Artyom BologovWhyyyyyyyyy does it take so much time for #GNU #Guile #Scheme to review my type-checking pull request, whyyyyyyyyy? I contributed it 7 months agooooooooo. I just want to write portable well-typed Scheme and Guile is a major obstacle to that 😭😭😭
Add SRFI-253 to Guile
Hello y'all. This PR adds support for SRFI-253 ("Data (Type-)Checking") to Guile, as an `(srfi srfi-253)` module. Tests and documentation provided. Tell me if something's off, I'll fix it. There might be a potential for propagating this SRFI into proper type checking, but didn't dare to g...
To make a “time to read” counter for my site (without JS!)
• I have to know how much my content actually takes to read.
• To know that, I should analyze my posts.
• To do that, I have to parse them (with ed(1), of course!)
• To parse them, I have to rely on landmark <p> tags.
• And to rely on these, I have to fix previous syntaxes I used for paragraphs, to use never HTML format.
• 300+ entries for old format across the blog.
I guess I’m not doing “time to read” now, focusing on blog refactoring instead 🤦
GörllewinIt's not that Hebden Bridge people don't want renewable energy, they just want it where it's appropriate, which is down the road in Todmorden, or somewhere else they don't have to see them, much like their attitude to supermarkets. Which they also benefit from and use, just not in their own back yard (they all do their weekly shop at Todmorden supermarkets but see off any chain store attempting to open in their own town). Got to keep their own house prices up.
None of these people whipping themselves up into a frenzy about Walshaw Moor did a thing about the Todmorden wind farms (I know that because when I moved here I got in touch with the Todmorden Moor Commoners who failed to prevent the Flower Scar Hill turbines (nobody but this tiny local group cared)).
All Todmorden wind farms are in locations with similar claims to carbon sinks and wildlife rarity, I've not seen the Todmorden turbines mentioned once in relation to the opposition to Walshaw Moor. And the idea that Top Withens has anything to do with the Brontë's was ridiculed as tourist trap nonsense until it became a convenient extra wedge for the opposition. Someone knocked up a graphic showing how turbine blades would be visible behind Top Withens as if it's some massive gotcha.
Foreign ownership is a fair argument, but a minor one, Scottish Power own the turbines here at Coal Clough, Scottish Power is owned by a Spanish multinational. It's common.
Between Walshaw Moor and Hebden Bridge are three MASSIVE reservoirs. The landscape is already industrial.
Anyway, I'm being contrarian. I don't actually know where I stand on this. I just can't stand the rhetoric around it from Hebden types. I do love wind turbines though.
iccoOk rant for #theVent. I've spent all day looking for a camping lantern that has yellow light not white LEDs, and is battery powered. Tried both small and big stores. Nothing. I don't understand people who like bright white lights. Makes my head hurt.
Bad Diodejust had to update the batteries on my APC UPS for the second time and holy shit remind me to never buy this brand of UPS again.
I understand the extremely loud and obnoxious alarm when batteries need to be replaced, but changing them should be WAY easier.
Somnius 
Took a look at available jobs in my field on a whim today and was surprised to see how little was available aside from extremely senior positions. Feels like options are getting more and more limited in the job market these days. #theVent
cathosI mostly use web browsers to read things.
I like reading a page, hitting a button, and reading another page.
That's... vaguely possible on desktop (hitting space-bar or page down sometimes works), but generally a pain on mobile. I used to have a plugin for that on firefox for andtoid, which added a floating page nav button. But I really want a nicely-paginated article reading view. And I'd like the same in my text editor and rss reader / web archiving software. Why shouldn't they be able to share a front-end for reading, editing, and marking up things? I don't need responsiveness. I need reliable text and image presentation, and a nice full page reload.
Changeable interfaces suck. I find myself clicking or tapping on the wrong thing constantly, because it changes under me. It's worse on touch screens, but still bad with a mouse. Worst on Android (in my experience), but present in every common OS.
messaging apps? i go to click on a conversation in the list, a new message appears, and the conversation i was going to click on has moved down by the time my click or finger tap registers.
search suggestions? same problem. the recent history populates first, but by the time i reach up and click, the items have moved to accomodate new suggestions.
I don't know what a good solution is, but... beyond actually inconsistent behavior, this is the most annoying interface design choice.
Ah hell, #CSS attr() function returns raw strings. And even when it doesn't, the behavior is not defined for most CSS properties. So I cannot do "background-color: var(--test, attr(color, papayawhip));" to have fallback colors, because attr(), being the experimental standard snowflake it is, will mess things up.
I was that close to making a polyglot HTML 3.2/5 theming solution, but I guess I stay with CSS and not <body bgcolor="hotpink"> 😞