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#!/bin/sh                                                                                                                                        

# backup.sh
# Incrementally backup the enclosing folder

# Set this to where you want your files to get backed up to (include a trailing
#   slash). This follows the same format as ssh, but you can also use a local
#   file path here.
TARGET="dphiffer@192.168.1.8:/volume1/backups/dphiffer/"

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Hello, Troy dads!

Please join us for a dad circle March 11 around 8:30pm. Thanks Andrew for hosting in February, next time we'll go back to Christian's yard in Lansingburgh, (snip). Let us know if you can't make March 11th and we can figure out another night. Also, if you're interested in hosting the April edition, let me know!

Nothing too formal, but hoping to get together and talk about our woes and glories at our varied stages of parenting and maintaining the human relationships that go along with it.

If you can't make it, don't want to make it, or need to be late (after bedtime), that's totally fine. No pressure whatsoever, but each dad has their own perspective and we all have different age kiddos, so more perspectives the better.

We don't have a strict format, but we do some sharing and updating that is done without imbibing, and then breaking into a more casual hangout. While we would appreciate just hanging with y'all in any format, we are also hopeful to actually make this more of a DIY therapeut

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Dan Phiffer's Space/Time Exercise

This ended up taking a bit longer than I'd hoped. I started out by exploring the data using some JavaScript mapping libraries, but started to realize I was going to need something with a little more heft. I turned to Ruby, and decided the RGeo gem was the right thing for the job. It's been some time since I've used Ruby regularly, so there was some time spent reacquainting myself with some language stuff. And just getting up to speed with a library I had never used before.

At the core of the problem is this: how close is each address point to a street line? I looked up the math involved, and decided calculating things was going to be too much trouble. Then I discovered a very relevant message on the RGeo-users mailing list, and the rest of the solution was structuring the data properly.

I created a helper function point_line_dist(point, line) that returns the distance

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Social Network contact data

I downloaded my account data archive from Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Mastodon, and Flickr. The files below should give you a sense for what kind of contact details get included in each export. Basically I'm wondering to what degree you can look at a list of contacts and use it to keep in touch outside of that service.

If you see a note that says "We can make this file beautiful and searchable ..." that is something that GitHub added because the CSV files are not technically valid.

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api_keys:
    your_list: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

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Hi J—,

Thanks for taking an interest in me. I have a young daughter who's turning 3 in a couple weeks. Your project threatens her future on a warming planet. This is not abstract or theoretical to me, receiving this email is equivalent to getting recruited by a fossil fuel company.

If I thought there were some way I could talk you out of what you're doing I would try, but I have seen the discussions online and I know it's impossible to reason people out of a gold rush mentality. Please take me off your mailing list and please really take a minute to think about the impact of your work.

Dan

On Jan 24, 2022, at 1:07 PM, J— <[snip]> wrote:

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const puppeteer = require('puppeteer');
const fs = require('fs');

if (process.argv.length < 3) {
	console.log('Usage: node txt2pdf.js [file]');
	process.exit(1);
}

const input = process.argv[2];
const output = `${input}.pdf`;

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#!/bin/bash

# see also: https://kvz.io/bash-best-practices.html
set -o errexit
set -o pipefail
set -o nounset

# A script to monitor updates to this web page:
# https://am-i-eligible.covid19vaccine.health.ny.gov/
#

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I just did a clean install of macOS. Here's what got reinstalled on day one:

• Atom
• Audacity
• Authy
• Canon EOS Utility
• Canon printer/scanner drivers
• Clipy
• Docker Desktop
• Final Cut Pro