Power Commands
(Courtesy of Craig Maloney on toot.cafe)
Daily Digest for Thursday, Feb 13, 2020
☀️ Earliest posts come first.
Steve Ivy
Has anyone asked @teambloomberg if he’s going to divest himself of his companies if he’s elected?
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Steve Ivy
Follow @A[email protected] if u can they’re on fire 🚒
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string.hexdigits
I recently found the following in a bit of #python sample code:
random_data = random.sample(string.hexdigits, 8)
Wait, hexdigits? I’d use string.ascii_letters and string.ascii_lowercase before, but this was the first time I’d seen hexdigits, which is exactly what you’d think:
The string ‘0123456789abcdefABCDEF’.
That’s useful.
Fun with Barcodes
Being the curious sort, I wondered what it would take to generate #barcodes programmatically, and found this neat site. Here’s “monkinetic.blog” rendered as a Code 128 barcode:
Then I found a barcode package for #golang, so of course I’m trying to decide what on this site I could generate barcodes for…
Steve Ivy
in #deathmarch mode at work @ 10pm #latenightcapitalism 😭
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Steve Ivy
This is only unthinkable if you are rich white tech liberal, everyone else sees rich white men helping each other #uspol #larryellison
https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/2/12/21135722/larry-ellison-donald-trump-fundraiser
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Steve Ivy
As someone who’s leery of using #SaaS products for everything, I like seeing @posthoghq offering a self-hosted product in the #metrics space https://posthoghq.com
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Steve Ivy
As someone who’s leery of using #SaaS products for everything, I like seeing @posthoghq offering a self-hosted product in the #metrics space https://posthog.com
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Steve Ivy
Looks like I need a #bookmark feature in #Goldfrog now: “Agile as Trauma” https://doriantaylor.com/agile-as-trauma
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Steve Ivy
Dorian Taylor https://doriantaylor.com/ #hypermedia #thinking
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