Wallsocket and Girl With Fish are seriously neck-and-neck contenders for #AOTY

…but there are so many other cool releases too: Dogsbody, Javelin, and Integrated Tech Solutions are all *up there*.

2023 has been an amazing year for music.

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SPRF Pelikids: 0.84 miles, 00:10:10 average pace, 00:08:31 duration
ran with ace. she did great with only a couple of walk breaks. definitely had me working hard! pretty cool to run on the rowdies field, too!
#running #race

SPRF 10km: 6.26 miles, 00:08:31 average pace, 00:53:18 duration
brutally hot and humid. body was fine for the most part but it definitely had my HR high. saw ray on the course pacing someone and talked to him for a bit which was a nice break. i felt good about the run even though it was exhausting. took me quite a while to cool down afterwards.
#running #race

@prologic@twtxt.net Cool to see you’re still here too.

Apple Event Scheduled for October 30, Grab a Cool Spooky Mac Wallpaper to Match
Apple has announced a special event for the evening of October 30, titled “Scary Fast”. The event is widely assumed to be focused on the Mac, due to the event webpage having an Apple logo that morphs into the Finder icon, perhaps with refreshed updates to the iMac and MacBook line. Obviously the name “Scary … [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2023/10/24/apple-event-scheduled-fo … ⌘ Read more

I acquired a new, fancy domain for a new side project. A site with tips on how to save money on purchases is something I would like to start. The search for a CMS reminds me of why I built GoBlog: all available options are not optimal. But GoBlog also isn’t optimal for this project for various reasons, as it shouldn’t be a typical personal blog. And now I have this really cool domain and question my plans. 😅 ⌘ Read more

This is some cool development for the go 1.22 standard http mux. Its adding the ability to have path vars and define methods for handlers. Also the errors are quite helpful if you have conflicting paths!

https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2023/better-http-server-routing-in-go-122/

Text Adventure Week Begins!
Listen now (8 mins) | (Because Text Adventures are cool.) ⌘ Read more

More Tech Creators moving to Locals + Massive Lunduke Journal Sale
Listen now (20 mins) | This is very cool. A little birdy tells me that some (very) cool Tech YouTubers and Podcasters are about to make the move to Locals. And The Lunduke Journal is doing a sale this weekend for a very awesome reason. Take a listen to the show. You’ll want to subscribe if you haven’t yet. ⌘ Read more

Announcing Docker AI/ML Hackathon
With the return of DockerCon, held October 4-5 in Los Angeles, we’re excited to announce the kick-off of a Docker AI/ML Hackathon. Join us at DockerCon — in-person or virtually — to learn about the latest Docker product announcements. Then, bring your innovative artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) solutions to life in the hackathon for a chance to win cool prizes. ⌘ Read more

Tailscale and Mullvad
This is some really cool news! You can now use Tailscale and Mullvad simultaneously without any additional setup required. ⌘ Read more

Release Radar · July 2023 Edition
After the last Release Radar, I promised the next one wouldn’t be far away, so here it is. This is the low down on some of the best open source projects that shipped major version updates in July. There’s lots of cool stuff from natural language processing, to APIs, money, and SDKs. I won’t spoil […]

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@prologic@twtxt.net whoa that’s so cool!

How much is a Tasmanian wine grape worth compared to a mainland grape?
The latest vintage report for Tasmania reveals a record price per tonne for grapes grown in the cool climate region, after a drop in production of 1 per cent. ⌘ Read more

what.

Cactus Comments has now seen over 1.2 million unique users - only counting guest users on our free public instance.

Guest users on instances not hosted by us and signed in users on any server don’t even count in this statistic.

cactus.chat has to be the Matrix server with most guest users at this point…

I keep spotting implementations in the wild as well. Last week I saw someone using it for the comment section of a livestream! So cool.

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https://artixlinux.org Running artix full wayland setup with sway as WM and runit as init. KISS and flying, so cool :)

Russia blowing up the Nova Kakhovka dam is an incomprehensible war crime. Among other things, it drains water from the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, water that is needed for cooling. They are trying to generate a widespread disaster.

