** A scrappy fiddle **

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I’ve had fun playing at implementing a very basic visual programming system over the last few days. I like the direction I’ve s … ⌘ Read more

** New year **
The last weeks of 2023 have been very enjoyable. Other than having to deal with a cascade of car issues, there’s been a lot of time to hang out with the partner and kids, wander around outside, and poke at fun personal projects…and I mean, work, too, but…you know.

The other evening I pulled together a fun Markov chain toy. It isn’t anything fancy, but I wanted the ability to feed a madlib style script to the program and have it use that as a template to fill in. The resulting program is beak and … ⌘ Read more

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org yeah, with proper clothing its pretty nice. After I came home it turned into snow, and it snows really hard, so tomorrow I have the fun task of clearing as much as I can :)
Its about 2 at night now, just walked the dog after fireworks has calmed down. He was super excited to see all the snow.. but now its time for some sleep :)

I have been doing interview prep for next year. The problems have been great to get practice and make it fun when compared to the dry solve this you get on hacker rank or code scene.

That and so many great write-ups to explain the problems.

I have been doing interview prep for next year. The problems have been great to get practice and make it fun when compared to the dry solve this you get on hacker rank or code scene.

That and so many great write-ups to explain the problems.

Get a 3D Classic Mac OS Menu Bar with Lickable
Remember when MacOS (then called Mac OS X) was skeuomorphic, with a three-dimensional looking user interface elements that were fun to look at? Apple called that interface “Aqua”, but over time has slowly flattened and squished the aqua interface out of MacOS and into the flat bright white iOS-ish like interface instead. If you miss … Read More ⌘ Read more

Had a really nice time with my daughter at her volleyball practice today, all parents got to play against the kids, it was super fun! Been a long time since I’ve had this much fun, was so nice to be there with her tonight!

Creating stories together with a five year old is fun.

we presented jarotsim: a playground for the discovery, exploration and livecoding of Turing machines, at the Hybrid Live Coding Interfaces 2023: Boundless Thinking workshop. we had a lot of fun! | https://compudanzas.net/jarotsim_at_hlci.html

** an approximately programmer-shaped person **
I was recently interviewed by Manu for his People and Blogs series! It was a great honor to be suggested by Piper for that, and I had a blast responding to all of Manu’s questions.

The December Adventure is in full swing. There are so many fun adventure logs this year. I’ve been mostly focusing on building toys with [Decker](https://beyondloom.com/ … ⌘ Read more

One thing to note about #AdventOfCode: It is really, really important to inspect your input data.

Your data could be considered part of the puzzle description. By inspecting it, you can find clues and you might find out that you can make certain assumptions.

(I mean, what’s the alternative? There could be a list of allowed assumptions in the textual descriptions, right? That wouldn’t be a lot of fun, I think, as it would give away too much information about the solution. It’s more interesting to find those clues yourself.)

@movq@www.uninformativ.de haha! I’m sure they had fun working around stuff like nineight

@movq@www.uninformativ.de haha! I’m sure they had fun working around stuff like nineight

Streaming services can suck. Wanted to watch the classic Elf movie for a fun movie night, but somehow we were getting the message “This movie is not available in your region.”. Turns out we were looking for the wrong title.

Having fun with React - yet again. A large part of my job entails (re)learning technologies - luckily I have access to some good resources in the form of training- and tutorial sites, all provided by my employer.

@prologic@twtxt.net the new product was GPTs. A way to create tailored bots for specific use cases. https://openai.com/blog/introducing-gpts (fun fact: I did an internal hackathon where we made something like this for $work onboarding. And I won a prize!)

The competed project is poe https://quorablog.quora.com/Introducing-creator-monetization-for-Poe which is basically the same idea. Make a AI bot tailored to a specific domain of knowledge. And monitize it.

The timing fits very well as openAI announced it just a few weeks ago.

@prologic@twtxt.net the new product was GPTs. A way to create tailored bots for specific use cases. https://openai.com/blog/introducing-gpts (fun fact: I did an internal hackathon where we made something like this for $work onboarding. And I won a prize!)

The competed project is poe https://quorablog.quora.com/Introducing-creator-monetization-for-Poe which is basically the same idea. Make a AI bot tailored to a specific domain of knowledge. And monitize it.

The timing fits very well as openAI announced it just a few weeks ago.

ExpressJs is rather fun to work with - at least for a smaller project.

