I've moved out of Finland recently. One thing I will miss are the bad translations of Finnish email to English, leading to lots of amusement. Practically, life will get simpler though.
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Thor Galle
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Multipurpose Web Developer • In 🇧🇪 • Running the tech at https://welcometomygarden.org; we’re making slow travel more accessible! • Concentratedly distracted by https://readup.org
#macOS: one of the handiest features of #Raycast is its versatile calculator that understands a fair bit of natural language.
This is useful when you don't have a quick-maths brain, and want to know what an hourly server price translates to per month. #tweakers
My Jamstack website uses an amalgamation of backend technologies. I just added #Ghost as a self-hosted service to pull blog posts from. *What an upgrade!*
I started with #Contentful in 2020 because I had worked with it in a client project. They have a free tier for personal projects, and the UX is decent (for a headless, general purpose CMS).
But when it comes to blog posts and writing, you really just need a blank page and an editor that gets out of the way. #blogging
Trying to find the right favicon for my website. #Penpot is being helpful. Of course, I need to check *all* available fonts. These are the most interesting results so far, from Z -> R.
@solomkinmv Over the years, I kept checking the Raycast Store to see if something similar was already added.
Today I was about to start making it myself, I just got the dev env running for https://github.com/aschmelyun/use-the-keyboard to use as a base, because a full-featured, up-to-date, open-source shortcut repo is really missing.
DefKey .com is too ad-ridden, ShortcutWorld .com is closed-source, ...
This is super promising. Expect to see some PRs from me! 🙂
This is a pretty significant moment for me. A few years ago, @deepdave was the most active https://readup.org reader, reading 50+ articles a week!
Recently, Readup hasn't been the most exciting or thriving reading app (https://blog.readup.org/2022/05/23/announcing-a-free-and-open-source-readup.html), so Deep's wasn't around as much (http://readup.org/@deephdave).
Enter today. Deep saw my previous post about The Dying Web, and became aware of my work on https://readup.ink/. With some live bug-fixing, he can now use Readup on his Kindle 😃 Onwards!
The #RSS feed aggregator #FreshRSS; a 2009 #WebKit browser running on a 2015 #Kindle; and https://readup.org. It was a dream to combine them, and this weekend I set the first steps!
I’m excited about this for my own distraction-free #reading and #socialreading, and I hope more may find their way into this set of tools 😃 Here's a little demo 👇
In another episode of "falsehoods programmers believe about ...", I now understand why my phone number is so often rejected by IT systems (last example: a US travel authorization form). My Finnish phone number is 14 characters long, including the +358 country code, which is on the far end of global phone number lengths.
Finland, Sweden, some central EU countries, China, Japan and Australia are among the few countries that use 3+ more digits than most others.
Source: https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/phone-number-length-by-country
I'm enjoying the short comments on this little "icy water dipping" blog post from Nick Cave that I posted to #readup recently 😄
https://readup.org/comments/the-red-hand-files/what-makes-you-happy
I'm regularly downloading data from an API for data analysis. The API has a max number of requested items per call, so I'm chunking up my thousands of requested items.
At some point, errors started occuring seemingly randomly when fetching. I eventually found out it was a rate limiting problem, but the error wasn't clear. So, I debugged it visually, by checking whether all chunks arrived or not.
I still haven't disabled the visual debugging output, because it's so fun to look at 😄