- Draft created: Aug 5, 2026 15:12 (UTC).
- I guess create an address book, add contacts, delete an addres book in order to support Thundermail folks.
Previously
- August 4, 2026: How to create and delete a non default CalDAV calendar using curl on Windows (untested)
- August 1, 2026: How to create and delete a non default CalDAV calendar using curl
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ME:: tl;dr-ing rejection sensitive dysphoria ; stormy first draft; Catch it. Name it. Revise it. ; Chuck Hall: Growth Mindset Without the Toxic Positivity
Discovered: Aug 5, 2026 15:32 (UTC) ME:: tl;dr-ing rejection sensitive dysphoria ; stormy first draft; Catch it. Name it. Revise it. ; Chuck Hall: Growth Mindset Without the Toxic Positivity
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How to create and delete a non default CalDAV calendar using curl on Windows (untested)
Draft created: Aug 4, 2026 16:44 (UTC). From: github.com/thunderbird/desktop-support-tools/blob/main/README.md:
Make a calendar
create a file called mkcalender.xml:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<D:propfind xmlns:D="DAV:" xmlns:C="urn:ietf:pa...
Evgenia Karunus:: All Lean Books And Where To Find Them
Discovered: Aug 3, 2026 16:36 (UTC) Evgenia Karunus:: All Lean Books And Where To Find Them <–Super good list! Doesn’t have Kevin Hartnett’s ‘The Proof is in the Code’
LambdaClass:: Lean raises the bar: it converts logical errors into compilation errors. .... If It Compiles, It Is Correct: A Practical Introduction to Lean 4 for Engineers
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My only concern is that it is written in terrible and unsafe lang...
ME:: Surprisingly I loved a non fiction book! First one I've finished in at least 6 months! Maybe because I love the idea of software that is provable and always have since the 1980s and my painful forays into Lisp and Prolog at Waterloo ; Kevin Hartnett:: The Proof in the Code - Quanta Books
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'Safe'-ish bicycle route to Coquitlam that doesn't require you to ride on the shoulder with no protection with cars going 60km/h or faster using the Freeway and Avalon trail
- Draft created: Aug 2, 2026 17:25 (UTC).
- Probably flooded in Winter though?!? Freeway is low and probably gets all the rain.
- Strava: Zum Burquitlam :-) via Freeway Trail und Avalon. Freeway ist wahrscheinlich ein Sumpf im Winter
- Google Maps: maps.app.goo.gl/MxQ7UmZvoDNawuYk7
- Ducky has another route that we’ll hopefully try on August 10th
- You can also go via Broadway in Burnaby I think!
How to create and delete a non default CalDAV calendar using curl
- Draft created: Aug 2, 2026 05:03 (UTC). From: github.com/thunderbird/desktop-support-tools/blob/main/README.md:
Make a calendar
curl -i -u nemo@thundermail.com -X MKCALENDAR \
-H 'Content-Type: application/xml' \
--data '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<C:mkcalendar xmlns:D="DAV:" xmlns:C="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:caldav"><D:set><D:prop><D:displayname>ticket-1234</D:displayname></D:prop></D:set></C:mkcalendar>' \
'https://mail.thundermail.com/dav/cal/nemo%40thundermail.com/ticket-1234/'
Delete a calendar
curl -i -u "$CAL_USER" -X DELETE "${CAL_HOME}ticket-1234/"
I thought Star Trek Strange New Worlds S4 Episode 2 was less magnificent than episode 1 but only because I don't like horror movies. Still liked it though.
I thought Star Trek Strange New Worlds S4 Episode 1 was magnificent.
ME:: gotta read Wilson's translations of Greek Classics that those jerks hate! Rebecca Solnit:: Listening to Cassandra: Misogyny, Classical and Modern
Discovered: Jul 25, 2026 04:19 (UTC) ME:: gotta read Wilson’s translations of Greek Classics that those jerks hate! Rebecca Solnit:: Listening to Cassandra: Misogyny, Classical and Modern
QUOTE: But it wasn't just style; there was a death-of-civilization-level panic as ...
Gujarati Jalso was as awesome as Fernando said it would be :-) not that I ever doubted him :-)
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omg i love hong kong 'art house' movies: go see In the Mood for Love if you do too!
Discovered: Jul 22, 2026 15:20 (UTC) omg i love hong kong “art house” movies: go see In the Mood for Love if you do too!
- Wikipedia: In the Mood for Love
omg i love hong kong 'art house' movies: go see chungking express if you do too!
Discovered: Jul 22, 2026 15:16 (UTC) omg i love hong kong “art house” movies: go see chungking express if you do too!
- Wikipedia: Chungking Express
Naomi Klein is going to start a substack? A newsletter about anti-fascism on a platform that supports fascism?!?!? I am sure she'll change platforms. Sooner rather than later I hope.
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The Americans killed thousands (if not tens of thousands or 100,000 or more) Filipinos in this war and we've forgotten about it even though it's not a hidden conspiracy theory. See Karnow's In our Image for a biased American history of this ; Mmina Maclang Tamayo aka @thoughtspresso:: It doesn't escape me as someone from a former US colony (and in many ways continue to be under Uncle Sam's thumb), that they indeed brought a gift horse to our shores. In the late 1890s, under the guise of friendship, the US staged the Battle of Manila to pretend to help fight off the Spanish colonizers. Then they turned around and became our colonizer. 🤷🏻♀️
Discovered: Jul 21, 2026 06:22 (UTC) The Americans killed thousands (if not tens of thousands or 100,000 or more) Filipinos in this war and we’ve forgotten about it even though it’s not a hidden conspiracy theory. See Karnow’s In our Image for a biased American history of t...
