@mbkriegh I don’t normally like self-help books (for want of a better category) but I found it really helpful in shifting my approach. Being an academic I always have way more than 3 projects that I’m supposed to be working on, so I need to get braver about neglecting some deliberately on a cyclical basis so I can complete others.
@strandlines I think a lot of people can identify with that 🤣.
@strandlines I have exactly the same tendency with my (many!) hobbies. I recently read Oliver Burkeman's book Four Thousand Weeks (which is excellent), and one of the bits of advice he gives there is to not feel bad about cycling through your interests or projects. Given that our time on Earth is finite, he recommends working on only one or two things at a time (so that you can focus and finish them), so that means that you need to be comfortable with the fact that you will have to intentionally neglect some things some of the time and come back to them.
@jemostrom Beautiful. They are all gorgeous photos, but that one of the sunlight through the trees… ❤️
@Cheri Yaaay!! So glad to hear your good news.
@jeremycherfas And, no doubt, an Ig Nobel Prize.
@jeremycherfas Could be, but if so I don’t know why two fabrics with the same fibre composition would differ. One of science’s great mysteries!
@cygnoir Hehe 😁. I’m sometimes tempted to smuggle in a little bag of cat hair to try out fabrics, but that would be naughty! It’s baffling though: for example, most denim is pretty hair resistant, but the denim I made my most recent pair of jeans from collects cat hair like a lint roller. Meanwhile, a slubbly, textured silk noile that I expected to magnetically attract hair practically repels it. 🤷♀️
@Miraz It was an accidental typo initially but it made me chuckle.
@pimoore Ooo, beautiful sky, even if it is a bit ominous!
@alans It’s worth setting the new env variables for brew so that you are in control of any changes.
@alans By the way, have you tried radian? It does have auto completion but I’m not sure whether it would be quite what you want. It’s a lot nicer than the standard R console though.
@alans It was. At some point, brew switched to automatically cleaning up old versions when you upgrade, AND upgrading dependencies automatically. So I upgraded something else which had R as a dependency, got a new version of R, and the old versions deleted. You can change this behaviour with env variables, but I didn’t know about it.
@alans Nice!
@alans I would settle for a tool like rbenv that would let me specify an R version as well as R packages per-project. renv is great, but if homebrew decides to 'upgrade' your R version without your permission, you are in a world of pain. As I found out this week...
@leeschneider One of the benefits of a split keyboard. In our house, it's either a trackpad or a cat in the middle of the two halves! I do need to get a longer TRRS cable though so I can move the halves a bit wider and put the trackpad properly in the middle.
@alans Thank you!
@leeschneider Thank you! It has been quite a marathon, and even then I realised as I was putting the caps on that I didn't rotate the inner thumb key so that I could fit a 1.5u keycap. D'oh! I could just replace that switch and single PCB and wire it up to the rest, but I'm going to wait and see how I get on with a 1u cap there.
@leeschneider I didn’t quite realise how much more work hand wiring was going to be, but I’m taking it slowly.
@bsag Thank you! I’m learning so much by hand wiring.
@alans So cute!
@bobschulties @alans That looks wonderful. I spent the weekend working on my latest build too: a hand wired Corne. I agree that the communities are really nice around mechanical keyboards, particularly the smaller niches (like ortholinear keyboards).
@jean It looks an amazing place. And what a lovely tradition to have with your niece.
@jean That library! I think you would have to prize me out of the cosy seat with the sea view with a crowbar 😍
@jack Hehe, you never know! The pull of Tinderbox is always strong.