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Sat, 09 Jun 2018 14:47:59 +0200

#FanArtforRose

Image by Brian Kesinger

There is this toxic portion of the Star Wars fan base that cannot stand the fact that our SW Universe has become more diverse. They should just leave and seek their fantasy and sci-fi on Fox News.

I couldn’t agree more. In fact, I had a minor Twitter meltdown slash rant on that exact topic recently: https://www.twitter.com/kopischke/status/1004975288088920064.

klugscheissen: Keep Calm and Carry On

Sun, 04 Jun 2017 15:06:50 +0200

klugscheissen:

Keep Calm and Carry On

AI Can Recognize Your Face Even If You’re Pixelated | WIRED

Wed, 14 Sep 2016 10:58:10 +0200

AI Can Recognize Your Face Even If You’re Pixelated | WIRED:

Oops.

Remarks at the SASE Panel On The Moral Economy of Tech

Tue, 28 Jun 2016 23:40:35 +0200

Remarks at the SASE Panel On The Moral Economy of Tech:

klugscheissen:

The first step towards a better tech economy is humility and recognition of limits. It’s time to hold technology politically accountable for its promises. I am very suspicious of attempts to change the world that can’t first work on a local scale.

Star Wars Episode IV in one picture

Tue, 24 May 2016 18:03:19 +0200

Star Wars Episode IV in one picture:

Bloody unbelievable. And total genius.

Uhm, hello? Anybody listening? Ah well, here goes: you might...

Thu, 12 May 2016 21:22:32 +0200

Uhm, hello?

Anybody listening?

Ah well, here goes: you might have been wondering (or not, who am I to presume anything) why my update schedule, be it posts or project commits, is so … haphazard.

Thing is, I’m not a code jockey. In fact, I’m not a software industry pro at all. I am a movie industry professional. Mostly a TV and feature unit production manager and, more recently, a line producer for the Cologne international film school (yeah, right, that’s in Germany). That is the kind of day job that leave dents in my schedule large enough to dive freight trains through, and often little else.

Point is, I am not apologising. Because I might not be a serious software producer, not even a reliable hobbyist, but for every Vim wrestling plugin commit I had to defer, there was some insanely talented person that could use what little help I have to offer to make a great film. And I do mean the effing great, that was really worth it kind of film.

So, lean back, have a short taste, and forgive me for saying this: there are better things than code in life.

Sometimes.

"Git has a very simple and powerful underlying model. Atop this model is piled an immense trashheap..."

Thu, 05 May 2016 14:02:31 +0200

“Git has a very simple and powerful underlying model. Atop this model is piled an immense trashheap of confusing, overlapping, inconsistent commands. If you try to just learn what commands to run in what order, your life will be miserable, because none of the commands make sense. Learning the underlying model has a much better payoff because it is much easier to understand what is really going on underneath than to try to infer it, Sherlock-Holmes style, from the top.”

- The Universe of Discourse : Two things about git

klugscheissen: Captain Phasma patrols the hallways of...

Sat, 23 Jan 2016 13:01:28 +0100

klugscheissen:

Captain Phasma patrols the hallways of starkiller base unaware of the impending ambush…

– Brian Kesinger

Generation Byte

Fri, 22 Jan 2016 19:01:32 +0100

Generation Byte:

We are Generation Byte, and our children will vacation on the moon or kill each other for water. The near future will change the human soul or send it on its way, and the legacy of the Bytes will be the story of whether we steered the ship away from Hell. Also Angry Birds.

Feed update

Sun, 10 Jan 2016 19:39:58 +0100

I’m EOL’ing Feedburner feeds on my Tumblrs, something I should have done a looooooong time ago. Please redirect your feed reader to http://nsuserview.kopischke.net/rss if you want to keep following this blog via RSS.

Now back to our scheduled programme.

Photo

Fri, 01 Jan 2016 12:51:27 +0100

Every single “strength in the face of terror” policy, ever.

Wed, 16 Dec 2015 16:47:57 +0100

Every single “strength in the face of terror” policy, ever.

What Happens Next Will Amaze You

Fri, 25 Sep 2015 19:48:57 +0200

What Happens Next Will Amaze You:

If you work in tech, or get anywhere near those who do on a regular basis, or even if you … aw hell, just go and read this, will you?

Photo

Sun, 20 Sep 2015 14:47:13 +0200

Apparently from TechCrunch, via @HardcorePooka.

Sun, 13 Sep 2015 23:11:42 +0200

Apparently from TechCrunch, via @HardcorePooka.

