2024-04-21
toot by https://mastodon.social/@dhry
mastodon.social/@dhry/112310194390363024School tuck shop (aka canteen, cafeteria) menu from 1978, at the [#Australian](https://mastodon.social/tags/Australian) [#school](https://mastodon.social/tags/school) I attended as a kid. Older Aussies might find this interesting.
toot by https://mastodon.online/@mwichary
mastodon.online/@mwichary/112307109367552465“Of course I like to read nontechnical books, although I read very slowly. Here are some that I heartily recommend.”—Don Knuth
😳
<https:www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/retd.html>
2024-04-20
toot by https://fosstodon.org/@chrishannah
fosstodon.org/@chrishannah/112305940648815688Another great tool is skhd (<https://github.com/koekeishiya/skhd>), which is a hotkey daemon for Mac. It's especially great for controlling things like yabai. Here's my keybinds for moving focus to different spaces, and also moving applications between spaces.
toot by https://fosstodon.org/@chrishannah
fosstodon.org/@chrishannah/112305215680057795I’m never really a fan of covers, but Royel Otis' cover of Linger by The Cranberries is incredible. Feels like going back to the 90s/00s. <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGUVB19e13s>
toot by https://fediscience.org/@ct_bergstrom
fediscience.org/@ct_bergstrom/112302205065369262For once this bushtit held still long enough for me to squeeze off a couple of frames.
[#birding](https://fediscience.org/tags/birding) [#birdphotography](https://fediscience.org/tags/birdphotography)
toot by https://fedi.simonwillison.net/@simon
fedi.simonwillison.net/@simon/112300818053845553I upgraded the llm-gpt4all plugin to support running Llama 3 8B Instruct (thanks, Nomic AI):
llm install --upgrade llm-gpt4all
llm -m Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct 'Write Python code to print 5 great names for a pet pelican'
The quantized model is a 4.34GB download and should run on machine with 8GB RAM - works great on my M2 MacBook Pro
<https:github.com/simonw/llm-gpt4all/releases/tag/0.4>
2024-04-15
toot by https://mastodon.social/@harshil
mastodon.social/@harshil/112273758345114562I'm losing my mind watching this. The people involved need to either be given a massive Netflix contract or institutionalised <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jky5ZXI0axc>
2024-04-13
toot by https://fosstodon.org/@orhun
fosstodon.org/@orhun/112263799395387466Today I found a TUI frontend for curl! 🔥
🌀**cute**: TUI HTTP client with API/auth key management and request history/storage.
🌐 Supports importing Postman collections!
🦀 Written in Rust & built with [@ratatui_rs](https://fosstodon.org/@ratatui_rs)
⭐ GitHub: <https://github.com/PThorpe92/CuTE>
[#rustlang](https://fosstodon.org/tags/rustlang) [#ratatui](https://fosstodon.org/tags/ratatui) [#tui](https://fosstodon.org/tags/tui) [#curl](https://fosstodon.org/tags/curl) [#http](https://fosstodon.org/tags/http) [#request](https://fosstodon.org/tags/request) [#api](https://fosstodon.org/tags/api) [#auth](https://fosstodon.org/tags/auth)
2024-04-11
toot by https://scicomm.xyz/@jrdmb
scicomm.xyz/@jrdmb/112254321338107084Trying out the new Gemini 1.5 Pro model <https://developers.googleblog.com/2024/04/gemini-15-pro-in-public-preview-with-new-features.html>
Can run it online in Google AI Studio, but very easy to use it on the command line on a linux server with python modules llm & llm-gemini by [@simon](https://fedi.simonwillison.net/@simon) after getting the free API key in AI Studio. Took me 5 minutes to set up.
<https:github.com/simonw/llm-gemini>
2024-04-09
toot by https://fedi.simonwillison.net/@simon
fedi.simonwillison.net/@simon/112243536393108957Datasette Extract is a new Datasette plugin that uses GPT-4 (and the new GPT-4 Vision) to extract structured data from unstructured text and images and insert it into a SQLite database table. Here's a video demonstrating the plugin:
<https:www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3NtJatmQR0>
2024-04-05
toot by https://grimgreenfo.rest/@gavi
grimgreenfo.rest/notes/9rqi42y93i9d00tfyall ever seen a shaved alpaca before?
