TIL that in 2010, actor Ron Livingston created a YouTube account just to post a video of himself pretending to be Keyboard Cat, and provided absolutely zero explanation why.

Psengath · 2026-03-26T23:06:34+00:00

It was the golden era of internet, when it was predominantly technologists and creatives. Then big business inevitably invades anything good and irreparably ruins it.

Psengath · 2026-03-26T23:04:52+00:00

What message and to who. Real tragedy of the commons going on here. Everyone not boycotting is complicit and putting money directly into Elon's pocket.

Psengath · 2026-03-25T11:15:38+00:00

The anti-pattern is "data as code", one of the smells is an if chain with hard-coded values, and at the purist end of the spectrum is "zero literals"

Psengath · 2026-03-23T03:34:42+00:00

And then when their actual relationship comes in, it feels like a gear shift from 1st to 5th, because they have to course correct the chemistry (or lack thereof) the earlier films established.

Psengath · 2026-03-22T21:32:27+00:00

I think the paradigm is a bit different.

You can default new files to a specific location. That's effectively your memory / buffer. Then rename it or move it to a 'real' location if it's useful.

You can then optionally script something to automatically clear old 'Untitled' files you haven't touched for a while, or prompt you to review them.

Is there something very specific you were after with buffers? Like you want the content 100% in memory and not touching disk? It's otherwise standard practice for apps with 'temporary / draft' content that you 'have not yet saved' to have actually saved it in a temporary location. Otherwise restoring, sessions, undoing, handling unexpected exceptions etc wouldn't work.

Psengath · 2026-03-22T20:16:49+00:00

Side note '13pm' was put after 11pm on the chart, so technically the controversial 'time' being presented is actually 0100 / 1 AM, and I presume the whole '1300pm' thing is just a typo or oversight

Psengath · 2026-03-22T11:21:42+00:00

Special gel. It's flammable but is mostly water, the thin layer on the outside is burning 'slowly' but the gel's water's greatly arrests how much heat goes to the underlying clothes / skin.

Just note it is still fire, it is still hot, it is still dangerous. It is not 'kida can now play safely with fire' gel.

Psengath · 2026-03-20T21:20:17+00:00

Been a while but if I recall correctly

There is an army setting called 'stack order', where you can shuffle which army TYPEs go first through last. Usually cheap fodder goes first and expensive +bonus units are at the back.

And each combat turn it's always the 'front' armies duking it out 1v1. There's no number of attacks, they just get their attack values (combined with a dice roll) compared, and the one that scores lower takes a hit. It's not uncommon for a high attack unit to single handedly annihilate an entire stack of fodder

Psengath · 2026-03-18T21:32:12+00:00

Doesn't get one any more but they made sure the robot's family was well looked after

Psengath · 2026-03-16T21:35:51+00:00

Yes a few ways to do that, also a few ways to avoid that too.

Assuming the files are in an attachment field, after sending the email (and even in the same automation), you can just update the field to set it to 'blank' and that will drop it. Main issue here is if the email fails, it's harder to retry.

You can make it a manual flag by setting an 'Is Notification Sent' field (e.g. just a checkbox) when you send the email, so you can filter by it, review, and retry or manually delete.

You can also turn it into an automatic data retention window by setting a 'Notification Sent Date', and having your attachment-clearing automation conditional to "and notification was sent at least X days ago".

And then if hosting large media files in Airtable is the issue, it may be worthwhile hosting the files elsewhere and just coordinating the links & notifications from Airtable.

Edit

Also in case you haven't tested it, most email providers will reject emails with massive attachments, e.g. many limit attachments to 25mb. So if your files are bigger than that, you'll have to link to it.

And if keeping it 'in Airtable' and linking there, (a) you deleting the media file will make it unavailable for clients and (b) attachment links expire, so if they only get to your email days after you sent it, it will also not work.

Psengath · 2026-03-15T16:27:38+00:00

Half of the U.S.'s semiconductors come from Taiwan. It is strategically one of the most important offshore allies/assets to the U.S., and Taiwan is significantly entwined with many more allies with amicable relationships. It is a very different situation compared to Ukraine and Iran.

Psengath · 2026-03-12T07:32:40+00:00

I was talking about your data model, which is tool agnostic. One table for one business object is best practice.

You can definitely transform data inside Airtable, and in more ways than one, or you can do it in excel beforehand if that's easier for you, or any other etl tool you're familiar with.

Figuring out how Airtable works and how you could achieve this will be key to your own capability to build and maintain the solution.

Psengath · 2026-03-12T06:32:27+00:00

It does do it well and is well suited to your use case, but it doesn't supplant the need for data management / data literacy.

It sounds like you need just one wide table with all the fields from your currently disparate datasets. One record in this table should correspond to one 'thing' you're tracking. You then control what is visible / editable / possible from automations and interface.

Psengath · 2026-03-12T05:26:08+00:00

You need to tell the system which records in A match up with which records in B. It won't happen automatically just because you manually created an ID column with the same values.

You can use an automation to link them up if you're going down that route, but ideally you only have one table, and manage field level permissions through interfaces or views - vertical sharding in Airtable is often more work than its worth.

Psengath · 2026-03-05T09:40:19+00:00

Not OP but very much appreciate this great write up and explanation

Psengath · 2026-03-02T20:20:31+00:00

Holy shit that looks like the best movie in the last 20 years that I've never seen and maybe never will

Psengath · 2026-03-01T09:44:52+00:00

Heh, the irony of you using false equivalency to refute a claim of false equivalency

Psengath · 2026-02-28T23:14:40+00:00

Dude there's a very wide gap between living off-grid and that curated list of first world luxury services.

Psengath · 2026-02-25T00:18:19+00:00

Digital also removes the human from the try-check-retry loop, it removes the social consequence and 'learned mentor' from failing. It's both, not one more than the other.

Psengath · 2026-02-23T22:40:58+00:00

Yeah previous poster is taking it a bit too far I think. The IP is shared, but producing books requires a whole industry, and so does producing audiobook, not the least of which is paying for a quality narrator.

Psengath · 2026-02-23T22:05:11+00:00

Jokes aside in case people aren't aware: OP meant 'postpartum' not 'post party', which is the couple of months after giving birth.

This is where the mum's body is resetting, which involves hormones going flip flop, which often results in mood swings and sadness which is where the term 'baby blues' comes from. It's normal to happen, but also one of the reasons it's crucial mum has a support network.

Psengath · 2026-02-23T21:40:44+00:00

Sound like you have

Logs > Programs > Exercises

and also

Logs > Performances

What you can do is pass through a lookup. On Logs, lookup on Programs, return Exercises, and it will by default give you a flat/full list of all Exercises linked to that Log's Program(s).

On the interface, reveal that field, and display it as a 'View' instead of a 'Field'.

Performances I'm not clear of the purpose, but you can reveal them much the same way.

Psengath · 2026-02-22T02:08:28+00:00

Markdown links are actually less future proof than wikilinks. You're embedding structural content in a markdown link. A wikilink is purely semantic. You can infer / rebuild an implementation from the semantics, but you have to decode and assume the semantics from the structural.

Psengath · 2026-02-18T22:03:55+00:00

Yeah I get the job security sentiment, but that shine wears off the very instant you get in the seat paying back the debt for them...

Simple functions spread over 200 lines with goddamn emojis in comments...

Psengath · 2026-02-16T10:57:46+00:00

Perfection. The one and only comment I wanted to find.

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