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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.

@Migueldeicaza Hi! Am I remembering correctly that you had a custom wooden desk with a cable channel etc in it and blogged about it? If so, is that stuff still up somewhere? Thanks!

The minilogue was lovely

@unixsmurf those both look great. I can’t fit a full size keyboard sadly

I want to talk about (hardware) synthesisers. Will anyone listen?

@noodles thank you!

Can anyone recommend a service to get a 'virtual' US phone number? Something I can put into forms that require a US number. I'm not in the US. Nice to have: voicemail, SMS, receive calls somehow (voip? app?) TIA!

Shout out for “Whisper”, a deliberately simple Pipewire app that Just Works: https://mijorus.it/projects/whisper/

@baldur my local electronics store (wonderful place) maintains two entirely separate websites, the older one a more traditional reproduction of a catalogue, the newer one “e-commerce”

@dougmerritt @nixCraft I’d quite like to see more sites block gmail and find out what happens tbh

@carlwgeorge @fabiscafe

Would you argue that Python 3 isn’t Python?

It’s definitely not Python 2, and should not be (IMHO) /usr/bin/python. So it really depends on the context. Python-the-project, python-the-language, python-the-binary, etc.

Similarly it’s no surprise people still stumble over what is referred to by the label “CentOS”.

@edavies @DamonHD @neil I didn't know about paged feeds/RFC 5005, very interesting, thank you. Sadly even if e.g. FreshRSS supported it, FreshRSS's poor behaviour with new feeds (all entries are considered 'new', drowning out the recent timeline) could carry across if it just walked the links. So it's orthogonal to that problem (but I agree useful for the bandwidth problem)

@neil @edavies I was surprised to discover that FreshRSS (I'd wager one of the most popular readers these days) still handles this badly: if I added your feed to my instance, you'd drown out all other feeds in the recent list. I don't know why FreshRSS does this, rather than honour the entry dates; perhaps it's configurable. But if other readers behave similarly, that's one reason to avoid having huge lists of entries in feeds.

@edavies @neil that can be mitigated by reducing the number of articles in a feed. 150 is extremely high IMHO. A good value is a function of how often a site updates; I picked 5 for my infrequently-updated site.

This excellent article about clojure programming has got me thinking; is neovim/lua there yet? https://lambdaisland.com/blog/2017-12-29-the-bare-minimum-clojure-mayonnaise

It's BBC 6 Music's T-Shirt day today: I never remember about it, but coincidentally I've got my Bauhaus tee on today
Photo from last year of me wearing my Bauhaus tee in front of a Spitting Image dummy of Margaret Thatcher. From https://jmtd.net/log/the_horror_show/

@laxla thanks: I hadn't seen or tried "minted" from those answers, so I'll give it a look!

@laxla Thanks for your input. Most Markdown→PDF workflows round-trip via LaTeX (I'm pretty sure Pandoc does). And I'm not sure they do anything special wrt formatting code -- likely just monospace it. Alas it's too late in my write-up to rework the whole thing in Markdown (or anything else) now. FWIW I've been mostly happy with LaTeX.

@rivets for alignment? or legibility? I've seen convincing arguments both for and against legibility of proportional versus monospaced text. Personally I'm not sure.

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