Fiddling with paths in Node Express for fun

How to Make Stickers from Photos for Messages on iPhone
Stickers are a fun and creative way to enhance your iMessage experience, and the latest versions of iOS support a feature that allow you to easily make your own stickers from any of your own photos, right from your iPhone. For example, maybe you have a picture of a great dog or cat, or yourself, … Read More ⌘ Read more

How to Make a Contact Poster on iPhone
Contact Posters are a feature added to iPhone with iOS 17 and newer, that allow you to choose a custom photo, poster, and name that appears when you call another iPhone user (or send them a message). These personalized Contact Posters can be a fun way to further customize your iPhone experience, and they’re unique … Read More ⌘ Read more

Got latest OpenBSD installed on one of my laptops, now Ill try and get the desktop client to work there. This will be fun!

@movq@www.uninformativ.de @lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Nice! Always nice to do a walk, and fun to test stuff like GPS and such :) I’ve been walking a bit as well today, but also had some nice time at home, I work a bit this weekend, so I’ve spent some time on that. But also we went to the mall and such. Now we’re baking pizza. And will watch a movie or something when the kids has gone to sleep tonight. :)

Fun fact: Since I started tracking my train journeys in mid-May, I’ve already spent almost 7 whole days on trains. 🚄 ⌘ Read more

How to Stop Steam Pop-Up Ads on Launch
Steam, the popular gaming platform for Mac, Windows, and Linux, is great in that it offers a ton of really fun popular games, but it’s not without its annoyances. One of the most frustrating Steam annoyances are its popup ads on startup, or what it calls “Steam News”, that slowly launch in a new pop-up … Read More ⌘ Read more

@prologic@twtxt.net I will stick around, after thinking about it. Im sure support for both will come. Maybe Ill check if I can make some support in snac2 for yarn, that would be a fun project. I also want to work some more on the yarn desktop client, I miss working on it, polish it and make it more feature complete, and then also make one for snac2/activitypub (or make it into a general client that supports both at the same time).

I’ll shut down this instance soon, I want to say thanks to all of you, especially @prologic@twtxt.net . It’s been fun here, but I do not spend much time here anymore - cutting down on the things I host and use \ spend time on etc.

I’ve been using activitypub more - since it’s more or less replaced ‘x’ for me, and can be reached at:
@stigatle@activitypub.stigatle.no

Snikket: State of Snikket 2023: The Apps
As promised in our introduction to the series, welcome to the first of our ‘State of Snikket’ update posts! This installment features all the app development news you could wish for.

So what’s new in the world of Snikket apps?

If you’ve been following Snikket development for a while, you might remember that we were receiving UX advice on making our apps easier and more fun to use, thanks to the team at … ⌘ Read more

we just came home from a weekend of fun! we’re all tired now, time to relax a bit :) hope you all had a great weekend too!

Was a really nice trip to the dogpark, he got to play a lot with a beagle, they ran for an hour and had fun. :)

Lunduke Journal Community: Over 21,000 Comments in 2023 (so far)!
While the totally, righteously nerdy articles, podcasts, videos, books, & comics from The Lunduke Journal are awesome… possibly my favorite part of The Lunduke Journal… is the community. On Lunduke.Locals.com we have created one of the most joyous and nerdy communities on planet Earth. A huge thank you to all of you lovely, radical nerds for making it such a fun place to hang out. ⌘ Read more

@prologic@twtxt.net it’ll be nice to get away from google for a while. also moved all my cloud files to proton drive (got tired of self-hosting). I want a mac too, the m2 laptop. But that will be later. but Im unsure how software development is done on it, if its easy to for example code your own stuff (c++), and also I have no idea how gui realted things are handled. but that makes it fun as well - figuring out all that stuff.

Sun’s out funs out!

GitHub’s revamped VIP Bug Bounty Program
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No smoke down here in FL, but I had a cockroach crawl on me while in bed a couple hours ago. Fun times…

@prologic@twtxt.net i have the mangopi riscv, works well, but I will get this new milkv here next. I have not seen that nanopi before, cool! Always fun with new stuff :)

I need to add multithreading to the desktop client, I have not done that before in c++ - so that’ll be fun to figure out. I need it for the fetching of the timeline so that it happens in a separate thread. That way the GUI does not freeze while fetching the timeline. Also need to add a status bar that can show what the application is working on.

I want to try NixOS again, and then get the yarn desktop client built on that, and then see if I can get the client into their repo. That would be fun to do. If I have time tonight I’ll start on that.

