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· My favourite command-line tools

A friend got a MacBook recently and was asking for recommendations. I found myself wishing I had a list of all my default-installed command-line tools, so that’s what this is.

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I wrote this time last year that I hoped 2024 was a better year for the games industry - this has turned out not to be the case.

· Is Bluesky in the Fediverse?
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First game of Feud in a while, a new opponent, let’s see how I do. The Feud community likes to make fun of me for how bad I am at my own game so I am not optimistic.

A screenshot of Feud. The black pieces are on the bottom, that’s me, my opponent is up top.
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Modern C++ has a decent amount of stuff in the standard library but there are a few things I was naively surprised it lacks:

  • base64
  • any cryptography stuff at all really
  • HTTP!
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Random discovery of the day is that GNU’s linker has different rules to those of MSVC or LLVM - the latter two are happy to resolve linkages at the final executable or library, while ld seems to require that every intermediate object binary be linked up?

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Kissing Gate, Dog Race and Ugly at Village Underground

Kissing Gate Dog Race Ugly Ugly
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In light of the recent AI news I hereby renounce my 1254-day Duolingo streak. Finally, I am free.

A screenshot from Duolingo showing a 1254 day streak
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So, two weeks on, got to try and bend my finger and it…doesn’t. At all! Even with force applied. So that’s a bit scary. But I did get to choose the colours on this fetching new splint so that’s something.

My finger in a purple and yellow splint
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Met some new types of guy yesterday

Loads of crocodiles. Several of them are resting their heads on a big darker coloured one. I think he’s their dad Two crocs swimming. The photos don’t really capture how big these guys are. Just really enormous lads. Me holding a baby crocodile. He’s got a little thing holding his mouth shut but he seemed happy enough. He had a very soft belly and liked being stroked. An iguana going mlem and licking a tree. I don’t know why.
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Generative AI has ruined bold text for me. If you put bold text in a paragraph I’m ignoring the whole thing sorry

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Taking quad bikes through the Sahara desert to a 2000 year old Roman fort might be the coolest thing I’ve done on a holiday ever

Me and Lucy wrapped up against the desert dust Lucy on a quad bike with the Sahara beyond An inscription in Latin at the Roman fort Me and Lucy on a quad bike
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Saw these in the wrong order

Me and Lucy on camels on a beach in Tunisia Some street art in Djerba saying CAMELS ARE NOT FOR FUN