π Started reading: The Rust Programming Language (Covers Rust 2018).
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What would you write if you weren’t afraid?
βMary Karr
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The opposite of play isn’t work; it’s depression.
βStuart Brown
π I did not finish: Middlemarch by George Eliot. I got a bit over 200 pages in, and while I did really enjoy a lot of it, the whole thing is just too floridly Victorian for me at the moment.
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If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.
βAlbert Einstein
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Each time you write a page, you are a writer. Each time you practice the violin, you are a musician. Each time you start a workout, you are an athlete. Each time you encourage your employees, you are a leader.
βAtomic Habits
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Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That’s why it’s so hard.
βDavid McCullough
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We love to buy books because we believe weβre buying the time to read them.
βWarren Zevon
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TIL the From
HTTP request header. Now used for crawlers, it was originally intended for allow human users to supply their email address to the server. Innocent times.
π Finished reading: HTTP Pocket Reference by Clinton Wong, in one day. ETags, anyone?
π» Checked the micro.blog logs, and the cert “expired” at 10:06 a.m. (EST), so the site was down for almost 2 hours. Previously.
π» Site was down for a few minutes (that I know of) due to an expired cert error. I checked the server and my cert was not expired. I rebooted nginx and it’s working again. π€·
π Started reading: HTTP Pocket Reference by Clinton Wong. Published in 2000, it’s still a good refresher, although distressingly it omits status code 418.
πΏ The Alamo 100
Alamo Drafthouse put out a list of 100 movies theyβd want on a desert island back in 2020. Sourced from all their creative directors across the country. I thought it was an interesting place to find β¦
πΏ I watched Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles last night. It’s so aggressively naturalistic, I had to sink in, but I found paying attention throughout well worth it.
πΏ Watched David Cronenberg’s The Brood from 1979. I wanted to like it more. Someday.
π Laurie and Rocco. #cat #cats

π Started reading: Middlemarch by George Eliot.
π Finished reading: First Love, by Joyce Carol Oats. What a precisely rendered master crafted gut punch. Loved it.
π Started reading: First Love, by Joyce Carol Oats.

Chris DeLuca is a writer/improviser/software developer based in New York (EDT). Read more about me.
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