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Ariel Millennium Thornton

Never underestimate the bandwidth of a trebuchet loaded with MicroSD cards.

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Sam the Octopus

At the risk of resurrecting my previous toot on the matter which ended up killing my notifications for a solid week, the new 1TB microSD cards just announced by SanDisk and Micron would mean that IPoverTrebuchet now supports packets of 225 petabytes

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I had a floppy disk that I took between Win95 & WinNT computers, & the Briefcase feature made syncing files *so* easy. It's probably the only feature of any Windows version I actually miss.

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VGA dreams

Briefcase, Windows 95 OSR2

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I have finally, actually finished a project I started: my static website generator! Of course, immediately after I uploaded the package, I spotted typos & grammatical errors, & I had to pack up & upload a revision.

files.thornton2.com/amtswg/ if you want to check out the tarball & my samples, or files.thornton2.com/amtswg/amt if you want to check out just the tarball.

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A bit of superstition: It looks like I'll finally finish my static website generator during the waxing half of the lunar cycle. I think that's a good thing, but a bit of doubt lingers.

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Have I actually finished a project I started at last? Not quite yet, but all I have to do is proofread and tweak its readme file, and my static website generator will be ready to unleash on an unsuspecting world!

Honestly, I don't expect much of anyone to want to use it. It uses Make, M4, & Markdown to generate pages, & it's best used with a CLI text editor, not anything GUI or shiny or "modern." But it's perilously close to finished!

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The cold was actually the flu. I got over it after two whole miserable weeks, but a whole month later I still have the sore throat & cough from hell. :blobsneezing:

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proudnb

A link to a Buzzfeed news article on older trans and nonbinary people. 

buzzfeednews.com/article/skarl

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New year, new cold. :blobsneezing:

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random colour contrasts

Granny Smith Apple #97F0A5
Tolopea #28034D

(Contrast ratio: 12.7:1 | AAA)

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Hot cocoa while bundled up in a unicorn kigu? Hot cocoa while bundled up in a unicorn kigu.

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Scott Mortimer :verified: :mastodon:​
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Command Line Magic

Why compress by smallest size first? If you had just a little space left on filesystem, compressing this way has higher chance of success.

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Command Line Magic

ls -Sr1 | while IFS=$'\n' read -r file ; do gzip -v9 "$file" ; done # Compress files in CWD according to size, starting with smallest.

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Pear #BFDA35
Blue Gem #2B0383

(Contrast ratio: 9.2:1 | AAA)

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@makyo is this vore? also, don't eat me, i'm loaded with extra green chile.

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Command Line Magic

yes "$(seq 231 -1 16)" | while read i; do printf "\x1b[48;5;${i}m\n"; sleep .02; done # A rainbow in your shell.

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@hyenagirl64@beach.city @colon_three Yep! I'm Commodore Juan Twennyate.

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@poss_bot Perfect early-'80s example: The ColecoVision game console was the centerpiece of the add-on version of the Coleco Adam home computer system.

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