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Off I went shortly after 6:45 in the morning to view sunrise from Mt. Hohenstaufen. Half an hour in on the trip and I had to strip my jacket, we're supposed to reach 25°C today. Prepared with a bag in my backpack, I pouched the rest of the quinces. The colors in the sky were quite nice, but didn't compare to yesterday's sunrise with all the Saharian dust. It's really nice to see everything lit differently in the morning. Usually I go in the afternoon or evening.
Sunrise
I reckon the view makes up for a good excuse not to attend today's yarn call. :-)
@prologic Ta! Yeah, this tree was glowing very yellow, but when I came closer to get a better camera angle, clouds moved in, too. :-/
@prologic Funny instrument. That's not French, although I don't speak Spanish, I bet it is Spanish.
Went up our local mountain yesterday afternoon at partially sunny and cloudy, but warm nonetheless weather. I guess we had a pole shift recently and are now in fact in the Southern hemisphere, hence approaching summer temperatures at end of October again.
On the way in we saw a crate of quinces in front of a garden with an off-the-shelf sign. So when we went home, we grabed four each. Our hands were quite sore after 45 minutes carrying these large fruits. We didn't bring any backpags or the like. Shortly before reaching our homes we came by a dog poo bag dispenser at the woodland margin, so we repacked. Good inventions!
Very crooked branch
@carsten @movq I thought about splitting feeds. The main feed would remain English only from then on. A new feed is reserved for German content. That way most people can subscribe to only the English one and won't be bothered with German gibberish. And even in yarnd's "show me everything there is out there" model, people could mute the German stuff easily. At least I would unsubscribe from feeds if the content, that I don't understand, grows significantly.
@carsten @movq Jau, da hat Holgi recht. :-) Bitte lasst uns den Sommerzeitunfug ein für alle mal beerdigen!
@carsten Apfelringe sind hier ganz beliebt.
@movq Very interesting, thanks for sharing!
Welcome back, @carsten. I don't know of any other German speaking twtxt feed authors besides you and @movq. @stigatle is Norwegian, so I'm not sure if he speaks German.
@movq I thought about remotes, but my consumer entry model doesn't have one. And I'm not into cobbling something together myself in that field. Oh no, even mirror movements mess it up, darn. /o\\ That's crazy.
@movq I thought about remotes, but my consumer entry model doesn't have one. And I'm not into cobbling something together myself in that field. Oh no, even mirror movements mess it up, darn. /o\ That's crazy.
@tkanos Yes, indeed. I just open XKCD articles in the webbrowser using the default keybinding o. Far from optimal, but what can you do? There are possibilities to somehow™ render images in some terminals, but I forgot how that is called and it didn't seem to be straight forward when I looked at it. And then teaching that to Newsboat via a macro is probably a whole other story in itself.
@mckinley Some of them are obligatory of course. :-D
Enjoy the repetition! Today's autumn hike was really nice in 20°C t-shirt weather. After the sun had set I was happy to wear my jacket. A few meters ahead of me a child fell off a horse, I just heard a whack on the ground when I was taking a photo to the side. The sunset was extremely colorful and also much longer than usual.
Autumn leaves illuminated by the sun
@movq Bwahaahaaahaaaa, brilliant! :-D
First of all, I was debating whether to take part in this yarn or not. But, here we are. ;-) Second, I never used Gopher and I don't have any feelings about it, neither positive nor negative ones. I basically just acknowlege its existence. :-) And finally, except for @prologic I don't know anybody else in this mailing list discussion, met them all for the first time today.
I just read the whole mail thread and the replies didn't feel unfriendly to me at all. I wouldn't categorize them as *very* friendly either, but as just alright, maybe even decently friendly. Most of them are strict to the point, they simply don't need and want TLS in Gopher. Fair enough. The rant was introduced as such, so I just took it with a grain of salt. Checked it off as strong opinion that I don't share, okay. The one person who wrote everything in lowercase and basically in one big blob attracted my negative atten
First of all, I was debating whether to take part in this yarn or not. But, here we are. ;-) Second, I never used Gopher and I don't have any feelings about it, neither positive nor negative ones. I basically just acknowlege its existence. :-) And finally, except for @prologic I don't know anybody else in this mailing list discussion, met them all for the first time today.
I just read the whole mail thread and the replies didn't feel unfriendly to me at all. I wouldn't categorize them as *very* friendly either, but as just alright, maybe even decently friendly. Most of them are strict to the point, they simply don't need and want TLS in Gopher. Fair enough. The rant was introduced as such, so I just took it with a grain of salt. Checked it off as strong opinion that I don't share, okay. The one person who wrote everything in lowercase and basically in one big blob attracted my negative attention because of form. I actually first thought, this was a spam message. Unreadable to me.
