On Sublime Merge:
“I found that the diff viewer does not wrap long lines, making it unusable for certain types of files (such as .strings). I also really missed Tower’s way of having a separate list to manage the staged files, rather than showing the hunks and the files together.”

Perhaps these electronics recommendations may be worth a look?
“@jasonwhaley: @Aleen I pay for @diradio premium, but you have to picky on stations. Melodic Progressive is generally great.”

(Perhaps the replies to this may be worth a look?)
via @Aleen: “What's your current favorite work music? No words, please. I can't do words while I'm writing.”

Perhaps this could be worth a look when you sign up for Apple Music?
“@Aleen: Whoa, that's a lot of music suggestions! Thanks :) This is the playlist I always come back to: https://itunes.apple.com/us/playlist/aleens-work-playlist/pl.u-ZmZJJT05rvrY”

“This is a custom keyboard tent git for the ergodox ez keyboard. They sell a tent kit with the keyboard but I needed more angle with the keyboard so I designed this. It is based loosely on the Freestyle2 ascent keyboard tent kit but with changes to make the design more printer friendly.”

“Higher pixel density displays also negate the need for sub-pixel antialiasing. Apple’s Retina displays really are the final nail in the coffin for sub-pixel antialiasing. If you don’t believe me, feel free to use Skala View (the free iOS app) to load this image onto your iPhone. Make sure it’s set up with the home button icon facing the home button. I’d be surprised if you can tell the difference between the blocks of text.”

“But the world didn’t listen to Freeman and Medoff, and private-sectors unions declined into near-insignificance. Now, four decades later, economists are again starting to suspect that unions were a better deal than the textbooks made them out to be. A recent paper by economists Henry Farber, Daniel Herbst, Ilyana Kuziemko and Suresh Naidu concludes that unions were an important force reducing inequality in the U.S.”

This post goes over Quakemz’ approach to lubing keyboard switches. (Quakemz is Brian on TopClack.)

And perhaps see also this post on which parts to lube: https://imgur.com/a/hijSYcp

(via: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vvw465J2xpc)

This video has a pretty good segment about tuning one’s nibs (at 23:07).

This site offers a handy one-stop shop listing one’s browser details, such as one’s browser name and version, IP address, screen resolution, viewport size, and so on.

“Until recently, it was the user’s choice to log-in to the browser. Now, any time that you sign in to a Google site in Chrome 69 — like Google Search, Gmail or YouTube — Chrome will also log you in, too.”

“Those warnings out of the way, here’s how to actually run those old extensions on your Mac.”

This is the adblocker for Safari that you’re trying as of September 2018. It seems okay so far.

(Perhaps the replies could be worth mining for backpack ideas?)
“I’m looking to buy a large backpack, appropriate for a 15” laptop and clothes for a weekend trip. If you have any recommendations, please send them my way! One feature I’m looking for is a chest strap, although I just learned a strap is trivially added to an existing bag.”

This is kind of an intriguing backpack, but it’s hard to say whether it would work for a mirrorless setup.

It’s hard to say whether this fits your needs or whatever, but this backpack is pretty to look at.

This looks to be a thread about problems connecting to the TiVo service.

This page offers a pretty great summary of the main ergonomic keyboards that are on the market. (Spoiler: It’s not a lot.)

Side note: “Ergonomic” really does mean “ergonomic” in this context—there aren’t pseudo-ergo keyboards here.

“When I ported it to the Preonic, I did something that most people would think is strange, and treated the thing as though it was a Planck with a bottom row, rather than a Planck with a top row. This is directly inspired by the Arensito design, where the thumb has access to many more keys than in a normal setup.”

“While I’m really happy with my nyquist I have different ideas to improve it:

• Better thumb keys placement
• Staggered Columns layout (like the atreus)

“These are perfectly covered by the iris keyboard. The unique thing I’ll be missing are the lower keys where I put all the additional modifier. I really need them (without doing Mod Tap like described above) so I’m really tempted to improve the iris to add these missing keys.”

“Generally, it seems that web developers read about these menu roles, and think a set of links within a list that may pop open another sub set of links is enough to warrant it calling a menu. Well, let me put it bluntly: Nope. Because these then don’t support the expected behavior, links bring you to other pages instead of performing an action, and thus are a totally different type of widget, etc.”

