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@movq Never heard of this hype before. Now you're hooked?
@mckinley @will I'm a Newsboat user myself for centuries and can totally recommend it.
@movq I just read the revised version, however, I like it. Where did the shitstorm happen? Did your mailbox getting flooded?
I don't like these type hints either, they're just feeling half-arsed and adding so much noise to the code, that they worsen readability in my opinion. Type hints are way too verbose. But maybe I'm just not used to them.
One thing I have to add: The comparison with Java's checked exceptions being part of the method signature only catches one half of it. All the runtime exceptions can still occur and you cannot declare them in a way that they must be caught by the caller. The most famous one being NullPointerException of course. So it's utterly worthless in my mind. You just get the wrong impression of safety. Always expect exceptions being raised.
@off_grid_living When can I move in? I'm only missing the workshop, but that should be something very easy to add. Maybe just repurpose the living room. ;-)
Wow, this is some really, really impressive work you've done there! Bloody amazing, raising my hat to you. How far away is your closest neighbor?
@off_grid_living Hahaahaaaa, this is crazy! Very cool, I love it. :-D I'm glad it works out this smoothly.
The weather is strange at the moment. The sun is out with its 18°C. But you definitely need a jumper with all the wind. If it's calm, the jumper quickly get's a tad too hot. When the wind picks up, it's just perfect until it keeps blowing, then it's very close to too cold even with the jumper. You're happy again if it drops, but then the standing air makes you feel uncomfortable. Humidity seems to be quite high. And then the cycle repeats all over again.
"HAPPY EASTER" written with rocky ink on the ground – yeah, it's a bit late now, or just a wee bit early for next year, depends on your point of view
Visibility was poor, very hazy. Let's hope the forecast rain will hit early, not only next week.
Today I forgot to take a closer look at it when I walked past it. :-( It's takes about a 30 meters detour when climbing up my backyard mountain. Completely missed it.
Meh, ripped a small log and then killed the luminescent tube with the shop vac hose. What a giant mess.
@off_grid_living Wow, that is quite a project. Happy welding and wire mesh cutting! :-)
@tkanos Ah. The crazy thing is, even you are much souther than I am. My dad posed the question on me the other day where I thought New York will be relative to us. And as expected I was completely wrong there.
@movq Thank you very much. These are some very good choices. :-)
I don't understand how that frog ended up there. It's in the middle of the residential area and no water stream around. The next creek is way down the stairs about 30 meters below. I fear some stupid teenagers were involved in this incident. :-(
@tkanos Wow, April Weather™ seems also to be a thing over the pond. Where are you? We had terrific sunshine, they claimed 17°C, but if you were exposed to the wind, it felt much colder.
It took me a wee bit over an hour to cut one of my old jeans legs and sew it into a small sewing bag by hand which I can take on my hikes. Now the question is, should I go with variant 1 or 2? Basically turn it inside out or not? The correct variant (2) looks better in my option, but design-related the lid is a tad wider this way. This looks a bit wonky when the lid is closed. Also it feels like the capacity is decreased a tiny bit (but its probably not true). With the inside out variant all this is not the case, but it doesn't look as nice without the original yellow seam.
Obviously, two press studs will be added once I arrive at a decision. It's an overkill bag featuring two layers of cloth and two to three stitch lines for each seam. Each stich line makes use of a double yarn. I cut off an about 11 cm wide strip of the leg and turned it inside out. Then I simply closed one end of the "loop" and also most of the other side. But not fully, so I could just undo the inside out. It was very tight, but in the end I managed to do so. The last remaining hole was then placed at the middle of the new side seam so that it is closed when fixing the side of the bag in place. I probably need to draw a picture to make this clear:
Steps explained to make the double layered bag
Back to my question, should I go with variant one or two, what do reckon?
Still no idea what kind of tree that is. I will check on it regularly.
@movq Only photographing the sun is harder, I reckon. ;-) The second one turned out very nice. Maybe just wait a bit more for the moon to raise even further, so you don't have the city lighting on the photo (or just crop them away). Of course, with the clear lights in the distance and the moon jumping over the horizon it makes for a nice subject, but the moon is too bright at that time of day now. In any case, a million times better than what I would be able to produce.