2024-03-30
toot by https://mastodon.me.uk/@robintw
mastodon.me.uk/@robintw/112184882933475294Ever wondered about UK place names? My new web app lets you search place names (starting with 'south', ending with 'burgh', containing 'sea' etc) and plot them on a map - and then share those maps with friends.
Have a look at <https://placenames.rtwilson.com/>, or try one of the examples, like this map of different suffixes: <https://placenames.rtwilson.com/#W3sidGV4dCI6ImJ1cmdoIiwiY29sb3IiOiIjZTMxYTFjIiwiY2hlY2tlZCI6dHJ1ZSwibWF0Y2hUeXBlIjoiZW5kc3dpdGgifSx7InRleHQiOiJoYW1wdG9uIiwiY29sb3IiOiIjMWY3OGI0IiwiY2hlY2tlZCI6dHJ1ZSwibWF0Y2hUeXBlIjoiZW5kc3dpdGgifSx7InRleHQiOiJiYWNoIiwiY29sb3IiOiIjMzNhMDJjIiwiY2hlY2tlZCI6dHJ1ZSwibWF0Y2hUeXBlIjoiZW5kc3dpdGgifV0>=
[#GIS](https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/GIS) [#geospatial](https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/geospatial) [#UK](https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/UK) [#placenames](https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/placenames) [#mapping](https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/mapping) [#gischat](https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/gischat)
2024-03-29
toot by https://infosec.exchange/@tqbf
infosec.exchange/@tqbf/112181373023668976I've been writing serverside SQLite applications for several years now and I still picked things up from this article, which is extremely good. <https://kerkour.com/sqlite-for-servers>
2024-03-28
toot by https://fediscience.org/@ct_bergstrom
fediscience.org/@ct_bergstrom/112171374372710023Gorgeous dark-eyed junco at Santa Fe Ski Basin in New Mexico. So very different than the dark-eyed juncos here in Seattle. [#birdphotography](https://fediscience.org/tags/birdphotography) [#birdwatching](https://fediscience.org/tags/birdwatching)
2024-03-26
toot by https://tapbots.social/@paul
tapbots.social/@paul/112159663228810637
OWC has an actually decent looking USB4 enclosure. I'll probably get one whenever the M3 mini comes out, you know cause no way in hell I’m paying $400 for 1TB of storage.
<https:www.owc.com/solutions/express-1m2>
2024-03-25
toot by https://fosstodon.org/@cjoly
fosstodon.org/@cjoly/112157808875528305[@asciinema](https://fosstodon.org/@asciinema) Awesome fix of the double-width characters!
To anyone using this with the [#Hugo](https://fosstodon.org/tags/Hugo) static site generator, I’ve updated my module to this new version: <https://github.com/cljoly/gohugo-asciinema/releases/tag/v3.7.1>
2024-03-24
toot by https://fosstodon.org/@carlton
fosstodon.org/@carlton/112151555772718882[@simon](https://fedi.simonwillison.net/@simon) Copilot is funny. If you can convince it that it's about programming, it'll tell you all sorts of things...
2024-03-22
toot by https://fosstodon.org/@codemonkeymike
fosstodon.org/@codemonkeymike/112141473068188754Another [#HelixEditor](https://fosstodon.org/tags/HelixEditor) change I made which is changing my life.
Pressing x will highlight whole lines. But if you accidentally hit x too many times, there is no way to go back up. So I made shift+x do exactly that.
X = ["extend_line_up", "extend_to_line_bounds"]
2024-03-15
toot by https://mastodon.social/@shire_reckoning
mastodon.social/@shire_reckoning/112100238985785382Aragorn and Éomer meet, ‘though all the hosts of Mordor lay between us. Did I not say so at the Hornburg?’
‘So you spoke, but hope oft deceives. I knew not then that you were a man foresighted. Yet twice blessed is help unlooked for. Never was a meeting of friends more joyful.’
2024-03-14
toot by https://mastodon.social/@gvwilson
mastodon.social/@gvwilson/112096519271167741The Python version of "Software Design by Example" will be out Real Soon: you can read the content at <https://third-bit.com/sdxpy/> or order a hard copy at <https://www.routledge.com/9781032725215> - please use the code "SMA22" to get 20% off. All royalties will go to support the Red Door Family Shelter in Toronto (<https://www.reddoorshelter.ca/>).