@movq@www.uninformativ.de I hear you. :-( Flight tickets are way too cheap. I’m also astonished, that night flying restrictions don’t apply for politicians. Of course.

@prologic@twtxt.net I believe that only a search box on the front page is better. Just like it is now. I still haven’t got used to the advanced options, but that’s an entirely different story.

@bender@twtxt.net Glad you do. :-D

@prologic@twtxt.net @movq@www.uninformativ.de Thank you! :-)

@bender@twtxt.net Let’s hope your life quality will improve with that single purpose tool. :-D

@prologic@twtxt.net Heck yeah, grats!

@prologic@twtxt.net Like @movq@www.uninformativ.de said, it is a very niche thing. But that has always been a good thing in my opinion. And I do still think so. :-)

yarnd in particular is too heavy for me personally, I just like the simplicity of wacking a file on my server and voilà. But other than that, I still support that software. :-)

And I come back to twtxt.net every now and then to read up on conversations that seem to be incomplete in my own client. Like if a new feed appears that I don’t follow (yet). That’s certainly a convenience that I do enjoy. Thank you for that!

Went on a 20-25km long hike yesterday. Birds were beautifully singing, the lovely smell of freshly cut grass was in the air and the terror of rotary mowers reached my ear constantly. It was a bit cloudy, but the sun peaked through every now and then. Really a wonderful day to be outside. About 21°C and some wind.

Amazing scenery

https://lyse.isobeef.org/wanderung-2024-04-28/

@adi@twtxt.net Oh wow, I’m really surprised that it still sounds a lot like Stairway To Heaven. I’m pretty sure I would have gotten that even if I hadn’t read the title. Music-wise of course. Not from the lyrics. :-)

Damn it! My camera battery didn’t charge, so all the nice deer and tad pole in a puddle imagery did not work out. :-( I saw two pairs of ears showing in the grass. Suddenly, three deer took off. One went straight into the strip of trees nearby and back behind me into the woods. The other two ran more into the meadow and then alongside the path I was taking. They unexpectedly overtook me and crossed in front of me to the other pasture. Then they headed back into the forest like rockets. Holy cow, they were super fast. Really amazing to watch. Battery flattended after the second of video I recorded in the beginning.

Ears showing in the grass

https://lyse.isobeef.org/waldspaziergang-2024-04-29/

@bender@twtxt.net @prologic@twtxt.net Thanks mates. I’m not the only one, @xuu does, too. :-)

Executing all tests of the online registrations I’m building for the scouts takes now 70 seconds. Initializing a new SQLite database in RAM and creating all the tables for each test case sums up and takes its time. During development cycles I more often resort to the -run flag for go test to specify only one area of tests to be executed. Much more fun this way to quickly go back to writing code.

At least the service layer line coverage is a whopping 99.5%, branch coverage is 93.3% (the latter could still be bumped slightly). However, only 17.6% lines of the web layer are covered (I definitely should increase this by a lot). This still good test base, if I say so myself, came in extremely handy a lot of times when refactoring stuff. Esp. the service layer changed, web not so much. It slows development down quite a lot, that’s for sure. I reckon it’s easily five to ten times more effort to come up with useful tests than writing productive code, probably even more. I’m bad at guessing. But the confidence of not breaking stuff is sooo much more valuable. The tests certainly paid off in the past, zero doubt about that.

It takes a lot of discipline to first write all the tests in the service layer before doing the web stuff and finally see it in action and play around. It’s funny that I always have to force myself to do so, but in the end, I’m always happy to have done it exactly like that. It once again worked out very smoothely that way. But something inside me wants to fast forward. I wonder if that irrational part eventually fades away.

Having a code coverage report does make a night a day difference. It actually turns writing tests into a fun game for me. The older I get, the more I do enjoy writing tests. Rest assured, producing productive code is still cooler. :-)

I’m also sooo happy about vim-go. I can’t believe how much that sped up and boosted my development process.

Whoops, 57 minutes later, this message turned out much more elaborated that I initially envisioned. Oh well. ;-)

I just found out about last(1) and lastb(1) while wondering about /var/log/wtmp. This can come in handy! The filenames remain a bit mysterious: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/127211/why-are-utmp-wtmp-and-btmp-called-as-they-are

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Oh wow! Better not mess up with that responsibility. :-)

@movq@www.uninformativ.de @prologic@twtxt.net Hahaha, thanks for sharing, @bender@twtxt.net! :-D

IBM has realized it’s cheaper to buy Hashicorp than to buy Vault licenses

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Yeah, things like that can really make one ill.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de I can’t think of a single one. Pretty lucky so far.