The sun was shining, but the 14°C felt much colder with the Eastern wind yesterday. Usually the wind is coming from the west here. So jackets were a must. But the wind direction made for some very rare and cool experience on one of the benches. We couldn't hear the road ~300m beneath us in the distance, even the very, very load motorcycles were hardly audible. Usually the traffic noise isn't very comfortable at this location. But oh boy, this time, it was magnificent.
Bee on flowers of an apple tree
It's looking gorgeous at the moment with all the flowering trees. The meadows are about to turn yellow, the crowfoot makes sure to get some colors out there. It was also quite surprising, that the view was quite good, although it hadn't rained for quite some time now.~
@prologic Oh yeah, very nice bush walk you had yesterday! \\o/ This brings back memories when I was bush walking in Australia. The Eucalyptus bark is super crazy I have to say. I find it quite fascinating. It's just extremely satisfying being out there. How long have you been enjoying all this super cool green? And how's been today's stroll in the woods?
@prologic Oh yeah, very nice bush walk you had yesterday! \o/ This brings back memories when I was bush walking in Australia. The Eucalyptus bark is super crazy I have to say. I find it quite fascinating. It's just extremely satisfying being out there. How long have you been enjoying all this super cool green? And how's been today's stroll in the woods?
@movq Yiha, that's a really great shot, mate! The red sunset lighing conditions are looking truely amazing.
@movq Yes, Atom feeds are vital for me. I even wrote lots of different kind of scrapers, to transform stuff into feeds that don't offer them (anymore).
@off_grid_living Ah, good point with the heat reservoir. I never thought of that.
Thank you, @movq and @ionores! :-) It turns out that this tree is full of eggs, it must be his storage site, I'm sure. These flowers are in front of a graveyard and this time I got them in the sunlight. Previously, when I came by, they were always heavily shaded.
I forgot my camera today, so I have no photos of the extremely colorful sunset. It's a bit of a bummer, because it was way beyond the average nice sunset. On other news, I killed like ten ticks on my tarp in the woods. They're fairly tough, so grinding them between two rocks isn't as easy as one might think. Next time I'll bring a lighter for extra reinsurance.
We met the easter bunny on the way down of our backyard mountain's rat run:
Easter bunny looking out of a tree hole
The 21°C were quite hot and combined with the high humidity made for an exhausting walk. Later, clouds moved in, which helped cooling down a tad. The little bit of wind was heavily appreciated. Crazy, just two weeks back, the wind was best to be avoided.
@movq Thank you, the sunshine made for quite some scenery. Unfortunately, I cannot tell what kind of tree that is. I've never seen these nut balls. From their shape they remind me of hazlenut, however, that's not a hazlenut tree for sure. Will try to do some research.
@movq Tadaaa! Very nice. Backup is always good to have.
@off_grid_living What an endeavor! These are some crazy feet. :-) I have no idea what bathtubs usually weigh, but 300kg sounds like being on the larger end. Good thing that you had some I-beam laying around for a heavy-duty ramp.
@thecanine Oh, didn't know that. But it totally fits, good implementation.
@movq Unbelievable, what a chaos…
@movq It had lunch before, that's why it is this biiig and red. Otherwise, I'm pretty sure, I would not have caught it, but rather the other way around. I would have been attacked by that little bastard instead.
Yup, we have plenty of cabins here. :-)
@off_grid_living Very cool! Do you also need some kind of modification in the front, to better channel the grass under the blade cover lip (or what ever its technical term is). You have to show this mower in action, it reckon it looks pretty cool when such a a small machine tackles about a meter of grass. :-)
@carsten Oh man, how bloody cool is that!? It looks absolutely astonishing! Really, really awesome. \\o/ Never seen this before.
@carsten Oh man, how bloody cool is that!? It looks absolutely astonishing! Really, really awesome. \o/ Never seen this before.
@thecanine The royal dog covered all in gold and purpur. Nicely done.
@prologic Hahaha, so how is this atom model gonna be used?
@tkanos We've done it once in chemistry lessons in school, but it was too long ago, I can't remember anything. It was pretty nice, though. At first I didn't want to use it, because if I eventually use up my own handmade soap, I don't have it anymore. But I think, I saved a small chunk. Not sure, though, where it went.
