friendica (DFRN) - Link to source

Little by little I've been going more and more analog. I still track every little thing I need to do in my #OrgMode system to help manage my #ADHD, but that list itself can get a little overwhelming. I've started combing over it in the morning, picking out the most critical things for that day and writing them down on a paper checklist in a small notebook I keep in my pocket. The notebook has the advantage of not distracting me with a thousand notifications every time I'm trying to do something productive.

Plus, I just really like having an excuse to put a nice #FountainPen and ink to paper.

Edit: slightly less clumsily worded

#orgmode #ADHD #fountainpen

reshared this

friendica (DFRN) - Link to source

Trying to design a custom phone holder for the dashboard of our car because it's a weird design that makes conventional ones unusable (I don't trust the suction cup ones).

Taking the measurements has made me painfully aware of just how... curved everything is on a dashboard. 🤬

Shannon Prickett reshared this.

in reply to Brian Sullivan

friendica (DFRN) - Link to source

Jonathan Lamothe

@Brian Sullivan We've got a similar one that suction cups to the windshield. I didn't want to permanently affix the plate to my phone (especially since we have two phones between the two of us).

Thought I could get around it by putting the plate inside of the case, but it holds much less securely that way (though the suction cup has still historically been the weakest link).

Our current solution involves a wooden block and a sock. It works, but my plan is a decided upgrade.

@Brian Sullivan
Jonathan Lamothe reshared this.

mastodon - Link to source
The media in this post is not displayed to visitors. To view it, please go to the original post.

🎹 Need some LIVE MUSIC in your life? 🎵

Come to CONTROL VOLTAGE the last Wednesday of every month for live electronic music!

Takes place at the Shakedown Street Tavern in Benson, Omaha, at 8pm!!

#omaha, #livemusic, #synth, #music, #wednesday
Takes place at the Shakedown Street Tavern

#music #synth #livemusic #omaha #wednesday

reshared this

friendica (DFRN) - Link to source

Just spent a good half hour pulling my hair out trying to figure out why one of the #elisp functions I had just written was always returning nil when I tested it. Turns out, my test was mistakenly passing its inputs to the wrong (but similarly named) function (pivot-table-get-columns instead of pivot-table-get-body).

#Haskell's type system would've caught this. 🙃

#emacs #lisp

#Haskell #emacs #lisp #elisp
in reply to Jonathan Lamothe

mastodon - Link to source

Kazinator

C's type system would also have caught it, and it isn't worth a hill of beans.

By caught it what do we mean? This is not a case of some undetected error escaping your attention due to dynamic typing. You know you got a nil which is unexpected and wrong. It's in a test case which catches it.

The only thing a type system would change is that you would instead waste a half hour not understanding how your obviously correct function call can possibly have the wrong return type.

friendica (DFRN) - Link to source

Okay, so this keeps happening. Up 'till now I've been able to fix it with a thorough cleaning, but no such luck this time.

Suggestions?

#FountainPens

Jonathan Lamothe

2025-04-24 17:25:27

friendica - Link to source

So Katy has a #Jinhao10 and today the clicker seems to be jamming. When pressed, it seems to resist extending or retracting the nib. I'm giving it a cleaning right now to make sure there was no debris or anything in there stopping it from working, but I don't know if that'll fix it.

Has anyone experienced this before? Is there a fix?

#FountainPens


#fountainpens

reshared this

in reply to Sacha Chua

gotosocial - Link to source

Sacha Chua

The media in this post is not displayed to visitors. To view it, please go to the original post.

you might also be interested in mastodon.online/@hajovonta/114…

hajovonta

2025-05-13 11:48:12

mastodon - Link to source

#cfw got an org-table import/export functionality. Just select the org-table and run M-x cfw-org-load. Analyse, sort, edit, filter your table in CFW. Then update the original org-table by M-x cfw-org-save.

