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mez

@mez@mastodon.nz

Work: Web & software development 🧑🏼‍💻

Play: Ultimate (retired?) 🥏, climbing 🧗🏼, tramping 🏕, D&D 🧙🏼‍♂️

My header is from the Oregon on the US west (best) coast.

That's Guster in my profile pic with me. He's a good pupper, but couldn't move to New Zealand with me.

He/Him, wouldn't be fussed by They

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adam, to pnw
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This creator makes a great point. I support restoring the names of the Cascade peaks to their original names—for justice but also because they are generally superior names.

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mez,
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@adam That would be awesome. I’ve looked (weak online search) for the original names of the Three Sisters but was unable to find them. Cause that’s a pretty weak name set as well. Faith, Hope, and Charity is slightly better, but uh… colonial religion much?

mez,
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@BeamsAndBows @adam That matches with the document Adam linked! Thanks you two! I really wish this history was better taught in school.

donaldball, to random
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Okay so fucking off Google: what are good replacements for Docs and Sheets? I think I'm good for everything else. I'm happy to pay a reasonable rate.

mez,
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@lightweight @donaldball Did you have any major reason for choosing OnlyOffice vs LibreOffice / Collabora with NextCloud? (I can’t recall if I asked this before 😅)

mez, to webdev
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Does anyone have any good resources for making a drag-and-drop list reordering interface accessible to non-mouse users? The lists can be nested.

Using a form seems clunky:

  1. Place item at top level OR inside Item B
  2. Place at start OR after Item C

Reveal up/down arrows to keyboard focus? How do I move items in and out of nested hierarchies? How to I keep the primary list interface from not getting cluttered?

mez,
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Making this work for touch would be good too. Small arrows may be hard to hit, drag and drop requires motor skills (and a library that works with touch events 🙄)

mez,
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@aligorith Yeah, I often check apps like Confluence, Notion, etc. Neither allow re-ordering without drag and drop. Just “move to” (which places it inside another page). Notion’s keyboard accessibility, at least tabbing around, just isn’t there.

I’m wondering about tabbing between items and then ctrl-arrow to move it. Doesn’t solve touch yet and also requires learning hotkeys.

A tools menu may work instead, like you say, but it means more interactions to get to the command.

andybaio, to random
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Today's my birthday, and all I want is YOUR CLIPBOARD! Hit reply and paste—NO EDITING! ✂️📋🎉

mez,
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@andybaio

mez, (edited ) to random
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Poll for previous toot.

mez,
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@zeborah Yeah the current setup is a little weird, but surviving to the person in it. I’d like to accommodate that but also make it generalised for any other setup.

I think the bed “wants” to be pillows under the right window.

I like the closet lighting idea.

mez, (edited ) to random
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I am replacing a single bulb in a bedroom with two LED down lights. The room has been modified with a built in closet that insets into the room. Where should I put the two lights?

(Poll next toot)

mez,
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Ugh poll toot didn’t get set as a reply. It’s here if you don’t see it https://mastodon.nz/@mez/112300511937112367

mez,
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@BigD I’ll probably put a dimmer switch in, and if possible a secondary one where the bed would be. I think even if I did 1 light I’d have a similar question.

mez,
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@BigD The sparky is only going to do the required bits :)
I swapped all the 6k lights in the lounge and kitchen to a more pleasing warmer setting. That’s been nice.

joncounts, to NewZealand
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"The government has released the list of organisations it provided information to on how to apply for fast-track consents - just hours before public submissions on the bill close."

If you haven't submitted yet, there's still two hours to submit your views on this.

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/514743/government-releases-list-of-organisations-shoulder-tapped-for-fast-track-consents

https://www.parliament.nz/en/ECommitteeSubmission/54SCENV_SCF_083F0A7B-F182-41D5-0897-08DC3E31559C/CreateSubmission

mez,
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@joncounts At 7pm the night submissions close? Ffs…

nazhamid, to random
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With newsletter software issues, and realizing that you should own your stack anyway, here’s S3E1 of the delayed Weightshifting on my site.

https://nazhamid.com/newsletter/s3e1-double-rainbow-all-the-way/

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mez,
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@nazhamid That sunset photo is unreal! 😍

tkinias, to random
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I just read that a single Bitcoin transaction requires upwards of 1,000 kW-hr of electricity.

That’s like running a small air conditioner 24/7 for a month and a half.

mez,
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@tkinias Now I’m confused how my heat pump is supposed to be so efficient, yet is spec’d at 6kWh. Small window a/c units can be ~0.5 kWh??

(Not to take away from the horrendous power usage of crypto)

mez,
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@theelectricteal @tkinias Ah 15m^2 isn’t too big, but my heat pump definitely struggles with the space I have (probably around 40m^2?) Quick look says a 6kW pump should handle an open area 27-40 m^2. Probably helps to have a modern build though w/good insulation and windows 😅

nazhamid, to random
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Having a heck of a time with Buttondown working and the editor completely flaking out. Thus a delay on Weightshifting — I’d have published this to my site in minutes compared to the hours I’ve been trying to get Buttondown to work or send a properly formatted email.

Just another reason to own your stack, and begs the question: do I bother with the email/newsletter? Just publish to the site and maybe have Buttondown pick it up from an RSS feed (which seems like a more reasonable direction)?

mez,
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@nazhamid I signed up for the email, but would be even happier with an RSS feed.

mez, to DnD
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Power Word Kill with 95 HP 💀
Directly after drinking a potion of invulnerability 🤦🏽

mez, to random
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Cleaning up my HD get some storage space back and I'd like a script that goes through and removes the node_modules folder whenever the files in the parent folder haven't been touched in a month or more. Inactive project? No need for node_modules, just reinstall if it's ever worked on again.

mez,
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Actually starting to wonder if there’s anything wrong with this idea. I’d scope it to a couple project directories for safety and speed. Seems like returning to an old project would want npm ci instead of npm install

Sanity check me, Mastodon, what else am I missing?

mez,
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@kaspi Yeah, that’s my thought too, but it’d end up a problem either way eventually I think.

mez, to random
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Just realised that the new MS Teams app is twice the size of the Classic version. WTF, why is a chat app 1gb?? Why did they DOUBLE the size for the new version? Ugh...

bw, to random
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11ty peeps, say I have the following:

pages/

  • 10-my-first-page.md
  • 20-my-second-page.md
  • 30-my-third-page.md

I'm setting the permalink thusly:

permalink: "{{ page.filePathStem }}/"

What is the easiest way to get 11ty to ignore the number in the slug that I am using just for sorting purposes? I would like the permalink to be, for example:

/pages/my-first-page/index.html

But currently I get:

/pages/10-my-first-page/index.html

mez,
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@bw The side benefit is it stops you from ever writing listicles "7-must-use-JS-frameworks.md" (there's 0, and the filter rightfully messes this title up)

miclgael, to random
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I now know of 4 friends who left Optus and got prepaid aldi sims. 3 immediately after the big breach, and one waited out their contracts and has just left recently.

You can opt to keep your number, but I chose to start fresh (given the breach and all) - and it’s my preference because it stops scams dead in their tracks.

You’re really mostly getting scam calls / texts because your number has been on the dark web for years and years. And probably is marked as “answers” or “replies”

mez,
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@miclgael That’s a big mobile plan savings! I’m slowly moving things over to self-hosted, but need to make sure I have better redundancy for hardware failure

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