Notes

Today I learned that 12 days before the Three Mile Island accident, the movie The China Syndrome came out in theaters describing a nuclear meltdown that “could render an area the size of the state of Pennsylvania permanently uninhabitable”.

• TIL

I wonder if actors will start putting out holiday movies the way musicians put out holiday albums.

• christmas

It’s nice to be able to wear red and green without feeling like I’m making a fashion faux pas.

• christmas

Thanks to snarfed.org my website should now be discoverable as @[email protected] on federated ActivityPub services like Mastodon. I’m still ironing out the kinks but I’m impressed by everything fed.brid.gy supports

• site changes

Today we saw what looked like a goldfish in the harbor. Apparently a “Catalina Goldfish” is officially called a Garibald and is California’s state fish.

• TIL

Today I finally enabled displaying of webmentions thanks to webmention.io. I only support rendering mentions client side for now but I hope to eventually add rendering and sending to the site’s build process.

• IndieWeb
• site changes

TIL that they make earplugs specifically for concerts. As someone with sensitive ears I need to look into these for the next time I go to a concert in person.

• TIL

TIL you can emulate the as const type suffix in JS with a helper function. (source) /** * Identity function. Coerces string/number literals to value-as-type. * @template {string|number} T * @param {T} v * @return {T} */ function toConst(v) { return v; } const five = toConst(5); // --> Type...

• TIL
• technology

I’ve added a new type of post to my site. This should open a whole world of possibilities integrating with indieweb.org standards!

• IndieWeb
• site changes

This “Tiny Creatures” animal drama is cute and impressively put together with slow-mo close-ups…wait he filmed it in his backyard in England during quarantine? decider.com/2020/08/07/tin…

It would be very poetic if adding Trump’s face to Mount Rushmore caused the entire monument to collapse. White House reached out to South Dakota governor about adding President Trump to Mount Rushmore, New York Times reports https://t.co/0MqdAsJfft— CNN (@CNN) August 9, 2020

Best part of my day was eating 6 1/2 fresh-cooked tortillas. I guess that’s not bad for 2020.

There’s also a huge group of officers grouped up a few blocks from the protest. Looks like they may have riot gear.

Crazy numbers of police around La Mesa today in response to a planned protest. Most of the protesters we’ve seen look like Trumpers

Enforcing economic class divides is not the American dream. We shouldn’t let our towns exclude low income housing because we can’t “be bothered”. I am happy to inform all of the people living their Suburban Lifestyle Dream that you will no longer be bothered or financially hurt by having low...