joostdecock

As someone who lives in Antwerp, this museum is my number one recommendation for people visiting the city.

It is also a Unesco World Heritage site, which is very unusual for a museum. But that's because the museum occupies what historically was a printing business stretching back many many generations who had -- fortunately -- a bit of a hoarding streak.

Well worth a visit. While you're at it, 'Goodie Foodie' on the same square as the museum serves the best pancakes in the city.

Plenty of advice here, which I'm certain is well intended, but it feels like we're victim blaming here.

Things like "you cannot mix marketing and transactional email" are good advice, but they do nothing if you're using different subdomains but the same infrastructure (IP address) to send them out.

Microsoft is simply trying to squeeze smaller operators out of the market.

I run an open source project, we send out transaction emails from ome subdomain, and a newsletter to 50K+ subscribers once every 3 months.

I can't afford to pay for different/dedicated IO addresses for each. We use Scaleway for email delivery and it's constant trouble with two providers: qq.com who don't give a damn about non-chinese senders, and Microsoft, who are simply trying to break the ipen internet.

Before, we were on AWS SES. Guess what, we didn't even bother using different subdomains. We also didn't have dedicated IPs. Yet Microsoft did not block us because the sender IP was AWS.

It's pay to play, as simple as that.

Fortunately, we're an open source project, not a business. So when people reach out, I simply explain to them that they have chosen a mail provider that is openly hostile to small volunteer-run projects like us and that that choice has consequences. No emails for you.

IMHO we need to be more vocal about what's really going on here (the rent-seeking on the open internet by big tech), and less victim blaming (what about dns-sec).

Joost here (FreeSewing maintainer)

Bless you for submitting this, but I doubt much of the people here are into sewing

That being said, they might care more about this FOSDEM talk about FreeSewing:https://youtu.be/ec7vgHoHwqQ?si=IPDEW4s9Q1oS18wl

There's also this GitLab instance: https://code.europa.eu/

When it's a meeting I run/control my rule is that I will wait 150 seconds for people who are late, after which I start the meeting.

You can join later, that's fine, but I'm not waiting longer than 150 seconds.

Waiting 150 seconds feels like waiting a long time. Whereas being 2.5 minutes late feels like being on time.

So I find that phrasing it this way is more impactful.

(by now you probably figured out that I am not very popular ar work)

No matter how hard I try, I cannot make two pairs of jeans that are identical.

Same pattern, same denim, same person making them (me), they don't fit/feel the same.

Consistent results when using fabric is hard. Also keep in mind that good denim is practically sheet metal in comparison to most fabrics, so on one hand easier to get consistent results, but on the other hand, even small differences are more noticeable than something lighter or (god forbid) stretchy.

You cannot just engineer your way out of some of the challenges inherit in garment construction (trust me, Ive tried).

Kudos for trying to make clothes for yourself. I feel everyone should do that at some point.

I am not here de defend politicians, but...

The title says "France rejects backdoor mandate" but TFA makes it clear that France is not a hive-mind:

- The rejection was by the French National Assembly (think parliament/congres) - Ths happened despite pressure from the internal ministry (the government)

I find it interesting that it is often a similar story at the EU level where the European Parliament puts a stop to the worst impulses of the European Commission.

Yes, it's our backing database for Morio [1], an open source observability plumbing tool.

We're still building it but we're dogfooding it and run it in production ourselves.

Can't recommend it enough

[1] https://morio.it/

> some interesting stuff on MR

I'm drawing a blank for MR. What does it stand for?

For a real-worl use case, look towards the 'script' processor in Elastic' Beats family of data shippers [1] (example is from Metricbeat but it exists in other Beats too)

They can be configured to mutate the data with some basic DSL syntax, but if you have more advanced needs, you can break out to JavaScript and transform the JSON any way you want.

This is very useful because now any transformation becomes possible. And because this is the user of your product who writes that JavaScript more as configuration than code. And since there's no build step, it is just part if the configuration loaded at startup.

[1] https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/metricbeat/current/pro...

I've been working on something to handle the "plumbing for your observability". It's a way to collect, stream, and route observability data that can get it from and into a wide variety of systems.

It's not targeted at the 'cloud native' crowd, but rather more at traditional on-prem infra.

It is all manageable via an API and provides a Kafka API for streaming data (RedPanda under the hood).

Name: Morio Documentation: https://morio.it/ Code: https://github.com/certeu/morio

Note: here is no commercial angle here. This is an open source project of (the CERT of) the EU (license: EUPL).

> Ease of deployment and operation are also important, and that's an area in which rqlite excels

Amen. I've been building something appliance-like where I want to support clustering but I don't want to manage a database cluster inside the project.

Rqlite is so easy to run either stand-alone or clustered. It's a godsend.

And when people want postgres or whatever, I let them bring their own database. It's not hard to abstract a database storage layet if you plan ahead.

But if you want it to 'just work' rqlite is doing that with flying colors.

I think there's a bigger issue going on here. I too have received the same email for my open source project (1) which also was on Vercel's sponsorship deal.

A little Googling shows others piping up in the last couple of hours who received a similar message (2). What seems odd is that they make it sound like the deal 'expired'. But I find it more than a bit curious that all the reports I find about this are from the last couple of hours, all expiring at the exact same date (14 June).

Given that Vercel no longer offers sponsorship (3), this feels like they decided to revoke the deal, and offer a 6-month credit to ease the transition.

