I wrote about using the Plotly Graphing Library in Hugo. I'm still finding my away around [@gohugoio](https://fosstodon.org/@gohugoio) and would love to hear any feedback or suggestions :)

<https:read.ryancowl.es/posts/plotly-graphing-in-hugo/>

[#hugo](https://union.place/tags/hugo) [#plotly](https://union.place/tags/plotly) [#foss](https://union.place/tags/foss) [#data](https://union.place/tags/data)

There are many things [@antirez](https://mastodon.social/@antirez) did successfully: hping, redis, business stuff, writing.
But personally, I'll be eternally grateful for sharing a recipe for [#biancomangiare](https://mastodon.social/tags/biancomangiare) / [#blancmange](https://mastodon.social/tags/blancmange), insanely easy and tasty treat.

<http:zzimma.antirez.com/post/biancomangiare-al-pistacchio.html>

Part of proper preparation is estate planning – having a will is important, along with making sure your executor has the information they need to handle your affairs. With so much of the world having a digital presence, it’s important that you’re thinking about how to pass that account information on, so that the task of identifying and accessing accounts is made simple

Here's a small script "find-postings-without-comment-id.py" which checks all my [#Hugo](https://mastodon.social/tags/Hugo) [#goHugo](https://mastodon.social/tags/goHugo) blog postings if I forgot to add the comments id.

<https:github.com/andreasscherbaum/hugo-tools>

Plus some other tools.

[#Blogging](https://mastodon.social/tags/Blogging) [#Blog](https://mastodon.social/tags/Blog)

HTML for email is probably the hardest code to write. Even a teeny-tiny deviation from the rules will break the email in untold combination of os/desktop/mobile clients.

It's mid 2024. Almost 50 years since email was invented and 35 years since HTML was born. A 'basic-open-source-HTML-email-designer' must be a solved problem, right? We thought so too.

Sadly, that's not the case.

There are a few decent open source email designers but they carry dependencies that make them cumbersome to embed within your app. That's why we decided to open source our HTML Email Designer.

The SENDUNE email designer focuses on simplicity and ease of use. It is light-weight. It does pure HTML - no intermediate code wranglers like mjml. There is no lock-in of any kind. Save HTML output as a template and use with ANY email service provider.

A modern ebook manager and reader with sync and backup capacities for Windows, macOS, Linux and Web - koodo-reader/koodo-reader

I read the first two chapters of

<https:lazyvim-ambitious-devs.phillips.codes/>

Very well written, concise course / e-book by Dusty Phillips. Gives context when needed and even explains a bit of Vim basics which I did not know. I am currently experimenting it using the NVIM_APPNAME environment variable but the results are impressive so far. I might swap my handwritten configuration for what comes out of this course.

[#LazyVim](https://mastodon.acc.sunet.se/tags/LazyVim) [#neovim](https://mastodon.acc.sunet.se/tags/neovim)

More than 130M pages from Dutch newspapers, books, and magazines. You can read them for free.

Thinking of adding search to my static site... This seems to be a good option! <https://pagefind.app/>
Might give this a try when I have the time. Looks easy enough.

[#Hugo](https://fosstodon.org/tags/Hugo) [#staticsitegenerator](https://fosstodon.org/tags/staticsitegenerator) [#Pagefind](https://fosstodon.org/tags/Pagefind) [#staticsite](https://fosstodon.org/tags/staticsite)

AppCleaner is a small application which allows you to thoroughly uninstall unwanted apps.

Installing an application distributes many files throughout your System using space of your Hard Drive unnecessarily.
AppCleaner finds all these small files and safely deletes them.

Simply drop an application onto the AppCleaner window. It will find for the related files and you can delete them by clicking the delete button.

TIL how to access secrets stored in 1Password from CLI scripts, e.g. to populate an environment variable using an API key stashed in my password manager

✨ Friends, I've recently been laid off, and I'm looking for my next role.

