Posts by petrichor@scholar.social
(DIR) Post #A19nKepCpZbfkZ4JuK by petrichor@scholar.social
2020-11-13T13:29:10Z
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Here's a question for a Friday afternoon. What's your preferred metaphor for teaching how variables work: boxes or labels?
(DIR) Post #A3OxdAE84kiA6tHLrk by petrichor@scholar.social
2021-01-19T16:59:06Z
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@matrix Perhaps a stupid question, but is this uptick likely to have a knock-on effect on homeservers that aren't themselves growing in terms of local users?
(DIR) Post #A4025LaxSMoVTVrzm4 by petrichor@scholar.social
2021-02-06T12:07:22Z
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Okay, I'm only 17 pages into @craigmaloney's The Mediocre Programmer and I'm already convinced it's something that everyone in any specialist field, programmer or not, ought to read. Well-written, warm, compassionate and thoughtful, and full of sensible advice. Oh, and it's free & libre, and available in multiple formats. http://themediocreprogrammer.com/what-is-the-mediocre-programmer.html#what-is-the-mediocre-programmer#crosspost
(DIR) Post #A45zQHFDh2WX9IkZNI by petrichor@scholar.social
2021-02-09T09:47:08Z
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Oh dear me no. This is a horrific idea. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-00341-3(via @yoyehudi)
(DIR) Post #A4AZOuYogLqze4rlUe by petrichor@scholar.social
2021-02-11T16:13:59Z
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STFC (Science & Technology Facilities Council) in the UK are recruiting an Open Science Services Manager in their Scientific Computing Dept https://www.careersportal.co.uk/UKRI-careers/jobs/open-science-services-manager-297?et=1AulE5e9#crosspost
(DIR) Post #A5IajVQEE3YTF33Y48 by petrichor@scholar.social
2021-03-17T10:50:08Z
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Does @matrix or anyone know when the new spaces feature is likely to land? It looks like maybe it's implemented in Synapse but no UI yet? #matrix
(DIR) Post #A5KdnwXU2GWcgGB2XI by petrichor@scholar.social
2021-03-18T10:44:45Z
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@stux Moin!
(DIR) Post #A5ThkY1krTSc1sc0cy by petrichor@scholar.social
2021-03-22T15:16:48Z
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Ok, I need a domain name for the nascent GLAM Data Science Network (current website at https://glam-datasci.netlify.app) and these are my top candidates.Please vote for one, or reply to tell me why I'm wrong and what would be better!
(DIR) Post #A5XdGYwGKMfam8cOeW by petrichor@scholar.social
2021-03-24T14:42:21Z
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There are two tools, somewhat related, that I know exist because I've seen both of them in the wild, but I can't remember what they're called or find the right search terms to find them.1. A thing that sets up virtual domains that only resolve locally and make it slightly easier to test something running in development mode locally. E.g. you start hugo in server mode, and then point your browser at myblog.test and it proxies localhost:1313 to myblog.test:80.:boost_requested:
(DIR) Post #A5XdGaSCh5oXTUZQ4u by petrichor@scholar.social
2021-03-24T14:42:35Z
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2. A thing that tunnels a locally-running development server and exposes it publicly at a subdomain like myblog.cleverthing.xyz so that you can dynamically and temporarily publish a test/draft version of something without directly having DDNS and holes in your firewall.If anyone can point me in the direction of either of these I would be very grateful. I was using MacOS last time I used anything like #1, but the thing I used for that had Linux support in development.:boost_requested:
(DIR) Post #A9MJNb7nWPn2vLE4Tg by petrichor@scholar.social
2021-07-16T14:23:27Z
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Come and work with us! We have a vacancy for a new Scholarly Communications Lead, closing date 15th August. Based in London or Boston Spa. https://britishlibrary.recruitment.zellis.com/birl/pages/vacancy.jsf?latest=01002483 #OpenAccess #Jobs
(DIR) Post #ACYUYO6HO7Oddz4GXo by petrichor@scholar.social
2021-10-20T09:23:24Z
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Should programs that use the $EDITOR environment variable try to fork&exec it directly or interpret it as a shell command?If I set EDITOR="emacsclient -t", some programs do the right thing while others complain that "emacsclient -t" can't be found in $PATH. I'm trying to decide whether to report bugs for some programs that take the latter path.(Yes, I could stick a one-line script on my path somewhere, but that's not ideal.)
(DIR) Post #AD8E7bLvAp4Na4ScW8 by petrichor@scholar.social
2021-11-06T12:40:10Z
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Happy #caturday from Felix#catsofmastodon
(DIR) Post #AIXsDC4HSYfrtaRgjg by petrichor@scholar.social
2022-04-17T12:54:15Z
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Annotating & highlighting in paper books (that you own): is it ok? 📚 ✏ 🖋
(DIR) Post #AIeD24e5ym5TfyUpNo by petrichor@scholar.social
2022-04-20T16:21:57Z
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If you wanted to embed bibliographic metadata in YAML frontmatter of markdown documents (e.g. so that you could keep it together with notes on the item but automatically generate a BibTeX file from a collection of such markdown files), would you just include raw BibTeX in a quoted field or translate the BibTeX fields to first-class YAML?Or am I just over-engineering something that nobody, least of all me, needs...? :BlobCatCoffee:
(DIR) Post #AIeD26imGL1M74haxU by petrichor@scholar.social
2022-04-20T17:04:37Z
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Or to ask a related question: is there any tool out there that already does this...?
(DIR) Post #AIonxKpUIzXKYqk7ea by petrichor@scholar.social
2022-04-25T20:05:31Z
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ok, so I'm trying to fill out my list of instance suggestions (not recommendations really) for people who ask. any good disability/neurodiversity focused instances I should know about?
(DIR) Post #AIrso3jVaBGeAzDq4G by petrichor@scholar.social
2022-04-27T07:47:26Z
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Anyone know if there's an open RSS to #ActivityPub server available? I.e. something that allows people to subscribe to an RSS feed as though it was any other #fediverse actor. I'm sure there used to be something but I can't find it now