Edent

Edent, 17 hours ago to python

🆕 blog! “Untappd to Mastodon - Updated!”

A few years ago, I wrote some code to post Untappd check-ins to Mastodon. I've recently updated it to also post a photo of the beer you're enjoying. First up, you'll need a file called config.py to hold all your API keys: instance = "https://mastodon.social" access_token = "…" write_access_token = "…" untappd_client_id = "…" untappd_cli…

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/05/untappd-to-mastodon-updated/
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#MastodonAPI #python #untappd

mrchrisadams, 19 hours ago to random

This is an industrial designed exercise bike from Lithuania that can store 2KWh of electricity generated by your own exercise.

The electricity can then be used for loads of stuff - it has a bunch of DC outputs, like USB-C (up to 60W) and USB-A, and AC outputs (can output up to 2KW - enough for an oven!)

It can also be fed from a solar panel, or the mains.

It’s about 3K EUR, so not much more than a high end Peloton , but obvs serving a very different market…

https://www.tukasev.com/en/

Edent, 1 day ago to random

Didn't even make it to the 1 hour mark in #MadameWeb.

Just a completely pointless absence of a film.

Edent, 1 day ago (edited 1 day ago) to blogging

🆕 blog! “It was twenty years ago today”

I wrote my first public blog post on 2004-05-11. I immediately followed it up with a brief review of my BlackBerry. I kept up the blogging for a few months, then it trickled off. I preferred posting on Usenet and other primitive forms of social media. But, by 2007, I was back to blogging on […]

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/05/it-was-twenty-years-ago-today/
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#blogging #meta

Edent, 1 day ago to random

Paul McCartney in the most recent story. QE2 in Silver Nemesis.

Any others?

18+ Edent, 2 days ago to random

I feel the need… the need to bleed!

#DonateBlood - register at https://blood.co.uk

Edent, 2 days ago to HowTo

🆕 blog! “link rel="alternate" type="text/plain"”

Hot on the heels of yesterday's post, I've now made all of this blog available in text-only mode. Simply append .txt to the URl of any page and you'll get back the contents in plain UTF-8 text. No formatting, no images (although you can see the alt text), no nothing! Front page https://shkspr.mobi/blog/.txt This blog […]

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/05/link-relalternate-typetext-plain/
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#HowTo #php #WordPress

andypiper, 2 days ago to random

One issue with the #emfcamp schedule, AFAICT - if I hold multiple tickets, the other ticketed attendees don't have an account on the website with which to heart the talks / feed the scheduling algorithm. Am I holding it wrong?

dan, 3 days ago to random

I just published my 5,000th blog post! 🙌

It only took me... /checks/ two and a half decades! 🫨

https://danq.me/5k

Edent, 3 days ago to wordpress

🆕 blog! “A completely plaintext WordPress Theme”

This is a silly idea. But it works. I saw Dan Q wondering about plaintext WordPress themes - so I made one. This is what this blog looks like using it: The Code You only need two files. An index.php and a style.css. The CSS file can be empty, but it needs to exist - […]

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/05/a-completely-plaintext-wordpress-theme/
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#WordPress

dajb, 3 days ago to random

Great. After a couple of years of using the Starling Bank app with @GrapheneOS with zero issues, I received a warning today that "your device hasn't passed our security checks"

13 days to factory restore to stock Android, apparently, or I won't be able to use the app on this device.

Anyone else have this issue? I haven't ever been able to use Google Wallet with bank cards on #GrapheneOS but that hasn't been a problem.

tanepiper, 4 days ago to stackoverflow

A sales guy from #StackOverflow has been trying to get me to talk about their enterprise offering for a developer internal platform - I've been mostly ignoring him, but now I'll just say "really not interested"

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/stack-overflow-bans-users-en-masse-for-rebelling-against-openai-partnership-users-banned-for-deleting-answers-to-prevent-them-being-used-to-train-chatgpt

rem, 4 days ago to random

At some point I'm going to need a thermal camera because the chips on the boards I'm messing around with are getting very hot and the way I keep finding out is by randomly burning my fingers on them.

Edent, 4 days ago (edited 1 day ago) to random

From an artist's point of view, is there any difference between you buying a donated CD from a charity shop and downloading pirated music from a torrent site?

Neither gives the artists, songwriters, producers, publishers, or distributors any money.

Neither reports to a charts authority to show popularity.

Both have the same impact on secondary revenue like gig tickets & merchandise.

Vote now - and please show your workings.

Edent, 9 months ago to random

Morning gang!
Spent the weekend reorganising my office so it can accommodate an under-desk treadmill.
Lots of pediconferences in my future, I hope.

Edent, 3 years ago to email

if ( gender == “female” && married == True && age >=30 ) { hasChildren = True; }

Marketing really is crap. Recently, SE Railways sent this piece of email drivel to my wife:

We don't have any kids, thankfully - and are not having any in the future. My wife was literally recovering from a sterilisation procedure when the email arrived. So it seemed a bit weird that they'd send

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2021/05/if-gender-female/

#/etc/ #badvertising #email #marketing #rail #spam