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by thangalin 1mo ago
* https://keenwrite.com/ * https://keenwrite.com/screenshots.html * https://keenwrite.com/docs/user-manual.pdf * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dCui_hHK6U My softwar
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by thangalin 1mo ago
JsonReader. CsvReader. JSON and CSV data fixtures. "Write tests," I said. "Use JSON fixtures, like the other tests," I directed. So it did: { "document": { "ElementA": "/
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by thangalin 1mo ago
From 1996: https://www.eng.auburn.edu/~kchang/comp6710/readings/They%20... "There is the software. And then there are the databases beneath the software, two enormous databases, encyclopedic in their com
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by thangalin 1mo ago
https://i.ibb.co/WWWYznHX/flock-future.png ;-) See also: * https://dave.autonoma.ca/blog/2019/06/06/web-of-knowledge/ * https://medium.com/@speechgeek/scal
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by thangalin 1mo ago
https://i.ibb.co/WWWYznHX/flock-future.png ;-)
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by thangalin 2mo ago
Some examples: The Mooche * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPJ5vNmVL3I (The Duke, 1928) * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLdCq2PKM4o (John Barry, 1984) Sugar Foot Stomp * https://www.youtube.co
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by thangalin 2mo ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQFqDKRAROI
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by thangalin 2mo ago
Slightly off-topic. Now that 1920s jazz music is falling into public domain, has anyone tried to reinvigorate the music using AI and generative adversarial approaches? Pre-1940s music didn't have high-fidelity sound, so the strong bass
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by thangalin 2mo ago
https://kroki.io/#try Shout out to Kroki, which offers Mermaid and many other text-based diagramming formats.
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by thangalin 2mo ago
Thanks! The location page was a map image, it's now an interactive map with the clickable (i)nformation icon.
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by thangalin 2mo ago
https://shufflenblues.com/location/ OSM is fantastic. I wanted a free, unencumbered map that matches the site's theme for ride sharing, billeting, and the venue location. The solution wasn't trivial, but at l
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by thangalin 3mo ago
> 100 notes, not a single response. Similar story. Sent out 900+ emails to scientific illustrators; about 25 accepted. Here's the result: * https://impacts.to/downloads/lowres/impacts.pdf * https:/&#
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by thangalin 3mo ago
It works well, though its messages could use some TLC: libEGL warning: pci id for fd 31: 10de:1ff0, driver (null) pci id for fd 33: 10de:1ff0, driver (null) pci id for fd 34: 10de:1ff0, driver (null) libEGL warning: egl:
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by thangalin 3mo ago
Similar story. A PHP implementation of the Git protocol for self-hosted repositories: https://repo.autonoma.ca/repo/treetrek/tree/HEAD/git
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by thangalin 3mo ago
My Impacts project depicts a scene from the prolonged bombardment, a time when Earth was cratered by asteroids and comets: * https://impacts.to/downloads/lowres/impacts.pdf#page=9 * https://impacts.to&#
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by thangalin 3mo ago
How would this work for an identical twin civilian?
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by thangalin 3mo ago
https://cs.stackexchange.com/a/53737/1704 > Matches that occur early enough in π to attain significant compression will not be varied. That is, it isn't possible to use π to compress interesting, real-worl
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by thangalin 3mo ago
https://repo.autonoma.ca/repo/treetrek The wow moment came when it wrote syntax highlighting rules for 40 languages and file formats in ~10 minutes: https://repo.autonoma.ca/repo/treetrek/tree
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by thangalin 3mo ago
Did you see this? https://point.free/blog/gemma-4-on-a-2016-xeon/ Xeon, but could be useful for MTP on Mac.
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by thangalin 4mo ago
Yes. I'm using Gemma-4 31B (gemma-4-31B-it-assistant.Q4_K_M.gguf) with llama.cpp to attribute quotations throughout chapters of my sci-fi novel. I started with Qwen3, but couldn't get it to work. Qwen3 TTS Voice Design, on the oth
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by thangalin 4mo ago
When producing TreeTrek, I went with rudimentary diffs that account for colourblind developers: https://repo.autonoma.ca/repo/treetrek/commit/3fe9360599ae23... The diffs rendering library looks amazing: http
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by thangalin 4mo ago
I developed https://keenwrite.com for my hard sci-fi novel. I started with OpenOffice and a spreadsheet and then realized I could combine a character sheet with a Markdown editor. The character sheet became a YAML file with inte
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by thangalin 4mo ago
Speaking of test suites, LLMs cannot quite curl straight quotes correctly. My Markdown editor uses the following suite: https://repo.autonoma.ca/repo/keenquotes/tree/HEAD/src/test/... Am curiou
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by thangalin 4mo ago
> Why reinvent the wheel? Dependency-free, performance, FORTRAN, and it would take me more than ten minutes to find and integrate a highlighter that works across all of my code bases. I searched for PHP-based Git libraries. All of them e
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by thangalin 4mo ago
I have the opposite experience: * https://repo.autonoma.ca/repo/treetrek/tree/HEAD/render/rule... - syntax highlighting for 40 languages and file formats in ~10 minutes * https://shufflen
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by thangalin 4mo ago
For a run-down of various hardware KVM solutions that can handle high-resolution video at high refresh rates, see: https://hardwarerecs.stackexchange.com/q/18561/7591 The UGREEN 8K Displayport KVM Switch has been
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by thangalin 4mo ago
Project Gutenberg is a treasure trove, though many technical details defy automatic typesetting of its books. Standard Ebooks takes consistency to an unbelievable level. My post compares various sources of public domain books with an eye on
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by thangalin 4mo ago
* Time trackers https://repo.autonoma.ca/repo/timeivy An unfinished spreadsheet-based interface for entering time. Meant for consulting, but never got around to persisting the data. Mostly created it because I couldn&#
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by thangalin 4mo ago
Canada's largest single-leaf bascule bridge, on Vancouver Island, is a remarkable and stunning piece of engineering. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnson_Street_Bridge
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by thangalin 4mo ago
http://autonoma.ca/calculators/rocket/antimatter/ Given a distance, an allowable time to reach that distance, a payload to send, and an expected exhaust velocity, how would you calculate the time required to

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