Stefano Marinelli
boosted
The time-out on my authenticator app always stresses me out, even on a fresh minute. Time sucks.
The time-out on my authenticator app always stresses me out, even on a fresh minute. Time sucks.
Resilient technologies aren’t retro—they’re ROOT: Robust, Open, Ongoing, Time-tested. In RDM, text-first + small, composable tools beat opaque stacks. Emacs/Org(-babel) for literate workflows & provenance; Makefiles declare rebuilds; CLI atoms—curl, sed, awk, grep, diff, tar, rsync, cron, SQLite—keep steps inspectable, portable, rebuildable. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17157588 — Feedback welcome!
#ROOT #ResilientTech #Emacs
#OrgMode #RDM #NFDI
#FAIR
#Reproducibility
#literateprogramming
#BoostOK
I always wanted an Emacs world clock I could easily add cities to and shift the times (ie. find meeting times across timezones).
https://github.com/xenodium/time-zones
edit: now on GitHub
#emacs #timezones #macos #linux #oss #foss #time #madrid #london #tokyo #sanfrancisco
I always wanted an Emacs world clock I could easily add cities to and shift the times (ie. find meeting times across timezones).
https://github.com/xenodium/time-zones
edit: now on GitHub
#emacs #timezones #macos #linux #oss #foss #time #madrid #london #tokyo #sanfrancisco
Every evening, before going to sleep, I clean the coffee machine. It's a habit, almost a ritual. In a way, I remove the traces of the day that has passed, as a form of closure. On the other hand, I get everything ready for the next day, for waking up and the daily adventures.
Somehow, the coffee machine marks the passage of time, and cleaning it is a sort of anchor point.
I asked a friend to assist me with the setup of a work environment to prepare and test Linux and Windows builds of the stuff I make.
Maybe I could have done it myself, but as years pass, you need to choose your battles and sharpen your focus on the stuff where you can make a difference.
Maybe in the past I could have even been enthusiastic at the idea of building the whole thing myself, but I find myself being more worried about an entirely different kind of problem nowadays.
The engineering of keeping things running is important, but my services are better put to good use somewhere else.
It comes down to the element of time becoming scarcer all the time, and strategies to make the most of it:
Do only the things only you can do.
Ryosuke Takashima, who became the youngest-ever mayor in Japan at age 26 in 2023, is among Time Magazine's 100 most influential emerging people. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/01/japan/ashiya-mayor-time-influential-emerging-people/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #ryosuketakashima #ashiya #hyogo #time #magazines #localgovernment
🆕 blog! “A little oddity in the way curl deals with old dates”
For boring technical reasons, computers think the world began on 1st of January 1970. To keep track of the future, they count the number of seconds since that momentous date. So zero seconds represents midnight on that day.
So how do computers deal with dates before The Beatles' Abbey Road was …
👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/09/a-little-oddity-in-the-way-curl-deals-with-old-dates/
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#bug #curl #linux #time
Joachim
boosted
Never Write Your Own Date Parsing Library, by @zachleat:
Never Write Your Own Date Parsing Library, by @zachleat:
Oh wait, what if we just measure time based on the angle the sun is above the eastern horizon?
E.g.
* I’ll meet you at 35º for a coffee.
* It’s 150º, so time to go home for the day.
No need for summer time, since it’s self rectifying.
:-D
An Anglo-Saxon 10th century CE pocket-sized sundial found in 1938. The pin, known as a ‘gnomon’, was placed in the hole for the relevant month. When the sundial was suspended from the chain, it used the altitude of the sun to calculate 3 separate times of the day
#AngloSaxon #sundial #time
