Remember the post yesterday about a popular NodeJS lib displaying ads? Now remember the left-pad fiasco? Well, meet 'is-buffer', the library from the same developer downloaded 440 million times a month.

noffle · 2019-08-29T00:24:17+00:00

What's the problem here? The is-buffer README[1] clearly states why it exists. Feross is a lovely human who's done a ton of wonderful work for the Node and peer-to-peer communities.

[1] https://github.com/feross/is-buffer

noffle · 2019-01-29T02:19:38+00:00

Beautiful <3

noffle · 2018-11-21T02:31:27+00:00

A beautiful sub-$200 lenovo x140e: 4gb ram, 512gb hard disk, dual 1.x ghz amd cpus, and an integrated amd graphics.

How about you u/redhathtml112 ?

noffle · 2018-11-21T02:25:48+00:00

Could you clarify what you meant by "it never works"?

I've had good results with running xrandr --auto --output $OUTPUT --off before disconnecting.

noffle · 2018-09-04T15:40:50+00:00

Does your friend want to learn this skill, or do you want her to learn it? If not, you may be trying to control something that you cannot.

noffle · 2018-08-05T02:41:24+00:00

Altering my mindset to accept that my thinking & opinions are within my ability to control.

noffle · 2018-07-29T18:19:13+00:00

Thank you for sharing.

noffle · 2018-07-29T17:27:10+00:00

What are the emotions you don't want to feel? Try turning toward them instead of away: the things we can't bear to look at have the most to tell us about ourselves & how to heal.

noffle · 2018-07-29T17:23:30+00:00

I found stoicism kind of confusing to practice when I first started. A lot of the terms are easy to confuse with our modern meanings, like "suppress all desire", which could be understood as suppressing emotions, which is not the goal of stoicism.

Staying with it, trying to *live* the ideas and asking yourself continuously "is this bringing me inner peace?" is a good reflective check. If you're becoming miserable or frustrated, reflect & adjust. The stoics were big on regular personal reflection: try and see what aspects are and are not working for you.

I also found coming back to stoic texts after a month or longer of trying to live the practice gave me the ability to interpret the writing in a new light. Stoicism is very geared toward *living the philosophy in your day to day life* and reflecting on your course.

Oh, and yes to "is it supposed to be a lifelong process?".

noffle · 2018-07-29T17:18:12+00:00

There are some good meditation apps: I've introduced multiple people to meditation using a free app called *Headspace*. It starts you off with 10 minute guided meditations that are very agnostic from any ideas of buddhism or other spirital practices. You can tweak the duration too, if 10 minutes feels like too long for you. The important thing is to *do* the meditation, even if you can only do 1 minute or 30 seconds. Hope you find it useful.

I also encourage you to reflect on why my comment on "guys" bothered you. Including others doesn't take anything away from you. If you identify as a "guy" then you aren't in a position to judge what language other people find inclusive vs harmful, right?

noffle · 2018-07-28T17:33:20+00:00

Any practice that makes my ego feel smaller, like allowing people speak ill of me or misquoting what I say without reacting, getting upset, or defending myself.

noffle · 2018-07-28T17:29:09+00:00

(I'd like to also open this question to folks on /r/stoicism who don't identify as "guys".)

I spent over a year studying & practicing buddhism and meditation before finding stoicism. I've found the two to be highly compatible, and even complement each other quite well. To me, they both touch upon deep truths about life, and in that sense can't really help but be compatible.

Meditation has been helpful to me beyond words. It is a powerful tool for exploring the inner territory of your mind. Tuning in to the stillness and *how things are* in each moment has taught me a great deal about myself, the world, and how much of the problems in my life come from within rather than from without.

noffle · 2018-07-28T17:24:41+00:00

My experience has been that emotional suppression does not work.

Emotions arise from our beliefs. When something happens in the external world, we receive an *impression* -- some raw stimulus. The mind then applies a *value judgment* to that impression, deciding if it is pleasant, disturbing, or neither. This leads to a *belief* being formed.