@movq Oh wow! I never had something this crazy happen to me. In fact, now that I think about it, it is quite a long time ago, that I have been shocked. And now I jinxed it…
I met 7 deers in the forest today. A single one after half an hour, another single one a bit later, yet another single one much later and four in a row at the very end. I also discovered a tick sitting on a blade of grass when I wanted to step aside to get a better view on my backyard mountain. I then pulverized it between two rocks. Enemy neutralized. Mission accomplished.
Tiny tadpoles in the puddle on the forest path
Very good, @movq Well, you're looking at the wrong times. At the moment I can see a tiny blue hole in the white and gray clouds.
@prologic That's a rather nice looking morning fog. :-)
@movq Oh, I see. Glad they noticed it in time, but having a spare pair isn't the worst thing to have. :-) But fear not, the blueish cast is just from the beautiful blue sky! Are you already acclimated? :-)
@prologic Haha, no worries. @justamoment Thank you! Unfortunately, it was a bit far away for my zoom capabilities.
@justamoment Oh yes, no doubt about that. Would do it again. ;-) @movq Yeah, the announced nice Unwetter was delivered. We got the thunderstorm on top for free, though. The kindergarden had conveniently provided a thermometer next to the canopied entrance where we took cover, so we know that it had dropped from around 12°C when we started to just 7°C. The thermometer was actually terribly designed, it was quite hard to read. It took us half a minute to figure out what these weird split up numbers and dashes wanted to tell us. Surprisingly, I wasn't too badly cold, although my boots and pants were soaked. The roofed structure also provided perfect shelter from the wind. We waited until the rain decreased and then went on. We reached home just a few minutes later. Only that last part was a tad chilly on the wet legs with the wind.
I just had an idea for a German test: Which is the "Gelbe Rübe“?
Deutschtest: Welches dieser beiden ist die „Gelbe Rübe“?
@prologic In the middle of 09, but he's very well camouflaged:
Well camouflaged Eurasian Robin
Hahaha, how fucking brilliant was that! We just had the very best adventure hike. All weather situations except for hail. Drizzle, bright sunshine, a tad of wind, still air, storm, rain, lightning and thunder, torrential rain and finally freezing rain. In just two and a half hours only possible in April. At the end we got into heavy downpour just when I wanted to take a photo of a little tadpole in the day before yesterday's spat puddle. In literally under three seconds we were completely soaked. Like 100% wet. We ran to the forest kindergarden a few hundred meters to seek shelter. On the positive side our muddy shoes got thoroughly washed. Now to get get everything dried off again.
Drake in a dirty pond
Yesterday it started storming, in the evening we also got some well needed rain. Nature is really suffering from drought. This continued today with much more rain, so it was very wet everywhere. Quite amazing to see swelling creeks and puddles all over the place. We were surprised to discover a lot of places with standing or flowing water that we've never came across in such a state. Right in the beginning we came across a duck and a drake. They then flew off and returned in a very large circle, but sadly veered away when they noticed that the two umbrella guys were still there. A bit later we saw three drakes in another pond with no females around.
On the outbound trip we didn't run across anybody. Literally zero people. The storm and liquid sunshine must have scared off people. Rightly so, not even 100m across an anjoining woodland we heard a tree falling over from the storm gusts. So then we decided to quickly leave the small spruce tree area we were in at 07.
Right after descending the mountain top a few meters we ran across the first other fearless hiker of the day. Then back at the village four other people were headed for the summit, but it already started to rain. They were too late. But that was it, back to deserted paths. Nice.
@movq Holy shit, what a plot twist! I didn't see that coming. Not at all. Any TV show writer masterminding such a story would have been instantly fired. :-D Congratulations to your new glasses, though! How's the world looking now? So do you have two sets of glasses then?
@prologic Aha, that's also an interesting fact that the "resized" version is actually much bigger in file size than the original one. The compression algorithm seems to do some weird things (or is just not suitable for PNG, I don't know). @carsten Right, thanks for the clarification.
@prologic It's a rather deep rain puddle on the forest foot path (see 05 for reference) that holds a big ball of spawn in the center of the photo. An orange brown leaf lays on top of the spawn and floats on the water surface, that looks quite nice to me. And there's even another, smaller chunk of spawn in that puddle more to the right center edge of the picture.
