Lucas Werkmeisteryup, missed the connection. found another decent one (actually straight from Zurich to Milan, rather than with a change in Lugano), we’ll see if my ticket is valid here (it’s flexible but I’m still not sure given that my last leg was supposed to be only a regional train)
any other #wmhack people on EC 21? 
nope, apparently I'll have to change trains in Chiasso. this one goes to Milan but I'm not allowed on it 🤷
got some decent (though pricey) Spaghetti Carbonara from the train restaurant at least
about to arrive in Milano Centrale and then head to the hotel via local transit
wow, I'm glad I had some idea how to get to the M (Metro?) lines at Milano Centrale because there weren't a whole lot of signs at first
also #WikiLove to Wikivoyage 
for quickly schooling me on how to pay for local transit (tapping works) \o/
Italian siren sound heard
I walked a bit today but I don't think it was *that* much!! *cue canned laughter*
ok, this hotel’s “scrambled eggs” might be the worst I’ve ever had (excluding my own)
almost left the hotel without my cat ears!! 
the hackathon opening is being streamed, if you want to watch from home: https://youtube.com/live/7ZoQdPNt1nc
Wikimedia Hackathon 2026 Opening Ceremony
approx. two minutes between me sitting down at a table and me getting out the power strip I brought “just in case” (we didn’t have one on the table o_O)
well the good news is that the fix for my broken #wmhack project was really simple, I was just missing one hyphen
update: the bad news is my “optimization” is a 2× slowdown 
good morning #wmhack! no selfie yet as I rushed straight into an API Portal session
Halley Coplin pointed out that the search results for “Wikipedia API” aren’t great, so I had a look and now I’m intrigued by this “preview” for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/API – I highly doubt that text shows up on the article…
(this is with all DuckDuckGo “AI” features disabled btw)
(not a quote from the presentation, just inspired by it ^^)
dear #wmhack! in about 1½ hours (at 15:15 CEST), I’m doing a presentation about Cool New Things In JS + CSS (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T423292) in space 5!
come join me to hear about loads of new JavaScript (and some CSS) features that we’re allowed to use in MediaWiki code more or less recently (since we dropped support for some older browsers) 
the presentation went well! here are the slides for Cool New Things In JS + CSS – your reference for all the features you can use nowadays: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cool_new_things_in_JS_%2B_CSS_%E2%80%93_Wikimedia_Hackathon_2026.pdf
fun (re)discovery: Framework laptops don’t work well when they’re stacked on top of one another
I was very confused until I fortuitously had to move my laptop away from someone else’s for unrelated reasons and suddenly the keyboard and touchpad worked again :D
Moebeus@LucasWerkmeister what would be the cause of that, poor insulation, signal noise, electrical interference? Or is this a joke that I'm not getting :)
@moebeus not a joke. IIRC something magnetic tricks the upper laptop into thinking its lid is closed even when it's open
Lydia Pintscher@LucasWerkmeister @moebeus 😆 Reminds me about how I was stumped why my laptop would be going into sleep mode every now and then without a clear pattern. Was driving me crazy. Turned out to be my watchband that had a magnetic latch.
@nightrose @LucasWerkmeister I love the tactile steam punk hacking vibe, reminds me of "phreaking" when I was a kid, you could whistle into a telephone and trick the relay into doing stuff by simulating sounds, like grant you free intercontinental calls :)
@moebeus @LucasWerkmeister 😆 It does have that vibe, true