Mauve 👁💜 @mauve@mastodon.mauve.moe
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Occult cyberpunk. Yap with me about decentralized systems, wearable computing, and biohacking.
Joined Apr 2022
@roknrol Nice. "better person" is a good goal. I had a similar approach like a decade and a bit ago and it's been nice to reflect on the progress since then. I found a lot of books helped me sort out how to put it into practice. It'll be neat to check in on it in a year or two and see what worked best for you.
Whatcha gonna do for Uni? I've been wanting to go for bioengineering but sadly I gotta keep the family fed with my full time job.
What sort of health? I (mostly) quit soda pop recently 😅
@nilix Neat! What got you into making the editor? Got your own twist on it or just practicing? I've been meaning to tinker with an AST level text editor but haven't had the time.
Is your manga stuff published somewhere? 💜
@TheQuinbox Epic! I don't have a go-to reader on Linux yet. I'll give it a shot some time. 🙇 I find a lot of readers aren't great for keyboard navigation which is essential for me since I use weird input devices and barely have a mouse.
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@mauve Yeah, it's on GitHub: https://github.com/trypsynth/paperback and the official site is https://paperback.dev. I create these things called markers, that form a tree of where headings, links, images, tables, etc are. It also ships with a CLI tool as of late, so you can get all its parsers (legacy/modern word, legacy/modern powerpoint, chm, rtf, epub, pdf, f2b, daisy, etc) from the CLI. Or, just pull in paperback-core and call into the parsers directly.
@roknrol What's your current strat for the bettering part? Aiming for a concrete goal? I'm working on talking to strangers outside of my usual go-tos more.
@TheQuinbox Oh wow! That sounds great. Is your project published somewhere I may read?
Rust core + RPC for UIs is a fun pattern IMO. Are you parsing the books into a tree and rendering using the raw Text nodes instead of rasters?
What are y'all working on lately?
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Shower thoughts
Phrased backwards, if 98% of people with elite skills fail financially on the basis of having elite skills, financial success as a metric of quality is wrong about a hundred percent of the time.
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Colleges and universities use document revision history (or lack thereof) as one mechanism to check for AI use in document creation.
More technically adept students use Pandoc, Org-Mode, or LaTeX and a git repo, which has no in-document revision history when converted to an .ODT or .DOCX file.
Is there a way to capture git revision history and merge it into a .DOCX or .ODT file's internal revision history.
Seeking a defense against profs who don't know git.
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Several level nested streams are hard sometimes.
Sometimes the connection breaks too early even though the API says the packet got flushed.
Daily pet owner affirmations: "Hey. Stop that. What the hell did you put in your mouth?!"
My blood must have helped sire thousands of mosquitos by now. 🫠
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can you imagine being able to switch apps on your mobile device and it doesn't make the background app restart when you come back to it bc google decided that was a good idea instead of just idk hibernating the freaking thing. i can't
Sometimes only one side of a connection knows its been broken and you need some sort of heartbeat protocol to check if it's actually alive.
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PSA: if you are anything like me you've accumulated a lot of tech with Lithium ion batteries. Some of which is probably stuck in a drawer that you don't check very often.
I'm reminding you to check every so often. This weekend I found a swollen battery in an old Parrot drone I'd bought for my kid over a decade ago. These batteries, if punctured, ignite on contact with the air and produce harmful gasses.
Give those old phones and pieces of tech the once over for safety.
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Is the Tim Hortons Bread Stabber threatening or actually enlightened?
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little lessons from BASIC:
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single file programs are OK
if you have a small number of colours, don't worry, that's OK
indentation can help--like with FOR/NEXT loops
if it takes a long time to code, that's OK
don't be afraid of garbage output--you're not hurting the computer!
take breaks, the computer will always be there.
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Occult cyberpunk. Yap with me about decentralized systems, wearable computing, and biohacking.
Joined Apr 2022