On the Apple Watch | Sealed Abstract

Sat, 20 Sep 2014 13:39:33 +0200

On the Apple Watch | Sealed Abstract:

Apple isn’t positioning this as a tech item. They’re positioning it as a fashion item. And that’s probably the place to start understanding it.

If the anecdata I collect in my own circles (the men, especially the techie types, are mostly “meh”; the women are unanimously “want”) is anything to go on, you should read Drew Crawford now, so that, in hindsight, you will have had the benefit of foresight.

I know there is stuff I really ought to do: my Markdown to...

Sun, 18 May 2014 21:57:55 +0200

I know there is stuff I really ought to do: my Markdown to Evernote service languishes in a half broken state, my Vim plugin quietly cries for a refactoring at night, and that is just counting the stuff that is not, you know, work. Sometimes, though, life interferes, and sometimes life is a broken RSS feed. Like the one that just blurted one week backlog of Tom Siddell’s Gunnerkrig Court at me. Now, I’m not the emotional type (which of course means I am and do not like to admit it), but Siddell has created characters and a tale so compelling, he makes me cry when he doesn’t light up my day like the warmest of sunlight.

So, instead of lame toys and self serving tricks, today I will just share this with you. Annie, Kat, and the most beautiful comic written since Bill Watterson retired.

Markdown to Evernote – RC addendum

Thu, 19 Dec 2013 18:50:00 +0100

Markdown to Evernote – RC addendum:

There are two things to add to yesterday’s post about the RC for the new MultiMarkdown → Evernote service:

I messed up when generating the bundles in the original zip archive. An updated version is now up, but if you downloaded already and your archive file’s name did not end in “rc1c” (with the emphasis on the final “c”), you need to re-download. Sorry.
If you need or want to contact me without filing an issue on the project, you can do so both on Twitter and ADN (I am @kopischke on both). I try to post all project related news on both networks, duly tagged #mmd2en, so you can stay abreast of developments even without having to follow me.

Markdown to Evernote, second round warmup

Thu, 19 Dec 2013 06:40:00 +0100

My little Markdown to Evernote service has been getting a bit long in the tooth. It never was very robust to start with, occasionally going “boom” when encountering metadata not palatable to Evernote, but the last years have not been kind to it: for instance, sandboxing broke it unless Evernote was already running. The last straw has been OS X Mavericks and its laudable shift to a system Ruby version 2, which broke the service for good.

Now this might have been a quick fix, but I decided to do what you never, ever should do: a complete rewrite, from the ground up. Not unexpectedly, this took me far longer than it should have, what with me barely having shed the total coding oik status for that of lowly Ruby grunt, but it is nearing the end now, or so I hope. The new version offers both an Automator action and a service application, the last one able to process not just text input, but also Markdown files directly. It adds metadata validation and sanitization. It is able to set most useful Evernote metadata directly from your Markdown file metadata – not just the title, tags and notebook. There’s more stuff I can’t wait to tell you about. But.

Right now, I need your help. I have done a few rounds of betas, but I have far too few beta testers to collect useful results; basically, the main tester is still just me. I’ve come far enough to tentatively put up a release candidate, but it needs to be tested in the wild. So, if you have been using my old service, or would like to explore the new one, head over to GitHub, grab the RC, and go crazy. Break it if you can.

And then, please, report back.

There is an addendum to the above post here.

A quick F5 for you

Thu, 23 May 2013 00:24:00 +0200

There is one thing one must concede to the Windows people: for all the convoluted mess they made out of their file manager (and I could digress, at length, on the semantics of calling it “Explorer” when Apple’s own is called ”Finder”), the overburdened web browser “just for files, ya know” metaphor does at least hand you a refresh button. Admitting that network shares might not always be automatically up to date, network connections, especially over such, ahem, flaky protocols as WebDAV, being what they are, is one thing that I would not mind Apple stealing.

The funny thing is: Apple already did, but they hid that feature away in the one corner of OS X even the boldest rarely dare to venture: AppleScript. Of course, intrepid souls have discovered it, and of course, there is a very nice utility to integrate that feature into Finder: Söderhavet’s Refresh Finder. Drag the app into Finder’s toolbar, and you are set.

Unless, like me, you find it annoying that the icon that goes to such pains to masquerade as a Finder button, new style, does neither match the proportions of the other buttons, nor get grayed out when Finder windows are in the background[1]. Or if you would like to use a hotkey instead of clicking toolbars. Maybe with an option for choosing if you only want to refresh the frontmost or all Finder windows? An Alfred command too, maybe?

OK. Done.

Yes, I know I’m anal retentive. But thanks for pointing that out anyway. ↩