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Currently listening to From Scotland with Love (2014) by King Creosote.
Sam took me to the lovely Howard Assembly Room in Leeds to hear him perform this back in October 2014. Probably one of the best gigs I’ve ever been to.
I return to this album a lot. But have to say, “Miserable Strangers” really hurts right now. I miss everyone so, so much.
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Highly recommend using a VPN when searching for recipes online. When I set the server to an appropriate country for what I’m looking for, I almost always get way better results. And even when the results aren’t objectively better, they usually widen my idea of what any one particular dish can or should be.
Of course I usually search in English. For better results, search for the dish by the name it’s actually called using the correct characters, not the English name or anglicized spelling. That was the only way to find a decent dökkt rúgbrauð recipe.
If you don’t have a VPN, you can try changing your search region. See Duck Duck Go’s instructions or Google’s instructions.
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I’m currently working on a site that uses CSS Scroll Snap to frame some of the content nicely as you scroll through. In Chrome though, I was getting weird overflow issues at the top and bottom of the screen. If I scrolled to the bottom and then kept attempting to scroll down, it would gradually add more and more length to the page. Same with scrolling back up.
Adding overscroll-behavior-y: none; to the body element sorted it out. Read more about overscroll-behavior on MDN.
I originally tried to add this property to the html element since that’s the element with scroll-snap-type: y mandatory;. This didn’t work though, it seems that overscroll-behavior has to be on body.
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Currently listening to Black Prince Fury//Jet Black Raider (2013) by Anna Meredith. Manic, insistent symphonic electro-pop 👍
Jet Black Raider EP on Bandcamp | Black Prince Fury EP on Bandcamp | Apple Music | Spotify
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Just had a collaborator ask if we could disable the “save to Pinterest” button even if a visitor has a Pinterest addon / extension in their browser. My immediate reaction was “Maybe? I’d think not but will see!”
Turns out something like this should be possible. Pinterest supports disabling saves from a site, see their documentation. You can either enable it site-wide or per image.
I’m surprised but really happy to see that they offer this, hope that they continue to do so.
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This is the mv command I use to change all of the filenames in my current directory from mixed case to lowercase and replace spaces with underscores.
for file in *; do mv "$file" `echo $file | tr ' ' '_' | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]'` ; doneThe ; semicolons indicate the end of each line of this command. To break it down:
for file in * loops over all the files in the directory. You could change the * wildcard to something like *.jpg if you wanted to only target JPG files.do mv "$file" instructs the system to move each file in the loop to the location that immediately follows.`echo $file | tr ' ' '_' | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]'` is the location we’re moving the file to. We use the tr “translate” command to replace spaces with underscores, and then again (separated by the | pipe character) to replace uppercase letters with lowercase letters. Then we echo that translated filename.
done lets the system know that the loop is done.
I use this occasionally to prep files for use on the web when working on a static site, one that isn’t hooked it up to a CMS.
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Being a poll worker was great. I think a lot of that had to do with the people I was working with all day (very nice), the precinct I was in (comfortable), and how busy it was (super quiet). It was a good way to be introduced to it, all in all. And I got a shiny new pin. 🙂
We really didn’t have that many people come in to vote, likely due to the big push for Vote By Mail. The vast majority of people were coming by to drop off their ballot. The longest the line ever got was about 5 people deep in the morning, then by about 11am or so there was almost no line at all. It was pretty chilly, unusually windy out and we had to have the windows and doors open all day for ventilation, but that wasn’t too bad.
There were only two frustrating points.
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Here we go 🙃
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Edit 7 Nov: 😄
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Currently listening to My Finest Work Yet (2019) by Andrew Bird. “Bloodless” is particularly on the nose.
Well, the best lack all conviction
And the worst keep sharpening their claws
They’re peddling in their dark fictions
While what’s left of us
Well, we just hem and we haw
And it’s so damn slinky, catchy.
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sweet love, sweet love love my throat is gurgling the mystic mouth leaves me so defted defted my throat is gurgling the mystic mouth leaves me so defted and the deep black nightingale turned willowy and the deep black nightingale turned willowy by love’s tossed treatment berefted
The lyrics to John Cage’s “Four Walls: Act I, Scene VII”. I couldn’t find the lyrics many places online, so here they are.
Been listening to Symbol by Susumu Yokota a lot recently, finally took the time to look up a few of the songs he sampled. The voice in “music from the lake surface” is particularly haunting and weird, turns out it’s this piece.
“Four Walls” premiered in Steamboat Springs, CO in 1944, and this particular piece was originally sung by Julie Harris. The lyrics are a poem by Merce Cunningham.
I wonder which recording he sampled… It’s my favorite that I’ve heard so far, am not that in to many of others I’ve heard. Though I do think that the version from the 1989 album by Richard Bunger and Jay Clayton is pretty good (Apple Music, Spotify).
Related: I purchased John Cage: A Mycological Foray published by Atelier Editions a while back and it’s gorgeous. I really should send the postcards inside, but I’ll probably hang on to them. Need more pleasurable things to look at during the day-to-day right now.
Related to related: Listen to Mushroom Haiku, excerpt from Silence (1972/69) on UbuWeb. Browse the rest of Ubu’s John Cage artefacts.