Breakfast at the train station, Ostbahnhof, Berlin:

I really want a NOSTR client for which I can adjust the default font size. The text in the main feeds interface of #Damus (on iPad) is legible, but I have to strain a little. Just enough to be annoying. Not enough to reach for reading glasses. The text in the notes entry and reply panels is fine, just about ideal. So which other clients should I look at?

I've been feeling, and saying, this for many years:

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Dr. Nicole LePera (@Theholisticpsyc) on X

THIS IS GOING VIRAL SO I WANTED TO SHARE IT HERE TOO: A bit from my past: My first job after getting my PhD was working as a therapist for peopl...

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I'm planning on going to Bitcoin++ in Berlin, NixOS edition:

NixOS Discourse

Bitcoin++, nix-edition - Berlin, Germany Oct 6+7

Bitcoin++ is coming to Europe to do a nix-focused conference. We’ll be in Berlin, Germany October 6+7th at Holzmarkt 25, with two non-stop days o...

This will include the option to switch into a configuration with the full Fort Nix nix-bitcoin suite (derivation) running in a NixOS native (systems-nspawn) container, and other services running in Podman, Docker, or LXC containers or virtual machines. May also include Sphinx hosting and NOSTR relay containers. Oh, and Wireguard, and the mobile SSH client, mosh, and the fwknop utility, among other small features (

空母 — aircraft carrier: 空 — empty, sky 母 — mother An aircraft carrier is a mother spawning into the sky (emptiness). Almost poetic.

I'm studying Japanese (日本語) on my own. So far I've managed to over 215 days going through at least one lesson in each of two iPad apps: Duolingo™ and Kahootz!'s Language Drops™. At some point, chasing around some rabbit 🐇 rabbit hole, I came across 日本の歌百選 — Japanese Hundred Songs Collection.

Nihon no Uta Hyakusen - Wikipedia

Without commenting on their specific collection of songs, it occurs to me that this concept could be tremendously useful to foreign students of any language. Nursery/kindergarten level songs to learn and help remember various connected collections of terms and phrases. One song for parts of the body (hand, arm, finger, chest/torso, head, …). Another for familial relationships (mom, dad, brother, sister, cousin, …). Others for days of the week, months of the years, and other temporal terminology (today, yesterday, tomorrow, now, morning, evening, etc). 100 songs, topics, composed and recorded for each language — entwined with culturally appropriate themes, in multiple voices (male, female, child, chorus) and licensed for free use. Then apps could incorporate these into their lessons, and karaoke (からオケ) packs for each could be available. Songs are amazing mnemonic devices, if they're of competent composition. Most attempts to explicitly write songs for pedagogic purposes are cringeworthy. But just raises the bar. Fund contests for every language and category, and select by popularity. Who's in? How has spare funds to donate?

Wise words: … "you never (only) choose a language, you choose an entire ecosystem." I've make this points a few times in response to language 🔥 wars on forums such as Quora. [Also a touching low key tribute to the memory of vim's creator]. "Why Python Is Amazing"

Why Python is amazing...

Great language that every software engineer should know…

https://twitter.com/answrguy/status/1690513408796631043?s=61&t=YqvuG7PQIEbz8A2KmvCNFw

Maybe we should start a new hacking community called the Rreiverrs.

Border reivers - Wikipedia

What's with all those Rs? ☞ Reproducibility ☞ Robustness ☞ Resilience ☞ Recovery Break it to make it … BETTERRRR!

@StableArtMaker Imagine a couple in a cafe where he's drinking from a mug decorated with fine images of an assortment of pairs of stylized women's naked breasts while her mug depicts googely eyes with each pair fixed on a different bosom.