Skip to main content
tdro

Another wandering soul whispering into the void. If you are looking for my blog you are in the wrong place. The profile and header pictures are brought to you by cdd20.

tdro micro.thedroneely.com view
  • Markdown Plaintext Embed Permalink
  • 80/50 words 27s read

    I know there were questions about my thoughts on . I think time-travelling back to the future is more interesting though. I wasn’t around, but it’s deja vu.

    Accessible programming is the theme but I wonder. I’ve met many people who can’t read (no joke).

    Maybe the next “big social transistor” scales to the nano (video) message (nm) or pico (from micro).

    “Titles and thumbnails” are exoteric. Who knows, perhaps “natural language programming” becomes the most esoteric of them all.

    #musings
    tdro

    Another wandering soul whispering into the void. If you are looking for my blog you are in the wrong place. The profile and header pictures are brought to you by cdd20.

    tdro micro.thedroneely.com view
  • Markdown Plaintext Embed Permalink
  • 36/50 words 12s read

    I read about the history and legacy of the Delta Clipper recently. It’s incredible how notability and the right people propels niche technology into popular culture. It “Fulton follies” onto the mainstream and amasses social proof.

    #musings
    tdro

    Another wandering soul whispering into the void. If you are looking for my blog you are in the wrong place. The profile and header pictures are brought to you by cdd20.

    tdro micro.thedroneely.com view
  • Markdown Plaintext Embed Permalink
  • 74/50 words 25s read

    There’s an artful wisdom gained from age, maybe. I’m still young though so let’s say; personal experience. It’s understanding that sometimes you don’t have to play the game.

    Knowing my luck, I’d have light expertise on Intel CPUs right about now if I still had interest in playing games. I heard somewhere once that processor imperfections influence the numbering of its variants (i3, i5, i7). If so, then the wonders of economies of scale?

    #musings
    tdro

    Another wandering soul whispering into the void. If you are looking for my blog you are in the wrong place. The profile and header pictures are brought to you by cdd20.

    tdro micro.thedroneely.com view
  • Markdown Plaintext Embed Permalink
  • 106/50 words 35s read

    I sometimes forget that KiB style units are confusing. The / is practically ambiguous. Kibi is “2 to the 10” or 1024 (binary), but…

    1 kB ≈ 1 KB ≈ 1 KiB ≈ 1000 B ≈ 1024 B? Read my mind?

    The SI metric system is still a great feat though and unifies primary dimensions (length) on equivalent units (meters). Instead of hands, inches, feet, chains, furlongs, barleycorns, rods, and links — it’s just meters prefixed arbitrarily. Time’s probably messed up though.

    True story: I saw a ‘6 soft white rolls’ bread package morph into “6 50 foot white rolls” because of metric illness.

    #musings
    tdro

    Another wandering soul whispering into the void. If you are looking for my blog you are in the wrong place. The profile and header pictures are brought to you by cdd20.

    tdro micro.thedroneely.com view
  • Markdown Plaintext Embed Permalink
  • 53/50 words 18s read

    Contact forms are magical informants. Can you smell what kind of spam the spammers (and scammers) are cooking?

    1. traffic/content farming services
    2. Blockchain services
    3. Coin recovery services
    4. Guest posters for any of the above
    5. Link sellers
    6. Cloaking dealers
    7. Cyber security spooks
    8. Rich people asking us poor people for money
    9. Visionary astrologers and foretellers
    #lists #musings
    tdro

    Another wandering soul whispering into the void. If you are looking for my blog you are in the wrong place. The profile and header pictures are brought to you by cdd20.

    tdro micro.thedroneely.com view
  • Markdown Plaintext Embed Permalink
  • 45/50 words 15s read

    The last four years have taught us valuable lessons. In the shopping mall at the “end of the world”, the three most valued goods are toilet paper, toilet paper stocks and finally, toilet paper stockpiling. Accounts of toilet paper recall options are most likely bogus.

    #musings
    tdro

    Another wandering soul whispering into the void. If you are looking for my blog you are in the wrong place. The profile and header pictures are brought to you by cdd20.

    tdro micro.thedroneely.com view
  • Markdown Plaintext Embed Permalink
  • 69/50 words 23s read

    As for my biased opinion.. Everyone should consider and switch key systems to Linux and BSD for redundancy. That’d be wonderful, even if circumstances eventually optimize towards a futuristic catch 22.

    I’m reluctantly coming around to the idea that are a balancing act of sorts. Balance, as in misery loves company, convenience, insurance, and blame ability. The combined legal, technical, and economic consensus unwittingly incentivizes hardcore centralization.

    #musings
    tdro

    Another wandering soul whispering into the void. If you are looking for my blog you are in the wrong place. The profile and header pictures are brought to you by cdd20.

    tdro micro.thedroneely.com view
  • Markdown Plaintext Embed Permalink
  • 31/50 words 10s read
    tdro

    Another wandering soul whispering into the void. If you are looking for my blog you are in the wrong place. The profile and header pictures are brought to you by cdd20.

    tdro micro.thedroneely.com view
  • Markdown Plaintext Embed Permalink
  • 78/50 words 26s read

    I was poking around tech news today. I didn’t know that the train on comments. That’s funny because brevity optimizes for snide remarks. Speaking of snide, Robert Frost has a rather gentle and tactful kind — it’s absolutely genius.

    He only says, ‘Good fences make good neighbors.’
    Spring is the mischief in me, and I wonder
    If I could put a notion in his head:
    Why do they make good neighbors?

    #musings
    tdro

    Another wandering soul whispering into the void. If you are looking for my blog you are in the wrong place. The profile and header pictures are brought to you by cdd20.

    tdro micro.thedroneely.com view
  • Markdown Plaintext Embed Permalink
  • 84/50 words 28s read

    Someone said a while back that the design here was cookie cutter. That means I’ve stuck the landing, beautifully. Web design ended 24 years ago and that can’t be right but it’s in fact true. Exploratory design style sheets are kept to one’s self.

    People dislike non-conventional interfaces or “wheel reinventing”, as the story goes. Of course, nobody knows precisely what they actually want, but markets lie not (unless manipulated). Data says; there’s preference for the familiar, the standard, and more of the same.

    #musings

    Authors