BREAKING: NASA is developing dragons, press release on new Pluto data from New Horizons lets slip
BREAKING: NASA is developing dragons, press release on new Pluto data from New Horizons lets slip
After four months I completed the Duolingo German tree!
I have thoroughly enjoyed using Duolingo and would recommend it to anyone who wants to learn a language it supports. Having said that, there are many things it will not teach, for which I recommend and am using these additional resources:
Online Deutsche Welle CEFR placement tests put me at A2 right now. Good thing too, as I’m headed for Germany later this month…
😂 HA HA HA HA HA no. Absolutely not, Duolingo:
Suspiciously tidy newstatesman.com page footer — how many of these staff were hired to make the columns line up?
#KSP scientific instrument malfunction gives insight into Kerbin’s internal structure; continents rest on dense mushroom soup layer; nature of lower levels still unclear:
My geeky system datetime format: longnow variant ISO8601 dates with ordinal day of year:
Protip: leave out the longnow preceding 0 in the short/medium formats as otherwise the created/modified datetimes in the Finder column view will be truncated to just the date by default.
I’m getting too used to #puredata (puredata.info) — I just right-clicked a python class and expected a hypermedia “help” option with params, example usage etc.
Jetbrains PyCharm does have an inline documentation feature, which (when invoked via a complex keyboard “shortcut”), produces this gem:
Even when this feature does work, it shows code “documentation” in a monospace font, typically with no usage example or links to other relevant documentation, as is standard in puredata.
Our tools are inadequate.
Update: added puredata documentation for comparison:
In case it’s not clear from the screenshot, that usage example is live code — it can be interacted with, changed, copied and pasted, played with, experimented with. We typically can’t do that with existing text-based code, let alone mere usage examples.
More thoughts I want to add to this, but I will write them up as a full article.
Not quite sure what to make of this latest spam:
Finally landed on the mün manually in #KSP! Here’s my little kerbal looking relieved to be out of the lander at last. It’s a good thing they don’t need anything to eat — it might be a while before I can fly a more substantial base out there.
A food mailing list closed to anyone under 21? That’s a bit weird, @tastingtable:
Not to mention the requirement of a zip code with no indication of why or how it’s used.
#screenshot: The absolute worst page-load time I’ve ever experienced:
Why not to make assumptions about where your site visitors come from send #js to do a hyperlink’s job:
(That link didn’t work, obv)
Taking distributed #indieweb actions on your own site, in context? Yes, webaction toolbelt does that:
To clarify, this is a page on news.indiewebcamp.com which supports inline webactions. When I click “Reply”, a pre-populated new note form from my own site is loaded into an iframe. It detects this, and adjusts its styling accordingly.
Indieweb Reply in action: