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I'm rather weird, which means I'm completely normal.

I'm rather weird, which means I'm completely normal.

A new #blog post!In which I suggest a way to create neat #slides with #SVG‌s, and show you the ways of...

A new #blog post!

In which I suggest a way to create neat #slides with #SVG‌s, and show you the ways of #makefile.

https://midgard.user.zeus.gent/blog/2025-02-21-svg-makefile-slides

My first #blog post is live!About a small decorator I wrote in #Python that makes the inner classes of the decorated class, also subclasses...

My first #blog post is live!

About a small decorator I wrote in #Python that makes the inner classes of the decorated class, also subclasses of it.

I use that for namespaced sum types with data, such as the type Decision with a constructor Decision.Flag("created")

https://midgard.user.zeus.gent/blog/2025-02-07-inner-classes-are-subclasses

An active #webcomic story I'm enjoying a lot: Scarlet by Novil and Elli:...

An active #webcomic story I'm enjoying a lot: Scarlet by Novil and Elli: https://www.sandraandwoo.com/scarlet/comic/the-machine-of-eternal-summer-001/

A science fantasy story about Scarlet Carolus, who has come to believe that her basement has a machine that could change the tides on the ever-declining temperatures on her planet.

Updates Mondays and Thursdays.

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Hey @larstransportworld, I'd like to let you know if you make an updated train map for Belgium, the passenger ferry connection from...

Hey @larstransportworld, I'd like to let you know if you make an updated train map for Belgium, the passenger ferry connection from Zeebrugge (closest station: Zeebrugge-Strand) has been discontinued since 2021. Currently no overseas ferry services run from Belgium.

@newsmast I see on your site you're describing #Bluesky as "a Twitter alternative built on a decentralized protocol, ATProto",...

@newsmast I see on your site you're describing #Bluesky as "a Twitter alternative built on a decentralized protocol, ATProto", but Bluesky's protocol isn't actually centralized, with little possibility to ever become it despite Bluesky's claims.

A technical deep-dive by someone who knows what they're talking about: https://dustycloud.org/blog/how-decentralized-is-bluesky/

Not spreading the lie that Bluesky is decentralised could help against the confusion around what is a realistic service level for a decentralised platform.

My #OpenStreetMap project of tonight: completing the #WW1 Western Front memorial demarcation stones in #Belgium (@osm_be).Belgium is done,...

My #OpenStreetMap project of tonight: completing the #WW1 Western Front memorial demarcation stones in #Belgium (@osm_be).

Belgium is done, but those in #France (@osm_fr) need a lot of work still! I've emailed a local organisation to ask if we can start from their list.

More at https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/M!dgard/diary/405910

Map of the stones: https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/1Wtx

(Image by Frans90245, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Demarcatiepaal_nr_2_Westendelaan_5.jpg)

#ww1ww2historywarfronts #memorial

@openrailwaymap Thanks for https://OpenRailwayMap.org!ORM renders abandoned and razed rails. Many OSM communities understandably frown upon...

@openrailwaymap Thanks for https://OpenRailwayMap.org!

ORM renders abandoned and razed rails. Many OSM communities understandably frown upon adding features that aren't visible on the field any more, which railway=razed is.

Would it be an idea to stop rendering railway=abandoned and railway=razed from #OpenStreetMap and instead pull in historical railways from #OpenHistoricalMap? #OpenRailwayMap could even grow a dedicated "history" layer.

I think this would be beneficial for ORM, OHM and OSM!

Edit: someone in the thread points out that this formulation was paraphrased from Sean Tejaratchi:...

Edit: someone in the thread points out that this formulation was paraphrased from Sean Tejaratchi: https://web.archive.org/web/20130621083214/http://www.readingfrenzy.com/ledger/2012/03/taking_the_piss

#banksy #advertising #publicspace

I am reintroducing the words #ereyesterday (the day before yesterday) and #overmorrow (the day after tomorrow) in the English language....

I am reintroducing the words #ereyesterday (the day before yesterday) and #overmorrow (the day after tomorrow) in the English language. Getting rid of them was a mistake.

Spread the words!

#english #language #words

My cool new tiling manager for the river compositor, river-ultitile, is released!https://sr.ht/~midgard/river-ultitile/It has sensible...

My cool new tiling manager for the river compositor, river-ultitile, is released!

https://sr.ht/~midgard/river-ultitile/

It has sensible default layouts with widescreen support,
but if you want to change anything, the layouts are easily configured by building a structure of nested tiles.

#riverwm #riverultitile

Personal opinion:using 3 or 4 spaces is acceptable too, though it's not good for people who need wide indentation for accessibility...

Personal opinion:

using 3 or 4 spaces is acceptable too, though it's not good for people who need wide indentation for accessibility reasons;

using tabs and just never doing alignment is fine too (since it is equivalent to smart tabs and never aligning).

Until elastic tabstops become mainstream, that is.https://nick-gravgaard.com/elastic-tabstops/#ElasticTabstops #tabs

Until elastic tabstops become mainstream, that is.

https://nick-gravgaard.com/elastic-tabstops/

#ElasticTabstops #tabs

The only sane way to do indentation and alignment of programming code:tabs for indentation,spaces for alignment.This is called smart tabs:...

The only sane way to do indentation and alignment of programming code:

tabs for indentation,
spaces for alignment.

This is called smart tabs: https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/SmartTabs

Spread the word.

#TabsVsSpaces #SmartTabs #tabs

If you're using Chrome, you can send a message to Google that this is not the web we want: switch to Firefox.

If you're using Chrome, you can send a message to Google that this is not the web we want: switch to Firefox.

At https://rumores.eu/wei I made a snippet for your website to fight against #wei.

At https://rumores.eu/wei I made a snippet for your website to fight against #wei.

An #AdBlocker is assistive technology just like screen readers.Change my viewWeb Environment Integrity (#wei), a Google proposal, will do...

An #AdBlocker is assistive technology just like screen readers.

Change my view

Web Environment Integrity (#wei), a Google proposal, will do serious harm to the open web. Probably including making it way harder to use ad blockers. People who cannot or don't want to destroy their attention centres and become numb to movement in their field of view, will have a hard time.

Frequently the better solution involves using less complicated technology.That's the reason I'm a computer engineer! To have the...

Frequently the better solution involves using less complicated technology.

That's the reason I'm a computer engineer! To have the authority to tell people "you don't need a computer for this task".

Inspired by @jaseg 's https://chaos.social/@jaseg/110781306795960114, with just a bit more explanation to the user to be polite!

Inspired by @jaseg 's https://chaos.social/@jaseg/110781306795960114, with just a bit more explanation to the user to be polite!

To resist #Google 's web-breaking #WEI, I put up https://rumores.eu/wei. There's a snippet for your site to gently nudge your visitors to...

To resist #Google 's web-breaking #WEI, I put up https://rumores.eu/wei. There's a snippet for your site to gently nudge your visitors to use a different browser if theirs is infected with WEI. That is, it replaces the whole page with an informative message, hehe.