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gilesdring

@gilesdring@mastodon.me.uk

Works: dringtech (making IT work for small businesses) and Open Innovations (putting data on the web). Code #javascript #typescript #python #html #css

Home: playing #guitar and tinkering with #audioEngineering.

Live: #HebdenBridge

“Moderately well assembled human”

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heydon, to random
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Currently obsessed with Mudhoney. Many may write them off as "grunge also-rans". Not only was the term 'grunge' coined to describe their sound, but it's not the overdriven DS-1 sound of their more famous peers. It's 60s style germanium fuzz. They were the first grunge band to break the UK, the band's singer, Mark Arm, packages and ships their records himself and--for my money--their post grunge era records are their best. Oh! And they have lyrics about shithead antivaxxers.

gilesdring,
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@heydon Yeah. Mudhoney were / are grunge, as far as I was concerned. Listen fairly frequently to Superfuzz Bigmuff, and boy does it stand up well. There’s a documentary about them, and they are just properly good people.

gilesdring,
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@heydon Documentary called “I’m Now: The Story Of Mudhoney”.

gilesdring, (edited )
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@heydon Just banged on their latest album while gardening. Ooof. Good stuff! Was vaguely aware of it coming out and people saying good things about it, but that was up there energy-wise with their early stuff! Thx for rec!

pikesley, to random
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Just found these in the garden, probably nothing

gilesdring,
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@pikesley Absolutely t’riffic.

gilesdring, to random
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Erm… wow!

Northern lights over Hebden Bridge.

ldodds, to random
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I just mis-read a media type as "mans/plain" and now I'm trying hard not to write the RFC for it.

gilesdring,
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@Floppy @ldodds @pikesley I have written the reference in C/lion.

gilesdring,
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@Floppy @ldodds @otfrom @pikesley “the bullshit is coming from INSIDE THE INSTANCE!”

gilesdring, to aitools
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Been tinkering about with rsync to automatically publish static sites. Found out some useful stuff after much trawling of Stack Overflow et al, so thought I’d write it up. I’m sure that future me will find this useful.

https://dringtech.com/blog/2024/kitchen-sync/

#tools #automation

gilesdring,
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It has already proved useful to do this, as I needed a test site to check if a library upgrade to the newest version of the Lume SSG was working. I was quickly able to spin up a completely separate site to check everything worked Ok after I got the basic build sorted and error-free.

Thanks, past me…

gilesdring, to random
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Incredibly saddened to hear about Steve Albini’s death. Uncompromising and inspirational.

gilesdring, (edited )
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Spent last night listening to Riderless Horse by Nina Nastasia, which he recorded for her.

gilesdring, (edited )
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Followed this by Rid Of Me by P J Harvey.

gilesdring,
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This morning it’s all about Steve’s band Shellac. 1000 Hurts. Cathartic.

danhon, to random
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I just realized the Holodeck actually runs on Excel.

gilesdring,
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@danhon Always a good day when I can justify spending 5 minutes searching for this evergreen content… https://www.neopoleon.com/blog/excel-as-a-database/

18+ gilesdring, to random
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Ever fancied making your own nacho cheese?

50ml lemon juice
1/2 tsp baking soda
80ml milk
200g cheese

  1. Mix lemon juice and baking soda
  2. Allow fizzing to stop. Congratulations, you’ve made Sodium Citrate.
  3. Add milk and bring to simmer
  4. Melt cheese into the liquid. It should remain gooey.
gilesdring,
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Here’s more info… https://www.cheeseprofessor.com/blog/sodium-citrate-cheese-sauce

gilesdring, to random
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Just downloaded the Tusks app created by @bardi. I’m planning to use this for public journalling, mainly about stuff that I’m working on. Apologies in advance for the sudden increase in questionable value content. I suspect it’ll last a week and then normal service will be resumed. First impressions of the app are good. Reminds me of Birdhouse. Really nice to be able to see only my posts, and focus on writing, rather than responding

https://mas.to/@bardi/112365896372971256

gilesdring,
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FWIW, this thread was drafted between my phone and iPad. Saving in one immediately updated the content of the other.

pikesley, to random
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Boost if you've recently attended a "poorly run small music venue" that actually managed to put on a show

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/may/01/manchester-co-op-live-arena-cancels-opening-concert-after-technical-issue

gilesdring,
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@pikesley Have scarcely attended any others between The Trades Club and The Brudenell. Shout out to The Piece Hall, which manages biggish gigs OK too (no ceiling for shoddily attached A/C units to fall from, see). Last arena gig would have been at (checks notes) the existing arena in Manchester which still works OK.

gilesdring,
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@pikesley also, the existing Manchester arena is not in an area known for shocking road traffic congestion, and is actually connected directly to one of the existing actual railway stations of central Manchester.

(Yes, I’m aware that they’re extending the tram to the Coop Live, but that is still less convenient than being right next to the station.)

Floppy, to 3DPrinting
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Gonna grit my teeth and do some “marketing” tomorrow I think, see if I can get any content creators to check out @manyfold. I’m telling you lot so I have to do it and can’t procrastinate my way out of it.

gilesdring,
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@Floppy @manyfold Have you finished those errands? Have you finished those errands? Have you finished those errands? https://youtu.be/86CK_kd8kY4

pikesley, to random
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This is fun https://youtu.be/vd7FRjhwSxc?si=3qm2MQqYGvWt79mJ

gilesdring,
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@pikesley Yes. Chopin is the best one. I’ll fight anyone who says otherwise.

gilesdring, to random
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For fans of playful avant-garde French jazz with occasional hints of Motörhead, but orchestrated with over-processed harp and flute, I can heartily recommend the Nout Live Album

https://gigantonium.bandcamp.com/album/nout-live-album

hotdogsladies, to random
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Better than eight minutes, I guess.

gilesdring,
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@hotdogsladies Do you mean “better than eirght minutes”?

heydon, to random
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I'm writing about the <article> element now. To preempt myself, I just want to say: it's completely useless. I never use it. Why? Because it's designed to represent an independent piece of content BUT since the document outline algorithm has never been implemented and the element (inevitably) appears as part of a larger web page, it should be introduced with an <h2> heading. BUT it makes no sense to head an "independent, distributable" piece of content with a subsection heading. Trash 0/5.

gilesdring,
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@heydon 💯no comments

agiletortoise, to random
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TFW you get dressed up so rarely that when you do, your dress shoes are so old and neglected that the left and right shoe both disintegrate in exactly the same way while you are out being dressed up.

gilesdring,
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@agiletortoise Ah… looks like a bit of hydrolysis, which I only learned about this week… https://www.shoe-repairs.co.uk/blog/understanding-hydrolysis-footwear-and-how-protect-your-shoes

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