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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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anders, to 11ty
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While building my new site in , which is a new tool for me, I wonder if it’s time for me to learn and as well.

I notice that I over and over again make a backup copy of a Nunjucks partial or my eleventy.config.js before trying something (that more often than not breaks some things). And sometimes I lose track on where I’m in my dev process.

Would I benefit from version control? Any relevant tutorials to share?

mez,
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@anders It’s pretty handy for that sort of trial and error use case. You also don’t have to have it duplicated remotely (like GitHub), but it isn’t a ton more to learn at that point to have it and get backups. Though maybe look at a non Microsoft option?

mez,
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@anders @cloudron Cool! I’ve been meaning to explore a self hosted Forgejo instance!

mez, to random
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Anyone used Runtipi for handling all their self-hosted software? Particularly on an RPi? Right now I manage software directly from the terminal, both directly installed or in Docker containers. How do you find it?

(I'll also take recs on other monitoring/management software, especially for remotely accessible services)

mez, to random
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More like this please. This needs to go nation wide! https://cloudisland.nz/@Happyfishmedia/112205781813112230

rbreich, to random
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If the Kroger-Albertsons merger goes through, that combined company + Walmart would control 70% of the grocery market in over 160 cities.

Think grocery prices are bad now?

Without competition, it would be a price gouging free-for-all.

This is why the FTC is suing to stop it.

mez,
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@rbreich @zeldman Oh yeah, stop this! NZ has two chains, like Aus, and it’s bad.

douginamug, to cooking
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"Cooklang – Recipe Markup Language"

https://cooklang.org/

I love this but also think it'll never take off (but should)

mez,
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@douginamug You may also enjoy https://schema.org/Recipe

mez, to random
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Any fluent German/English speakers out here? I have a translation question. Technical knowledge would be helpful, but I doubt that’s necessary as it’s a more generic question I hope.

mez, to random
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@adactio Has your brother ever considered trying to get in to the Barkley marathon? (Was just looking at some Spine race results from a Barker and remembered you tweeting out his achievements there!)

mez,
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@adactio Ah, so he has! I now see his name on one of the spreadsheets! 🙈Awesome!

mez, to random
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Jasmin Paris did that without an ACL?! 🤯 Hooooly shit!

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    mez,
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    @scott You can get induction compatible Moka Pots, I have friends who recently made the gas-> induction switch. I’m sure you can find a buyer for the old one!

    I would love to make the switch too! No space for anything but the on-demand gas-heated hot water though, so probably couldn’t get rid of it completely :( But getting the gas flame out of the house would be great. Better health too.

    mez, to random
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    I didn’t expect to find so many people here following ! Love it!

    Waiting with bated breath to see who makes it to the yellow gate! Come on !

    Snoweider, to random
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    Just woken up and catching up on . Anyone know how Jasmin is doing?

    mez,
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    @Snoweider !

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    mez,
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    @scott Welcome to the Unending War.

    Gotta get the roots all the way out, including that little hook. But maybe not possible with that many. We also poison the leaves (crushing the leaves to help it absorb) which has helped, but is a bit tedious.

    Good luck!

    mez,
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    @scott Yeah, the realisation that it’s going to continue coming over from the neighbours…😔

    mez, (edited ) to random
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    Do you say “fedeeverse” or “fedihverse”?
    The first is like “feet” the second is like “sit” (IPA /i/ and /ɪ/ respectively)

    Also, super helpful IPA pronunciation audio guide. https://www.vocabulary.com/resources/ipa-pronunciation/

    mez,
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    @spartanatreyu So the transposition of fede- to fedi- is a trap. I’ll take /ə/, I think I’m usually somewhere in the /ɪ/ to /ə/ range. I heard someone use the long e sound and it threw me!

    binx, to random

    new project! https://shrinkingsaltonsea.com

    wherein I track the receding shoreline of the Salton Sea, combining a 2007 bathymetric survey alongside 2023 and 2024 shorelines, collected by an ultramarathon runner who circles the shoreline annually to track each year's decline

    mez,
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    @binx But can I get jewellery made from it? :)

    I love that someone is running around it and tracking the data that way!

    octothorpe, to random
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    Hullo Designers and UX practitioners!

    Awhile back on Twitter, I wrote a small thread called "Notes for UI Designers Who Have Lost Their Way". Recently @louie asked if I brought it over here yet.

    Well, here is the original post. I'm hoping it will engender a great discussion as it did on Twitter, as these issues still exist.

    mez,
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    @octothorpe @louie Omg the Burn Disc missile silo doors! Didn’t those open to show the radiation warning symbol or something?

    mez,
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    @octothorpe @louie It did! Found it. Amazing!

    https://guidebookgallery.org/pics/apps/itunes/usage/playlists/burningcd/30.png

    loops, to random
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    An early look at the #Loops UI 👀

    mez,
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    @loops Can pixelfed roll some of these design concepts back to the photos ui? Very nice!

    mez, to ai
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    I get that ChatGPT & its ilk consume vast amounts of water to train the models. I’ve also heard that it takes N litres per prompt. But is that some sort of estimate based on training consumption or is the computational cost of a server just responding to a prompt that high that it has to be significantly cooled? I figured once the training was done, the rest was computationally cheap? Why is that not the case?

    (Bonus Q, how does it compare to general data centre server cooling?)

    mez,
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    @benchaotica Thanks for the link! I’ve just finished reading through the paper on ArXiv which helped explain a bit more. Good to see the two different numbers (training & inference). I didn’t realise the power requirements just to respond would be so high.

    Now I’m curious how that compares to, say, 20-50 requests for a webpage or a user’s Facebook timeline.

    mez,
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    @j Yeah, that’s another part of the equation! If I download a model and run it locally, it’s not adding environmental damage (just encouraging the souped up autocorrect industry)

    leaverou, to random
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    When doing case-insensitive matching of a needle (string) against a haystack (potentially large array of strings), which is faster:

    1. toLowerCase() (once on needle, then per each item in the haystack)
    2. Create regex with i flag, use regex.test()

    I would guess 1, but haven't checked. Does anyone know of any benchmark?

    mez,
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    @byjp @leaverou TIL how ASCII handles cases. Just a bit flip? That is very cool! I love finding out the little optimisations that you get using core methods in the language.

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