If there was no original org-table (the table was created from scratch or from other source like CSV), the cfw-org-save places the exported table into the kill-ring. This way org pivottables can be generated from CFW.

#emacs


friendica (DFRN) - Link to source
If your business model does not enable you to pay your workforce a living wage, your business should fail. End of story.
Jonathan Lamothe reshared this.

mastodon - Link to source

We increasingly hear about China travellers who use #deltachat successfully where Whatsapp and Signal fail to work. Recently a family onboarded including a 85 old mother, to prepare for China travel. Everbody succeeded, no troubles!

#deltachat is all about resiliency and "just works" user experiences. Despite ongoing and prospective network blocking attempts, our apps manage to mitigate and remain working everywhere. Meanwhile we are preparing some next level resiliency/security features ;)

#deltachat
This entry was edited (10 months ago)

Jonathan Lamothe reshared this.

friendica (DFRN) - Link to source

So, keeping a #journal in #teeline has had some unexpected benefits for my #ADHD brain beyond my handwriting just being more able to keep up with the rate of my thoughts.

I might blog about this later, but the TL;DR is that the process of transcribing my entries requires me to think deliberately about the meaning of every word I've written.

#ActuallyADHD #FountainPens

#fountainpens #ADHD #journal #actuallyadhd #teeline

reshared this

Jonathan Lamothe reshared this.

mastodon - Link to source
Salt Lake City unveils new flags to circumvent the legislature’s bill banning “non-sanctioned” flags: fox13now.com/news/politics/slc… #utpol #Utah

Salt Lake City unveils new flags to circumvent Utah's flag law

Mayor Erin Mendenhall unveiled a series of flags that appear to circumvent a new law that goes into effect banning "non-sanctioned" flags.
Ben Winslow (FOX 13 News Utah (KSTU))
#utah #utpol

Jonathan Lamothe reshared this.

Jonathan Lamothe reshared this.

mastodon - Link to source

With a whole bunch of folks leaving MS Word and similar as of late, seems like the right time to post this again, but I put together a little resource to help explain *why* it's so important to ditch Word and similar.

nopilot.xyz/

[edit: I'm aware of some readability issues on some systems, and am working to fix. See note below.]

This entry was edited (11 months ago)

Jonathan Lamothe reshared this.

in reply to Cassandra is only carbon now

mastodon - Link to source

Cassandra is only carbon now

Thanks to everyone who's pointed out that the page is very difficult to read on some systems; I have not had that happen on any of the laptops and/or phones that I have access to, so I wasn't able to notice that earlier, and I apologize for the accessibility issues that creates.

I'm not, unfortunately, a professional webdev, and have found it a little challenging to make a plain HTML page that works everywhere.

Someone in DMs very kindly suggested a fix, and I'll look at applying that ASAP.

in reply to Cassandra is only carbon now

mastodon - Link to source

Cassandra is only carbon now

I *think* it should be fixed? On my laptop and phone, it looks identical to how it used to, but it now doesn't fix the zoom level in CSS, such that hopefully it should work well in more browsers and on more devices.

Thanks again to everyone who let me know about the problem, and for the kind person who suggested a fix in DMs.

in reply to Jonathan Lamothe

gotosocial - Link to source

R.L. Dane 🍵

Dane's law: There is not a hobby in existence that has any kind of an upper limit on how much money you can spend in it.

Fountain pens? Sure, there's the Platinum Preppy and Pilot Varsity, but also Momtblanc and Visconti!

Amateur Radio? Sure there's your $30 Baofeng, but also your $20,000 kilowatt at-home HF shack!

