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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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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

pikesley, to random
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Why are people just walking about with stars stuck to their faces?

gilesdring,
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@rgarner @pikesley Big Dort Dring has these. We find them all over the house.

gilesdring,
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@pikesley @rgarner @Floppy i always said you were classy

benjohn, to random
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Metal object my son found on the floor in Naples, Italy. Next to U.K. £1 coin for scale. I have no idea what it is? Any ideas?

gilesdring,
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@benjohn I’m going for fancy snap buckle from handbag or similar.

bagder, (edited ) to cisco
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I was reminded of the great security fix of 2019

gilesdring,
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@nullcolaship @foosel @bagder Just think of all those tabs they’d have been able to remove if they’d escaped their regex properly.

pikesley, to london
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Proposing an amendment to the that makes it illegal to enter at all if you read the Daily Mail

gilesdring,
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@pikesley Ultra Lefty Enablement Zone

gilesdring,
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@pikesley Khaaaaaaaaaaan!

wlukewindsor, to random
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Cooking breakfast for one of my sons reminded him of this ❤️

video/mp4

gilesdring,
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@wlukewindsor You need this book. Howl’s Bacon And Eggs is a new favourite.

aral, to random
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Is there a name for the law that states that every time you implement a recursive algorithm, you will accidentally create an infinite loop? Or is it just me?

gilesdring,
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@aral Been racking my brains for an appropriate law name, and the best I’ve come up with is Turtle’s Law - as in “turtles all the way down”.

heydon, to random
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What's a good/cheap host with easy/automatic https cert setup for static sites? Netlify but without the surprise charges?

gilesdring,
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@heydon I’ve used Deno Deploy pretty successfully.

gilesdring,
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@heydon I would say, I tend to use Lume quite a lot to build sites, which is in the Deno ecosystem. I think you need to provide your own minimal static server, and I probably picked one up as boilerplate somewhere.

https://lume.land

gilesdring,
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@heydon Oh no, I stand corrected. There’s a deno module which serves static pages.

https://docs.deno.com/deploy/tutorials/static-site

pikesley, to random
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Imagine if Britain was a real place

gilesdring,
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@pikesley https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wyre_Piddle

gilesdring,
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@pikesley also, https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=16/53.7536/-2.0292

gilesdring,
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@rgarner @pikesley Well, Slack Top is just up the road, so story checks out…

fimion, to random
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New trolling idea: add random tailwind classes to your code base but never add tailwind. Then when someone tries to copy your style, it turns into garbage. Thanks tailwind!

gilesdring,
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@fimion @heydon This could also work as a trap street.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trap_street

mykie, to random
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Are there any modern browsers that can replicate that cozy feeling of way too many toolbars like we had back on IE 6? Where you only had a tiny little space to actually browse websites.

gilesdring,
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@mykie I mean, this basically describes a good 50% of websites if you replace “lycos toolbar” with “ads / cookie banners / popovers / mailing list signup dialog boxes”

gilesdring,
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@mykie “Would you like to install the del.icio.us / yahoo! / Ask Jeeves / AltaVista toolbar to enhance your browsing experience?”

No.

gilesdring,
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@mykie Although I do agree that the “outside the box” content is better than the stuff that leaps in front of you.

gilesdring,
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@mykie This conversation has reminded me of this work of art.

https://userinyerface.com/

mattedgar, to random
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No, I don't want a personalised experience

gilesdring,
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@mattedgar “Yes, we are all individuals!” “I’m not!”

gilesdring, to random
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I’m off work next week and planning to read some Ursula K Le Guin, whose works I’ve unconscionably omitted from my reading until being obliquely recommended “Vaster Than Empires And More Slow” recently. Having done that, where should I start?

gilesdring,
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@wlukewindsor @danhon Yes. They were on my radar too. Was more in a science fiction mood, but also read a bunch of short stories (cross genre), and was very impressed with her ability to bend the genre to her style, rather than the other way round

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