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## 9:01 AM · Mon 20 January 2020
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[<i class="fab fa-twitter-square"></i>](https://twitter.com/jcolag/status/1219258527773941760) [History almost forgot this speech by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.](https://www.futurity.org/martin-luther-king-1966-raleigh-speech-2258392-2/) from Futurity
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## 9:04 AM - Tue 21 January 2020
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[<i class="fab fa-twitter-square"></i>](https://twitter.com/jcolag/status/1219621670245171205) [Harvard Professor Lawrence Lessig Sues New York Times for Describing What He Said](https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/5dmbx5/harvard-professor-lawrence-lessig-sues-new-york-times-for-describing-what-he-said) from VICE
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## 9:05 AM - Fri 24 January 2020
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[<i class="fab fa-twitter-square"></i>](https://twitter.com/jcolag/status/1220709085927968770) [NASA mission finds its first exoplanet that may be habitable](https://www.futurity.org/habitable-exoplanet-tess-satellite-mission-2254642/) from Futurity
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**Credits**: Header image is [Circular diagrams showing the division of the day and of the week](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Week#/media/File:CLM_14456_71r_detail.jpg) from a manuscript drafted during the Carolingian Dynasty. The image of [Dr. King](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Martin_Luther_King,_Jr._in_1964#/bymedia/File:Martin_Luther_King_Jr_NYWTS.jpg) by Dick DeMarsico of the World Telegram, donated to the Library of Congress. The image [TOI 700, a planetary system 100 light-years away in the constellation Dorado, is home to TOI 700 d, the first Earth-size habitable-zone planet discovered by NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite](https://images.nasa.gov/details-PIA23408) by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center is in the public domain as a work of the United States government. [Snapshot of the Antarctic Ozone Hole 2010](https://images.nasa.gov/details-GSFC_20171208_Archive_e001962) (not the specific image used by The Intercept for the article, but close enough) by NASA Goddard is (also) in the public domain as a work of the United States government. [Lessig with fellow Creative Commons board member Joi Ito](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Lessig#/media/File:Lawrence_lessig,_joi_ito.jpg) (also **not** the image used by VICE, which appears to not be under a free culture license despite being of "the free culture guy") by [LAI Ryanne](https://www.flickr.com/people/96941606@N00) is available under a [Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 license](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/).
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**Credits**: Header image is [Circular diagrams showing the division of the day and of the week](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Week#/media/File:CLM_14456_71r_detail.jpg) from a manuscript drafted during the Carolingian Dynasty. The image of [Dr. King](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Martin_Luther_King_Jr_NYWTS.jpg) by Dick DeMarsico of the World Telegram, donated to the Library of Congress. The image [TOI 700, a planetary system 100 light-years away in the constellation Dorado, is home to TOI 700 d, the first Earth-size habitable-zone planet discovered by NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite](https://images.nasa.gov/details-PIA23408) by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center is in the public domain as a work of the United States government. [Snapshot of the Antarctic Ozone Hole 2010](https://images.nasa.gov/details-GSFC_20171208_Archive_e001962) (not the specific image used by The Intercept for the article, but close enough) by NASA Goddard is (also) in the public domain as a work of the United States government. [Lessig with fellow Creative Commons board member Joi Ito](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lawrence_lessig,_joi_ito.jpg) (also **not** the image used by VICE, which appears to not be under a free culture license despite being of "the free culture guy") by [LAI Ryanne](https://www.flickr.com/people/96941606@N00) is available under a [Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 license](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/).
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Whew! A surprisingly good week for images...
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categories: media
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tags: [books, diversity, blackhistorymonth, publicdomain, readinglist]
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summary: A hopefully-better reading list
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thumbnail: /blog/assets/Carter_G_Woodson_1915.jpg
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recommend: Highlights of three centuries of American literature in the public domain written by black people
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Buckle in, because this is going to take a while...
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By now, I have to imagine that *everybody* has heard about the Penguin Random House/Barnes & Noble venture to celebrate [Black History Month](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_History_Month) with "[Diversity Editions](https://www.amny.com/education-2/barnes-noble-fifth-avenue-to-launch-sales-of-classic-novels-with-new-covers-promoting-diversity/)," new covers featuring drawings of black people on a dozen popular public domain books that---I kid you not---an artificial intelligence deemed to have significant characters whose ethnicity isn't specified.