@bender@twtxt.net Holy cow, congrats on that title. I do have plugged in the more important equipment in a power strip with surge protection. The weird thing was, that only one of the monitors went black for a second. The other one (both are behind surge protection) remained operational the entire time. Maybe EMP? It was closer to the window than the other one.

Speedy recovery, @bender@twtxt.net! Ouch, @movq@www.uninformativ.de!

After a nearby lightning strike one of my screens turned off for a second. That was the signal to call it quits today.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Such piece of shit software makes me want to quit. Esp. if it is just for useless compliance garbage that never helped anybody accomplishing any real improvement. Is it from IBM? We once had to build a threat model with some terrible generator and my goodness, you can’t believe what a myriad of hopelessly useless, wrong entries it produced. Thousands of thousands of lines. At least it was markdown. We basically removed like 99% of its output after reading through every single item. Did this once and refused to touch it ever since. All hand-written now and actually helpful.

@prologic@twtxt.net Speaking of broken mentions, do you want to install a more recent yarns version so that my error log is not spammed anymore with 404s? 8-)

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Zero progress on mine. :-( I still rely on the official twtxt client to download the (main) feed.

Thanks, @movq@www.uninformativ.de! Hahaha, didn’t think of that. :-D Nah, this guy is not creepy, he’s just a melting flower snowman. ;-) Rest assured, he was unharmed on the table, you can see him here: https://lyse.isobeef.org/waldspaziergang-2024-04-21/23.JPG

Jaja, @movq@www.uninformativ.de, immer schön aufmerksam der guten Steckdosenpräsi folgen und im Anschluss in der Exzellenztabelle was eintragen und ausrechnen lassen! :-D Klingt alles recht albern. Ich schätz aber mal, dass einem das gar nicht mehr auffällt.

@bender@twtxt.net Fenster 11 → Windows 11; KraftPunkt (or Steckdose) → PowerPoint; Deppendrehkreuz (awesome translation btw, I had to laugh hard!) → GitHub.

Went out in the cold and noticed that taking photos half an hour on top of the drafty summit is not the very best idea. Not suprising that I freeze if there is snow. Gloves would have been actually great, I only wore my beanie. But it was a very good afternoon and evening. Looking at the snowmen, there must have been heaps of snow on the ground earlier this day.

I came across several different birds and two deer. 36-38 shows the same one, one meadow further, another deer jumped across the road. That was cool.

The focus often wanted to do its own thing, unfortunately. 25 shows the flatness of the Kaiserbergsteige (literally “Emperor Mountain Steep Road”).

Flower snowman

https://lyse.isobeef.org/waldspaziergang-2024-04-21/

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Vobis doesn’t ring a bell. I looked them up, but still nope.

Yeah, HDDs aren’t the fastest things in the world. :-)

@movq@www.uninformativ.de @bender@twtxt.net Sadly true. :-(

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Interesting. Never came across the term presentation manager in my life, but I also never used OS/2. :-)

Yeah, stopping the scanning thread is more a learning experience than a necessity. The scanning message is hardly visible in your videos. It’s already very quick.

I’m with you, @bender@twtxt.net, weekends are way too short.

Oh, you finally did implement multithreading, @movq@www.uninformativ.de. Cool, cool. :-) https://www.uninformativ.de/blog/postings/2024-04-21/0/POSTING-en.html Just in case you want to keep working on PMdusage, my suggestion for a future upgrade is to make the scan abortable. 8-) By the way, what does “PM” in “PMdusage” stand for?

Always great to see that bugs are quickly fixed.

There’s a tiny typo in the second to last paragraph: “Windows NT is something that I had no contact with…”

@mckinley@mckinley.cc Haha, interesting read.

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com Nice, I can confirm it’s now fixed. I reckon the Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 did the trick. Something in the twtxt client must have incorrectly guessed ISO-8859-1 or something along those lines when there was no charset advertised in the response header.