I have not used AI much at all, I have not paid any attention to it. But today I decided to give stablediffusion a test run, I do only have a 1080 card, so it took some tweaking to output 512x256 images, and I must say it works pretty well. I also had to get one of the memory optimized versions. Fun to test.

Got that bike today, and nanook ran home pulling me like a rocket. So fun when training on commands - run, go, left, right works. Avoids all obstacles etc. Was really fun! And for once he’s tired :)

The “Big Three” Linux companies ranked by Revenue, Employees, Kernel Contributions
Red Hat, SUSE, & Canonical. Because stats and charts are fun. ⌘ Read more

@funbreaker@twtxt.net No worries, I’m just glad to see that someone likes what I spend my time on.
Always fun to make something that someone else finds useful. I’ll definitely get it into a usable state as soon as possible.

The reply button works from my application! I think it’s really fun to work on this. Yarn’s great API makes it fast to to develop for! :)

Funny Programming Pictures Part XXVI
Don’t worry. At least one makes fun of Mozilla. ⌘ Read more

Hand Dryers
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Took my daughter’s kickbike again and let Nanook pull for some kilometres, he was really good today, fun to see him correct around obstacles, and when he looks back at me while running to make sure things are OK. I really need to get a offroad kickbike that I can use, makes it more safe too - because he runs fast. I know Ill get one in mid May, hopefully sooner.

I had fun watching the Eagles lose. I don’t like the Chiefs, either, but I’ll take them over the Eagles. Is the mod a Minnesota Wild fan? I like Tampa Bay.

today we went and played some football together and went to the park.
later Ill take the dog to the dogpark, some bigger dogs are going there later today, so that’ll be fun for Nanook. other then that we’ll have nachos tonight, and saturday candy plus a movie :) going to be a nice day!

Bypassing OGNL sandboxes for fun and charities
Object Graph Notation Language (OGNL) is a popular, Java-based, expression language used in popular frameworks and applications, such as Apache Struts and Atlassian Confluence. Learn more about bypassing certain OGNL injection protection mechanisms including those used by Struts and Atlassian Confluence, as well as different approaches to analyzing this form of protection so you can harden similar systems. ⌘ Read more

Gonna buy some firewood today, to use in our firepit, love sitting outside late - make some good food for my kids on the fire, then just sit and talk and have fun, look at the stars etc :) Gonna be a nice weekend for sure.

Good morning!
Friday is here! Just one workday to complete at the office - then it’s time to relax and have fun!

8-Bit Week – Days 3 & 4 Roundup
More 8-Bit fun than you can shake a stick at. ⌘ Read more

RT by @mind_booster: Happy Public Domain Day 2023! Let’s celebrate in style with Erma Bossi’s fun painting “Circus”, which just entered the Public Domain – meaning it is now free to re-use and remix by anyone! href=”https://txt.sour.is/search?q=%23publicdomainday”>#publicdomainday**
Happy Public Domain Day 2023! Let’s celebrate in style with Erma Bossi’s fun painting “Circus”, which just entered the Public Domain – meaning it is now free to re-use and remix by anyone! #publicdomainday

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Cycling in snow, on 16inch summer wheels, is no fun..

I need to learn how to crash dates that are going nowhere with way too much escalation. That should be fun

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org when I take him to work I walk him at the parkinglot when I need a break. and on my way home I walk a km or two, and then around the neighbourhood as needed later. But when I go for long walks during the weekend I can walk anywhere from 10km to 20, then the rest is as needed around the house. so he’s well adjusted to short walks as well as long. today he pulled our kids on snow sleds on the street outside here, was really fun :) it was his first time trying that, and I could barely keep up with him. haha.

Erlang Solutions: Advent of Code 2022 – Every Puzzle Solved in Erlang

Christmas is getting closer and with that, the annual Advent of Code begins. For those who do not know, Advent of Code is a fun and inclusive event which provides a new programming puzzle every day. The fun is that these puzzles can be solved in any programming language and are accessible for varying levels of coding experience and skills. The real test is in your problem-solving. This year, we’ll be solving each of the problems in … ⌘ Read more

For some people they are just fun. Others can’t handle it. They go nuts. 2022-11-29T19:42:33-06:00 I prefer to spend my time writing code for only a few gopher users. No time for conspiracies.

