brycewray

Was always one of the first things I would change in Word's autocorrect settings whenever I started with a company-provided installation.

It has a very “AI-written”-ish feel to it, FWIW.

Apropos of nothing: it's interesting that a page pushing Go so emphatically is built[0] using the Rust-based Zola rather than the Go-based Hugo.

[0]: https://git.sr.ht/~blainsmith/blog/tree/main/item/.build.yml

> There could be other issues causing this, for instance if you didn't grant uBOL the permission to inject scripts on the site.

Bingo. That was it. Again, thanks.

I will recheck my uBOL settings, then, sir. Thank you for your work!

EDIT: I did have it set to `Complete,` so perhaps I have something else going on.

Just as one example: Chrome + uBOL on Reddit will show you plenty of "Sponsored" stuff. You can use Inspector to find the offending CSS classes and then use `display: none` on them with something like Stylus[0], but not everybody wants to play that whack-a-mole game on the many sites that push uBOL past its blocking capabilities.

[0]: https://github.com/openstyles/stylus

Pepperidge Farm remembers that commercial.

"Sticks nix hick pix"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sticks_Nix_Hick_Pix

Yes, especially when a simple look at the source code showed what was "hidden." Not only aggravating, but amateurish.

Drives like these and the Syquest drives were essential for desktop publishing well into the early 2000s. I sent many such drives to various printing facilities --- or, sometimes (and, here, I really date myself) separate PostScript bureaus --- to obtain high-res, color-separated film for four-color commercial printing, either by local printers or magazines who would run ads for my employers of the time.

Backblaze's B2 storage is fine if used with a separate app over which you have more control. Others here have mentioned Arq. I have used it, as well as Kopia[0] and Blinkdisk[1] (Blinkdisk is essentially Kopia but with a nicer UI). Can recommend all three highly; the latter two are FOSS.

[0]: https://kopia.io/

[1]: https://blinkdisk.com/

(2023)

From the related blog post[0]:

> You can find Little Snitch for Linux here[1]. It is free, and it will stay that way.

[0]: https://obdev.at/blog/little-snitch-for-linux/

[1]: https://obdev.at/products/littlesnitch-linux

(2025)

This applies to more than just product engineering. Part of one of my former jobs (retired now) involved writing marketing copy and news releases. I never quite got over how one of my bosses, who would also write some of this material, often told visitors or other company execs that, where our textual output was concerned, “We have no pride of authorship here.” Speak for yourself, I always wanted to tell him, but never did because I needed the paycheck.

Interestingly, he lasted there only a year while I made it to nearly 17 years. Go figure.

Whoops. Thanks for the catch. I was trying to trim down some of my CSS the other day, but inadvertently forgot to leave my `--cyan-700` variable. The yellow you saw was supposed to warn me, "Hey, you missed one!" but I apparently missed that one. :-/ Fixed.

For Sass, yes[0] --- as has Hugo[1]. Hugo's recently added `css.Build` function, based on esbuild, is for post-processing vanilla CSS.

[0]: https://www.getzola.org/documentation/content/sass/

[1]: https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/releases/tag/v0.43 (July, 2018)

Yes; hope that gets blessed. We shall see.

Author here. This post arose out of a recent thread on the Hugo Discourse:

https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/hugo-v0-158-0-released/56868

> Few people would have had their own TVs in their room 30 years ago. That wasn't common. They were huge, expensive, and not remotely interesting enough to capture the attention of most people for prolonged periods. It was common to have family rituals where there was about 2-3 hours of watching TV during/after dinner together. That was when they aired a movie after some news.

Depends on where one is from. In my country (U.S.A.), even many lower-middle-class kids tended to have at least a small portable TV (or, more often, the former family TV that had been replaced by a newer one in the living room) in at least their end of the house or apartment, if not their own room, ’way back in the late 1960s to early 1970s. What was common for kids in other countries at that time is, of course, a different matter. As for watching the TV together as a family rather than on separate TV sets: that often depended more on whether the family TV was a newer color model and the kids' room TV was an older black-and-white model --- or, as kids grew older and their viewing preferences changed from their parents’, which shows were on opposite one another. Sometimes it even came down to which room made it easier to watch TV while you were doing homework, talking to a friend who was visiting you from down the street, etc.

Same here about the TV's flyback transformer. My parents always wondered how I could hear from down the hall (out of sight from the TV) when the horizontal hold or vertical hold went awry. :-)

Reminds me a little of something I wrote once:

https://www.brycewray.com/posts/2021/01/easy-peasy/

You might try wBlock:

https://github.com/0xCUB3/wBlock

> What is the key combo to make an emdash?

On macOS (and iPadOS if used with certain external keyboards), it has long been `Option` + `Shift` + `-`. Desktop publishing folks memorized this, and other, typographically helpful key combos many years ago.

Stylebot is no longer actively developed, but the similar (and open-source) Stylus extension is.

Repo: https://github.com/openstyles/stylus

Chrome extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/stylus/clngdbkpkpe...

Firefox extension: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/styl-us/

One of the smartest people for whom I ever worked was fond of saying about such situations that “you almost never want to be the first one up the beach.” I saw him get that right over and over again.

And every line of dialog shown, no more than five words at a time, in all-caps and bold-faced yellow superimposed text in a font that resembles a comic book sound effect.

> I'm super confused. My Macbook desktop has no rounded corners. Both the menu bar and content against the bottom edge are sharp-cornered. Is this only for external screens?

Running an Apple Studio Display here, and no rounded corners at any edges. So, just for non-Apple monitors?

> People in lowest incomes which would not be able to integrate in society without direct social funds will be seen as parasites by some which are wealthier, just like ultra rich will be considered parasites by less wealthy people.

Your use of the word parasite, especially in the context of TFA, reminds me of the article James Michener wrote for Reader’s Digest in 1972 recounting President Nixon’s trip to China that year. In an anecdote from the end of the trip, Michener explained that Chinese officials gave parting gifts to the American journalists and their coordinating staffs covering the presidential trip. In the case of the radio/TV journalists, those staffs included various audio and video technicians.

As Michener told it, the officials’ gifts to the technicians were unexpectedly valuable and carefully chosen; but, when the newspaper and magazine writers in the group got their official gifts, they turned out to be relatively cheap trinkets. When one writer was bold enough to complain about this apparent disparity, a translator replied that the Chinese highly valued those who held technical skills (especially in view of the radical changes then going on in China’s attempt to rebuild itself).

“So what do you think about writers?” the complainer responded.

To that, the translator said darkly, “We consider writers to be parasites.”