Speaking of mmorpgs — this channel revisits old mmorpgs in current year. It’s mind blowing that many of them are still going, and that people still play them. I can’t even remember the last time I played a game, let alone a mmorpg.

Safari Technology Preview Release 150 is now available for download for macOS Monterey 12.3 or later and macOS Ventura beta.

Nabataean tomb in Mada’in Saleh (aka Hegra), Saudi Arabia (© Tuul & Bruno Morandi/Getty Images)

I really need to suss out an offline mode for this thing once I find the time. There’s an isp or power company outage every 2~3 days or so. That’s a normal thing in The Bahamas btw.

It just dawned on me that social media is exactly like a mmorpg. Think about it — we’ve got characters/personas, bots, cheat codes/walkthroughs and black markets that sell accounts, followers, and clicks. (was on the shady side of the net today)

imo, it’s a fascinating demonstration of psychological prowess that corporations have convinced everyone that programming/computing is hard.

People are smart, take what they can get, and deal with a lot of computing frustation. Software is bespoke enough that technically you have to “program” in roundabout ways to get useful things done (generality).

Mangrove forest in the Saloum Delta National Park, Senegal (© mariusz_prusaczyk/Getty Images)

yj is handy for converting between YAML, TOML, JSON, and HCL. yes.

yj -yj -i < config.yaml > config.json
yj -yt -i < config.yaml > config.toml
yj -yc    < config.yaml > config.hcl

nikitonsky: If only there was space enough to show three more circles…

imscript is interesting. It’s a collection of standalone image processing utilities: repository.