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https://www.brianlane.com

[ my public key: https://keybase.io/bcl; my proof: https://keybase.io/bcl/sigs/EuBaToikfP2PZZVfG9z8uCU2-S0HhHwBSVguHQOjtKk ]

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bcl··on Magical Realism: “Northern Exposure” 25 Years Later (2015)
Filmed in Roslyn, WA - https://movielandmarks.com/#lm-1003
bcl··on Ask HN: Is there any software you only made for your own use but nobody else?
yes.
bcl··on Old Online Chevy Manuals
A similar project has a lot of old brochures as well - https://oldcarbrochures.org/
bcl··on With ships, birds find an easier way to travel
Just don't let the Pigeon drive the bus!

https://pigeonpresents.com/books/dont-let-the-pigeon-drive-t...

bcl··on Inform 7 is now open source
Yesterday's discussion - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31196063
bcl··on Alpine Linux: Brilliant Linux Distro
WARNING: Blatant self promotion follows :)

I've recently switched to using Alpine on my laptop, and have written a bit about setting it up using ansible here:

https://www.brianlane.com/post/alpine-laptop/

And when you can't find the apps you need in the distribution there's always podman:

https://www.brianlane.com/post/prusa-slicer/

bcl··on March 5, 1981: Timex Sinclair ZX81 Launched (2018)
Mine had the unfortunate 'let out the magic smoke' feature :/ Which fortunately led to the upgrade to an Atari 800 :)
bcl··on Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?
Ha! I've been working on https://movielandmarks.com/ since 2006 or so. It has gone through various changes (started out as a LAMP stack). It is currently a static site built from a pile of json and a go program to assemble all the parts. I'm the only contributor these days, and only work on it when I feel like it.

At the start I had dreams of selling tons of DVDs via Amazon associates. But I'm terrible at marketing :) So these days it's just a simple site with no ads -- just 1258 landmarks from 322 movies. I sometimes announce new additions on twitter from https://twitter.com/movielandmarks but it only gets about 30 or so visitors a day (mostly bots).

bcl··on Ask HN: Good open source alternatives to Google Analytics?
https://goaccess.io/ is nice, analyzes the logfiles instead of requiring it be added to the pages.
bcl··on Memories of the “Sneakers” Shoot (2012)
Shameless plug for my side project - Sneakers HQ https://movielandmarks.com/#lm-1036
bcl··on Fixing the Logitech MX Ergo Trackball Mouse Buttons
I've had to do the same thing with pretty much all of my Logitech trackballs - https://www.brianlane.com/post/fixing-a-few-logitech-trackba...

They do last for quite a while, but eventually one of the switches will go intermittent, depending on how much minecraft the user has been playing...

bcl··on The Interactive Fiction Archive (2019)
They link to playable versions on ifdb.org
bcl··on The pitfalls of using SSH-agent, or how to use an agent safely
I would also add 'Always set a timeout with -t' both to protect the keys from misuse, and so you don't forget your passphrase when you rarely type it in.
bcl··on FDA urges consumers not use certain hand sanitizer products
"Methanol, or wood alcohol, is a substance that can be toxic when absorbed through the skin or ingested and can be life-threatening when ingested."

https://www.fda.gov/drugs/drug-safety-and-availability/fda-u...

bcl··on My First “Conway's Game of Life” Program in Tribute to John Conway
Here's the one I've been playing around with, written in go with the SDL2 library - https://github.com/bcl/sdl2-life
bcl··on Source code for Zork, Hitchhiker’s Guide, and other Infocom games
For those of you who are new to text adventures you can find images of most of the game boxes here - http://infocom.elsewhere.org/gallery/ and various other resources here http://infocom.elsewhere.org/
bcl··on First Sednit UEFI Rootkit Unveiled [video]
The UEFI payload would work on Linux systems, yes. But the delivery system described would not.
bcl··on Do I really need to get out the soldering-iron again?
In the past I've used AP Circuits (https://www.apcircuits.com/home.aspx) and E-Teknet (https://e-teknet.com/) with good results from Eagle CAD pcb files. It has been a few years though, so YMMV.
bcl··on Wind-powered ships are making a comeback
Current location and some before and after pictures - https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/details/ships/shipid:73...
bcl··on Mounting partitions from a dd image
You can run parted directly on the image file to make modifications.

    fallocate -l 1G disk.img
    parted ./disk.img
bcl··on Stop trying to ‘be original’ and strive to be prolific instead
Thanks for catching that, not sure how I managed to screw that up.
bcl··on Cloudflare Reverse Proxies Are Dumping Uninitialized Memory
Here's a simple little Rust app to check a list of domains for CF usage -- https://github.com/bcl/uses-cf
bcl··on An introduction to Tmux
He missed one of the most useful commands - ctrl-b z - to zoom a pane to the full size of the window. Very handy for multi-line copy operations so you don't get other pane's content or border characters.

tmux is also a great way to keep your workspace available from other machines. eg. run tmux and all your text mode clients on a server somewhere and ssh into it.

bcl··on Why the Future of Work Is at Home
Good list. I would also add:

* Door on dedicated space.

* Pants. Or some other work like ritual to convince your brain you are 'going' to work.

bcl··on Beware of hacked ISOs if you downloaded Linux Mint on February 20th
Fedora publishes GPG signed SHA256's of the iso's. eg. https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/23/Wo...
bcl··on PayPal Starts Banning VPN and SmartDNS Services
Already submitted at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11041453
bcl··on Look Ma, no OS
Russell Pavlicek had a pretty good high level talk on Unikernels at Linuxfest Northwest this year -http://linuxfestnorthwest.org/2015/sessions/next-generation-...
bcl··on How we learned about electronics pre-Arduino days
Ciarcia's Circuit Cellar articles in Byte, and later his magazine.
bcl··on Gg – Git Shortcuts, Colored Outputs, and More
I don't see anything here that you can't do with git alias, what am I missing?
bcl··on How to get started with RTL-SDR
Give http://gqrx.dk/ a try.
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