almost left the hotel without my cat ears!!  

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RE: https://blahaj.social/@DorkusShorkus/116498119731343742

but I can carry you like one 😌

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the hackathon opening is being streamed, if you want to watch from home: https://youtube.com/live/7ZoQdPNt1nc

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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)

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update: the bad news is my “optimization” is a 2× slowdown 

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the cake is not a lie

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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)

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train spotted

(slide by @manjiki, probably under some CC license ^^)

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“I hate residential proxies

all my enemies are inside them”

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(not a quote from the presentation, just inspired by it ^^)

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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

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(I *nailed* the time, pretty much exactly 30 minutes :D although @manjiki granted us a few more minutes for Q&A ^^)

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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

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is pretrain named after precogs 

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joined the historic tram tour at the last second and had some fun driving around Milan ^^ the Cathedral is still nice :) (ec selfie)

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*idly wonders if, in the grand scheme of things, the existence of xkcd #927 has been a net positive or negative on the existence, usage and evolution of standards of any kind*

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(admit it, you didn't have to look up which xkcd that number was even before the rest of the post implied it's standards)

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(I feel like there's another xkcd that sometimes gets used to just shut down discussions but I can't remember which one right now)

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I love how the API session just now perfectly set up the project I’ll showcase in a few hours 

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next year's #wmhack will be in… Albania! finally! 🎉

(2020 was supposed to be there until covid happened 😔)

#wmhack return journey! I made it to Milano Centrale by bus and metro; now to Lugano by EC, then an IC to Zurich

even though this EC also continues straight to Zurich 

I asked the train person if I could just stay on the EC but nooooooo

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interesting statue at Arth-Goldau

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good morning! final part of my journey today

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Deutsche Bahn WiFi is a lot more usable than SBB WiFi – I can listen in to a work call, which was entirely impossible yesterday even in Switzerland (let alone while the Swiss train was cruising through Germany)

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train spotted

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group of kids on the train (sports related?) are playing Werewolf (aka Mafia) ^^

feels like a tricky game to play across multiple rows of seats but I'm sure they can figure it out

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I saw some other groups of children with sporty outfits at Berlin Hbf (I think one was „Team Saarland“), is some kind of tournament happening here? 🤔

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RE: https://chaos.social/@korenchkin/116521826455671816

https://www.jugendtrainiert.com/bundeswettbewerb/2026/fruehjahrsfinale/ seems to fit, thanks! (I think I saw some „Jugend trainiert“ apparel)

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I made it home! \o/

that’s probably the end of this #wmhack thread, except for the blog post which will hopefully come at some point (but maybe not before this weekend, for 🤧 reasons)