ME:: Home taping is not killing music, capitalism is of course!!!! ;Eden DaSilva:: The Lost Joy of Music Piracy: WhatCD, Oink, and Spotify ¦ Pigeons and Planes
ME:: Women have done all the STEM things including software forever and have forever been ignored ; Olivia Guest:: Cryptogyny
Discovered: Jul 21, 2026 05:37 (UTC) ME:: Women have done all the STEM things including software forever and have forever been ignored ; Olivia Guest:: Cryptogyny
QUOTE:
Read the whole thing: Olivia Guest:: Cryptogyny
Obfuscating women’s interests in and contribu...
Please donate to my ride up Cypress (er Seymour :-)) Mountain on July 26, 2026, the Cypress Challenge. 100% goes to Pancreatic Cancer Research
tl;dr Please donate to my ride up Cypress (er Seymour) Mountain on July 26, 2026, the Cypress Challenge. 100% goes to Pancreatic Research.
On the occasion of my birthday on July 11, 2026 I’d like you to consider donating to the Cypress Challenge in honour of my mother So...
ME:: everybody thinks they know what a free market is; most of us are wrong myself included and it requires strong, enlightened regulation ; Stefan Schüller:: The Free Market Lie: Why Switzerland Has 25 Gbit Internet and America Doesn't
Discovered: Jul 5, 2026 00:20 (UTC) ME:: everybody thinks they know what a free market is; most us are wrong myself included and it requires strong, enlightened regulation ; Stefan Schüller:: The Free Market Lie: Why Switzerland Has 25 Gbit Internet and America Doesn’t
QUOT...
Amazing, thanks Les! ; lmorchard's strudel.cc cover of the intro to Stripdown by Agent Side Grinder
Discovered: Jul 2, 2026 01:19 (UTC) Amazing, thanks Les! ; lmorchard’s strudel.cc cover of the intro to Stripdown by Agent Side Grinder <- Music in the browser who could ask for anything more :-)
Andrea Pitzer:: 'You can make a principled stand for what you believe while welcoming in alienated voters looking for hope and community' ; You don't have to swallow frogs
Permanent summer time BC Timezone boondoggles part 8888 ; British Columbia, Time Zones, and Postgres ¦ Crunchy Data Blog
Discovered: Jun 24, 2026 19:11 (UTC) Permanent summer time BC Timezone boondoggles part 8888 ; British Columbia, Time Zones, and Postgres ¦ Crunchy Data Blog <– QUOTE: On March 8, 2026, British Columbia moved their clocks to a year-round Pacific Daylight Savings Time. In March, they did the spring forward one hour with their clocks to UTC-7, but they won't fall back to UTC-8 in November. Going forward, the UTC offset for America/Vancouver timezone is permanently UTC-7.
ME:: learning debt because of 'broken coding scene' :-) ; Catherine Hicks:: OSF ¦ “It’s Like Coding in the Dark”: The need for learning cultures within coding teams
Discovered: Jun 23, 2026 13:45 (UTC) ME:: learning debt because of “broken coding scene” :-) ; Catherine Hicks:: OSF ¦ “It’s Like Coding in the Dark”: The need for learning cultures within coding teams
QUOTE
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AWESOME, gotta try this JS-less Web Audio API implementation! Heydon Pickering:: Hyperblam Docs Home : HYPERBLAM
Discovered: Jun 22, 2026 20:51 (UTC) AWESOME,gotta try this JS-less Web Audio API implementation! Heydon Pickering:: Hyperblam Docs Home : HYPERBLAM QUOTE: HYPERBLAM lets you make music with HTML. It’s a declarative implementation of the Web Audio API and is completely dependency free. ...Create pedal boards, drum machines, sampled instruments. And don’t write a single line of JavaScript in the process. Unless you really want to.
I agree with Alexandra Pierce in Locus: 'Shroud is the best first-contact novel I have read in years' Highly recommended ; Shroud (Adrian Tchaikovsky novel) - Wikipedia
ME: somebody with the DVD or Disney+ do a 'David Kaylor's Rogue One: The Andor Cut' showing for me :-) ; David Kaylor (2026):: Rogue One: The Andor Cut - Full PDF.pdf - Google Drive
Discovered: Jun 15, 2026 13:40 (UTC) ME: somebody with the DVD or Disney+ do a ‘David Kaylor’s Rogue One: The Andor Cut’ showing for me :-) ; David Kaylor (2026):: Rogue One: The Andor Cut - Full PDF.pdf - Google Drive
QUOTE
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Greg Wilson explains monads in a way I can understand: 'a way to chain operations without explicitly passing extra arguments' and more ; Greg Wilson:: Monads
Discovered: Jun 12, 2026 13:50 (UTC) Greg Wilson explains monads in a way I can understand: ‘a way to chain operations without explicitly passing extra arguments’ and more ; Greg Wilson:: Monads
QUOTE:
- Read the whole thing: Greg Wilson:: Monads
If you’re coming from Python, the cleanest way to think about it is that a monad is a way to chain operations without explicitly passing extra arguments. Monads aren’t just for input and output; they can also be used for:
- possible failure (
None, exceptions)- async execution (
await)- logging
- random number generation
- dependency injection
- parsing context
ME:: Stlite, WASM version of Streamlit enables interactive client side graphing with sliders that works on web assembly, no backend required! ; Stlite
Discovered: Jun 9, 2026 14:28 (UTC) ME:: Stlite, WASM version of Streamlit enables interactive client side graphing with sliders that works on web assembly, no backend required! ; Stlite <– Stlite Serverless Streamlit Running Entirely in Your Browser