Month: March 2019
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🔖 The appeal of newsletters: ownership and intimacy | onemanandhisblog.com
A couple of interesting thoughts from Craig Mod about the underlying reasons behind the shift to newsletters.
🔖 Running a bakery on Emacs and PostgreSQL | Piers Cawley
Piers Cawley (bofh.org.uk)Just over a year ago now, I finally opened the bakery I’d been dreaming of for years. It’s been a big change in my life, from spending all my time sat in front of a computer, to spending most of it making actual stuff. And stuff that makes people happy, at that. It’s been a huge change, but I can’t think of a single job change that’s ever made me as happy as this one.
👓 Peace and love | Ben Werdmüller
Ben Werdmüller (Ben Werdmüller)I don't know how to even begin to address this, or if I should, but here goes. This update comes with a trigger warning for self-harm, serious illness, and hate. But also maybe some hope. My mother is sick. Really sick. She's waiting for another lung operation (she had a double lung transplant six y...
Thanks for the hope Ben. I too am really going to miss Kim. We’re all far worse off in the world without her.
IndieWebCamp New Haven is the first in Elm City, happening at Southern Connecticut State University, Participants are welcome to join the #IndieWeb community to explore how owning your data and controlling the web helps to protect under-served communities.
Attending remotely.
President Bartet's attack of multiple sclerosis requires hasty reorganization of the summit in China. Unable to endure the long meetings, he becomes frustrated when the Chinese take advantage of his absence to drag their feet over North Korea. Back at the White House, Josh is told by NASA that a large asteroid is on a collision course with earth; staffers are unsure whether to prepare for the end of the world or not. Donna becomes frustrated when Josh continually postpones what she says is an important conversation. With the New Hampshire primary looming and Vinick looking like a formidable opponent, Josh and Leo try to find a Democratic presidential candidate they can believe in.
Directed by Alex Graves. With Stockard Channing, Dulé Hill, Allison Janney, Joshua Malina.
Magicians Penn and Teller give a controversial performance at Zoey's birthday party in the White House that threatens to drown out the news of the impending China trip. President Bartlet goes to New Orleans on his way to China after unexpectedly requesting briefings be postponed until they are in the air. Josh tries to decide which Democratic presidential candidate he wants to support, and is alarmed that Bartlet wants to appoint California Republican Senator Arnold Vinick to be Ambassador to the United Nations.
“Wanna bet I can get them to ask me a question about South Korea?”
It’s been cold and rainy for longer than prior years. Today it’s actually been warm, and tonight there’s finally the intoxicating smell of Spring flowers in the air.
