Gemini* and Gopher

• Personal/Opinions

  • How Shutter Island got the name wrong

    I don’t like burying the lede and I try to make sure to get my main point across early, even in the title if possible. But in this case we’re talking about a major spoiler to the novel Shutter Island so I’m being deliberately vague.

    I know that even knowing that a work is unusually spoilable and twist-laden is in and of itself a spoiler so I’m hoping the title I chose, “How Shutter Island got the name wrong”, doesn’t ruin that much for people who haven’t read it and are just scrolling through a list of essay titles.

    Because this essay is gonna talk about stuff that only makes sense if you do know the ending to this book (and as I understand it, the movie does follow the book very closely). So from now on, read on at your own peril.

  • 🔤SpellBinding: EGLNVUO Wordo: DEPOT

• Politics and World Events

  • When was the horse re-introduced to the Americas?

    There is a common answer here; perhaps more interesting is the trick answer that hinges on an abuse of the term "the Americas", in which case, given that roughly half of Iceland (and all of Greenland) are part of the North American plate, and thus part of "the Americas", the horse was re-introduced a bit earlier than the 15th or so century.

• Technology and Free Software

  • Minor thing about git 💾

    I know one thing about git that surprises some people: you don't have to use the staging area.

  • on jujutsu

    this doesn't quite fit into my workflows. on software projects, I tend to make many changes at once. when it works and I'm ready to commit, I would work with the staging area to split the changes into multiple commits. ie, I would choose just some changes in file A, the entire changed file B, ignore an untracked file C, and commit. then I would stage the remaining changes in file A, start tracking file C, commit again.