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>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
2 weeks 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
2 weeks 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
2 weeks 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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readingproject
2 weeks ago
My website is bloated by comparison. We all have limitations as spurs to creativity. Mine is that I generally don't know what I'm doing!
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I have been binge reading everything on your site recently and love lots of it but especially your permacomputing article + all the stuff about it in your digital shoebox. I had many of these ideas and thoughts already but did not know there was a movement on it already. I am now taking a deep dive into it. Thank you. I will probably do some writing on my site about it in the future and link back to your stuff.
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mikegrindle
3 weeks ago
Happy to have introduced you to the concept and glad you've enjoyed the binge reading. Look forward to reading your thoughts on the subject (p.s. great site by the way).
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nohappynonsense
1 month ago
if you make In the Margins its own thing am i going to have to subscribe via email insted of using the rss feed to get all my Grindle Content™?
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owlroost
1 month ago
I'm very curious what your approach to recapping was for the morning BASH script.
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mikegrindle
1 month ago
I use 'sed' to print everything between two strings - in this case, a time stamp and a daily separator.
Lots of new stuff on the site. Here's a post about it all: https://mikegrindle.com/posts/digital-shoebox
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Woke up in one of those, "I kind of want to delete everything I've ever produced online and start-over" kind of moods today.
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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!
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.
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?