If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
The device playing a song knows perfectly well what it is playing; for anyone standing even one step removed, the same fact turns out to be oddly difficult to come by. The first post in this series granted the music widget on the home page four hurried paragraphs, and this one is the amends I owe it.
The application serving this page started life as GoBlog, written by Jan-Lukas Else, and I’d recommend it warmly if what you want is a blog. It’s a single Go binary which speaks the whole IndieWeb alphabet, has no build step and no JavaScript framework anywhere near it, and that last part is why I picked it over roughly a dozen alternatives.
A little under four weeks ago, v4 went out on the stable channel, and with it, for the first time, BankingSync left the house it had been written in. What followed was, in hindsight, entirely predictable: bug reports from people I have never met, about banks I don’t bank with - and every single one of them turned out to be less a report about BankingSync than a report about somebody’s bank.
Bencher2Gitlab’s September update has just released on GitHub, including several safeguards, a new “thread” mode which posts resolvable threads instead of simple MR notes and API retry behavior.
ἔδοξε δὲ καὶ τοὺς στρατηγοὺς δίκην ὑποσχεῖν τοῦ παρεληλυθότος χρόνου. – “It was further resolved that the generals themselves should undergo a judicial examination in reference to their conduct in past time.”
ὅτῳ δοκεῖ ταῦτα, ἀνατεινάτω τὴν χεῖρα. ἔδοξε ταῦτα. νῦν τοίνυν, ἔφη, ἀπιόντας ποιεῖν δεῖ τὰ δεδογμένα. - “Those in favour of this resolution, hold up their hands.” The resolution was carried. “And now,” said he, “it would be well to separate and carry out what we have decreed.”
σπείσας δʼ εὐθὺς ἦγε τοὺς νεανίσκους παρὰ τὸν Χειρίσοφον, καὶ διηγοῦνται ταὐτά - “having poured the libation he took the young men straight to Cheirisophus, and they told the same story”
οὐκ ἄβατόν ἐστι τὸ ὄρος, ἀλλὰ νέμεται αἰξὶ καὶ βουσίν - “the mountain is not impassable, but is grazed by goats and cattle”
ὁ δʼ ἑρμηνεὺς εἶπε περσιστὶ ὅτι παρὰ βασιλέως πορεύονται πρὸς τὸν σατράπην - “the interpreter said, in Persian, that they were on their way from the King to the satrap”
ἔστησαν ἀγνοοῦντες εἰ διαβατέον εἴη τὸ νάπος - “they halted, not knowing whether the glen had to be crossed”