Stuff I do:
💻 write community organising software 👉https://fosstodon.org/@karrot
🌳 grow food 👉 https://bath.social/@DryArchGrowers
♥️ local solidarity 👉 https://bathsolidarity.city
📚 lend my books 👉 https://inventaire.io/inventory/nicksellen
🕰️ Previously 👉 https://social.coop/@nicksellen (joined 2018)
| website | https://nicksellen.co.uk |
| pronouns | he/him |
| location | UK |
I made an experimental mastodon invite qr code sticker generator - the idea is to put them up locally, on lampposts, etc...
It's experimental as I didn't actually try getting the stickers printed yet... sizing might be off... from a quick look 7cm x 7cm seemed a reasonable size.
You can generate and download stickers (or rather an image) for your own instance at https://nicksellen.co.uk/qr/ - and customize the message. It runs entirely in the browser.
Phew, close to getting our work on Ostrom-commons-style sanctions implemented in @karrot - it's been quite a slog for me this time 😩, touches quite a lot of areas of the code.
https://codeberg.org/karrot/karrot-frontend/pulls/2801 has more deets.
I have a few shop discount cards (the horrible tracking kind), and don't have physical copies of them. The store phone apps are crap and slow (and probably full of trackers), and some need to be online (and some shops I have no signal in...).
I have images of all the barcodes and scan them, but often can't find the image I need easily.
Then I found https://catima.app/ on f-droid, and I love it! All the barcodes easily imported, and fast and simple. Just what I hoped existed.
Boat name competition! 🚣♂️
I get a canal boat soon, and it could do with a name, I'm not very good with naming, but maybe you can help me out...
It's orange/brown colour, inspired by autumn leaves. The essence is vitality/life.. and partly with the spirit of my brother who died, who always "just did stuff"... with a lovely energy... human life spirit... it'll have lots of plants on it one day...
I could ask ChatGPT, but I prefer to ask ChatGPFediverse ♥️ (no AI pls!).
Boosts welcome!
Finished Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler. Loved it!
I rarely read fiction, but from reading this and Grapes of Wrath by Steinbeck, I understand better how narrative expression hits me in a totally different way to my usual cognitive-fest. Visceral impact.
I cried at the end (not because there weren't enough other cry worthy parts, but there was some personal relating), and I've been trying to cry for a while now without success.
I don't remember crying when reading nonfiction.
Mmmm the season of fruit that has not been obtained using a market mechanism.
Gooseberries, cherries, loganberries, and raspberries here.
.. oh, and here's the equivalent Google Maps view of approximately the same area.
The Open Street Map version has *staggeringly* more detail than Google Maps does.
(To be fair, Google Maps does add the individual houses at a higher zoom level, but it's totally missing all the paths, gradients, tree details, and much more).
