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7°C, very sunny, no wind. We went up the local mountain again. The bridge finally got a real railing. Presumably already someday last week. They even made a rather nice parking lot, that is very, very rarely used. The timber borders around the spots are actually way too good in my opinion. They would make for some rather pretty boards.
Frozen puddle in the tractor tracks of a forest road
We explored some new paths we've never been on before. The buzzard was gigantic and had a wingspan of close to two meters I reckon. Unfortunately, the photo is blurry like hell, the camera didn't boot fast enough. :-( Anyways, 15 other pics are waiting for you.
@mutefall Thank you! Yes, it was quite relaxing indeed. Taking a bath in the forest is always very nice. I usually forget everything else.
Today the 10°C warm sun was out and I was caught inside debugging some shit with my workmates. Finally managed to escape into the woods for a few minutes.
Sunset behind the trees
I also visited the dream villa with the underground elevator from a few days back. It's still available for sale.
@movq It's a nice and small network with a lot of different same routes. Looks alright to me. :-D Reminds me of a bomb, zeppelin or cross section of a wing.
@prologic No, careful choice in the twtxt reference implementation. More of a poor design choice of tt rendering the cache.
@prologic Because the Russian domains are the problem! It's like the Federal Ministry of Education and Research's order to stop all cooperation with Russian scientists. In case somebody asks what they're actually doing.
Oh crap. I just noticed that when a twtxt feed does not contain a Last-Modified HTTP response header the twts will not be cached. Thus, tt does not show them. I should really get after my rewrite.
@david Yeah, let's go with the frog concert on the lake next door. @kt84 and @prologic enjoyed it laying on their comfy lily pad. That makes for a much better story to tell the grandkids one day.
Tada, 100 points go to @movq! :-)
@movq Ah, neat! Yeah, imagery was never my cup of tea. I have to say I like the small date labels. They tremendously help me orienting. With their small size they're just perfect, they don't take up too much valuable picture space. Good choice.
Cool, @prologic, very cool! <3 These feet look out of proportion, indeed. What the hell did you do to this guy, @movq? That cannot be real. Or are the chicks hiding in the feathers? @thecanine, hahaha! :-D
@prologic Ah, I should have read on. Ibis, right. Very iconic! It doesn't seem to be shy.
@prologic Oh this is nice! And not only the turtles, but also the birds! What's that guy with the long beak?
Quickly went out after work. The 7°C without wind felt quite alright. Unfortunatly I came by two fields that got treated with manure. That smell was really disgusting. I still have it in my nose. Yuck!
Social tree supporting its buddy
Who spots the metal birds?
@prologic Good morning, the early bird catches the worm! Are we supposed to hear or see something in this video? Because I don't.
@prologic Don't go faster than 70 with your jetski!
@movq Waahhh, luckily I've never seen this horror movie. I will explore the elevator evidence next time.
@movq Cool, thanks for taking the time to analyze autumn! Hmm, I try to recall how the leaves behaved here in my area, but I fail at that. It feels like 2-3 weeks is not enough, but I'm probably wrong because I went out so often this year, so that warps my memories. If I think of months rather than weeks, then I reckon, that it must be less than a month. I could look at my photos, but not today anymore.
Very interesting, I thought that muuuuuuuuch more time had to be invested in this project. I'm super surprised. And then just two hours for the Rust program, that's incredibly rapid like a rocket. Hats off!
The quality is perfectly alright. No need to upgrade. But I wouldn't mind a higher resolution video either. ;-)
@movq Oh yeah, I was actually asking myself yesterday in the forest when your project will be presented. Very good timing! :-) This is really cool. I didn't notice the moving of the camera, but suddenly all leaves were gone. I had to rewatch it again and it still was quite abrupt. Interesting, I thought it would be more gradual. How much time did you spend on this project? I'm already looking forward to next year's video. :-)
@david Neither the hunters nor the animals have left this area. When I was taking pictures of that deerstand I heard some rusteling behind me and saw a deer running away. I would have picked 01 if I didn't open with the housing story. That first photo shows catkins. Not completely sure, but probably from the willow. At least we always call them that way ("Weidenkätzchen").