Always something fun to play around with in Gopherspace

Precision vs Accuracy
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**So many different “clever” and “funny” takes around here lately, comparing “Twitter vs. Mastodon” with “Windows vs. Linux”, making fun of ‘the year of Linux in the desktop’…

…an I still wonder why would anyone freely and willingly choose to use Windows over GNU/Linux. 🤷‍♂️**
So many different “clever” and “funny” takes around here lately, comparing “Twitter vs. Mastodon” with “Windows vs. Linux”, making fun of ‘the year of Linux in the desktop’…

…an I still wonder why would anyone freely and willing … ⌘ Read more

13 tiny, terrific, and terrifying games to hack, slay, and play this Halloween 🧛🏻‍♀️
Some seriously spooktacular open source games for the web, Windows, macOS, and Linux with all sorts of fun hacks for infinite lives, invulnerability, and playing with time. ⌘ Read more

Lunduke Journal Community Weekly Highlights - Oct 21, 2022
Listen now (37 min) | From “Command Line” shenanigans to 8-Bit fantasy VMs. So much fun stuff happened this week. ⌘ Read more

After all, debugging is still fun!
One reason I use an Android smartphone is that there are apps like Indigenous (a MicroPub-compatible app for posting from your phone to a MicroPub-compatible blog). And even if the app ever disappears from the store, there’s still the option to manually install the app. And if you need to, you can also develop your own apps without having to invest nearly $100 a year. ⌘ Read more

-1 for the negative on environment all that electricity uses. Still waiting on proof of stake.

It is also too overrun with Tech Bros scamming people to get rich quick.

It was a fun ride back when I first bought in. But I have since cached out for my lambos and such.

-1 for the negative on environment all that electricity uses. Still waiting on proof of stake.

It is also too overrun with Tech Bros scamming people to get rich quick.

It was a fun ride back when I first bought in. But I have since cached out for my lambos and such.

Funny Programming Pictures Part XVI
It’s Friday! Let’s have some fun and look at some funny pictures about programming and Linux and stuff! The Lunduke Journal Community — About the Lunduke Journal — Subscriber Perks The Lunduke Journal Weekly Schedule: Monday - Computer History Tuesday ⌘ Read more

8 things you didn’t know you could do with GitHub Copilot
Developers all over the world are using GitHub Copilot to help speed up their development and increase developer productivity. With GitHub Copilot available to developers everywhere, we’ve found some fun and useful examples of how developers can use GitHub Copilot for things you may not be thinking about. ⌘ Read more

Installing NixOS on my spare laptop today. It’s a fun OS to work with. Has its quirks, but I enjoy messing around with it and set things up the way I want it. :)

Tetherball Configurations
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The story of the first “computer bug”… is a pile of lies.
A fun, endearing, delightful pile of lies. ⌘ Read more

@prologic@twtxt.net golang seems to work on it, so Ill give a try on compiling yarn on it tonight. Would be fun if it works.

Tips & tricks for using GitHub projects for personal productivity
GitHub Issues is a core component of how developers get things done and, as we built more project planning capabilities into GitHub, we’ve found some fun and unique ways to use the new projects experience for personal productivity. ⌘ Read more

Let’s lower the cost of Lunduke Journal subscriptions!
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Gracefully Degrading Home Automation
Over the past two years, I have gradually increased my use of home
automation in our small city apartment. I started with an IKEA TRÅDFRI
light and a button, and today have over 40 devices doing useful things,
saving electricity and making our living more pleasant. I won’t lie: I
have done a lot of this just for fun and learnt quite a bit in the
process. But if it doesn’t eventually result in utility or aesthetics,
then I get rid of it. I can’t stand keeping frivolous s … ⌘ Read more

I’ll likely take this down soonish as I think it’s pretty bad for usability, but as a fun hack, one of my weird side projects web pages now has monitor burn-in: http://txtpunk.com/index.html

Some fun, 1 day only perks for Lunduke Journal Founding Members!
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Linux Sucks 2014
Watch now (45 min) | “Linux Sucks”. 2014 edition. Recorded live at LinuxFest Northwest on April 26th, 2014. A fun peek back at what was happening in the world of Linux back in 2014. This video is one (of the oh-so-many) extra goodies for subscribers to The Lunduke Journal ⌘ Read more

A fun little game: Pocket City
I’m generally not a gamer, playing computer games has never really fascinated me, I find programming more exciting. But sometimes I don’t feel like programming or I don’t have the possibility to do it. Of course it’s important to be bored sometimes, because then you can think about things for a while. But a little entertainment in a free minute is sometimes not bad as well. ⌘ Read more