Now what does that tell us? English is obviously not my mother tongue (that's probably the issue). Are Germans, @movq and myself, cold and don't have a lot of emotion? ;-) I mean, I can understand your points a little bit, @abucci, but while reading the responses I didn't feel the same, not even close. Of course, I don't want to deny you your feelings and how it came across for you. :-) The only goal is to offer some other perspective.
What I want to say, @prologic, don't take it personally. Most of them probably did not want to piss you off. I really don't see bad intentions. Don't take offense, I'm fully with @movq here, strong opinions with English as a second language had caused some unnecessary and unwanted trouble once again.
@movq Really awesome writeup, thank you so much! Wow, that's quite a large lense. ;-)
Yes, I fully understand the issue with the tripod lock. I know that too well from my own tripod. I luckily don't have a ball joint, so the backlash is only reduced to one axis, but still. It is a lightweight tripod, that doesn't help rigidity at all. When zooming (and that's when the tripod will be used most often), it's prone to shaking around fairly easy, compared to a heavy duty professional tripod. Even pushing the trigger button at full zoom can cause the field of view to shift a wee bit. I often thought, that some fine adjustment screws would be really cool to have. Conceptually a little bit like an X Y table on a milling machine or (compound) tool carriage on a lathe.
Ah okay, so you were quite lucky in the end with the viewing conditions. :-) The weather forecast also initially reported clouds for my location, but in the end, there weren't any.
@movq Aawwwwwwwwwww, how cool is that!? \\o/ Fucking awesome! Thank you very much! <3
Oh, the moon just clipped the left upper corner. I was under the impression that it would have moved from right to left in the upper half. Very surprising to me. See, I know nothing about celestial mechanics. If not for your own joy (not a single doubt about that), all your effort was totally worth teaching me something new. ;-)
Hahaha, a floppy disk, this is brilliant! I love it. Now that brings me to your setup. I'm super interested on how you did it this time. Did you have some kind of filter or just "played around" with the camera settings? Not sure if that would fry the sensor. Did you set up a tridpod? In what intervals did you take the photos? Intervals differ I reckon, they don't seem to be equidistant. At least in the beginning the time passed between takes appears to be longer than later on. Was this some calibration phase? Couldn't find any EXIF data (I usually never look at them, but this time I really tried). :-) This covers the whole two hours I imagine? Or was it actually shorter?
Are the textures on the sun caused by clouds or are these just some (experimental?) filter artifacts?
Super fascinating! Like all good science, it causes tons of new questions. Thanks again for sharing all that, mate!
@movq Aawwwwwwwwwww, how cool is that!? \o/ Fucking awesome! Thank you very much! <3
Oh, the moon just clipped the left upper corner. I was under the impression that it would have moved from right to left in the upper half. Very surprising to me. See, I know nothing about celestial mechanics. If not for your own joy (not a single doubt about that), all your effort was totally worth teaching me something new. ;-)
Hahaha, a floppy disk, this is brilliant! I love it. Now that brings me to your setup. I'm super interested on how you did it this time. Did you have some kind of filter or just "played around" with the camera settings? Not sure if that would fry the sensor. Did you set up a tridpod? In what intervals did you take the photos? Intervals differ I reckon, they don't seem to be equidistant. At least in the beginning the time passed between takes appears to be longer than later on. Was this some calibration phase? Couldn't find any EXIF data (I usually never look at them, but this time I really tried). :-) This covers the whole two hours I imagine? Or was it actually shorter?
Are the textures on the sun caused by clouds or are these just some (experimental?) filter artifacts?
Super fascinating! Like all good science, it causes tons of new questions. Thanks again for sharing all that, mate!
@movq I actually found my 1999 solar elipse glasses! However, I unfortunately trusted the UTC column "25. Okt, 11:00:16" and local time "25. Okt, 13:00:16" for Maximum Eclipse on that page and it turned out to be off by two hours. About 20 minutes to 1pm I had a first look and thought, hmm, weird. That small black thing in the upper left "corner" is 22%? About ten minutes later it looked even smaller, but I thought: okay, that's maybe some optical illusion or I just remembered wrongly. At 13:10 I thought, damn, I missed the maximum 10 minutes ago and quickly looked again. But there was hardly anything left. Damn. Weather was just perfect. Rain in the night, bright sunshine, not a single cloud. Perfect viewing conditions. And I bloody was too late. I could kick myself.
