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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.

@fraggle @InterzoneMag ah, I’m already a kobo user so I don’t need to wait for a kindle version :)

@fraggle where are you working these days?

@fraggle @InterzoneMag i’d really like to try one. Might just take a punt, the 6” one is pretty cheap

Anyone a fan of the colour eink readers? Like the new kobos? I’m curious how good something like @InterzoneMag looks like on one

@InterzoneMag Hi! Did the IZ Story Club replace the IZ Discord? I've only just noticed it's not in my Discord server list. Thanks

@fraggle @mwl I feel this in my bones at the moment

@sil I feel you, been through this myself recently. Really frustrating. Related frustration: device-to-device restore failed for unknown reasons three times in a row. Backup to and restore from iCloud (with the two things sat in the sofa next to each other) worked.

Today I wanted to try some coding but I got a surprise cannula and couldn’t type, so I pen & papered it.

New blog post: ouch https://jmtd.net/log/ouch/

New blog post: ouch https://jmtd.net/log/ouch/

the safest way to use computers is still abstinence

@mjg59 long covid in a can?

Anyone had a root canal? How long did it take from beginning to end?

@lproven it was a gift so I’m not sure what they paid for it luckily. I’m not prepared to risk it out and about commuting etc which is why I haven’t read it yet

@lproven I think I’m up to speed on fiction but not non-fiction. I’ve got this lovely thing on my shelf to read eventually https://www.kimstanleyrobinson.info/content/stans-kitchen

@lproven “What good climate-collapse SF should I be reading? “ pretty much all of KSR’s other novels! New York 2140 and Aurora are recent faves; going back a bit there’s the green earth trilogy and stories like “Venice drowned”

Hit me up with your summer holiday reading recommendations!

I've been playing with TreeSitter a little bit, which is quite interesting. In particular a Markdown parser for it. The parser has decided to split itself into two parsers (following CommonMark parsing suggestion): first Block, then Inline. However, lots of useful TreeSitter stuff cannot span that boundary automatically. E.g. TreeSitter queries. So if you want to find an anchor inside a header, you've got to write two queries. Frustrating.

@mhoye The graph/pic doesn't say so, but, is this just EV sales data for the other companies?

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