Reminder: Only a few hours left to get your name included in “Linux Sucks 2022”
Along with a few other fun Lunduke Journal Founding Member perks. ⌘ Read more

RT by @mind_booster: Fun conversation with @creativecommons about our All The Music project, #copyright building blocks, #music, #creativity, #melodies, @GeorgeHarrison, @katyperry, @ledzeppelin, @edsheeran, and how all musicians stand on the shoulders of prior musical giants.
https://anchor.fm/creativecommons/episodes/Damien-Riehl–Noah-Rubin-of-All-The-Music-e1i2d86
Fun conversation with @creativecommons about our All The Music project, [#copyright]( … ⌘ Read more

Join the Lunduke Journal “May the Fourth” Livestream
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The First Lunduke Journal Founding Member Hangout… a success!
So much fun. We’re definitely going to be doing more of these! ⌘ Read more

fun fact: there’s around 10 mio. times more bacteria on this planet than neurons

Lunduke Journal Events for April - BBS Game Tournament, Linux Sucks, Hangout
Just some nerdy fun. ⌘ Read more

People get into game development because they want to have fun programming. Getting projects done involves a lot of things that are not fun, so it usually goes nowhere because the incentives are misaligned. Accidentally making a language, for an engine, for a game | Hacker News

Announcing Lunduke Journal Founding Member subscriptions
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probably quite fun at parties

best known to me as the youtube skull & swords guy that breadtube made fun of

Nushell 0.6 is the coolest shell. Maybe ever.
And running it in cool-retro-term is almost TOO fun. ⌘ Read more

Alright, check this out. I just kinda completed today’s project of converting a jeans into a saw bag. It’s not fully done, the side seams on the flap need some more hand sewing, that’s for sure. No, I don’t have a sewing machine. Yet?

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At first I wanted to put in the saw on the short side, but that would have made for more sewing work and increased material consumption. As a Swabian my genes force me to be very thrifty. Slipping in on the long side had the benefit of using the bottom trouser leg without any modification at all. The leg tapers slightly and gets wider and wider the more up you go. At the bottom it’s not as extreme as at the top.

The bag is made of two layers of cloth for extra durability. The double layers help to hide the inner two metal snap fastener counter parts, so the saw blade doesn’t get scratched. Not a big concern, but why not doing it, literally no added efforts were needed. Also I reckon it cuts off the metal on metal clinking sounds.

The only downside I noticed right after I pressed in the receiving ends of the snap fasteners is that the flap overhangs the bag by quite a lot. I fear that’s not really user-friendly. Oh well. Maybe I will fold it shorter and sew it on. Let’s see. The main purpose is to keep the folding saw closed, it only locks in two open positions.

Two buttons would have done the trick, with three I went a bit overkill. In fact the one in the middle is nearly sufficient. Not quite, but very close. But overkill is a bit my motto. The sides making up the bag are sewed together with like five stitch rows. As said in the introduction, the flap on the hand needs some more love.

Oh, and if I had made it in a vertical orientation I would have had the bonus of adding a belt loop and carrying it right along me. In the horizontal layout that’s not possible at all. The jeans cloth is too flimsy, the saw will immediately fall out if I open the middle button. It’s not ridgid enough. Anyways, I call it a success in my books so far. Definitely had some fun.

funder (thunder but with fun, f*** under, fun; der, person who gives funding)

Firefox on Chrome OS (Flex) using Flatpak
More for fun than being really useful, here’s a little tutorial on how to use Firefox on Chrome OS (Flex) (for me, it’s currently version 100 in the Dev Channel). But beware, the user experience really leaves a lot to be desired… ⌘ Read more

Dockerize your own Game of Thrones’ API
This article will demonstrate a fun and useful use case of docker, where we will create and deploy to production a custom-made API. In our case, it will provide information about the episodes of the TV show “Game of Thrones”. Besides Docker, our stack will include: About the API The API will serve information about […]

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I mean you don’t even have to do the game to make a fake emoji result. But its a fun little challenge for brain food.

I mean you don’t even have to do the game to make a fake emoji result. But its a fun little challenge for brain food.

Nerdy Color-by-Number: Bill Gates posing seductively
What’s more fun than Color-by-Numbers? Color-by-Numbers of really goofy, nerdy things. ⌘ Read more