So I'm really looking forward to your documentation! :-)
@mckinley Completely forgot, I of course can't live without Ctrl+A and Ctrl+X to in-/decrement the last number of the URL. Super useful for photo galleries like mine. And yy to copy the URL into the clipboard.
@movq Yeah, those terrorists of web developers making use of these keystrokes and browser manufacturers allowing websites to override these shortcuts in the first place have to be shot, drowed and quartered. >:-C
@movq Hmmm, just about 22% coverage. Probably won't make much of a difference here. And I also don't have the eclipse glasses anymore. :-(
@mckinley Yep, same here. I also heavily rely on D and /. However, lots of stupid websites will steal / for their own useless search (Atlassian products, cough, cough). I did not know about J/K. Since Vimperator I mapped F2 and F3 to tab navigation. Also, t, o, O and r/R are my daily drivers.
@movq Cool, thanks for the report! For surfing the web Firefox' Tridactly extension (kinda the successor to Vimperator) provides also the option to surf with the keyboard using the f and F (follow) keys by default. I have to admit, I only use that feature rarley. Lots of websites these days are unusable with all their garbage HTML that confuses Tridactyl I reckon.
@movq Interesting! I thought, that both are either synonyms or one a superset of the other. Some Wikipedia reading reveals that the crow family (in German called Rabenvögel) contains the genus corvus (surpringly to me Raben und Krähen in German). The bigger ones are generally known as ravens (Raben) the smaller ones are the crows (Krähen). I suspect the shown bird to be a member of the species corvus corax or common raven (Kolkrabe).
@stigatle Awww, brilliant! Very nice nature you have up there.
Another addition of birds with walnuts in their beaks from four days ago. A raven this time.
Raven with walnut in its beak
It looked like it hid the nut in the conifer. I didn't see what it was doing on the opposite side of the tree, but it didn't carry the nut anymore when it left a few moments later. Hmm.
Crazy how in just four days the leaves change. Remember, eight days ago it looked like that:
Tree with green leaves
The same trees in the morning sun four days ago:
Tree with green and yellow leaves
The third image shows the view to my local mountain.
And today:
Tree with less green and yellow leaves
Some of the trees have stripped naked and thrown off their entire leave dresses.
@off_grid_living Hundred years, wow. I reckon it has stood the time and is worth being kept around in working condition. Crazy color I have to say. Wood stoves aren't wide-spread here, so I haven't come across many. But when I did, they were always black or rusty brown.
@will It depends on several factors. Smaller stuff will just get a TODO comment right in the code itself. For bugs I sometimes use FIXME instead, but that's getting rarer over time. It's super easy to just grep -rn TODO and find all open TODOs. I don't find this messy but actually rather elegant.
Bigger stuff like a new feature goes in the README for my private stuff. I never used a dedicated TODO file, always just threw it in the README. At work we of course use a ticket system, so I create a story/task/whatever there. For open source projects I use whatever the project figured out worked for them. But I usually don't add TODOs in open source projects.
@prologic I haven't seen one either here in Germany for at least a decade I'd say. Interesting, your's doesn't have a door. After looking for a German phone booth on Wikipedia, I of course came across one without a door, too. Can't recall ever seeing one in person. The telephone hood on the left is accessible to wheelchair users.
@abucci Ha, this is some cool talk! Very nice.
@justamoment Ok, thanks for your insights. I would just try to build my rules based on the HTML structure if I had to tackle this. But luckily my stuff isn't so complicated to begin with. Phew. ;-)
@abucci I'm a strong Vim user and never touched Sublime. The JetBrains universe uses Shift+Shift by default to launch this "goto anywhere" search box (or what I think you mean by that). I use that feature every now and then at work, maybe once a fortnight.
@movq Haha, thanks for the A+. :-D Yeah, to me it makes no sense to [plenk(en?)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plenken) with question and exclamantion marks, but hey.
@eaplmx Yeah, in French you use the double angled «» a bit like HTML tags. German prefers „“ and if you nest them, unless using the single ones, you reverse the angled ones »« compared to French. Or as I would call it, use the correct ones. :-) It's just how languages evolved.
@movq @eaplmx Exactly the same here, they were isolated very well and had some kind of fan to exchange the air, not sure if that qualifies for AC. And yes, it felt a bit like being in the zoo. But some work mates and I had fun just waving at each other, when passing by. :-)
Yes, open workspaces are just the worst. In my whole career I always had to work in those, but once I had the opportunity to move to a four people office room. And man, let me tell you, productivitiy at least trippled or quadrupled instantly. Only working from home is better (minus the fun with the great seat mates).
