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Thanks very much. Those look really interesting. I will check them out.
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I use both Pinboard.in to store bookmarks with tags since it lets me search the full text of the link in addition to any text I include in the bookmark description
I also use Pocket for articles or pages I want to read later since it can even read them out loud on my phone using text-to-speech. It even integrates with Pinboard via an API if you want.
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For things I want to read right away (sometime before I reboot) I just open in a new tab (right click, Open in new tab; or just middle click - doesn't always work, but often enough). Sometimes in a new window. This is just for one-offs. Usually, I never come back to them after reading (and no big deal if I don't read them).
For things I want to come back to more than once, I save it in Favorites and group by folders (often two levels deep, which gives me a general category and a specific sub-category/group). I also rename as appropriate. (Sometimes I use the browser collections feature, which also lets me group by name.)
For things I want to share or incorporate into my work team's flow, I have a custom app that lets me build menus of URLs, MarkDown pages, database queries, and other menus. And I put them in there (as a direct menu page or content on a MarkDown page).
I also use OneNote or Word (mostly if the context relates to an existing OneNote or Word document) and occasionally Excel.
All options but the first allow some kind of custom tagging, either by renaming, grouping, or adding other contextual information.
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Today's APOD[^] has an amusing typo in the "alt" tag:
Quote: alt="The featured image shows the James Web Space Telescope
That's Webb, not Web!
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Non, c'est le spelling francais!
The real name should be: Jacques toile d'araignée
modified 26-Dec-21 12:33pm.
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C'est très correct, mon amis.
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Typo aside, I came across this page describing Webb's progress towards its destination which is pretty cool. It's on the nasa.gov domain, so should be safe.
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See title
"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Did you miss this? The Lounge[^]
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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I did miss it Peter thanks
"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
modified 26-Dec-21 8:54am.
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It's 2:30am(ish). I'm wide awake.
I have a bunch of projects I'm half interested in working on but when I try to pick one up I just get nowhere with it, motivation-wise.
It is what Douglas Adams referred to as The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul. Anyone who read him voraciously knows the exact feeling I'm referring to.
The hour that it is makes it particularly challenging, because it limits what I can do.
I'd go to sleep but I just woke up not too long ago.
Anyone have any ideas for getting over the slump, even if it's just short term? I need to be able to occupy myself.
If anyone else is similarly awake and in the same boat, I'm here to commiserate at least. 
Real programmers use butterflies
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Well, I got my new laptop set up yesterday. MS doesn't make previous versions of VS Community available, so I had to go with VS2022. I then had--count 'em--over 61,000 compiler warnings that weren't there before. Most of them deserve suppression, but there are a few that should probably be fixed. So if you're bored... 
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Ah, self abuse.
Wouldn't it be easier to just start listening to The Smiths and cutting myself instead?
Real programmers use butterflies
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Go here: Visual Studio Older Downloads - 2019, 2017, 2015 & Previous Versions and log in using your Visual Studio account (the one you use to register VS Community). If you don't have one, you can set one up for free. You can then download any version of VS Community, and IIRC some of the earlier (VS 2012, 2008, and 2005) versions.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Thanks. I thought I tried that, but I must have missed something. Oh well, I've bitten the bullet and upgraded. It found some good things, so I'll leave it unless something forces me to roll back.
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A "bunch of projects" ... I learned to postpone them all and focus on one; which takes enough side trips as it is. Then there are herbs.
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
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Take a break from programming, go for chop wood, whatever. After a few days the 'programming batteries' are recharged.
I'm aware it is hard, but I know from experience it helps 
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It's snowing hard and freezing outside. I am not chopping wood. We have a felled tree that needs cleared, but we are waiting for it to thaw some. I certainly wasn't going to at 2:30am.
I'm not really burnt out on programming. It was the hour that it was, is all.
Real programmers use butterflies
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Quote: I'm not really burnt out on programming
Sorry for this now:
Trust an old man, I also always had excuses not to change my life
The hours will sum up again and again.
Only my view of the things.
Wish you all the best.
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It is 5:30 already - you may fix a breakfast...
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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I get that. 2:45 AM, can't sleep, wife kicks me out of bed for waking her up. So I go lay on couch with cup of tea and listen to some random podcast for half an hour
Thar's only two possibilities: Thar is life out there in the universe which is smarter than we are, or we're the most intelligent life in the universe. Either way, it's a mighty sobering thought. (Porkypine - via Walt Kelly)
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maybe i should get into podcasts
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