They must be stopped, immediately, without hesitation. This is unacceptable behavior, crossing every red line we have no matter our politics, without any doubt.

@shreyan@twtxt.net I agree re: AR. Vircadia is neat. I stumbled on it years ago when I randomly started wondering “wonder what’s going on with Second Life and those VR things” and started googling around.

Unfortunately, like so many metaverse efforts, it’s almost devoid of life. Interesting worlds to explore, cool tools to build your own stuff, but almost no people in it. It feels depressing, like an abandoned shopping mall.

@prologic@twtxt.net @carsten@yarn.zn80.net

(1) You go to the store and buy a microwave pizza. You go home, put it in the microwave, heat it up. Maybe it’s not quite the way you like it, so you put some red pepper on it, maybe some oregano.

Are you a pizza chef? No. Do we know what your cooking is like? Also no.

(2) You create a prompt for StableDiffusion to make a picture of an elephant. What pops out isn’t quite to your liking. You adjust the prompt, tweak it a bunch, till the elephant looks pretty cool.

Are you an artist? No. Do we know what your art is like? Also no.

The elephant is “fake art” in a similar sense to how a microwave pizza is “fake pizza”. That’s what I meant by that word. The microwave pizza is a sort of “simulation of pizza”, in this sense. The generated elephant picture is a simulation of art, in a similar sense, though it’s even worse than that and is probably more of a simulacrum of art since you can’t “consume” an AI-generated image the way you “consume” art.

Very cool. I like the chain rules. I wonder how it performs against lextwt.

Too lazy or too ambitious?
Today was the second day of my “Hell Week”. Not because my week is so bad, it is after all holidays and time off, no, because I have arrived in the last week of the “Training Journey” at Freeletics. At the end of the Journey, the “coach” requires training every day, usually a so-called “god workout” in addition to warm-up and cool-down. ⌘ Read more

System76 building a brand new laptop, designed in-house
Built at their Denver, Colorado factory. Which is pretty cool. ⌘ Read more

Dahlias go viral as social media makes these classic blooms cool again
From their humble origins as a cottage garden staple, dahlias are experiencing a resurgence in popularity thanks to the power of social media — and James Bond. ⌘ Read more

I’m currently validating the use of the OpenAI API as a cheaper and more powerful alternative to the Google Translate API. I hope my plans succeed and there will be a new GoBlog plugin with some AI power soon. ✨ So far the OpenAI API is quite easy to use, I thought it would be more complicated. Philipp is already using the API for his diary, another cool idea (which I may copy someday). ⌘ Read more

If you’re looking for a cool p2p database system have a look at www.earthstar-project.org

GitHub, accessibility, and the disability divide
We just published our vision for GitHub accessibility at accessibility.github.com. Here’s the TL;DR: the prime directive of the GitHub accessibility program is to empower people with disabilities to build cool technology. ⌘ Read more

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@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org nice sunset is an understatement. I can feel the coolness approaching!

Soil
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Very cool. I am digging the multipurpose use for this kind of parser.

Space Adventure
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Rotation
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@ocdtrekkie@twtxt.net That is cool that there is no tpic. Its not like people on these open platforms have to use linux or some free and open os. Anyone can use whatever they want to. Yarn is just a web ui for twtxt and the os does not matter. I can’t say on for long time at midnight and I left before you started.

Release Radar · August 2022 Edition
We’ve been gearing up to launch GitHub Universe 2022 and our community has been launching cool projects left right and center.  These projects include everything from world-changing technology to developer tooling, and weekend hobbies. Here are some of the open source projects that released major version updates this August. Read more about these projects in […] ⌘ Read more

@prologic@twtxt.net Those sounds really cool.
Is something like “reyarn” a thing or not a thing?

@prologic@twtxt.net That is cool. The name is cool. Like saying “yarn ballers” but that sounds weird and cool at the same time

@akoizumi@social.kyoko-project.wer.ee cool to see that you fixed the css

@akoizumi@social.kyoko-project.wer.ee Cool if I end up just running my own yarn pod but for now twtxt on my site hosted by codeberg works fine

all the cool kids? in the bay. me? chillin’

Before we were sexually herrassed by flying ants in the end, we picked the first blackberries of the season on today’s hike. Very yummy, let me tell you!