@justamoment So do you use the same stylesheet for several web applications then? Or do you have a common base stylesheet where everthing else builds upon?
@prx This is cool! I don't agree with some of the particular choices, but the idea is spot on.
@off_grid_living Your garding is looking great! I also like the geese. :-) You should provide some photos of those cute little fellers.
@stigatle This is beautiful indeed! On my way home in the train (we had an onsite meeting) I saw a super vivid sunset.
@eaplmx Beaucoup de succès mon ami ! I had French in school for four years and sucked at it.
@abucci @movq We had three of those in my old company. Most likley different brand, though. They were added because we had not enough meeting rooms. The single person phone box and two people cabins alleviated the situation a tiny little bit.
@justamoment No, that goes totally against my philosophy. But I don't build fancy web applications, mostly write documents. And a few simple applications, that don't need a shitload of different styling.
@justamoment Ah, right, the good old freezing trick. Of course. :-)
Thank you very much, @justamoment and @prologic! :-) It's kind of twofold, shaming the litterer, but also showing that this garbage matches the forest or nature theme. :-)
Hm, we neither had rain nor a thunderstorm so far. I don't reckon that both will happen today either.
@mckinley Hui, these are some cool looking demos! I'm interested in how it feels, @movq. :-)
@abucci Hmm, I'm also using dolphin and had this never happen to me.
@movq Thanks! Yeah, unfortunately, my mushrooms top views are all a bit more blurry than I liked them to be. Not sure what was going on, but especially today I had looooooaaaads of super blurred takes. From all kinds of subjects. Even if lighting conditions were close to perfect. Luckily, I usually take tons of photos (309 photos today O_o), so I can make up for most of them.
Hahaha, this time the slenderman was unintentionally. But you can see the red ribbon on that tiny apple tree.
Wow, even 26°C, holy moly! Tommorow's supposed to rain and even lightly thunder. Let's see.
@abucci Yeah, that myth is widespread and very persistent here as well. :-(
@justamoment What a yield, not bad! Do you treat or prepare them somehow for storage? How long will they last before they go bad? You being mushroom fans they probably won't survive that long at your place, anyways, huh? ;-)
@justamoment Exactly! About 90% or maybe even more of my rules target just elements, not classes or IDs. I don't like my HTML being polluted with tons of useless classes and <div> and <span> hells, just to make up for some weird positioning and alignment problem. As always, simplicity is key.
@darch I'm sure you can improve the UI somehow. :-)
@akoizumi Hahaha, that's great, I like that! :-)
@prologic In Germany fax is still a thing. However, I personally never sent or received one, let alone operated a fax machine. But for unexplainable reasons corporations and authorities still like it. We just like to be underdeveloped.
Summer is back for a bit. We had 23°C today and I went up my mountain. On the way home I encountered a deer maybe seven meters away from me. You won't be able to see it on the 28 photos, though. Every now and then the smell of rotten fruit was in the air, a few farmers mowed their grasslands, so freshly cut grass odor was a nice and welcome contrast.
Green, yellow and mostly orange autum leaves on a tree
@prologic Not on paper, just in my head. I watched a lot of videos online and then slapped it together. But it's very much inspired by Matthias Wandel's apple grinder.
Btw. he is also the one why I started woodworking in the first place about a decade ago. I watched his fascinating videos and read his articles for some years and then thought, I wanna finally do this bloody cool shit, too! Not just watching and thinking about doing it, but actually getting my hands dirty for real. Obviously, I'm nowhere near him, but it's very great fun for sure.
Hell no! The frame is too tight, the chute locks up before reaching even close the position it is supposed to rest at. Yet, I was sure there are 3-4 mm play, so I can lock in the whole thing with wedges when being used. Shit. How did that happen? I even dry-assembled it with a clamped up frame!
After closer examination I figured the cupped frame side rails narrow in the middle. I should have planed them straight to begin with. Grrr. The dadoes might have turned out a tiny bit deeper than planned, too. This combination is evil. Didn't see that coming. Not at all. These two reasons explain some of the tight tolerances, but I reckon there must be something else. Probably a bad calculation. Not sure anymore whether the dry-assembly was with dadoes on both sides or just one side piece. And I also just used the light clamps to hold it together. When glueing I used my more sturdy ones. So I reckon I compressed the width much more.
I gotta sand the inner sides of the frame down by 1-2 mm tomorrow. I hope I can get my sander in. Apart from the hand drill and drill press (unfortunately, I don't have a cool brace and bit) the sander would be the first power tool in this build.
@prologic Yes, I will do. It will take me a couple of days or even weeks, but I will eventually get to it.
