blinry

blinry, 19 hours ago to random

Booked an Interrail Pass to travel to #emfcamp, a hacker camp in the UK! #emf2024

Getting excited! 😆 This will be the first time I use the Channel Tunnel!

blinry, 5 days ago to random

Got collaboration working between VS Code and Neovim today! Really exciting! \o/

What features would you like to see in a tool like this? 🧑‍💻

A VS Code window and a Neovim window are open next to each other. When you type in one window, it is reflected in the other window!

blinry, 7 days ago to random

Presenting: Regexle, a wordle-like game for nerds 🤓

Guess the secret regular expression by testing strings against it!

@piko and I might be two years late with this project, but here we go!

:yayblob: https://regexle.ithea.de :yayblob:

blinry, 14 days ago to random

You might've heard this concern about veganism: "I couldn't live without cheese!" 🧀

And indeed, the vegan cheese that's available in supermarkets is often… not great so far.

So I wanted to show you how to make a simple, quick & cheap cheese from cashews! It's tangy, savory, and has lots of protein!

blinry, 21 days ago to random

Our roof garden is shaping up nicely! :)

Among other things, we planted spinach, kohlrabi, peas, and radishes this year, and it's fun to see them getting bigger! 🌱

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blinry, 23 days ago to random

Mandelhörnchen!

blinry, 26 days ago to random

Got my starting number for the Hamburg Marathon on Sunday!

So excited! 😆✨

Here's my report from last year: https://blinry.org/first-marathon/

blinry, 1 month ago to NixOS

Let's say I wanted to move my personal server from Arch to #NixOS…

Are there more modern webservers than nginx in 2024 that you can recommend from personal experience? Or is it still a good choice?

And are there alternatives to a dovecot + postfix + rspamd mail server?

Or calendar servers you like better than Radicale?

blinry, 1 month ago to random

A ranked list of the Wikipedia articles that are most discussed on Hacker News. Fun read! :D

https://www.mostdiscussed.com/popular

For example, I'd never heard about:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-Prime
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potato_paradox
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benford%27s_law

blinry, 1 month ago to random

Proud to present my entry for the "wild" compo at #revision2024:

"scrolll" – a demo for 32 HTML scrollbars! With music from @winniehell.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-aqB9Ii38Y

blinry, 1 month ago to random

On my way to my first @revisionparty! \o/ I have a last-minute idea for an entry, and a long train ride ahead of me! :) #revision2024

blinry, 1 month ago to random

I'd like to collect "hyper-interesting pages"! 🤯📄

Self-contained, single-page artifacts that can nerd-snipe you; that you could hand out at an event, and it'd keep people interested/busy for a while, or teach them something!

Examples:

• The hexagonal regex crossword from the 2013 MIT Mystery Hunt https://puzzles.mit.edu/2013/coinheist.com/rubik/a_regular_crossword/grid.pdf
• My Toki Pona cheat sheet https://blinry.org/toki-pona-cheat-sheet/
• The Dutil-Dumas message zine https://blinry.org/dutil-dumas/

Do you know more documents like this?

What do you wish existed?

A Toki Pona cheat sheet, that explains the full grammar of the constructed language.
A message in an alien font.

blinry, 1 month ago to random

I received two new submissions for the https://glitchgallery.org! I really love them:

"Pacman Pie" was the output of a buggy pie chart generator.

And "Neon Giraffe" is a faulty visualization of Edinburgh's bus network!

blinry, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to random

Hey :) @daniel_bohrer and I want to visit Switzerland this summer! Do we know anyone there who would enjoy a visit, and might have a couch for us to crash on? 🇨🇭

blinry, 2 months ago to random

Last week, I tried to find 50 things to do with a Software Defined Radio! 📻

It was quite an adventure! Here's a blog post about what I found, and how you can follow along:

https://blinry.org/50-things-with-sdr/

blinry, 2 months ago to random

"What should we have for lunch today?"

"Green."

blinry, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to random

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blinry, 2 months ago to random

I want to try the "make 50 of something" technique again!

So this week, I'll try to find 50 things to do with a Software Defined Radio! 📻

I'll use this simple USB dongle, which you can get for around $30.

blinry, 2 months ago to random

Is there a name for this type of diagram that helps you pick the best subway car, depending on where you want to get off?

And have you ever seen some outside of Tokyo?

Because I want more of those, and I'm thinking about whether it's possible go generate them from existing data… OSM might help, but the staircases might often be missing, I guess?

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blinry, 2 months ago to random

Caption this! 😂

(With @bleeptrack at the @PrototypeFund Demo Day)

blinry, 2 months ago to random

Does someone of you live in Saarbrücken, and might have a couch to crash on?

I'm thinking about attending @revisionparty for the first time (Easter weekend, 2024-03-29 to 2024-04-01)!

https://2024.revision-party.net

blinry, 2 months ago to random

This week, @bleeptrack and I are adding two features to our Git explorer for the web:

1. Multi-repo support! You can dynamically add more repos to play with, to try out and learn collaboration workflows!

2. Submodule support! While building this, we learned tons about how they work internally, and how to wrangle with them! \o/

blinry, 2 months ago to random

My friend @sequentialchaos made a site collecting Dles!

Like, you know, Wordle and Worldle and so on.

I know some of you are really into that type of game, so maybe you'll find a new favorite! We tried "WhereTaken" together and I thought it was nice.

You can also suggest new Dles!

https://aukspot.github.io/dles/

blinry, 2 months ago to NixOS

I made a PR to bring the #tic80 fantasy console to nixpkgs! https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/291129

If you wanna try it (and have Flakes enabled), you can simply run the following command:

nix run github:blinry/nixpkgs/tic-80#tic-80

Let me know if something breaks! :D Would be happy about feedback or code review in the PR! Haven't tried or enabled it on MacOS, if you wanted to try that, that'd also be wonderful! #nix #nixos #nixpkgs

blinry, 2 months ago to random

@leftpaddotpy Just watched your talk on finding things in nixpkgs, and wanted to say thanks! Think that will be really helpful for me!