With 7+ years of leadership experience in non-profits and startups, here is a summary of my skills:

📊 20+ years [#rstats](https://hachyderm.io/tags/rstats) programming expertise
🔧 Data pipeline development
☁️ AWS infrastructure management
📚 Creator of widely-used data science curricula
🛡️ GDPR compliance implementation

For the full version, including my resume and testimonials from colleagues: <https://francoismichonneau.net/hire-me/>

[#GetFediHired](https://hachyderm.io/tags/GetFediHired) [#DataScience](https://hachyderm.io/tags/DataScience) [#Jobs](https://hachyderm.io/tags/Jobs)

Few things piss me off more than a huge, multi-billion IT corporation that suddenly sends me an email regarding an open-source project I’ve been running since 1990’s that I’ve recently shut down due to absolute lack of interest from its users… which happened to be telcos and large IT companies. Here’s what I replied:

Thank you for your email. As it’s often the case with open-source projects, their value to organisations is only noticed and appreciated when they go offline. I have maintained pam_tacplus for the last years and it had the call for sponsorship prominently displayed for most of the time specifically because it’s a legacy project that is difficult to maintain. None of the commercial companies that clearly do rely on it ever demonstrated any interest in even nominal donations, so it was archived. While it’s notable someone finally noticed it, I’m not the person to discuss any future development any more.

I did work in large companies and I do understand the sick logic that drives them, when it’s easier to get approval for annual spending of $50k for some office decorations than $100 for a mission-critical project which happens to be open-source and can be used for free for some time.

But it’s possible. If you’re working in such roles, please make every effort to get this $100 because otherwise it will become your responsibility to develop and maintain code that you always got for free.

Typst is a new open-source markup-based typesetting system that is designed to be as powerful as LaTeX while being much easier to learn and use. Typst creates beautiful PDF output with blazing fast render times.

Use the typst format to create a PDF document via Typst

Instantly publish your own books on the web for free, no publisher required.

Blogging and posting on social is easy. But why is it so hard to publish a whole book on the web? It’s not anymore. Writebook is remarkably simple software that allows you to publish text and pictures in a simple, browsable online book format.

## Features
Human-readable output with color-coded and tabular format
JSON output support for easy scripting and parsing
Multiple transport protocols:
DNS over HTTPS (DoH)
DNS over TLS (DoT)
DNS over QUIC (DoQ)
DNS over TCP
DNS over UDP
DNSCrypt
Support for ndots and search configurations from resolv.conf or command-line arguments
Multiple resolver support with customizable query strategies
IPv4 and IPv6 support
Web interface available at doggo.mrkaran.dev
Shell completions for zsh and fish
Reverse DNS lookups
Flexible query options including various DNS flags (AA, AD, CD, DO, etc.)
Debug mode for troubleshooting
Response time measurement
Cross-platform support (Linux, macOS, Windows, FreeBSD, NetBSD)

Man steals moon
Man loads moon in wheelbarrow, then into hatchback vehicle.

Really inventive, clever photography.

Update - noted in comments: [@persagen](https://mastodon.social/@persagen) Source: "Photographer Daniel Antoniol, from Brazil, produces mind bending snaps where it looks like he’s playing football with the moon, and even loading it into the boot of his car." 🙏

<https:www.instagram.com/daniel_antoniol/?hl=en>

<https:www.photoawards.com/winner/zoom.php?eid=8-1657122048-22>

[#DanielAntoniol](https://mastodon.social/tags/DanielAntoniol) [#photography](https://mastodon.social/tags/photography) [#art](https://mastodon.social/tags/art)

Learning about marimo, an open-source reactive notebook.
Looks really nice for visualizations.

<https:marimo.app/?slug=55kclj>

Plus, notebook changes results in small diffs and the notebooks themselves are executable as Python scripts!

