This graph is from Grafana. It’s moreso for developer operations. I used to use qtiplot for random stuff, but nowadays I use gnuplot for scriptability (not GNU, see demos). Then, there’s Microsoft Excel et al.

That last clip was hard to make. My Linux systems upgraded and I entered reconfiguration purgatory. There was no time to test reverse babel strategies (lebab) or various CSS translation stuff.

Speaking of blindfolded; I once had to make do at a company for a short time with a browser only on Windows. Visual Studio Code or Codium is browser accessible now (something involving servers).

A quick wrapper script for normalized git commit dates. Commit dates and timezones are normalized or truncated to the day. This is useful for avoiding rebasing and/or not having to think about system or git date/time settings when on another device or in another timezone. If precise timestamps matter, then it is easily disabled.

#!/bin/sh -eu

GIT=$(which git --all | grep --invert-match "local/bin" | head --lines 1)
GIT_COMMITTER_DATE="$(date --utc --date '0' '+%a %b %d %H:%M:%S %Y %z')"

export GIT_COMMITTER_DATE

[ "${1:-}" = "commit" ] && export DATE=1 && $GIT "$@" --date="$GIT_COMMITTER_DATE"

[ "${DATE:-}" = 1 ] && exit

$GIT "$@"

Tracking git metadata never crossed my mind (git privacy). My understanding was that metadata can’t be sole ground truths anyway. Known real–world contributors increase trust/triangulation.

Reality is not always in sync with metadata, for example; rebasing repositories as 1 commit, using different names/emails, travelling (without updating tz) or working inside time drifted virtual machines.

I’d imagine that simpler anonymization involves anonymous contributors sharing the same metadata. In short, the deniable we are one, we are many, we are legion cloak.

Strange. In the last few years, I’ve abandoned search engines for most programming related queries by chugging along happily with Recoll. If I had the time I’d sit down and hack out a web front–end for its Python API but the desktop interface supplied with HTML from my own web crawlers works beautifully (medoc92/recollwebui also exists).

In the end my blog here ended up as a public note taking system — oh well. It’s kinda prickly though because I’m linking out in most posts and don’t have a workflow for auto–archiving the destinations yet.

Chances are that when I return to older posts links inside will be dead. Archive.org isn’t infallible – ya better locally archive anything remotely interesting. Y2Z/monolith is good at creating self–contained web pages.

Writing assistant: Vale. I heard somewhere that writing/speaking at a 6th grade level is a surefire way to be relevant… whoops.

$ vale extensible-stylesheets.md
1:1     suggestion  Grade Level 11.02.              thedro.Readability         
16:3    error       Use code tag `XML` instead of   technical.CodeSubtitutions 
                   'XML'.                                                     

I had some time to futz about updating my Isso setup and forgot that a while back they added Atom Feeds. It’s also neat that it uses Atom Threading (an example). Installation from source is easier too.

Out of all front–ends for Mastodon/Pleroma the one with the funniest name is Soapbox (repo). Social media is a soapbox. Yes, this blog now has simple text animations :-)

‘One thing well’ is alive again. cbformat looks extremely useful — might just beat my current method of formatting code blocks in Markdown.