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And me? I'm Leo Laporte

Podcaster, Broadcaster, Tech Pundit. Founder of the TWiT podcast network. Recovering syndicated radio host.

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    2924 AoC Day 2

    I survived “Red-Nosed Reports” - Day 2 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode

    Had a lot of fun on this stream with help from the pros at the top of our private leaderboard.

    Code, as usual, on Github

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    2024 AOC Day 1

    I’ve completed “Historian Hysteria” - Day 1 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode

    I always look forward to this particular coding challenge. Last year I got all the way to Day 22 before calling for the Sag Wagon. This year I’ll be doing it in Common Lisp again for as long as my puny skillz are able.

    I took a chance and streamed my work live last night.

    Fortunately it was easy and I wasn’t humiliated.

    Code at Github

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    Makin' Masks

    New research shows that wearing masks makes a difference. But we all have to do it!

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    RIP Joze

    Last month, when the weather in Petaluma turned nice, I started riding my e-bike to work every day. Until last week.

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    It’s a story as old as time. Well at least as old as HG Wells…

    HG Wells himself

    The lawgiver, of all beings, most owes the law allegiance. He of all men should behave as though the law compelled him. But it is the universal weakness of mankind that what we are given to administer we presently imagine we own.

    – H.G. Wells

    Sigh.

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    It’s a story as old as time. Well at least as old as HG Wells…

    The lawgiver, of all beings, most owes the law allegiance. He of all men should behave as though the law compelled him. But it is the universal weakness of mankind that what we are given to administer we presently imagine we own.

    – H.G. Wells

    Sigh.

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    Fame is a Vapor

    I use fortune and cowsay1 to spit out pithy sayings when I launch my terminal2. This morning’s seemed very apropos.

    Fame is a vapor; popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.

    – Mark Twain

    After the game the king and the pawn go in the same box.

    – Italian proverb

    The universe speaks.

    And now, a little movie3 to demonstrate. Pay no attention to the locomotive.

    1. Mac users can use brew to install the fortune and cowsay programs. Arch users can combine both with cowfortune in the AUR. And for extra fun, install lolcat and get rainbow fortune cookies. I’ve posted the fish shell code I use in the comments below (the footnote formatting mangles code blocks). ↩︎

    2. From xkcd #196: Command Line Fu Thank you, Randall! ↩︎

    3. This movie brought to you by asciinema. Install on macOS with the command brew install asciinema. ↩︎