[#nbpy](https://fosstodon.org/tags/nbpy)

Batman's aff his nut
Have you seen the way he cuts aboot
Dressed up as a mad fuckin bat
Batterin guys
I was lit at:
"Mate, I'm worried aboot ye I know your ma and da died But everybody's ma and da dies And we're no aw runnin aboot
Hookin muggers and
Kickin psychopaths in the baws." And that was when Batman went
"Aye, but do ye ever feel like it?
Do you ever look at the world and feel like it?
Like having a big mad base under your hoose?
Do you ever feel like drivin a big mad motor that turns intae a tank?
And leatherin fuck oot of guys aw night?
Scarin the fuckin shite oot of them?"
And that was when I was lit at:
"Aye. Fuck it. Ah dae."
And that's the Secret Origin of Robin and everybody else.

I have always loved [#neovim](https://dotnet.social/tags/neovim)'s github commit style, but assumed it was just a project-style-guide thing. Now a realise that is has been standardized:

<https:www.conventionalcommits.org/en/v1.0.0/>
"Conventional Commits: A specification for adding human and machine readable meaning to commit messages "

[#git](https://dotnet.social/tags/git) [#development](https://dotnet.social/tags/development)

This is a sample in the wild:

Simutrans is a freeware and open-source transportation simulator. Your goal is to establish a successful transport company. Transport passengers, mail and goods by rail, road, ship, and even air. Interconnect districts, cities, public buildings, industries and tourist attractions by building a transport network you always dreamed of.

An AI thing I'm watching play out at another org:

1: Expert A, with a deep understanding of a nuanced and difficult problem answers a question they've been given, offering several options.

2: Director B, recipient, uses an AI to summarize it and then runs it up to leadership saying, "A says this." That generated summary is subtly and very wrong.

3: A is now being held responsible for plans made based on B's AI-generated and very wrong rewriting of his recommendations.

Fun times.

Mein Blog hat erstmals seit Januar 2017 wieder eine eigene Suchfunktion!

<https:thomas-leister.de/search/>

Damals habe ich von Wordpress zu Hugo umgestellt - also zu einem Static Site Generator. Die Suchfunktion war damals auch weg. Zwischenzeitlich habe ich mir mit einer integrierten DuckDuckGo Suche beholfen. Besonders schön war das allerdings nie.

Vor zwei Wochen bin ich aber auf "Pagefind" gestoßen - eine Javascript-basierte Suchmachine. Das funktioniert wunderbar und sehr schnell. :)

[#hugo](https://metalhead.club/tags/hugo)

ts functionality is grouped into 3 categories described below.

mise installs and manages dev tools/runtimes like node, python, or terraform both simplifying installing these tools and allowing you to specify which version of these tools to use in different projects. mise supports hundreds of dev tools.

mise manages environment variables letting you specify configuration like AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID that may differ between projects. It can also be used to automatically activate a Python virtualenv when entering projects too.

mise is a task runner that can be used to share common tasks within a project among developers and make things like running tasks on file changes easy.

Hey fyi

You can go to radiooooo.com (that's 5 o's), look at the world map, select a country, select a decade, and then listen to music from that time and place. For free. No ads. No idea how or why but it exists. Check it out!

Edit: you should also know that radio.garden does the same thing. I am not familiar, but several people have endorsed it. Nice to have options!

[#music](https://eldritch.cafe/tags/music) [#radio](https://eldritch.cafe/tags/radio)

So BBC released an online version of the Hitch Hickers guide to the Galaxy text adventure game. enhanced 30th anniversary edition. And guess what folks, it's fully screen reader friendly, Enjoy! <https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/1g84m0sXpnNCv84GpN2PLZG/the-game-30th-anniversary-edition>

Maccy is a lightweight clipboard manager for macOS. It keeps the history of what you copy and lets you quickly navigate, search, and use previous clipboard contents.

AltTab brings the power of Windows’s “alt-tab” window switcher to macOS.

Ben Sandofksy went deep on the history of Lambda School, a learn-to-code startup that aimed to disrupt computer science education, and its founder, Austen Allred.

