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NASA 1975 ‘worm’ logo is back! If you love this new old logo, be sure to check out the pdf manual - NASA Graphics Standards Manual (1976) #NASA 🚀

Bonus: WIRED “Inside the Rise and Fall of NASA’s Beloved Worm Logo”

I don’t know about you guys, I do not like seeing my bandwidth sucked up by trackers and adservers. I normally have them filtered through VPN proxy on iOS and other means on each desktop web browsers. As good web citizen, I think we should all support the products we love and I pay for things that worth our time. So given that I see some website are very much written to scrape as much user data with javascript hooks that just create spaghetti of mess; which basically become useless under my filtering methods and fails flat - some sites don’t even load a single image. Please note that I do not want to be part of your product, we should all suspect that we are the product if something is free. But at least when you code, please be wise that there are people willing to pay for your service if it makes them happy… which mean you need at least a Minimum Website.

Empty page = 😞

Win 10 WSL fun with VS Code as Mac User

We are officially on vacation mode but I always trying keep myself busy and try something new. I’ve been wanting to do MP3 ID2v3 editing on python that I wanted to explore. Windows 10 WSL and a recent native support on VS Code seem like a good way to keep myself up to date on recent progress on Microsoft tools. VS Code with WSL launch time can be bit slow but once up the lag goes away mostly.

For my setup, I’m using Debian WSL. In good measure I wanted to see if it can alwo handle pyenv and DejaVu Powerline font in the VS Code terminal window.

To my surprise, the setup works well for now. In full screen mode, Windows 10 almost disappears. With modern ultralight laptops in recent vintage, the setup might be a solid alternative to Apple MBP for those have Windows requirement such as Outlook for your office.

Now that I read the documentation thanks to reply by MailMate , I need to optimize my "Load Once” code.

One liner AppleScript in Keyboard Maestro:

tell application "MailMate" to perform {"loadImagesOnce:"}

References:
https://manual.mailmate-app.com/custom_key_bindings
https://manual.mailmate-app.com/key_binding_selectors.html

UPDATE (Please Use Below as Reference for UI Scripting): https://heesoo.org/2019/04/10/much-improved-load.html

One feature that I miss using OS X Mail.app was being able to Load Image using Keyboard Maestro app as AppleScript trigger. This allows me to selectively only load remote image on emails that I want to load and be tracked. Thanks to UI Browser app to poke around the MailMate UI, I got following code to work:

https://gist.github.com/heesoo/2cfdf55045c1d8d235576865f507bb89

– version 2018-04-20_01
– by https://heesoo.org
tell application “System Events”
    tell process “MailMate”
        – For View Layout Thread Arcs, Three Panes & Widescreen
        try
            set loadImagesButtonRef to a reference to button “Load Once” of group 2 of splitter group 1 of splitter group 1 of window 1
        end try
        – Case for Search was activated (by clicking or by search box)
        if not (loadImagesButtonRef exists) then
            try
                set loadImagesButtonRef to a reference to button “Load Once” of group 4 of splitter group 1 of splitter group 1 of window 1
            end try
        end if
                if not (loadImagesButtonRef exists) then return beep 1
                – Click “Load Once”
        click loadImagesButtonRef
    end tell
end tell

Great countertop project idea for CNC

Create Something Useful

I’m not a writer, and I don’t pretend to be. But there are things that I do in my life that might be interesting to share and discuss in this format. As the first post of my microblog, I want to confess that I’m a serial tinkerer and learner. If you are curious and wondering about what fascinates me, you are in the right place. I do post some images on Instagram at i/heesoolee and i/escvan

My current project is trying to build a mid-life escape van that will be my office, camper, & wannabe overlander at some point.

I dabble in design, trying to build electric vehicles, work with my hands (wood & metal using some precision) and try to leave our earth a little bit better for our children. Some days of the week, you can find me roaming around LACI’s Advance Prototyping Center in Los Angeles, CA.