Very good Indian restaurant in London

How to stop the monthly screen recording prompts in macOS 15 Sequoia: <https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/2024/8/10.html> (via [@skypunch](https://mastodon.social/@skypunch))

A highlighted result
In recent months, I’ve begun to notice that results from web searches often highlight specific text on the page to which they’re linking. The web page is also scrolled to the relevant content. It’s quite helpful!

A quick investigation showed this is accomplished by appending a bit of code, #:~:text= to the URL for a link. These are called Text Fragments, and they’ve been supported by Chrome since back in 2020. It took a couple more years for support to come to Safari, but at this point, the element is well-supported enough to be worth using

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

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.

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

Prettier git diffs in the terminal

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/>

"What radicalized you?"

[@mhoye](https://mastodon.social/@mhoye) I'm all in on “lightweight alternatives to Elasticsearch / Solr”. Let's see if I starred something useful…
<https:github.com/valeriansaliou/sonic> (Rust)
<https:github.com/zincsearch/zincsearch> (Go)
<https:github.com/askorama/orama> (JS)
<https:github.com/CloudCannon/pagefind> (specifically for static sites)
<https:github.com/kbrsh/wade> (Rust, library like Lucene)

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)

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>

I wrote some ideas for how to actually make HTML documents a viable replacement for PDFs.

<https:willcrichton.net/notes/portable-epubs/>

I think I'm becoming a fan of Christopher Ward watches. They have some very nice ones at the moment.
<https:www.christopherward.com/watches/c63-sealander-automatic/C63-39ADA3-S00K1-VC.html>

Hidden Bar - A Minimal Menu Bar Solution
<https:chrishannah.me/hidden-bar-a-minimal-menu-bar-solution>

A slide from a presentation I just finished.

Just launched: the initial version of Postmarks, a new ActivityPub platform that lets you save, tag and share bookmarks on the Fediverse! More info on my blog: <https://motd.co/2023/09/postmarks-launch/>

Just posted slides for Beyond Paradigms, updated for [@NorthBayPython](https://social.northbaypython.org/@NorthBayPython) 2023.

Thanks to all who attended and made me feel welcome!

<https:speakerdeck.com/ramalho/beyond-paradigms-with-python-examples>

[#science](https://mastodon.social/tags/science) is real

Hey, folks. Big layoffs at DigitalOcean today, and my team and I were hit. In fact, so was my adjacent team, and a good chunk of my department. I don't have much reach here on Mastodon yet, but if anybody wants to discuss opportunities for a technical editor / writer / manager of same, I'm up for it.