Obviously, I am appreciative of the free service I've received, but the messaging about these changes could be a lot more honest IMHO.

(1) https://freesewing.org/ (2) https://www.reddit.com/r/nextjs/comments/1dfh7ak/vercel_just... (3) https://vercel.com/guides/can-vercel-sponsor-my-open-source-...

The English summary focuses on the move from MS Office to LibreOffice (it's a post on the Document Foundation blog, so it makes sense that this is their focus), but the original German press release (1) lists 6 pillars:

- Switching from Microsoft Office to LibreOffice

- Switching the operating system from Microsoft Windows to Linux

- Collaboration within the state administration and with external parties: Use of the open source products Nextcloud, Open Xchange/Thunderbird in conjunction with the Univention AD connector to replace Microsoft Sharepoint and Microsoft Exchange/Outlook

- Conception of an open source based directory service to replace Microsoft Active Directory

- Inventory of specialist procedures regarding compatibility and interoperability with LibreOffice and Linux

- Development of an open source based telephony solution to replace Telekom-Flexport

So it's a good bit more ambitious than replacing MS Office.

(1) https://www.schleswig-holstein.de/DE/landesregierung/ministe...

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From TFA:

> My idea was that surely it's possible to write a bunch of markdown, and then have that get wrapped in a bunch of JSX tags that come pre-styled, using the styles of your existing repo? For example, what I expected was to be able to write *test* (Markdown for bold) and then get a component that looked like<Bold>test</Bold> where <Bold> is a library-defined React component

It surely is possible, so perhaps I can share some links if others are wondering the same thing.

If you like to roll your own solution for that, you can use the unified ecosystem: https://unifiedjs.com/

However, if you want JSX just do what everyone does and reach for MDX: https://mdxjs.com/

> We thought this would be a no-brainer and that there would be some CMS/SSG libraries out there that made this Markdown conversion process easy and facilitated integration with any number of frontend frameworks.

You thought correct:

- NextJS MDX integration: https://nextjs.org/docs/pages/building-your-application/conf... - Gatsby MDX integration: https://www.gatsbyjs.com/docs/how-to/routing/mdx/

Or check https://jamstack.org/generators/ for more options But since you seem to like

Shoes. I've made plenty of clothes, bags, and other sewing things. But shoes is a cut above.

I also documented the process on this 'Shoes from scratch'series on YouTube: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1gv5yv3DoZNdz-LJFykg6mMf...

Shoes. I've made plenty of clothes, bags, and other more common sewing things. But making shoes is a cut above.

And I recorded the process in an attempt to show that it's not even that hard in this 'Shoes from scratch' series on YouTube: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1gv5yv3DoZNdz-LJFykg6mMf...

Don't get me started

To be fair, "X-pack" was a thing many years ago. But those days are gone and have been for a while.

You get authorization in the free offering and that's been the case for the least two major versions.

The things you need to pay for are IMHO not hobby project stuff, like integration with LDAP/AD.

You are of course correct that this used to be the case, and that to some extend this sentiment prevails.

But I feel Elastic (the company) deserves credit for acknowledging the issue and addressing it.

> if you’re using PayPal and need recommendations to replace it, reply with your use case and I’ll respond

I'm accepting donations for my open source software project (FreeSewing.org). I also need the shipping address because I send a little thank-you. What should I use instead that's available to people from different countries?

PS; Also in Belgium btw, hi!

Just updated the docs for the upcoming v3 release of FreeSewing, an open source platform for parametric design, specific aimed at sewing patterns.

https://FreeSewing.dev/

It's because we use/need a bunch of extra measurements to fit breasts. We don't require extra measurements for fitting the groin (although we do have options in relevant designs to create more or less room there).

That being said, it's a fair point. Most of the sewing world is still rather strictly segregated between menswear and womenswear. We try to remove that distinction and just deal with bodies, but it's an ongoing journey. We're not there yet, but we'll keep at it.

Hey thanks so much let's be friends

Thank you for your input. One thing we struggle with is that people have become distrusting of things that are 'free' on the internet (for good reason.

So if we're putting a lot of emphasis on how nice we try to play, that's because we have that initial distrust to overcome.

Your criticism is valid, I'm merely trying to clarifying why we are putting the communal aspects front and center.

If you have suggestions for how we could improve, please share them

Joost -- FreeSewing maintainer

Did not expect to see sewing patterns here either, let alone have my side-project mentioned in the first comment.

Thank you so much for the shout-out

Joost - FreeSewing maintainer

Changing the Zoom in the browser doesn't actually zoom in (as in, the entire page is still in the viewport). Instead it increases the font size, which will have a knock-on effect on everything that is based on font size (like em, rem, or ch units in CSS).

Many images are responsive and will take up whatever (typically horizontal) space is available. So by making the text larger, there's less space left for the images and they become smaller.

I don't think that makes it an anti-pattern. It's more of a quirk of how zooming is implemented in browsers.(or perhaps the feature's name is misleading).

If you want to avoid fast fashion altogether, you can always roll your own. (Make your own clothes that is).

Sure, it's perhaps a bit niche. But there's a thriving open source community at https://FreeSewing.org/

Full disclosure: I am the FreeSewing maintainer

Hey thanks, that's really kind of you!

The lowest one is most popular (2 euro per month), but the middle one (4 euro) is almost as popular. The top tier (8 euro) is picked the least, but still has more than half the subscribers of the lowest one.