Notices tagged with til, page 8

#TIL that while #OpenMoko Inc. might be dead, OpenMoko continues as an "open phone" project, with a volunteer community:
https://openmoko.org/

#TIL that some of the instruments used by J Dilla are in a museum, the National Museum of African American History and Culture.

https://nmaahc.si.edu/explore/collection/search?edan_q=j+dilla

#hip-hop #culture

#TIL when you contribute to a project that use #Appveyor CI to test build on #Windows, the system sometimes build the code you have just pushed, but often a previous version of the code (in spite of what the commit hash say).

It can therefore be convenient to output canaries in the build script so that you can ensure success / failures are related to the last version of the code (by checking them visually in the log).

When it does not match:
git commit --amend
git push -f

#TIL there’s … Unserdeutsch – Wikipedia https://gs.morphtown.de/url/232686

#TIL the local name for Algeria is Dzayer! So that's why the .dz in the domains... 😀

Yo - earlier I used the word scallywag in a toot. The meaning to me was always reprobate. I wanted to know the source and found this in addition to my taking of the meaning:

2. a white Southerner acting in support of the reconstruction governments after the American Civil War often for private gain

I didn't know that. #til

#TIL "76 Trombones" and
"Goodnight My Someone" in The Music Man musical have the same melody