Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es
- Pronouns
- she
- Species
- feline/phoenix (shifts at will between them)
- Fairy wand currently on
- GEOS programming guide
- Website
- https://thornton2.com/ArielMT
Admin
✨ Kind 'Net Help Desk fairy by day. ✨
✨ Weird & furry Unix fairy by night. ✨
✨ Sometimes a retrocomputer fairy. ✨
✨ Pays the ComputerFairi.es bills. ✨
✨ Sparkly✨shellscript✨princess. ✨
✨ Age: Mere days younger than ✨
✨ the Intel 4004 & Unix 1st Edition. ✨
✨ Follow requests welcome. ✨
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Joined May 2017
Every iPhone & Apple Watch in the hospital was disabled by an MRI machine, but Android phones & traditional PCs were unaffected. The cause: helium. Yes, a slightly helium-rich atmosphere. https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/9si6r9/postmortem_mri_disables_every_ios_device_in/
Let's go live to Wasabi's datacenter where underpaid robots are hard at work righting the tipped-over servers: https://youtu.be/HdtmmHEs9jg
Help me; I'm looking at m4 for static webpage generation.
dnl
define(`hope',`abandoned')dnl
dnl
"Just run the power lines up from the underground junction straight up a conduit. It'll be fine."
Ariel Millennium Thornton
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gender hot take
Hot take: masculinity can be positive and good and maleness is not inherently toxic
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The phone face notch is a crap idea, Google was wrong to copy it from Apple, & CSS-inspired DOM transformations are hard: https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/29/18039170/pixel-3-xl-glitch-second-notch-fix
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I finally figured out what the stuttering loading bar on Web Mastodon reminds me of...!
It's #NationalCatDay, so I'm just going to give up & be a cat today.
*starts walking toward the door, collapses sound asleep curled in the first sunbeam*
pypi complexity-0.9.1
$ python3.6 setup.py install
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "setup.py", line 19, in <module>
history = f.read()
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/encodings/ascii.py", line 26, in decode
return codecs.ascii_decode(input, self.errors)[0]
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe2 in position 2378: ordinal not in range(128)
... Seriously??
Just because your "HISTORY.rst" file has Unicode line-art, & you want to clip a line from it during setup?
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Tired: Relying exclusively on WiFi to conduct business connections across an entire facility.
Wired: CAT-5e, CAT-6, CAT-7, COAX, FIBER...
PyPI, could you *please* just show me the damned SHA256 hash, & *not* require me to enable JavaScript just to use an opaque "Copy to clipboard" parlor trick!?
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Also this was unfurled at the World Series game today #TransPeopleDeserveToLive
so much for lightweight markup
This is for a static website, BTW.
I'm done with fast-changing dynamic frameworks & CMS all-in-ones with even half the dependencies of "Hello World" in Ruby on Rails.
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so much for lightweight markup
Rendering the same 6-paragraph, 65-line source markup file (reStructuredText or pandoc's Markdown flavor) into a 154-line HTML 5 target file:
py36-rst2html5: 1.05 seconds
py36-docutils: 0.65 seconds
hs-pandoc: 2.50 seconds
Rendering the same source file content through Jamal, "Just Another Macro Language," a perl script from 1997 & last updated 2010:
jamal: 0.05 seconds
These look tiny now, but what happens when I go over 100 pages then tweak the template?
docutils documentation [ - ]
I can't use either docutils or rst2html5 to generate a complete HTML page with my template, because there's no way I can find to specify the page title in the page head from within the .rst source file, with or without a custom template.
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ed(1) tricks & tips
Sometimes when you do a substitution, you don't want the first match in the line but a subsequent one. With ed(1), you can specify which you want:
$ ed
a
#!/bin/sh
echo xxxxx echo zzzzz
.
s/x/X/4p
echo xxxXx echo zzzzz
s/echo/yyyyy/2p
echo xxxXx yyyyy zzzzz
This also works with sed(1)
$ echo xxxxx | sed s/x/X/3
xxXxx
- Pronouns
- she
- Species
- feline/phoenix (shifts at will between them)
- Fairy wand currently on
- GEOS programming guide
- Website
- https://thornton2.com/ArielMT
Admin
✨ Kind 'Net Help Desk fairy by day. ✨
✨ Weird & furry Unix fairy by night. ✨
✨ Sometimes a retrocomputer fairy. ✨
✨ Pays the ComputerFairi.es bills. ✨
✨ Sparkly✨shellscript✨princess. ✨
✨ Age: Mere days younger than ✨
✨ the Intel 4004 & Unix 1st Edition. ✨
✨ Follow requests welcome. ✨
✨ ✨
Joined May 2017
