begin and end blocks for ifs or loops. For example I always thought that I needed to have a button somewhere, even if hidden. That gave me a handler procedure where I could put code and somehow call it. Two or three years later, a new mate from the parallel class finally told me that this wasn't necessary and how to do thing better.You know all too well that back in the day there was not a whole lot of information out there. And the bits that did exist were well hidden. At least from me. Eventually discovering planet-quellcodes.de (I don't remember if that was the original forum or if that got split off from some other board) via my best schoolmate was like finding the Amber Room. Yeah, reading the ITG book would have been a very good idea for sure. :-)
In hindsight, a console program without the UI overhead might have been better. At least for the very start. Much less things to worry about or get lost.
Hence, I'd recommend to start programming with a console program. As for the language, not sure. But Python is probably a good choice, it doesn't require a lot of surrounding boilerplate like, say Java or Go. It also does exceptionally well in the principle of least surprise.
I came across an unfortunately dead salamander on the forest road, some fenced in deer, heaps of sheep, some unmagnetic cows (some were aligned very roughly north-south, but mainly with the axis of the best view I believe), a maybeetle and finally an awesome sunset. Not too shabby! The sheep were mehing all the time, that was really lovely to hear. And the crickets were already active, too. Didn't expect them to hear yet. I tried to record the concert, but the wind messed it all up. Oh well.
Sheephttps://lyse.isobeef.org/waldspaziergang-2025-04-27/
Message
├╴Reply 1
│ └╴Subreply
└╴Reply 2
and "Reply 2" was selected, pressing
A to reply to the parent should have picked "Message". However, a reply to "Reply 2" was composed instead. The reason was a precausiously introduced safety guard to abort the parent search which stopped at "Subreply", because its subject didn't match "Reply 2"'s. It was originally intended to abort on a completely different message conversation root. Just in case. Turns out that this thoght was flawed.Fixing bugs by only removing code is always cool. :-)
But this also happened to me all the time already before the pandemic. Time just flies and accelerates even more the wiser we get.
Cows on a meadowhttps://lyse.isobeef.org/waldspaziergang-2025-04-24/
Category: Adult ContentCompletely expected from AI bullshit.
A pair of great tits, female on the left, male on the right
Contents of the easter basket, not the pliers, thoughIt was the first time this year that we had half proper April weather and a thunderstorm in general. It started off with clear sky and lovely sunshine. Right after arvo lunch it started to rain, so we went into the hut. Then, the sun returned.
On the way back with the growling thunder in the distance coming closer and closer we escaped the rain just perfectly. A minute or two after we reached the car, wet stuff started coming down the sky. Not even half a minute after opening the front door, it poured like crazy. Lucky twice today. There's beautiful sunshine again by now. It smells absolutely great after the rain. I love it!
https://lyse.isobeef.org/waldspaziergang-2025-04-21/
I opened up all the photos in new tabs and went through them. For a second, I wondered that it was snowing at your place right now. :-D
That made me realize that so far we basically had nearly no April weather whatsoever. May might be full of it then, let's see. :-)
Watching "Happy People: A Year in the Taiga" in German the evening before, this thing totally looked like a trap to us. So, we decided to sit on another, more rustic bench nearby. :-) Oh neat, it turns out, there is a much longer four part series of the documentary in English on YouTube. Highly recommended! This is part one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbhPIK-oBvA
Judging by the surroundings, I think this is actually a forest altar or something of that nature. But it looks like they started with the chappel's reinforcement steel and then they ran out of money before completing it or even placing the concrete forms. :-P
Yeah, 78 might be photo of the month. It's one of my favorites.
Mt. StuifenMt. Stuifen is 757 meters above sea level, has a small shelter and a barbie area and is still the most boring one of the three. It's also the one farthest away from me. Not sure why it has two summit crosses, but both aren't at the summit. The third, makeshift one at the real summit was gone by now. Four years ago, somebody had cobbled one together and put it up.
We bought our tucker at a local bakery on our way. This was the first time I tried a Teufelsbrezel (lit. devil's pretzel), a lye pretzel with pepper. Haven't come across that anywhere else. But I can certainly recommend that, it's yummy.
We were glad when we were finally back home after some 26 or 27km. I won't do much today and let my feet rest. Another friend called for a much, much shorter hike tomorrow.
Enjoy the 92 photos: https://lyse.isobeef.org/wanderung-auf-den-stuifen-2025-04-19/
sqlitebrowser also accessing the database in parallel to debug the original issue.So far, I have not found the exact reason why some replies don't show up. When I do not filter for unread messages and show all, though, I actually see them. So, there's that.
Apparently, my query to build up the message tree must be incorrect. It somehow misses seven messages. They all are orphaned, maybe that's a clue. However, generating missing root messages (and thereby including the replies) typically works just fine. Hmm.
I just heard the fire brigade respond here with their compressed air sirens, too.
If you let fire take effect properly, it helps to reduce density.
