Link of the Day [8.13.23]

broderic on August 13, 2023

Kottke points us to a Mastodon thread explaining why the huge size of cars (and trucks) is a bad thing.

Maybe it’s just a problem in the United States.

I was just in Europe and rented a car which would be compact in the States. It had 4 doors and fit 5 tightly. There’s a trunk and fit our luggage. It was probably smaller than my Mini Cooper.

And there was an even smaller option.

Most every one in Europe was smallish compared to the US. Small to fit the small streets of many of the towns and cities. The city streets were sized for these smaller cars. Human sized.

But anyhow, our cars are getting too big which leads to many bad things. It ruins roads quicker. It kills harder. It costs more. And somehow, we’re gonna run out of room for them: road widths, parking space widths, home widths. Just not human sized.

https://kottke.org/23/08/car-bloat-huge-cars-are-terrible-for-society

Link of the Day [7.03.23]

broderic on July 3, 2023

It’s the middle of the year, summer is in full swing, but what better way to think about the passing of the year with thinking about calendar layouts. Yes, you heard that right. Calendar layouts!

Today’s link is one I found a long time back, maybe earlier this year, but forgot the URL until recently. It’s such a simple idea for calendar layout. I wish I could print one. (My printer is out of ink and obsolete).

https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/one-page-calendar/

Link of the Day [6.15.23]

broderic on June 15, 2023

At their inception, Nogizaka46 was the official rival of AKB48. Debuting in 2011, it took Nogizaka46 seven years to overtake their rivals and become Japan’s top mainstream idol act.

Today, Nogizaka46 are the rivals to a new idol group produced again by Akimoto Yasushi. The new group is 「僕が見たかった青空」(“Boku ga Mitakatta Aozora”) or “The Blue Sky I Wanted to See.”

How long until they overtake Nogizaka46?

https://www.bokuao.com

Link of the Day [6.04.23]

broderic on June 4, 2023

Save Meiji Jingu Baseball Stadium.

My favorite idol group, Nogizaka46, call it home. Every year on their summer tour since 2014, they’ve had a show there. There have been many memorable happenings at these lives. Ikuta flown in on a copter. Fourth Year Birth Day Live’s rain. 2016’s Synchronicity dual stadium shows. Graduations. Falls. Rain. Rain. Rain.

One day, I would love to see my beloved Nogizaka at Jingu.

If it is possible.

https://asia.nikkei.com/Opinion/Showcasing-Japanese-baseball-requires-saving-Meiji-Jingu-stadium

Link of the Day [5.07.23]

broderic on May 7, 2023

Even Mac gurus have this problem.

I had signed up for an iTunes music account a long time ago maybe perhaps even when it was announced. Then I signed up for a Mobile Me account before it became iCloud. Then I most likely have a Japanese iTunes account. And I think I have a work one, too. I just have too many Apple ID accounts.

And there is no way to resolve them being one. No way.

Today’s link finds Daring Fireball himself stuck trying to navigate the multiple Apple ID accounts. He’s getting ads for services he’s already bought and it’s because of the multiple IDs that has confused him.

I, too, am confused by it all.

https://daringfireball.net/2023/05/followup_on_apple_services_ad

Link of the Day [5.04.23]

broderic on May 4, 2023

Recently, I’ve been buying Star Wars collectible cards. I don’t know why I just like them. Actually, it is just the one, the T206 style released last year, that I have bought. T206, if you don’t know, is the tobacco card style from early last century. Supposedly, there’s 200 in the set and there are many variants. I’m trying to get the set without worrying about the variants. Maybe later?

Anyhow, for the May Force Be with You, here’s a link to Topps’ Star Wars category for cards. I wonder if I did through my old collection if they are worth anything. Especially, since they’re mostly in good condition.

https://www.topps.com/archive/star-wars-archive.html

Link of the Day [12.03.22]

broderic on December 3, 2022

One of my favorite programming things is regular expressions. What are regular expressions? Well, they’re patterns mainly used to search text files particular words. It’s a code for how to find a needle in the haystack. My favorite is Perl regular expressions. I like programming in Perl because I like using it for searching for text in a file and processing that text into what I need to do. I hate when your search feature doesn’t use Perl regular expressions. (I am looking at you sed.)

Today’s link is to help you to use regular expressions. I think I have to read this, too.

https://perldoc.perl.org/perlre