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Mike Grindle's Webpage was updated.
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Thought I'd let you know that it looks like your menu links are broken from within your blog posts. I think the issue is that everything is prefixed with '/posts/'. For example, on your 'Do We Truly Know Ourselves?' post, the [links] hyperlink that usually goes to https://colexdev.neocities.org/links is set as https://colexdev.neocities.org/posts/links (leading to a 404). Hope that makes sense and helps!
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>https://mikegrindle.com/posts/surf Regarding alternative search engines: consider mojeek. There are only a few unique search indexes. Of the obscure ones, Mojeek is relatively mature. I have an easier time finding obscure and interesting links on Mojeek than on any other search engine I've tried. Not good for finding a simple answer quickly, but good for finding links. https://www.mojeek.com/about/why-mojeek
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kaa
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colexdev: DuckDuckGo is good at finding a quick, simple answer. It's mostly Bing. https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/sources/ Mojeek is a janky, small project that's been ongoing for several years. It's a genuinely unique search index. It's bad at giving simple answers, and good at sharing obscure ones.
Mike Grindle's Webpage was updated.
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Mike Grindle's Webpage was updated.
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colexdev
1 week ago
Couldn't agree more. I found the vast majority of the small sites I visit frequency through other small sites. I started with just a few and now have dozens that I love. Blogrolls and link pages are the best.
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getoffmylawn
6 days ago
I agree, the linux community can be nice and we don't need to make Windows users feel bad.
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Mike Grindle's Webpage was updated.
2 weeks ago
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portfoliusmaximus
2 weeks ago
Hi Mike, just read your essay on LSD and I must say that it's bang-on with many of my own thoughts on videogames, art and the intersection between them. LSD definitely isn't my kind of game (and the PS1/Saturn/N64/Dreamcast generation is one I've barely explored), but I'm a huge fan of Ozamu Sato's visual style and thus am always fascinated by people finding out about his PS1 experiment!
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mikegrindle
2 weeks ago
Glad you found it interesting. Must admit that I'm only somewhat familiar with his other work. Perhaps I should spend some time looking into that.
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portfoliusmaximus
2 weeks ago
Most of his stuff is, to my knowledge, either obscenely rare or downright lost media, which admittedly adds to their general weirdness and mistique. I recommend his duology of interactive CD-ROMs for MacOS machines, and the recently unearthed COMPU MOVIE (on YouTube).
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murid
2 weeks ago
The LSD essay is really good. I'm completely unfamiliar with the game, but the description drew me in.
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mikegrindle
2 weeks ago
Thank you, Murid. The game was an interesting experience and fun to write about too.
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Mike Grindle's Webpage was updated.
2 weeks ago
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colexdev
2 weeks ago
I hadn't yet checked out your links page. You have some great people on there, I will for sure be checking out some of their sites!
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Mike Grindle's Webpage was updated.
4 weeks ago
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sorbier
4 weeks ago
enjoyed this post! i think a lot about audience and what "my ideal audience" is (many? what kind of person? etc); just fyi, your link to syndication is broken!
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mikegrindle
4 weeks ago
Glad you liked it! I couldn't hazard a guess as to who my "ideal audience" is. My writing is too all over the place! Thanks for the heads up, I've fixed the link.
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murid
3 weeks ago
I do wonder why we default to 'audience' as the people that read our stuff. Thinking about alternatives has been on my mind for a while. Would it be more helpful for it to be correspondence instead of broadcasts?
>https://mikegrindle.com/posts/obtf Be considerate of your disk's health. Assuming that you're not booting from RAM (if you are, good on you), every time you save your big text file, all of its contents are re-written to disk. Having multiple separate files circumvents this issue.
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kaa
1 month ago
You may have your big file split into separate files every now and again automatically. Guessing that you continue your file at the top, you may have a shell script such as: "limit=9999; lines=$(wc -l mybigfile); if [ $lines -gt $limit ]; then head -$(($lines / 2)) mybigfile > 2024-04-23.chunk; tail -$(($lines / 2)) > /tmp/a; mv /tmp/a mybigfile; fi"
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mikegrindle
1 month ago
I hear what you're saying, but in practical terms my "big" text file isn't nearly big enough for that to be an issue (it's still under a MB). Thanks to wear-leveling, you would have to seriously stress-test a drive for that to become an issue, though I always back-up and would split up a file if it ever got really big.
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mikegrindle
1 month ago
On the anecdotal side, I've known people who have used larger OBTFs for years with zero issue. Plenty of notetaking software programs like JRNL use single text files too w/o problems, so I'm not too worried tbh. Thanks anyway, though.
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I didn't notice that mistake. Thank you so much for sharing. I will fix that up sometime soon. <3
No worries. Enjoying reading your thoughts and the photos by the way.
I appreciate that. It means a lot.