@off_grid_living To me it looks like the trailer isn't sitting level. On the photo the front appears to be lower than the rear. I assume the drums are all empty, so the weight is evenly distributed across the trailer. I therefore conclude that either the tow hitch is too close to the road for that trailer or the drawbar is too high for the hitch. Or it is all just an optical illusion.
@ullarah Oh no! Looks like the road is about to rip in two. Hope you're doing alright and don't suffer any water damage.
Discovered a few used but new to me real estates in the woods. They could be used if you need some change when working from the wood office.
Lightly used, rustic timber cabin in idyllic location in the middle of the forest looking for new owners who want to make their own ideas come true
Not sure what kind of structure 15 is. It is about 1.5 meters tall and even insulated with styrofoam, that had already been halfway disintegrated. The whole thing is divided into two compartments with a panel that goes diagonally right through the middle from the bottom front to the rear top. At the front it kinda looked like some kind of live trap with that weird lowering door, but not really. The bottom half of the back is a huge swing door, that is stuck halfway open. Maybe some alien test lab.
I don't understand the hunter's thought process when upgrading the high seat in 22. "Hey, I just screw the ladder high enough right over the door and then cut out its contour. I don't like my new shiny door panel anyways. Let me customize it so it doesn't look like anybody else's door." Very weird. See here what I am talking about.
@off_grid_living Cool rig! It appears to me there's quite some tongue weight or more likely, the tow hitch is mounted not high enough. Bon voyage!
@prologic Oh yeah, very nice! This reminds me of our small jumping friends last year in spring and summer.
@david Yup, today morning the mountain top was covered in a white blanket. The ~6°C over the day mostly got rid of it, only a hand full of small spots remained. We lost our bet from last week where neither of us thought that we will see snow again this year. At least not until maybe April. The wind up top was quite heavy and fricking icy. I actually couldn't feel my fingers anymore when I wanted to push the trigger for some lovely views.
This now reminds me, I have to search for photographer gloves. Not sure, whether that's a real thing. But with my thermo gloves I cannot feel and hit the button, they're too thick and clunky.~
@prologic @david @carsten Apropos rounding. This is very good timing on XKCD's side and as a bonus I really like that one: https://xkcd.com/2585/
I've developed a novel propulsion system powered by loss of precision in unit conversion.
@off_grid_living @prologic Ah, I see, thanks! Yep, that sounds like a really cool system. And probably the very best thing is that you don't have to bend over. At least that's what I would see as the main reason to replicate it (but I'm not so much of a self grower (yet?)).
We got sandblasted with sleet today, it really hurt in the face. But it was a pretty nice walk. Nature made for spectacular scenery.
Sunbeams through the clouds causing the wet roads to glow
Enjoy!
@off_grid_living Cool. 200 liter drums are quite substantial. So you then will cut them vertically down the middle to have two half trays then? Rest assured, a basement is an absolutely awesome thing to have. Makes for perfect mid- or long-term food storage. The only downside is when you get older, you have to walk up and down the stairs, too.
@david @prologic Ta! Oh yeah, the dunes are much more colorful, very nice. I like this photo. It offers quite a lot of contrast. The tree doesn't look too dead to me. Just like a regular, living tree or bush.
@prologic You're welcome. I need to research how killfiles are usually implemented and what different kinds of syntax there is out there. To sand off tiny corners and build even rounder bubbles.
@david Wow, not bad! So if you factor in everything (initial cost, repairs, taxes, etc.), are you still cheaper?
First, this blind man speeds a car in rainy weather with a steering wheel mounted on the wrong side on even the wrong side of the road and causes a long traffic jam on the other lane. And now @prologic sinks a ship! Well done.
Yeah, these kind of structures look fascinating. Watch out when putting in an inflatable dinghy, though.
@david Thanks! Yup, that will last a few minutes, that's for sure. I was wondering whether I should also reinforce all the butt joints with skewers as dowels, because simple butt joints aren't the most rigid ones. I didn't make any rabbets that would provide more glue surface. Let's see when the box breaks. I can always reglue and dowel it later on.
Just as I did with one of my tool cabinet drawers. When pulling it open once, the front fell off. After reglueing I inserted a few dowels. Being made out of OSB sheets the dowels aren't even visible, they camouflage perfectly fine with all the strands.