New blog post by Gábor Szárnyas

Command Line Data Processing: Using DuckDB as a Unix Tool

This blog post shows how DuckDB stacks up against classic Unix tools (such as cut, grep, sort and sed) when performing simple data processing steps.

Read more at <https://duckdb.org/2024/06/20/cli-data-processing-using-duckdb-as-a-unix-tool>

[@phire](https://phire.place/@phire) [@mhoye](https://mastodon.social/@mhoye) a friend said once that enterprise architects exist so programmers don't have to talk to business analysts, and BAs exist so that EAs don't have to talk to customers/users

It has forever changed my perception of the development process

If you'd prefer a more wizard-like interface for search-and-replacing in [#Neovim](https://hachyderm.io/tags/Neovim), grug-far might be your cup of tea: <https://github.com/MagicDuck/grug-far.nvim>

<https:tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations>

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood

Useful to save web pages as local markdown files, for search

Also useful to output PDF from pages!

Inspired by [@niclake](https://mastodon.social/@niclake) and [@robb](https://social.lol/@robb) who respectively use Jekyll and Nginx, I wrote a similar blog post for forbidding AI bot scraping, but using Hugo and Caddy

<https:darthvi.com/post/forbidden-for-robots/>

[#blogging](https://fosstodon.org/tags/blogging) [#tutorial](https://fosstodon.org/tags/tutorial) [#hugo](https://fosstodon.org/tags/hugo) [#caddy](https://fosstodon.org/tags/caddy) [#bots](https://fosstodon.org/tags/bots)

[@irvingreid](https://hachyderm.io/@irvingreid) [@gvwilson](https://mastodon.social/@gvwilson) [@mhoye](https://mastodon.social/@mhoye) [@scruss](https://xoxo.zone/@scruss) [@timbray](https://cosocial.ca/@timbray) Gonna crash this thread to plug [@reviewboard](https://mastodon.online/@reviewboard) 's PDF diffing / review support (in the Power Pack extension). If I recall correctly, that capability _is_ being used to review revisions to legal documents, at least in some shops.

<https:www.reviewboard.org/docs/powerpack/latest/features/doc-review/>

We are collecting the sounds of woodlands and forests from all around the world, creating a growing soundmap bringing together aural tones and textures from the world’s woodlands.

The sounds form an open source library, to be used by anyone to listen to and create from. Selected artists will be responding to the sounds that are gathered, creating music, audio, artwork or something else incredible, to be presented at Timber Festival 2021.

Study (N=806 orgs; 1971-2015) finds some DEI practices increase managerial diversity while others decrease it:
Increase: hiring chief diversity officer, mentoring, childcare, flextime, parental leave, empowering training, targeted recruitment, diversity goals increase diversity
Decrease: Perf evals, harassment training, grievance procedures, job tests
Mixed results: Cross-training, employee resource groups, self-managed teams, skills training
<https:hbr.org/2024/06/research-the-most-common-dei-practices-actually-undermine-diversity>

One thing really worth addressing from the post that I don't think author accepted, and I see this a lot with engineers:

> "That did introduce tension for our team because we were supposed to be taking experimental bets for the platform’s future. These bets couldn’t be baked into product without hacks or shortcuts in the typical quarter as was the expectation."
If I can pump one learning into engineers' and PMs' heads it's this: intermediate deliverables are not optional no matter how cutting-edge your team is.
You will never succeed if your pitch to leadership is "give us a budget for the next N years and expect no shippable products until the end of N years". Even if you get approved somehow at the beginning, there's a 99.5% chance your team/project will be killed before you get to N years.
Again, once again for the audience in the back: there is no such thing as a multi-year project without convincing, meaningful intermediate deliverables.
To clarify, that doesn't mean "don't have multi-year roadmaps", it means "your multi-year roadmaps must deliver wins at a consistent cadence".
Understanding this will carry you a lot further in the industry.
As a fairly cutting-edge R&D team part of your job is to figure out what slice of this is shippable (and worth shipping). If you're coming up empty you are not ready to pitch this to execs.