Bonus point to everybody who spots the robin redbreast in the linked photo gallery somewhere (not in the above image).
@prologic Much faster and bigger than the shell version? SCNR. ]:->
@prologic Adding the full=1 query parameter to image URLs to get the original version that was uploaded.
@justamoment Ah, larger intervals than I expected. However, this has the advantage to actually detect some progress. When seeing them on a daily basis or something like that, the differences are hard to spot and everything just looks the same.
@mutefall Hehe! ;-) Well, a lot of younger people can speak English. Not so much the retired ones. Not sure but I think nowadays they teach English in elementary school or even kindergarden. In the technical industry, especially IT, lots of suits replace every second word with an English one. It sounds awful and often doesn't make any sense.
@tkanos Sehr gut!
In the forest there was a lovely flavor of freshly cut timber. Pretty awesome! With temperatures in the double figures again I even didn't need a scarf or beanie. This also brought others to the scene. I found four ticks crawling up my leg. Next time I need to bring two rocks and a lighter with me to kill these little bastards. Of course there are no hard things around you when you need them. It's the rule.
Also came across another puddle with spawn. They're not gonna make it either. Not a chance. At all.
Frog or toad spawn in a puddle
@movq Absolutely, realizing one's own progress is very crucial. The mind boggles when seeing even tiny steps being made. You can trigger big motivation loops.
@novaburst @movq @tkanos Oh dear, what a great cartoon, I haven't seen it before. If browsers weren't so terrible. It only got worse.
@movq Thank you! Haha, it sounds like fun at least for now. We'll see how much frustration I will encounter. Haven't found any research time yet. Regarding the mention, I guess so, too. What a shame, it was such a great pun! :-D But I reckon you just saved it. :-)
@justamoment Awesome, thank you! How often do you visit them?
@mutefall Bwahahahahaaaaa, nice! :-D So the only real use case for latin is to troll business administration dudes. Over here in Germany they're all still bullshitting with English terms.
@novaburst I know, but it is (or now used to be?) a yarnd thing. At least it worked on most twtxt.net uploads for some time.
The seven degrees science felt like sub-zero whenever I was exposed to the strong west wind. Holy smokes, it was incredibly cold. Nevertheless, I braved the harsh conditions for two and a half hours. Again, people minded the weather, so I had the views all for myself. Only encountered a larger group of ~10 people at the mountain top restaurant, but they minded their own business. Kind of looked like a company celebration, I don't know.
Zonen-Gaby's second banana
Now for the final quizz, what can you see in the last picture?~
@prologic Ta! Yes, please do so, I'm always enjoying the Australian flora and fauna. :-)
@justamoment Yeah, that's super awesome to see them growing. I'm happy to watch some follow-up pictures or videos from the present. ;-)
@off_grid_living I will try for sure and start with some research on wood selection this week. :-)
@carsten @novaburst Yes, at first I just recalled the for loop one liners from my shell history every time. But then it quickly got annoying. So I decided to cast it into a script. Over the years I wrote several shell scripts for image galleries. Maybe like 10-20 scripts if I had to guess. Each tasked to a different kind of use case. gal is the most recent edition. It even works for other types of galleries. If it continues to grow with all the templating I probably will rewrite it in Python. Let's see what time will bring.
@movq Cool, I wasn't really aware of the aiming thing. Very interesting. I only shot selfmade bows and arrows when I was a kid. Obviously, they all didn't shoot super great, because I knew nothing about properly building bows, so my freshly cut and thus wet hazlenut rods didn't hold the tension for long. Also finding straightly grow, thin but still rigid and long enough arrow twigs was rather difficult. Now I know lots of good places to harvest this material in the forest, but back in the days I wasn't into forest exploration.
In one country hostel in school they had an East Frisians Olympics with tea bag long throw and such silly games. But there was also some bow and arrow station. The distance must have been something like 10 meters I reckon, maybe less, certainly not more than that. I easily scored first or second place because I somehow managed to hit the target quite accurately. Most others didn't even hit the straw bale, a lot of my classmates missed it by a lot. I was super astonished and couldn't really believe my marksmanship, even couldn't explain the slightest what I was doing. Others wanted to know how I did that, but it was impossible for me to give them any tips. I had no other training than my shitty selfmade bows several years ago. But even that I wouldn't consider training. Of course, they didn't believe me. In retrospect I guess I just had it in the guts. ;-)
But now I'm a bit hooked again. :-D This year I will try to make a bow and do some research on what to look out for. I remember seeing a video several years ago where somebody was also making a bow. Carving it from a bigger piece of wood and shaping it in different ways. I can't remember the details but it was several things to pay close attention to. I remember it to be quite hard. Well, that's gonna be interesting. I will expect several failures along the way, so calibrating my mindset. Will keep you guys posted with the progress. Well, I first need to start obviously.