Drones? Sure, there's your $20 supermarket drone, but also tens of thousands of dollars super high performance FPV racing drones

Computing? $35 raspi vs at-home supercomputing cluster, just for giggles!

in reply to paradoxmo

friendica (DFRN) - Link to source

Jonathan Lamothe

@paradoxmo I'm currently using a TWSBI Diamond 580. As for the technique, I was basically just making a rookie mistake:

Jonathan Lamothe

2025-04-27 21:50:13

friendica - Link to source

It looks like I wasn't moving the pen enough. As I would keep writing, the shimmer would collect in the feed until it just straight-up clogged. I didn't realize I had to periodically roll the pen around even while I was actively using it. This should have been obvious by the fact that my writing kept getting more and more, well... shimmery before the ink stopped flowing.

I'll try this approach in the future.

Rookie mistake, but in my defense, I didn't even know that shimmer inks were even a thing until late last year.


@paradoxmo
in reply to Jonathan Lamothe

friendica (DFRN) - Link to source

Jonathan Lamothe

It looks like I wasn't moving the pen enough. As I would keep writing, the shimmer would collect in the feed until it just straight-up clogged. I didn't realize I had to periodically roll the pen around even while I was actively using it. This should have been obvious by the fact that my writing kept getting more and more, well... shimmery before the ink stopped flowing.

I'll try this approach in the future.

Rookie mistake, but in my defense, I didn't even know that shimmer inks were even a thing until late last year.

Jonathan Lamothe reshared this.

glitchsoc - Link to source
The media in this post is not displayed to visitors. To view it, please go to the original post.

⚠️ IMPORTANT FEDIPACT ANNOUNCEMENT!!!⚠️

THREADS HAS CHANGED DOMAINS TO THREADS.COM!!!!!


in a deleted article techcrunch confirmed threads would be moving from threads.net to threads.com

zero clue why it was deleted because threads.net already redirects to threads.com as of right now

sooooo yeah!!! new domain to block. check out fedipact.online/why if you're wondering why

:FediPact:

#fediblock #FediPact #meta #threads

🖤 Why? 🖤

fedipact.online
#meta #threads #fediblock #fedipact

reshared this

friendica (DFRN) - Link to source

I have successfully built my first #Emacs package. I want to clean it up a bit before I consider releasing it though. Also, while I can build a simple (single file) package, buildig a multi-file one is still eluding me.

When I try to install it, I get the following (less than helpful) error message:
Wrong type argument: stringp, nil

Is there a way I can get more detail on why this is failing?

#emacs

reshared this

friendica (DFRN) - Link to source

So Katy has a #Jinhao10 and today the clicker seems to be jamming. When pressed, it seems to resist extending or retracting the nib. I'm giving it a cleaning right now to make sure there was no debris or anything in there stopping it from working, but I don't know if that'll fix it.

Has anyone experienced this before? Is there a fix?

#FountainPens

#fountainpens #Jinhao10

reshared this

in reply to Jonathan Lamothe

mastodon - Link to source

Jim P.

Is the trap door opening/closing properly? It could be wedged somehow. You should be able to poke the nib unit through it manually with the top removed and see if it works as expected.

Also when it's apart you can press the rear of the nib unit up into the tail and press the button and see if it operates normally that way.

Then you at least know which end of the pen is misbehaving.

friendica (DFRN) - Link to source
uspol: 2A nonsense

Katy likes these YouTube channels where they teach about canning and such. One of the people in one of these videos is wearing a shirt with what looks like an AR-15 that says "defense is not a crime".

What in the cinnamon toast fuck do you need an AR-15 to defend yourself from?

reshared this

Jonathan Lamothe reshared this.

mastodon - Link to source

“Slopsquatting” in a nutshell:

1. LLM-generated code tries to run code from online software packages. Which is normal but
2. The packages don’t exist. Which would normally cause an error but
3. Nefarious people have made malware under the package names that LLMs make up most often. So
4. Now the LLM code points to malware.

theregister.com/2025/04/12/ai_…

LLMs can't stop making up software dependencies and sabotaging everything

: Hallucinated package names fuel 'slopsquatting'
Thomas Claburn (The Register)

This website uses cookies. If you continue browsing this website, you agree to the usage of cookies.

⇧