I better don't follow him, I don't want to end nailed onto a solid timber cross.
And you just spend nice bucks, @david? Do I interpret this correctly!? O_o
And you just spent nine bucks, @david? Do I interpret this correctly!? O_o
I just scewed it onto the door (sorry for the bad lighting at the moment):
Wooden box on the kitchen sink cabinet door holding old toothbrushs and a wirebrush
Picture 01 in the gallery also shows the equally sized sister board which was used to make this box out of it. The two smaller boards are leftovers from that project. I will make another, taller box for the sink cabinet door in the near future with the remaining pieces. And then probably also plane the inside before assembling. The trapezoidal side pieces worked out nicely. The box is 24 cm long on the outside and 14 cm deep. The front is 5 cm, the back 6 cm tall. With 1 cm the boards are rather thick, but I didn't want to handplane them thinner because that would have been quite some effort.
@novaburst At least make dev works completely fine here on Debian 11 (bullseye) with Go 1.16.5.
That's a super interesting reconstruction of a norse mill in Austria. In contrast to the last German crafts video this one also has English subtitles. The only thing I wished is that they showed more details of the operating mill at the end. Anyways, now I want to build one myself. Just need a lot of timber and a property with a creek.
@thecanine Sounds like you had good fun, though. That's what truely counts. :-) Well, fun at least until the tram broke down.
I was just about to mute this conversation and then I stumbled across man hier. Very nice, I did not know about this manual page. That's pretty cool. Thanks, @adi!
The timezone is off by one, but other than that, it's now all twos (and zeros).
You know, it only counts when you take the photo at 22 seconds and 222 milliseconds, @thecanine!
@david Yes, not in this building but I was thinking maybe in some other structure. But yeah, you're probably right. Didn't think of the rain. You would have to concrete it.
@movq Finally, the command was successfully executed.
@off_grid_living Not bad, not bad. This provides quite some storage for every day use items. Do you have a basement somewhere?
@movq Oh, nice! I actually wasn't aware of that.
@david @movq Maybe she participated in a wet toga contest.
@david Alright, sounds good. I can live with that. I probably just need to raise the taxes for my subjects so that I can keep my new home maintained.
@david Will take one when it's aired out in hopefully a few days. I bet the wind is speeding that process up.
@david What's the address? I need to move!
@david The amphora is turned upside down and the rock hole pattern isn't the same on the girl as it is on the background.
@movq So the message on IRC was actually meant to go to the shell and read: while true; do stormctl increase windspeed +10; sleep 1m; done
The new wooden box for the kitchen sink cabinet door is now finished and oiled and dries in the wind outside.
@movq Thanks, yes! You are right. I was wondering whether I should rotate it, but I thought, that it's level enough, since the cliff on the left will obscure the references for vertical and horizontal lines and thus hide it anyways. But I was clearly wrong. Will try to be more careful in the future. :-)
Unfortunately, my camera lacks such a level indicator. But I truely wish it had one. Maybe I have to mount a small spirit level on top of it.
@movq Very nice! Especially the last one is really great looking.
I'm also in the confused camp. The big eyes remind of of an owl. But the cheeks look like the mouths of a double-headed creature. The red lines next to the eyes could represent some crack lines of the about to be exploding eyes. However, they probably belong to the red cheekies. So what is it? I assume it's supposed to represent some kind of dog because of the artist's background. But I'm not proficient in doggies. Please tell me, @thecanine!
I like owls and squirrels (although I can't see a squirrel in this one) by the way. So if you want to explore pixel owls and/or squirrels, rest assured that you'll have a huuuge fan already. :-)
@prologic Thanks, yes, I featured that mountain range a loooot of times now. :-) Like most other pictures, too. ;-)
@david Ta! Yeah, standing at the cliff edge earlier on was quite brutal. Luckily, with the headwind the chances of getting thrown off were pretty much non-existent. I also tried to duck down, to reduce my windage, but no luck, the gusts still shook me like crazy.
And now the locks are openend and the the wind is howling similarly to @movq's recording. Predicted v_max was raised to even 78km/h (probably still laughable to our Northern friends). Oh yeah. Cool. :-)
I was writing tests when I looked at my watch and saw: half past two. Okay, let's quickly get them finished. The next time I had a look at the clock it read 14:50. They were far from finished. A quick "TODO" put into the code for Monday to see where to continue, pushing a WIP commit to prevent data loss, submitting the time tracking and off I went to lace my boots in order to meet my mate who was already waiting a minute for me.
