I used up so many round tuits today.
But hey, the laundry’s done, some boxes are cleared out, and the patio’s…well, still an awful mess, but a lot less of an awful mess.
Category: Wandering.Shop
Interesting thought:Back in the 80s and 90s, X Windows enabled Unix systems to run GUI …
Interesting thought:
Back in the 80s and 90s, X Windows enabled Unix systems to run GUI programs remotely. Because bandwidth was low and scarce, the server would send the drawing commands across the wire and the client would render as much as possible itself.
Now a lot of systems have more bandwidth than rendering power, and services like GeForce Now and Stadia are rendering entire detailed game sessions on a server and just streaming the video to the client.
It’s kind of a wild reversal.
Re: Fluffy Clouds Search
Fluffy Clouds is an ancient Perl script that i started using back in 2001 or something. I’ve tweaked it a bit to limit searches to parts of the site, normalize Unicode, etc. I’m not surprised the developer abandoned it. I keep thinking about switching to something more capable, but every time I look, i mostly find things that are way more complicated than I need.
As for how it actually works:
One script crawls all the html files within a folder and builds an index of words. I have it on a weekly cron job.
The other reads an html template with header and footer, searches the index, and plugs the results and search form into the template.
IIRC it skips meta robots pages on indexing and reads the file title and description at display time.
If I had more time, I would have written a shorter stylesheet.
If I had more time, I would have written a shorter stylesheet.
That said, 3.6K is awfully short by today’s standards.
And it automatically adjusts for display sizes from phone portrait to widescreen monitor, light and dark themes (so it doesn’t blast your eyes out if you open it on a dark themed desktop), and switches the main font between serif on high-density displays and sans-serif on low density displays for maximum readability.
This stuff doesn’t require half a megabyte of frameworks and JavaScript to implement.
Oh yeah, link so you can see it actually works https://hyperborea.org/tech-tips/
At least on modern browsers.
I guess the next step is to test in older ones to see how they handle the mix of media queries. I don’t care if it doesn’t look perfect on the older browsers, but I do want it to be readable!
Wondering when it’ll cool off enough to open the windows without making the place warmer. …
Wondering when it’ll cool off enough to open the windows without making the place warmer. I don’t like stuffy air, and a desk fan only does so much.
On the plus side, this place has decent enough insulation that as long as it cools off overnight, it takes a while to warm up inside.
What I hate are the nights when it doesn’t cool off until long after we’ve all gone to sleep (if then).
Meanwhile, the kid has still been wanting ALL THE BLANKETS and we’re like, no, you’ll totally overheat. That’s what the weighted blanket is for!
At least it wasn’t this hot the night he tried to sleep in the tent indoors.
…
Ok, the window’s out of direct sunlight. Time to open it.
On a related note: today I learned it’s super easy to give your website an …
On a related note: today I learned it’s super easy to give your website an alternate dark mode theme in most browsers. Assuming your color scheme is in relatively clean CSS to start with, anyway.
Just add a @media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {…} section after you define the light-scheme colors and define the dark mode colors and backgrounds there!
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@media/prefers-color-scheme
Why do they make displays on devices that are likely to get used outside GLOSSY?
Why do they make displays on devices that are likely to get used outside GLOSSY?
What song is playing now?This is “The Way”
There should be a word for the dissonance caused by half-hearing a song when you …
There should be a word for the dissonance caused by half-hearing a song when you know the “Weird Al” (or other) parody better than the original.
“Captain, it’s Monday”
“Captain, it’s Monday”
Or at least since mid morning
Or at least since mid morning
Just realized it’s Monday.I swear I’ve thought it was Tuesday ALL DAY.
The kid decided to put up our 2-person dome tent (that hasn’t been used in …
The kid decided to put up our 2-person dome tent (that hasn’t been used in a decade, if at all, since I can’t remember if we bought it to replace the previous one that was falling apart just before or just after our last camping trip, which was definitely before he was born).
Inside.
In his room.
Which he had to clean. Or at least shove stuff to the side.
I’m told it “sorta fits” 😆
Just thought of acid refox. That sounds unpleasant
Just thought of acid refox. That sounds unpleasant
Partially covered window showing “refox”Pondering whether that’s what you do to recover from being outfoxed, …
Partially covered window showing “refox”
Pondering whether that’s what you do to recover from being outfoxed, or whether it’s missing a colon to indicate that this is regarding a fox.
Writing a bug report and almost typed “dada cascade”Now THAT’s absurd.
Updated zlib, should prevent this security vulnerability, right? wonder how many containers, snaps, flatpaks, staticly-linked …
Updated zlib, should prevent this security vulnerability, right?
Zlib data compressor fixes 17-year-old security bug – patch, errrm, now
Right?
I wonder how many containers, snaps, flatpaks, staticly-linked binaries, etc. use their own copies of the library instead of the system one.
Of COURSE there’s a mix of Surface Pressure made entirely of autotuned Roblox “Oof” sounds.
Of COURSE there’s a mix of Surface Pressure made entirely of autotuned Roblox “Oof” sounds.
As part of my exploration of #IndieWeb, web gardening, and #11ty, I’m collecting some of …
As part of my exploration of #IndieWeb, web gardening, and #11ty, I’m collecting some of my reviews from old blog posts, amazon, etc. at https://hyperborea.org/reviews/ as a way to continue refining the minimalist layout for more use cases. I’m also starting to write new ones!
I’m cross-posting the book reviews to @bookwyrm as a more topical way to bring them into the Fediverse than just linking on Mastodon.
For some of my posts I’ve manually converted the files so I can fine-tune it.
For some of my posts I’ve manually converted the files so I can fine-tune it. But I have one site I’m auto-generating, and I’ve done a mix of site- and page-specific code like @kensanata (ex. for web links that have a corresponding #gemini location, or removing images by class), adjusting the source to convert more nicely where appropriate, and just letting some of it sit there looking weird for now.