Hi, my name is Nathan and I am a habitual procrastinator. I spend more time wasting time than I do, doing something productive. While that’s not always bad, it does hinder my ability to thrive. This TED Talk on procrastination I just watched (instead of doing my job) explains this perfectly. A cru...
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Nathan DeGruchy (fosstodon.org)A few days ago I wrote about how I have no idea how Git works. Since then, things have changed and I’m now basking in the warm orange glow of Git repositories. What happened next? After publishing the post about not being able to use Git, I re-posted it to Fosstodon (I’m all about the […]
Malinux (linuxrocks.online)I wish I'd known Linux back when I was studying Metaphysics.
Professor von Explaino (vonexplaino.com)Continuing my idiocy of playing with things I shouldn't. The last gallery looked pretty good and I played with it more with my son. Playing, though, pointed out some things Magic numbers - the top padding relied on there being only a single line of thumbnails. Once that got too long, it looked bad. ...
fluffy (beesbuzz.biz)Colin has a pretty neat implementation of a javascript-free lightbox gallery, which works by using the :checked attribute on a radio select and making the image a label for it. I think it could also be taken a bit further:
At the beginning of this year I started logging a few things in a very analogue manner. Crossing boxes on a single sheet of paper in my new organizer. One page is dedicated to keep track of the amount of fun things
docloy (freifunk-stuttgart.de)In den letzten Jahren wurde in der Stuttgarter Freifunk-Community der „Flash in den Mai (FidM)“ etabliert.
@edent (shkspr.mobi)In order to provide a video playback UI, WordPress uses the excellent MediaElement library. Recently, I discovered a slightly annoying flaw - I couldn't see the play button! Here's a screenshot of the video UI. A video with an impossible to see play button. In the middle of this screenshot is a whit...
I’m missing the subtitles for videos in WordPress. In earlier versions there was an option for this. So every time I’m adding subtitles manually, that I do on my occasional videos, I’ve to edit the HTML of the Gutenberg block. It’s easy with HTML5 but now the Gutenberg editor will render the block as invalid so any further change has to be done in the source too. Like adding additional video container formats so clients can make their own choice depending on supported encoding.
Liam Dawe (gamingonlinux.com)0 A.D. is a free and open source in-development real-time strategy game from Wildfire Games, one that hasn't seen a big release for quite some time (Alpha 23 was in 2018) but work continues on with it pulling in lots of goodies and Alpha 24 should be quite an exciting one. What's always impressed me...