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"text": "This post has some pre-requisite reading to get the most out of it:\n\n\n\nJay Springett\u2019s post about Surface Flatness and how the internet is feeling super flat right now.\n\n\n\nWarren Ellis\u2019s response On Not Being Online.\n\n\n\nPete Ashton\u2019s response to Warren\u2019s thoughts.\n\n\n\nJay\u2019s response to both Pete and Warren.\nFirst off, I think it\u2019s great to see some crosstalk across blogs like this. I love to see it.\n\n\n\nSecond, as you might have guessed, I have some thoughts about the subject. (Usual caveats, this is some off-the-cuff thoughts, maybe I\u2019m missing things, et cetera.)\n\n\n\n Continue reading \u201cFlat, Not Flat, and an Ocean\u201d",
"html": "<p>This post has some pre-requisite reading to get the most out of it:</p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Jay Springett\u2019s post about <a href=\"https://www.thejaymo.net/2024/06/22/2412-surface-flatness/\">Surface Flatness</a> and how the internet is feeling super flat right now.</li>\n\n\n\n<li>Warren Ellis\u2019s response <a href=\"https://warrenellis.ltd/jot/on-not-being-online/\">On Not Being Online</a>.</li>\n\n\n\n<li>Pete Ashton\u2019s <a href=\"https://notes.peteashton.com/2024/07/04/on-not-being.html\">response to Warren\u2019s thoughts</a>.</li>\n\n\n\n<li>Jay\u2019s response to both <a href=\"https://www.thejaymo.net/2024/07/07/246-somewhere-inside-the-network/\">Pete and Warren</a>.</li>\n</ul><p>First off, I think it\u2019s great to see some crosstalk across blogs like this. I love to see it.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Second, as you might have guessed, I have some thoughts about the subject. (Usual caveats, this is some off-the-cuff thoughts, maybe I\u2019m missing things, et cetera.)</p>\n\n\n\n <a href=\"https://nadreck.me/2024/07/flat-not-flat-and-an-ocean/#more-11860\">Continue reading<span> \u201cFlat, Not Flat, and an Ocean\u201d</span></a>"
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"html": "<p>Big news in my world: I have been hired as a Senior Engineer at the Applied Social Media Lab at Harvard\u2019s Berkman Klein Center! (<a href=\"https://tinysubversions.com/notes/joining-asml/\">full item here</a>)</p>",
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If you have a personal website, which I assume you do if you're following me here, you should add yourself to the Internet Phonebook while the call for websites is still open! They even have an "indie web" category! https://internetphonebook.net
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"text": "If you have a personal website, which I assume you do if you're following me here, you should add yourself to the Internet Phonebook while the call for websites is still open! They even have an \"indie web\" category! https://internetphonebook.net",
"html": "If you have a personal website, which I assume you do if you're following me here, you should add yourself to the Internet Phonebook while the call for websites is still open! They even have an \"indie web\" category! <a href=\"https://internetphonebook.net\"><span>https://</span>internetphonebook.net</a>"
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"published": "2024-07-03T10:59:16-07:00",
"url": "https://beesbuzz.biz/blog/8655-post-COVID-doldrums",
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"text": "I\u2019m over COVID, and just have a little lingering bronchitis. Also some of the worst brain fog I\u2019ve ever had. I feel like my brain\u2019s been through a blender. Spatial relationships make very little sense, my reaction times are super slow, I am definitely not safe driving right now, and so on.\n\nMy standard state of affairs is best described as \u201cdazed and confused\u201d right now. I feel like my mental acuity has pretty much gone away. I\u2019m also making a lot of ridiculous spelling mistakes when I write, and I\u2019m having trouble stringing together basic procedures for things.\n\nBasically I feel like I\u2019ve taken massive brain damage and this has me all sorts of fucked up.\n\nAt least I\u2019m not alone in this but that\u2019s cold comfort. If I can\u2019t recover from this, what future do I have? My brain is pretty much the only thing I had going for me and now I don\u2019t even have that.",
"html": "<p>I\u2019m over COVID, and just have a little lingering bronchitis. Also some of the worst brain fog I\u2019ve ever had. I feel like my brain\u2019s been through a blender. Spatial relationships make very little sense, my reaction times are super slow, I am definitely <em>not</em> safe driving right now, and so on.</p><p>My standard state of affairs is best described as \u201cdazed and confused\u201d right now. I feel like my mental acuity has pretty much gone away. I\u2019m also making a lot of ridiculous spelling mistakes when I write, and I\u2019m having trouble stringing together basic procedures for things.</p><p>Basically I feel like I\u2019ve taken massive brain damage and this has me all sorts of fucked up.</p><p>At least <a href=\"https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMe2400189\">I\u2019m not alone in this</a> but that\u2019s cold comfort. If I can\u2019t recover from this, what future do I have? My brain is pretty much the only thing I had going for me and now I don\u2019t even have that.</p>"
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I prefer to use curly quotes and apostrophes in my posts, but unfortunately they are tricky to use on Windows. You have to type an incantation like ALT + 0147 to get “ and ALT + 0148 to get ” — and only on the keyboard number pad, not the numbers in the top row.