@prologic@twtxt.net @bender@twtxt.net Agreed, looking heaps better. <3

Thanks, @movq@www.uninformativ.de! What?! I’m heading straight to Wikipedia…

@movq@www.uninformativ.de That’s what I figured, since ncdu shows it at the bottom. ;-) But it’s actually pretty smart, to be honest. More space for precious content. And the title bar exists anyway, so why not make use of it with something helpful? Also, with entries being in descending order, it’s actually natural to show the sum as the even higher number above the largest entry and not at the bottom in another status line widget. 8-)

Welcome @aelaraji@aelaraji.com!

What the heck is going on with the encoding here?! The feed’s Content-Type header does not include any charset, but I’m still relying on the official twtxt client to fetch and parse feeds. Haven’t noticed this with any other feeds. Where in the chain is this messed up? :-? Seems like the “space” is the Unicode line separator U+2028, that we use for newlines.

Maybe WTF-8 encoding!?

We have great April weather over here. Yesterday sun, rain, sun, rain, sun, hail, sun, hail, sun, rain, etc. It didn’t hail today, but sun alternatd with rain a bunch of times. Went out this evening and boy, what an absolutely gorgeous scenery!

View from the edge of the forest into the lovely lit distance

https://lyse.isobeef.org/waldspaziergang-2024-04-18/

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Oh nice, it even shows the sum in the title bar.

@prologic@twtxt.net I’m glad that this stats view is actually useful. :-)

I got an e-mail today about my Linux notebook reaching end of support, yada yada yada. It mentioned that with the new stuff Okular will be able to sign PDFs. Never ever had to use that, but maybe some Linux user finds this information useful.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de I reckon it’s now here.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de We just had a quick heavy rain shower roll past. Didn’t notice storm, though. Be safe!

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Cool, nice progress! :-)

@movq@www.uninformativ.de I reckon they mostly ship stuff nowadays. Beware, looks like this website and their marketing is from the last millennium. Their front page is hillarious, so is this company comic: https://tito-international.de/i/comic-of-company (I have no affiliation with them).

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Definitely better for them, yeah. :-)

Ah, interesting. Ui, that can hold some water. Certainly looks like a water level gauge to me. Maybe a precaution for a hundred-year flood or something like that. Or is there a dam nearby? Could be a facility to reduce damage in case it breaks.

I took advantage of the last sunny, but also 25°C hot day and hiked in the woods. It was so much more pleasant in the forest than out in the sun. The wind could have been a long stronger with that heat. I was completely soaked.

At one point I thought I better grab my camera out of my backpack, so whenever something comes up, I’m ready. But I was too lazy and thought, well, I just wait until there is a nice subject and keep going instead. No joke, ten meters further I came across two squirrels. A red and a brown one, sitting on a tree at just one and three meters height two meters away from me. If I only had unpacked my bloody cam a few seconds ago! I just watched them sit on the tree and then tried to slowly strip my backpack and grad the cam. It was still booting up when they decided it was enough sitting around and climbed higher. What a silly move on my end, damn.

I tried to improvise some Lyse Street View, but felt really uncomfortable to photograph other people’s houses. Somehow my cam produced sooo many blurred shots on the way up still away from the village, it’s unbelievable. I scrapped nearly the entire project. Only very few survived. There were heaps of people on the mountain summit, so I quickly left again.

Flower bed in the village

https://lyse.isobeef.org/waldspaziergang-2024-04-14/

Looking forward to next week’s rain and temperature drop to 16°C or even 8°C.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de I reckon you have to wait a bit for that to happen or just come by one day. :-)

@prologic@twtxt.net Oh no, that’s so silly.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Even just consumer grade. Wow! I also only rarely print anything and I always got third-party toners, never was disappointed with them. Last year I noticed that we have an ink and toner shop in town and bought there. That actually exist over two decades now, but looks extremely inconspicuous.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Oh wow, how cool is that?! :-) Ducks over here are quite shy, unfortunately. In Ludwigsburg on the other hand they are very habituated to humans. I was very surprised to see that when visiting a mate. There were a bunch of them laying on the stairs and I tried to keep my distance to not scare them off. Didn’t dare to get closer than maybe five meters or so and was super happy that they stayed. That has always been impossible over here. After we proceeded, some tourists came by and stood a meter next to them or so. That was crazy for me to see. :-)

Yeah, walking next to a highway is torture. I try to avoid it as much as possible.

Nice! The third photo looks like a Kneipp basin. What’s that round tunnel? I love those moss-covered rocks, they just look so beautiful.