I have found the best use of a tiny house.
La Librairie Itinérante: a travelling tiny house and bookshop from France.
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Alex Honnold Climbs Yosemite’s El Capitan Without a Rope
On Freerider, one of the most daunting physical and mental challenges Honnold faced was two pitches of steep, undulating expanse of rock about 600 feet up. Polished smooth by glaciers over the millennia, the granite here offers no holds, forcing a climber to basically walk up it with his feet only. Honnold used a delicate technique called “smearing,” which involves pressing his rubber shoes against the rock to create just enough grip to support his weight on the incline. He had to keep his weight perfectly balanced and maintain enough forward momentum to avoid sliding off. “It’s like walking up glass,” Honnold said.
This is impressive madness. It’s interesting to see someone doing something for the first time. The interview with him afterwards was interesting too. He was so nonchalant about and chill about it. First Interview With Alex Honnold, Climber Who Scaled El Capitan Without a Rope
In an effort to get setup with micro.blog, the RSS feed is changing. I’ve disconnected feed.press and reverted back to WordPress’ handling of my feed.
The feed link in the menu bar should still work, but if you were using the feed.press link, it will no longer update after this post.
For the kids in the back, use this feed
Maciej AKA Pinboard has been talking about buying del.icio.us for a long time. Today, Pinboard bought Delicious. I’m curious what he has in store for it.
As for the ultimate fate of the site, I’ll have more to say about that soon. Delicious has over a billion bookmarks and is a fascinating piece of web history. Even Yahoo, for whom mismanagement is usually effortless, had to work hard to keep Delicious down. I bought it in part so it wouldn’t disappear from the web.
Even if he bought it only to save the history of the web, it’s worth the purchase.
I’m a sucker for weird printing issues. In my earlier life, I worked in a print shop and it’s the family business. So when I saw this bug I had to first email it to my dad (Hi Dad!) then share it here. It appears the Edge Browser, the Windows 10 version of Internet Explorer is changing the contents of certain PDFs when printed. Ars Technica has the full story.
Beyond being breathtakingly bizarre, the bug could potentially have serious consequences for architects, engineers, lawyers, and other professionals who rely on Edge to print drawings, blueprints, legal briefs, and similarly sensitive documents. Edge is the default application for viewing PDFs on Windows 10 computers. While the errors demonstrated above happened using the “Microsoft Print to PDF” option, multiple users report similar alterations when using regular printing settings.
I agree with their recommendation to use Google Chrome for the same feature.
A less arcane fix is to switch to an alternate PDF reader, ideally the one built into Google’s Chrome browser, because it contains a robust security sandbox that prevents untrusted content from accessing sensitive operating-system functions. Until this flaw is fixed, people absolutely shouldn’t trust Edge to print their documents.
Until then, if you’re printing anything from Edge that’s important to you, it’s worth giving it an ocular pat down.
