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Cake day: August 7th, 2023

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  • I’m just being a silly billy it’s not directed at you.

    It’s more like “ah if only there was a simple solution that could’ve been used.”

    All images are hosted somewhere, I would consider an intern fresh out of college know how to correctly add an image to an email, or at least only be told once if somehow they had never seen this before.


  • yeah it uses this really neat semantic rendering programming language for serving structured documents across servers

    It’s a bit tricky, but anyone with at least a Masters in CompSci should be able to parse some of it enough to get the gist. Bear in mind that the “source” is abbreviated to src, and “image” similarly. The rest is coding that gives the computer instructions, you’ll also need to replace FILENAME in the code with the actual filename. It goes like this

    <img src="FILENAME" /> 
    

    Let me know if I can explain it more clearly.




  • it’s not just one thing though. For a non technical user, it’s nerve-wracking to worry that if you screw up the install, or download the wrong package, or configure the YAML wrong, or open the wrong port, or there’s a port conflict, or you forgot to update the software… now you’re potentially unprotected (even if that’s not the case - many will still worry).

    Not to mention even if you - as I did - had to skill up to understand it, three months passes and you’re terrified to touch it because you’ve forgotten all the stuff you learned to set it up.

    Same as how the majority of people don’t even change their own oil on their cars - even though it’s fairly easy.













  • As more of an artist than a techie for the most part — if you have your medium or at least part of it — the more interesting thing about art is what you have to say about it.

    As an example, if you want to draw a distinction and comparison between the age of discovery and the age of technology, you could use the hard drives as a canvas on which to paint a portrait of something like Robert Scott / Lawrence Oates, or Jacques Cousteau, or Armstrong and Aldrin etc.

    On that last one - if you could tie the size of the drive in comparison to the size of the code used in the moon landing that might also be interesting.

    Anyway, all that to say - art is a mix of medium and message