This Preonic layout looks fairly ordinary, but perhaps this representation at Keyboard Layout Editor could be a good way to represent one’s layers and such?
(via: https://www.reddit.com/r/olkb/comments/9hx32l/comment/e6fg530?st=JMDSULMW&sh=56a74ee3)

(On second thought, the parenthesis and such here are actually pretty neat.)

“Thanks to the introduction of abortion pills mifepristone and misoprostol — which, in combination, effectively induce abortion 95 percent to 98 percent of the time — it’s become possible to terminate an unwanted pregnancy without an invasive medical procedure. More to the point, it’s possible for women to take these pills to induce an abortion on their own, without the assistance of a doctor. Those pills can be bought online — so for many people, it’s possible to avoid the clinic entirely.”

(Apparently this command might come in handy for narrowing down which processes may be preventing sleep?)
“what is the output of ‘pmset -g’ in the terminal?”

“Meet a new Git client, from the makers of Sublime Text”

(Perhaps this could be worth a look for a potential Model 01 layout?)
“This is it! I’m still tweaking here and there as I find inefficiencies, but I can pull 100wpm on this thing, which I haven’t been able to do on other ergo keyboards.”

This post offers some pretty good tips for flashing QMK from the command line.

“I use another [macro] when I switch Word usernames for adding XML coding to documents for publishers who need that done. (This way the AU or PE can deactivate just those tracked changes by that username if they’re obtrusive during MS review.)”

“Paul Beverley got a big shout-out from @MonocleEd during our retreat when she discussed the ABCs of macros!”

(This looks like it could come in handy for references and the like.)
“And US Library of Congress is great for complete book pub info: ªªhttps://catalog.loc.gov/legacy.html .”ºº

“Another add-in that’s useful in reference editing is NoteStripper, which can convert endnotes to footnotes and vice versa, or strip out embedded notes and convert them to text. (Also available from the Editorium). #ACESchat”

“For decades, the medical community has ignored mountains of evidence to wage a cruel and futile war on fat people, poisoning public perception and ruining millions of lives.”

It seems as if this might be the episode about backpacks?

“The whole circlejerk around the ‘everyone is so offended about everything these days’ sentiment is basically just society gaslighting every minority who is upset about something”

“One of the tasks I perform regularly is to test web content using screen readers. It can be somewhat annoying to be capturing data in a desktop application while testing in a browser, as the screen reader is chattering away on every application, while I am only interested in how it works with web content in the browser.”

(It may be worth confirming whether this has arrows, but this looks like a pretty sweet monospace-inspired typeface.)
“Originally drawn in 2009, Peggs’ overall DNA was based upon monospaced typewriter fonts. Upon inspection we noticed that when printed, some of these earlier types gained unintended characteristics via the crass print processes they were subjected to (think under-, and over-inking). We took these unintentional moments and utilised them as characteristics — through the strokes that don’t quite join up and the pooling of colour in certain connections.”

On typefaces that may be easier for children to read:
“Type like Century Schoolbook was designed specifically for that purpose, and other books used text faces with simplified forms of ‘a’ and ‘g’ (e.g. Plantin Infant, Gill Sans alts, Sassoon) cause they thought that to be easier for young readers.”

Some promising romance-novel recommendations here:
“If you like True Blood, Jeaniene Frost's Night Huntress series will probably be exactly up your alley. Or Ilona Andrews' Edge series. For more of a Mad Men/office romance, I'd suggest The Hating Game by Sally Thorne.”

(If you should need recommendations for romance novels:)
“I am literally made up of romance recommendations and coffee, so if you let me know a bit about what you like (modern/historical, straight/not, fantasy/not) I’ll be happy to give a few recs anytime! 😀”

“Shortcuts in iOS 12 let you get things done with your apps, with just a tap or by asking Siri. In addition to running shortcuts available on your iOS device, you can use the Shortcuts app to create custom shortcuts, simplifying everyday tasks by combining steps across multiple apps.”