Context menu item to create a new directory and directory name dialogThe following goes in _~/.local/share/kservices5/ServiceMenus/galmkdir.desktop_:
i
[Desktop Entry]
Type=Service
X-KDE-ServiceTypes=KonqPopupMenu/Plugin,inode/directory
Actions=Waldspaziergang;
[Desktop Action Waldspaziergang]
Name=Heutigen Waldspaziergang anlegen…
Icon=folder-green
Exec=~/src/gelbariab/galmkdir "%f"
In order to update the KDE desktop cache and make this action menu item available in Dolphin, I ran:
h
kbuildsycoca5
The referenced
galmkdir script looks like that:h
#!/bin/sh
set -e
current_dir="$1"
if [ -z "$current_dir" ]; then
echo "Usage: $0 DIRECTORY" >&2
exit 1
fi
dir="$(kdialog \
--geometry 350x50 \
--title "Heutigen Waldspaziergang anlegen" \
--inputbox "Neues Verzeichnis in „$current_dir“ anlegen:" \
"waldspaziergang-$(date +%Y-%m-%d)")"
mkdir "$current_dir/$dir"
dolphin "$current_dir/$dir"
This solution is far from perfect, though. Ideally, I'd love to have it in the "Create New" menu instead of the "Actions" menu. But that doesn't really work. I cannot define a default directory name, not to mention even a dynamic one with the current date. (I would have to update the .desktop file every day or so.) I also failed to create an empty directory. I somehow managed to create a directory with some other templates in it for some reason I do not really understand.
Let's see how that works out in the next days. If I like it, I might define a few more default directory names.~_
Depending on the hour, town halls and also graveyards are typically good options for public toilets. But yeah, you have to find them first. And then, there might be the "Nette Toilette": https://www.die-nette-toilette.de/ (Unfortunately, you can't see on the website which towns and cities participate in that concept. :-()
Bloody awesome sunset
.ch) rules. :-DBtw, both manpage links
string(2) and getields(2) (it's missing an f) point into nothingness: http://a.9srv.net/src/wordwrap.2.htmlI can't help but notice line 9: http://a.9srv.net/src/wordwrap.c
And I reckon your finger slipped one key to the right for
quore: http://a.9srv.net/src/litclock.1.htmlCool stuff! :-)
Blooming trees
Hahaha, you got me. When I read your first sentence I thought you were going to tell about your Wayland experience in comparison to X11. :-D
Spring makes for colorful trees
tt also agrees with the right™ hash)
Sun reflecting in puddles~
y on a daily basis.Apart from that, aborting the removal should probably terminate the function with a non-zero exit code, something like
return 1.
Looks like the bird nest in the tree is destroyed by the bushfire any second
Since I'm only interested in the
url metadata field for hashing, I do not keep any comments or metadata for that matter, just the messages themselves. The last time I fetched was probably some time yesterday evening (UTC+2). I cannot tell exactly, because the recorded last fetch timestamp has been overridden with today's by now.I dumped my new SQLite cache into: https://lyse.isobeef.org/tmp/backup.tar.gz This time maybe even correctly, if you're lucky. I'm not entirely sure. It took me a few attempts (date and time were separated by space instead of
T at first, I normalized offsets +00:00 to Z as yarnd does and converted newlines back to U+2028). At least now the simple cross check with the Twtxt Feed Validator does not yield any problems.
Besigheim
All the garbage delivered to the municipal building yard
modernc.org/sqlite and can't complain. Works great for me.
Magnolia tree and a tower
Jira just resists to switch to Markdown and forces us to use its silly markup language.
For real typesetting, LaTeX is the way to go. But I very, very rarely do that.
Bloody cool building in the Hirschhorn castleWalking back down the narrow stairs with all the crooked, well-worn steps of different heights and lengths was quite challenging.
https://lyse.isobeef.org/hirschhorn-2025-03-30/
For the easter egg hunt, I first looked for a hidden image map link on the pixel dog in the right lower corner itself. Maybe one giant pixel just links to somewhere else, I figured. But I couldn't find any and then quickly moved on. Hence, I naturally viewed the HTML source. Because where else would be a good hiding place for easter eggs, right?
Next, I noticed the
<font> tags. I thought I had read quite some time ago that they are not an HTML5 thing, but wasn't entirely sure about it. So, I asked the W3C HTML validator. Sure enough. I thought I let you know about the violations. If somebody had found a mistake on my site, I'd love to hear about it, so I could fix it. I'm sorry that my chosen form of report didn't resonate with you all that well. I reckoned you'll also find it a bit funny, but I was clearly very wrong on that.I actually followed the dog cow link to the video, so I ended up on the easter egg. However, I didn't recognize it as such. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Oh well.
Regarding my message about the browser quirks: I read your answer that you were arguing against the HTML validator findings. Of course, everybody can do with their sites whatever they likes._
Entrance to a ski-jumping hill in a rather questionable state
Is there some Makefile shenanigans going on maybe?
$V and $C being swallowed by the Makefile. I fell in that trap again the other day.
I'm actually glad I don't have to deal with all this web shit and work with compilers that hit me in the face when I do something illegal. :-)
Timber framed houses
Bergfried
Stacked logs