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categories: programming
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tags: [ruby, rails, programming, project, devjournal, bicker]
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summary: Progress report on Bicker
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As [previously discussed]({% post_url 2020-01-06-bicker %}), I am currently in the process of remaking [Bicker](https://bicker.colagioia.net/) with modern technologies and architecture, hopefully along with lessons learned over the last decade about what makes a good community system. In the interest of transparency, I'm using the blog as a kind of developer journal while I work, posting occasional updates as to where things stand.
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If you want to read the other posts in the series, you can get a full list of posts under [the "bicker" tag](/blog/tag/bicker).
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## 9:05 -- Mon 23 March 2020
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[<i class="fab fa-twitter-square"></i>]() [How to help local businesses crushed by coronavirus: 4 things you can do right now](https://www.fastcompany.com/90477721/how-to-help-local-businesses-crushed-by-coronavirus-4-things-you-can-do-right-now) from Fast Company
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date: 2020-05-03 07:24:42-04:00
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tags: [quora, career]
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summary: Hopping to a software career
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As promised, this is the fourth part of a [short series](/blog/tag/career/) to provide some quick guidance for people who would like to reach out feelers into a possible software development career. As I mentioned in the [first post]({% post_url 2020-04-12-career %}), a lot of this material is recycled from some of my old Quora answers, updated for current times and the tone of the blog. More of it turns out to be new, the longer this goes on.
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This time through, we need to talk about certain kinds of tools you'll want to use on any project. Honestly, even if you have no interest in being a developer, you should have some sense of how these tools are able to help, because they're not always limited to just software.
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Because it accidentally became a tradition early on in the life of the blog, here's a sixth article that didn't fit into the week, but too weird to not mention.
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<i class="fas fa-square"></i> [Making Swahili visible: Identity, language and the internet](https://globalvoices.org/2020/06/02/swahili-identity-language-and-the-internet/) from Global Voices
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tags: [scifi, startrek, closereading]
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summary: <i class="far fa-hand-spock"></i> The outside world in Star Trek
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## Disclaimer
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**Credits**: The header image is [something](https://www.eso.org/public/usa/images/eso1905a/) by the [Someone](https://www.eso.org), available under a [Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) License.
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**Credits**: The header image is [A wargame at the US Naval War College in 1958, using the newly installed Navy Electronic Warfare Simulator](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:NWC_wargame_1958.jpg) by the United States Naval War College, in the public domain as a work of the United States government.
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summary: Progress on assorted projects
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Today marks the seventy-seventh Anniversary of the [Korean Armistice Agreement](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Armistice_Agreement), bringing an unofficial end to a war marked by international posturing, war crimes, and relative abandonment of troops, civilians, and refugees.
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Look, I keep telling you that July holidays are terrible, and I am not (yet) willing to sink to the level of using small regional celebrations or those random "awareness" days that came out of a trade association marketing summit, like "National Scotch Day." Though exceptions will be made for the former, if they're *really* interesting.
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summary: Discussing Drakes
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This week, our [Free Culture Book Club]({% post_url 2020-05-02-freeculture %}) reads **Drakes**, what I would call a "magazine-length" science-fiction story.
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To give this series some sense of organization, here are some basic facts without much in the way of context.
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Spock, again, pulls out a Biblical reference, this time to [Daniel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_(biblical_figure)) (דָּנִיֵּאל), who was [thrown into a lions' den](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_in_the_lions%27_den) for worshiping the Hebrew God instead of the king, until an angel rescues him.
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This especially makes Spock seem religious, since there could be any number of references for going to a lions' den, and yet, Spock immediately makes the discussion about faith.
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In any case, if you haven't read the comic or want to freshen it in your mind, this is a good time to do that. Here's the first episode. I shrunk it to fit the blog width, though, so you're probably better off clicking over to Revoy's site to read it there.
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I'll admit that it's probably not the best story to use as a teaser, but it certainly gets right to the point.
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This week, our [Free Culture Book Club]({% post_url 2020-05-02-freeculture %}) reads a handful of randomly chosen stories from **The Wanderers' Library*, a collaborative writing experiment.
