ｉｒｌ @irl@hackers.town

computers are terrible

Is there anyone in my followers (in the UK preferably, but I'll post to the EU too) with a retro setup that needs a Microsoft Intellimouse? It's PS/2 connector, scroll wheel and ball. I just don't want to throw it in the bin.

Office desk just doesn’t seem to get messy like home desk does. Need to work out what I’m doing right here.

My code went to Mars!

I wrote a #blog post about the new amateur radio ​ ​​ #emoji by @dzuk: https://irl.xyz/blog/2021/2021w127/ #hamradio

hackers.town has new amateur radio emoji available!

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thanks to @dzuk for making these and @thegibson for installing them.

going to have to toot more #hamradio stuff now so i can make good use of them.

a blockchain for unit tests where you can pay to add your unit test to a package and if the developer breaks your test case they have to pay you proportionally to the amount of time the test has been passing or they can't release their software

if you bump the major version on your software you get to tell everyone it's new and better and also break all your users at once. sounds like a win win to me. who even needs minor versions?

further reading: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyLBGkS5ICk

I've gone through and unfollowed and removed a bunch of followers. This has been mostly based on recent activity and mostly accounts that have been "dormant" for more than 6 months. If I have removed you from following me then you likely won't see this, but still, if you do then you can always submit a fresh follow request and this time I might even follow you back.

My #matrix chat archiving tool can now download unencrypted media (images/videos/audio)! For encrypted media I think I need to read the spec a bit more and see what it is I can expect there but I don't think it's going to be too difficult. https://github.com/irl/matrix-floppy 💾

Now implemented templating the HTML output with Jinja2, and got the start of handling different events. HTML formatted events will now come out as HTML not just the plain text (the spec says I should sanitise the HTML but I'm not doing that yet), and next up will be downloading images I think.

I was thinking I'd get ahead of next week's work by starting some stuff now but I think I'm going to work on matrix-floppy 💾 instead. https://github.com/irl/matrix-floppy

Two hours of cleaning and I've hoovered the floor, dusted the desk, emptied the bin and put all my postage stamps into one small box. I'm not exactly caught up but it's a lot better now. Very glad I spent the time to do this.

Image description: a science museum branded digital clock shows the time and date now and the temperature is 39.5°C

Summer is here or something

Cleaning up my desk and workspace is about two weeks overdue at this point. Time to catch up.