Today was 14°C, the jacket mainly open, scarf moved from around the neck into the pocket right after five minutes. I carried my beanie and gloves just in case, however, they remained in the pockets. When we started it was a bit windy, maybe 30km/h gusts. We reached the summit of our backyard mountain after about 55 minutes, which is on the quicker side, especially since we didn't take the most direct route possible. That also meant we successfully missed the ear-shattering ringing of the curch bells at the top-most part of the village. The couple last times we weren't that lucky and got hit by their deafening sound.
The higher we went, the more stormy it got. With the heavy gusts (I reckon at least 50km/h) it was nearly impossible to take any photos. I just got shaken around. But it was very cool, though. Just not to take pictures. I love wind.
Beams of sunlight breaking through the clouds at the horizon
Nearly nobody else was out, so we had all the lovely storm for ourselves. We also noticed, that they put up new signs at the summits. It's now getting a bit overcrowded with signs since they also don't remove the old ones. They just add new ones. Mostly same the same. Seven more pictures.
@movq Holy shit, this is crazy! The last two days were quite calm here. But now the wind speed is picking up again. Still, nothing compared to your area.
@david Interesting comparison of how much the average worker had to work to pay for an hour of 100W bulb equivalent of light through the times: The Cost of Light Through the Ages Spoiler: The Babylonians 1750 B.C. had to work 400 hours, we know have to work less than a second, so basically it's free.
@movq Ah, thanks, I need to check them out. Yeah, I see a changelog more as a carefully curated list of changes that are important to the users. The git log is usually too verbose. So from your description that matches the _NEWS_ file. I just find the name _NEWS_ a bit misleading. From my perspective _CHANGELOG_ or _CHANGES_ is more aptly named. But I haven't had a look at these discussions yet. And maybe it's just my ancient (mis)understanding.
@david @movq Ta! No, that flower doesn't have any smell. At least not a strong one that I would have picked up. It's just looking nice with its white bell. The German name "Schneeglöckchen" literally translates to "little snow bells". I was too lazy to clean up the leaves. But it shows you the cruelty of nature. ;-)
The Unwetterzentrale is already showing yellow here today (as in most places). Let's hope it's not going to get violet at our places. This town here has a pretty good location and often gets spared from the very bad weather. Surrounding towns and villages are often more impacted, I noticed. Knock on wood. Damn, now I jinxed it.
"I don't test very often, but when I do, it's in production!" That makeshift is good enough and also much cheaper. Until is blows up. Just like with prototypes, they never get replaced and done properly. Actually, I experienced it a single time, that a prototype was actually thrown away and redone with all the lessons learned. Couldn't believe it.
Spring has arrived as you can see by the snowdrops. Weather was very cloudy and a bit rainy today, but we luckily had already made an appointment for a forest stroll today. So I saw a faint rainbow. The 7°C were quite nice. It's wet everywhere, so my boots are again muddy.
Snowdrops at a locked-off path in the forest
The rest of today's gallery is just lots of clouds. By the way, if you're wondering, the reconstructed bridge I showed you last year still lacks the final railing. Nothing is as permanent as a temporary solution. The construction site barriers are still clamped on.
Very good choices, @ionores. The moon is actually in 9, 11 and 17, so which one are you referring to? :-)
@movq Yes, that seems to be true from stories I heard in my circle of acquaintances. But it often is enough to just look at non-IT companies in general. Two years into the pandemic and partially still no sign of VPNs and working from home. And these are not like only 5 people businesses, no. I'm so glad, that I'm so super-blessed.
@ullarah It certainly made me giggle. ;-)
@david Ta! There are plenty of scenic, windy motorcycle roads around here. And the cops know them, too. Not sure how often they patrol them, but I imagine it's a couple of times a week. :-)
@david @prologic Hahaha, laughing at both of your twts! :-D Classic story, starved in front of a closed food container.
