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Written by Balise on 2025-02-02 at 10:01

Mix de traditions française et suisse : dire "a voté" à voix haute et claire en mettant l'enveloppe de votations à la boîte aux lettres de la Poste

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Written by Balise on 2025-01-31 at 10:46

Note to self: cloud computing is, in fact, a viable way of spinning a "newly installed computer", including desktop, to review/write installation instructions.

It was actually far less painful than trying to virtualize locally on a laptop that's starting to show its age, with no preexisting virt software installed/configured in a way that makes sense.

(Who would have thunk that people who sell virtual machines would be better equipped at it than I am? Inconceivable.)

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Written by Balise on 2025-01-30 at 17:55

also, the rabbit hole was full of yaks.

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Written by Balise on 2025-01-30 at 17:24

computers were a mistake, virtualized ones doubly so

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Written by Balise on 2025-01-29 at 17:20

I honestly don't know yet if I'm going to move my AlphabeticalZürich project to a statically generated thing. But I have learnt more about basic website design and responsive layout than I have in the many years before. I'm not COMPETENT at it, but I just did manage to tweak a CSS in a way that made me feel like I knew what I was doing... and got the result I expected on the first try.

Which shows once again that "learning something" by "needing/wanting to do something" is a very reasonable path for me. (... this is not the first time I vaguely try to learn this sort of things :P )

And which makes me ponder - for all the things that I kind of want to learn more about (right now, "waves hands in the direction of GIS", "waves hands in the direction of data engineering", "waves hands in the direction of systemd"), how do I find something that's both an itch to scratch and of the "correct" size? How do I go from "this random knowledge domain looks interesting" to finding X in "I could do X to explore this random knowledge domain"?

With, obviously, the additional constraint that it needs to have "enough" specificity that I'm not going to just throw the itch at an existing solution rather than learning. (AlphabeticalZürich static generation is borderline on this, tbh.)

Probably all of this is essentially trying to answer the more general question "how do I generate (probably shorter-term) incentives that actually work for me for stuff I want to learn rather than hoping/relying on the delayed gratification of long-term fuzzy goals".

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Written by Balise on 2025-01-29 at 13:13

There, I have stockpiled on keyboards, hopefully for at least half a decade (they do have decent lifespan, but I do use two of them concurrently).

Should give me some time and peace of mind to decide what's next now that this one (TypeMatrix 2030) is out of production.

I was regretting when I opened the package to not have taken a couple of extra sleeves (because these are more fragile than the keyboards) but I actually still have two brand new ones on my shelf already.

[#]TypeMatrix #keyboard

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Shared by Balise on 2025-01-28 at 07:53 (original by Elisabeth Hendrickson)

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Written by Balise on 2025-01-26 at 16:40

Bachtelweg is on AlphabeticalZürich: https://alphabeticalzurich.ch/2025/01/26/bachtelweg/

It has cats.

[#]photo #photography #Zürich #Seebach #AlphabeticalZurich

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Written by Balise on 2025-01-23 at 08:08

We're hiring a software engineer in my team at the Wikimedia Foundation!

We work on wikitext support for Mediawiki & associated services for the Wikimedia projects, and it's a great team to be in :)

Oh, and it's a full remote (many countries) position.

https://grnh.se/4b15b3581us

[#]Wikimedia #hiring

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Written by Balise on 2025-01-22 at 22:25

A few stills from the season 3 of Wheel of Time have been released, AND CHOO CHOO I'M ON THE HYPE TRAIN.

https://www.wotseries.com/2025/01/22/prime-video-shares-exciting-first-look-photos-from-the-wheel-of-time-season-3/

Elaida is going to give me ALL THE CONFLICTING FEELZ, I know it.

[#]WheelOfTime

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Shared by Balise on 2025-01-22 at 22:03 (original by Foxes in Love)

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Written by Balise on 2025-01-22 at 22:02

Bachstrasse is on #AlphabeticalZurich: https://alphabeticalzurich.ch/2025/01/22/bachstrasse/

[#]photo #photography #Zürich #AlphabeticalZurich

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Written by Balise on 2025-01-22 at 22:01

Some #AlphabeticalZurich news:

• I got myself a domain name, so the content is now available on https://alphabeticalzurich.ch/

• Yes, I know https doesn't work on www., and I think nothing I can do because I don't have access to the certificate. Sigh.

• This may have broken the Fediverse integration. Re-sigh. It might happen on alphabeticalzurich.ch@alphabeticalzurich.ch, but I don't see posts there (but then, that's plausibly a federation thing)

• I do have PLANS for this thing (well, small-scale plans, but plans), and while it may look dormant / on hiatus, I've been actively working on it recently - both content and form. To be continued :P

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Written by Balise on 2025-01-22 at 16:15

I've played a bit of Reus 2 this week, and I quite like it! You play as three giants that can terraform planets, plop tribes and resources on it, and try to make the bestest planet you can build. As you plop more and more stuff, your civilizations advance and require more stuff of you.

There's a lot of meta unlocks (which definitely helps a/ making the early games less overwhelming b/ making the "one more planet" more enticing), and probably more stuff I haven't discovered yet (pretty sure I can be mean to my people and my people can be mean to me).

It's cute and, at least for the first few games, relaxing - essentially a small-scale civ builder with a bit of a puzzle aspect, and relatively short sessions.

There's a few things that would benefit for a bit of a clearer interface (first thing among which: I really would like to see my empty patches more clearly!), but it's also very pretty.

[#]VideoGames

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Shared by Balise on 2025-01-22 at 14:03 (original by chibi-[N]ah🇫🇷 :gold_account:)

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Shared by Balise on 2025-01-22 at 10:57 (original by Krazy Krêpe)

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Written by Balise on 2025-01-21 at 22:21

relatedly i should really put my CSS in an external file rather than in my HTML template which makes me regenerate my files every time I want to tweak the css

this is suboptimal

but then my CSS styles are ugly and badly named too, so i'd need to fix that for it to work

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Written by Balise on 2025-01-21 at 22:16

So apparently my limit to

"my personal project is growing out of the 'just plop a pile of hacks on top of a pile of dubious code' and I really need to refactor that shit"

is around ~600 lines of PHP in ~15 classes.

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Shared by Balise on 2025-01-19 at 19:58 (original by Abie)

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Written by Balise on 2025-01-15 at 20:21

Hey, I think it's the first time I finish a crossword and get "Congratulations" rather than "Yup, you filled that grid, but something's off" :D

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