brycewray

As a space travel geek from decades ago, I would have upvoted you for the user name alone. :-)

You'll know you're old when 13 years ago seems recent.

Arggh...

Is it really better than just having a placeholder square with maybe the most prominent color? Or just a good old progressive image?

The Hugo static site generator provides a `.Colors` method[0] for doing this. It produces what one 2018 article[1] referred to as a GIP (Gradient Image Placeholder).

[0] https://gohugo.io/methods/resource/colors/#article

[1] https://calendar.perfplanet.com/2018/gradient-image-placehol...

Highly recommend NetNewsWire, especially if one is already using it on any other Apple device. Recent updates have substantially improved its performance (on both iOS and macOS), so it's worth a second look if you haven't tried it recently.

(2022)

(... which explains, among other things, the multiple references to a singular Trump presidency)

“It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs. Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four.”

― Samuel Butler

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/11509180-it-was-very-good-o...

White on black or dark gray makes my eyes bug out. I have pretty good vision but that's the only thing that actually hurts my eyes.

Hope you don’t get floaters when you age. You may be caught between a rock and a hard place.

Also the little sound bite about peak demand, Texas has enormous capacity during the summer as well; far, far exceeding demand. It makes total sense to be testing and connecting multi-GW consumers during these months.

Texan here. Actually, it depends on how hot our summer weather gets and, thus, how much A/C use is in play. When we get into a not-unusual run of multiple 100-degree (F.) days in a row, the available capacity often drops to the point where ERCOT begins issuing alerts about things like suggested times of day when running certain appliances might not be wise. Having lived through the nightmare of the February '21 winter storm outages, I keep the ERCOT dashboard[0] as a bookmark and check it at least once, every day of the year.

[0] https://www.ercot.com/gridmktinfo/dashboards

Was always one of the first things I would change in Word's autocorrect settings whenever I started with a company-provided installation.

It has a very “AI-written”-ish feel to it, FWIW.

Apropos of nothing: it's interesting that a page pushing Go so emphatically is built[0] using the Rust-based Zola rather than the Go-based Hugo.

[0] https://git.sr.ht/~blainsmith/blog/tree/main/item/.build.yml

There could be other issues causing this, for instance if you didn't grant uBOL the permission to inject scripts on the site.

Bingo. That was it. Again, thanks.

I will recheck my uBOL settings, then, sir. Thank you for your work!

EDIT: I did have it set to `Complete,` so perhaps I have something else going on.

Just as one example: Chrome + uBOL on Reddit will show you plenty of "Sponsored" stuff. You can use Inspector to find the offending CSS classes and then use `display: none` on them with something like Stylus[0], but not everybody wants to play that whack-a-mole game on the many sites that push uBOL past its blocking capabilities.

[0] https://github.com/openstyles/stylus

Pepperidge Farm remembers that commercial.

"Sticks nix hick pix"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sticks_Nix_Hick_Pix

Yes, especially when a simple look at the source code showed what was "hidden." Not only aggravating, but amateurish.

Drives like these and the Syquest drives were essential for desktop publishing well into the early 2000s. I sent many such drives to various printing facilities --- or, sometimes (and, here, I really date myself) separate PostScript bureaus --- to obtain high-res, color-separated film for four-color commercial printing, either by local printers or magazines who would run ads for my employers of the time.

Backblaze's B2 storage is fine if used with a separate app over which you have more control. Others here have mentioned Arq. I have used it, as well as Kopia[0] and Blinkdisk[1] (Blinkdisk is essentially Kopia but with a nicer UI). Can recommend all three highly; the latter two are FOSS.

[0] https://kopia.io/

[1] https://blinkdisk.com/

(2023)

From the related blog post[0]:

You can find Little Snitch for Linux here[1]. It is free, and it will stay that way.

[0] https://obdev.at/blog/little-snitch-for-linux/

[1] https://obdev.at/products/littlesnitch-linux

(2025)

This applies to more than just product engineering. Part of one of my former jobs (retired now) involved writing marketing copy and news releases. I never quite got over how one of my bosses, who would also write some of this material, often told visitors or other company execs that, where our textual output was concerned, “We have no pride of authorship here.” Speak for yourself, I always wanted to tell him, but never did because I needed the paycheck.

Interestingly, he lasted there only a year while I made it to nearly 17 years. Go figure.

Whoops. Thanks for the catch. I was trying to trim down some of my CSS the other day, but inadvertently forgot to leave my `--cyan-700` variable. The yellow you saw was supposed to warn me, "Hey, you missed one!" but I apparently missed that one. :-/ Fixed.

For Sass, yes[0] --- as has Hugo[1]. Hugo's recently added `css.Build` function, based on esbuild, is for post-processing vanilla CSS.

[0] https://www.getzola.org/documentation/content/sass/

[1] https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/releases/tag/v0.43 (July, 2018)

Yes; hope that gets blessed. We shall see.

Author here. This post arose out of a recent thread on the Hugo Discourse:

https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/hugo-v0-158-0-released/56868

Few people would have had their own TVs in their room 30 years ago. That wasn't common. They were huge, expensive, and not remotely interesting enough to capture the attention of most people for prolonged periods. It was common to have family rituals where there was about 2-3 hours of watching TV during/after dinner together. That was when they aired a movie after some news.

Depends on where one is from. In my country (U.S.A.), even many lower-middle-class kids tended to have at least a small portable TV (or, more often, the former family TV that had been replaced by a newer one in the living room) in at least their end of the house or apartment, if not their own room, ’way back in the late 1960s to early 1970s. What was common for kids in other countries at that time is, of course, a different matter. As for watching the TV together as a family rather than on separate TV sets: that often depended more on whether the family TV was a newer color model and the kids' room TV was an older black-and-white model --- or, as kids grew older and their viewing preferences changed from their parents’, which shows were on opposite one another. Sometimes it even came down to which room made it easier to watch TV while you were doing homework, talking to a friend who was visiting you from down the street, etc.

Same here about the TV's flyback transformer. My parents always wondered how I could hear from down the hall (out of sight from the TV) when the horizontal hold or vertical hold went awry. :-)

Reminds me a little of something I wrote once:

https://www.brycewray.com/posts/2021/01/easy-peasy/