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Mottr.am Archives Feed Inside My Neck Jack Mottram 2019-09-24 A beautiful annotated illustration of my insides, drawn by Mr. Colin Chan after my thoracic outlet decompression surgery. The Vim-Inspired Editor With a Linguistic Twist → Jack Mottram 2019-09-23 Whereas vi’s keystroke language follows verb-object order, Kakoune inverts that by following object-verb order. In real terms, that means you make a selection (object) before deciding what to do (verb) with it. The object might be a character, word, sentence, paragraph, parenthetical, regular expression, you name it; the verb might be delete, yank (copy), change, indent, or even transformative operations like lint, format, uppercase, etc. In Kakoune, it is with this reversed grammar, this postfix notation, that you interactively sweep up a group or groups of characters before acting on them. That way if your object isn’t quite right, you can immediately correct it without having to undo and redo your verb.See also: Kakoune, the Text Editor I Didn’t Know I Needed, for instructions on using Kakoune on MacOS, and Why Kakonue, by developer Maxime Coste. tilde.club → Jack Mottram 2019-09-17 tilde.club is not a social network it is one tiny totally standard unix computer that people respectfully use together in their shared quest to build awesome web pages.I’ve been poking around tilde.club today. It’s good fun, the users are friendly and helpful, and there’s a very active mailing list.I couldn’t quite work out what it’s actually for when I first logged in – turns out it’s just a shared server, with a tilde domain for your personal home page, plus a big community of people (well, men, mostly) who miss the old web.Oh, and it’s a gopher server too. Here is my gopher hole: gopher://tilde.club/1/~mot (also available on the web).If you like the sound of it, public sign-ups re-open on September 20th. Perfume Gun Jack Mottram 2019-07-18 A tiny bejeweled perfume gun! Seriously. Circa 1804-1808, it’s a miniature flintlock pistol automaton made of gold and enamel with split pearls, and lovely little cased panels on each side depicting a hare and a hound. The automaton mechanism sprays out perfume from a central gold rose when the hammer and trigger are struck. There’s also a watch concealed in the barrel of the gun, because of course there is.From Monica McLaughlin’s antique jewelry newsletter, Dearest.Via MetaFilter Inside the ILFORD Factory → Jack Mottram 2019-07-17 Take a look inside the HARMAN technology factory in Mobberley, England where we manufacture the ILFORD and Kentmere ranges of black and white film, photographic paper and chemicals. From emulsion making, R&D and coating to finishing, quality control, warehousing and distribution, for the first time ever we are officially taking you behind the scenes at ILFORD Photo to show how your favourite black and white analogue products end up in the hands of photographers and darkroom printers all over the world. Astronaut → Jack Mottram 2019-07-16 These videos come from YouTube. They were uploaded in the last week and have titles like DSC 1234 and IMG 4321. They have almost zero previous views. They are unnamed, unedited, and unseen (by anyone but you). « Older Archives About You are reading Jack Mottram's web log. Send an email or find me on tilde.club, Twitter, Pinboard, Keybase & Ko-Fi. Wirral UK Subscribe to the feed, or browse the archives. Search