Lyrics, music, history, and recordings of the song we all know as the "Erie Canal Song," "15 Miles on the Erie Canal," or "Low Bridge, Everybody Down." 

We have decades of experience trying to automate processes. The biggest lesson is that automation is not about the easy and known flow, but about exception handling.

The best diagnosis for exception handling I can think of is to wait on line at the post office. If you’ve ever done that, you know the thought of “doesn’t anyone just want to mail a package” comes to mind. As it turns out the entire flow at the post office (or DMV or tax office) is about exception handling. No amount of software is going to get you out of there because it is piecing together a bunch of inputs and outputs that are outside the bounds of a system.

The ability to automate hinges not just on the ability to know the steps to take for predefined inputs, and not even the steps to take if some inputs are erroneous or incomplete, but what to do if you can’t even specify the inputs.

My favorite example of the latter is how the arrival of IBM computing in the 60s and 70s totally changed the definition of accounting, inventory control, and business operations. Every process that was "computerized" ultimately looked nothing at all like what was going on under those green eyeshades in accounting. Much of the early internet (and still most bank and insurance) look like HTML front ends to mainframe 3270 screens. Those might eventually change, just not quickly. It might be that the "legacy" or "installed base" of many processes is such that the cost to change is too monumental.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41765594

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In my professional life, I’ve had several bestselling books published by New York publishers, as well as many other titles that sold modestly. I have also self-published a bunch of books, including one bestseller on Amazon and two massive hit … Continue reading →

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In this video we have a look at this 2003 Honda Civic 1.7 that came in with a complaint of no A/C or blowing warm air out of the vents when the a/c was turned on. It was a fun fix because it had a little twist at the end that almost got missed but ended up being a good fix. Some times it is a little more than just being low on refrigerant.

How Car AC Systems Work and How to Diagnose AC System Issues For Beginners BY: Ratchets And Wrenches - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtRZ5xTaIOI

How a Car AC System Works - For Beginners BY: Ratchets And Wrenches - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-INZ2sRrsuo

All it takes to know How to Cook Perfect Rice on the Stove. Get fluffy, non-sticky white grains every time with the best white rice recipe.

New & improved recipe! This recipe for strawberry shortcake is homemade with fluffy whipped cream, juicy strawberries, and sweet biscuits.

I downloaded the recipe.

SVGs are one of the most remarkable technologies we have access to on the web. They’re first-class citizens, fully addressable with CSS and JavaScript. In this tutorial, I’ll cover all of the most important fundamentals, and show you some of the ridiculously-cool things we can do with this massively underrated tool. ✨

Here are some beginner technique tips for ukulele to avoid learning some bad habits that make things more difficult later.

If you’re brand new to block printing, Speedball makes a really handy beginner’s kit that includes:

• a block to carve (these Speedy Cut blocks are soft and easy)
• a lino handle with cutters to carve with
• ink (water soluble cleans up easy)
• a soft rubber brayer (I really like little ones for detail work)

I also recommend:

• tracing paper
• a soft, dark pencil
• a baren (again, I prefer a little felt one for detail work)
• some cheap paper to experiment — I particularly love to print on pages from the newspaper and old books that are falling apart

What is this post about In this post, I’ll dive into a powerful feature of uv: the --with option. I’ll explain how it works, share practical examples, and show how it solved a key challenge in my latest tool, ayu. But first of all…

Nate Berkus recommends installing chic full-length drapes at either side of glass doors to elevate any home interior. Choose classic linen or sheer fabrics.

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My favorite (evidence backed) theory on how humans learn is Retrieval Practice.
https://www.learningscientists.org/blog/2024/3/7/how-does-retrieval-improve-new-learning

Humans don’t really learn when we download info into our brain, we learn when we expend effort to pull that info out. This has some big implications for designing collaborative tooling!

The “thing” that we learn most effectively is not knowledge as we typically think of it, it’s process. This should be intuitive, if we put into a bit of a more natural context. Imaging learning baking for a moment: Do you teach someone to bake a cake by spitting out a fact sheet of ingredients and having them memorize it? Or do you teach them the process?

If you feel, not unreasonably, that both Vim and Emacs’ keyboard command systems are bizarre and arcane, you can customize Readline’s key bindings and make them whatever you like. This is not hard to do. Readline reads a ~/.inputrc file on startup that can be used to configure various options and key bindings. One thing I’ve done is reconfigured Ctrl-K. Normally it deletes from the cursor to the end of the line, but I rarely do that. So I’ve instead bound it so that pressing Ctrl-K deletes the whole line, regardless of where the cursor is. I’ve done that by adding the following to ~/.inputrc:

Firstly covering the simpler of the two options, the ASGI/WSGI web server that goes between your Python code in the web framework and the users who have a web browser:

Gunicorn is the most popular WSGI server
Uvicorn is an ASGI server. It is both a standalone server as well as a plugin for Gunicorn
Hypercorn is an alternative that supports both WSGI and ASGI

A guy decides to show off his Neovim setup.

Dante Lab at Dartmouth College: a customizable digital tool for scholars of Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy. DanteLab.Dartmouth.edu

The moving image below is only 49Kb and has an incredibly high resolution. It's similar to a GIF but instead of showing moving images, it shows moving SVGs!

Getting these to work involves asciinema and svg-term-cli. After uploading the asciinema you can use the tool to download a file that you can immediately click and drag into a README, or you can use this snippet to keep things local:

A human-friendly alternative to netstat for socket and port monitoring on Linux and macOS. - theopfr/somo

I learn much better from text than from videos.

Youtube-to-Webpage is a Perl script to create a webpage from a Youtube video with a transcript generated from the video's closed captions paired with screenshots of the video.

./yt-to-webpage.pl project-name "videoURL"