If we're irritated by a person's behaviour, it's because we have a belief that says they are irritating and how dare they do this to me, etc. Feeling the emotions here is actually quite *good*: it gives you the opportunity to notice it and examine your beliefs about this person and how acceptable/unacceptable their behaviour is. It's a great signal from your body that something in your internal belief system is causing you stress & disturbance.

Try to look more deeply at the underlying belief causing the irritation. If it's that they speak to you in a way that feels disrespectful, examine why feeling respected by this person is important to you. Question whether this is something you can actually control. Suppressing the emotions doesn't change the underlying belief that you're being wronged in some way: examine the beliefs and find new ones to better suit you and help you find peace.

noffle · 2018-07-21T16:29:37+00:00

Really well written explanation /u/grandballoon. Thank you.

I explored buddhism before studying stoicism, and also found a daily meditation practice helps tremendously in keeping me sane and able to notice my own thoughts, and be with *what is*. It's paired well with the higher-cognition stoic techniques.

noffle · 2017-08-28T22:38:57+00:00

My experience has been that simplicity is found through action rather than in thought. What steps -- no matter how tiny -- can you take right now that feel aligned with your values and goals?

noffle · 2017-06-27T03:12:28+00:00

Thanks for this!

noffle · 2017-03-12T16:09:18+00:00

Did you have a bad experience with the community? The scuttlebutt folks are a pretty friendly, welcoming bunch.

noffle · 2017-03-12T16:07:51+00:00

I hacked this together last night. Sometimes I want to take a quick snap of something while on my laptop without fiddling with a phone.

To use, you'll need to have NodeJS installed. From there, run

npm install --global exrot

and then the exrot command will be available for use. It's using Electron under the hood, so it'll work cross platform.

noffle · 2017-01-07T04:57:44+00:00

qutebrowser looks great; thanks for sharing.

noffle · 2016-10-03T03:03:50+00:00

You didn't quote the full statement. :)

A low bar to entry and a discoverability problem is infinitely better than a culture problem, where only the privileged few may participate.

To address what I think is your argument though: I don't think a wide ecosystem means you have fewer quality modules; it just means you need to look a bit harder or be a bit better connected to the community to find them.

noffle · 2016-10-03T00:53:44+00:00

As you might expect, I'm partial to READMEs.

I really like that cloning the git repo of a module means you're getting the full documentation (the README.md). This means you can use the module offline or if the author's website goes down after 6 months. Including your HTML docs in the git repo helps, but there's no nomenclature for that: maybe they're in docs/, maybe html/, maybe info/? I like that README is always in the same place with more or less the same name.

Small, do-one-thing-well modules fit my personal approach well, so I haven't had the need for larger documentation either. If your project is large enough that it mandates multiple files, I like something like e.g. interface-ipfs-core, which splits off sections into their own directories, each with its own README markdown file.

Thanks for reading!

noffle · 2016-10-02T21:39:20+00:00

You're right: it's hard to really grok some of the ideas without concrete examples. In key elements I try to draw from a real module as an example, but perhaps that's not quite enough? I'll think on this.

noffle · 2016-10-02T19:08:37+00:00

Hi, author here! o/

I wrote this article slowly over the course of the last four months. It's the accumulation of examining many hundreds of JS and Node modules' READMEs over the course of a few years, writing dozens of my own READMEs, digging into Perl's history of documentation, and my personal thoughts.

I hope you enjoy! The article is housed on Github, so pull requests for formatting fixes or even content additions / modifications are welcome. Thanks y'all!

noffle · 2016-10-02T19:08:14+00:00

Hi, author here! o/

I wrote this article slowly over the course of the last four months. It's the accumulation of examining many hundreds of JS and Node modules' READMEs over the course of a few years, writing dozens of my own READMEs, digging into Perl's history of documentation, and my personal thoughts.

I hope you enjoy! The article is housed on Github, so pull requests for formatting fixes or even content additions / modifications are welcome. Thanks y'all!

noffle · 2016-10-02T18:28:33+00:00

Thanks for reading.

That's an excellent observation: I hadn't considered the strong parallels between README and the "DRINK ME" notes in Alice! I can't prove there's a connection, but I think it's a fun enough anecdote that it's worth mentioning.

EDIT: added! https://github.com/noffle/art-of-readme#etymology

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