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"Dripping blood, a severed arm, & 67 tons of cash on a CIA plane": http://www.madcowprod.com/2016/02/22/dripping-blood-a-severed-arm-67-tons-of-cash-on-a-cia-plane/

 

I'm back on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/raucao/. And thanks to Known and everything's synced to https://updates.kip.pe this time.

 

I couldn't find a generic incoming-webhook hubot script on npm, so I hacked up this one real quick: https://github.com/67P/hubot-incoming-webhook

 

3 hours left to answer my little poll for software developers on OS X: https://twitter.com/skddc/status/700047302883459072

 

Installing and running Redis (or any halfway popular database or other program) on Arch:

pacman -S redis
systemctl start redis.service

 

LOL for devs using an OS, where they need a program-specific GUI to start and stop services. E.g. https://github.com/jpadilla/redisapp

 

It's not just whatever Foursquare uses, of course. Google Maps miss lots of streets and Apple maps even miss some inter-regional roads.

 

I still don't understand why a company (that is not a map provider itself) would use anything other than OSM within their apps.

 

Hey @Foursquare, this is basically the default situation for your mobile maps in Ecuadorian towns: https://storage.5apps.com/basti/public/shares/160215-2144-osm-vs-foursquare.png

 

Glad to report that `letsencrypt renew` works just as advertised: https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/help-us-test-renewal-with-letsencrypt-renew/10562

 

Staying next to an active volcano, which is due for its next eruption. The hostel's name is Erupción. What could possibly go wrong? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tungurahua

 

Driving a dune buggy through Baños streets during carnival is not exactly the best idea: https://vimeo.com/154764562

 

Did a little Sunday walk to 5100m on Mars yesterday: https://www.flickr.com/photos/sebastiankippe/24870754546/

 

It's not easy to leave a place, when this has been your office for 6 weeks: https://storage.5apps.com/basti/public/shares/160205-2034-baloo-terrasse.jpg

 

"50 years from now, I think it will seem ridiculous that we used fear of not being able to eat as a way to motivate people." https://blog.ycombinator.com/basic-income

 

Y Combinator is looking to fund a basic income research project (for 5 years): https://blog.ycombinator.com/basic-income

 

That point in life, when your daily schedule is influenced by the surf report.

 

Here's an update on the state of gene editing by a friend of mine: http://bharill.com/post/137635803516/crisprcas9-a-new-age-begins -- TL;DR: we're living in a sci-fi novel now.

 

Folks at learned some surf lingo last night, so this is our IRC chan now: https://storage.5apps.com/basti/public/shares/160110-1915-Screenshot%20from%202016-01-10%2014-07-03....

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