It’s super dry everywhere, just have a look at the dried out grass in the first two photos. Two nights ago we had the first and biggest forest fire about eight kilometers away. The newspaper article claims that 7,000 m² (sic!) of forest were on fire. In the morning of that day the district fire chief introduced the new alarm plan for forest fires. Eight fire brigades responded with 83 fire fighters in 17 vehicles. Eight trucks shuttled 30,000 liters of water to the scene. Luckily, four and a half hours later they had it under control. A fire fighting drone specialists department of a neighboring fire service located several pockets of embers. I wasn’t even aware, that we have such specialists here in the county, pretty cool. Unfortunately, one fire man probably broke his Achilles tendon in this fire run, the article says.

Other than that, there had been four other wildland fires with a hedge, bunch of trees, a 20,000 m² big stubble fields and another vegetation fire since June in our county. I actually didn’t know that. Well, that’s all nothing compared to the fires they have in East Germany at the moment.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Now that is a cool thing. Showing the work time. I need something like that, too!

Remembering the (very) funky Holborn computers of the early 1980s
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@carsten@yarn.zn80.net Cool! In a double sense.

@prologic@twtxt.net What’s a lot? @movq@www.uninformativ.de I’m glad it rained much more in the end than I expected, but still a lot less than I was hoping for. Also the cooling was a couple of hours late. Today, we had the chance of breathing a wee bit before it will raise again tomorrow.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de This is just cool how you recalibrated! I also doubt that fiddling around with the remaining left to right tilt is worth the effort at the end. Looking forward to see the project completed. You could use the shutter photo on the opening scene. Maybe take a few more in different positions to simulate an opening theater curtain. ;-)

@prologic@twtxt.net This is quite fast, yes. But we both are quite fast walkers, so the speed wasn’t too bad. The heat was way more brutal, especially since we had a lot of sections without shade. It’s hard to guess but maybe 50:50 in the shade and in the sun. Luckily, I wore my trusty Akubra. And we had to be very economical with our water, since we only decided on the way to go for the trip we had talked about months ago. So we weren’t prepared for it.

But we had the paths mostly for us, there were only very few other people around. So that was cool.

My mate and I spontaneously decided to go for a longer tour today in 29°C heat. We ended up hiking 23 km in 4:30 hours. I had two liters of mineral water in my backpack and we bought a bottle of cherry limonade each on the way in. In the end we opted for pear limo at the same self-service fridge. What a great invention these small vending machines and self-service huts are! In Germany shops are closed on Sundays, so we would have needed to find an open restaurant (plenty didn’t survive Corona) with some detours.

It was my first time on that particular terrain. We went through some beautiful and quaint forest paths with scenic views. I forgot to put my SD card back into my camera, so no photos until my mate will send me his.

Now my feet a cooling off in a bucket of cold water. Superb.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de @prologic@twtxt.net I just reread the spec and it seems to be even a bit outdated regarding machine-parsable conversation grouping. We long dropped the need to specify a whole hash tag with URL (#<hash url>), the simplified version without the URL (#hash) is enough.

The hash tag extension specification is kind of missing the same. However, I’m not sure if that short form is considered supported in general (as opposed to be a special case for subjects only) by the majority of the twtxt/yarn community.

Now the question arises, in order to keep things simple, should we even only allow the simplified twt hash tag for subjects and forbid the long version? This would also save quite a bit of space. The URL is probably not shown anyways in most clients. And if so, clients might rewrite URLs to their own instances. On the other hand, there’s technically nothing wrong with the long version in current parser implementations. And deprecating stuff without very good reason isn’t cool.

@prologic@twtxt.net @movq@www.uninformativ.de Thanks mates! Yeah, lens flares rock. But especially for 24 I had several attempts to take one without any flares to more closely match the beautiful reality. I failed miserably. Still super cool shot, though.