Matt Panhans @mpanhans@librem.one

My column for Stuff this week is ‘My phone does everything, which is why I want to resurrect my iPod’.

I realise my inability to focus for more than about two seconds is a me problem. But as I look around, I find it’s a ‘lots of other people problem’ too.

https://www.stuff.tv/features/my-phone-does-everything-which-is-why-i-want-to-resurrect-my-ipod/

Add #coffee stains to #LaTeX documents.

https://ctan.org/pkg/coffeestains?lang=en

So apparently the term "patch" in software development comes from punch cards.

"Small corrections to the programmed sequence could be done by patching over portions of the paper tape and re-punching the holes in that section."

https://chsi.harvard.edu/harvard-ibm-mark-1-language

#til #computers #development #language #history

Huge congrats to the #Bluesky team, getting to this point is not easy, for any project. Here's a quick update on their first day, along with community reactions and future plans.

https://wedistribute.org/2024/02/bluesky-opened-up/

Did you know the ⚽ game I'm working on has a free demo available?

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1951410/WE_ARE_FOOTBALL_2024/

It also runs flawlessly on Linux! 🐧

Pardon my advertising, but I really want this to succeed, obviously.

#football #soccer #fifa #steam #steamdeck #gamedev #demo #linux #linuxgaming #gamingonlinux #sports #footballmanager

I don't know who did this, but - man, this is the meme that just keeps on giving.

Chita Rivera made her TV acting debut in a creepy 1964 episode of THE OUTER LIMITS as a Mrs. Danvers-esque maid.

Martin Landau and Sally Kellerman co-star in "The Bellero Shield, a sort of sci-fi MACBETH directed by John Brahm (THE LODGER) and written by Joseph Stefano (PSYCHO).

Watch on Freevee.

#ChitaRivera #ClassicTV

It arrived! Coming out free to the internet on February 27.

I'm launching an email series called What's New in R. #rstats

Why am I doing this?

Previously, Twitter served as my primary resource for R updates. However, after Elon Musk's takeover, leading R users have migrated away, spreading across platforms like Mastodon, LinkedIn, YouTube, and more, making it challenging to track R news.

The inaugural issue releases tomorrow, you can sign up here: https://rfortherestofus.com/whatsnew

Just out of frame is something really scary ok

#doodlezone #illustration #mastoArt #LineaSketch

Frozen lake fun #LarryVsHarry #cargobike #bakfiets #biketooter

New inventory and reduced prices on refurbished laptops pre-installed with Linux at senderolinux.com!

Free shipping within the USA 😀

i’m so old, i remember when google returned search results

Microsoft just announced that they were breached by the SVR, the same Russian intelligence agency that broke into Solarwinds.

This is a big deal, and Microsoft owes all of us a much more detailed description of what happened.

https://msrc.microsoft.com/blog/2024/01/microsoft-actions-following-attack-by-nation-state-actor-midnight-blizzard/

Not too bad but I will try to score even more rail miles next year. @wmata @TheWarOnCars

🚨 I'm excited to release the 𝚝𝚒𝚗𝚢𝚝𝚊𝚋𝚕𝚎 📦 for #RStats ! Convert R dataframes to beautiful tables in HTML, LaTeX, PDF, Quarto, Markdown, etc. Easy to learn; minimalist interface; concise syntax; ultra-customizable tables; and zero dependency. 🧵 https://vincentarelbundock.github.io/tinytable/

Now that the polar cold wave is descending upon the U.S., it is time to pull up this xkcd webcomic by Randall Munroe from Jan 2014 and show it to the climate change deniers who will soon be pointing to snowballs and braying "what global warming?"

https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1321:_Cold
#xkcd

Alamo Drafthouse will screen 150 films from 6 “landmark years of cinema” — 1974, '79, '84, '89, '94, '99.

The "largest and most comprehensive retrospective in the company’s history”

https://www.boxofficepro.com/alamo-drafthouse-is-going-back-in-time-this-year-with-alamo-time-capsules/ #FilmMastodon