Maybe our @proarcher has some insights to share on that matter? :-)
@carsten These are some nice water birds. The first one looks like the duck is going to attack you. But with the second shot it appears it own dried off its wings. Very nice. Next time you may well upload higher resolution photos. :-) Unfortunately, the ?full=1 trick doesn't work.
@justamoment How adorable! They're very, very cute, I'm loving it. And there they go.
Been out in the cold for three and half hours. But it was totally worth it, came home with nearly 500 photos. I thinned them down to just 40. Even when the sun came out the ~5°C felt chilly with the steady wind when we left. Luckily it didn't blew too hard, though. On the positive side, we nearly didn't run into other folks, people seemed to really mind the low temperatures, so we had all the pretty nature for all ourselves. We came across several really long and pretty iceicles. It was proabably the last time this year to see them. Except for maybe tomorrow. This night we'll get -7°C. Hurray. Then by Wednesday we're supposed hit 15°C at daytime again. The thermometer is in a good rollercoaster ride.
New shoots protected by a think ice armor, or so one can sugarcoat~
I won't tell any news here, but hiking and woodworking are the two main non-IT things I enjoy in my sparetime at the moment.
@screem Whoops, I somehow misread it completely. Have a good start to work!
@thecanine Thank you very much mate, I'm glad you like it. :-) It took me a lot of time to modify it in GIMP. Didn't think that the rocket thrust flame thingy turns out that nicely as it actually did. Luck of the stupid, definitely not skill.
@thecanine Just a harmless backpack on a hiking dog? Well, that's exactly what secret agent Doggo wants you to believe, so his cover istn't blown, you know. But in fact he's a real sly dog! Have a look at this rare picture:
Secret agent Doggo on a secret mission flying with his jetpack to the next site of operation
@darch Hahaha, they totally got me! :-D What a stupid invention, that April Fool's Day.
But now it's April, @will. :-)
Frozen leaves
I got a bit wet today even with an umbrella. The wind changed its directions quite a lot, so the sleet came straight at us at a flat angle. Also we encountered a lot of smashed toads, even though that road doesn't see a ton of traffic. Saw like 20 bursted corpses in just a couple of meters. Sad. :-(
Wow, one day in a month. Sounds like the typical simulation of action (haven't read the article, though). But well, better than nothing I reckon.
@screem It looks rather blue to me.
@thecanine What a secret service agent! :-) How fast is he with his jetpack?
@carsten Very nice! Looks rather great. Still rain at our place. But snow in April is nothing unheard of down here. So at least to me not surprising at all. Get your sleigh ready!
@tkanos Past tense because everything successfully killed him?
@carsten We're supposed to have snow tomorrow evening and at least on Saturday. Der April macht was er will.
Very nice, that's cool! I have to check it out now.
@prologic Ta! Both the HTML pages and Atom feed are generated with a simple shell script, gal and the associated nature plugin gal.natur.sh. To resize the photos I have written the galres shell script.
@movq Absolutely right, that's exactly what we do, too. At least here in that project I'm involved in. We're having over a thousand employees, so I don't consider us a small company. We're looking at what the person has done before and then figure if that would somehow match what we're looking for. Since we're having all sorts of different projects we might also tell other projects to look at the candiate if we believe there's a better skill fit somewhere else. Actually having a look at their code and commits is usually only possible for hobby projects. Alternatively they might be tasked with a small programming exercise and then we also go over their result with them in the interviews. No certificate will ever reveal how they work or approach a problem. But I don't get to see all the applications, only the filtered candidates for our project, so I don't know how the first filter(s) work they had to overcome. However, from what I've seen it appears to me, that education and certificates are no dealbreakers at all.
Two small great tits on a conifer
Looks like nuts