Author: johayek

  • helicopters (CH-53) being refueled in the air

    https://youtu.be/RQvCTZ6Ly8U?t=2m34s

  • August 9, 1945 – World War II: Nagasaki is devastated when an atomic bomb …

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_9: Nagasaki is devastated when an atomic bomb, Fat Man, is dropped by the United States B-29 Bockscar. 35,000 people are killed outright, including 23,200-28,200 Japanese war workers, 2,000 Korean forced workers, and 150 Japanese soldiers.

  • the Scala programming language

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scala_(programming_language) http://www.scala-lang.org http://ensime.org/editors/emacs/ – scala, emacs, ensime = “ENhanced Scala Interaction Mode for Emacs“ O’Reilly Media, “Learning Scala“: http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920030287.do https://www.safaribooksonline.com/library/view/learning-scala/9781449368814/ https://github.com/swartzrock/LearningScalaMaterials – the books’s supplementary stuff, as mentioned within the book’s initial section “Publisher Resources” O’Reilly Media, “Programming Scala“, 2nd Edition: http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920033073.do O’Reilly Media, “Scala Cookbook“: http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920026914.do O’Reilly Media, “Testing in Scala” (as of 2017-08-09 with a state-of-the-art…

  • AsciiDoc – yet another mark-up language

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AsciiDoc http://asciidoc.org http://asciidoctor.org These packages make use of AsciiDoc: https://github.com/swartzrock/LearningScalaMaterials – I had a look at the book “Learning Scala” … …

  • Aviv Weinberg singing …

    Psalm 23 (composer: Gerald Cohen): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTD4a51PEMg Psalm 110 (composer: Händel): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxnWwZy9YfA Psalm 121 (composer: Yosef Karduner) : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKQ03w-_f5g Psalm 150 (composer: Debbie Friedman) : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFHqAraat4E samachti b’omrim : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hb2-7ef7JGI Think Of Me : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DjkM9HUF2Y Bach-Mass in B Minor, Duet “Christe Eleison” : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMfuVW5z9A0 Björn Nyberg’s “The Room” : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0Ypifgae_o (Lange Nacht 2015 Teil 5 Zlil Bet Haskala Set 2) : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sw0-fCKp1Q …

  • the Android “Oral-B” app and my Oral-B Pro 6500 electric rechargeable toothbrush

    https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pg.oralb.oralbapp – version 4.2.0 (2017-07-27) https://www.oralb.co.uk/en-gb/oral-b-institute/technology/app-availability https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00LMDWOEO https://www.amazon.de/dp/B00LMDWOEO my smartphone: Huawei P9 (EVA-L09) Android 7.0 (2017-07-27) My toothbrush recently stopped talking to my smartphone app. It kept driving me crazy. I tried synchronising my smartphone and the toothbrush handle again and again – to no success. https://www.oralb.co.uk/en-gb/oral-b-institute/technology/app-availability We are currently experiencing Bluetooth connectivity issues between our…

  • the GitHub wiki, “markdown”, GitHub “markdown” extensions, tables

    https://help.github.com/categories/writing-on-github/ – GitHub and “markdown” http://www.markdowntutorial.com https://github.github.com/gfm/ – “GitHub Flavored Markdown Spec”

  • started using “GitHub Desktop” and migrating a couple of files (utilities)

    The O’Reilly book describes using “GitHub for Mac“. Today (2017-07-21) there is “GitHub Desktop” instead – and I started using it 😎 . I started migrating a couple of utilities I uploaded to misc/using_timestamps_in_filenames. Quite a big step for me!

  • “Mishkan T’filah—A Reform Siddur” is a prayer book prepared for Reform Jewish congregations around the world

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mishkan_T’filah https://www.ccarpress.org/shopping_product_list.asp?catID=3750 https://www.ccarpress.org/shopping_product_detail.asp?pid=50113 – available for Kindle as well – and this should be easy to de-kindle  😆 – so this looks like a “general e-book” to me

  • upgrading my Macs from El Capitan (10.11) to Sierra (10.12) – keeping fink in sync

    Nota bene: you should always upgrade fink before upgrading OS X. http://www.finkproject.org/download/srcdist.php?phpLang=en : $ sudo xcodebuild -license Install the CLI: $ sudo xcode-select –install … $ fink reinstall fink Before running the fink utility you should “always” start gcc, in order to clear any problems with Xcode. If your fink activities run into a gcc problem…