@movq Personally, I'm a big semver proponent, because it's quite simple to see whether stuff is about to break or not. It might not be perfectly true every time, no doubt about that, but usually it works out rather nicely in my experience. That's not the case with date-based versioning or even "code names". I think, that's just silly – but to each his own! (I think I once tried date-based versioning in my life, but can't really remember exactly.) I very, very, very rarely want to know when something was released. But rather whether it is likely that a certain update breaks something. So if I do some versioning (and I also think, that nobody really uses my stuff anyways) I choose semver. I think I have some software, that I don't version. Probably just because I'm too lazy.
Having said that, I'm not sure if I would change from date-based to semantic versioning. Another think coming to mind: Starting semver with a major version of 2022 or 22 (so that the new versioning scheme doesn't start lower than the old scheme) looks rather weird to me. I don't write browsers. ;-)
But you stroke a nerve. I should write changelogs. Because currently I don't. Which changelog standard to you use?
So I think I'm not very helpful here. Sorry. :-(
@movq Oh yeah, what a sunrise. Holy moly! I missed it this morning, too. By a lot more than you did. But that photo is rather beautiful! Only the high rise is a fly in the ointment, but what can you do? I don't mind the wind turbines on the other hand, they're certainly pretty in my opinion.
@off_grid_living Ah, very good. No more rain in the kitchen. Wrestling that into place just by yourself sounds like great fun. Oh dear. Glad you managed it. Can't tell from the photos, but I don't see any major dents or scratches. So you can call that a success. :-)
@david @prologic @movq Thank you, mates! 21 was taken with the landscape program, 22 with the dawn/dusk program. That's why it's so violet. It wasn't snowing all the time, but if you look closely at 30, you will be able to tell the herizontal snow in the strong wind. The sun pretty much fools everybody at this time of the year. 8-11 and 23-26 are my favorites.
My feet hurt after our 20 km hike. Weather was really beautiful, 10-12°C and sunshine, no clouds. I could even walk in t-shirt and jumper. No jacket needed. Only when stopping for a late lunch at 15:00 at the summit it got pretty cold when seated.
Green fields surrounding a farm
On the way back we saw two motorbikers riding the mountain road up and down at least twice. Uphill they both did a wheelie each time. I managed to capture that in 15. Unfortunately, the shot would have been much cooler if I were quicker, just like with the cyclist in front of Mt. Hohenstaufen. With the setting sun in the background their dangerous stunts looked much nicer in that scenery. Quite a stupid move, but at least they waited that no other traffic was around when they pulled up their machines.
Another motorcycle rider with someone on the back coming from a different direction nearly crashed into a car when taking a turn on the exact same junction the two wheelie guys had turned around. Luckily, both the car and rider came to a safe stop and nothing happened. The rider who had widely turned right and came onto the left lane then passed the standing car on the wrong lane. It's a dangerous and windy road loved by motorbikers.
More photos.
Every now and then the sun peaked through the clouds and made for a rather nice scenery. Climbing into the the village before heading up to the summit I entered a snow flurry. On the way back it was snowing a lot more, however, it didn't remain on the ground.
Sun lighting up the forest in front of dark clouds
The view was very good. Even the Stuttgart TV Tower about 20 km away could be seen in the distance (13). You can imagine the wind was fricking icy at the top. I believe I missed the very red sunset behind another hill when I took a downwind detour. On the positive side I warmed up quickly again. Cheers with a mug of fresh milk I got on return at the dairy farm!
@ullarah Oh, what a pretty day, indeed! These shots and descriptions remind me of wonderful holidays. Over here the sun's out but the 5°C are feeling much, much colder. Hope you had a nice picknick.
@prologic Lovely! At close examination one can even see bits of the second one above. Did you reach the gold pots at the ends?
@david Oh no! What a terrible day. However, everything considered, the photo shooting turned out much better than one would have imagined under those circumstances. Could the the common thief be identified in the end? If not, maybe the @yarn_police could jump in and offer some investigation support. These detectives have a huge track record and are known for their relentless pursuits.
@prologic Yup, I managed to make an older version of lextwt available to Python as a shared library using cgo. I should update the binding to the current lextwt version, a few things have changed in the meantime. Unfortunately, that briged lextwt is not being used at the moment, tt currently still uses my own Python parser.
Colorful clouds