Instance end-of-life announcement: this software is getting increasingly flakey and I don't know enough Python - or enough about ActivityPub - to make it work. I don't need another project!

New posts have moved to https://brvt.telent.net/dan . Maybe some day I'll figure out how to migrate the post history; I'll keep this site up as long as I can in the meantime

never mind the order of arguments to ln, the thing I have to look up every time is which side of the bottom bracket is reverse-threaded

seen on ebay: "Early 90s vintage bicycle project.". Now I feel old

No matter how much progress I make towards getting to "daily driver" on my pinephone, the target seems to be receding at the same rate I approach it.

I had not expected that I would be writing a full Linuxphone user interface in Fennel, but hey ho, this seems to be the goal I have set myself

Stop me before I decide that "replacing Sway" is inside scope, I guess

I wanted my pinephone to have an on-screen indicator of when it was doing filesystem access, so I can see if it's busy or just ignoring me.

I haven't yet found a way to do that (at least, without polling /proc/diskstats, but "polling" and "battery life" are often not good bedfellows), but I have distracted myself into writing a #fennel status bar program a la i3status or waybar so at least when I figure it out I'll have somewhere to display it

https://github.com/telent/blinkenlicht/blob/main/README.md

TIL of the #emacs polymode package, which (with poly-markdown) comes with out-of-the-box support for switching the major mode inside a markdown fenced code block

J K Rowling is trending on Twitter, which leads me by stages to a review and an interview with Ursula Le Guin

• https://www.theguardian.com/books/2005/dec/17/booksforchildrenandteenagers.shopping

• https://www.theguardian.com/books/2004/feb/09/sciencefictionfantasyandhorror.ursulakleguin

As she once wrote in exasperation, "Sure, it's simple, writing for kids. Just as simple as bringing them up."

"Booting ARM #Linux the standard way" (Tow-Boot)

https://tuxphones.com/booting-arm-linux-the-standard-way/

I continue to follow @bigben@mastodon.org.uk because it posts every hour - it's a really convenient way to tell that my fediverse instance has stopped accepting new posts and it's not just that everyone I follow has stopped talking.

I didn't intentionally switch to "dark mode" on this site, but I did switch from https://github.com/tsileo/microblog.pub to https://github.com/howaboutudance/microblog.pub and I think that may have come along for the ride

Not that anyone other than me will notice, obvs., the feed doesn't carry this data

I didn't intentionally switch to "dark mode" on this site, but I did switch from https://github.com/tsileo/microblog.pub to https://github.com/howaboutudance/microblog.pub and I think that may have come along for the ride

Not that anyone other than me will notice, obvs., the feed doesn't carry this data

[nix-shell:~/src/just]$ git checkout -b simplify-and-add-shortness

h/t Colin Chapman

Got a four week sabbatical this summer, what should I do with it? Low-cost options preferred

TIL nix-channel --add will replace an existing channel of the same name. This is going to save me 40-50 seconds per machine per NixOS release :-)

Trying to compile something that needs latest wlroots, pretty much the definition of yak shaving.

https://lobste.rs/s/ui7wc4/nix_idea_whose_time_has_come paraphrased: "Nix is a great concept but I won't use it because the language is awful". Awful compared to what though? Because when the alternative is shell scripts and YAML I'm happy to put up with a few warts here and there...

I would like to know whether clicking on an xdg notification action should also cause the notification to be dismissed, or whether the client waiting on the action should then call CloseNotification. The spec seems unforthcoming on this point

"The image should never exceed 200x100, but this should be thought of as a maximum size"

Yes, that's what I thought "maximum" meant

#L14" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/telent/just/blob/main/just.fnl#L14 now I can post to fediverse without retyping my password every time :-)

Using a combination of #Fennel, gobject-introspection and webkit-gtk, in a matter of hours I have been able to slap together enough of a web browser to write this message. Modern software development is weird and I don't know what to think.

https://gist.github.com/telent/dceea252965a6bee46fba2bab9040f39

critical path for #pinephone as useful (to me - YMMV) mobile device

[X] screen lock to protect from curious child [ ] notifications ui so I know when someone's calling [ ] reinstall with encrypted filesystem

I hacked up swaylock in a bad way https://github.com/telent/schlock/blob/main/README.md

"Binds": [ "/home/gomeassistant/config:/config" ],

... ok, I can see why that doesn't seem to be working too well

Although I am rather enjoying writing toy gtk apps in #fennel with LGI, this is still a bit too laggy on startup to be workable as a launcher for my phone.

Still to try starting it in advance , at session start, and show/hiding it on click

Yes, well