@prologic Thanks mate! I'm not super good, but I try to. :-)
Already sorted out on IRC. For the rest: I didn't know I could simply click on the timestamp of a search result which brings me to the twt view. There I can click on a conversation link that brings up the whole indexed conversation. And now with a more recent change this can be done right from the search results page by following the "conv:$hash" link. Very, very great!
@prologic I reckon you mean https://twtxt.net/conv/we56xwa, don't you? Haven't used the grinder so far.
I built the chute, frame and handcrank. The chute was assembled with just butt joints. But I reinforced it with 22 dowels in total. The frame on the other hand has dadoes. The first chiselled dado was too wide, so I had to glue it with foaming wood glue to fill the void. The other three fits were super tight, I had to use a clamp to force them in.
It was probably very stupid to glue the crank to the axle. Cleaning the wheel will be much more awkward with a handle attached to it. A bolt and nut would have been a better choice I think. But of course I noticed that only after glueling a dowel through the axle to lock it in place. The handle is a section of my grandma's old lamp stand. It's slightly conical and I used the end with the largest diameter to comfortably fit in the hand. It had already a hole in the middle of the cable. I just had to ream it a little bit with a 15 mm drillbit, so I could fit a round M12 coupling nut as a smooth turning surface. In fact I just cut one coupling nut in half for both ends. It now has the perfect slack, both axially and radially. I was quite surprised, it worked better than expected.
Handcrank on the apple grinding wheel
Gotta drill, saw and glue the wheel axle clamps tomorrow. And a slat has to be glued to the chute to stop it from falling through the frame. And then it can be tested.
@abucci Pics or it didn't happen!@1@11
I finally continued with the apple grinder prototype today. Had some fun with the hand plane to make this cylindricalish grinding wheel. Made a paper template with the hole pattern for the stainless steel screws. My hope is that this tooth pattern helps bringing the mash into the middle of the drum. With a crude punch out of a nail pushed into a branch I transferred the locations onto the wheel and drilled the holes on the drillpress at an angle. Parts for the inner box are glued together. The frame where the inner box will sit in and the handcrank will be built tomorrow. Let's see how that goes.
Wooden apple grinding wheel prototype with stainless steel screws as teeth
The grinding wheel probably needs more teeth. If it works well enough, I will make one out of hardwood or ask my mate to make me one out of stainless.
Great news, @quark, thanks! :-) You could have left the other headers, though. They don't hurt. :-)
Welcome back, @quark! Your web server doesn't send back a Last-Modified header for your feed, so the official twtxt client complains not to cache it. I just fixed that, so that tt shows your feed (of course no progress has been made in the meantime). And the Date header of your server seems to be quite funny, too. ;-)
@justamoment Very good, it's just way too dangerous to come across very similar poissonous brothers.
That reminds me of a story a mate told me years ago. As a little child he went into the woods with his dad every now and then and collected mushrooms. On the way back they always checked back with an old local mushroom expert. One day this guy made a tour with few interested people. There was one dude who just picked each and every mushroom he could find. When in the end they checked, his basket was full of poisson. Not only death caps, but also a bunch of the very obvious fly amanita, which virtually each toddler knows not to get. Except this crazy dude. They then just threw away the whole basket.
@justamoment Yeah, I don't understand CSS frameworks either. Soooo much garbage in there that I don't need in a million years. Just write all the rules from ground up. Only a few rules will do most of the time.
@prologic Cool. I'd like to be able to easily visit the conversation of a found twt by following a link. The yarnd URL could be configurable in the settings, so people operating both yarnd and yarns could just link to their own instance.
@justamoment Wow, good haul! I actually never went on a mushroom foray. Apart from the obvious fly amanita I don't know how to tell edible ones apart from poisonous. My grandpa knew a little bit but as a child I never cared to learn from him about that. :-(
@prx @abucci This is cool, indeed! I think I stumbled across this one or a similar list before, but it's always great to check again.
@movq I see a lot of carelessness combined with unexperienced people and stupid political decisions. And there's much more to add.
@movq It just occurred to me that maybe the Ace Ventura guy was involved, so I looked up Jim Carrey's movies and voilà: The Truman Show. I thought I quickly report back, but you already guessed it correctly. :-)
@justamoment @prologic Thank you very much! This time it was a real exploration, indeed. I've never been there before, just my mate. Fun fact, this year we're having a huge mushroom shortage I heard. But right from when I first heard that message, I encountered so many of them. So maybe they're just growing later than usual, now that it is getting wetter.
Chimney in front of a colorful sky