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Rants from the backseats of computing. Rant back at me on Twitter, or find your battlefield of choice here.

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There is this toxic portion of the Star Wars fan base that cannot stand the fact that our SW Universe has become more diverse. They should just leave and seek their fantasy and sci-fi on Fox News.

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I couldn’t agree more. In fact, I had a minor Twitter meltdown slash rant on that exact topic recently: https://www.twitter.com/kopischke/status/1004975288088920064.

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Keep Calm and Carry On

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Oops.

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The first step towards a better tech economy is humility and recognition of limits. It’s time to hold technology politically accountable for its promises. I am very suspicious of attempts to change the world that can’t first work on a local scale.

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Bloody unbelievable. And total genius.

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Uhm, hello?

Anybody listening?

Ah well, here goes: you might have been wondering (or not, who am I to presume anything) why my update schedule, be it posts or project commits, is so … haphazard.

Thing is, I’m not a code jockey. In fact, I’m not a software industry pro at all. I am a movie industry professional. Mostly a TV and feature unit production manager and, more recently, a line producer for the Cologne international film school (yeah, right, that’s in Germany). That is the kind of day job that leave dents in my schedule large enough to dive freight trains through, and often little else.

Point is, I am not apologising. Because I might not be a serious software producer, not even a reliable hobbyist, but for every Vim wrestling plugin commit I had to defer, there was some insanely talented person that could use what little help I have to offer to make a great film. And I do mean the effing great, that was really worth it kind of film.

So, lean back, have a short taste, and forgive me for saying this: there are better things than code in life.

Sometimes.

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Git has a very simple and powerful underlying model. Atop this model is piled an immense trashheap of confusing, overlapping, inconsistent commands. If you try to just learn what commands to run in what order, your life will be miserable, because none of the commands make sense. Learning the underlying model has a much better payoff because it is much easier to understand what is really going on underneath than to try to infer it, Sherlock-Holmes style, from the top.

The Universe of Discourse : Two things about git

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Captain Phasma patrols the hallways of starkiller base unaware of the impending ambush…

– Brian Kesinger

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We are Generation Byte, and our children will vacation on the moon or kill each other for water. The near future will change the human soul or send it on its way, and the legacy of the Bytes will be the story of whether we steered the ship away from Hell. Also Angry Birds.

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Feed update

I’m EOL’ing Feedburner feeds on my Tumblrs, something I should have done a looooooong time ago. Please redirect your feed reader to http://nsuserview.kopischke.net/rss if you want to keep following this blog via RSS.

Now back to our scheduled programme.

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Every single “strength in the face of terror” policy, ever.

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If you work in tech, or get anywhere near those who do on a regular basis, or even if you … aw hell, just go and read this, will you?

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Apparently from TechCrunch, via @HardcorePooka.

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Apple isn’t positioning this as a tech item. They’re positioning it as a fashion item. And that’s probably the place to start understanding it.

If the anecdata I collect in my own circles (the men, especially the techie types, are mostly “meh”; the women are unanimously “want”) is anything to go on, you should read Drew Crawford now, so that, in hindsight, you will have had the benefit of foresight.

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I know there is stuff I really ought to do: my Markdown to Evernote service languishes in a half broken state, my Vim plugin quietly cries for a refactoring at night, and that is just counting the stuff that is not, you know, work. Sometimes, though, life interferes, and sometimes life is a broken RSS feed. Like the one that just blurted one week backlog of Tom Siddell’s Gunnerkrig Court at me. Now, I’m not the emotional type (which of course means I am and do not like to admit it), but Siddell has created characters and a tale so compelling, he makes me cry when he doesn’t light up my day like the warmest of sunlight.

So, instead of lame toys and self serving tricks, today I will just share this with you. Annie, Kat, and the most beautiful comic written since Bill Watterson retired.