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  A fun and useful shell trick: you can, effectively, pipe things from a remote computer into your local clipboard. Context: you're ssh'ed into a remote computer. Locally, you could pipe stuff to xclip or wl-copy or pbcopy to put it in your OS clipboard -- but that won't work in ssh. If your terminal supports OSC 52 (it probably does), here's a way to get that to work over ssh or mosh: cat - | base64 -w0 | { printf '\e]52;c;' ; cat - ; printf '\a' ; } Put that...

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  Being a human in 2026 sure does require verifying that you are human very frequently.

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  I'm very excited to be starting a visiting position in the computer science department at St. Olaf College this autumn! In addition to an introductory programming course ("CS1", as people in CS ed say), I'll be teaching two upper-division courses: Foundations of AI, and Ethics in Software Design. I've never taught either of those, but am very excited about them. Do *you* have any idea of what Kids These Days should know about either of those topics? I...

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  If the Wu-Tang Clan was from the Midwest instead of New York: Cows Rule Everything Around Me (There's an ice cream flavor at Milkjam, an ice cream shop in #Minneapolis, with that name.)

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  Just updated to @zotero version 9 -- and the Read Aloud feature looks amazing! https://www.zotero.org/blog/zotero-9/ I was recently thinking of replacing some podcast listening with listening to research papers via text-to-speech. There are generic apps for this, but they are a bit expensive and I would have to get the PDFs out of Zotero and into those apps -- even better is to have that read-aloud feature right in Zotero. Oh my I'm looking forward to this on my phone. #zotero

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  Very interesting idea for I-94 in the Twin Cities: make it into a subway! https://streets.mn/2026/04/28/half-the-work-is-done-the-clear-cut-case-for-a-subway-in-the-i-94-trench/ As someone who lives in between the downtowns, this would be awesome. Covering the I-94 trench would fill in and connect the "south of the interstate" and "north of the interstate" neighborhoods, making it easier to get around this area, and with a stop on Snelling, would make it eas...

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  o frabjous day!!! A new They Might Be Giants album! https://www.theymightbegiants.com/the-world-is-to-dig I just got a download link (sent to members of their fan club). 😍😃🤩 #tmbg #twit2d

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  My friend @gobfrey sent me this photo. It looks like an origami crease pattern! Also, he knows exactly the kind of geometric images that I find irresistible. #origami #pylons