At a certain point in time your stuff is geeky high-tech, the next moment you walk into the „early telecommunications“ exhibition in a museum and there‘s your old mobile phone. 😆
(Museo nazionale della scienza e della tecnologia Leonardo da Vinci, Milano) #tech#history#retrocomputing
The past few months have been quite hectic and I have nearly rewritten the whole codebase, but I feel like the software is now at a stage where it’s mature and stable enough to be used by a larger audience.
The changelog is quite big, but it doesn’t even cover all the changes, as many integrations have been completely rewritten.
The biggest (breaking) change is the merge between plugins and backends. Now, except for those integrations that actually listen for messages and execute them (like HTTP and Redis), all the other integrations are plugins. This greatly simplifies the configuration and removes a lot of confusion for new users.
The Docker support has been greatly improved too. There are now officially supported multi-arch images for Alpine, Debian, Ubuntu and Fedora, an official docker-compose.yml file, and both the platydock and platyvenv utilities have been almost completely rewritten to seamlessly automate the creation and configuration of containers and virtual environments (respectively) starting from a single config.yaml.
And the Python API has become much simpler and consistent. No more __init__.py files that the user had to manually create in each subfolder of scripts, just drop a .py file with your automation in the scripts dir and it’ll be picked up. Moreover, the most common imports are now available on top level as well, and there’s no more need to create procedures/hooks/crons with varargs:
from platypush import run, when
from platypush.events.sun import SunsetEvent
@when(SunsetEvent)
def sunset_lights_on():
run('light.hue.on')
There’s also a revamped documentation portal, which now includes both the wiki and the plugin reference.
Most of the integrations have been rewritten at different degrees, and in the process many bugs have been squashed, many features added and many APIs updated to be more consistent, so make sure to check the documentation pages of your integrations in order to migrate.
I'm not late for #SaturdayNightCoinShow, it turns out time is an illusion (Lunchtime doubly so). Since I've started whimsical, I'll go with the fun piece I just wrote up - an Imitation Spade Guinea "In memory of the good old days". You should definitely read:https://coinofnote.com/imitation-spade-guinea-good-old-days-uk/ - it talks of #gold#coins I can't afford, imitations of which there are many, garden implements & late 1800s #theatre! Enjoy :)
with Data by Design @laurenfklein and team offer a counter history of data visualization in the form of an interactive book featuring a range of visual and interactive materials to engage with – the project is now up for community review:
loving the "scrollytells" highlighting and explaining certain parts, variants, or layers of selected visualizations. so smart and so useful for teaching critical literacy!
Damon Mayrl, Nicholas Hoover Wilson, Matthew Mahler & Josh Pacewicz draw on methodological writings by ethnographers & original interviews w historical sociologists to examine the growing ties between the two fields, a useful case study of interchange between scholarly communities. New & OA in Social Science History! https://doi.org/10.1017/ssh.2023.31
MADISON, Wis. – The Wisconsin Historical Society, in partnership with Native Nations in Wisconsin, is excited to share new details from the active archaeological site where two submerged dugout canoes, approximately 1,200 and 3,000 years old, were previously identified. The site drew international attention after divers...
There’s nothing groundbreaking about protesters’ tactics of taking over university buildings or erecting encampments on college lawns.
These students – knowingly or unknowingly – are part of a long history of radical student organizing. There are echoes of both the protests against the Vietnam War in the 1960s and 70s and more recently, of South African apartheid in the 1980s.
#TIL that in 1929, JM Barrie, the author of Peter Pan, gifted his work's copyright to the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children.
"Through this gift, Peter Pan’s magic made an unprecedented leap from the realm of fiction into reality and the hospital began to receive royalties every time a production of the play was on, as well as from the sale of Peter Pan books and other products."
Hidden deep within the Saudi desert is Al Ahsa: a UNESCO heritage site and incredible oasis characterized by 2.5 million palm trees. Here, the trees are cove...
A quick thread of posts that should have been live yesterday (24 May). It was very inconsiderate of a cold virus to strike me down before I'd scheduled them...
#JustFinished Blood in the Machine by Brian Merchant
This has been an absolutely fascinating book to read and is perhaps the most important book I'll read all year. Merchant is spot on with his commentary about the parallels between the first Industrial Revolution and now. We have not learned a thing about protecting our populations and economies from mass unemployment during technological upheaval.
Happy 80th birthday to Charlie Harper, British singer, songwriter and lead singer of the punk rock band UK Subs, born on this day in 1944 in Hackney, London.
Happy Birthday to Paul John Weller, English singer-songwriter and musician with The Jam, Style Council and many other musicians and bands, born on this day in 1958, Woking, Surrey, England
Wisconsin Historical Society Announces Cache of Ancient Canoes Discovered in Madison Lake (www.wisconsinhistory.org)
MADISON, Wis. – The Wisconsin Historical Society, in partnership with Native Nations in Wisconsin, is excited to share new details from the active archaeological site where two submerged dugout canoes, approximately 1,200 and 3,000 years old, were previously identified. The site drew international attention after divers...
Hidden Treasures in the World's Largest Oasis (youtu.be)
Hidden deep within the Saudi desert is Al Ahsa: a UNESCO heritage site and incredible oasis characterized by 2.5 million palm trees. Here, the trees are cove...