Notices by jjg (jjg@social.coop), page 15

@dogtrax ...that said I also keep extensive personal notebooks but those are mostly drawing and short notes.

I'd love a way to effortlessly capture those electronically but every attempt I've made over the last few decades has problems.

@dogtrax That is a very good question.

For me I prefer writing electronically (as opposed to handwriting) if only because it's faster for me, plus I like the physical activity of it.

I do feel like sharing is better than keeping it to myself but I'm not exactly sure why. I'll have to think about that.

@baldur gotcha, I was thinking about people at farther ends of the spectrum. I tried to ignore those guys (I was more interested in the freakier MONDO 2000 types :) )

@selfagency to be fair you're comparing a freshman to a senior 😂

@dogtrax So far I'm not deliberately sharing it (I don't want to feel responsible for directing anyone to read it :) ), that said I'm sure someone could find it if they tried.

I'll make a note of that hashtag though, sounds like a cool thing to read and if I happen to write anything I feel worth sharing I'll tag it.

@vertigo I was thinking about what a coincidence it is that we bumped into each other here. I was following your #Kestrel project a year or two ago and I may have interacted with you (if indirectly), but I don't think we had much formal contact.

Now to almost accidentally cross paths in an obscure system via people I've met here by chance, it's encouraging.

I don't want to get metaphysical but it's cool that forces like this may be at work :)

@baldur This is very thought-provoking.

There is a dynamic between the people who are good at thinking about things and the people who are good at building things that this illuminates. Sometimes these are the same people, but the nature of being extraordinary at one tends to undermine the ability to be extraordinary at the other (in some ways one activity negates the other).

I'm not advocating for one over the other, it's just interesting to think about.

I realized yesterday that I've been kind of down lately and tried to understand why and what I might do about it.

I apologize if this affected any of you.

One thing that came to mind is that I miss writing just for the joy of it. I enjoy the writing I do on my blog, but I try to make sure it's accurate and useful which is good, but it adds drag which means I don't do it frequently.

So I've started a new blog where I just bang-on for fun. I think this will help.

@Laurelai hard to argue with that

@sanspoint Ah yes, Star Wars: The Fantasy Island

The Monoprice Mini Delta is a cool little printer and a hell of a deal at ~$150, but the noise it makes is a lot more unpleasant than my Cartesian #reprap.

At first I thought it was something wrong with my printer but after hearing a few other's machines it seem intrinsic to the design.

@feld very interesting, I’ll check that it, thank-you!

@craigmaloney @vfrmedia @nydel yeah, I would look into it but Ruby’s not my thing.

@vfrmedia @craigmaloney @nydel I wonder how hard it would be to add ssh-style public key auth to Mastodon?