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xor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:

Released a new version of xword-dl, my command-line script for scraping online crossword solvers and saving them as .puz files!

This version features ~*community contributions*~ of downloaders for Der Standard (cryptic) and the McKinsey Crossword, and a bunch of bug fixes and stuff.

https://github.com/thisisparker/xword-dl/releases/tag/v2022.11.29

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• Release notes for v2022.11.29 on Github: The marquee additions in this release: new downloaders for the McKinsey Crossword and Der Standard, contributed by @iNtEgraIR2021 ­— thank you! Beyond the headlines: - a refactor to the download-by-URL system (described in #73) means downloaded puzzles are able to pick better filenames for themselves and select more granular settings. Mostly behind the scenes, but it immediately closes #74. - bug fix on Universal and USA Today downloaders - consolidation of NYT and NYT Variety parsing, now using the same API and a much smaller parser for easier maintenance - bug fix on Guardian puzzles, now more accurately labeling when solutions are unavailable (closing #72) - switch select-by-URL page parsing to lxml (a new requirement) to give a more lenient read to malformed pages. This one actually affects at least one page in the wild! (remote)

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slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

So birdsite (self)owner discovered that app stores are bad and capricious and OMG this is not how I wanted any of this to get attention 🤦

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jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

finished getting set up for weekly local net on 50.250MHz USB 📡

fldigi has a much better fist than I ever had

anathema@eightpoint.app wrote:

My skin is too loud to sleep

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xor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:

Also, in case you're interested in making a Mastodon bot but would like some encouragement: it is hilariously straightforward to set up and @halcy has done a beautiful job with Mastodon.py. Happy to offer any help I can

xor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:

Oh whoops I forgot to tag the @helpingfriendlybot!

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xor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:

btw I love and appreciate that @muffinista has run the https://botsin.space instance for all these years (and I've run accounts over there for a long time!) but I also really like the idea and the aesthetic of bots being part of the Local timeline (and scene!) of an instance

xor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:

I can't help but be charmed that there's a jam band mastodon instance over at https://shakedown.social (great name @clifff) and I've ported my "Helping Friendly Bot" from twitter over to post there. which it will do in a month!

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isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

One of the reasons I love working with my current team is that there's no stigma in admitting errors. Saying "I'm being dumb" or "I broke prod yesterday" is completely normal, and we just fix things that need to be fixed. And new team members can see that even senior people can make mistakes and forget basic things from time to time. It removes a lot of pressure.

P.S. No we don't break prod all that often! But it happens, and I'll laugh you out of the room if you claim your team never does :-)

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

Guess how I'm feeling today.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2022/11/29/trouble-brewing/

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xor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:

oh I forgot but the funniest ever version of this was when I get an email from Forbes telling me I'd been selected for 30-Under-30 and could I send a headshot, and I took a few days to get my hair cut and have a nice new photo taken of me, and when I sent it in they told me they'd combined two categories and I was no longer selected

xor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:

probably once per... month? i need to produce something like a "headshot" for a bio or something, and i look through every photo that's ever been taken of me and none is correct for whatever reason. ah well nothing to be done

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kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

Can your screen switch between British and American colors?

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• Color profile setting: color LCD or colo-ur LCD