This cutesy feature popover in Slack is easy to dismiss until you discover that “precise customization" is the ability to disable the fricken’ gradients that make the navigation area such an unreadable mess.

Settings > Themes > Custom Theme > Window gradient — and you have to do it for every Slack you're in because of course you do.

Golden hour is for rabbits too.

Bought some Italian butter cookies this morning. Asked for an assortment.

Clerk: Any allergies?

Me (being silly): Just cats.

Clerk nods and made a show of putting back one of the cookies.

School 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.

“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>

Another 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.

I’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>

For 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)

I 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>

I'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>

Today 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)

Trying 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>

Datasette 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>

yall ever seen a shaved alpaca before?

Ever 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)

I'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>

Gorgeous 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)

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>

[@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>