Those were, of course, tree swallows in a barn.

Here's a barn swallow in a tree.

I’m not ignoring my email, I’m actively improving security by not responding to potential phishing communication.

Prettier git diffs in the terminal

Carbon is the easiest way to create and share beautiful images of your source code.

[@marcoarment](https://mastodon.social/@marcoarment) [@jsnell](https://zeppelin.flights/@jsnell) [@gruber](https://mastodon.social/@gruber) [@caseyliss](https://mastodon.social/@caseyliss) [@siracusa](https://mastodon.social/@siracusa) Phil Schiller approved!

I may have made a thing

i'm getting too old for this stuff
(WWDC24 recap song)

A simple, blazingly fast, selfhosted URL shortener with no unnecessary features; written in Rust. - SinTan1729/chhoto-url

[#SilentSunday](https://mstdn.social/tags/SilentSunday) [#birdsOfMastodon](https://mstdn.social/tags/birdsOfMastodon)
Red winged Blackbird harassing a Great Blue Heron June 2024

Built a new (tiny) SwiftBar plugin to replace a broken one for monitoring Wi-Fi signal on the Mac. No binary so you’ll have to build it yourself; may package it better at some point. <https://github.com/nriley/wireless_status>

The article I was looking for a while ago about the feel of cutting - "kireaji", sometimes translated as the "flavor of cutting" - was this, from TW Lim, called "Forming An Edge"

<https:www.scopeofwork.net/forming-an-edge/>

This is, I think, a wonderful paragraph:

Small fix to watchgha: don't truncate lists at 30 items (oops!)
WatchGHA reports on GitHub Action progress in a terminal UI.

<https:pypi.org/project/watchgha/>

Title: Moon at Magome (1930)

Artist: Hasui Kawase

<https:www.japan-guide.com/e/e6076.html> [#ShinHanga](https://mstdn.ca/tags/ShinHanga) [#Art](https://mstdn.ca/tags/Art) [#HasuiKawase](https://mstdn.ca/tags/HasuiKawase) [#Showa](https://mstdn.ca/tags/Showa) [#Spring](https://mstdn.ca/tags/Spring) [#FullMoon](https://mstdn.ca/tags/FullMoon) [#Moon](https://mstdn.ca/tags/Moon) [#Magome](https://mstdn.ca/tags/Magome) [#KisoValley](https://mstdn.ca/tags/KisoValley) [#Nagano](https://mstdn.ca/tags/Nagano) [#Japan](https://mstdn.ca/tags/Japan)

Scoop: I obtained the contract Samsung requires independent shops to sign to buy phone repair parts from them.

It requires:

- "Daily" dumps of customer data
- The "immediate destruction" of any phones a shop comes across that has third-party parts

<https:www.404media.co/samsung-requires-independent-repair-shops-to-share-customer-data-snitch-on-people-who-use-aftermarket-parts-leaked-contract-shows/>

What an absolute unit.

[#birding](https://fediscience.org/tags/birding) [#birdphotography](https://fediscience.org/tags/birdphotography) [#owls](https://fediscience.org/tags/owls)

Slopple.
<https:hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/112485627917497636>

Cool new fan site for NetNewsWire themes!

<https:paiji.github.io/NetNewsWire-themes-collection/>

Here's the code for the AI counter app I used in my [#PyConUS](https://fedi.simonwillison.net/tags/PyConUS) keynote today - it uses vosk and pyaudio to listen through the microphone and increment a visible Tkinter counter any time it detects "AI" or "Artificial Intelligence" <https://github.com/simonw/count-ai>

Prompts I used to write it are here: <https://chatgpt.com/share/58f2352d-1f17-495b-94f1-4eb44cd574b9>

"What radicalized you?"