time does the coffee nerd community spend pondering and tweaking environmental variables?

For example, ambient room temperature and relative humidity? Can't do a whole lot about pressure, short of tracking historical trends vs present air pressure and setting expectations, I suppose.

Other factors: tamping down physical, emotional irritants, such as screaming children, freshly burnt toast, headaches, etc.

And something that is adjustable but not quickly so: the (paint) colour(s) of the room. It's been something like 30 years, but ISTR hearing that different colours can affect us in subtle ways. For example, red can help stimulate the appetite. I imagine good lighting (eg, warm lighting, avoid fluorescent) is another variable.

All this to ask: do coffee nerds consider tweaking any of the above, or only those things that are in very close proximity to the grinder and espresso machine?

I've heard you get better results if you spritz them.

I used to think that isopropyl alcohol was the last word in cheap-and-convenient surface sterilization, such as hands.

For better or for worse, watching a handful of YT videos from doctors saying "just wash the wound with soap and water" or even "all you need is to wash your hands with soap and water" has made me dial back the "douse it with alcohol" thinking.

I still use alcohol from time to time. Or hydrogen peroxide, depending. But at least now I'll get a fresh wound (cat bite or whatever) under a thorough rubbing with soap + water as the immediate first step. A thorough wash, at that.

>TANSTAAFL

Man. Way to rustle the ol' memory tree.

I think the first time I saw this in print was in Programming Perl back in the mid-1990's.

Don't forget traffic calming features, to help with slower speeds eg in suburban areas.

Not everything needs to be regulated in such a way as to encourage or require more policing, and the associated budget increases.

Earthquakes.

Once we get settled at our new house, I plan to send out some postcards with a quick note on them. It's been a pretty big move.

I figure that's enough of a lost art that someone might actually think "oh cool" and either pin it to the cork board or add to a shoebox of keepsakes.