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Fri Oct 23 06:00:01 EDT 2020
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Slept from eleven to seven.
Woke briefly around three.
Warmer.
Partly cloudy in the morning, then mostly cloudy with chance of rain showers and thunderstorms early in the afternoon.
Cloudy with rain showers likely and slight chance of thunderstorms late in the afternoon.
Some thunderstorms may be severe with damaging winds.
Highs in the mid 70s.
Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts to around 30 mph.
Chance of precipitation 70 percent.
Work
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- Check on Postoffice backup, logs
Done.
- Check on Flow
Done.
- Email RentPayment termination dates to Julie
Done.
- Open Entrata vendor, catalog item ticket for Bob
Done.
- Email work log to Jamie
What a beautiful weather!
Twenty-minute walk at lunch.
Warm, almost host.
Saw a woodpecker.
Tonight:
1. Zero-out empty disk space on Postoffice, particularly on the data drive.
Started.
2. Turn off Postoffice to image the VM. Turn it back on afterwards.
3. Copy the VM image to the linux backups folder on Storage.
4. Let the RDX backup run tonight.
Hear crows outside.
Intense thunderstorm in the late afternoon.
Home
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- Wash cotton blanket
Done.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24860615
https://capiche.com/e/markdown-history
> "I'm sick of bringing my writing down to the level of the computer," wrote Aaron Swartz, the programmer who influenced so much of the publishing web including the RSS format and Creative Commons' license. "Why should I have to cover everything in annoying pointy brackets just so it knows what I mean?"
> So in 2002, he codified a simpler way in atx. "I'm not really interested in writing another <p> or </blockquote>. I'll have my computer do it for me," remarked Swartz in an email list.
> So in atx, a new line meant a new paragraph, no <p> needed. You could add em and en dashes (with 2 or 3 hyphens, respectively), single and double quotes (with single or double backticks), underscore for italics, asterisks for bold, hash symbols for headings, pipes for code. Lists started with numbers or asterisks.
> atx was similar enough to Markdown. But it wasn't quite enough. "I need to figure out some way of doing links," wrote Swartz, before describing wrapping text in square brackets then including the actual links at the end of the page.
> …
> So two years after Textile launched with the smart quote algorithm he'd help code, Gruber followed up with his own thing—with Textile creator Dean Allen’s blessing.
> "I was badgering Dean with a series of 'Why don’t you change the syntax of Textile to be more like this and this?' requests," remembered Gruber years later. "Dean’s response was, more or less, 'These are great ideas, but why don’t you just put them in your own thing?'"
> So he dug in, along with Aaron Swartz. "Together we pored over the syntax details from top to bottom, trying to develop the perfect format," wrote Swartz. "It was like finding my way through a maze," recalled Gruber. "I went down many wrong paths, tried out numerous ideas that struck me as good until I actually tried using them."
Cooler in the evening, after the rain.
Sound of crickets.
Read more of The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet.
Enjoying it.
Dusky purple and peach sky at sunset.
Servings: grains 7/6, fruit 2/4, vegetables 3/4, dairy 4/2, meat 2/3, nuts 0/0.5
Brunch: cheese curls, cucumber, banana, coffee
Lunch: orange, egg and avocado wrap
Dinner: macaroni and cheese and tomatoes
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