For Memorial Day Ars Technica re-ran an article from 2016 where they fed a neural network a bunch of sci fi scripts and created a movie from the results. It is bizarrely fascinating.

Sometimes you have to build what Apple won’t make.

Finally, some research into whether night shift on your phone helps you sleep better. Night shift is when your phone removes the blues from the image, giving you this dull, brown tinted screen. I use it, especially in dark areas, because even when the phone is turned down to the minimum brightness it can still be blinding.

Killing off Google Reader just wasn’t enough for Google, now they are twisting the knife by experimenting with adding RSS feeds to the Android version of Chrome. My current favorite RSS reader is Inoreader, it’s what I use to follow sites and people that I’m interested in, chronologically. I don’t miss stories because an algorithm thought I wasn’t interested.

There is a bug in iOS that breaks wifi when you connect to an access point named %p%s%s%s%s%n. No word yet on whether the person who found the bug is still entering random printf statements to name their SSID.

“I’d buy that for a dollar!”

I’m really fascinated with cyberdeck builds, and this one built with a mini tv and Colecovision control is pretty awesome.

The Smiley Crew’s Arcadefest has a couple of html5 games with the old arcade feel. All for free!

I’m very comfortable with bash, and I use it a lot with tmux. However, I didn’t like how I would lose command line history across these multiple terminals. After doing a little research, I figured out how to save my history for each terminal. Not only that, but I can also search all of the history. Now I don’t lose commands! Setting up your .bashrc Here are the relevant lines from my .