Alas, I have no number pad currently.
In recent years I’ve been using the Graphemica site since I have this search in my browser autocomplete: https://graphemica.com/search?q=quote. It’s a good reference site, but it is still a bit tedious to copy the characters.
So I set up these four bookmarklets. You can create a new bookmark in your browser, enter a title for it, then copy the full bookmarklet line into the URL field. Rinse and repeat. Each bookmarklet URL should start with javascript:
Left Quote: javascript: navigator.clipboard.writeText('“');
Right Quote: javascript: navigator.clipboard.writeText('”');
Right Single Quote / Apostrophe: javascript: navigator.clipboard.writeText('’');
Left Single Quote: javascript: navigator.clipboard.writeText('‘');
I initially had the null; at the end like the Stack Overflow answer. That worked in Chrome but I found it didn’t work in Firefox. When I removed it, it worked in both.
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"text": "I prefer to use curly quotes and apostrophes in my posts, but unfortunately they are tricky to use on Windows. You have to type an incantation like ALT + 0147 to get \u201c and ALT + 0148 to get \u201d \u2014 and only on the keyboard number pad, not the numbers in the top row.\n\n\n\nAlas, I have no number pad currently.\n\nIn recent years I\u2019ve been using the Graphemica site since I have this search in my browser autocomplete: https://graphemica.com/search?q=quote. It\u2019s a good reference site, but it is still a bit tedious to copy the characters.\n\nStack Overflow came to the rescue with a one-liner browser bookmarklet that lets you put text in your clipboard using the Clipboard API.\n\nSo I set up these four bookmarklets. You can create a new bookmark in your browser, enter a title for it, then copy the full bookmarklet line into the URL field. Rinse and repeat. Each bookmarklet URL should start with javascript:\n\nLeft Quote:\njavascript: navigator.clipboard.writeText('\u201c');\n\nRight Quote:\njavascript: navigator.clipboard.writeText('\u201d');\n\nRight Single Quote / Apostrophe:\njavascript: navigator.clipboard.writeText('\u2019');\n\nLeft Single Quote:\njavascript: navigator.clipboard.writeText('\u2018');\n\nI initially had the null; at the end like the Stack Overflow answer. That worked in Chrome but I found it didn\u2019t work in Firefox. When I removed it, it worked in both.",
"html": "<p>I prefer to use curly quotes and apostrophes in my posts, but unfortunately they are tricky to use on Windows. You have to type an incantation like <code>ALT + 0147</code> to get \u201c and <code>ALT + 0148</code> to get \u201d \u2014 and <em>only</em> on the keyboard number pad, not the numbers in the top row.</p>\n\n<p><img alt=\"animated image of a black woman on a news channel exclaiming \u201cain\u2019t nobody got time for that!\u201d\" src=\"https://gregorlove.com/site/assets/images/gifs/aint-nobody-got-time.webp\" /></p>\n\n<p>Alas, I have no number pad currently.</p>\n\n<p>In recent years I\u2019ve been using the Graphemica site since I have this search in my browser autocomplete: <a href=\"https://graphemica.com/search?q=quote\">https://graphemica.com/search?q=quote</a>. It\u2019s a good reference site, but it is still a bit tedious to copy the characters.</p>\n\n<p>Stack Overflow came to the rescue with a <a href=\"https://stackoverflow.com/a/59196111\">one-liner browser bookmarklet</a> that lets you put text in your clipboard using the <a href=\"https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Clipboard_API\">Clipboard API</a>.</p>\n\n<p>So I set up these four bookmarklets. You can create a new bookmark in your browser, enter a title for it, then copy the full bookmarklet line into the URL field. Rinse and repeat. Each bookmarklet URL should start with <code>javascript:</code></p>\n\n<p>Left Quote:<br /><code>javascript: navigator.clipboard.writeText('\u201c');</code></p>\n\n<p>Right Quote:<br /><code>javascript: navigator.clipboard.writeText('\u201d');</code></p>\n\n<p>Right Single Quote / Apostrophe:<br /><code>javascript: navigator.clipboard.writeText('\u2019');</code></p>\n\n<p>Left Single Quote:<br /><code>javascript: navigator.clipboard.writeText('\u2018');</code></p>\n\n<p>I initially had the <code>null;</code> at the end like the Stack Overflow answer. That worked in Chrome but I found it didn\u2019t work in Firefox. When I removed it, it worked in both.</p>"
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I've been using AI to extend my 100 Days of Music sketches into full length songs and it's been super fun! I upload the song I wrote and tell it to extend it, give it some guidance, then piece it back together in Logic Pro. I've finished 25 songs so far!
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