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I subscribed to The New Yorker awhile ago. They had a promo available where the print/online combo was cheaper then just subscribing to the paper edition, so I gave it a shot. Canada Post is notoriously slow with any delivery, especially scheduled, routine ones – and my hope was that I'd be able to read the magazine exactly on its publishing date and then deep-read the paper copy when it eventually arrived.
I haven't had the time to sit down and really play any sort of serious game recently. Not that I've truly been all that terribly busy – It's just the only thing I've had any inkling of interest in playing is Donsol, a solitaire-like card game from the ocean-based studio Hundred Rabbits.
The concept of Filesharing (and digital piracy) has been around since before even the basic days of the internet – where floppy disks, and, even earlier, rolls of punch-paper, were shared at swap meets.
The Internet, as it is always keen to do, revolutionized filesharing in a big way. Bulletin Board Systems was where shareware began to congregate, where the very idea of the “scene” really began. Eventually, the Scene spread to Usenet, then FTP & FXP. In the late 1990's, IRC became the system of choice, as development in the DCC protocol made it significantly faster compared to other methods.
While Bittorrent stands out now as the be all end-all for filesharing, killing Usenet, and neutering the usefulness of services such as Napster or Nicotine, IRC and the DCC protocol still are actively used and developed; sharing files via IRC is still a viable way to find and download files – especially rare ones – that stays on par with modern expectations in speed.
Hey, I've got nothing against a good gui. It's just that most graphical user interfaces make me want to smash my face through a glass window and swallow the shards it produces. I'm looking at you, Clementine.
Now, frankly, none of these applications need anymore touting or celebration. Everyone who is anyone already knows how good they are. But I've been strapped for post ideas and didn't want my blog to stagnate. I promise I'll come up with something better for Friday.
Anyways, here we go.
You remember Threes!, right? That awesome little puzzle game that was ripped off by the much more successful 2048?
That game was written by the very talented Asher Vollmer, who also wrote Puzzlejuice, an incredibly good mobile puzzle game, and recently teased his newest game Guildlings,which now since you know his track record, will likely be another very good Fantasy mobile game.
This isn't about any of his mobile selections – instead, one of his much rarer desktop games, and a very obtuse one at that.
In our modern age, Anno Domini 2018, what is beloved by the masses changes as rapidly as the wind on a rainy day, and far less predictably. This is a truth for all of human culture, but stands most aptly in the world of Public Radio and Music. What was considered poignant, relevant and beautiful at one moment changes in the next.
If you need an example, when was the last time you listened to Gotye's Somebody That I Used to Know? There was a time once, not so long ago, where you couldn't go an hour without hearing it somewhere, whether on the radio, in the deli line, or from supermarket loudspeakers. As a society it seemed we would never get enough of it. But we did, and we moved on.
The Individual, however, acts differently then the mass. This list is not songs that everyone will love forever and always, but instead some albums I love. Albums that still, all this time later, I can't help myself from playing all the way through to the end at least once a week.
Yesterday, I uploaded a Vim plugin that lets you post to write.as directly from vim. For me, this was a feature that was so obviously needed their was no hesitation whatsoever in designing and uploading it. The whole process took me about a day from conception to upload.
I was a little surprised when the response I got back from my niche wasn't: “Oh wow thank goodness I totally needed this”, but instead was:
Wait, you absolute madman, you blog in Vim?
To which I respond, yes! Yes. All my writing is done in Vim. It's very comfy.
Here is how I do it.
I love write.as; it quickly became my home for blogging after only a few hours of tinkering. However, I've always done my writing in VIM, and as clean as the web interface is, I still found myself doing all the grunt work in VIM and then pasting it onto the site.
Not very efficient.
Thankfully, @matt pointed me towards the API, and it was a cinch to write up some vimscript and python to post from VIM to write.as directly.
Ignore the country of origin and the darkness of the roast – these mean nothing. The taste of coffee is not where its from or how the bean was prepared – these are mere distractions from the true reality of the situation. There are only eight different types of coffee – anything else is filler. I'll list them for you now – and then you will understand.
