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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

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gilesdring, to random
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Ugh https://select2.org

hotdogsladies, to random
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The new rust is starting to come in real nice.

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gilesdring,
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@hotdogsladies The truth about copper patina turns out to be absolutely wild!

https://rotaxmetals.net/does-copper-rust/

cymplecy, to random
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is on Friday 23rd and Saturday 24th of August 2024 and I've managed to book accommodation for BOTH nights in the SAME establishment in actual :) :)

gilesdring,
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@cymplecy Ah, yes. the festival literally on my doorstep… and I’m in… Cornwall… bugger.

slowe, to random
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People can get bothered about exact colours for websites but, ultimately, out in the world everone gets something slightly different anyway. Even under the same office lighting.

gilesdring,
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@slowe Not to mention that people rarely have colour corrected monitors…

Edent, to random
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If you run a small business in the UK, what are your must have subscriptions?

Boosts very welcome!

gilesdring,
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@bencurthoys @Edent I’ve moved off TeamViewer to AnyDesk and then to DWservice, which (for my purposes, at least) is easier to work with. Depends what you need it for.

gilesdring,
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@Edent I’m forever on the cusp of paying for Tailscale, but the free tier is so good. This mainly to access a big desktop I use for dev work that sits in my office at home which I remotely access (via VSCode SSH Remote), rather than paying for a cloud dev environment. Other than that, email, cloud storage, FreeAgent (invoicing and VAT) and an accountant. Oh, and insurance, which I got via BCS. Pretty much everything else I could do without, tbh…

martinhowitt, to random
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Always good to see a taxonomist get into the final

gilesdring,
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@rgarner @martinhowitt That’s what you call a category error

heydon, to random
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MDN is down for me?

gilesdring,
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@heydon it’ll be DNS.

pikesley, to Ansible
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And there it is, the first appearance of the , from 1974

The cover of The Dispossessed by Ursula K LeGuin

gilesdring,
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@pikesley I recall need to get on with reading a load more Le Guin. Sought out (short story) Vaster Than Empires And More Slow a month or so ago and it was excellent.

ldodds, to random
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I keep getting spam email suggesting I should write a book and offering to write, publish and promote it for me:

Every email I get has the same name, a sig for "Authors On Mission", but a different throwaway gmail address.

https://authorsonmission.com/

A Very Legitimate Business, I'm sure.

gilesdring,
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@Floppy @ldodds I am also actively not writing book!

Related: any interest in forming a procrastination club of some sort?

gilesdring,
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@ldodds @Floppy When I get round to writing them, that will be the first rule of Procrastination Club.

gilesdring,
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@ldodds @Floppy the second rule will be: TBC

danhon, to random
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tfw you update your resume and you realize the opener with "over 15 years experience" needs adding another 5 years

gilesdring,
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@danhon Yes. Mine is approaching 30 years. I’m hanging on to that 25 for grim death. I mean, it’s still technically over 25 years, right?

gilesdring, to random
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London-adjacent Masto-friends with a penchant for music on the heavier end: The Armed play at Outernet on 12th June this year. Should be good. I’m going to be at the Leeds show the day before.

gilesdring,
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I should add: Leeds-adjacent Masto-friends with a penchant for music on heavier end: get to the Brudenell Social Club on 11th June. I’ll see you there.

ldodds, to random
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Anatomy of a Fall is a fantastic film.

gilesdring,
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@ldodds not seen Anatomy Of A Fall, but concur on Napoleon. Superficial and pretty pointless.

pikesley, to random
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What do you mean 16% of 2024 has already gone?

gilesdring,
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@rgarner @pikesley

heydon, to random
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Somebody give me a job in DevRel so I can change my display name to "Better The DevRel You Know"

gilesdring,
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@heydon “I’m gonna put on an iron shirt, and chase the DevRel out of Earth.” etc

gilesdring,
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@Floppy @heydon Speaking of which…

underlap, to random
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Is office365 unavailable today?

gilesdring,
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@underlap @cymplecy Underrated toot. 👏

slowe, to random
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Thanks to @benjohn, @gilesdring and others who have helped me work out how to update HexJSON to include boundaries. I'll write it up soon.

gilesdring,
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@slowe @benjohn thank you for the opportunity to use the word chirality.

gilesdring,
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@benjohn @slowe You’re right about the redundancy… but, for example, having a Scotland / England border encoded only from Scottish or English hexes might make sense when it comes to maintenance (spoiler alert: geographies change! 🤣).

gilesdring,
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@benjohn @slowe There’s also the fact that to continuous boundary around a single hex only allowing clockwise edges would require referencing four individual hexes, and if you decided to flip from even to odd layouts, that boundary would become discontinuous. Granted, this is an edge case, but the directionality allows slightly more expressive intent.

slowe, to random
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@benjohn Was it you who came up with a scheme for encoding lines in hex cartograms?

gilesdring,
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@benjohn @slowe Oooh. Now that is interesting. I could envisage an implementation that used this - the border of area A and area B might be the shared at points, but offsetting towards the “owning” hex would allow both to be rendered.

Edent, to privacy
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It's OK to lie to WiFi providers

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2020/03/its-ok-to-lie-to-wifi-providers/

gilesdring,
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@Edent Been doing this for ages. Kind regards “A B <aaaa@bbbb.com>”

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