A while ago I saw a nice Tweet on how to create QR codes from the command shell. There using the command qrencode.

This command can be used to display a WiFi Password. With an iPhone or Android (10) you’re able to scan QR code and connect to Wifi.It is more comfortable than entering the password on a phone.

The string that will be placed within the QRcode needs to follow a specific format, here is an example for this:

qrencode -o - 'WIFI:T:WPA;S:MyNetworkName;P:ThisIsMyPassword;; ' |display

The command will generate the following QR code that can be used by a mobile device. Scanning it with the camera app will ask you to connect to the given Wifi:

rickroll script

generate french ruled/seyes ruled paper lines

The inspiring story of how Czech Republic won gold at the first Olympics to feature professionals from the NHL.

About a minute in they play Cruel Angel's Thesis

Come up with excuses for why your company was breached

Home of the EICAR malware testfile

Better interface for filtering/sorting laptops on Lenovo outlet

Saagar Jha's website.

Humourous take on why companies switch technologies

draw diagrams similar to LibreOffice Draw or Microsoft Visio

career and life advice

Regular expression tester with syntax highlighting, explanation, cheat sheet for PHP/PCRE, Python, GO, JavaScript, Java, C#/.NET.

Counts the number of words/characters/sentences/paragraphs, plus a reading level, reading time, and speaking time and a word frequency counter

A free icon set designed for systems and products. Use how you want, without attribution.

some CSS text styles, like blur, smear, mirror, and rumble

Adding this because of the associated blog post:

Thanks to everyone who wrote to say they enjoyed the blogs. I had thought social media killed blogging, but a few of you seem to be here in the afterlife. Isn't it strange how a blog without comments is so much more intimate than social media? I think the key is that blogs are like letters, and letters are the most intimate human experience that doesn't involve touching someone's butt. Come to think of it, they may be more intimate now than in their heyday because only a few of you will even bother to read.

• against productivity gurus
• maintains unorganized notes
• believes "everything that isn’t writing, revising, or editing is a waste of time"
  • this extends to notetaking
• "People often look at my large collection of books, or see the articles I tweet about, and ask, how do you remember everything you read? And the answer is, I don’t. Remembering is for chumps."

List of arguments:

• notetaking makes you go from remembering only what stays organically to what seems like it might be interesting
• "Getting lost in your knowledge management system is a fantastic way to avoid creating things"
  • same thing applied to books/courses/videos on notetaking systems (the only part that I agree with)
• the majority of interesting writing is off-the-cuff
• distraction by presentation of factual insight (?)
• this stuff doesn't apply to summarizing huge swaths of literature or if the person has "truly bad, unfixable memories"
• author is "waiting for any evidence" that the best thinkers rely on notetaking systems, and thinks those that are taught it "produce unexciting work" (emphasis mine)
• isn't anti-notetaking, but is anti-systems
• avoid useless adoption of the aesthetic

The foundational texts of Western civilization are on the reading list for St. John's College, where all students study the Great Books curriculum.