(If you might be thinking about checking out a romance novel, perhaps this one that Laura mentioned may be worth a look?)
“I need recs for lighthearted fiction that moves quickly, but isn’t going to end every chapter on a cliffhanger (otherwise I will be up until 3 a.m. to finish). I read my first romance novel yesterday and surprised myself by liking it? (The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang)”

“Just discovered the musician Lights. This is _extremely_ my type of music — ‘heavy’ but fun synthpop with euphoric vocals.

“‘From All Sides’ is a bonus track from the album Little Machines that I really like. https://song.link/i/899349014”
(via: https://twitter.com/rsongdello/status/1041473059234799616)

“Electronics almost universally become cheaper over time. But with essentially a monopoly on graphing calculator usage in classrooms, Texas Instruments can charge a premium. Texas Instruments accounted for 93 percent of the U.S. graphing calculator sales from July 2013-June 2014. Casio took the other 7 percent, according to NPD data. During that period 1.6 million graphing calculators were sold, a decrease from sales of 1.67 million during July 2011-June 2012.”

“Mastodon instances are usually run and moderated by members of the community that uses that particular Mastodon server – for example, I’m part of a community of tech folks over at mastodon.technology, and our server is administrated and moderated by a member of the community. He has a vested interest in making mastodon.technology a nice place to hang out since he hangs out there too.”

“For those familiar with the Say All feature in JAWS, this new report essentially runs the Say All command on a web page and gives you back an easy-to-use, linear text version of the JAWS speech.”

(Perhaps one might also be able to use this to go in the opposite direction?)
“The purpose of this guide is to assist users of JAWS (Job Access With Speech), a commercial screen reader by Freedom Scientific to switch to the open source screen reader NVDA (NonVisual Desktop Access) with ease. It assumes prior knowledge of JAWS and that you are proficient in its use.”

These wooden wrist rests look pretty gorgeous.

This seems like a pretty nice wrist rest (and sized nicely for your Preonic), but it seems to be out of stock at the moment.

This looks like it could be doable as a wrist rest for a Preonic, eh?

(via: https://www.reddit.com/r/olkb/comments/5mtct5/any_wrist_rests_that_are_sized_perfectly_for_the/)

(These seem to be long gone, but maybe you could try looking into these later?)
“We’ve teamed up with WizardBoxWoodWorks, u/btbamman989 on reddit, to bring you very high quality hand shaped and hand finished wooden palm rests. Available in a variety of domestic and exotic hard woods, you will not be disappointed.”

“Looking for a nice wrist rest that is sized appropriately and looks cool! Ideas?”

“Offering soldering services (and switch assembly), preferably local close to 90631/OC; feel free to pm with any questions. Go ahead and fill out my order form when you pm me as well. It’s a little rough around the edges, so just fill it out as best as you can! HERE is the form.”

“Uber Technologies Inc. may be saving more than $500 million a year by misclassifying its California drivers as independent contractors, according to a lawsuit that claims the ride-hailing company is flouting a ruling by the state’s highest court.

“Uber avoids paying an average of $9.07 an hour in expenses and benefits that it would incur if drivers were properly treated as employees, according to the complaint filed in federal court in San Francisco. In other words, if they got minimum wage, overtime, meal and rest breaks, workers’ compensation and unemployment and health insurance, as well as Social Security and Medicare benefits.”

This video from Chase Reeves may have some promising options for barefoot shoes.

The Vivo Barefoot ones (05:33) look kinda neat, especially their Primus Lux (08:45).

“Heard my 6yo slowly and painstakingly reading a Nat Geo book about otters to his stuffed otter b/c ‘I wanted him to know about his family.’ 😍😍😍 😭😭😭”

“European Standard EN 301 549 ‘#Accessibility requirements for ICT products and services’ adopted #WCAG 2.1 for web content, electronic documents, and non-web software, inc. native mobile apps. Info in blog post”

“The way we categorize hurricanes is misguided and incredibly dangerous. ‘Category’ only focused on wind speed, so somehow the storm ‘weakened’ while the actual forecast became even more dangerous.

“It’s a major science/risk comm failure.”

“Basic walkthrough for installing all the necessary stuff and a quick guide to flash a programmable keyboard with the QMK firmware. There are more technical ways to flash your keyboard that has other advantages, but this will get you started if you’re just new to QMK.”

“Because everything sucks, here are five minutes of babies laughing at dogs.”

