@gilesdring@mastodon.me.uk
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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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media_dept, to UKpolitics
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I appreciate that its not the same as voting with your conscience (I would vote Green!) but with our crappy 'first past the post' electoral system, first and foremost the UK needs an end to continuous Tory governments. Using this link I get an idea of who I need to vote for in my constituency to, statistically if not morally, absolutely clobber the Tories into oblivion.

https://stopthetories.vote/about

#generalElection2024 #ukpolitics #UKGeneralElection #tacticalVoting #GetTheToriesOut #GE2024

k9ox, to random
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Tip: Stop "googling" for information. Learn how to "wiki" any subject from the wikipedia Main_Page search bar.

Bookmark en.wikipedia.org

Try it now. Look up anything. Then select "Further Reading" or "External Links" for the deep web we use to get from google.

k9ox,
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Prototype for a new search page:

http://ward.dojo.fed.wiki/assets/page/new-search-page/index.html

mathowie, to random
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https://phanpy.social is a pretty incredible Mastodon client. Entirely web based, looks great on mobile and desktop, you can configure your shortcuts that appear above or below the river of news.

Some screenshots from my own account: good notifications page, different kinds of toots get a different status, plus Boosts are shown in their own carousel.

I've heard one developer made all this, it's pretty incredible.

Boosts are rolled up into a carousel of toots you can view with sideways scrolling
Threads are shown grouped together and single posts from threads are indicated as such.

KydiaMusic, to random
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Yes, I can confirm that it feels amazing to be able to create your own music.

YOU SHOULD TRY IT SOMETIME

ncdominie, to random
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xkcd 2347: cathedral edition.

stavvers, to random
@stavvers@masto.ai avatar

I'm super enjoying everyone discovering that the aurora looks almost nothing like it does in photos but is somehow even more magical once you learn how to see it. It's beautiful, isn't it?

stavvers,
@stavvers@masto.ai avatar

If you think you can only see the northern lights from your phone, you're probably wrong, it's just it shows up differently to the camera. To see with your eyes, look at a star, shielding out any streetlights. Stare at that star, and out of the corners of your eyes you'll start to see bright patches that look like smoke or hazy bright clouds. That's it! Keep looking, not directly at it, and you'll begin to see streaks and ribbons, and subtle changes, sometimes a little bit of colour.

cvennevik, to 11ty
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11ty International Symposium on Making Web Sites Real Good, let's goooooooo (live-posting thread)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLxJ6PtuF9M

hotdogsladies, (edited ) to random
@hotdogsladies@mastodon.social avatar

Steve Albini would see kids' letters to Santa and then personally deliver the presents they asked for on Christmas Morning.

This is a dimension I had not been aware of.

https://readwise.io/reader/shared/01hxfqfwah4fbz5fvekh3sxszg

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

slowe, to TheArchers
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Blog post: A workplace parking levy tool for Ambridge https://open-innovations.org/blog/2024-05-08-workplace-parking-levy-tool In which we use the fictional Borsetshire as a demo.

Tattooed_Mummy, to random
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But is AI a scam?

Tick tock video asking if AI is a scam. the answer is yes.

mrpjevans, to random
@mrpjevans@mastodon.social avatar

One for fellow software devs out there.

I thought 'Oh, a silly grammar cock-up that makes for a fun local news story'. Then I read the first line. I won't spoil the surprise but maybe make sure there's no-one close when you yell 'OH FOR FU...'

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-68942321

yatil, to accessibility
@yatil@yatil.social avatar

Happy 25 years of WCAG!

On this day in 1999, the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 were published. WCAG 2.2 is still one of the most important standards on the web, ensuring a base level of access for everyone.

1.0 – May 5, 1999 https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10/
2.0 – Dec 11, 2008 https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20/
2.1 – Jun 5, 2018 https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG21/
2.2 – Oct 5, 2023 https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG22/

#wcag #a11y #accessibility

18+ grifferz, to london
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Thanks Londoners for voting Count Binface above Britain First. Chances to be proud of my country and my city sometimes seem so far apart, but I rejoice in the categorical rejection of these racist knuckle draggers. ❤️

samsterby, to random
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So, I didn’t win my ward in Withington, Manchester… BUT…

🌹 The sitting Labour councillor cancelled our LTN.
🔸 The LibDem candidate came out as hard anti.
💚 I think this is a pretty convincing bar chart 😘

plaguepoems, to random
@plaguepoems@mastodon.social avatar

I asked my cousin
the university student
if she and her friends
are worried
about what participating
in these protests
might mean for their future
and she replied
that they are worried
about everyone’s future
and that is why
they are protesting.

penfriendrocks, to random
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It's so massive, and it humbles me...so I wrote eight songs using it as a metaphor and you can get your copy of my new live gig experience here: https://penfriendrocks.bandcamp.com/album/she-sings-sea-songs-online-gig-may-2024

Celebrating Bandcamp Day, when the platform waives fees to support indie artists - thank you! 🌊⚓️🐙

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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.
18+ gilesdring,
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The finished product. Loaded fries.

mathowie, to random
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I’ve had this app installed for less than an hour but I can already tell it’ll be killer for handling drafts and finally having something that lets me search through my own 2,000+ posts here whenever I want to reference old ones.

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

aral, to fediverse
@aral@mastodon.ar.al avatar

Tusks is a little indie Mastodon app by @bardi that lets you see just your posts and compose new ones (with a focus on making it easy to compose threads).

Just bought myself a lifetime license.

Check it out at https://thirdculture.app/tusks

Love to see indie devs making useful little tools that do what they say on the tin and nothing more (check out the privacy policy in the attached screenshot).

DaveB_Shrews, to random
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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

slowe, to random
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Is anyone here a big fan of The Archers? Are there any places I'm missing from my list of Borsetshire Hereditaments? https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/13F64v5F50Cub48C9g68ShmhWglswwmE-RuTABB_5VGM/edit#gid=0

joannechocolat, to random
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On what would have been his 76th birthday, here's the essay I wrote for the 2019 edition of WYRD SISTERS, by Terry Pratchett. . https://ko-fi.com/post/Remembering-Terry-Pratchett-I3I7XFZXI

NeoNacho, to random

guy who doesn't do anything is surprised that other people's jobs actually involve doing things

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