pleroma.debian.social

pleroma.debian.social

Jonathan Dowland | @jmtd@pleroma.debian.social

Principal Software Engineer on #OpenJDK #RedHat. #Debian developer (dormant). Computer Science PhD student. Amateur Computing historian (Computer Science and H/W, esp. Commodore Amiga). Guerilla archivist.

The iOS Google Sheets app is a prime example of “if you must, it’s possible” app design. Apple’s Numbers app is slightly better, but still requires you to scroll in two dimensions. I’ve not seen a truly-mobile friendly spreadsheet app yet.

@neil I always stumble over three-letter abbreviating “Thursday”, too. “Thu” lacks the crucial ‘s’. “Thus” is 4 characters but not the first 4.

Has anyone specced out an xkcd:// protocol yet?

It might facilitate the kinds of conversations that go like this.

“…because xkcd://12345.”

“Ah, but are you forgetting xkcd://543?”

FOSDEM next week! 🎉

Idly wondering about 3d printing a “decal” directly into a laptop lid

@tomnardi thanks for the tip! I have had some warping on the next iteration I tried so I’ll give this a go

@znoteer thank you. Yes the RHS is iteration 2. My third iteration is having the letter be the only shape on that part (the print wasn’t good for this)

Today I got a chat notification from a chat service I didn’t even realise we had and wasn’t one of the two I’m aware of that are in the frame to replace the third I use. No obvious way to figure out a) who was tagging me, b) how to reply or even c) how to access the chat service

@AAMfP I need a trackpoint which seriously limits my options. I’ve got 6-key on existing boards, so I think I won’t mistype, but I almost never use the extra keys!

Vinyl divider design experiment, iteration 2 #3dprinting #art #design #music

it would seem obvious to choose 6-key over reverse-T for the arrow region, except you get a weird split spacebar. Pros/cons of that?

Sadly also only double-shot on the ANSI layout. So it goes

If (IF) I were to buy a Tex Shura mech keyboard, the aluminium case would seem to be a no-brainer, but,

Red or black?

https://tex.com.tw/products/shura?variant=42840179409051

#mechanicalkeyboards #hardware #keyboards

made the mistake of re-connecting an old firefox instance to my firefox account and POOF there goes my theme on all my other instances

@Ronflaix i tend to avoid typedefs entirely for structs unless I’m providing an API. I like to know what I’m dealing with.

@dans you’re not exactly a prolific poster. Maybe post a bit more; be more frivolous if that sounds like a burden. And see what happens!

@suetanvil @stevelord good plan yes. I do a monthly rsync to one of a pair of external drives that live out of my house. My setup is (somewhat) documented here fwiw https://jmtd.net/computing/nas/

@suetanvil @stevelord I was super nervous moving from rdiff-backup (kinda similar to rsync + a pile of shell) to Borg, especially the repo complexity, but it was worth it. In particular I can move large file trees around without triggering enormous deltas.

@stevelord @suetanvil i recently learned that the road from Borg 1 to 2 is not straight and put restic in my “to consider” pile when the time comes. But it seems we will keep Borg1 in Debian alongside 2 at least for a while

@Anarcat even that blog post’s solution loses the static part. I hope to retain that but move to some self hosted engine that handles submission, approvals, filtering and perhaps stuff like WebMentions.

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