“Like our Color Communication buttons and want to bring them to your own events and things? The template is now available for download! https://affectconf.com/resources”

(These are the buttons that say things like, “hello there”, “say hi if we know each other” and “all talked out, need some space”.)

“Reader, I bought from the company that let me be both lazy and confident.

“Target made it easy:

“they didn’t make me hunt for navigation or wait for page reloads
“they prompted me for what I would like (sorta)
“they took me straight to the suits I would buy
“the initial merchandising showed whole swimsuits, not disembodied parts
“they only showed me reviews that were relevant
“they tried to pre-select my size
“they had fewer items and I immediately found bathing suit components designed to solve my particular problems (mid-section, chafing) which didn’t seem to exist at Lands End (although with all the cruft in their listings, who could tell)”

“The Language We Use to Talk About Mental Health and Substance Use: http://www.heretohelp.bc.ca/visions/the-language-we-use-vol14

“(@consciousstyles—this issue might interest you!)”
(via: https://twitter.com/IvaCheung/status/1040044910450237440)

“Ask for help. Studies show that it increases intimacy and trust (to the point that thieves often ask their marks to do a favor), because we trust people who make themselves vulnerable to us. It also creates a virtuous circle: we then feel like it’s ok to ask for help in return and the reciprocal trust cycle continues.”
(via: https://ask.metafilter.com/326277/How-to-build-close-friendships-as-an-adult#4699673)

“Another thing I do (and I realize this makes it sound really easy when it isn’t always!) is to just breathe into my own authenticity when I’m with friends. If there’s an opportunity to let my vulnerable self show, I allow for it, I let the moment come and I don’t keep it polite if I sense that all we need is a slight nudge toward realness. I have found that almost all the time, folks respond really positively and truly want to get to a deeper level of knowing another person. This is how I move through the world and I have many friends who I consider so close that even if we don’t talk for a week or more, it is exactly the same and we pick up right where we left off every time. So as a practical real life example, when a coworker indicated that she might have complicated family relationships, I allowed the moment to come and shared with her that I’m estranged from my parents by my own choice. It turned out that she is too, and our relationship deepened in a way that was very meaningful. I think a lot about letting the moment just arrive however it lands, and then thinking ‘the moment has everything it needs inside it, just let it happen and be in it.’”
(via: https://ask.metafilter.com/326277/How-to-build-close-friendships-as-an-adult#4699847)

(Well, this is interesting.)
“I take magnesium citrate because it makes me not clench my jaw, and therefore not need a mouth guard. I remember to take my mag cit by setting myself alarms on my phone but with great songs I love, so I feel a happy association with the alarm going off and taking my magnesium citrate.”

“Remove the pain and hassle of traditional earrings. The Comfy flat back screws on and lets you comfortably sleep, shower, and play in your earrings. We guarantee it.”

(via: https://ask.metafilter.com/326230/Everything-in-my-life-should-be-as-simple-as-possible-but-no-simpler#4699107)

“As the discourse rages on about whether or not political correctness is destroying comedy (spoiler alert: it isn’t), these 13 comedians decided that self-interrogation is ultimately a good thing. They opened up about the material they’ve performed that hasn’t aged particularly well and how owning up to it has helped grow their comedic voices.”

“Writing good trivia questions is a lot harder than it sounds.

“A lot of people think they can do it, only to be greeted with waves of complaints from irate players. And trivia fanatics can get’ quite irate.

“The main skill you need is writing skill. Good writers can add excitement to questions. That’s why … ahem … many people hire us.

“But there are a number of tricks that even good writers don’t realize, and this page looks at specific questions and fixes them so that they are great questions.”

(via: https://ask.metafilter.com/326325/Whats-your-favorite-piece-of-trivia)

“The best workaround I’ve found to Twitter’s horrible new algorithm is putting this in the search bar:

“filter:follows -filter:replies include:nativeretweets

“You will get your old chronological timeline back with no ‘likes’ and with retweets from people you actually follow.”

“Inspired by the Austistic Self Advocacy Network’s Color Communication badges, we adapted the idea into 2.25’ round buttons. The idea is to give folx the option to swap between the buttons throughout the day.

“Want to print your own or customize messaging? Feel free to use our button templates as a starter guide!”

(The buttons say, “hello there!”, “say hi if we know each other”, and “all talked out, need some space”.)

(via: https://twitter.com/AffectConf/status/1039189908886151168)

“Netflix autplay previews suck and are unturnoffable. However they are browser blockable with @AdblockPlus

“Add custom filters as shown:

ªªhttp://www.netflix.com ##.billboard-rowºº
_cadmium-playercore_.js*
@@||ªªhttp://www.netflix.com/watch ^$documentºº

“You’re welcome.
“love,
“your librarian”

This clock might be marketed mostly toward hotels, but it looks like a nice Qi-charging alarm clock.

This is a search for clocks that are Qi certified. (Being Qi-certified is probably a good sign of a company keeping things on the up and up.)

This isn’t a bad collection of hotel-suitable alarm clocks, a.k.a. the tend of alarm clocks that are built pretty decently.

“You see, even though dry measuring cups (the scoopy-looking ones) and liquid measuring cups (the usually glass ones with lines on the side) both claim to hold a ‘cup,’ the reality is that a dry measuring cup will hold a bit more. When I filled a dry cup with water, I found it held an average of 10 grams more water than my liquid measuring cups. This probably wouldn’t make a big difference in something like spaghetti sauce, but 10 grams of extra liquid—or 20 or 30, depending on how many cups the recipe calls for—could really mess you up in baking, or ice cream, or candy making.”

“Before the men chime in with ‘Why don’t you put one around your neck and wear it the whole trip,’ let me respond with ‘First, of all, how dare you?’ Necklaces can make, break, or elevate an outfit, and I refuse to have my personal expression limited. Luckily, I don’t have to choose; I can pack as many as I want without them tangling, provided I have some Press’n’Seal wrap.”

(This is a pretty decent map of the National Weather Service regions within the US.)
“Do you follow your local NWS office? They provide localized information for you and your loved ones. You can find your local office’s Twitter handle using http://weather.gov/socialmedia”

This is kind of a fun list of frequently misparsed words, like “nutshell” and “hayshed.”

“The :focus-within CSS pseudo-class represents an element that has received focus or contains an element that has received focus. In other words, it represents an element that is itself matched by the :focus pseudo-class or has a descendant that is matched by :focus. (This includes descendants in shadow trees.)

“/* Selects a when one of its descendants is focused */
div:focus-within
{
background: cyan;
}
”

“This selector is useful, to take a common example, for highlighting an entire
container when the user focuses on one of its fields.”

As alternatives to “whitelist” and “blacklist,” the Cybersecurity Style Guide (@E_Briannica’s thing) recommends “safelist” and “blocklist.”

Related URL: https://cybersecuritystyleguide.bishopfox.com/browse/blocklist

(BTW, here’s the tweet that led to you looking this up: https://twitter.com/mikepope/status/1039614566986993665)
(such as from here: https://twitter.com/E_Briannica/status/964294137607372800)

“Mods for games are usually additive. New features, forgotten content… mods are usually about putting more into a game. Yet in recent years we’ve seen the rise of a particular kind of mod that takes things away. Specifically, taking away a game’s enemies or threats. We previously covered a mod which removed all danger from first-person sci-fi horror Soma—it later become an official game mode—but there are plenty more games out there getting mods that do the same and they’re equally fascinating.”

(Perhaps this could be good for posting alt text?)
“Write something, hit publish, and it’s live.

“There’s no tracking, ad-tech, webfonts, analytics, javascript, cookies, databases, user accounts, comments, friending, likes, follower counts or other quantifiers of social capital. The only practical way for anyone to find out about a posting is if the author links to it elsewhere.

“But it is legible, no-nonsense static hypertext, good for short stories, not-short-enough tweets and adventures and all your numbers station or internet dead drop needs. Here you can scream into the void and know the form of your voice is out there forever.

“Search engines are instructed not to index posts and I’ll do my best to make sure this isn’t used as a tool by spammers or other abusers. Nonetheless, posting will be turned off if anything bad grows out of it.

“Use basic Markdown to format posts: #header, BOLD, _italic_, code, >quote, and hyperlinks in the format link. Try !hacker and !professor and !timestamp too.”

(via: https://twitter.com/jbenton/status/1039563498014031872)