This morning along the river, I rode over a stretch of steel grating which clicked-clacked, which I accompanied with choo-choo's just loud enough for me to smile to.
🚂

It isn't merely biscuit with a glass of milk, but the exquisite taste of milk mingling with biscuit crumbs from the previous bite, and the pleasurable mouthfeel of biscuit after a fresh gulp of milk.

Life may be captured in snapshots but is lived in the transitions between them

I’ve been enjoying hosting my very own mastodon instance at https://isaacsu.com/@me

The secret to an effective to-do list is...

You.
Actually.
Doing.
The.
Things.
On the list.

If you do the things, they will be done.

💪 Thanks @hannah

Day 8 off caffeine. Love waking up to post-caffeinated energy levels instead of bumbling through until I get my morning dose.

It's Friday here. It will be Friday for you soon. Happy Friday! Hope you've had a good week.

Glad you liked it @bob, and thanks for the tip! Can you think of other technical topics you think I could have a go at writing a gentle intro to?

The jitter and energy crash played a part. Ultimately it was the dependence on it that motivated me to go off. No direct substitute, just noticed more snacking.

Oh I wrote a gentle, low-technobabble introduction to containers (the Docker kind). Let me know how I went!

https://blog.isaac.su/2018-04-docker-containers-gently

Day 4 off caffeine. Hasn't been easy, but getting easier with each passing day. Based on previous experiences, it takes at least 7 days before I'm back to "normal". That daily caffeine boost comes at a very dear price, no doubt!

I'm getting a slight delay in activating Alfred.app via hotkey after upgrading to macOS High Sierra. Anyone else have a similar experience?

Oh in other less sleepy news, 3rd-party replacement battery for Thinkpad has arrived. I'll be pleased if it holds a decent charge and doesn't explode in my lap.

This Monday I'm feeling sleepy because I've started going off caffeine again. Weeks don't need to start perky and that is okay. Happy Monday.

Morning and Happy Friday, y'all fabulous Peep{le/ers}!

"To achieve high standards, you need to form and communicate realistic beliefs about how hard something is going to be".

1997 Amazon shareholder letter: http://phx.corporate-ir.net/External.File?item=UGFyZW50SUQ9NjkyMDIyfENoaWxkSUQ9NDAyOTk0fFR5cGU9MQ==&t=1

Thanks for my very first Ensō, @john! Now can someone please show me what to do with it?

Protip: to not feel like shit after ingesting an inordinate amount of caffeine, drink lots of water.

Oh, shout out to @tomnash and @flex for playing excellent hosts. Web3 Melbourne Weekly Hack is a great learning/collaborating space for web3 and solidity development. Thanks for having me.

Look who I met IRL at Web3 Melbourne Weekly Hack yesterday. Hi @abcoathup 👋

Maths puts the "lock" in blockchain 😬

May we ride the waves of our lives,
May we live in peace, not matter what we're given.

Just did a live demo of scaling up our production ec2 instances and ecs containers at company townhall this morning. Clocked in at under 4 minutes. Buzzing high from that rush.

Willpower is for people who haven’t made up their minds.

You do it by having the same wallet loaded up on both desktop and mobile (using the wallet's passphrase or private key). It's not technically "linking". More like having the same "identity" on both devices.

Amateur photographer here. Used to with shoot ancient Russian prime lenses adapted to a Sigma SD9. Now learning the Summilux 15mm/1.7 on a low end m43 Lumix.

I'm preparing some material to explain containerisation (the Docker kind) to largely non-technical audience. How would you describe the awesomeness of containerisation in non-technical terms?

I reckon it would be a case of reserving a set of those "handles" such that they can't be registered (e.g. https://twitter.com/about). Although it might be a little trickier if these handles were stored on the blockchain.

Welcome @cdixon!

All of the great advances in our society have come when we have made investments in other people’s children.

I can see how that the immutable and (relatively) costly nature of peeps would give a similar effect. IRL actions are practically immutable, and every act costs the actor something.

I'm reminded of a time when I ran a tiny (100+ member) private online community that had high-quality interactions and was mostly free of abuse because we used real names and knew each other IRL and those decencies carried across pretty well.

The no-edit, no-delete, peeps cost something model is really growing on me. Love it.

Nope. Don't worry, we've mostly been through that (I know I have). I suspect prior to saving to the blockchain, your peep is saved to ipfs which is already immutable.

Blockchains never lie!

It's pouring 🌧 wet in #Melbourne, in case anyone in the future wanted a blockchain-verified record of the weather now.

It can't run out if it wasn't luck.

9 Thinkpad X201 trackpads could technically fit on a single 2017 MBP trackpad. On the other hand, the X201's keyboard probably has what feels like 9x the travel compared to the MBP's. #tradeoffs

Ordered a replacement battery for my trusty old X201 (http://www.notebookreview.com/notebookreview/lenovo-thinkpad-x201-review/). Looking to make it my glorified typewriter machine.

Excited for the possibilities that this week will bring. Happy Monday Peepers!

@peter 👋. Welcome!

For peeps who want to peep from #iOS, Cipher (https://itunes.apple.com/au/app/cipher-browser-ethereum/id1294572970) works a treat. Just restore your metamask wallet using the 12-word recovery phrase. Props to @pete 🎉

Proud moment from the week that's just gone by. If you're part of an engineering team that practices Code Reviews, you'll know how special it was for the team to have a cleared out Code Review column mid-sprint. (It's like Inbox Zero, but you can't cheat).

It's almost dinner time here, but it's been a reasonably satisfying day so far. What's your day looking like?

Peepeth "New" tab brings back fond memories of a time when the Twitter firehose was readily viewable on its homepage. Anyone else remember that?

G'Day from #Melbourne!

Welcome @christianengel! What are you #buidling?

Non-expert enthusiast 👋. Welcome!

Welcome to peepeth @jessej!

I posit that the ability to "View Source" played a massive role in accelerating the adoption and innovation of the open web as we know it.