beardicus

this looks like a great start! non-destructive node-based editing would be super-fun, especially if a node could be written in javascript! i'd love a 2d vector editor that works well for both generative art/design and fiddly manual design. good luck!

I saw you were poking with some image diff tools recently as well, and I'm sure you've thought about this already but I'd just like to explicitly state it: it'd be great if you could scrape a screenshot periodically and only commit it if the new one is significantly different.

I have a Bolt and it definitely loses a lot of range in the winter. I still have plenty of range for what I need to do, so no worries.

The surprising part of this graph for me is that I thought all EVs had a similar magnitude of loss in the winter... guess not! Kudos to Tesla on this particular metric.

i guess you're trying to be snarky here, but, the density of the US as a whole has nothing to do with supporting urban cycling infrastructure. nobody here is talking about facilitating long-haul inter-urban bike routes.

auto-upvote for anything plotter-related... they're so much fun.

be sure to check out #plottertwitter on the twitter tubes (oops, totally missed that this was called out in the very first sentence), and i've also been collecting useful plotter-related links here:

https://github.com/beardicus/awesome-plotters

(one last edit / promo: if you get the nostalgia fuzzies for plotters, be sure to check out the "Manuals and Ephemera" section of the above repo, where i've linked up a bunch of plotter-related manuals and brochures and advertisements from the internet archive)

i regularly handle doggie treats, because i have a good doggo, and i have never had covid.

the same is true for my wife. 2 small anecdata points.

if you'd like more information about our doggie treats, so as to start a prophylactic course of treatment, please let me know.

thanks for listing all of these examples... i really like node-RED, and wrote up a tutorial on it a few years back, but have never actually reached for it to solve a real problem. you've given me some ideas!

+1 on the aesthetic choices with this laptop (and its documentation!). i'm not a backer but have been following along and it's just lovely and thoughtful throughout.

i guess one major reason i'd be hesitant to buy is that i'm not sure i'd love a trackball, and i've been spoiled by apple's trackpads. maybe this could force me into practicing more keyboard-only navigation though...

> Public charging stations may look like the electric version of the gas station, but nearly two-thirds of PEV drivers in the survey said they didn't use them. Exactly why they didn't use the public stalls was not specified.

because they charge at home! this article is quite silly.

if you cant level 2 charge at home then yes... having an EV may be quite inconvenient. but all this "i can fill my SUV in three minutes" stuff is... dumb. know what's even more convenient? never stopping at a stupid gas station ever again. i wait 0 minutes for my car to charge because i plug it in when i get home and then go inside and forget all about it.

I'm very curious what remote display tech they're using, as I've had trouble with latency even over a local network. I've tried VNC and NX, mostly with Linux servers and Mac clients.

> but I use OneNote, and Microsoft isn't going anywhere.

"I use Google Reader, and Google isn't going anywhere."

I imagine requiring a credit card up-front cuts down on a ton of automated spam, and this tradeoff is worth it to pinboard.

Bandwidth is already pooled between all your Droplets... this was implemented sometime last year (I think). (DO employee here)

Interestingly, the canonical link to that page is actually: https://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI

"You may not be using HTML for that page in 20 years time, but you might want today's links to it to still be valid. The canonical way of making links to the W3C site doesn't use the extension."

I am constantly surprised by how difficult many static site generators make it to create URLs of this format (notice no trailing slash, before you tell me about the "Pretty URLs" options in most software).

"But working from home isn’t the optimal version of working remotely."

... for you. it's pretty perfect for me. i love my home office, i'm never tempted to go flop on the couch, i get to go for walks to visit my beehives during lunch. once a week i spend some morning time working in a coffee shop just to remind myself there are other humans. that's sufficient.

this has nothing to do with the state flag though, as far as i can tell. it seems like a decent branding system... not exactly titillating but better than i've seen in most other states.

This is a bizarre blog post to have on the Packt website. Can anybody write these? Packt already had a bit of a low-quality book-mill smell to it, and now they're beating the "why can't the nazis catch a break" drum. Do not want.

Update: Hyper 3 feels super-fast. Startup and new tabs are somewhat sluggish still but actual rendering responsiveness seems real nice.

In before the JavaScript gripes begin. How about we skip the Electron whinging this time?

I haven't switched to Hyper because I have found it a bit pokey and that doesn't work for me, but I'll still give this one a try. I'm curious to hear about any interesting reasons other people _have_ chosen Hyper, or particularly cool things it enables by being built on web technologies. Anybody?

it handles hot reloading, high resolution raster output, animation and gif output, and has some handy features to help you keep track of code when you're quickly iterating while sketching.

`canvas-sketch` is pretty great... I've been having a lot of fun making generative doodles using just the canvas API, but of course you can also use p5.js and other frameworks if you like. it's just nice to have the easy hot reloading and outputting to png and svg and gifs or movies all set up for you already.

Spreading bees out would not make a difference here. All hives have some level of varroa nowadays. The level depends on management techniques and not so much proximity to other hives with mites. Spreading hives out into 1 acre plots wouldn't do much when bees are foraging miles away from the hive, and would make it more difficult to visit each hive for maintenance.

I've signed up for Pixelfed. It's nice enough. It doesn't seem like actual federation between Mastodon or other Pixelfed instances is up and running though. You can follow a Pixelfed account in Mastodon but not vice versa. Maybe I'm just doing something wrong.

Anyways. It's fun... I post silly inconsequential pictures because I know only a half-dozen people will ever see them. The public timeline is not very lively so I hope w/ better federation and more attention it can be a little more active.

I'm pretty sick of Instagram though, so Pixelfed and the fediverse in general seems fun.

The web app is fine and works fine on mobile. A little clunky, but that's how I likes my indieweb. :)

It looks like you can at least view profile pages without logging in. Here's mine, as an example:

https://pixelfed.social/beardicus

excellent information ^^^. i also have been diving deep into canvas-based image fiddling lately and you covered most of the good bits. the only thing i'd add is maybe look into the `ndarray` library: https://github.com/scijs/ndarray for efficient manipulation of multidimensional arrays. this could help slice and dice by channel, or crop, flip, rotate, et cetera. that plus convolution and other fun stuff.

What a terrible headline. In this case "the same" refers not to the "beauty contest" but to locating offices in an already well-established city. Garbage clickbait.

Nice tutorial!

> Now let's add docker to the sudo group, that will allow us to run all the docker commands without sudo

This command is actually adding the current user to the docker group, not adding docker to the sudo group. Same end result though.

python and node REPLs both do this.

Great writeup! Much of my plotting experience is a similar journey of hooking a bunch of rando utilities and file formats together with python. Plotters are really fun and can motivate some really interesting generative artwork.

Be sure to check out the #plottertwitter hashtag for inspiration, and I've aggregated some resources in an `awesome-plotters` repo as well: https://github.com/beardicus/awesome-plotters

> LiteTree is more than TWICE AS FAST than normal SQLite on Linux and MacOSX!!!

In my experience, claims like these usually end up showing that the author didn't understand the `PRAGMA synchronous` setting at all, or they chose to ignore it to juice their stats.

In this benchmarking test are the data durability guarantees the same for both LiteTree and vanilla SQLite?

I've had good luck with caman (https://github.com/radiac/caman), but it doesn't do any of the fancy certificate installation bits. This looks neat and useful.