363 entries for Toronto

I’ve been to the Hackerspace Wiki before to find local places while travelling. I didn’t know they had hackerspace apps listing, software wishlists.

Their design patterns library includes The Community Pattern:

set up a mailing list, a wiki, and an IRC channel. You will need all three. Think about a platform for discussion, storage for documentation and real-time communication.

The Critical Mass Pattern:

[You need at least two people to start an idea and two more to get work done. It’s easy to recruit once you have four people, and best to get started with ten.]

The Infrastructure Pattern:

[Infrastructure first or projects first? By making everything infrastructure-driven, people will come up with contributions you would have never thought about.]

World map of 24x365 average temperature fingerprints

The temperature fingerprints cover every day of the year horizontally, and every hour of the day vertically

Every child on their own trampoline

Private affluence is individuals gaining things for themselves – possessions, nice homes and experiences, trampolines. Public affluence is money spent lavishly on things that are shared – libraries, parks, buses, playgrounds.

In the physical world, we buy insurance to guard against adverse situations and contingencies.

In the digital world, we make backups or copies.

Djavan: a voz e o violão (1976)

Perfect fusing of the Brazilian language’s natural rhythm with samba’s flow: 4. Para-raio reminds me of the ‘perfect fit’ between words and percussion I hear in João Donato’s music; 9. Embola Bola (Cateretê) barely has words, almost pure voice percussion; 11. Magia feels like hip-hop; 12. Ventos do Norte like swing jazz.

Is there a better way to run a command N times in bash?

alfa=10
for bravo in $(seq $alfa); do
   echo "$bravo"
done

How do I get the Git commit count?

git rev-list --count master

How do you jump to the first commit in git?

git checkout `git rev-list --max-parents=0 HEAD | tail -n 1`

The magic of doing $10,000 per hour work

[Busywork is satisfying (swoosh) and easy (ding), so do it cautiously. Email can lack affordances for priority while allowing anyone to send you one, which can easily get you absorbed in what other people demand of your attention. If you can do it hungover, it’s less valuable.]

[Increase your anti-fragility by honing keystone skills: public speaking, writing, sales, technical sensibility, design, and negotiation.]

[$10,000 per hour work is invisible and may produce no results for years or decades.]

A simple habit to let luck find you

I’ve made one [Mutually Beneficial Introduction] per day for 10+ years.

[Once both people opt-in, take thirty seconds to write with details that can’t be found by searching online. Try this regularly.]

Writing, Riffs & Relationships

[Share what you wrote with a deliberately small group of maybe five people: your metric here is conversation and meaningful connection.]

[Write for one person to focus the text and also guarantee there’s at least one person you can share with via direct message.]

[Scan your list of decent drafts considering who you could write each for.]

Grapefruit (book)

Let people copy or photograph your paintings. Destroy the original.

Building a self-updating profile README for GitHub

GitHub Actions can run on a recurring schedule and manually by pushing a button.

Imagine every thought and action as sound that raises the loudness measured on a ‘sound meter’, then practice less activity to let the volume level drop as low and long as possible.

17 Foreign Words English Desperately Needs

[Abbiocco: Italian for ‘food coma’.]

[Schnapsidee: German for stupid ideas, like arranging furniture late at night while drunk.]

[Ubuntu: Zulu for “I am because we are.”]

[Sommer: Afrikaans for “just because”.]

[Tartle: Scottish for not remembering the name of someone you just met.]

[Mamilhapinatapai: Yámana for everyone wanting the same but noone acting on it.]

[Treppenwitz (staircase wit): German for thinking of a comeback too late.]

Jacob Collier Answers Instrument & Music Theory Questions From Twitter

I aspire to talk this deeply, fast, and fun.

DRIVER feat Juma Tutu (LASTA’s Afro Disco Remix) | PYRAMID PROJECT feat Contours

Single-bar bass loop probably never changes or stops; contrasted with sections featuring a kind of flute, chorus vocal hook (no idea what language it is), abstract saxophone solo and interjections; bass on each beat, booty-shaking, makes you dance and feel good.

“I have no opinions, just concerns.”

The largest social network where I actually look forward to participate is the blogosphere.

Hire Me

Seriously, I won’t take your money unless you say, “I’m super jazzed with these results, and there’s nothing I would change.”