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vic, 2 days ago to random

Anyone else finding it impossible to use Ecosia / DuckDuckGo today? Main page loads but no search results.

vic, 14 days ago to python

Okay, #Python officially rocks

(search for matplotlib style sheets for code for this, and lots more)

This is a python animation created in matplotlib. There is a ladder of white lines on a black background. The lines animate and make the impression of all moving right, to create a black and white landscape of highs and lows. Like flying over an early computer generated space landscape. Or, if you remember that, like someone animated Joy Division's "Unknown Pleasures" album cover. In a hint to that, the graph is titled "Unmet Dependencies" in all caps.

vic, 15 days ago to python

#ThreeGoodThings

1. Live music at the Brangwyn Hall tonight - mind blown by Caroline Shaw's "The Observatory"
2. Sunset & sea smell & birdsong
3. Beginning to understand #Python well enough to start wrangling some local data to "Dig Where I Stand" (any tips for styling matplotlib to only display years on the x axis? #WholeLottaTicks)

@3goodthings

jonny, 25 days ago (edited 25 days ago) to random

bro you can't draw a whole ass ornamental dropcap and sit there and write an entire page about how you don't have time to proofread

vic, 1 month ago to 3goodthings

#ThreeGoodThings @3goodthings

1. Asked for help and space when having a Bad Day, and got both
2. We re-potted house plants as they were outgrowing their pots
3. A lovely, thoughtful radio programme about Ryuichi Sakamoto https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001y984

vic, 1 month ago to accessibility

If your "AI powered color palette generator" has as much trouble understanding color #accessibility requirements as human designers, then you are doing the opposite of helping.

Now I am promised 2 problems, and 2 conversations where I'm trying to explain what WCAG AAA means and why it matters: one with your Spicy Clippy, and one with an actual human who'll clean up after your gizmo is done.

Hard pass. I reckon my odds are better with the human.
Do better or GTFO.

Got some colors, but they are mostly not passing WCAG AAA. Trying to get the color picker to fix WCAG AAA normal text passing against the first color in the feedback prompt.
aaaand... nope. Still not passing on the revision.

vic, 1 month ago to 3goodthings

#ThreeGoodThings @3goodthings

1. Two new books from the library and a nice chat with the people who work there
2. A discounted pack of crumpets from the supermarket
3. Neighbours' cute little black cat came over for scritches when I left the house this evening

vic, 1 month ago to cymru

#ThreeGoodThings @3goodthings

1. Fixed some edits on a moving & positive documentary which was so good it made me cry
2. Sunny evening walk in green surroundings
3. This concert on the radio - give it a listen if you want, it's lovely music from #Wales and sometimes by #Welsh composers / Simfonia #Cymru + Sean Shibe who is highly dope: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001xwds

vic, 1 month ago to vegetarian

#ThreeGoodThings @3goodthings

1. Baked bara brith last evening, started eating it today, and it's 👌 🔥 💯
2. A nice afternoon run on which I saw a small black dachshund in a pink jacket
3. Got my book from the library and am about to get nerdy with #vegetarian food again because of it.

vic, 1 month ago to python

#ThreeGoodThings @3goodthings

1. Covid vaccine booster
2. Ice cream by the sea
3. Keeping up my #Python #Learning streak

seachanger, 1 month ago to random

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vic, 1 month ago to 3goodthings

#ThreeGoodThings @3goodthings

1. A new bag of coffee beans
2. Hot water bottle
3. Getting my old devices to perform reasonably well again

seachanger, 1 month ago to random

‘airhaulers fantasize about hauling more than air’ pretty much sums up the big black truck set https://universeodon.com/@LaNaehForaday/112185401724797739

vic, 1 month ago to 3goodthings

#ThreeGoodThings @3goodthings

1. Got Zorin OS to work on my old backup laptop - and how!
2. Looking forward to a long weekend
3. Pizza for dinner

vic, 2 months ago to random

Good to be set up on @Codeberg . I used to use Github + Beeminder integration to keep learning to code, but can't bear to look at any AI-powered malarky any more (ergo Gitlab is also out, sry). Codeberg's got me an RSS feed so can beemind commits that way.

vic, 2 months ago to 3goodthings

#ThreeGoodThings @3goodthings

1. A friend came over to visit
2. And we ate lots of chocolate cake
3. And I figured out (again, after many years) how to do a git commit from my command line

ben, 2 months ago to random

If AI makes it easier to create generic, middle-of-the-road content, the way forward for human beings is to create content that is out there on the edges, blazing ground that probabilistic algorithms could never possibly reach. Which, honestly, I wish more people would do anyway. The middle of the road has nothing new to say.

vic, 2 months ago to 3goodthings

#ThreeGoodThings @3goodthings

1. Warm sunshine ☀️
2. Leftover pizza for lunch 🍕
3. The Verve's "Urban Hymns" 🎸

luis_in_brief, 2 months ago to random

Apparently I'm in a torch-some-bridges kind of mood today.

vic, 2 months ago to vegan

Hey, #askFedi - help me make something delicious.

Got these out of curiosity last night before realizing I have no idea what they work well with. What would you prepare with these?

Any #recipe ideas welcome, and #vegan or #vegetarian ones go to the top of the list.

llamasoft_ox, 2 months ago to random

Oi! My code is buggy enough without your help little guy! 🕷️

vic, 3 months ago to 3goodthings

#ThreeGoodThings @3goodthings

1. The house move is 99% complete and the new place is beginning to feel like home
2. Nice morning run despite the rain
3. Mozart on the radio, always a good way to wake up

Wen, 3 months ago to random

Cancer - who would have thought?

#Cancer #RoyalFamilty

vic, 3 months ago to 3goodthings

#ThreeGoodThings @3goodthings

1. Rice cooker gingerbread chocolate brownie
2. Meditated in the morning
3. Had a nice nap

vic, 3 months ago to 3goodthings

#ThreeGoodThings @3goodthings

1. Progress in furniture assembly before the move
2. Also managed to work out internet settings in the new house
3. Rediscovering the joy of DIY