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This week, our [Free Culture Book Club]({% post_url 2020-05-02-freeculture %}) continues reading Ryan Somma's **The Spiraling Web**.
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This week, our [Free Culture Book Club]({% post_url 2020-05-02-freeculture %}) reads a handful of randomly chosen stories from **The Wanderers' Library*, a collaborative writing experiment.
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title: Developer Journal, Day against Police Brutality
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date: 2021-03-15 07:06:23-0400
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summary: Progress on assorted projects
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Today is the [International Day Against Police Brutality](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Day_Against_Police_Brutality). After a year of [Black Lives Matter protests](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Floyd_protests), the response has been...let's call it "uneven." Some jurisdictions have begun the monumental task of reforming their police forces. Other jurisdictions have been attempting to [ban offending police officers or deny funding to police forces](https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/21RS/sb211/orig_bill.pdf).
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As for code, in addition to what's listed below and the "secret project" maybe nearing completion, I also had a nightmarish couple of days when...well, let's get right into things.
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## Entropy Arbitrage
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On Thursday, the upload of the [**Star Trek**](/blog/tag/startrek) post on [*And the Children Shall Lead*]({% post_url 2021-03-11-children %}) went bad, leading my build script to (somehow) corrupt my local repository. Then a nightly backup overwrote the previous night's backup with the partial reconstruction, because I forgot that I was doing that.
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I don't *think* that I lost any significant work---most future posts are either not stored with the blog or happened to be open in my text editor---but I did lose dozens of "stub" posts that were just placeholders until I could fill them in, plus some maintenance scripts and configuration files that weren't important enough beyond my personal use to go into the blog's [GitHub repository](https://github.com/jcolag/entropy-arbitrage-code). There was a short story that I planned to go out later in the year, but I had a copy of most of it stored elsewhere.
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After scrambling, I took the opportunity to fix the handful of broken images---embarrassingly, several of them were of non-white people, which should never have happened---and I uploaded them all to [a repository](https://gitlab.com/jcolag/entropy-arbitrage-assets). Why is it on GitLab <i class="fab fa-gitlab"></i> instead of GitHub <i class="fab fa-github"></i>? No good reason, honestly, though doing so keeps me active at GitLab and means I won't be looking at that information when writing these posts. I'll probably update the repository weekly, so that it's not a constant stream of my little tweaks.
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In any case, putting as much back as I could find took some time. I believe that it's done, but if anybody spots something broken, please give a yell.
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On top of that, however, I added the start of a script meant to be used to shift a series of posts forward or back by a few weeks. It's no longer immediately necessary, due to the aforementioned reconstruction effort, but I had planned out the upcoming [Free Culture Book Club](/blog/tag/bookclub) posts and failed to allocate multiple posts for the novels. I haven't had time to test it, but it *should* take one post per week from a starting date, and for each of them, rename the file and update the front-matter to be a specified number of weeks later.
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## Picture to Nonogram
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This wasn't a big deal, really. I finally added the ESLint configuration file and updated the JavaScript packages for [**Picture to Nonogram**](https://github.com/jcolag/picture-nonogram).
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## Library Updates
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GitHub's Dependabot has been turning up some outdated packages, so I've been letting it take care of updates in [**Bicker**](https://github.com/jcolag/Bicker), [**RenewDB**](https://github.com/jcolag/RenewDB), [**Miniboost**](https://github.com/jcolag/Miniboost), [**Generic Board Game**](https://github.com/jcolag/generic-board-game), and [**Uxuyu**](https://github.com/jcolag/Uxuyu).
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## Next
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This week, there are a couple more packages to churn through. I also have a potential idea for **CPREP** that I'm investigating. I may also add a few of the **Entropy Arbitrage** scripts that I've had to rewrite; they're probably not useful to anybody who isn't me, but I'd rather not need to rewrite them *again*.
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**Credits**: The header image is [Funeral of Felix Baran, held in Seattle, Washington, November 1916, by members of the Industrial Workers of the World](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Everett_Funeral.jpg) by an unknown photographer, long in the public domain. The [Everett massacre](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everett_massacre) isn't the worst or more predominant form of police violence, today, but showing the people opposed to it isn't likely to result in many arrests...
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